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HORTICULTURE 



February 6. 1915 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 

 The War Burden. 

 Horticulturists iiri> iiikiiiK tboir 

 slinro uf tlu' liurdi-n which tlii' wur bos 

 iinposfU on Iho iiiitloii. .Mosi uf the 

 tlriiis of scodsiiu'ii and niirmTymen 

 have ooiitrlbutcd tlKhllnc men from 

 the print'lpnis or sons of th<> "ln'iids" 

 and enipl<>.'''>'<'s: u Mk t'ontinKent has 

 Konc from the stuff of the Itoyiil Bo- 

 tanic Gardens ut Kew: the gardening 

 staffs of private estuhlishni<-nts have 

 been depleted of workers. All are 

 doluK a patriotic share in this great 

 striigcle: those left behind have done 

 their utmost to aid the many national 

 funds, and also In helping: the dis- 

 tressed HelRians, amongst whom are 

 numbered many who have been asso- 

 ciated with the nursery business in 

 that unhappy country. Despite the 

 gloomy time through which we have 

 passed the horticultural trade gener- 

 ally has sought to bravely carry out 

 the motto of "Business as usual." 



The Seed Trade Outlook. 

 There is considerable speculation 

 rife as to the position of the seed 

 trade under the existing abnormal 

 conditions. The editor of the "Fruit 

 Trades Journal" has rendered timely 

 service in obtaining the views of some 

 of the leading British houses. Jas. 

 Carter & Co. take a very optimistic 

 view. They have no fear of any short- 

 age owing to the German supplies 

 being cut off. "In our opinion," they 

 write, "among the many lessons which 

 the war will bring home to our people 

 one will be the fact that our English 

 gardens need not suffer through the 

 lack of German seeds. . . . We can do 

 without them in the case of vegetable 

 seeds, and every department can be 

 supplied in \inbroken succession from 

 English supplies; and as regards 

 flower seeds, well German stocks and 

 German asters have served their uses 

 in their time, but they need not be 

 missed — English supplies can take 

 their jilace. And we venture to re- 

 peat that in 1915 English flowers in 

 English gardens will gladden English 

 hearts as ever before." Watkins & 

 Simpson, Ltd., report: "Taking every- 

 thing into consideration the effect of 

 the war on the supply of vegetable 

 seeds is not great, as far as we our- 

 selves are concerned, largely owing to 

 the fact that we grow as much as pos- 

 sible in England. The supplies of 

 flower seeds, as a rule, will be almost 

 up to the average, and prices almost 

 normal, even in the matter of asters 

 and stocks, which were in the past 

 largely imported and by many thought 

 to be the only source for such. For 

 some years we have been competing 

 with the Germans in these. We grow 

 them largely on our own grounds, as 

 well as in other parts of the world. 

 With regard to quality they are quite 

 equal, if not better than most German 

 strains. The crop of these this year, 

 especially asters, is a good one, and 

 the prices will be quite normal." 



Some New Sweet Peas. 

 There is no waning in the interest 

 being taken in sweet pea culture on 

 this side. Amongst the novelties 

 which will undoubtedly be sent out 

 this season is Robert Sydenham which 

 is a pleasing bright salmon, and will 

 be sent out by R. Holmes. Royal 



We Offer for Immediate Delivery 



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VALUABLE NEW ROSES 



Ophelia, Francis Scott Key and 

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nun riiuln. SVi-ln. poln, now n-uil.v (HIV.fNh pir ion, «lin.(Mt iii-r IIHHI. 



ril.\N«ls .SCOTT KKV. Tlili. vailiiy. iiiImmI l.y .\li-. .Inliii Cui.K. Is very dUclin I, 

 lii-iiit' "'iillri'ly (lUTi-riMil fioiii any uf ilic hi<li).ir rii«cH iirnwii liiila.>. KluHiri an- ms.t 

 I'l'il. anil arc nniisiially lari,-i. ami ilmililc, ri'Si'iiililiiii,' very iniiili a very full, ilniiliri- 

 hardy uai'clcii rose. Its kii-pin^ <|iialltli'>i arc reiiiarkatilc. MitniK piani^ on nun 

 ronlK, 'i'/i-in. polH, nnu rriul.v yi.t.lHI per l(>l>, KUJIUln prr KMNI. 



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Kilhiriiey, as II possesses sii many i»f (lie j:ooil i|tialltles i»r tile Ktllarney's. In eoler. 

