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HOBTICULTURE 



October 24, 19U 



BRITISH HORTCIULTURE, 



New Dahlias. 



Although it has not been possible to 

 hold the National Dahlia Society's 

 show this year, the society has had 

 submitted to it a number of novelties. 

 Awards have been made to the follow- 

 ing new varieties: Lord Kitchener, 

 orange scarlet; W. E. Peters, purple 

 crimson; Melody, primrose florets 

 pointed white; Neptune, bright rose, 

 Lowfield Star, cosmea-flowered, satiny 

 rose. 



Items of Interest. 

 The British fruit show, usually or- 

 ganized in the autumn by the Royal 

 Horticultural Society has been aban- 

 doned, and Ihe same fate has befallen 

 the National Chrysanthemum Soci- 

 ety's show.— The Perpetual Flowering 

 Carnation Society, however, is hold- 

 ing its show in London, on Wednes- 

 day, Dec. 2d, for whom an attractive 

 schedule has been prepared. The sec- 

 retary is T. A. Weston, Orpington, 

 Kent.— The National Sweet-Pea So- 

 ciety is to hold a series of trials next 

 year.— The Daffodil Year Book for 1914, 

 which has lately been issued, forms 

 a useful addition to the horticultural 

 library.— About forty men have vol- 

 unteered for active or home service 

 from the Botanical Gardens, at Kew, 

 and more will apply for leave The 

 number includes sub-foremen, garden- 

 ers, constable and laborers.— A 12 

 days' sale has been arranged, for dis- 

 posing of a portion of the nursery 

 stock of Messrs. .las. Veitch & Sons. 

 —Big supplies of bulbs are being re- 

 ceived from Holland. One Dutch firm 

 with headquarters in London an- 

 nounce that their supply is assured. 

 W. H. Adsett. 



Kelway & Son write us that they 

 have just received a notification from 

 the authorities of the Anglo-American 

 Exposition, White City, London, that 

 they have been awarded a gold medal 

 for exhibit of hardy border plants and 

 gladioli in the grounds; silver gilt 

 medal for cut flowers of peonies and 

 herbaceous plants; two silver gilt 

 medals for cut gladioli: grand prize 

 for the highest aggregate marks for 

 the three exhibits. 



Among the many other signal 

 awards received this season by this 

 firm were awards of merit for Gladioli, 

 White Giant and Kelway's Abelard by 

 the Nat. Gladiolus Society, and Lord 

 Alverstone and Eldorado by the Royal 

 Horticultural Society and certificates 

 of merit for Gladioli Defiance and 

 A. .1. Macself by the Nat. Hardy Plant 

 Society and eight gold and silver med- 

 als of various societies. 



A ROSE PERGOLA IN JUNE. 



There are pergolas and pergolas. 

 Some are simply disfiguring blots on 

 an innocent landscape, awful examples 

 of architectural bad taste. Others, 

 such as that depicted in our cover il- 

 lustration this week are a delight to 

 the eye. Now that the fall rains have 

 begun hardy rose planting may be done 

 at once and with a little extra winter 

 protection they will give a good ac- 

 count of themselves the first season. 

 Pictures such as the one we show are 

 an inspiration and we refer those of 

 our readers who may have an ambi- 

 tion in the direction of rose arbors, 

 to the dealers in such material who 

 advertise their goods in HoRTicri.TVHF., 



THE WAR AND OUR CALLING. 



Translated from "Gartenkunst." by Prof. 

 F. A. Waugh, Amherst, Mass. 



No field of civilization more clearly 

 requires for its development an undis- 

 turbed peace than do gardening and 

 landscape gardening. For this reason 

 our calling has enjoyed a splendid 

 progress during recent years of peace. 

 Constantly pressing forward in the 

 solution of the artistic and construc- 

 tional problems, garden art in Ger- 

 many has accomplished much and 

 given even greater promise for the 

 future. 



At the same time our profession has 

 achieved the most friendly relations 

 ■with the gardeners of all neighboring 

 lands, for gardening like all other 

 arts, knows no political boundaries. 

 The next few years should have 

 brought still further extensions of 

 these friendly relations. The effort 

 is not one sided. A Parisian friend 

 only a few days ago was in corres- 

 pondence with us arranging for a trip 

 of French landscape gardeners through 

 Germany for the study of gardens here, 

 and we planning our heartiest support. 

 And it was only a few weeks since in 

 Kopenhagen we exchanged most cor- 

 dial courtesies with our professional 

 friends of Denmark. 



All that is now, by the outbreak of 

 this world war, as by a cataclysm of 

 the elements of nature, vanished if not 

 indeed destroyed altogether. It is 

 easily understood therefore, that we 

 feel ourselves especially injured by 

 the outbreak of hostilities. 



But though we are gardeners and 

 landscape gardeners we are above all 

 Germans. Without reservation, and 

 without quarreling with our fate, we 

 are ready, like the men of other call- 

 ings, to do and bear everything neces- 

 sary in this sad moment for the good 

 of the Fatherland. Very many of our 

 colleagues, and amongst them our best 

 friends and those on whom the future 

 of our art depends, have responded to 

 the call to arms. Who can say which 

 of them we may see again! Others 

 are listening hourly for the call. And 

 all who may not be permitted at this 

 dark time to save their country with 

 gun in hand will gladly and willingly 

 welcome every opportunity to make 

 themselves useful in every capacity. 



