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HOllTICULTURE 



April 7, 1917 



Obituary 



A. M. Kirby. 



Arthur Martin Kirby died suddenly 

 at his home in Montclair, N. J., on 

 March 20th. 



Mr. Kirby entered the employment 

 of Peter Henderson at the greenhouses 

 in Jersey City in 1876 and remained 

 in the employ of Peter Henderson & 

 Co. until his death. He was given 

 charge of the flower seed, bulb and im- 

 plement department many years ago 

 and for a number of years attended 

 to getting up the catalogue of the firm, 

 at which work he was an adept, prob- 

 ably unsurpassed in the United States. 



He was a ready writer, full of im- 

 agination, and so the descriptive mat- 

 ter which he wrote, particularly on 

 flowers and bulbs, was very effective 

 for catalogue purposes. He was also 

 the author of the work,— "Narcissus 

 Daffodils, and How to Grow Them." 

 He was passionately fond of flowers 

 and always maintained a very inter- 

 esting garden at his own home, where 

 he tried out new varieties from all 

 sources. 



Mr. Kirby was born in Ohio in 1859, 

 but his family moved to Martinsburg, 

 W. Va., shortly after the civil war. He 

 was married and leaves twin daughters 

 and one grandchild. He was a genial, 

 companionable man although he did 

 not mix to any extent with horticul- 

 tural bodies. He was very popular with 

 his fellow workmen. 



In 1914 he was elected vice-president 

 of the American Sweet Pea Society. 

 He was very partial to sweet peas and 

 was considered an authority on varie- 

 ties. 



THE LATE LAWRENCE COTTER. 



SuppItMiirntinj^ our <H)itu;ir.v Note.s in last 

 week'.s iHSlH\ 



Lawrence Cotter was born in Mid- 

 dletown, County Cork, Ireland, on Feb- 

 ruary 14, 1855, and died at Jamestown, 

 N. Y., March 24, 1917. He worked dur- 

 ing his early youth on some of the 

 large estates in Ireland, notably Lord 

 Donerail's estate at Cork. He emi- 

 grated to this country at an early age, 

 and after working in various places 

 took charge of the Roseraere Conser- 

 vatories at Dorchester, Mass., in 1888, 

 where he continued until 1900, when 

 he leased the Galvin Conservatories 

 at Dorchester. Here adversity dealt 

 him a blow when during the coal 

 strike of 1902 he vainly attempted to 

 operate under the high cost of coal, 

 and he went to Danville, Pa., to take 

 charge of the fine range of glass J. R. 

 Bennett had built at his magnificent 

 estate. Castle Grove. Business pros- 

 pered and plars were drawn for the 

 largest and most modern range of 

 glass in the United States. These 

 plans were never executed, as Mr. 

 Bennett was killed in the wreck of the 

 20th Century limited near Kent, Ohio, 

 when en route for Dansville to go over 

 the ground for the last time before 

 advertising for hids. Mr. Cotter later 

 leased the greenhouses, but after op- 

 erating them for several years accept- 

 ed an offer to take charge of the Rose- 

 mere Conservatories in Dorchester 

 which had been purchased by Eugene 

 N. Foss. later governor of Masachu- 

 setts. He continued there for three 



years and then left to take charge of 

 the Lakeview Rose Gardens of James- 

 town, where he remained until his 

 death. 



Mr. Cotter's illness extended over 

 three years. Throughout all that time, 

 with the indomitable will that marked 

 him as a personality extraordinary 

 during the whole of his life, he fought 

 bravely against the assaults failing 

 health was rnaking on his vitality and 

 he met death with the same courage 

 he met all other life problems and 

 passed out Into the sea of mystery un- 

 afraid and with a smile. He died as he 

 lived; courageous and philosophical. 



He is survived by one brother, Wil- 

 liam Cotter, of Dublin, Ireland, his 

 widow, Mrs. Johanna Cotter, three 

 sons, Wm. of Montreal, Chas. N. of 

 Jamestown, N. Y., and Jeffry of Balti- 

 more, Md., and four daughters, Cath- 

 erine, Julia, Johanna and Mary. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



C. E. Varnum & Son, Atco, N. J. 

 Price List of Dahlias. 



Dean Iris Gardens, Moneta, Cal. 

 Catalogue and Price List of Irisis. 



H. E. Meader. Dover, N. H.— illus- 

 trated Price List of Gladiolus Bulbs. 



