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HORTICULTURE 



July 17, 1915 



AN ESTATE WHERE GARDENING FLOURISHES. 



Rock Garden and Rose Garden 

 George E. Barnard Estate, Ipswich, Mass. 



On Friday, July 9, the garden com- 

 mittee of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society visited the estate of Mr. 

 George E. Barnard at Ipswich, Mass. 

 This is one of the steadily advancing 

 places in eastern Massachusetts. 

 Several years ago it was awarded the 

 Hunnewell triennial prize as the best 

 kept garden visited hy the committee 

 but it is now greatly improved from 

 that time and will doubtless continue 

 to improve, as its owner, who is still 

 in the prime of life, has retired from 

 active business and devotes his time 

 and energies to the beautifying of his 

 extensive grounds, a work of which 

 he is very fond and in which he is 

 ably seconded by his superintendent. 

 George C. Butler. 



The place has been in Mr. Barnard's 

 possession about twelve years. Pre- 

 viously it was an old farm, with much 

 natural beauty in the lay of the land 

 but neglected and unkempt. The 

 house which has been greatly en- 

 larged, was built in 1812, which is 

 quite recent as compared with many 

 of the residences in this ancient 

 town. 



The flower gardens are laid out on 

 the most generous order, long sweep- 

 ing borders skirting expansive lawns 

 of beautiful finish and merging into 

 the evergreen plantations and wood- 

 lands very impressively. 40.000 

 perennials and .50.000 annuals were 

 used in the planting this year. There 

 is a rose garden, the plan of which 

 impressed every one with its dainty 

 simplicity and convenience, being cut 

 out in scroll pattern in the lawn, with- 

 out gravel walks, and affording close 

 inspection of every plant without en- 

 croaching on the beds. 



The grounds follow the shore of the 

 Concord river and the flower garden 

 proper occupies the site of a reclaimed 

 meadow. .\ sloping hillside has been 

 converted into an extensive rock gar- 

 den which has been laid out with a 

 charming aliandon and exuberance of 

 material and together with the aqua- 

 tic pools at its liase, will in due time 



take rank as a fine example of this 

 fascinating branch of ornamental 

 gardening. 



It would be a great thing for horti- 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 



At an exhibition of the Royal Hort- 

 cultural Society, on June 22nd, a new 

 delphinium, shown liy A. Fergusson, 

 was labelled "Souvenir de Lieutenant 

 Warneford," in compliment to the 

 plucky young British aviator whose 

 daring exploit destroyed a German 

 Zeppelin, and who met his death a 

 few days afterwards in a flying acci- 

 dent. Another new delphinium from 

 the same exhibitor was named "The 

 Queen of the Belgians." Amongst the 

 new orchids was one exhibited by J. G. 

 Fowler, called "Queen Elizabeth." 

 "Nowadays it is quite the fashion to 

 give novelties a topical war name," a 

 florist stated at the show. He pointed 

 out several specimens marked with 

 such names as Louvain and other 

 places where battles have been fought. 



A Florist's Hints. 



"There is nothing of more serious 

 importance to a seller of flowers than 

 the careful keeping of his stock, and 

 there is no doubt that the most ter- 

 rible bogey man of our lovely business 

 is named 'Waste.' " This is the opin- 

 ion of R. F, Felton, in an informative 

 article appearing in the "Fruit Trades' 

 .Journal." "From morn to night he is 

 always staring us in the face, and it is 

 our first duty to ourselves to do every- 

 thing possible to keep him out of our 

 establishments at all cost. The first 



A Walk in the 

 George E. Barnard 



culture if there were more gentlemen 

 of the type of Mr. Barnard who finds 

 his keenest enjoyment in his garden 

 and who is as charming and compan- 

 ionable in his personality as his estate 

 is interesting and inspiring for the 

 garden lover. 



ECHINOPS RITRO. 



The plant whicli is so strikingly de- 

 picted in our cover illustration thi;; 

 week is so well known as a hardy bor- 

 der subject that any particular de- 

 scription of it here would be super- 

 fluous. Its odd metallic blue flowers 

 and beautiful pinnate lobed foliage 

 never fail to attract attention. Tlie 

 plant is of the easiest culture and 

 shows to best advantage when a num- 

 ber are grouped together as in the 

 picture. 



Perennial Garden 

 Estate, Ipswich, Mass. 



start in this direction confronts us the 

 very moment we open our market 

 boxes. "We are all rather apt to over- 

 look the fact that these flowers which 

 are perfectly fresh from our point of 

 view have been cut at least 15 hours, 

 and during that time they have been 

 either on rail or road standing about 

 the market : now it does not require 

 any great reasoning i>ower to deter- 

 mine that they are a little tired, to say 

 the least, of it, and, therefore, instead 

 of taking them out of the boxes, dump- 

 ing them in vases, and selling them, 

 they should have an hour or so of per- 

 fect rest. They do not get in a flower 

 shop window, especially if it is like 

 mine, due south and west. The first 

 thing to do is to see that their stems 

 are cut with a sharp knife; next see 

 that all superfluous leaves are re- 



