August 12, 1905 



HORTICULTURE 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 



Among thp many valual)le invpn- 

 tions and novelties to he oxliibited at 

 Washington next week none touch 

 closer to a universal need than the 

 Holly-Castle device for securing inde- 

 pendent water circulation in green- 

 house heating apparatus. It will be 

 shown in operation. 



Harry Bayersdorfer seems to rest 

 easy under his new title. "The Mer- 

 chant Prince." His Highness will nol 

 take his usual over Sunday at .Mlantic 

 City this week as he wishes to he in 

 Philadelphia to greet his many out of 

 town friends on their way to the con- 

 vention. He wishes us to state that 

 any one arriving on Sunday will And 

 the latch-string out at his private res- 

 idence, 1629 Diamond St. 



Parisian florists, not to be behind in 

 fashionable colors, are giving their 

 flowers for corsage use a "dead" look 

 to comport with the "dead" tones of 

 the toilet. — Boston Evening Record. 



Here is encouragement for the 

 "Salter." Can it be possible that his 

 beloved treasures of the storage cellar 

 are destined to meet with desired ap- 

 preciation, and the expert in "holding 

 back" come forward as the hero of the 

 fashionable hour? 



At the store of Spencer & Martin, 

 221 Genesee street last evening, the 

 ITtica Florists' Club held a meeting. 

 It was decided to hold a clam hake 

 at Wright's Grove. August Ifi. The fol- 

 lowing committee on entertainment 

 was appointed: W. A. Rowlands. Har- 

 ry Mathews, William Kaufer and J. 

 C Spencer. — ITtica Herald. 



Looks too much like a counter at- 

 traction to the S. A. F. convention, 

 doesn't it? What think yjou? 



Trades unionism seems to have 

 reached the heights of arrogance in 

 the matter of music for the public 

 parks of New York, and a park com- 

 missioner appears to have attained the 

 extreme of nauseating snivelling in 

 giving assurance that in the parks un- 

 der his supervision non-union singers 

 were not to be found. The New York 

 Tribune, commenting on this, submits 

 that "The assurance must be gratify- 

 ing indeed to every one who has the 

 interests of union music at heart. Now 

 let all who have taken out cards in 

 the Musical Union ioin in singing our 

 grand national anthem — third stanza, 

 please: 



"Let music swell the breeze. 



And ring from all the trees 

 Sweet Freedom's song: 



Let union tongues awake; 



Let not a 'scab' partake: 



Let rocks their silence break. 

 The sound prolong." 



PERSONAL 



W. A. Bridgeman, formerly with 

 Thorley, is now associated with the 

 Thomas Young, .Tr., Company, at 41 

 West 28 street. New York. 



Ulysses P. Hedrick, of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, has been ap- 

 pointed horticulturist at the N. Y. 

 State Rxperiment Station at Geneva. 



Mr. C. T. Guenther of Hamburg. 

 N. Y., who has been confined to his 

 home by sickness for the past two 

 months is again able to be at his 



OBITUARY. 





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We are pained to record the death 

 by a terrible accident of F. C. Mose- 

 ley, vice-president, and secretary of 

 the A. T. Stearns Lumber Co., at Ne- 

 pouset, Mass. Mr. Moseley, who was 

 afflicted with deafness, was struck by 

 an outward-bound express while cross- 

 ing the tracks at Neponset station to 

 take an inward-bound train for his 

 office, on the afternoon of Wednesday. 

 August 9, and was instantly killed. A 

 business acquaintance of a number of 

 years justifies us in saying that the 

 death of Mr. Moseley is an irreparable 

 loss to his business associates and the 

 community in which he moved. His 

 age was 47 years. 



Adolph StoII of Baltimore, Md., died 

 on August 1, aged 76 years. 



