March 6, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



309 



EUROPEAN VICISSITUDES. 



The many friends of Denaiffe & Son, 

 seed growers, Carignan, France, will 

 be pleased to hear that since the cap- 

 ture of Carignan, on the 30th of Au- 

 gust last, no damage has been done to 

 the town, and that the Denaiffe farms, 

 their warehouses and other properties 

 are uninjured and in perfect condi- 

 tion. Henry Denaiffe, the head of the 

 firm, who was disbarred from military 

 service by reason of age, has remained 

 at Carignan. But his two sons, both 

 members of the firm, are in the 

 French army. John Colle, the eldest, 

 sergeant in the 120th regiment, was 

 unfortunate to be badly wounded by a 

 bullet through the thigh, at the bat- 

 tle of Belle Fontaine on August 22, 

 was taken prisoner, and now recov- 

 ered from his wound, is interned at 

 the prisoners' camp near Magdeburg, 

 Prussia. Maurice, the other son, who 

 made a tour of America, five years 

 ago, is serving as aid to the military 

 Governor of Ardennes, the depart- 

 ment which includes nearly all the 

 section of Northern France now oc- 

 cupied by the German army. His mil- 

 itary duties take him from one city 

 and town to the other; he is constant- 

 ly on the go. ' His automobile record, 

 since the war began is now over 40,- 

 000 kilometers, which will interest 

 automobilists. His military experi- 

 ences have been so thrilling that he is 

 contemplating writing a book of his 

 adventures, when the war is over. He 

 has witnessed some very horrible and 

 heartrending scenes. Twice he was 

 nearly captured by the enemy and 

 three different times he has been close 

 to death by the explosion of shells 

 around his automobile. Two nephews 

 of Henry Denaiffe were killed in bat- 

 tle. 



HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT IT IN 

 SURREY. 



The following extracts are from a 

 persona! letter dated Egham Surrey, 

 Jan. 20th. 



"Today everybody is talking about the 

 Zeppelin raid on yarmouth and asking 

 querulously 'Wbere is our navy and what 

 is it doing/' To one of these pessimists I 

 said 'where did you get your breakfast 

 from this morning.' He was the average 

 man in the street and it took some 

 moments for the light to penetrate his 

 mentjii haziness. Depend upon it, this war 

 will be decided by what that fine old 

 Aberdonian, Dugald Dalgethy, oalled"pro- 

 vant." Sir Edward Grey the keenest in- 

 tellect in Europe, will see to that. Some 

 time ago I was at a dinner in L(>n<lon 

 where the table decorations were mostly 

 1. ilium Hnrrisi. and one of the speakers, a 

 learned botanist, began to descant on lilies 

 in a very impressive manner. Immediately 

 I could see William K. Harris bowling at 

 the I'lorists' Club of Philadelphia, also 

 yourself, and the McCallum More: and 

 .lohn Westcott. Jack Dunham, ami his 

 dapper little lawyer friend; also .Tohn G. 

 (iardner and a host of others. .Sudib-nly 

 I was asked to come out of my tr.'infc and 

 say something, which I promptly did and 

 • onfined myself to Liliura Il.-irrisi and Its 

 introducer and his characteristics. 



I''or the rest of the evening the groat 

 •luthority on lilies entertained a higher 

 opinion of me than I really deserved but 

 when he interviewed me I thought it wise 

 to talk about Roumanla and Transylvania 

 and the war, for I was well aware that 

 my knowledge of the lily family was only 

 of an excursionary character. Mr. Harris 

 died shortly after my leaving your midst 

 but as long as the lily grows, William K. 

 will live. ... My retreat is between 

 ISroadstairs and Margate. It is close to 

 the North Foulard L/ighthouse and is an 



WAR DOES NOT STOP 



The European Nations from Planting Bolgiano's World Famous Tomato 



''JOMN BAER" 



EVERY DAY WE ARE RECEIVING NUMEROUS OUDER.S FOR THIS WONDERFUI. 

 TOMATO FROM THE W.\R ZONES. PROGRESSIVE. PROSPEROl'S FLORISTS, 

 NIRSERY.MEN, HORTICULTURISTS. F.-VUMERS, .M.ARKET G.MJENERS .*NI) HO.ME 

 G.\RI)ENERS. IN BOTH EUROPE ANI> THE .\MERIC.AS, -ARE RECOGNIZING THE 

 GRE.AT VALUE OF 



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Produces Perfe<t. Solid, High Crown. Beautil'iil, Brilliant Ueep Red Shipping Tomatoes in 



3U da,vs from Large, Strong, Well-Matured Plants, in Veneer Bands with Roots Undisturbed. 



Pkts., 50c.; % Oz., Toe.; Oz., $2.00; "4 Lb., $7.50; Pound, SSS.OO. 1-3 off to the Trade. 



