POPULAR GARDENING 



AND FRUIT GROWING. 



■'ACCUSE NOT NATURE, SHE HATH DONE HER PART: D(l THOU BUT THINE." -MuJTOtl. 



Vol. V. 



T^Xra-TJST, X89 0. 



No. 1 1. 



The Corn Is standing In golden rows, 



The gardens are rich In things Ui eat ; 

 Melons are ripe, and eaeh man Ituows 



Abundance is spreading at his feet. 



Luscious and mellow and passing sweet. 

 The sky above Is stiU most blue. 



And the sun glares down the live-long day; 

 But work all done and labor through. 



We well can sleep the night away ; 

 For breezes rise at set of sun. 



To cool the earth and revive the flowers : 

 As the evening veil above is hung. 



We watch the stars from this world of ours. 



And smile at the pleasant August hours. 



—Ladies' Home Journal. 



On to Boston. American florists' meeting 

 August Iflth to 32d. 



The Late Patrick Barry. 



In our last number we have already given 

 the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. 

 Patrick Barry, which occurred at his beau- 

 tiful garden home, Mount Hope, an attrac- 

 tive suburb of Rochester, N. Y., June 23d. 



Mr. Barry was born near Belfast, Ireland, 

 in 1816, and came to New York at the age of 

 30, taking a position at Prince's Linnaian 

 nurseries, at Flushing, L. I., where he re- 

 mained four years. In 1840 he formed a 

 partnership with Mr. George Ellwanger, 

 and established the Mount Hope Nurseries 

 at Rochester, which soon became famous 

 and grew to extraordinary dimensions. As 



High Prices will certainly prevail 

 both for green and dried fruits. 



A German Ivy cover.s a bare, 

 sunny window of our liome with a 

 perfect mass of lovely light-green 

 leaves. Nothing could be finer.— GT. 



Pears in Niagara County. About 

 the only exception to the tree-fruit 

 crop being almost a failure in the 

 vicinity of La Salle is Bartlett Pears, 

 which are nearly a full crop. 



This is Good News. According to 

 a Delaware correspondent Kose-bugs 

 did not appear in that region in such 

 large numlXTS as in former years, and 

 Grape vines so far have in that re- 

 gion escaped with comparatively lit- 

 tle injury. 



This Year's New Yorlt State Fair 

 takes place at Syracuse, from Sep- 

 tember 11 to 18. An unusually in- 

 teresting e.vhibit is e.\pected in all 

 departments, among which the dis- 

 play of horticultural products, in 

 all lines will be a chief one. 



Tjsefol Birds. An English gar- 

 dener reports that a number of 

 birds -the titmouse or blackcap, 

 were industriously feeding on the 

 larvic of the Celery fly with which 

 his plants were infested. 



The Tomato in the estimation of 

 the chemists of the Maryland Experi- 

 ment station, cannot be valued as a 

 nutritious food. Its value depends 

 on its capacity to gratify the senses 

 of sight, taste and smell, to promote 

 appetite, aid digestion, and in other ways con- 

 tribute to health and pleasure. 



A Tobacco Transplanter. A machine which 

 it is claimed will plant Tobacco, Cabbage and To- 

 mato plants " faster than ten men can do it by 

 hand," is the latest wonder in agricultural labor- 

 saving devices. It is announced from Louisville, 

 Ky. We can not answer for the correctness 

 of the inventor's claims. 



Good Grapes cannot be improved by cooking, 

 fermentation, nor by any other manipulation. 

 To enjoy them as a dessert fruit is the best use 

 we can make of them. But when more are pro- 

 duced than can be utilized in this way, by all 

 means let the juice be extracted, fieely used, 

 and put on sale everywhere, while unfermented. 

 The fresh juice of the Grape makes a palatable 

 beverage, which even has medicinal properties, 

 and if freely and cheaply ofi'ered, would greatly 

 aid the cause of temperance, and be a blessing 

 to the whole nation. 



THE LATE PATRICK RBARY. 



pomologist, nurseryman, and author, Mr. 

 Barry has achieved a world-wide reputation. 

 Thomas Meehan says of him : " In fruit-cul- 

 ture especially, Mr. Barry's services stand 

 pre-eminent. He had long been known as 

 an effective careful writer in different 

 periodicals, when in 18.Vi his first great work 

 "Barry's Fruit Garden" appeared. This 

 was so popular that another edition was 

 Issued in 18S.5. His greatest work, however, 

 is probably the catalogue of the American 

 Pomological Society, the preparation of 

 which, as chairman to the committee, has 

 been chiefly his work. This is the great 

 guide for American fruit culturists, and has 

 long been the admiration of the world." 



In 1847 Mr. Barry was united in marriage 

 with Harriet Huestis of Richfield, Otsego 

 County, N. Y. The union was blessed with 

 eight children, six sons and two daughters. 



His wife, one daughter and three sons sur- 

 vive him. Of the latter, William C. Barry 

 is best known to our readers, and among 

 horticulturists generally, having won 

 name and fame as a pomologist and nursery- 

 man. 



No better and truer characterization could 

 be given of Mr. Barry than that contained 

 in the following extract from the Rochester 

 Post Express : 



" Mr. Barry was a man of exceptionally 

 strong character. The slightest contact 

 with him elicited some manifestation of 

 personal power. He was straightforward 

 in his methods ; honorable in his purposes ; 

 and of an integrity that would 

 not tolerate even the suspicion of 

 indiscretion. In private affairs 

 and in public affairs he was a 

 stern, aggressive personality 

 whose influence went always for 

 what was honest, genuine, and 

 true ; and in his loss the com- 

 munity loses not simply an indi- 

 vidual life but a moral one." 



" He was successful In accu- 

 mulating a large fortune; but he 

 prospered on the prosperity of 

 others — on the improvement of 

 land in aU parts of the country. 

 He made himself wealthy ; but 

 he left the world far wealthier 

 through his labors." 



We point to his life and pros- 

 perity as a shining example of the 

 success, financial and otherwise, 

 to be achieved through integrity 

 above even the suspicion of in- 

 discretion. Scorning every form 

 of trickery in the trade as in pri- 

 vate life, he was everywhere re- 

 garded as the type of the reliable 

 nurseryman. Mr. Barry held 

 many positions of trust in the 

 business world. In Rochester, N. 

 Y., his home, he was identified 

 with nearly every leading project 

 for the advancement of the city's 

 interests. For more than thirty 

 years Mr. Barry has been presi- 

 dent of the Western New York 

 Horticultural Society. No man 

 was more highly esteemed. Great 

 personal power, commanding 

 form and bearing, quick wit, 

 cool and correct judgment, and a certain 

 amount of conservatism, which only ren- 

 dered his leadership all the more safe, were 

 his to a remarkable degree, and made him 

 a presiding officer of horticultural meetings 

 the better of whom we have never seen. 

 The Western New York Horticultural 

 Society is largely indebted to him for its 

 prominent position among sister societies. 



Hints on Camellia Culture. 



For greenhouse decoration no plant that 

 will flower in an equally low temperature 

 can at all compare in desirable qualities 

 with the Camellia. In every respect, with 

 the single exception of scent, it is the equal 

 of the Rose, while in its ability to thrive in 

 a low temperature, in the beauty of the 

 plant with its heavy, dark, glossy foliage, 

 in its freedom from insects, and in the dvira- 