.lohn Salter Richards, long known 

 as "Uncle Dick Richards," of Brook- 

 line, Mass., and reputed to be the old- 

 est horticulturist in the country, died 

 at his home in Brookline, Mass., on 

 August 3, at the age of 94 years. He 

 was a native of CuIIompton, Devon- 

 shire, Eng. For many years he was a 

 prominent exhibitor at Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston, excelling especially in 

 the cultivation of roses. 



NEW EARLY SWEET PEAS. 



August I. \wn. 



Editor of Horticulture: — 



Dear Sir: — Having read the article 

 over sweet peas, where Mr. G. C. Wat- 

 son says that w^e only need an early 

 variety like King Edward, and like 

 Lady Hamilton (Page ll.'i), I wish to 

 say that if Mr. Wat.son will come 

 in December or January to my place. 

 I think I can show him several shades 

 of them, besides very near all existing 

 colors. Many of these I expect to in- 

 troduce very soon. 



Very respectfully. 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK. 



Bound Brook, N. ,T. 



The Kentucky Society of Florists 

 held its monthly meeting on August 

 1st at August R. Baumer's store, the 

 Masonic, with the usual attendance. 

 Progress on the November Flower 

 Show was made. 



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OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. 



Visitors to Philadelphia, before or 

 after convention, should not fail to 

 see the crotons on the Girard College 

 i;r(punds. They are looking very 

 iiiiuht at present, and are an object 

 ^ ^^iin as to what can be done with 

 iliis plant in ornamental bedding. Be- 

 sides, you will have an opportunity of 

 shaking hands with your old friend. 

 Kdwin Lonsdale. No man more "de- 

 light-ed" than he to welcome visitors. 



When making an end of the rest of 

 t lie graft in the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment there will be some prospect of 

 putting an end to the paltry seed 

 swindle at the expense of the public 

 treasury and of the honest seedsmen. 

 —Philadelphia Record. 



If the President and the Secretary 

 of Agriculture can do that, they will 

 deserve well of their country. But 

 they have the job of their lives! That 

 graft has a tap root that goes deep, 

 and the devil has a grip on the end 

 of it It will take a stump-puller 

 bigger than anything we have yet 

 heard of to get that villain out! But 

 our President Is a large and shining 

 example. Let's hope he can do it! 



The Rural New Yorker shows an il- 

 lustration of Cephalipherum Drum- 

 mondi, from which is selected the so- 

 called "fadeless flower" of Burhank. 

 So far as we can judge at present, this 

 has nothing to recommend it bevond 

 other good old-fashioned everlastings, 

 such as acroclinium. rhodanthe, heli- 

 chrysum. etc. It is to be feared that 

 Luther has been doing overtime of 

 late, working the newspapers. 



G. C. W. 



VACATIONISTS. 



Mrs. F. R. Hill of Baltimore visiting 

 noints of interest about Boston and 

 Newport. 



William Gardner, manager for Peter 

 Weiland's wholesale house, has gone 

 to Canada with George Magrie. 



W. F. Holmes and wife visiting east. 

 W. J. Palmer and family at Muskoka 

 f ake, also C. D. Zimmerman at same 

 place; all of Buffalo, N. T. 



Mrs. C. C. T owe. Long Beach, Cat. 

 is visiting in New England and will 

 attend the convention at Washington. 

 A. H. Whitcomb. Lawrence. Kans.. is 

 -Tt Mansfield. Mass.. and will join the 

 Boston party going to the convention. 



The largest cut flower and plant 

 store in the Pacific coast section of the 

 United States is that of Seulherger 

 in the heart of Oakland. Cal. Fred 

 Seulherger. son of the venerable 

 flower merchant, is at the fore as the 

 present active manager of the business 

 and just now his measure of life con- 

 tentment is full to running: over, first 

 because of the success of bis recent 

 distribution of colonies of Oriental 

 parasites for moth destruction and, 

 second, because he is now in the trans- 

 port period of honevmoon life. In a 

 beautiful home of his own, designed 

 by himself. 



