AiGfST 5, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



T liavi' i'ound that by burning the posts 

 iigli to char them I have been able 

 f°^,.,nkc them last longer than with any 

 '" " - W. H. Morton. 



to 111'*" , a 



Other tiratment 



JOHN CHARLTON. 



joiir, Charlton, of John Charlton & 

 oqjjs, linchester, N. Y., was born at Horn- 

 ngsli.i . Wiltshire, England, November 

 L ]s ,1. He received his education at 

 the vi lage school, an institution which 

 jn tbu days was somewhat limited in 

 scope. Mr. Charlton was always fond 

 of III its, flowers and fruits, and this 

 imluc • ' him to take up the profession of 

 gai(l( 1 and afterward that of nursery- 

 man. 



At le age of 17 he was apprenticed 

 at til ' u-'irdens of Longleat, the magnifi- 

 cent I tuity seat of the Marquis of Bath, 

 then, . s now, one of the show places of 

 EngU' .^i. He was the one selected out 

 of twinty-four applicants for the place, 

 which paid a premium of 10 guineas 

 (loiJ.'O) for the position for three years. 

 Longleat House stands in a large, spa- 

 cious (lark and was laid out by ' ' Capa- 

 bility ' Brown, so called on account of 

 his aptitude for such work. The park 

 ahvavs carries 1,000 deer, which are quite 

 an attraction to it. The park is also 

 free to all for picnics, so long as the 

 people do not abuse the privilege ac- 

 cortlcd them. It was on Prospect Hill, 

 in this park, that Bishop Ken wrote the 

 •'Evening Hymn," so well known to 

 thousands of English-speaking people. 



Mr. Charlton spent the first year of 

 his apprenticeship among the fruit trees 

 and the wall fruits. The second year he 

 was in the flower garden and the third 

 year in the forcing house, where he be- 

 came acquainted with the methods of 

 growing bananas, grapes, pineapples, 

 peaches, plums, cherries, figs, melons, etc., 

 under glass, to his own great satisfac- 

 tion. 



He left Longleat three years, to a 

 day, after the date of his going there, 

 and then considered himself competent 

 enoiij^h to go to the island of Guernsey 

 to take charge of the garden of Peter 

 de .fersey, one of the most prominent 

 men of the island. 



In the fall of the year 1856, Mr. Charl- 

 ton landed at New York, a few days 

 after attaining his majority. He spent 

 the Jiist winter in Canada and in the 

 folkiuing spring came to Kochester, 

 where he made his permanent home. He 

 was engaged by the late Geo. J. Whit- 

 ney, II director of the New York Central 

 raih.iad, who had seen Mr. Charlton's 

 adv. I tisement for a situation as gar- 

 den, r in the Toronto Globe. He stayed 

 witi Mr. Whitney until fall, when Mr. 

 uhi iiey got him a situation with Jo- 

 seph Hall, a great horseman, miller and 

 agr iltural implement maker. In this 

 pos; on he remained until the death of 

 ^Jf 'all, six years later. 



'i' n, in 1865, Mr. Charlton resolved 

 10 ii ke his own venture in business and 

 s^*^'. d at that time two acres of land, 

 °n V ich he built his present home, and 

 also 1 greenhouse, which he afterward 

 '■^pi ed with larger and more commodi- 

 ous les. He added to his land time and 

 ^gai; . until he now has 129 acres under 

 ^ult' ation. He is associated with his 

 two s.ins^ John A. and Joseph M., under 

 ^ne (,,m name of John Charlton & Sons. 

 ^" 1869 Mr. Charlton introduced 

 f^'"]'' lopsis Veitchii and advertised it 

 Jj?^"e Gardeners' Monthly, edited by 

 ^"0'' Meehan, the first time in this 

 country. In 1373 jjg raised the Peter 



John Charlton. 



Henderson tree carnation and sold it to 

 Nanz & Neuner, of Louisville, Ky., in 

 1876, for $650. The introduction of this 

 variety marked an epoch in the history 

 of the carnation. He also introduced the 

 Pocklington grape and the Golden Pro- 

 lific gooseberry. He helped to intro- 

 duce the James Vick strawberry. 



Mr. Charlton was among the first to 

 grow hardy grapevines for market, and 

 as an expert grower of fuchsias he was 

 surpassed by none. The firm is noted, 

 at the present time, for the growing of 

 roses, flowering shrubs and peonies. In 

 1873, at the meeting of the Genesee 

 Valley Horticultural Society, the firm's 

 peonies took the first prize for the larg- 

 est collection, the late C. M. Allen being 

 one of the judges for the occasion. The 

 late Mr. Corning, of Albany, went to 

 Rochester to try to engage Mr. Charlton 

 in his service, but as his relations with 

 Mr. Hall, his employer, were most satis- 

 factory, nothing came of it. 



The Charlton Nursery Co. is distinct 

 from John Charlton & Sons, doing a 

 separate business. Joseph M. Charlton 

 is president of the Charlton Nursery Co. 

 and E. S. Osborne is secretary and treas- 

 urer. This firm is building up a large 

 retail business. 



John Charlton is now 74 years old and 

 is young and sprightly for a man of his 

 years. 



GAS FOR RED SPIDER. 



CoukL you give a beginner the most 

 elfectual way of getting rid of red 

 spider? Will hydrocyanic gas kill them? 

 If so, kindly give the amount for a house 

 22x94, twelve feet to the ridge. Would 

 vou advise this kind of fumigating? Will 

 it kill insects? A. O. C, 



Hydrocyanic acid gas will kill red 

 spider and, in fact, all insect pests which 

 are not in the soil. When in the soil the 

 fumes do not seem to penetrate suffi- 

 eiently to destroy cut-worms or other 

 larvae. 



You do not state what plants are in 

 the house you desire to fumigate. If 

 you have been using it for carnations or 

 some other crop which is now of no value, 

 the simplest way to kill the spider will 

 he to burn some sulphur in the house. If, 

 however, plants are growing, which you 

 want to save, you can try gas. During 

 hot weather this and all other fumigants 

 are more liable to injure vegetation. You 

 should, therefore, choose a cool night for 

 the operation. 



Your house contains about 12,000 cubic 

 feet. To destroy spider and mealy bug, 

 1 would advise using three stone jars. In 

 each of these place one quart of sulphuric 

 acid and one quart of water and drop in 

 each five ounces of potassium cyanide. 

 See that ventilators are tightly closed be- 

 fore commencing the operation. Wrap 



