July 28, 1606 



HORTICULTURi: 



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After Adjournment 



The "Pink Baby Rambler" is the 

 latest addition to the rose list. No 

 doubt we shall soon have "baby 

 ramblers" in all shades and tints, for 

 the name is not likely now to be 

 dropped, inappropriate as it was from 

 the start. 



Every lady with a family (and every 

 gentleman similarly blessed) knows 

 which is the "handsomest baby," and 

 those having none don't care, so 

 what's the use of bothering judges to 

 make the selection at the risk of 

 their physical safety? Foxy man- 

 agers will cut this item out of their 

 picnic program. 



PERSONAL. 



Miss Marie, daughter of George 

 Wittbold. and Mr. F. C. James, were 

 married at Chicago, 111., on July 11- 



Among recent visitors in Boston 

 were: Frank McMahon, wife and 

 nieces on an automobile tour from Sea- 

 bright, N. J., to the White mountains; 

 A. D. Rose, Montclair, N. J.; A. M. 

 Rennie, of Providence, R. I., and C. B. 

 Weathered, of New York city. 



A iKJstal card just received, showing 

 a group of Americans in Berlin start- 

 ing for their annual celebration of the 

 Fourth of July, bears the signature of 

 Hermann Thiemann. So that esti- 

 mable gentleman is undoubtedly enjoy- 

 ing himself. 



PHILADELPHIA PERSONALS. 



William Tricker. who is now located 

 at Lansdowne as reported in a recent 

 issue, says he does not intend to en- 

 gage in business there on his own 

 own account; but is still open for a 

 position as gardener or superintendent 

 on a gentleman's place. 



H. Bayersdorfer arrived home from 

 his European trip on the 23rd inst. and 

 is now busily at work catching up with 

 arrears and laying plans for the future. 

 He has a grand lot of novelties under 

 way for the convention. 



Philip Frend of Michell's goes on 

 his vacation on the 28th. He will 

 sojourn at Bridgeton, N. J. 



MONTREAL NOTES. 



Business is very slack now and 

 owing to the excessive drouth 

 everything is dried up. Sweet peas are 

 coming in very plentifully, but are 

 short-stemmed. 



The Montreal Florists' and Garden- 

 ers' held their annual picnic on Wed- 

 nesday last at Highgate Springs, Vt. 

 The day was an ideal one, so was the 

 place. There were about two hundred 

 present and the numerous games were 

 well contested. It was conceded by all 

 present to be about the best picnic in 

 the club's history. 



We regret to report the severe ill- 

 ness of Mr. Edward Graves, (father of 

 Bert Graves) one of Montreal's oldest 

 florists who has retired from business 

 some years. 



George Hopton has been suffering 

 from a badly poisoned thumb caused 

 by a rose prick. 



Harris & Hopton, Jos. Burnett, and 

 A. Gilmore are building this summer. 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



The Merchants' Association of San 

 Francisco is making preparations for 

 its annual dinner. Among those in- 

 vited this year are Messrs. Plath of 

 "The Ferneries" and McLellan of the 

 Burlingame Nursery, as representa- 

 tives of the "Growers and Horticul- 

 turists." An interesting feature is that 

 this dinner will be given in the ban- 

 quet hall of the St. Francis Hotel, 

 which will be left for the occasion as 

 the earthquake-fire left it, twisted, 

 torn and cracked and burned in so far 

 as a steel and concrete-built room is 

 burnable. On all sides of the St. 

 Francis extend ruins — gutted office 

 buildings, ragged business blocks, Nob 

 Hill wrecks, trampled Union square 

 and the remnants of club structures. 



The labor of many years on the part 

 of Professor E. W. Hilgard, of the 

 State University, has culminated in 

 the production of his great volume on 

 "Soils," the final proof sheets of which 

 were received and corrected by him 

 this week and sent back to the firm of 

 New York publishers that is to print 

 the book. The rank which this im- 

 mense volume on soils may be expected 

 to take in the realm of scientific liter- 

 ature is easily guessed when it is re- 

 called that his fame as a soil analyst 

 and expert is such that a year ago 

 when the Minister of Russia desired 

 an authoritative word about the con- 

 dition of the famous black earth 

 region, a region where the soil had 

 steadily deteriorated, when an analysis 

 was to be made of this earth so that 

 Russia might know and mend the trou- 

 ble if possible, samples were sent to 

 Professor Hilgard to analyze and re- 

 port upon its character. 