1st — "John Baer" Tomato pro- 

 duces large, beautiful, solid ship- 

 ping Tomatoes in 30 days from 

 large, strong, well matured plants 

 grown in Veneer or Paper bands, 

 with roots undisturbed. 



2nd — "John Baer" Tomato pro- 

 duces the most perfect High Crown 

 Tomatoes ever grown, entirely free 

 from core. 



3rd — "John Baer" Tomatoes pro- 

 duce an enormous crop of Toma- 

 toes. 50 to 100 fruit to each plant. 



4th — Every "John Baer" Tomato 

 ripens evenly, right up to the stem. 



5th — No cripples, no scalds, no i 

 blight, no cracked, no wrinkled, 

 no one-sided, uneven, scarred fruit. | 

 When dead ripe "John Baer" To- 1 

 mato will not liurst. 



6th — "John Baer" Tomato has 

 a wonderful glistening brilliant, 

 bright red color. 



7th — "John Baer" Tomato has a 

 mild deliciously sweet flavor. The 

 tinest flavor you have ever tasted. 



8th — "John Baer" Tomato is al- 

 most seedless, it requires 6 to S 

 bushels of "John Baer" Tomatoes 

 to make one pound of seed, a mar- 

 velous Stem Setter,, often ten fruit 

 in first cluster, solid and meaty 



9th — "John Baer" Tomato has 

 just enough foliage — will stand 

 plenty of manuring without going 

 to vine. Set plants 3 x 314 feet. 



10th — "John Baer" Tomato is the most perfect shipping 

 exactly fill a six carrier basket. 



11th — Each beautiful ".John Baer" Tomato weighs about 6^4 ounces. 



12th — "John Baer" Tomato Seed was saved only by John Baer, the originator, who 

 personally selected and picked every Tomato from which he saved this seed, selecting 

 only the most beautiful, perfect fruit of the Early Stem Set Clusters. 



13th — "John Baer" Tomato is the offspring of two marvelous Tomatoes — One Great 

 Specialist having devoted 10 years in selecting and improving one parent and Another 

 Expert devoted five years in selecting and iniprnving the other parent. The "John Baer" 

 Tomato is, therefore, the result of l'"itteeu Generations of Improvement and Selection for 

 earllness, quality, shape, fruit, color and shipping quality. 



14th — As a packing Tomato "John Baer" is a miracle, they all pack Fancy, no seconds, 

 and all pack whole. Peelers can prepare three bushels "John Baer" Toniatoes to one 

 bushel of any other Tomato. Being such a tremendous yielder, a bushel of "John Baer" 

 Tomato can be gathered in one-third the time of any other Tomato. A large Baltimore 

 Tomato Packer had all the "John Baer" Tomatoes he could secure packed separately, 

 running them through a special process for his fanciest trade and his own private use. 



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Growers of Pedigree Tomato Seed 



BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. 



old smugglers' village with caves and un- 

 derground passages made by those real 

 Free Traders. There is a church and also 

 an inn — both of which are alike in one 

 respect, as they both dispense spiritual 

 comfort. I know because I have tried 

 botli. The church is just eight and one- 

 half yards from the inn. You see I am 

 still an accurate authorit.v on points of 

 great importancc--as becomes my early 

 legal education which I liave never used. 

 . . . 1 can still do my twenty-mile walk 

 and occasionally when going along a coun- 

 try lane I think of my walks from Ard- 

 more to Wayne and sometimes "ICing of 

 Prussia." That name on the inns here is 

 now conspicuous by its absence! 



The ahove letter is from Stewart 

 Barclay Lohman, a famous English 

 cricketer, well known to the horticul- 

 tural fraternity around Philadelphia. 

 These extracts will interest and amuse 

 many of his old friends who are read- 

 ers of HdKTicuL'ri'KE and I hand them 

 alons solely for that purpose and hope 

 that by so doing I am doing nothing to 

 fracture this country's steel-clad neu- 

 trality! 



G. C. W.vrsox. 



PERSONAL. 



Philip A. Bayer, formerly at Newark, 

 N. J., has accepted a position with Ho- 

 bart J. Parks, Highland Farm, Port- 

 chester, N. Y. 



N. F. McCarthy of Boston is in St. 

 Georges, Bermuda, for a month's rest 

 and recuperation before the opening of 

 the strenuous spring plant auction 



Aug. C. F. Obermeyer, Jr., who has 

 worked in greenhouses through the 

 west and for the past five years has 

 been witli R. W. Allen, whose death 

 was Jan. 10, 1915, has now accepted a 

 position with Leon Hathaway as fore- 

 man and will have charge of all the de- 

 sign and floral work and also the 

 i^reen houses, 13 in all, which Leon 

 Hathaway has just purchased of the 

 R. \V. Allen estate. 



