May 10, l'.ll!t 



HORTICULTURE 



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WATSON ON ROSES OLD AND 



NEW. 



William Munro of Garrettfonl, one 

 nt our most expert rose growers, in 

 talking about the passing of the old 

 timers of the cut flower rose world all 

 except American Beauty — made a re- 

 mark worthy of note. Yes, said he, 

 you talk about Beauty being the only 

 one that has stood the razzle dazzle 

 these thirty years. It has all right. But 

 there's another one that's going to 

 stand just as long. And what's it? 

 sez I. Guess, sez he. Well, sez I, I'm 

 not a rose man but I'd say Mrs. 

 Charles Russell. Wrong, sez he, it's 

 Hadley. H'm sez I, and why. Well, 

 sez he, its got the guts to it like 

 Beauty and its just as hard to do well. 

 Russell, on the other hand, is too easy 

 and it will be overdone in a few years. 

 So Mr. Grower put that in your pipe 

 and smoke it. Bill ought to have been 

 along with the Burton party through 

 Montgomery & Bucks Co. last fall. It 

 would have stirred some of them up 

 a little. But on the other hand he 

 might have been dumb as a clam — 

 unless stirred up with a wee drap. 

 It's a hard job to get a valuable se- 

 cret out of a man — especially a busi- 

 ness pointer. They don't give it away 

 at Sunday School. After July the first 

 the boys will have to find out all their 

 secrets for themselves, which for most 

 of them will be never. William J. 

 Bryan has a lot to answer for. 



And speaking of past history our 

 veteran florist, John Westcott, tells us 

 that in 1875 there were only two roses 

 on the list in these days, Safrano and 

 Marechal Neil. Later on Bon Silene 

 used to come from Boston and with 

 them came Bill Stewart, Nick Mc- 

 Carthy, Patrick Welch and Bill Elliott. 

 That was about the start of the com- 

 mission business in Phila. Among the 

 first of the natives in that time was 

 probably Bill Meehan — although 

 Charlie Pennock and Bill Baker close- 

 ly followed him. Of these three, the 

 Honorable William J. Baker is the only 

 one left. William E. Meehan has been 

 a fish commissioner for many years, 

 and Charles E. Pennock, as already 

 stated, died in 1891. So we have to 

 take our hats off to William J. Baker 

 as well as to Samuel S. Pennock in 

 this connection 



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