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HORTICULTURE 



January 20, 1906 



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Makings similar to Mrs. G. M. Bradt. A very large flower on strong stems, extremely free and healthy. A non- * 

 burster. A fancy of the highest type. £ 



Sample blooms expressed at $i.oo per dozen. All our carnations have been rather late this season as elsewhere. £ 

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Rooted Cuttings $12 00 per 100: $100.00 per 1000. 

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CINCINNATI PARK NOTES. 

 J. W. Rodgers has been appointed 

 superintendent of city parks to succeed 

 B. P. Critchell, who has held the posi- 

 tion for a number of years. The green- 

 house which has been maintained by 

 the water works department in Eden 

 Park at an expense of about $15,000 

 per annum, is to be abandoned, if the 

 Board of Public Service adopts the 

 recommendation of the new superin- 

 tendent. It is proposed that the park 



J. W. Rodgers. 



greenhouses shall furnish the bedding 

 plants used at the various pumping 

 stations. 



The business men of this city have 

 declared themselves in favor of a park 

 commission with power to fix their 

 own tax levy, and will urge the Gen- 

 eral Assembly to enact such a law in 

 the near future. This plan of caring 

 for the parks was in vogue some years 

 ago. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED 



W. B. Longstreth, Gratiot, O. Seed 

 Annua] and Bargain Catalogue of 

 seeds and plants. 



Good & Reese Co., Springfield, O. 

 Trade list for spring of 1906. A com- 

 prehensive plant catalogue. 



Forest Nursery and Seed Co., Mc- 

 Minnville, Tenn. Surplus wholesale 

 list of seeds and nursery grown seed- 

 lings. 



The Templin Company, Calla, O. 

 Profusely illustrated catalogue of 

 flower and vegetable seeds, bulbs, 

 hardy plants, etc. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co.. Philadel- 

 phia. Wholesale Catalogue for seeds- 

 men and dealers. No flounces, but 

 plenty of solid meat. 



H. F. Michell Co., Philadelphia. 

 Wholesale Seed Catalogue. Michell's 

 "Very First" tomato adorns the title 

 page. The Waldorf-Astoria never had 

 a better one. 



D. B. Long's sample book of Carna- 

 tion Day cards. These cards should 

 be very serviceable to florists wishing 

 to promote the sale of carnations on 

 January 29. 



Burnham Hitchings Pierson Com- 

 pany, New York and Boston. "The 

 Two P's Told in the Pleasure and 

 Profit of Cold Frames." Cleverly 

 written, fully illustrated and hand- 

 somely gotten up. It should sell the 

 goods. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 6 and 7 

 South Market street, Boston— Garden 

 Annual for 1906. A superb illustra- 

 tion, in colors, of Campanula persi- 

 caefolia grandiflora adorns the first 

 cover page and hybrid delphiniums are 

 shown on the last cover page with a 

 rare fidelity to colors difficult to re- 

 produce. Many new and striking half- 

 tone flower portraits appear in the 176 

 pages of interesting reading matter. 

 In the novelty section some good new- 

 things are listed. 



OBITUARY. 



Our English contemporaries record 

 the death on December 24, last, of 

 Mr. Fred Wm. Thomas Burbidge, M. 

 A., V. M. H., curator of Trinity Col- 

 lege Botanical Gardens, Dublin, in his 

 fifty-eighth year. His knowledge of 



botany and horticulture was extensive 

 and thorough, and he has contributed 

 many valuable additions to plant lit- 

 erature, not the least being "The Nar- 

 cissus" illustrated and written by him. 

 In 1877 he travelled through Borneo 

 and other portions of the East Indian 

 Archipelago in the search of plants 

 for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. 



