January 6. 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



13 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 

 Have you forgotten that subscrip- 

 tion? 



Keep your eye on the "New Offers" 

 each week. 



We congratulate the florist trade of 

 the entire country on the Christmas 

 spurt. It was magnificent. Keep it 

 up. 



The date for the carnation meeting 

 at Boston is Jan. 24 and 25. It prom- 

 ises to be the biggest on record. The 

 exhibition will be unprecedentedly 

 fine. You can't afford to stay away. 

 And the larger the crowd the better, 

 says Boston as she hangs out the 

 latch string. 



inEvvs NO"i ts>. 

 A slight fire in the greenhouse of 

 R. O. Cheney, Sr., South Manchester, 

 Conn., caused the loss of many of the 

 plants by water and exposure on 

 Christmas night. 



The John H. Caverly residence and 

 greenhouse plant in Chelmsford, 

 Mass., have been purchased by A. 

 Sturges of Boston for investment. 

 There are 23,000 feet of land; the 

 greenhouse is 18x120. 



The Boston park commissioners have 

 been notified by William H. Fairbank, 

 executive commissioner for Massachu- 

 setts, that the Boston Park Exhibit 

 was awarded a gold medal at the 

 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposi- 

 tion at Portland, Ore. 



A fine new conservatory has just 

 been completed by the Burnham- 

 Hitchings-Pierson Company at West 

 Manchester, Mass. The gardener in 

 charge is Eric Wetterlow, who made 

 an excellent record with D. F. Roy at 

 Maiden, Mass., before assuming charge 

 of this Lester Leland estate. 



Fire broke out in the boiler room of 

 the greenhouses of J. N. Champion, 

 Ellsworth avenue. New Haven, Conn., 

 on Saturday evening, Dec. 30. The 

 shed and an adjoining greenhouse 

 were destroyed, and the contents of the 

 other greenhouses were damaged to a 

 considerable extent. The loss is esti- 

 mated at $5000. There was no insur- 

 ance on the property. Two valuable 

 dogs were also lost in the conflagra- 

 tion. 



The Mt. Tom reservation commis- 

 sioners of Holyoke. Mass., have de- 

 cided to take, under the right of 

 eminent domain, the 225 acres on the 

 mountain needed for a park. This, 

 with a few acres on the west side 

 which they anticipate can be pur- 

 chased without condemnation, com- 

 prise all the land required for park 

 purposes. The commissioners asked 

 for an appropriation of $20,000 from 

 the last legislature and received half 

 this amount. This, it is anticipated, 

 will be sufficient to pay for the land 

 now taken. 



OBITUARY. 



Thomas C. Mellen of Weymouth, 

 Mass., aged 80, passed away on Sun- 

 day, Dec. 24, after a long illness. 



Col. M. V. B. Chase, for many years 

 a member of the firm of Chase Bros., 

 nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y., died at 

 the Augusta House, Augusta, Me., on 

 Dec. 29 of pneumonia. 



William Henry Washburn of Fox- 

 boro, Mass., died suddenly on Dec. 27, 

 aged 67. Mr. Washburn has supplied 

 flowers to the Boston market for many 

 years. He leaves a wife, two daugh- 

 ters and a son. 



Louis Lang, Sr., of Buffalo, N. Y., 

 died at his home, 271 North Division 

 street, on Dec. 26. Mr. Lang came to 

 this country from Wurtemburg, Ger- 

 many, 45 years ago, and opened a 

 florist's store at 250 Division street, 

 where he has conducted a successful 

 business for nearly thirty years. Mr. 

 Lang is survived by his widow, two 

 daughters and two sons. 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



As the result of a destroying blight 

 the crop of potatoes and other vege- 

 tables in New Zealand and Australia 

 was almost a total failure, and as the 

 colonials must have these products the 

 loss of the Antipodean farmers is a 

 gain for the California growers. The 

 last steamer out for New Zealand and 

 Australia carried a cargo composed 

 largely of the products of California 

 soil. There were 6600 sacks and 30Q0 

 crates of potatoes, 7500 boxes of ap- 

 ples, 5000 boxes of oranges and 875 

 boxes of lemons, also tons of dried and 

 canned fruits. 



