July 1, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



A HIVE OF INDUSTRY. 



There are a few horticultural estab- 

 lishments where there seems to be no 

 dull season and "slack times" is some- 

 thins unknown. The A. N. Pierson 

 place at Cromwell, Conn., is om- of 

 them, as anybody who has taken a 

 look over that vast hive of industry 

 will agree. 



Stopping off at Cromwell for a little 

 while one afternoon recently we found 

 the indefatigable Wallace R. and his 

 army of employees hustling "like all 

 possessed" as usual. It takes a big 

 output of stock and big income of 

 money to keep such an establishment 

 going" and neither of these requisites 

 is lacking. New equipment and con- 

 struction are constantly going on. The 

 latest notable addition is two 100 H. 

 P. boilers and a 70 x 382 ft. King 

 house. This house has been planted 

 with 12,300 Dark Pink Killarney roses, 

 which shows what Mr. Pierson thinks 

 of that promising newcomer. Among 

 the other recently introduced roses 

 held in high favor, Prince de Bulgarie 

 stands well, and it requires but a 

 look at its splendid style and vigor 

 in the benches or at a jar of the cut 

 blooms with their crisp, dainty pink 

 buds and rich dark foliage to con- 

 vince one that in this rose we have a 

 stayer with a big future. 



In yellows, Mrs. Aaron Ward is a 

 veritable queen, and young stock has 

 had a remarkable sale, but Lady Hil- 

 lingdon stands out as an even greater 

 acquisition. Another debutante is 

 Budlong's Double White Killarney, 

 which forms a big full bud and is 

 pronounced by Mr. Pierson to be "the 

 greatest rose ever introduced into this 

 country" and bound to take the place 

 so long monopolized by Kaiserin as a 

 white rose for summer cutting. Red 

 Killarney, fully described in former 

 note, will be given dissemination dur- 

 ing the coming year. The demand 

 for young stock this season has been 

 unprecedented, the call for grafted 



DAHLIA WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. 



Rose Prince de Bulgarie 



being about two to one as compared 

 with own-root stock. The output thus 

 far has been close to a million and 

 a quarter here. 



Chrysanthemum rooted cuttings are 

 also experiencing a very active sea- 

 son. Three hundred thousand are in 

 the cutting beds now, with orders 

 on file for the greater part of them 

 as soon as they are sufficiently rooted 



The picture herewith shown is of 

 this splendid Cactus dahlia as grown 

 last season at Mt. Desert Nurseries, 

 Bar Harbor, Me. The photograph 

 was taken August 20. Wolfgang von 



Goethe is one of the newer German 

 varieties. It is a splendid grower and 

 free bloomer. The flowers are apricot 

 with carmine shadings and are very 

 desirable as cut flowers. 



to send out. The output so far this 

 year is, about half a million. Among 

 the most sensational varieties is 

 Chadwick Supreme, a beautiful dark 

 pink sport which originated here and 

 of which 16,000 are to be planted; 

 Comer's triplets, Patty, pink, Merry- 

 Jane, yellow, and Dolly Dimple, light 

 yellow, are highly prized by Mr. Pier- 

 son. 



Syracuse, N. Y. — This city is ex- 

 periencing the worst scourge of cater- 

 pillars and borers known for many 

 years. Tn years past people were per- 

 mitted to plant as many shade trees 

 as they chose, and the result is that 

 in many streets they have grown to- 

 gether, and it is only rarely one can find 

 a really perfect tree. The consequence 

 of close planting affords the caterpil- 

 lars an undisputed field to work over. 

 If they keep up their work of devasta- 

 ting the trees as they have the past 

 two weeks there will be very little 

 foliage left in a week. Quite a num- 

 ber of the people are placing sticky 

 fly paper around the trunk of the trees 

 in the hope of preventing the pests 

 from crawling up, but with poor suc- 

 cess. Why is it that some will pay 

 fifty or one hundred dollars to have 

 a little job done to their automobile, 

 yet begrudge paying an experienced 

 man a fair wage to do garden work? 



H. T. ROSE KRONPRINZESSIN. 

 CECILIE. 



One more in the series of illustra- 

 tions of sterling new roses appears 

 this week on our cover page. For 

 this, as for the preceding pictures, 

 we are indebted to H. A. Dreer, River- 

 ton, N. J. This rose is Queen of the 

 garden at this season of the year and 

 festivals and exhibitions in her honor 

 have been held all over the northern 

 hemisphere during the past few 

 weeks. In the H. T. section are cen- 

 tered the hopes of rose lovers in lati- 

 tudes too severe for the Teas and 

 each year sees the advent of some- 

 thing loudly proclaimed. The variety 

 Kronprinzessin Cecilie was intro- 

 duced by Schmidt in 1908 and has 

 done well in the trial, grounds at va- 

 rious places. The color is silvery 

 pink and it is a very free bloomer. 

 Its form and vigor are well shown in 

 the picture. 



A GENEROUS BEQUEST. 

 The will of the late Dr. C. G. Weld, 

 a well-known patron of horticulture, 

 and frequent exhibitor at the shows 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society has been filed, and among the 

 bequests are his fine estates in Brook- 

 line and Boston, which go to Brookline 

 and Boston respectively, for park pur- 



June 27, 1911. 

 HORTICULTURE: Our advertise- 

 ment of Peonies this last month paid 

 us very well, and we are pleased with 

 results. 



T. C. THURLOWS SONS, Inc., 



West Newbury, Mass. 



Boston, Mass. — P. J. Donohue. for- 

 merly Boston manager of the Waban 

 Rose Co.'s salesrooms, has been ap- 

 pointed manager of the Boston Rose 

 Co.. taking the place of Martin Lally, 

 who is now with Newman, the florist, 

 on Tremont street. 