NEWPORT NOTES. 



Charles Hurn has returned after com- 

 pleting the laying out of a large place 

 in New Jersey. 



Newport gardeners are depressed by 

 the present unusually prolonged spell 

 of wet and foggy weather, which is 

 also having a bad effect on business 

 for florists. 



Your announcement in last week's 

 issue that Messrs. James and William 

 Scott had gone into the nursery busi- 

 ness was interesting news to many 

 here to whom their success will be 

 gratifying. 



Rose Hermosa the subject of Mr. 

 Case's article in last week's issue of 

 HORTICULTURE was at one time ex- 

 tensively grown in Newport. It is 

 seen occasionally still. To be effective 

 this rose must be planted in large 

 numbers. 



S. G. Harris, Tarrytown, N. Y., offers 

 $15.00 for hybrid tea roses to be com- 

 peted for at the August exhibition of 

 the Newport Horticultural Society. 

 Mr. Harris is a strong believer in the 

 future of this class of roses especially 

 for planting in quantity in localities 

 where roses are most needed in the 

 late summer and early fall. 



PERFECTLY SATISFIED. 



If the HORTICULTURE will get 

 me the same results in advertising 

 this year as it did the past year, I 

 will be perfectly satisfled. 

 Respectfully yours, 



ANT. G. ZVOLANEK. 



Convention Topics 



THE SOUVENIR BOOK. 



To offset a wrong impression, created 

 by a communication from a member of 

 this club, recently published in the 

 trade papers, we wish to state that the 

 reference made to the publication of 

 the Dayton souvenir being left to 

 "private enterprise," weis made with- 

 out the knowledge of the actual con- 

 ditions and does an injustice to H. M. 

 Altick, in charge of this work. 



We therefore, by motion of this club, 

 fully endorse H. M. Altick's state- 

 ment of facts published in a recent 

 issue of this paper, as correct in every 

 respect, and herewith assure the 

 patrons of the Souvenir, and the mem- 

 bers of the S. A. F. & O. H. that their 

 support of this publication will aid 

 the Dayton Florists' Club in making 

 a successful convention. 



DAYTON FLORISTS' CLUB. 



J. B. Hiess, president; Charles Lutzen- 

 lierger, vice-president: Horace M. Frank, 

 secretary; H. 11. Kitter, treasurer. 



CINCINNATI TO DAYTON. 



The committee on transportation to 

 the Dayton convention have decided to 

 go via the C. H. & D. R. R. From the 

 present outlook we will have a large 

 delegation from this city. Dayton is 

 but GO miles from Cincinnati and some 

 of the craft will run up just for the 

 opening day. The main party will 

 leave here Tuesday, Aug. 21, at 8.15 

 A. M., although we can take the Big 

 4 or the traction cars at any time if 

 more convenient; $2.20 for the round 

 trip is the best rate that can be se- 

 cured. Those who wish to return the 

 same day can do so, leaving Dayton at 

 8.35 P. M. F. W. BALL. 



A WEDDING DECORATION. 



See Frontispiece. 

 Our frontispiece shows a very pleas- 

 ing floral decoration for a wedding. 

 One especial point of interest lies in 

 the fact that the affair took place in 

 far-away Spokane, Washington, where 

 the great variety and abundance of 

 material appropriate for such work 

 which exists in other sections is not 

 obtainable: hence, a commission of 

 this kind is accomplished under difii- 

 culties. Miss Amy K. Luffman, who 

 planned and executed the work, writes 

 that the lily of the valley and smilax 

 were home-grown, the longiflorum 

 lilies were shipped from California 

 and the adiantums from Chicago. Miss 

 Luffman was formerly of Birmingham, 

 Ala., where her father is engaged iu 

 landscape work. 



OBITUARY. 



Michael Galligan, a well-known 

 gardener of Attleboro, Mass., died on 

 July 20. aged 60 years. 



Joseph Forsyth Johnson, a well 

 known landscape gardener and writer 

 on landscape topics, died on July 17, 

 aged 67 years. 



Mrs. Thomas S. Joy, wife of the 

 senior member of the firm of Joy & 

 Sons Company, Nashville, Tenn., died 

 .July 8. leaving a family of four daugh- 

 ters and one son, with her husband, 

 to mourn the loss of a devoted mother 

 and wife. 



