October 13, 1906 



HORTICULTURE. 



893 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



One hundred and fifty tons of Cali- 

 fornia apples were sent recently to 

 Australia for Sydney. American ap- 

 ples, by reason of the vim with which 

 the market is pushed there, have a 

 large sale, while no Canadian apples 

 are sent to .\ustralia. 



When in San Francisco, the other 

 day. W. A. Beard, secretary of the Sac- 

 ramento Valley Development Associa- 

 tion, said: "One of the most destruc- 

 tive blights that ever affected fruit has 

 the California pear crop in its grip. It 

 is attacking all the trees and unless 

 speedily stopped will destroy the en- 

 tire crop and the trees, and will cause 

 a loss of over $2,000,000 to the revenue 

 of the state." The blight is caused by 

 bacteria. The germ is usually carried 

 by bees, which suck the honey and 

 leave the germ which they have got 

 from a diseased b\ul. The blight 

 spreads very rapidly, and a whole 

 orchard may become inoculated from 

 a single tree in short order, and large 

 orchards of dead pear trees are already 

 standing throughout the state. 



A dispatch from the State Fair at 

 Sacramento says that Alameda county 

 was awarded first prize and a gold 

 medal for the excellence of its dis- 

 play. 



The first cranberries of the season 

 from the great productive marshes of 

 the Coos Bay country in Oregon have 

 appeared in the San Francisco market. 

 .\ sample box containing one bushel 

 came in and was sold for $3. Four 

 cars of the Cape Cod article are now 

 available. The receivers are selling at 

 $9@$9.50 per barrel and quite a sale 

 has been effected. 



The event of the season in the Hor- 

 ticultural Department of the Univer- 

 sity of California is the appearance 

 of the new work by Professor Hil- 

 gard on soils. The book is devoted 

 exclusively to soils. It is divided into 

 four parts, namely, the origin and 

 formation of soils, physics of soils, 

 chemistry of soils, and soils and vege- 

 tation. Although a scientific work, 

 the writer has succeded it making it 

 adaptable for the masses, as he is 

 possessed of a breezy style of writing 

 that invariably proves interesting 

 reading. It should prove a most valu- 

 able volume to the world of science, 

 coming as it does from the pen of a 

 man who has made the subject a life- 

 long study. 



The departure of E. Gill to visit 

 the trade in Oregon, Washington 

 and British Columbia, reminds me 

 to sa?- that he is the dean of Hor- 

 ticulturists in California, and re- 

 cently returned from taking notes in 

 Holland on bulb culture. Forty years 

 ago he commenced business in Oak- 

 land, Cal., with an S-acre nursery, 

 and has been so identified as work- 

 ingman ever since, though his nursery 

 now, located at Berkeley, Cal., is more 

 than a hundred acres in extent, and 

 its productiveness has advanced Mr. 

 Gill to the ranks of California's very 

 wealthy men. 



THREE GOOD DAHLIAS. 



A postal card from Benjamin Ham- 

 mond of Fishkill, N. Y.. announces 

 his arrival at Port Arthur on Oc- 

 tober 6. 



Mrs. Chas. Turner 



Ida Richardson 



Walter Morse 



We are under obligations to C. S. 

 Finacom, dahlia specialist, Dracut, 

 Mass., for the photographs of these 

 new dahlias. Ida Richardson (show) 



Morse (cactus) is orange salmon with 

 lemon centre, dwarf and bushy habit. 

 Mrs. Charles Turner (decorative) is a 

 fine yellow of dwarf growth. The two 

 first named are seedlings raised by 



is a tall-growing magenta. Walter Mr. Finacom. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Chas. Sim. of Rosemont, Pa., has 

 just returned from his European trip 

 and is full of interesting news of his 

 journey. He visited the principal nur- 

 series in England, Scotland and Ire- 

 land. He is especially enthusiastic 

 in regard to the new roses at New- 

 townards, which he thinks have a 

 great future. 



W'illiam .1. Sherry, of the Johnson 

 Seed Company, is well pleased with 

 his sojourn at the county fairs in this 

 locality. He thinks the prospects for 

 the coming season's business are bet- 

 ter than ever and is prepared for a 

 great season. 



Edward A. Stroud takes his hat ofT 

 to the Dailledouze Bros., whom he vis- 

 ited last week. Their stock is in the 

 pink of condition and wonderfully for- 

 ward for the season. Praise from Sir 

 Rupert Stanley is praise indeed. 



The Michell store is as" bright as a 

 new dollar at present with seasonable 

 stock in bulbs and sundries. The win- 

 dow display is particularly seasonable 

 and tasteful— the work of that master 

 decorator, Philip Freud. The new 

 yellow Chinese narcissus is made the 

 chief feature. 



PERSONAL. 



.Tames Wiseman, gardener to D. M. 

 Clemson of Pittsburg, Pa., has joined 

 the benedicts. 



Miss Adele Taylor, daughter of John 

 H. Taylor of Bay side, N. Y., is to be 

 married on November 8. 



Wm. Griflin. formerly of Lenox, 

 Mass., and recently employed on land- 

 scape work by Alex. Mc.Connell, has 

 accepted the position of superinten- 

 dent of George Gould's estate. Geor- 

 gian Court, at Lakewood, N. J. 



Mr J. B. Kidd, with Wm. Elliott & 

 Sons. New York, has received tidings 

 of the death of his daughter Belle, in 

 California. Miss Kidd, who was 27 

 years of age, had never recovered 

 from the effects of the exposure and 

 hardship at the time of the San Fran- 

 cisco disaster, and her death is traced 

 to that cause. 



The firm name and style of J. R. 

 Clarke, gardeners and florists, at W. 

 Roxburv, Mass., will be J. R. Clarke 

 & Co., in the near future. Mr. 

 Clarke will continue as the sole 

 manager of the business, of which 

 landscape gardening is an import- 

 ant feature. The glass area will 

 be used as heretofore for the propa- 

 gation and growth of herbaceous 

 stuff, and will be kept up to date in 

 range of variety and quality of stock. 

 The present stock comprises some two 

 hundred varieties of this class of 

 plants and is in fine condition for the 

 wholesale fall planting trade. 



NEW LONDON CO. HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The second annual dahlia show of 

 the New London County Horticul- 

 tural Society was held on September 

 22 at Norwich, Conn. Among the 

 largest exhibitors were H. T. Burt of 

 Taunton, Mass., O. P. Chapman. Jr.. 

 of Westerly, R. I., E. S. Manuel of 

 Newport. R. I.. Mrs. F. L. Osgood, 

 Mrs. W. C. Lanman. The F. E. 

 Conine Nursery Co., of Stratford. 

 Conn., had a fine exhibit of hardy 

 hybrid tea roses. The display of foli- 

 age plants by the Geduldig estate and 

 A. W. Pearson's collection of dahlias 

 attracted much attention. The judges 

 were R. J. Irwin of New York, A. J. 

 Anderson of Eastern Point and Oswald 

 Lange of New London. 