C. S. Quick, Berkeley, Cal.— Dahlias, 

 1917. The list comprises over 600 

 varieties. 



Weathered Company, New York 

 City. — Illustrated folder of Greenhouse 

 Construction. 



Wm. H. Moon Company, Morrisville, 

 Pa.^Catalogue of Rare and Unusual 

 Trees and Plants. 



T. C. Thurlow's Sons, West New- 

 bury, Mass.— Illustrated Spring Cata- 

 logue of Cherry Hill Nurseries. 



Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven. 

 Conn.— Complete Catalogue for 1917, 

 of Trees, Shrubs and Border Peren- 

 nials. 



Wood Brothers, Fishkill, N. Y.— Cat- 

 alogue and Retail Price List of Hardy 

 Shrubs, Greenhouse and Bedding 

 Plants. Etc. 



Blue Hill Nurseries, South Brain- 

 tree, Mass. Price List of Specimen 

 Evergreens, Trees, Shrubs and Her- 

 baceous Perennials. 



Mt. Desert Nurseries, Bar Havbor. 

 Me.— New and Desirable Hardy Trees 

 and Shrubs. A list of unique interest 

 to the hardy garden enthusiast. Quite 

 a proportion of the new things listed 

 are Wilson introductions from China, 

 which thus far cannot be found at 

 other nurseries. These novelties have 

 all been given a thorough test for 

 hardiness and other desirable quali- 

 ties in the extreme climate of Mt. 

 Desert and it is gratifying that so 

 many of these beautiful introductions 

 have stood the test satisfactorily. 

 There will be a large call for tliis list. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 Help Hints. Published by Julius 

 Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J. A pocket 

 size pamphlet with dainty cover illus- 

 tration in colors. Gives useful advice 

 to the amateur in garden arrangement 

 and planting. 



Prospectus of the College of Agri- 

 culture, University of California, 1917- 

 1919. Bulletin Vol. X, No. 8. An 80- 

 page publication, illustrated with 

 many plates showing the various ac- 

 tivities of the college in the phases 

 of research, education and public wel- 

 fare. 



"Newton — the Garden City of Mass- 

 achusetts." Report of Forest Commis- 

 sioner for 1916. W. W. Colton is For- 

 est Commissioner for the city of New- 

 ton. This 52-page report with its 

 many impressive pictures shows that 

 Newton's trees are well cared for 

 under his management. 



Manual of Agricultural Laws. Issued 

 by the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture. Compiled and edited by 

 R. Edwards Annin, Jr., A. B. An in- 

 invaluahle book, giving the various en- 

 actments complete, now operative in 

 Massachusetts, together with indexes 

 and cross-references of great value. 



The Year Book of the Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College for 1917 is a 

 handsome publication of which the 

 students may well feel proud. Paper, 

 type and illustrations are all high class 

 and the reading pages tell much that 

 is interesting about the students and 

 their work. 



The Missouri Botanical Garden Bul- 

 letin for February 1917, contains an 

 excellent special article effectively il- 

 lustrated on "Window Boxes, a Type 

 of Floral Decoration Applicable to 

 Down-town Districts. Among the illus- 

 trations is one of the Filene building 

 in Boston, with plant boxes arranged 

 by John D. Twombly. 



The first number of Volume IV of 

 the Annals of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden has been issued with the fol- 

 lowing contents: "Hybrid Nymph- 

 aeas," G. H. Bring; "Monograph of the 

 North and Central American Species 

 of the Genus Senecio — Part II," J. M. 

 Greenman; "A Spurless Variety of Ha- 

 benaria psycodes." Mary M. Bryan; "A 

 Systematic Study of the Genus Tril- 

 lium, Its Variability and Its Relation to 

 Paris and Medeola," R. R. Gates. 



Nebraska Horticulture, published by 

 the Nebraska State Horticultural So- 

 ciety at the State Capitol Building, 

 Lincoln, Neb., and edited by J. R. Dun- 

 can, secretary, is a book of 300 pages, 

 which is well filled with interesting 

 and instructive matter and is finely il- 

 lustrated with 28 full page views and 

 diagrams. Apples and grapes and 

 truck farming are given much atten- 

 tion, but ornamental horticulture, good 

 seed and other important departments 

 of horticulture are not neglected. 



The American Sweet Pea Bulletin 

 and Schedule for 1917 has been re- 

 ceived and will be cordially welcomed, 

 we feel sure, by the sweet pea lovers. 

 This bulletin is the ofl:icial organ of the 



