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HORTICULTURE 



Seed Trade 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



Watson S. Woodnili, Oiauge, Lonii.. 

 Prts. ; J. C Itobliisori, Waterloo, Neli., 

 First Vicel'rps.; C. E. Kendel, I'leveland, 

 O., Sec'y and Tioas. Twenty-seventh an- 

 imal co'nveutijn June 2J-2-I, 1!MH), ut Clifton 

 Honsp, Niagara Kiills. Ont. 



WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN'S 

 LEAGUE. 



K. W. Brugserhof, Pros.; Burnet I.aud- 

 reth, Sec'y. 



UNIQUE WINDOW DISPLAY. 



Thp Gtrmain Seed and Plant Com 

 pany ol' Los Angele;;. California, have 

 two large show wlntlows, each 20 x 

 14, in which the display is chajiged 

 every two weeks. During live week 

 when Home Prodiiets were ad^rtised. 

 one window was dressed to represent 

 a country home A small farm house 

 v.as shown, the actual cost of which 

 was $35.00. The interior could be 

 seen by looking through the windows. 

 Inside, a. family was seated at the 

 dinner table. Miniature furniture was 

 used. The house had a largo porch: 

 in front, an atitomoblie with lighted 

 electric head-lights. Lawn in front 

 grown from Germain's Kentucky Blue 

 Grass: duck-pond with duclts swim- 

 ming in the pond. In the di.stance 

 could be seen windmill in operation, 

 and a stream of water flowing from 

 Kame to the duck-pond. At the side 

 and !-ear of the house could be seen 

 growing vegetables, such as peas, 

 beaug. corn, wheat, radishes, etc. 

 Large trees made a back-ground for 

 the scene, and were swayed back and 

 forth by means of an electric fan. 

 Along the front and side of the farm 

 ran a graded street. An automobile 

 filled with people could be seen coni- 

 icg up the road and a two-horse de- 

 livery wagon, marked "Germain Seed 

 and Plant Co." and filled with bags 

 of seeds, could be seen tivrning the 

 cornf r. At correr was suspended an 

 arc light. Electricity was conveyed 

 to it by means of a small copper wire 

 which was suspended from telephone 

 poles. Across from the side of the 

 farm was a large empty lot sown to 

 wheat, and in this lot was a signboard 

 on which was printed "Home Products 

 can be obtained by planting Germain's 

 Seeds. Try them." 



CATALOGUES WANTED. 



HORTICUI TURE: 



Would you kindly through the col- 

 umns -of your journal inform inter- 

 ested parties that i shall be glad to 

 receive their Seed Catalogues with a 

 view to establishing some trade with 

 the=e Islands? 



Wishing you all prosperity in 1909. 

 ■Very truly yours, 

 PEDB^RICG C. VARELA. 

 Teneriffe, Canary Islands. 

 December 30. 1908. 



Lawns and How to Make Them, 

 Leonard Barron. Price $1.10, postpaid 

 from the office' of HORTICUI.TURB. 

 11 Hamilton Place. Boston. 



MICHELL 



Headquarters for Bulbs 



Lilium Giganteum — Cold Storage 



.$85 GO per 1000 



epllonatlv fine lot of 



FORCING GLADlOLUS-ExtraLarafe Bulbs 



Profitable for Iha Florlml 



AMERICA AUGUSTA MAY BRENCHLEYENSIS 



MICHELL'S WHITE and LIGHT GROFF'S HYBRIDS 



Write for quotations on the above sorts— also all other varieties of Gladiolus. Cannaft, Beg:onla8 :iDit 

 aioxlnlBS. 



I Our New 1909 Wholesale Catalog Now Ready 



1018 and 518 Market St., 

 PHILADELPHIA 



HENRY F. MIGHELL CO., 





A CORRECTION. 



January 27, 19u9. 

 Publishers of HORTICULTURE, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Dear Sirs: — ^A few weeks ago. the 

 stock of The Gobin-Ebbert Seed Co. 

 was taken charge of by a receiver and 

 sold. As a news item, you published 

 a report that the stock of The Ebl)ert 

 Seed Company had been sold. 



This is net a fact, and the otalenient 

 has done us an injury. The Gobin- 

 Ebbert Seed Co. has never in any way 

 l>een connected with Tlie Ebbert Seed 

 Co., but on tlie contrai-y was a rival 

 concern, organized by a former mem- 

 ber of The Ebbert Seed Co. 



We have a belter stock and a bettei- 

 trade than ever before. We don't owe 

 a dollar, and we are the strongest seed 

 house in the Arkansas valley. Sec 

 our rating. 



Wo ask you to publish this, and as 

 far as possible, correct the misappre- 

 hension. 



Veiy truly voui-s, 

 THE EBBERT s'eED CO., 



.lohn Wisda, Mgr. 



Roiky p^ord. Colo. 



NOTES. 



A cable from Kingston, .lamaica, 

 Feb. 2nd, reports W. Atlee Burpee and 

 junior all well and enjoying the balmy 

 breezes of the West Indies. 



The .Johnson Seed Co., Philadelphia, 

 are now through witli the mailing of 

 their annual catalogue and Mr. Sherry 

 reports that the advance orders are 

 already away beyond e.xpectations and 

 much ahead of sanie date last year. 



Toledo, O. — Business has been good 

 of late. No one complains but the 

 Dutch Inilb men. who do not seem to 

 gel the same amount of orders as for- 

 merly, and manv would like to dis- 

 pense with all of them if they could 

 do so, but a certain amount must be 

 handled to have the variety on hand 

 when needed. Little glass will be add- 

 ed this year. Schiller will erect two 

 propagating houses 9x125 each, one to 

 he used during part of the year for 

 cyclamens. This one will be so ar- 

 ranged as to admit circulation directly 

 below the gutters as well as along the 

 house. There are some other growere 

 talking about building, but nothing has 

 been decided so far. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 



M"'. E. O. Orpet of South Lancaster 

 gave a most instructive talk before the 

 tloricultural classes at Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College Wednesday P. M.. 

 .lanuary 27. Mr. Orpet spoke of the 

 history of orchids, with special refer- 

 ence to the rapid increase in their pro- 

 iluction by American growers during 

 the last ten years. He also covered the 

 cultural problems in a very clear, con- 

 cise manner, and showed the blooms 

 of many specimens which gave the stu- 

 dents a splendid idea of differences iu 

 genera and species. The hour proved 

 too short a time for the consideration 

 of the subject and Mr. Orpet met the 

 students informally in the evening and 

 answered many questions regarding or- 

 chid culture. Feb. ?rd George Sinclair 

 of Holyoke will speak on "Chrysanthe- 

 mum Culture." The observation trip 

 on Saturday will be to the extensive 

 commercial range of A. N. Pierson at 

 Cromwell, Conn. On the trip down it 

 is expected there will be time tor a 

 visit to the noted rose garden at Eliz- 

 abeth Park, Hartford. 



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How to Make A Fruit Garden. S. 

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