April 15, 1911 



rtOKTl CULTURE 



689 



A VISIT TO PROF. HARSHBARGER, 

 TOPEKA, KANS. 



Several months ago I wrote you of 

 what this gentleman was doing with 

 roses. He has ransacked Europe and 

 America. He had English, German 

 and French books piled on his desk. 

 His aim was to hunt out and classify 

 the different families and if possible se- 

 cure their parentage. Probably no man 

 in America has the subject so well in 

 hand. He has now growing 210 va- 

 rieties and he is ready for business. He 

 proposes to make crosses so that he 

 can give the pedigree of both parents. 

 He begins work next summer. 



Prof. W. A. Harshbarger is profes- 

 sor of mathematics in Washburn Col- 

 lege where he has been a good many 

 years. He was born in West Virginia 

 near the close of the war, and was 

 brought up in extreme poverty in that 

 country, desolated by the contending 

 armies. His struggles and successes 

 border on the heroic. He is a man of 

 tremendous enthusiasm. He balances 

 cold mathematics with the warm 

 breath of roses. He takes his vaca- 

 tions largely in his garden. 



C. S. HARRISON. 



SOME NEW PLANTS FROM CUBA. 



Prof. J. F. Cowell, of the Buffalo 

 Botanic Garden, who has just returned 

 from a two months' collecting tour in 

 Cuba, states that he thinks he has dis- 

 covered four new palm species. He 

 sent up fourteen species alive which 

 included four Coponessias which have 

 never been in cultivation. Hitherto, 

 twenty-seven species of palms have 

 been credited to the island. 



He found a Microcycas — the rarest 

 cycad in North America if not in the 

 world — one specimen 20 ft. high having 

 120 leaves in the new crown. It is 

 found in the arid regions of Cuba, 

 often on cliffs difficult of access. An- 

 other prize was a Broughtonia, a large 

 flowered one, color, clear bright rose — 

 probably a new species. Still another 

 find was a Colpothrynax, presumably 



NEWS NOTES. 



West "Washtucna, Wash.— J. G. Cros- 

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 acres of land in the Washtucna Val- 

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Fergus Falls, Minn. — S. N. Mehlin 

 has purchased four acres of land on 

 Lincoln avenue west, where he in- 

 tends to build a greenhouse, cold 

 frames, etc., during the coming sum- 

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Macomb, III. — W. N. Bonham, a 

 brother of F. E. Bonham, proprietor 

 of the local greenhouses, will purchase 

 an interest in the business after the 

 first of June. Additions to the green- 

 houses are being planned. 



Toronto, Ont., Can. — A stock com- 

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 Floral Co., Ltd., has been formed here 

 and has purchased the property of the 

 Georgetown Floral Co., intending to 

 take possession May 1st. They in- 

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 purchased. This company will be a 

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