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The Rorlsb' Review 



OCTOBKB IB, 1014 



AND STILL THEY OOME. 



In writing about other matters, read- 

 ers and advertisers continue to com^ 

 mend the new magazine style Beview. 

 The improved appearance of the paper 

 apparently has attracted even more at- 

 tention than was expected. Here are 

 a few of the latest comments: 



The new Review is all right and the 

 r little classified ad is doing great work 

 for us. — Joseph 8. Merritt, The Mary- 

 land Flower Garden, Baltimore, Md. 



We have noted the new * * yaller 

 jacket" covering recent issues of The 

 Review and must congratulate you on 

 its smart appearance. — Arthur T. Bod- 

 dington, New York. 



Congratulations on the improved ap- 

 pearance of The Review. — A. Wash- 

 burn 4 Sons, Bloomington, 111. 



The Review is all right; we are en- 

 tirely sold out; your paper surely gets 

 results. — rSmith Bros., j^asport, N. Y. 



I also wish to congratulate you on 

 the new arrangement of The Review 

 and on the attractive cover. — Richard 

 Gloede, Evanston, 111. 



It was quite an agreeable surprise to 

 see General Review in his new dis- 

 tinctive uniform after so many years 

 of faithful and useful service in the 

 ranks. — C. Adams, Memphis, Tenn. 



Congratulations on The Review 's new 

 fall dress; it is a big improvement in 

 every respect. I approve the change 

 in position for the Index to Advertis- 

 ers, the Table of Contents and the 

 Classified Department. — A. C. Bushnell, 

 Pasadena, CaF. 



The new form of The Review is 

 neater in appearance, but I doubt if 

 you could improve the contents. — C. H. 

 -Arnold, Springfield, Mass. 



The new Review is greatly admired 

 here. — New Haven Floral Co., Fort 

 Wayne, Ind. 



I must say the new cover on The 

 Review, with date on the thick back 

 edge, is a great improvement, but still 

 greater is the new Index to Advertis- 

 ers and Tabid of Contents; but great- 

 est of all is placing the Classified De- 

 partment at the back of the book. This 

 certainly brings The Review up to the 

 minute. — H. W. Koerner, Milwaukee, 

 Wis. 



POLLENIZINa THE DAHLIA. 



Please tell me when and how to 

 poUenize dahlia blooms to make them 

 set seed. I have tried many times and 

 failed. Is it the small organ in the 

 base of each petal that is to receive 

 the pollen? I am entirely successful 

 in seeding carnations, but with dahlias 

 I am a rank failure. J. M. 



The question here raised is a good 

 deal easier to ask than to answer. It 

 is no trouble to find those who can do 

 the job in a manner quite satisfactory 

 to themselves, but as to passing along 

 the information so that it can be prof- 

 itably used by another person, that is 

 a program not yet completed, as far 

 as my information goes. When Bur- 

 bank admits that the best results with 

 the dahlia come from selection, and 

 when Bassett, of New Jersey, says that 

 many of the best dahlias now on the 

 market, those that have stood the test 

 of time, cannot be traced to hand pol- 

 lenizing, but have come by selection 

 from promiscuous seedlings — when ex- 

 perts make such admissions, what is 

 the use of trying to lay extravagant 

 claims to creative powers through hand 



workf There is no desire^ of course, 

 to decry hand work, as it is the per- 

 sistent, watchful fellow who brings out 

 the good things. 



Personally, I carried on a seven 

 years' unsuccessful siege on the hand- 

 made idea. Then I took two varieties, 

 C. W. Bruton and A. D. Livoni, planted 

 them in the field side by side, took 

 good care of them and then turned 

 them over to the tender mercies of 

 the friendly bumblebee, and success 

 crowned the effort. I used the seed 

 saved from Bruton flowers, and out of 

 over 2,000 seedlings kept for experi- 



Sir Harry J. Veitch. 



meut there are a dozen I am willing 

 to place alongside any on the market 

 that have ever come under my observa- 

 tion. The dahlia is a difficult flower 

 to work with, though the reason for the 

 difficulty cannot be any better ex- 

 plained than can many of the other 

 mysteries of nature. 



