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HORTICULTURE 



February 11, 1911 



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SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS. 



I. S. Hendrickson of Floral Park, N. 

 Y., president of the American Gladio- 

 lus Society, was the lecturer before the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society on 

 Saturday, Feb. 4. Considering that 

 the day was one of the most unpropi- 

 tious of the season the audience was a 

 very creditable one in numbers and 

 interest. Mr. Hendrickson naturally 

 had most to say about gladioli, lilies 

 having been well covered in the spe- 

 cial lecture on this topic last season by 

 E. S. Miller. He took occasion, how- 

 ever, to say a few words of high com- 

 mendation for Liliums Hansoni and 

 Henry i. Of the latter, he said: 



"Perhups tlie liarU.v garden lily with the 

 greatest future is Henryi. the 'Yellow 

 Speciosum.' This lily has been brouRlit 

 to us from the mountains of China, and 

 it is indeed a gem, as it will thrive w'itli- 

 out any special care, producing strong 

 panicles of yellow flowers, resembling very 

 strongly the much-admired speciosum 

 form." 



He gave much valuable information 

 concerning the forms and culture of 

 gladioli, of which he remarked that 

 probably no other class of plants had 

 been blessed with so many descend- 

 ants, he having in his possession an 

 indexed book containing names and 

 descriptions of nearly 3000 varieties, 

 most of them from foreign catalogues. 

 Among the other desirable summer 

 flowering bulbs mentioned were Ama- 

 ryllis formosissima, arums, Besera ele- 

 gans, Oyclobothera flava, Milla biflora, 

 Cooperia pedunculata, Eucomis punc- 

 tata, montbretias. zephyranthes and 

 richardias. Of the richardias he spoke 

 as follows: 



"Several new and valuable varieties h.ive 

 been produced, and introduced during the 

 past few years, among them I will men- 

 tion the following : Aurata, called the 

 lemon calla, has a light lemon yellow 

 flower with a chocolate patch in the throat, 

 which brings out a conspicuous contrast 

 of color: the foliage is spotted white. Mrs. 

 Roosevelt is a late introduction and some- 

 times comes very fine; tlie flowers are 

 white, tinged with lemon, not very free 

 flowering. Rehmanui, largely advertised 

 as the pink calla sensation, is a dainty 

 little flower much smaller tlian most of 

 the other callas, and I am inclined to think 

 it is useful as a novelty only. 



"Pentlandi certainly produces a very 

 beautiful flower of a rich golden yellow, 

 but the bulb appears to be weak and not 

 very prolitic, so it nppears that if a yel- 

 low calla is wanted (and T believe it is) 

 we have everything that can be desired 

 in the variety Elliottiana 'the peer of them 

 all,' not a new one by any means, but one 

 that is not known as it should be. I have 

 seen quantities of this calla on a com- 

 mercial place grown and treated just about 

 the same as one would treat potatoes, and 

 the sight when in flower is indescribable: 

 you can get some idea of it when I tell 

 you the flow'er is nearly, if not quite, as 



large .IS the <irdinary white calla of the 

 greenli: use. and the color a beautiful deep 

 gclden yellow, not simply tinted vellov? or 

 lemon, but actually golden yellow, and 

 every bulb will produce a bloom; its time 



Isaac S. Hendrickson 



of flowering is July. It must be taken up 

 in the fall, and cared for about the same 

 as a gladiolus bulb. 



An interesting general discussion 



followed Mr. Hendrickson's lecture. 



F. C. Cadett, formerly with Gude 

 Bros., Washington, is now in charge 

 of the greenhouses of Dr. W. W. 

 Evans, Hamilton, Va. 



PERSONAL. 



B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., Phil- 

 adelphia, was in St. Louis last week 

 and reports a nice business there. 



E. R. Buschee, who was formerly 

 manager of the Norwood Floral Co. 

 is now with Tromey's Flower Shop, 

 Cincinnati. 



John Aggen, Jr., Fulton, 111., has 

 gone to Portland, Ore., where he has 

 accepted a position as florist with Mar- 

 tin & Forbes. 



We are sorry to learn that John G. 

 Esler of Saddle River, N. J., secretary 

 of the Florists' Hail Association, was 

 struck and quite severely injured by 

 a trolley car when on his way home 

 from the dinner of the N. Y. & N. J. 

 Plant Growers' Association at New 

 York last week, Thursday. He is at 

 the hospital and reported as "doing 

 nicely." 



A pleasant letter from John West- 

 cot t tells us that he is enjoying the 

 balmy breezes of Bermuda and enjoy- 

 ing the beauties of the tropical plants 

 which thrive there as well as many 

 other things such as heliotrope, geran- 

 iums, verbenas, etc., which are only 

 to be seen in summer time, around 

 Philadelphia. Sixty-five degrees at 

 noon with a drop of 10 to 15 degrees 

 at night is the prevailing temperature 

 in Bermuda during the winter season. 

 We hope Mr. Westcott will gain need- 

 ed health and nerve force from his va- 

 cation trip. 



Boston visitor — James Meiklejohn, 

 representing H. Prank Darrow, New 

 York. 



Visitors in Cincinnati — J. D. Chris- 

 tianson, representing Hummel & 

 Downey, Milwaukee, Wis. 



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