August 8, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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Brunswick, Boylston Street and Copley 

 Square, Fred E. Jones, Proprietor; 

 Hotel Puritan, Commonwealth Avenue, 

 H. H. Costello, Manager; Hotel Vic- 

 toria, Dartmouth and Newbury Streets, 

 Thomas O. Paige, Manager; Kent Man- 

 sion, 12 Kent Street, Brookline. Martin 

 & Gillies, Proprietors; Copley Square 

 Hotel. Huntington Avenue, cor. Exe- 

 ter street. Be careful and not confuse 

 the "Copley-Plaza" with this hotel. 



THE SHRINE OF A GIFTED AU- 

 THORESS. 

 "Orchard House" the home of 

 Louisa M. Alcott, where she wrote 

 "Little Women" will be a spot of more 

 than passing interest to the ladies, 

 particularly, on the occasion of their 

 visit to Boston and no doubt many of 

 them will desire to make the pilgrim- 

 age to the beautiful spot so charm- 

 ingly portrayed in the photograph we 

 here reproduce. 



A LETTER FROM GERMANY. 



The following letter, dated at .Mun- 

 chen, Germany, July 25, and received 

 in Boston, August 6, will be of more 

 than ordinary interest to our readers 

 in view of the stupendous events which 

 have transpired in the brief time since 

 the letter was written. Mr. Huebner. 

 who is in the florist business at Gro- 

 tou, Mass.. sailed from Boston on the 

 Hamburg-American steamer Cincin- 

 nati, July 7, for a well-earned vacation 

 In his native country. We hope he 

 may be able to complete it in safety 

 and comfort. 



My dear Mr. Stewart: 



As I promised to drop you n hue. I sup- 

 pose I bave to keep my promise. As you 

 will see liv tbe headiug. this comes from 

 Munich, the home of Munchner heer. Ger- 

 many is certainly a beautiful country, 

 everything seems to go so harmoniously. 

 Nobody seems to be in a hurry, yet every- 

 thing goe.s along punctually. It is a great 

 rarity to have a train arrive one minute 

 late But TOU will probably be less inter- 

 ested in such matters than you would be 

 In anything pertaining to plants and gard- 



On'e of tbe first things I noticed is the 

 amount of flowers and plants used here. 

 Every little yard has a few flowers and 

 in the larger houses in the cities every 

 window up to the attic has a window box. 

 Petunias and ivy geraniums seem to be the 

 favorites for the window boxes. There is 

 one beautiful dark blue single petunia 

 called Kathhaus petunia, which is used 

 very much, and it certainly is pretty in 

 cou'nectinn with white or yellow. I visited 

 the exhibition in Altona. "which is now in 

 progress. Cactus and aquarium plants 

 seem to occupy most of the space. 1 also 

 noticed a new strain of bedding begonia. 

 ■ very dwarf and compact, very pretty, ex- 

 hibited by G. Borneuian. Blankenburg. The 

 Thierpark Imenagerie) of Hagemberg In 

 Stellingen, is also very interesting, as there 

 were some very line flower beds, but the 

 most interesting place I found to lie E. 

 Neubert. in Wandsbck. He is the lily ot 

 the vallev king of the world. Everytlimg 

 here is carried on on a large scale. Mr. 

 Xeuhert took me in his auto all over Ills 

 plantation, which is very extensive and 

 it was ccrtainlv most interesting. lie In- 

 formed me that he raises about fifty mil- 

 lion vallev annually, also about seventy 

 thousand 'lilacs (all in pots for lorcing). 

 thousands ;.nd thousands of hydrangeas, 

 azaleas, etc. A fence abiait one mile long, 

 covered with climbing roses, mostly D. 

 Perkins, w.'i-e in full bloom and presented 

 a beautiful sight. A new sight !■■ me was 

 to see sixty women on their knees weeding 

 in one of the valley fields. The green- 

 houses, ot which there are a good many_ 

 are all glazed with two thicknesses of 

 glass, having about one inch air space 

 between. Some ot the cyclamen and glox- 

 inia specialists are also situated in \V ands- 

 bek. but I could not see many of these 

 flowers in bloom, as all are raised for the 

 seed The women seem to do the principal 

 work in the fields; their hours are from 



Co/iyrislit Oy Boiion Photo Ne'.os Co. 



Louis M. Alcott's Home, "Obchabu House," Concord, Mass. 



G A. M. to 6 P. M.. and their wages are 

 about 6^,4 cents per hour. 



