THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
365 
FROM CANADA 
As a sample of the way our journal is received we 
quote from a letter from Campbell and McCall, Penticton, 
B. C.: “We would not be without the publication now. 
From a business standpoint it is indispensable, while the 
articles are interesting and instructive. The whole get-up 
is a credit.” 
OUR PUBLIC PARKS 
A few years ago, some of us when we spoke of parks 
thought of geometrical beds filled with flowers and surrounded 
by grave] walks. Everywhere there was evidence of formality, 
the condition from which we need to get away, when we want 
rest. 
Now a great cool wave of change is engulfing the situa¬ 
tion. We have a big tract of land, part smooth and part rough, 
part densely wooded, part in cool shades and part smooth grass, 
with clumps of flowers and flowering shrubs around the edges of the 
thickets. We like high and low-land because our lives are made up 
of variety. 
The best land for a park is usually the cheapest land in the 
neighborhood. The town or city that procures and sets aside such a 
tract before land values rise is to be congratulated. The philanthro¬ 
pist who gives such a tract confers a lasting blessing. If it is good 
political economy for a city to pay a health officer, it is right to use 
public money in acquiring and maintaining parks. 
F. T. Ramsey. 
Obituary 
PETER E. KAY 
Mr. Peter Kay, a well known and esteemed nurseryman of 
Claigmair, Vineries, Church End, Finchley, England. Death 
resulted from heart failure. The deceased was 56 years of age 
and most of his life was spent at Finchley developing his business. 
Mr. Kay gained eminence as a successful cultivator of grapes, he 
being one of the first to devote attention to the Canon Hall 
variety of muse. 
The funeral was held Wednesday, August 25, at St. Paul’s, 
Finchley. Mr. Kav leaves a widow, two sons and two daughters. 
J. S. Gallagher. 
A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS C. THURLOW 
In the death of this gentleman, Horticulture loses one of its finest 
representatives. He was a devout and reverent Christian and all 
the flowers he so dearly loved seemed to be a part of him. He was 
one of the purest, sweetest souled men I ever saw. I never knew a 
man with a finer appreciation of all that was beautiful. His grounds 
were a garden of delight and how he did enjoy his flowers. Lovingly 
he would linger over them and drink in their beauty. And while 
quite ill his children went out and gathered great armfuls of his finest 
peonies and stood great vases full of them and he said with rapture, 
“They cured me. They were the best doctors I ever had.” 
He was the father of the peony business. He wrote the first 
article of any importance of any one in America. He first awakened 
in the heart of the writer an interest in this resplendent flower. 
Much of interest awakened in late years in perennials is traced to 
him. He always wanted the best regardless of price and almost 
always carried off the prizes at the great Boston shows. 
I first became acquainted with him in the fall of 1889. We had 
some correspondence and he wrote me, while living in Franklin, 
Nebraska, that if I ever came east I must make his house my home. 
1 did so and was immediately adopted into the family. We became 
chums. We were of the same age and he would introduce me as his 
twin brother. Once while recovering from rheumatic fever he took 
me home and kept me till I recovered. Our comradeship is one of 
my pleasantest memories. It was such a shock to hear of his death. 
He was never strong and for the last ten years he was an invalid, 
spending several winters in the south. 
.He married late in life and leaves four children. His daughter, 
Susan, was his constant companion and gave him almost reverent 
attention. Edward is preparing for the ministry. George and 
Winthrop are proficient horticulturists and will carry on his work. 
He was born in 1832 and was nearly ^seventy-seven when he 
passed away, July 21st. He gently breathed his last surrounded by 
a devoted wife and children. His last letter was written to me. 
He leaves a better and more beautiful world as he passed through 
it on the 
Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, 
And never withering flowers.” 
—C. S. Harrison. York Co., Neb. 
A GIANT GRAPE VINE 
Hampton Court, one of the interesting royal palaces of 
England, possesses a garden of surpassing attractiveness. 
While the average visitor journeys down to Hampton Court 
to see the picture galleries, the great hall, the collection of 
armour and other features in and about the magnificent 
group of buildings, the horticulturist has in mind, the 
beautiful park, the wonderful maze and perhaps, although 
last not least, the great black Hamburg grape vine. This 
he has heard is the most wonderful grape vine in the world, 
so that he directs his steps to the house in wdiich the vine is 
growing. He finds it in a glass house all to itself. A huge 
stem 54 inches in circumference, a foot above the ground, 
rises out of the soil, from which several branches radiate and 
spread themselves entirely over the roof of a lean-to house 
some 30 by 100 or more feet. The vine is said to be 140 
years old, and bears from one to two tons of grapes per 
annum. What it might bear were it not carefully thinned, 
is difficult to say. At least a thousand bunches are cut 
away each season and the annual crop permitted is from 250 
to 300 bunches, weighing from one to three pounds each. 
The fruit of this vine is used exclusively at the King’s table 
or disposed of at his direction. 
Historical specimens of this kind are to be found here and 
there in Briton and on the Continent. It admonishes us 
that we should preserve as far as possible, these records of 
horticultural progress. 
SPRAYING FOR CODLING MOTH IN OHIO 
The Ohio Experiment Station has recently issued a bulle¬ 
tin on the results of spraying apples for coddling moth in 
1908. A Ben Davis tree sprayed twice with Bordeaux and 
aresenate of lead produced less than one per cent of wormy 
apples. Another Ben Davis sprayed once with the same 
mixture gave a little over one per cent of wormy fruit, while 
another tree sprayed with arsenate of lead just after bloom, 
and Bordeaux with arsenate of lead two or three weeks later, 
gave practically the same amount of wormy fruit. On the 
check tree not sprayed in the Ben Davis series practically 
one-third of the apples w r ere wormy. 
In the case of Baldwins treated in the same way, the per 
cent of wormy apples was slightly greater, being a trifle 
over one per cent in each case. 
The bulletin giv ; es strong encouragement to those who 
have any doubts as to the efficiency of spraying as a preven¬ 
tive for codling moth. It suggests that the most effective 
time is just after the blossoms fall. 
