February 26, 1916 



IIOKTI CULTURE 



293 



and is deservedly popular with all who 

 love a fine bud and a beautiful rose, 

 but it has a tendency to mildew with- 

 out provocation under seemingly good 

 culture. It is a rose requiring careful 

 handling of the ventilators. 



Some Newcomers. 



Chas. H. Totty offers Gorgeous and 

 Cleveland, two of the Hugh Dickson 

 productions. These are being put out 

 with the endorsement of Mr. Totty. 

 which certainly is warrant for their 

 introduction. 



A. N. Pierson is sending out a Red 

 Radiance; also a deeper colored sport 

 from My Maryland. These should be 

 valuable additions for summer cut 

 blooms. 



Tip-top is a charmingly colored little 

 gem of a rose in the way of a Polyan- 

 tha. Nothing imaginable can be more 

 beautiful than the color scheme of this 

 little rose — a corsage made of this lit- 

 tle beauty captivates the most fastidi- 

 ous. This variety has only one defect; 

 It lacks stiffness of stem, but as all 

 corsage roses are wired this does not 

 militate against its usefulness. 



The Hugh Dickson rose, winner of 

 the |1,000 prize at the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition, is a rich, pure yellow, with 

 extremely long petals and a shapely 

 bud. If it has sufficient petalage, it 

 has all the ear-marks of a great rose 

 tor forcing. It certainly made a deep 

 impression upon my mind. 



You all know about Champ Weiland 

 and you who are here can speak, for 1 

 have not seen it. 



Changing Conditions. 



It is interesting to note the changing 

 conditions in business; in fact, in all 

 lines of trade, and our particular line 

 is no exception to the rule. The rose 

 will always have first place in our 

 calling, and it is well that we, as grow- 

 ers of roses, are catching on to the 

 fact that novelty is one of the potent 

 factors in roses as well as in ribbons, 

 silks and the trimming for the ladies' 

 hats. When in Lyons, France, in 1913, 

 I had opportunity, through the cour- 

 tesy of a friend, to get an insight into 

 the silk business. I found that hun- 

 dreds of persons were employed in 

 the designing and pattern rooms of 

 the great establishments. Effort was 

 made to get new designs and new com- 

 binations in color schemes — novelty 

 was the one thing aimed at. If change. 

 novelty and patterns were so impor- 

 tant in silk goods, why are they not 

 equally important in the rose? Men 

 should attempt to give originality to 

 our business by catering to this un- 

 quenchable thirst for something new 

 and distinct. We have in the past 

 been supinely indifferent to this phase 

 of our business, but a new era has 

 dawned, and this means good and not 

 ill, for our business. Rose growers are 

 at work in more earnest effort than 

 ever to meet this new feature of our 

 trade. 



We are certainly indebted to Alex. 

 Montgomery, John Cook, the Dicksons. 

 but especially to Pornet Ducher, for 

 what they have done in the way of 

 giving us new varieties of roses. We 

 hear of efforts being made along this 

 line in various parts of our country, 

 and this augurs well for the future of 

 the rose and rose growers. 



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PAN-PACIFIC PRESS ASSOCIATION, LTD. 



San FranclBco, Calif. 



October 16, 1915. 



Mr. BeojamiD Hammoud, Beacon, N. Y. 



Dear Sir: The Horticulture Jury, of which the writer was a uiciuber, awarded you 

 a Gold Medal for your Insecticides, and when you take Into consideratlun the fact that 

 that Jury, outside of the writer, was composed of some of the famous experts of the 

 world, you will realize the importance of this award. Verification of this may be ob- 

 tained from Mr. George A. Dennlson, Chief of Horticulture, Panama-Pacific Intematlonal 

 Exposition. 



The writer has been requested to furnish a list of the articles which the Jury en- 

 dorsed by their action In awarding prizes because of merit. This request comes froio 

 representatives of foreign countries and states. 



Respectfully yours. 



Signed : J. A. BUCHANAN, Gen. Mgr. 



Pan-Paclflc Press Association. 



PANA.MA -rAClIIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION 



San Francisco, Calif. 



Division of Exhibits Office of the Chief 



DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE 



November 3. 1916. 

 Mr. Benjamin Hammond, Beacon, N. Y. 



Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of October 28th, I wish to say that the Jury 

 awarded Slug Shot, Grape Dust and Copper Solution a Gold Medal. 



Yours very truly. 



Signed: G. A. DENNISON, 



Chief of Horticulture. 



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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE NOTES 



The ann\;al fruit show was held Feb- 

 ruary 14 to 16. An exhibit of commer- 

 cial varieties of apples was especially 

 interesting. 



C; 1.30: Roses at Home and Abroad, 

 Robert Pyle, West Grove, Pa.; 3.30: 

 Question Box, Prof. A. H. Nehrling, 

 M. A. C. 



Florists here find a good demand for 

 cut flowers due to the "Prom" season 

 at Massachusetts Agricultural and 

 Mt. Holyoke Colleges. Violets, es- 

 pecially, are in good demand. 



P. A. C. Smith, graduate of Cornell 

 and Harvard, has been obtained to 

 take the position in the Extension 

 Service recently vacated by P. H. El- 

 wood. Mr. Smith comes here from two 

 years' work as instructor in landscape 

 architecture at the University of Il- 

 linois. 



"Farmers' Week" will open on 

 March 13. The Floricultural Depart- 

 ment announces an educational exhibit 

 and display of flowering plants. The 

 Department of Floriculture announces 

 the following: 



Tuesday afternoon, March 14 — 1.30: 

 Selection and Care of House Plants, 

 F. E. Palmer, Brookline; 2.30: Fash- 

 Ions In Plants. Prof. F. A. Waugh, M. 

 A. C; 3.30: Plant Propagation, H. E. 

 Downer, Northami>ton. 



Wodnt-sday, March 15—9.10; The 

 Culture of Herbaceous Perennials. 

 Maurice Fuld. New '^'ork ; 10.10: .Minor 

 Crops of the Florist, G. H. Sinclair, 

 Holyoke; 11.10: Diseases of Floricul- 

 tural Plants, Dr. P. J. .Anderson, M. A. 



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