November iS, 1896.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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made a striking' effect and added much to the general good 

 appearance of the show. As usual in Boston, there was great 

 interest in the competition for twelve specimen plants. This 

 year Nathaniel T. Kidder (William Martin, gardener) again 

 took the first prize ; Walter Hunnewell (T. D. Hatfield, gar- 

 dener) took the second prize, and Mrs. B. P. Cheney (William 

 Barr, gardener) took the third. Even the collection which was 

 graded the lowest was very creditable, and consisted of a 

 neat lot of small plants perfectly and evenly flowered. The 

 twelve plants in this list were Zulinda (pink), Mrs. Robert Craig 

 (white), Mrs. Bishop (pale yellow), Primula (straw color), 

 W. H. Lincoln (yellow), Gold Dust (yellow), Sunrise (bronze), 

 Mutual Friend (white), a pink form of Ivory, Columbine 

 (bronze), Georgiana Bramhall (bright yellow). It ought to be 

 said that Mrs. Cheney sent many other specimen plants which 

 competed in other classes and which were good enough for 

 any company. Mr. Kidder's group was of very uniform size, 

 with admirable foliage and in the pink of condition as to 

 bloom. His list of plants included Minerva [(yellow), Louis 

 Boehmer (pink), Golden Hair (yellow), Theo (French white), 

 Edwin Lonsdale (deep pink), W. H. Lincoln (yellow), Iora, an 

 admirable individual plant, although the flowers were some- 

 what bleached in color ; Joseph H. White (cream color), Colum- 

 bine (bronze), John Shrimpton (crimson), Clinton Chaffant 

 (yellow). Walter Hunnewell's collection included a greater 

 variety of types than either of the others. The colors were 

 unexcelled and the plants were noticeably large ; in fact, they 

 were too large. Plants six feet through do not allow of such 

 a perfect massing of color as smaller ones. It is a question 

 whether a specimen plant, trained with very few stakes, is not 

 more graceful than plants like those in the winning class 

 which were brought by more staking into exact form ; but 

 certainly the rigid plants when massed together made a more 

 attractive show. Mr. Hunnewell's plants were Gaza, with a 

 striking white Anemone-shaped flower; C. H. Curtis, Chinese 

 incurved ; S. T. Murdock, reflexed Japanese pink ; Joseph H. 

 White ; G. W. Childs, with large, deep-colored flowers, but a 

 coarse plant ; Clinton Chaffant, deep yellow ; Columbine, in- 

 curved Japanese, deep bronze ; Kitty Sanders, scarlet and old 

 gold, a most beautiful combination of color ; Cullingfordii, 

 crimson ; W. H. Lincoln, a mound of yellow without stakes 

 and six feet in diameter ; Louis Boehmer; G. Daniels, white, 

 tinted with pink. Mrs. Cheney filled nearly one side of the 

 hall with specimen plants and took prizes in almost all the 

 other classes, and a more even and well-grown lot has rarely 

 been seen. For other collections the chief prizes were taken 

 by S. J. Trespass, James L. Little, Dr. C. G. Weld, Walter 

 Hunnewell and N. T. Kidder. 



Of the massed groups of Chrysanthemums, Palms and 

 other foliage-plants, Mrs. A. W. Blake, of Brookline, took the 

 first prize, Dr. C. G. Weld the second, J. W. Howard the third, 

 E. S. Converse the fourth, and James Comley the fifth. Of 

 course, the large vases filled with cut flowers were once more 

 a great feature of the show, and John Simpkins (William 

 Brydon, gardener), as usual, swept almost everything he com- 

 peted for. The vase of Mrs. Jerome Jones (white) was superb, 

 and his vase of mixed flowers, including Philadelphia, Viviand 

 Morel, Mayflower, Golden Wedding, Mrs. Rand and one or 

 two others, has rarely been equaled. The vase of mixed 

 blooms offered by Mrs. Cheney contained H. W. Reiman, a 

 magnificent yellow ; Helen Bloodgood, an extra-fine pink ; 

 Maud Dean, Mrs. G. West, Shenandoah, red, and E. M. 

 Bigelow, crimson. Mr. Brydon's exhibit for twenty-five 

 blooms contained splendid flowers of Modesto (yellow), Mrs. 

 Rand (yellow), Therese Rey (white), E. Molyneaux (crimson 

 and old gold), Niveum (white), John Shrimpton (crimson), 

 Florence Pullman, a noble specimen of Golden Wedding, E. 

 Dailledouze, R. Mclnnes, H. W. Reiman, Mrs. Jerome Jones, 

 Gladys Spaulding and Major Bonnaffon. Among the single 

 flowers shown by Mrs. Cheney, Ruth Ellis, with white strap- 

 shaped petals, was unique ; Rinaldo, a handsome wine-color, 

 and G. A. Magee, an incurved pink, were both worthy of 

 mention. E. M. Wood, of Natick, had noteworthy vases of 

 Molyneux, Mrs. Jones, Interocean and Golden Wedding. 



