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HORTICULTURE 



January 30, 1909 



Seed Trade 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



Watson S. VVoodniir, Oniiifie, Conn.. 

 Prts.; J. C. Itobinson, Wiiteiloo, Nel)., 

 First Vice I'res. ; C. E. Kendol. Cleveland, 

 O., Ser-'y and Troas. Twenly sovcntli an- 

 nual eoliventlou, June, 3909. 



WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN'S 



LEAGUE. 



F. W. Binggerli.'f, I'res.; Bnrnct I.and- 

 reth, Sec'j-. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



A meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the American Seed Trade Asso- 

 ciation was held at the Hotel Astor, 

 New York, Jan. 22, with the tollowiug 

 In attendance: Watson S. Woodruff, 

 president; M. H. Duryea, 2nd vice- 

 president; C. E. Kendel, secretary; 

 Charles Dickinson, George S. Green, 

 Howard M. Earl. S. P. Willard. mera- 

 bers of the committee, and A. L. Don 

 and W. Atlee Burpee by invitation. It 

 was decided to hold the convention 

 June 22-24 at Niagara Falls and the 

 Clifton House on the Canadian side 

 was chosen for headquarters. Details 

 of rates, program, etc., will be an- 

 nounced later. C. E. KENDEL, Sec'y. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Theodosi,! B. Shepherd Co., Ventura, 

 Cal. — Specialties in seeds and plants. 



T. R. Wat.son, Old Colony Nurseries, 

 Plymouth, Mass. — List of choice orna- 

 mental nursery stock. 



D. B. Long. Buffalo, N. Y.— Folder of 

 florists' specialties in floral photo- 

 graphs, cards and other trade adjuncts. 



Daniel A. Clarke, Red Oak Niu-series, 

 Fiskeville, R. I.— Hardy Garden 

 Flowers, Spring, 1909. A very dainty 

 little affair. 



I/. L. Olds Seed Company, Madison, 

 Wis. — Twenty-second .Annual Cata- 

 logue of Seeds for the Farm and Gar- 

 den. Agricultural and vegetable seeds 

 fill a prominent place in this excellent 

 catalogue. 



Griffith & Turner Co., Baltimore, Md. 

 — Catalogue of Farm and Garden Sup- 

 plies. Implement department verj- ex- 

 tensive and profusely illustrated. This 

 well-known house will celebrate its 

 50th anniversary next year. 



"W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, 

 Pa.— Wholesale Prices for Market Gar- 

 den'ers and Florists. Printed and il- 

 lustrated with the same careful atten- 

 tion bestowed on regular catalogues; 

 something not often done. Ask for the 

 "Blue List." 



Northrup King &-. Co.. Jtinneapolis, 

 Minn. — "Quarter Century Offering of 

 Sterling Seeds." This is a big fellow 

 in all respects, well printed, hand- 

 somely illustrated and covering the 

 whole domain of the popular seedsman. 

 Cover in colors and two colored in- 

 serts. 



S. J. Reuter & Son, Westerly, R. I.— 

 Price List, 1909, of Chrysanthemums, 



MICHELL 



Headquarters for Bulb.s 



Liiium Giganteum — Cold Storage 



.$85.00 per 1000 



>-8'' (300 Bull.s in Case) $60.00 per 1000 | 7-0" dw Bull.s In Case) 



8—10" )2oo liull)S in Cise) $100.00 per 1 OOO 



We have an exceptionally fine lot of 



FORCING CLADIOLUS-Extra Large Bulbs| 



Profitable tor the Florlml 

 AUGUSTA MAY BRENCHLEYENSIS 



AMERICA 



MICHELL'S WHITE and LIGHT 



Write for quotatious on the above sorts — also all other v; 



GROFF'S HYBRIDS 



s of Gladiolus, Cannas. Begonias : 



I Our New 1909 Wholesale Catalog Now Ready 



HENRY F, MICHELL CO ., ' 



018 and 518 Market St., 

 PHILADELPHIA 



Carnations, Roses. This is a whole- 

 sale list issued by a good grower and 

 covers the best of the novelties in the 

 various florists' classes. An excellent 

 illustration of Rose My Maryland 

 adorns the title page. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Bulletin 134, Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, Colorado Agricultural 

 College. This bulletin treats on 

 Orchard Plant Lice and Their Reme- 

 dies, by C. P. Gillette and E. ' P. Tay- 

 lor. It contains good practical infor- 

 mation on the subject of these destruc- 

 tive orchard pests and the means of 

 ^exterminating them. 



