October 28, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



593 



FOUR GLADIOLI. 



Scribe. 



Our illustrations show several of 

 the newer gladioli most highly es- 

 teemed by John Lewis Childs, by 

 whom they are offered. 



Scribe needs no encomiums. Its 

 splendid form and vigor are plainly 

 Bhown in the picture. It is pink 



Wm. Falconer. Irene. 



marked on a white ground, variable 

 as the portrait shows, and is a de- 

 cided advance over that sterling old 

 favorite Eugene Scribe. 



Safrano is a Vilmorin production, a 

 fine and fairly deep yellow, with a 

 red mark in the throat. The individ- 

 ual flowers are very fine, but the 

 straggly character of the spike is 



Safrano. 



likely to limit its popularity among 

 gladiolus fanciers. 



William Falconer is a fine repre- 

 sentative of the Childsii type. It can- 

 nui now be classed as new, but it 

 still holds its place as one of the very 

 best pink varieties. 



The other one, Irene, is a pink and 

 white beauty, fine in every way. 



PERSONAL. 



A. J. Frazer succeeds J. C. H. Hunt- 

 Icy in charge of the plant of the E. 

 Gill Nursery Co.. at Eden Vale, Calif. 



Louis C. Stearns has been placed in 

 charge of the new greenhouse at the 

 Normal School at Bridgewater, Mass. 



Arthur Crabb, son of Geo. Crabb of 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., was married, 

 October 18th, to Margaret Ryan, also 

 of that city. 



P. Papas is now proprietor of the 

 floral department of Wabash Fruit & 

 Flower Co.'s store, 502 South Wabash 

 avenue. Chicago. 



H. W. Field, florist, Northampton, 

 Mass., has gone to Redlands, Cal., with 

 his family for the winter in the hope 

 to benefit his health. 



Edward H. Dolby, who conducts a 

 greenhouse at Great Barriugton, Mass., 

 and .Miss Jessie Chase of North Adams, 

 were united in marriage Oct. 19. 



H. P. Hodgkins, formerly with R. & 

 J. Farquhar Co., of Boston, is now 

 New England representative of the 

 Moore Seed Co., of Philadelphia. 



E. P. Wall is has been appointed bo- 

 tanical instructor at the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College, Cow^allis. Oregon. He 

 was formerly at the Maryland Agricul- 

 tural College. 



William Swan, for many years su- 

 perintendent of Rocky Point Farm. 

 Plymouth, Mass., has resigned his posi- 

 tion and will enter the real estate busi- 

 ness as agent and representative of 

 the Marden Co-operative Real Estate 

 business of Washington, D. C, with 

 office in Plymouth. Mr. Swan assures 

 us that his heart will, however, still 



be true to gardening in all its ways 

 and interests. 



We are pained to learn of the seri- 

 ous injuries sustained by J. H. Troy 

 of The Rosary flower store, on Park 

 avenue, New York, on Tuesday of last 

 week. Mr. Troy is said to be on the 

 road to recovery, at his home in New 

 Rochelle, but still suffering much pain. 

 HORTICULTURE joins with a host of 

 anxious friends in the wish that he 

 may speedily recover and be soon re- 

 stored to his accustomed physical 

 vigor. 



James McGregor, treasurer of the 

 North Shore Horticultural Society, was 

 very pleasantly surprised at the meet- 

 ing of the society on the evening of 

 Oct. 20. The president, Alfred Par- 

 sons presented him, in behalf of the 

 society and friends, a beautiful solid 

 gold watch, suitably inscribed, as a 

 token of the esteem in which he is 

 held by the members. 



Mr. McGregor, who has been a prom- 

 inent worker in the society, has been 

 the gardener for Miss Adele G. Thayer 

 for the past 23 years, and is leaving 

 Nov. ] to take charge of her estate a1 

 Dublin, N. H. 



St. Louis visitors: Martin Reukauf, 

 representing H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; R. Newcomb, repre- 

 senting Vaughan's Seed Store, Chi- 

 cago. 



Boston visitors. — Alfred Emmerich, 

 representing Vilmorin & Co., Paris, 

 France; E. O. Orpet, Lake Forest, 111.; 

 Frederic II. Evans, president Ameri- 

 can Institute, New York City; Ed. 

 Roehrs, Rutherford, N. J.; W. C. Lang- 

 lnidse, representing Jerome B. Rice 

 Co., Cambridge, N. Y. 



A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. 

 On Monday evening, Oct. 23. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Peter Fisher opened their beauti- 

 ful home at Ellis, Mass., to their 

 friends in honor of the twenty-fifth an- 

 niversary of their marriage. It was a 

 mest delightful reception and said to 

 be one of the largest affairs ever held 

 at a private residence in Norwood. 

 Friends in the town and friends from a 

 distance, including many of the lead- 

 ing floricultural lights of Massachu- 

 setts filled the spacious reception room 

 and affectionately clasped the hands of 

 Boston's famed carnationist and the 

 charming lady to whose companion- 

 ship for the past quarter of a century 

 so much of his success in life is due. 

 The rooms were decorated in tasteful 

 manner and a bountiful collation was 

 served while the orchestra played. Con- 

 gratulations and hearty good wishes for 

 twenty-five years more of wedded 

 bliss. 



CATTLEYA X EDWARDI. 

 We are indebted to Ed. Roehrs, or- 

 chid expert of Julius Roehrs Co., for 

 the fine photograph reproduced on our 

 cover page. Cattleya Edwardi is a 

 cross between C. Schilleriana and C. 

 Warscewiczi, a very striking and beau- 

 tiful flower with conspicuous purple 

 markings on the white lip, as shown 

 in the picture. The cross was first 

 made, we think, by Sander in 1902, 

 but has been done repeatedly by others 

 since, including Julius Roehrs Com- 

 pany, who have fine plants of their 

 own production as well as those of 

 foreign origin. 



