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HORTICULTURE 



August 31, 1912 



IVIIGNONETTE--Farquhar's Universal 



One of the finest MIGNONETTES for the greenhouse, produc- 

 ing immense flowers. Spikes of reddish green, sweetly scented. 



The seed we are offering was raised for us P^^^l-.^>|. d^l 



under glass and saved from selected spikes. 1 rt-Clvd «P X 



R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., 6 & 7 South Market St., Boston, Mass. 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 

 Some New Roses. 

 A batch of meritorious new roses has 

 charmed the enthusiasts at the shows 

 this season. The gold-medal roses at 

 the National show were Mrs. Andrew 

 Carnegie and Old Gold. The first 

 named, shown by Cocker & Sons, of 

 Aberdeen, is a seedling from Frau 

 Karl Druschki crossed with Niphetos. 

 It is a handsome bloom of pale lemon 

 white. Old Gold, raised by S. Mc- 

 Gredy & Son, Newtonards, Ireland, is 

 of scarlet orange. Messrs. McGredy 

 & Son have another splendid novelty 

 in Mrs. Edith Part, which has been 

 aptly described as having something 

 of the tint of a highly-colored Beaute 

 Inconstante blended with Lady Pirrie. 

 The same firm are showing Lady Mary 

 Ward, a deep orange, and Mrs. Fred 

 Vanderbilt, of a pleasing hue. Hugh 

 Dickson, Belfast, Ireland, has some 

 sterling new introductions in Mrs. C. 

 D. Hunting, William Cooper and Mrs. 

 R. D. McClure. Queen Mary, from A. 

 Dickson & Sons, Newtonards, Ireland, 

 bears a resemblance to the old rose 

 Luciole. Sunburst is another useful 

 addition to M. Pernet-Ducher's long 

 list of excellent varieties. Moonlight, 

 pale creamy white, is a perpetual-flow- 

 ering moschata rose raised by the Rev. 

 J. Pemberton, who also has an attrac- 

 tive pink variety Dinah, These few 

 selections by no means exhaust the list 

 of the good things which will be wel- 

 comed by the large and increasing 

 army of rosarians. 



The Sweet Pea Show. 



The remarkable development which 

 bas taken place in the form, size, and 

 color of the sweet pea was fully dem- 

 onstrated at the National Society's 

 show at the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety's hall in London, on July 9th— 

 the same day as the rose show. The 

 gallery at the end of the hall was ra- 

 diant with a lavish embellishment of 

 sweet peas, whilst the floor was com- 

 pletely filled with a kaleidoscopic as- 

 sortment. The trade groups were tri- 

 umphs of successful culture; the deco- 

 rative classes afforded instructive hints 

 for the effective use of the blooms for 



floral adornment. W. J. Unwin, who 

 has raised some of the best known 

 varieties, received a gold medal 

 for a magnificent group. The new 

 introductions included Walter P. 

 Wright, light lavender; Leslie 

 Imber, a pleasing shade of blue; 

 Winifred Unwin, light blue, and 

 Cyril Unwin, maroon shaded violet. 

 Dobbie & Co., also received a gold 

 medal for a meritorious display. Very 

 striking were Dobbie's Scarlet; Decor- 

 ator, old rose with a shade of terra 

 cotta; Brunetta, deep mahogany; 

 Lady Miller, apricot on cream suffused 

 with pink, and Marks Tey, a handsome 

 bicolor. 'The Burpee cup was won by 

 W. E. Alsen, of Denmead, Hants. A 

 dinner was given to' the judges and 

 committee, this being attended by visi- 

 tors from Australia, New Zealand, 

 South Africa, and the United States. 

 W. H. ADSETT. 



JAPANESE GARDEN ARCHITEC- 

 TURE. 

 The Elm City Nurseries at New 

 Haven, Conn., have arranged a collec- 

 tion of Japanese dwarf trees and 

 shrubs, old stone lanterns, etc., in a 



INSECTS IN RELATION TO THE 



DYING OF THE CHESTNUT 



TREES. 



The importance of having the best 

 information that can be secured on the 

 subject of insects in their relation to 

 the chestnut led the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture to project an extensive investi- 

 gation through the Branch of Forest 

 Insects of the Bureau of Entomology. 



General investigations since 1893 

 have shown that more than 450 species 

 of insects inhabit the chestnut. While 

 all of these are not destructive, some 

 are especially so. One, the so-called 

 two-lined chestnut borer, is directly 

 responsible for the death of more 

 timber, perhaps, than all the others 

 combined. This is a small, elongate 

 beetle which flies in May and June and 

 deposits eggs on the bark of living 

 and dying chestnuts, oak, beech, and 

 ironwood in the Southern, Middle, and 

 Eastern states. The elongate, slender 

 larvae mine in the inner bark and out- 

 er wood in such a manner as to girdle 

 the trees. When they attain their 

 full growth they transform to the 

 adult stage in the outer wood, or bark, 

 to emerge the following spring and 

 repeat the process. Investigations 

 have shown that it can be controlled 

 by disposing of the infested trees In 

 such a manner as to destroy the bark 

 on the main trunks during the fall 

 and winter months. 



The extensive dying of the chestnut 

 in the Southern states during the last 

 century, where the chestnut blight 

 disease was not known to occur, to- 

 gether with extensive investigations in 

 this region, indicate that there are a 

 number of agencies of destruction 

 which must be investigated before the 

 problem of protecting the chestnut 

 can be solved. 



In some sections of the South where 

 more than fifty years ago the chestnut 

 trees were abundant, very few are 

 present to-day. Observations by Dr. 

 A. D. Hopkins, in charge of Forest in- 

 sect Investigations, during the past 

 twenty years in the Appalachians 

 show a widespread death of both 

 chestnut and chinquapin during the 

 period. 



model Japanese garden, which is a 

 great attraction for visitors. Our il- 

 lustration shows a view in this garden, 

 which is probably as fine as anything 

 of its kind in the United States, 



Holliston, Mass. — The Eastern Nur- 

 series are to build, in addition to the 

 greenhouses reported in the last issue 

 of HORTICULTURE, a packing shed 

 21 V2 X 65, a fumigating house 12 x 18, 

 and an office 24 x 30, 1% stories. A 

 new water supply system is to be in- 

 stalled also. 



