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The Weekly Florists'' Review* 



May 23, 1907. 



don and provincial markets is almost in- 

 credible, and the sales are made at re- 

 munerative prices. Good stufif, well 

 grown and nicely blooined, in 5-inch pots, 

 one large or two small bulbs in each, 

 make from' 6 shillings to 12 shillings 

 per box of half a dozen pots. One of 

 our most skilful growers easily clears 

 thirty dozen or so every market morning. 

 At this time of the year they are, of 

 course, fresh-forced bulbs. The first 

 lots of retarded are now being taken 

 from the cold stores and will not be in 

 bloom until August, when the last of 

 the fresh bulbs will be finishing up. 



The most skilful growers, by using the 

 retarded and fresh bulbs, are now able 

 to have them in bloom all the year round. 

 The last frozen bulbs come out of the 

 stores during October and bloom the 

 following March, at which time the first 

 batches of forced fresh bulbs are well 

 into bloom. 



The demand for longiflorums, blooms 

 and pot plants, is rapidly on the increase 

 in England, now that the retarded stock 

 can be grown in large or small quanti- 

 ties so easily and successfully, and as 

 a. result of the greater demand for the 

 bulbs the importation prices for best 

 stuff rule high and the supply is in no 

 way more than equal to the demand. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Arthur Bryant. 



Arthur Bryant, senior member of the 

 nursery firm of Arthur Bryant & Son, 



he had been considered to be in reason- 

 ably good health and was able to give 

 his time to his business. He leaves his 

 wife, four sons and three daughters. 



Mr. Bryant was born October 15, 1834, 

 in a log cabin on the old homestead two 

 miles south of Princeton. He acquired 

 his early education in the public schools 

 and continued his study under the direc- 

 tion of Eev. A. B. Church and James 

 Smith, of Princeton. In 1864 he married 

 Miss Elizabeth Hughes and the early 

 years of his married life were spent on 

 the old home place. He purchased the 

 piece of ground where the nursery is 

 now located in 1868, and moved to this 

 place with his family in 1875, where he 

 spent the rest of his life. He was an 

 extensive grower of peonies. 



As early as 1866 his name is to be 

 found in the membership list of the 

 State Horticultural Society, and in 1868 

 he attended the first meeting and be- 

 came a member of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Northern Illinois. In 1871 he 

 was elected vice-president of the north- 

 ern society, and in 1882 was elected pres- 

 ident, and from this time on until 1898 

 he served almost continuously, either as 

 president or vice-president of this soci- 

 ety. An active, working member of the 

 state society, in 1886 he served as its 

 president, and from 1891 to 1897 he 

 filled the office of treasurer. By virtue 

 of his office in the northern society he 

 was a member of the executive board 

 of the state society, and therefore had 

 an important part in shaping the horti- 

 cultural work of the state. It was dur- 



Arthur Bryant 



died suddenly May 13, in his office at 

 the nursery at Princeton, Ill.j^ as a re- 

 sult of neuralgia of the heart. Mr. 

 Bryant had not been as strong during 

 the last year or two as formerly, but 



ing this period that the Columbian Ex- 

 position was held, and he was one of a 

 committee of three which had the imme- 

 ' diate charge of the horticultural exhibit 

 of Illinois, which attracted so much at- 



tention and which gave the state such 

 a reputation horticulturally. His ac-' 

 quaintance with the early horticulturists 

 was an extended one, and this, vwith 

 his familiarity with the early history 

 of the state, horticulturally, caused him 

 to be called on frequently, during the 

 later years of his life, for horticultural 

 and biographical sketches, and he also 

 wrote occasionally on technical subjects. 

 At the semi-centennial of the Illinois 

 State Horticultural Society he was as- 

 signed the history and biography for the 

 first twenty years, and his paper read on 

 that occjjsion was a valuable contribu- 

 tion to the horticultural history of the 

 state. It tfWas during his service as a 

 member of the executive board that the 

 system of experimental stations in Illi- 

 nois, under the direction of the state 

 board, was inaugurated, and a station 

 was established under his charge at 

 Princeton, and it still is in existence, 

 and with one exception is the only one 

 left of the original stations. His knowl- 

 edge of fruits and intimate acquaintance 

 with varieties of trees made his work in 

 this line very valuable and his opinion 

 and judgment in such matters much 

 sought after. Never .working as an origi- 

 nator of new fruits, he was instrumental 

 in distributing many new and valuable 

 varieties. For several years Mr. Bryant 

 had been a member of the advisory com- 

 mittee of the state experiment station at 

 Champaign. Thus for forty years he had 

 an active part in the horticultural de- 

 velopment of this state to an extent 

 which few of his fellow citizens realize. 



Hendrick Van Waveren. 



Hendrick Van Waveren, of Hillegom, 

 Holland, died March 24, at the advanced 

 age of 96 years. He was the founder 

 of the widely known firm of Van Wave- 

 ren Bros., bulb growers. 



E. Mertens. 



E. Mertens, one of the most eminent 

 of European landscape gardeners and 

 nurserymen, died at Zurich, Switzerland, 

 March 23, at the age of 60 years. He 

 was born at Brussels. He was the creator 

 of the famed Quay gardens at Zurich, 

 and laid out innumerable gardens and 

 parks in other parts of Switzerland. 



THE READERS' CX>RNER. 



Carfoollneum. 



You may tell the man that asked about 

 Carbolineum in the issue of May 9 that I 

 used several gallons of the stuff on all 

 the pine boards that came in contact with 

 the ground around the entire greenhouse. 

 I also used it on one of my hotbed 

 boxes to find out if it would kill any 

 plants, and I used it on the inside of the 

 sideboards of a carnation bench. 



Results: It neither killed nor injured 

 carnations, tomatoes, cabbage, asters, let- 

 tuce, or anything planted near the boards. 

 The boards of the box painted with 

 Carbolineum are as good as new at the 

 end of two years in the ground, while 

 another box made at the same time is 

 half rotten. I put on two coats of the 

 Carbolineum. It is a perfect walnut stain 

 in color and has a strong odor of tar, 

 but is cheap and not injurious. 



A. WOERNEB. 



For the information of J. N. H., and 

 other of your readers who may be in- 

 terested in the subject, I will say that 

 there is a wood preser\-ative known as 



