April 28, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



559 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Southern Floral Nursery Co., Fruit- 

 dale, Ala. Trade price list of cannas, 

 gardenias, roses, etc. 



Bulletin No. 186 of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Urbana, 111., by 

 Charles S. Crandall, is devoted to the 

 relative merits of liquid and dust appli- 

 cations in spraying apple trees. 



The Fern Bulletin, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 

 published by Willard N. Clute & Com- 

 pany, contains interesting scientific 

 notes regarding American ferns. Illus- 

 trated with a drawing of Polypodium 

 piloselloides. 



Bulletin No. 194 of the N. J. Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, at New 

 Brunswick, N. J., is a very comprehen- 

 sive work on the subject of spraying. 

 It covers the entire subject in a con- 

 cise and very practical manner. 



Early Flowering Chrysanthemums 

 issued by the National Chrysanthemum 

 Society, C. Harman Payne, secretary, 

 London, England, is a bound volume of 

 thirty pages, containing a report of the 

 proceedings of the conference on early 

 flowering chrysanthemums, held at the 

 Crystal Palace, October 4, 1905, and a 

 number of valuable papers which 

 were read at the meeting. Among the 

 latter are The History of Early 

 Flowering Chrysanthemums by C. 

 Harman Payne, Early Flowering 

 Chrsanthemums for Market by Eric F. 

 Such, Early Flowering Chrysanthe- 

 mums for Town Gardens, by J. W. 

 Moorman, and by E. F. Hawes, Early 

 Flowering Chrysanthemums for the 

 Garden, by D. B. Crane, and Decorative 

 Value of Early Flowering Chrysanthe- 

 mums, by George Gordon. 



SEED TRADE. 

 The Iowa Seed Company have 

 bought the business of the Morris- 

 Blair Floral Company, at 3oS Seventh 

 street, Des Moines, la., and contem- 

 plate changes that will make this a 

 model florist establishment. The 

 Iowa Seed Company already have 

 twenty-four greenhouses, and the 

 property now acquired will make it 

 the largest operating floral company 

 in Central Iowa. Since opening the 

 first cut flower store in Des Moines 

 twenty-two years ago, Charles N. 

 Page has made rapid advances, and in 

 his connection with the Iowa Seed 

 Company has built up an enviable 

 business for the firm. 



INCORPORATED. 



Conner-Ulsh Floral Co., at Wabash, 

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 CVCAS REVOLUTA "TEHS just arrived from 



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