It remains for everyone in his place 

 to do everything with all the members 

 of our calling, during the next few 

 months, to preserve for the future 

 everything possible from what has 

 been built during the past years of 

 labor. We can only hope that this 

 storm may prove a clearing shower 

 which will bring with it some good, 

 and that the brighter days will quickly 

 follow the present unhappy times. 



We may also express the hope that 

 the most of those whom today witli 

 heavy but courageous hearts we see 

 departing for the front, may come 

 back to us hale and hearty to take up 

 again with us the work of our beloved 

 art. For the present away with all 

 fears, and with upright heads and 

 faces to the future, forward! 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir — Enclosed you will find 

 check to pay for my subscription. 

 Your journal is clean, instructive and 

 different from the rest. I am glad to 

 renew my subscription. 

 Yours truly, 



Boston. HARRY QUINT. 



COST OF TRANSPORTATION. 



A perusal of the following copy of a 

 freight contract such as is now in 

 force for all Holland shipments to this 

 country will give some idea of the 

 costs and risks which importing 

 houses are up against at the present 

 time. Buyers should not find much 

 fault with the unavoidable advance ol 

 a few cents per plant under these con- 

 ditions which must be met. 



FREIGHT t'ONTBACT 



Between Julius Roelirs & Company, of 

 Rutherford, N. .1., hereinafter called the 

 Merchant, and the HoUiind-America Line, 

 of New York, hereinafter called the Car- 

 rier. 



The Jferchant agrees to forward by the 

 steamers of the Holland-America Line all 

 shipments of plants from Holland which 

 he may import into the United States ot 

 America, during the period from .Sept. 1, 

 1!U4, to Aug. 31, 1915. 



In consideration of which the Carrier 

 nsrees to carry such shipments during the 

 above mentioned period, from f. o. b. Rot- 

 terdam to the ports of New York, Boston. 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Newport News 

 at the following rates: 



Spireas and lilies of the valley : 23/ — per 

 40 cu. ft. 



Plants and shrubs (including evergreens 

 and conifers) : IS/ — per 40 cu. ft. 



Young deciduous trees (not shrubs, ever- 

 greens nor conifers) ; Plants in hampers, 

 tulis and canvas, each containing one plant; 

 cheap standarfl trees (shrubs and young 

 deciduous trees excepted), loose or partly 

 Plants, loose : Elms, platanes, and similar 

 packed: Cheap standard trees in cases 

 above 12 feet in length ; Cheap standard 

 trees in cases above 12 feet in length when 

 shipped in lots ot over 200 tons measure- 

 ment on one bill of lading: 15/ — per 40 

 cu. ft. 



For shipment to Philadelphia via New 

 York 2/ — per 40 cu. ft. is to be added to 

 the above mentioned rates. 



Under cheap standard trees in cases 

 above 12 feet in length are tinderstood; 

 iheap trees of about that size, so that only 

 one tree can be packed in the length of 

 the case; under this heading only so-called 

 high standard trees can be shipped. 



"The rate on young deciduous trees (not 

 shrubs, evergreens nor conifers) and cheap 

 standard trees in cases aliove 12 feet in 

 length will be applied only if the goods 

 are so de<'lared in the bill of lading and 

 lirovided the consular invoice is supplied 

 for perusal to the steamship company, at 

 port of sailing or arrival in the Company's 

 t-ption. 



The freight on the above-named articles 

 should be prepaid : if not prepaid the mer- 

 'hant hereby guarantees full payment of 

 .ill freight regardless of condition of mer- 

 I iiandise upon arrival or entire non-arrival 

 "( the goods, caused by seizure or other- 

 \\ ise. 



The Carrier shall not be liable for delays 

 in transportation, nor for any loss or dam- 

 ;ige occurring while the goods are not in 

 its actual custody: all goods considered 

 dangerous by it may be refused loading at 

 its discretion and all shipments shall be 

 subject to the terms of the Line's regular 

 bill of lading now or at any time hereafter 

 in force, whether actually issued or not. 

 The Carrier shall be exempted from re- 

 ceiving and loading shipments hereunder 

 during war, pestilence, strike, lockout and 

 bovcott. 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have here- 

 unto subscribed our names and affirmed to 

 three copies. 



Rutherford, Sept. — , 1914. 

 New York, Sept. 2."). 1914. 

 HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE GENERAL 

 AGENCY, 



W. T. RuKP. Manager. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Lebanon. Tenn. — On and after Janu- 

 ary 1st, 1915, the name of the Lebanon 

 Floral Co. will be changed to the An- 

 derson Floral Co. 



Boone, la. — ^ J. Loehrer lost over 

 5,000 feet of glass in the hailstorm 

 which occurred October 6th. The loss 

 on the glass is fully covered, but many 

 plants were ruined. 