For the best seedling not yet disseminated, J. Eaton, Jr., 

 received the prize for six pink blooms, and the prize for the 

 best white-flowered seedling went to the same grower. Charles 

 Sander was first with a seedling of any other color, and Joseph 

 H. White for Li Hung Chang, the best incurved variety of any 

 color. 



Of course, in an autumn show Chrysanthemums have the 

 chief interest, but a bank of Adiantum Farleyense grown by 

 Mr. Barr was worth notice for its admirable cultivation, and so 

 was a vase of the new hybrid Tea Rose, Souvenir du President 

 Carnot, which was sent by Mr. Asmus, of New York, 



ami was awarded a silver medal as a gratuity. Francois 

 Supiot, of West Philadelphia, showed a set of new single 

 Violets, every one of which marked a distinct advance over 

 the old Russian single variety, which was exhibited for 

 comparison. Dr. Weld deserved the honorable mention he 

 received for plants of the variety Major of Browallia speciosa, 

 which were admirably grown and have much larger and more 

 beautiful flowers than those of the type. 



Some complaint was made by visitors of the delay in attach- 

 ing award cards to the plants. It was late on the second day 

 of the show before it was learned with certainty who had taken 

 the prizes in the cut flowers, and it would seem that when a 

 charge is made for admission visitors have a right to know 

 whose plants they are admiring. 



Recent Publications. 



L'Horlus Boissierianus. Par Eugene Autran & Theophile 

 Durand. Geneve et Bale : Georg&Cie. Pp. 772, with por- 

 trait and two figures. 



Edmund Boissier, the distinguished author of the Voyage 

 Bolanique dans le midi de F Espagne and of the Flora Orien- 

 talis, was an ardent and successful cultivator of plants, 

 having established at his country place of Valleyres, at the 

 foot of the Jural Mountains, a garden which became famous 

 all over Europe. Boissier's numerous journeys in the 

 Orient, Italy and Spain, and his excursions into the Swiss 

 Alps, gave him opportunities to gather roots and seeds of 

 many alpine plants for which the garden at Valleyres was 

 specially noted. From his knowledge of the conditions 

 under which these plants flourish naturally he was able to 

 devise successful methods for their cultivation, and in this 

 Swiss garden were seen in perfect condition many plants 

 which had defied the care of less successful cultivators. 



Valleyres was Boissier's summer home. In the winter 

 he lived on the shores of Lake Leman, where he had estab- 

 lished a great arboretum, into which he had introduced 

 many exotic trees, principally conifers. This arboretum, 

 which is now the property of Monsieur Barbey, the son- 

 in-law of Boissier, has become one of the most beautiful 

 and important pinetums in Europe. Boissier died in 1SS5, 

 and his son-in-law has now had prepared, under the title 

 given above, a catalogue of the plants cultivated by the 

 Swiss botanist in his two gardens at the time of his death, 

 that the world may be able to appreciate the extent and 

 character of the work to which he had devoted so much 

 study and labor. The catalogue, which gives a list of the 

 species, with the date of their publication, references to the 

 best figures representing them, their synonyms and geo- 

 graphical distribution, has been prepared by Eugene 

 Autran, the keeper of the Boissier herbarium at Chambesy, 

 near Geneva, and Theophile Durand, curator of the Botanic 

 Garden at Brussels, the preface being supplied by Professor 

 Crepin, director of the Brussels Botanic Garden. 



Some idea of the richness of these collections appears in 

 the fact that the number of species and varieties cultivated 

 in the two gardens was more than 5,000. Genera and 

 species of alpine and subalpine plants are wonderfully rep- 

 resented ; for example, there are 27 species of Ranunculus, 

 20 of Arabis, 13 of Draba, 26 of Dianthus, 107 of Saxifrage, 

 42 of Campanula, 25 of Gentian and 76 of Iris. Lilium is 

 represented by 30 species, Frittilaria by 35, Calochortus by 

 15, etc. No one unfamiliar with the preparation of a cata- 

 logue of this sort can form probably any idea of the amount 

 of labor necessary to determine correctly 5,000 species of 

 cultivated plants, to establish their synonyms, geographical 

 distribution, and to indicate the best figures which have 

 been published of them. The work is well done, and, 

 as Monsieur Crepin points out in his preface, L'Horlus 

 Boissierianus, by the exactness of its determinations, is a 

 book which can be most advantageously consulted by 

 botanists and collectors, and which should occupy an im- 

 portant place with the best general works on garden 

 botany. In congratulating Monsieur Barbey on the publi- 

 cation of this work, Monsieur Crepin takes occasion to 

 remind his readers that the son-in-law of Boissier has 