The Physical Properties of Soils. 

 By Arthur G. McCall, Professor of 

 Agronomy at Ohio State University, 

 Published by Orange Judd Company, 

 New York. This work is designed es- 

 pecially for the use of students and 

 alternate pages are left blank for 

 students' notes and reports of lab- 

 oratory practice. It is printed on 

 very heavy paper and has many il- 

 lustrations of apparatus used in ex- 

 perimenting and analysis. Instruc- 

 tions are given in the successive chap- 

 ters for the determination of the va- 

 rious properties and constituents of 

 soils and complete data as to the pro- 

 cesses to be followed in each test. 



The American Apple Orchard. By 

 F. A. Waugh, Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College. Amherst. Published by 

 Orange Judd Company, New York. 

 This is a book which no fruit grower 

 can afford to be without. It covers 

 every step in the practice of apple 

 growing as now carried on by the 

 most progressive culturists. from the 

 selection of the soil to the packing of 

 the fruit for market. Its 215 pages 

 are rich in good, common-sense in- 

 struction given in concise, easily 

 understood form. It is a subject on 

 which Professor Waugh is well quali- 

 fied to teach and the book under con- 

 sideration ranks among his best ef- 

 forts. 



The Horticultural Directory and 

 Year Book for 1909 comes to us from 

 the publishers of the "Journal of Hor- 

 ticulture" and "Poultry", office. Fleet 

 Street, London. This useful publica- 

 tion is now in its Qfti'eth year. It 

 comprises nearly six hundred pages 



teeming with information and repre- 

 senting a vast amount of labor in its 

 compilation. Besides complete lists of 

 all the nurserymen, sefedsmen and 

 florists, alphabetically and by counties, 

 in Great Britain. Scotland, Ireland, 

 etc., there are included complete lists 

 of all the estates with name and ad- 

 dress of gardeners, lists of landscape 

 gardeners, commission dealers, horti- 

 cultural builders and allied industries, 

 and many other tables and indexes 

 covering a wide field of useful inform- 

 ation. 



Roses and Rope Growing, by Rose 

 G. Kingsley. Published by the Mac- 

 Millan Company, New York, and Whit- 

 taker & Co., London. In the preface 

 to this interesting book the author 

 tells the r'eadeir that the contents are 

 n)ainly the record of the practical ex- 

 perience of an amateur in her own 

 English garden. Her chapters on the 

 various processes of planting, propa- 

 gating and general care are good evi- 

 dence that she thoroughly understands 

 her subject. The lists and descrip- 

 tions of roses in all classes are very 

 complete and strictly up-to-date and 

 will prove of greatest value for any 

 one interested in rose culture, either 

 commercially or as an amateur. The 

 closing chapter is by Rev. F. Page.- 

 Roberts. Vice-Pfesident of the Na- 

 tional Rose Society, on "How to Grow 

 Roses for Exhibition." There are 

 numerous illustratious, including 2S in 

 colors. The price of the book is $2.00 

 net 



FIRE RECORD. 



The Thos. Martin Seed & Flower Co. 

 at Riverside, 12 miles west of Chi- 

 cago, suffered a loss by fire Jan. 21, 

 which is estimated at about $5,000. 



Rochester, N. Y.— Fire in the florist 

 fjtore of Paul Thorman, 3 Clinton ave- 

 nue. South, on Jan. 12, did about $500 

 damage. 



The fifth annual convention of ilie 

 Canadian Seed Growers' Association 

 will be held in Ottawa, Ont., on Feb. 

 4, 5. An interesting program is pre- 

 sented. 



Barenbrug On Grasses. By Joseph 

 T. Barenbrug, $1.00, postpaid. Horti- 

 culture Publishing Co., 11 Hamilton 

 Place, Boston. 



