December 30, 1911 



HORTICULTUBE 



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is scarcely necessary («> speak He re 



erred fr.Mn tbe Royal Society the Royal, 



i'"pii'.v, ami Darwin medals, mill attained 

 in 1st:: t<» tin- in^ia'si position open t" a 

 itritish man of science; 1 1 1 + - presidency »»f 



bi Royal Socletj in i s 77 be « 

 K C s I , mi. I in years i iter, on bla '.»'iii 



mm bday, in- rei i I irder "f Uerlt.*' 



Dr. J. Q. Mulford. 

 Dr. J. Q. Mulford. florist, Lebanon, 

 O., was killed by a cave-In of flirl and 

 concrete In a ditch in- was repairing. 

 He retired from medical practice 

 several years ago and bad I mi It up a 



good florist lni i u 



Fred H. Johnson. 

 Fred H. Johnson, who for years 

 conducted greenhouses on Whitney 



avenue, Olean, N. Y., 



dropped dead in tbe 

 Llewellyn greenhouses 

 on Dec. 18. He was 

 well known in Olean 

 and for some time had 

 been employed in the 

 greenhouses where he 

 died. 



larger size than any other tree In 

 Asia. One photogiaph shows a giant 

 slump ol one w Men is 80 ft. In hi 

 and has a girth of 55 ft. 



Shrubs are rerj numerous in this 

 collection. Gems such as Deutzla Wii- 

 Bonl, Spiraea Veltchii, Buddleias, Co 

 ion. asi. i's. Clematises, etc., In « Ide 

 diversity of forms are shown. Of n 

 i he HauKsia. multlflorum, most hata 

 and others well known are shown In 

 their native habit. A Syrlnga with 

 pendulous (lowers, as yei unnamed, 



ami [tea lllclfolla with floral "tails" 



one foot to one and a half ft. long 

 catch the eye at once. (The last 

 named received an award of merit in 

 London recently). Cornus Kousa, a 



FU- 



G. Van Antwerp. 

 r. Van Antwerp, of 

 G. Van Antwerp & Son, 

 seedsmen, Mobile, Ala., 

 died on Dec. 10. 



Gervase Pfordt. 

 The funeral of (Jet- 

 vase Pfordt. of J. G. 

 Pfordt's Sons, florists. 

 $97 Broadway, Albany, 

 N Y. took place Dec L'u. 



A SUGGESTIVE EX- 

 HIBITION. 



During the present 

 week and up to Sunday 

 night, December 31, 

 there is a very lnt( rest- 

 bog and Instructive 

 public exhibition of 

 photographs by the Ar- 

 nold Arbor etum at 

 Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston. The photo- 

 graphs, which are most 

 beautiful examples of 

 expert photography, 

 were made by E. H. 

 Wilson on his Chinese 

 plant collecting jour- 

 ney and depict wild 

 mountain scenery, 

 trees, shrubs, herbs 

 and characteristic __^ 



architecture, each ar- '■^^^^^^^^ m 

 ranged in classes respectively and 

 comprising four hundred pictures. 



■ It would take a whole book to ade- 

 quately describe the various subjects 

 depicted and we can here only glance 

 at a few specially noted In a brief sur- 

 vey. Chinese tree species, as a gen- 

 eral thing, run smaller in size than 

 their relatives of other countries. No- 

 table exceptions are the Chinese sas- 

 safras, S. Tzumu, which is shown to 

 grow to a height of 100 ft. and with 

 a girth of 15 ft., bigger by far than 

 our American species. A Rhododen- 

 dron, unnamed species, is represented 

 by a specimen 40 ft. high and with 5 

 ft. girth, bearing fine trusses of rosy- 

 red flowers. A cercidiphyllum is 

 shown 80 ft. high with a solitary 

 trunk, 7 ft. girth, growing in an open 

 park-like country. Mr. Wilson says 

 that the cercidiphyllum attains to 



aW 



RrfradiiL-rJ from Ihr (7a 



Sir Joseph Hooker 



near relative of our own C. Florida, 

 has a wealth of bloom— flowers 5 in. 

 across. "Boston Ivy" is seen grow- 

 ing wild on tree trunks. There are 

 Aralias, Crataegnses, Bamboos in 

 graceful poise and many unnamed 

 species in spiraes and other garden 

 shrubs that will in due time become 

 familiar ornaments of our American 

 gardens. Lilies, gentians and many 

 other beautiful subjects are displayed 

 in the herb department. 



The impression one carries away 

 after seeing this suggestive display is 

 that it will be many, many years be- 

 fore all the rare floral treasures of 

 that vast mountain country are 

 brought to light. The discoveries 

 thus far. remarkable as they are. are 

 only a beginning. Untold wealth is 

 still hidden In those untrodden fast- 

 nesses. 



THE GLADIOLUS AND ITS 

 TURE. 



a Paper read before the Weatern Gladiolus 

 mil Dahlia Society by a. B. Konderd. 

 So much has been written and said 

 fm the gladiolus concerning its cul- 

 niie both out of doors and under glass 

 r. . i bulbs and cut Bowers that 1 will 

 nni attempt to g on 



thai line, as you arc ail experts on 

 (hat subject. I will only mention C. 

 I, Allen's "Bulbs and Tuberous-rooted 

 Plants," and the excellent new book 

 on the gladiolus by that veteran au- 

 thority, Matthew Crawford, as two of 

 tie most reliable sources of informa- 

 tion regarding the same. 



Although a lifelong breeder of the 

 gladiolus, it should 

 take a much better 

 tongue and pen than 

 mine to do this subject 

 the justice it so well 

 deserves. I have been 

 so busy admiring and 

 working with the glad- 

 iolus that I have never 

 thought much about its 

 present or future. How 

 well the gladiolus has 

 taken care of its good 

 reputation you are all 

 aware, and I feel cer- 

 tain it will do even bet- 

 ter in time to come. 

 Of course I am an en- 

 thusiast as a breeder 

 of this — one of the 

 most magnificent of all 

 t h e many beautiful 

 flowers — and as such 

 have a boundless con- 

 fidence in its still 

 greater future, both 

 commercially and artis- 

 tically. Commercially 

 its usefulness is only 

 just being recognized, 

 and its future in the 

 hands of the plant 

 breeder holds almost 

 boundless possibilities. 

 Only a few days ago 

 some of its friends 

 have reported new 

 beauties In foliage var- 

 iation, and I believe 

 much can be done to 

 develop this feature 

 alone. In addition to 

 the reported foliage 

 with white striping, 

 great improvements 

 may be expected with 

 the normal color. For 

 a number of years I have been select- 

 ing and breeding with this object In 

 view, and found the gladiolus as sus- 

 ceptible along this line as in the im- 

 provement of its flowers. Tall, wide, 

 rich green foliage, tall, slender and 

 graceful foliage, of forms best suited 

 to the usual straight-stemmed varie- 

 ties, and some beautiful slender and 

 drooping foliage, best suited to blend 

 with what is known as bent or 

 crooked-stemmed varieties. That there 

 is a future of usefulness for the last- 

 named form of stem, I feel confident 

 Other features of form and type will 

 suggest themselves to any experienced 

 observer, and I am confident the long- 

 wished-for sweet-scented varieties will 

 vet be perfected. Much has already 

 been done: more will be accomplished 

 by careful and patient workers in the 

 lopment of this Dower. 



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