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liiieiUs; il has a standaitl whith is 

 friendly to all nations; and it has a 

 fraprance like the universal gospel; 

 yea, a sweet prophecy of welcome 

 everywhere that has been abundantly 

 fulfilled." 



Mr. Jenkins also won for Irlsthrope 

 a special gold medal given by Jas. 

 Vick & Sons, seedsmen of Roihester. 

 .N. Y., for tlie most meritorious exhibit. 

 The founder of this firm, James Vick, 

 was the first to introduce tlie sweet 

 pea into America and his son in pre- 

 senting the medal stated that at that 

 time his father could not sell eeed and 

 in order to introduce it gave a free 

 package of the seed with orders with 

 cultural directions for growing the new 

 flower. A bronze medal was also 

 awarded to Iristhrope for an exhibit of 

 a novelty the "Doris." a cerise flower, 

 that bears the name of Mr. Jenkin'a 

 five-year-old dau|;hter. 



Considering the repiitation acquired 

 in such a manner, it is not stranpie that 

 Iristhrope is being visited by many of 

 the leading horticulturists of the 

 country. 



Sewall Lyman." II is to be wished 

 that more of the gardeners on private 

 estates around Boston would bring out 

 their treasures for the enjoyment of 

 the public at the different shows, even 

 tliougli no class may be provided for 

 them. 



Mr. G. F. Stewart, superintendeni of 

 the Lyman estate in Waltham. Mass., 

 always has something of special Inter- 

 est to exhibit at the shows in Horti- 

 cultural Hall. .'M the Gladiolus Show 

 he had a remarkably handsome speci- 

 men of Depladema Splendens Profusa. 

 It was a tall plant, covered with 

 blooms, and was greatly admired by all 

 who saw it. In connection with it was 

 shown a seedling plant much smaller 

 and yet blooming well. This s> edling 

 has been named by Mr. Stewart. "Ella 



Herman Bartsch, president of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists" club of Bos- 

 ton, made a little change from his 

 usual routine and attended the con- 

 vention at Hamilton this season in- 

 stead of going to Cleveland. He re- 

 ports a very enjoyable stay and while 

 away visited a number of growers. 

 He said that the Canadian green- 

 houses were looking none too good, 

 showing that the labor problem was 

 being felt there as well as this side 

 of the line. He speaks of the dilBcul- 

 ties arising from the sharp differences 

 in exchange, a condition which is 

 leading some Hollanders to remit 

 through New York and get an extra 

 profit. Mr. Bartsch said that at one 

 of the meetings a very interesting talk 

 was made by Mr. Koster. for whom 

 the Koster Blue Spruce was named. 

 .Mr. Koster said that the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board's rulings had ruined 

 a number of growers in Holland, and 

 that thousands of plants barred out 

 from the United States had been 

 thrown on the rubbish heap. A visit 

 to the rose growers. Alfred & Son. at 

 Hamilton, was quite interesting. He 

 said that these growers had extensive 

 houses and were doing a good busi- 

 ness. 



As everybody familiar with the W. 

 W. Edgar Company knows that Mr. 



I'.artsch is an authority on (yclaincn 

 •Mul an enthusiast where these plants 

 arc concerned, it will be realized that 

 he had special interest in the visit to 

 I he greenhouses of Wm. C. Hall at 

 Montreal, where remarkably good 

 ryclanien are grown. Mr. Bartsch 

 said that Mr. Hall had some of the 

 finest plants that he had seen and he 

 grew them largely in frames outside. 



Karl Foerster in his new book on 

 Modern Hardy Herbaceous Flowering 

 Plants (published in German) classes 

 the peach-leaved campanula.s among 

 the "floral nobility" of the garden, in 

 rank close to Lilium candidum. Cam- 

 panula iierslcifolia and its various im- 

 proved forms have been introduced to 

 -American gardeners and landscape 

 architects and offered on the lists of 

 leading firms for a score of years, but 

 whether there has ever been any con- 

 certed or even one notable effort 

 made to bring out and use this most 

 beautiful type of bellflowers to its full 

 effect may be still doubted. Some 

 years ago the members of the German 

 Society of Garden Artists and Land- 

 scape Architects went on a tour of in- 

 spection of parks and gardens in 

 Great Britain. Their report was full, 

 of interesting criticism, but all ap- 

 peared most favorably impressed by 

 the skillful and artistic work in Eng- 

 lish gardens and I noticed special 

 stress was laid on the beautiful dis- 

 plays of peach-leaved campanulas they 

 had seen. What has the best type of 

 American gardens of the present day 

 to show of such displays? I am afraid 

 very little indeed. Beds or good-sized 

 plantations of Campanula i>ersicifolia 

 at flowering time offer such magnifi- 

 cent subjects for the camera that re- 

 productions of photos would have ap- 

 peared as star illustrations in every 

 volume of our horticultural periodi- 

 cals by the dozen. 



Galgay, the florist, of Cambridge, 

 Mass., is enlarging his store, and 

 greatly improving its appearance. Al- 

 though in business only a short time 

 he has become well acquainted. 



FYank Windier, of the Windier 

 Wholesale Floral Co., St. Louis, was re- 

 cently married to Miss Frances Kel- 

 letta. 