In the Thiergarten in Berlin, which is 

 a park of about 050 acres, right in the 

 center of the city, there is a beautiful rose 

 garden, about six acres, which was laid 

 out by the present Empress. Some of the 

 most prominent roses used were: Gruss 

 an Teplitz. Aenchcn Muller, C. Testout. 

 Jeanne d'Arc. D. Perkins. Kaiserin A. 

 Victoria. Fisher Holmes. Fran K. Druschkl. 

 Marechal Niel. Orleans, etc. The gardens 

 in Potsdam around the Emperor's palace 

 are also very fine, as were also those at 

 Sans-souci, where there are the old orange- 

 ries and graperies from Frederick the 

 Great's time. 



In Erfurt, where I spent several days 

 visiting the large seed growers. I noticed 

 some beautiful new petunias and begonias 

 which we shall hear of in a year or two. 

 also a good many new plants. Everything 

 here is raised for seed or bulbs. Asters 

 were not yet in bloom, and gladioli were 

 just beginuing. so in about three weeks 

 will be a better time to see them. Stocks, 

 of which there were formerly very many 

 raised, are very little grown here now. At 

 Pfitzer's in Fellbach (Stuttgarti I noticed 

 as one ot the best novelties a dwarf, com- 

 pact Mrs. Sander marguerite. It makes a 

 beautiful pot plant, and is a great improv- 

 ment In every way. I understand that one 

 of our American firms has engaged a large 

 quantity ot this variety. There were also 

 several new bedding begonias, very fine, 

 and a deep orange canna. beautiful, not 

 named yet. also an endless variety of 

 plants not commonly seen. 



The new botanic garden in Nymphen- 

 bin-g f.MunichI is really wonderful. I \yent 

 out Ihis morning early (it is about eighl 

 miles from Munich) but had to wait until 

 ten o'clock before gates were opened. It 

 closes again at 12.30, and during the L'l.j 

 hours I had -not seen one halt. One house 

 which attracted my attention was planted 

 with tuberous begonias, and if we ever 

 get these varieties in commerce, it will be 

 a revelation to all of us. I leave tomor- 

 row for Innsbrook. in Tyrol, which also 

 has a famous botanic garden. 

 Sincerely yours, 



H. HvERNKtl. 



denness with which war began must 

 have caught some of them in an awk- 

 ward predicament. The following 

 named parties are presumably all of 

 them over there still, most of them 

 having sailed within the past three or 

 four weeks and we have not heard of 

 the return, thus far. of any of those 

 mentioned. 



Prof. C. S. Sargent, Arnold .\rboretum ; 

 A. Anderson, Chicago; H. Huebner. Groton, 

 Mass.; C. Lorenzen, Hartford. Conn.; A. 

 A. MacDonald, Somerville, N. J.; Frank 

 Danzer and Harr,v Breitmeyer. Detroit, 

 .Mich.; Peter Duff. Orange, N. J.; Mrs. E. 

 A Williams, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; H. W. Betts, 

 Richmond, Mass.: Edward Reid. Phila- 

 delphia; .\. Leuthy. Roslindale. Mass.; Otto 

 Heinciken. New York City: Julius Koehrs, 

 Rutherford, N. J.; R. R. Root and H. B. 

 Dorner. Urbana. 111. R. M. Ward and 

 James McHutehison of New York are 

 somewhere in the far east. 



AMERICANS WITHIN THE WAR 

 ZONE. 



Many of our horticultural friends are 

 in the beleagured countries of Europe 

 on business or pleasure and the sud- 



TO LOVERS OF DAHLIAS. 



An invitation is extended to every 

 lover of dahlias to meet at a formal 

 gathering of all American dahlia en- 

 thusiasts at Newport, R. I., on .August 

 13th, 1914, for the purpose of organiz- 

 ing the American Dahlia Society. 



This society will be founded for the 

 purpose of promoting the interests of 

 the dahlia; it will endeavor to further 

 its progress, establish a clear classi- 

 fication, encourage more public exhi- 

 bitions, and, last but not least, it will 

 disseminate useful and helpful infor- 

 mation at regular intervals to its 

 members. 



The meeting will take place at 8.00 

 P. M.. August 13th in the Weaver 

 building. Broadway. Newport. R. I. Au- 

 gust loth is the first day of the com- 

 bined flower shows given at Belcourt, 

 and the exhibits of dahlias here will 

 certainly be an attraction worth while 

 lor all dahlia lovers to undertake the 

 trip to Newport. Come and help in a 

 worthy cause. 



Maurice Fui.d. 