The planting of trees on the mili- 

 tary reservations about San Francisco 

 harbor is in progress. For the depart- 

 ment rifle range at Point Bonita 750 

 evergreens. 1000 eucalypti and 600 

 shade trees have been shipped. The 

 forester at the Presidio is having ex- 

 perienced civilian employes digging 

 up young seedlings and shoots in the 

 wooded area of posts for shipment to 

 other reservations. Squads of en- 

 listed men from Fort McDowell will be 

 sent to work under the direction of the 

 forester in planting these and other 

 trees that will be shipped from the 

 nursery at the Presidio, on the reserve 

 at Fort Baker. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Salveson & Co. is the name of a new 

 firm doing business at 426 E. Monroe 

 St., Springfield, 111. 



K. E. Balcom has taken a half in- 

 terest in the business of Edwin S. 

 Corey at Northboro, Mass., and here- 

 after the firm name will be Balcom & 

 Corey. 



The firm of A. Leuthy & Co., Roslin- 

 dale. Mass., has been dissolved by 

 mutual consent, and the business will 

 hereafter be conducted by Mr. A. 

 Leuthy. Mr. D. Lumsden retiring. 



A CORRECTION. 



Some errors in price quotations as 

 given in advertisement of Bobbink & 

 Atkins last week are corrected, and 

 appear in this issue as originally in- 

 tended. 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS. 



Prune and tie in peaches and nec- 

 tarines. 



Anything that requires bottom heat 

 to root will better be put in now, when 

 that agency is most active. 



Put in all the colens cuttings you 

 can get from the stock plants; if any 

 have mealy bug on them throw them 

 away. 



Wash all the pots and count them 

 after they are washed to see how many 

 will be needed; don't wait until pot- 

 ting time to order the pots needed. 



Have you seen Nephrolepis Whit- 

 mani? If not, you have still some- 

 thing worth while to see. It will be 

 given to the public in about eight 

 weeks. 



If you have anything that is new 

 and good, don't be backward in adver- 

 tising that fact. It is not at all likely 

 that people will advertise to pull the 

 fact out of you. 



Several odd things in seeds may be 

 sown now to advantage, such as an- 

 tirrhinums, cauliflower, celery, holly- 

 hocks, begonias, asparagus plumosus 

 nanus and Sprengeri. 



What a gorgeous display can be had 

 from plants of Nicotiana Sanderae in 

 the new colors along with the red of 

 last year; a display that will be unin- 

 terruptedly continued at a cost within 

 the reach of all. 



Don't belittle what your neighbor 

 may have in the false hope that this 

 will make yours appear any better. 

 Leave the other fellow to mind his 

 own business, and most likely he will 

 be heard from in due season, if he is 

 well. 



Look over every palm, and if scale 

 or mealy bug is visible use soap and 

 sponge. If you are determined to 

 wield a brush in the performance of 

 the work, do so with care, remember- 

 ing that the fronds or leaves are not 

 hard wood boards. 



Gardenia plants should be in three- 

 inch pots before being planted in the 

 bench; if these are wanted to bloom 

 early in the summer, the sooner they 

 are in benches the better. Don't plant 

 them very close together, and don't 

 make the soil too rich, for if they 

 are planted close to one another they 

 will get almost matted before summer, 

 and if the soil is too rich they will 

 likely go on growing and never think 

 oi blooming. 



PERSONAL. 



H. Leroy Sawyer of Clinton, Mass., 

 left on Monday, Jan. 1, to take a 

 position in Jacksonville, Fla. 



S. B. Parsons. Sr., the eminent nur- 

 seryman, is nearing his end at his 

 home in Flushing, N. Y. He is 87 

 years of age. 



Among the women who have made 

 a success of floriculture is Mrs. H. E. 

 Smith of Berlin, N. H. Starting in a 

 small way some thirteen years ago, 

 she now has about 5000 square feet of 

 glass. Two years ago, Thomas Gill, 

 who had previously been in her em- 

 ploy, became a partner in the busi- 

 ness, and the firm name is now H. E. 

 Smith & Co. 