After my seven years of patient 

 work and experiment, the conclusion 

 reached was: Select good, strong-grow- 

 ing self-colored varieties; plant them 

 together; then take the seed from the 

 variety carrying the best stem and 

 flower, and let the pollenizing machin- 

 ery be the bumblebees' ^head gear. 

 Then select the bast that 'grows. 



E. S. T. 



CINEBABIA FOB BEDDING. 



What plant is commonly used for 

 bedding in Belgium, or other European 

 countries, which looks like a cinerariaT 

 Is it a cineraria of some kind? 



J. F. C. 



Cineraria maritima is used for bed- 

 ding in quantities. It has silvery 

 foliage and probably is the variety you 

 want the name of. C. W. 



BIFENING FBENCH HYDBANGEAS. 



Should French hydrangeas be allowed 

 to freeze and lose their leaves before 

 they are' brought indoors! 



F, P. F. C. 



It is not necessary for these to be 

 frozen before forcing them, but keep 

 them on the dry side and give them 

 full sun, so that they can ripen up 

 well. C. W. 



WHITE MEDAL GOBS ABBOAD. 



For the second time since the . rea- 

 tion of this award the George Robert 

 White medal of honor for horticubaral 

 achievement has been awarded o ^ 

 foreigner. Sir Harry J. Veitch, , ead 

 of the firm of James Veitch & Sons 

 Ltd., Chelsea, London, England, has 

 been selected- 1^ the board of trustees 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety as the recipient of the 914 

 medal, in recognition of his servict s in 

 promoting the advancement of h >rti- 

 culture both in Great Britain and in 

 the United States. 



This medal, which was estabKshi I in 

 1909 by George Robert White, of Bos 

 taj^, ,to be awarded annually by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society to 

 one of those who had done the most in 

 recent, ^ears toward the advancement 

 of the. interest in horticulture in its 

 broadeSit sense, has been awarded iu 

 the five previous years since its estab 

 lishment as follows: 



1909— Prof. C. S. Sargent, director of 

 the Arnold Arboretum. 



1910 — Jackson Thornton Dawson, of 

 the Arnold Arboretum. 



1911 — Victor Lemoine, Nancy, 

 France. 



1912— Michael H. Walsh, Woods Hole, 

 Mass. 



1913 — Park Commission of the city 

 of Rochester, 'N. Y. 



On the other side of the water Sir 

 Harry James Veitch has long been 

 looked upon as one of the leaders in 

 the horticultural world. In 1906 he 

 received the Victoria Medal of Honor 

 in Horticulture and two years later 

 was made a Chevalier of the Order of 

 Leopold by the late king of the Bel- 

 gians. Not long since he received the 

 distinction of knighthood. He has for 

 some years been connected with the 

 management of the Roy^l Horticultural 

 Society, and when, in recognition of 

 his services in this connection and in 

 general, it was proposed about five 

 years ago to have a portrait of him 

 painted by subscription, to hang in the 

 council room of that society, the funds 

 came in so rapidly that there were not 

 only enough for the painting of this 

 portrait, but also sufficient besides to 

 give each subscriber a photogravure of 

 the portrait, to paint another portrait 

 for presentation to the then Mrs. 

 Veitch and to provide for a large i)re8- 

 entation dinner. The portrait shown 

 herewith is made from the oil painting 

 which hangs in the council room of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, London. 



He was born in 1840, the second son 

 of James Veitch. At the age of 1^ be 

 went to France and spent some iim* 

 in the employ of Vilmorin, Andr eux 

 & Co. and Thibaut & Keteleer, an 1 in 

 1865 became associated with his fa" her. 

 marrying in 1867. Upon the deat i of 

 his father in 1869 and of his • Iiler 

 brother, John Gould Veitch, in S70. 

 he assumed the management of thf 

 business together with his you ige' 

 brother, Arthur, who died a few } ears 

 later. The renown which his cor ^ern 

 has gained speaks better than TAords 

 for his business ability, and his int rest 

 in and work for horticulture as a v hol« 

 has won him wide esteem, of A^hic'' 

 the award of the White medal if t^' 

 latest mark. 



MUwaukee, Wis. — The Kuiimef 

 Floral Co. has received a permit *" 

 erect a greenhouse, to cost $600. 



