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Key to Identification of PlanU '^^l\l\lt^rnl'LrTl 



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OBITUARY. 



James McClane, 



James McClane, a prominent flor- 

 ist in the Southern section of Phil- 

 adelphia, died on the 23rd inst. He 

 had been in business there for 45 

 years, as a grower and retailer, and 

 was one of the real "old timers." 

 He was highly respected by all who 

 knew him and he had hosts of 

 friends, both business and social. He 

 was a man of the strictest integrity, 

 and so successful in his business that 

 he left a good competence behind him 

 for his family, when he passed on to 

 his fathers at a ripe old age. 



world's foremost pomologists from 

 Charles City, Iowa, was another of our 

 group. He and myself are of the same 

 age — 84. Association with such royal 

 men is one of the pleasantest memories 

 of my life. C. S. Habbison. 



A CHOICE SPRING BLOOMER. 

 The old favorite Chorizemas are 

 coming again into popularity with 

 commercial plant growers in the past 



fine polished holly-like foliage and the 

 racemes of odd orange and red flowers 

 make a very pretty effect. In culture 

 Chorizema requires conditions such 

 as is given to heaths, azaleas and 

 other New Holland plants — particular- 

 ly hard-pressed flrm soil when potted. 

 During the flowering and growing peri- 

 ods they require water in abundance. 



A. I. Philips. 

 The death of A. I. Philips of West 

 Salem, Wisconsin, deserves more than 

 a passing notice. There were seven of 

 us old men — members of the Minnesota 

 Horticultural Society. We were of 

 nearly the same age, we seldom failed 

 to meet at the horticultural meetings 

 in December. What good times we 

 had. Mr. Philips was one of the lead- 

 ing horticulturist of the northwest. He 

 revolutionized apple growing by top 

 grafting on the Virginia Crab. He 

 brought out the fact that the stock 

 controlled the scion to such a degree, 

 that it made a tender variety hardy, 

 and a shy bearer prolific. I suppose 

 the orchard he planted at West Salem 

 was one of the most prolific that ever 

 bore. He was always in demand for 

 after-dinner speeches at our banquets 

 and his droll way of putting things, 

 and his sparkling wit kept the audience 

 in a roar. He was a year younger than 

 myself. Charles G. Patten, one of the 



nicely to any method of training either 

 in large or small pots. The example 

 few years. They adapt themselves 

 shown in the engraving was in a 7% 

 in. pot at the establishment of A. L. 

 Miller, who grows Chorizemas in 

 quantity as an Easter specialty. The 



A CORRECTION. 



Prof A. C. Beal, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, calls our attention to a line in 

 o\ir reading notice of Cornell Exten- 

 sian Bulletin No. 10, in a recent issue 

 of Horticulture, in which we say 

 that "the bibliography (Gladiolus) is 

 not so complete as it should be." 

 Professor Beal suggests that the line 

 in question might have been written 

 without our having taken into account 

 (he bibliography which had appeared 

 in Bulletin No. 9. On investigation 

 we find this to be a fact. We had 

 considered in our criticism only the 

 pages of the second volume which 

 were devoted to the "Bibliography" 

 not realizing that same had been but a 

 continuation from the previous publi- 

 cation. We should be very sorry to do 

 an injustice to Prof. Hottes, who evi- 

 dently has done a very painstaking 

 work on these bulletins. Taking the 

 two publications together the biblio- 

 graphy is the most complete ever pub- 

 lished in an experiment station on any 

 flower or crop. The bibliography in 

 Studies 1 covers the botany, history 

 and evolution of the gladiolus. That in 

 Studies 11 covers only those particu- 

 lar phases of the work treated therein 

 and that is where we went astray. We 

 trust this explanation will be accepted 

 as making amends. 