 (lie lluuers are similar III Klehnioiiil. Iml (lie> :ire iiiiK-li more iloiitile. Klnwers Iiiim' 



nne slrali.-lit si s mi all ilie iriailes from I he sliiiruM (o ih.- lonu'esi. It lias line 



foliaire. eoiiii.?; away i|iilekly. anil Is even a freer lilooiner llian flie KlllarneyN. mronic 

 lilunis fill invil routs, '^■/i-lil. pots, nuu- reuil.v $1*^.00 {icr IIM>, ItlMI.On per 1000, 



the lleurr Ulld sliindliril 



\\> uill he iclati to iiiiotf^ on iili|ilieatioii, iirlec.* on nil 

 \iirieties stron;i criifted (ilants rrad>' in Miirrh. 



F. R. PIERSON, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



Purple ( Uobbie & Co.) is a bright pur 

 pie, somewhat similar to .Meuic 

 Christie. The same firm have a deli- 

 cate bloom of the tint its name indi- 

 cates — Frilled Pink. Other new comers 

 are: Marvel, cream pink; Fiery Cross, 

 bright scarlet; Mrs. WormaUl, bicolor. 

 Seedsmen are looking forward to a 

 satisfactory demand for sweet pea 

 seeds, as amateur growers are takin;; 

 up their <'ulture in increasing num- 

 bers. 



The Dahlia Trials. 



Particulars have lately been pul> 

 lished of the trials of the National 

 Dahlia Society at Duffryn, near Car- 

 diff, Wales, during the last two years 

 The intention was to decide which 

 varieties are most suited to garden 

 decoration, as distinct from the ex- 

 hibition kinds, in 1914, 240 varieties 

 were tested, 110 being of the paeony 

 flowered section. Awards of merit 

 were allotted to the following cactus 

 varieties: Astree, rich deep pink; 

 Beauty, pale pink; Honesty, white 

 shading to pink; Sophocles terra-cot- 

 ta; Louvain, pale yellow, with pink- 

 ish centre. Amongst the singles, lion 

 ors were accorded to: Crawley Star, 

 rosy pink; Oran, crimson scarlet; 

 Stora, rosy crimson, yellow disc. The 

 collarettes included: Avon, verniillio:i 

 scarlet self, with a shaded lemon co.- 

 lar; Doon, bright scarlet, with a lem 

 on collar. There are some good things 

 amongst the paeony flowered list, such 

 as; Amber Queen, amber shaded 

 orange; Berlioz, old gold, tinged with 

 salmon; Great Britain, mauve; Weber, 

 rose pink; .Mozart, deep crimson and 

 .luliet, buff salmon. 



W. H. Adsett. 



months ending December 31 last, 183 

 tons being sent to foreign countries, 

 chiefly Holland. It is clear, however, 

 that the war has affected the trade, as 

 during the last quarter of litis no 

 fewer than 6,258 tons were exported 

 from Belfast, 1,321 tons going to for- 

 eign ports. 



Exports from Belfast are mostly 

 Lolium perenne. A drop from over 

 thirteen hundred tons to less than two 

 hundred tons for continental consump- 

 tion is some drop and must have hit 

 some of our good friends over there 

 pretty hard. Still we fancy most of 

 the stock was moved before the em- 

 bargo went on and we look for no 

 great rise in price on the item here on 

 this side as mo.st of the big houses al- 

 ready have their supplies on hand. 



RYE GRASS AND THE WAR. 



We learn from our British exchanges 

 that the exportation of grass seeds 

 from Ulster has been prohibited. 



According to official statistics a to- 

 tal of 5.245 tons of grass seed was ex- 

 ported from Belfast during the three 



Breed and Good Breeding. 



"When your mother goes, there's not 

 much left in this world for you — is 

 there? You'll never see her again!" In 

 these quaint and simple words Wm. 

 Robertson imparted the news of his 

 moiber's passing away bee. ;ioih at the 

 old home in Scotland, where she had 

 brought up twenty children. All her 

 own brood; and all good. The twenty 

 are scattered all over the world now. 

 Asia Africa, America, Australia; but 

 so far as we have heard to dale, all of 

 them are making good. Personally, we 

 know of at least half a dozen of the 

 Robertsons who are making good right 

 now in America and Australia. Com- 

 pared to that good lady what do all the 

 Billy Sundays amount to? She gave 

 the world good men. All Billy Sun- 

 day seems to do, is to make the craz.v 

 ones crazier. When we go to church 

 we go to churcli to pray and to wor- 

 ship. When we go to a circus we go 

 to a circus to laugh and cut up. All 

 the boys we have talked to go to Billy 

 Sunday for diversion — and circus — not 

 for any good. Which is offensive to 

 our sense of the sacredness of religion 

 — even if we are not much of a church 

 goer. Geoh<:e C. W.xtson. 



