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HORTICULTURE 



March 20, 1909 



Seed Trade 



Ornamental Plants. As usual, interest- 

 ing and reliable. Gladioli in colors 

 term cover illustration. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



Watson S. Woodnift, Orange, Conn., 

 Prcs • J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb., 

 nret VicePres.; C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, 

 O See'y and Treas. Twenty-seventli an- 

 nual conventljn June 22-21, 1909, at Clifton 

 House, Niagara Falls, Ont. 



WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN'S 

 LEAGUE. 



F. W. Bruggerhof, Pres.; Buruet I-and- 

 reth, Sec'y. 



NOTES. 



Auburn, N. J.— Fire on March 4 

 completely destroyed the seed house 

 of William England. 



St. Louis, Mo.— Walter Retzer, vice- 

 president of the St. Louis Seed Co., St. 

 Louis, Mo., has disposed of his inter- 

 est in the firm and will go to South 

 America. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Fraser Nursery Company, Hunts- 

 ville, Ala.— Surplus List No. 2. 



S. C. Moon, Morrlsville, Pa.— Whole- 

 sale Price List for Spring 1909. 



W. H. Elliott, Brighton, Mass.— 

 Price List Folder of Roses, Asparagus, 

 etc. 



W. A. Manda. South Orange. N. J.— 

 Novelties and Specialties for 1909. 

 Dracaena Mandaiana and Polypodium 

 Mandaianum are cover illustrations 

 well worthy of the honor. 



J. S. Wilson Floral Co., Des Moines, 

 la.— Wholesale Trade List, Spring 1909. 

 Undoubtedly the forerunner of some- 

 thing bigger in the future but a good 

 slarter for a new concern. 



HasUell Implement and Seed Com- 

 pany, Boston. Mass.— General Seed 

 Catalogue. Devoted largely to farm 

 and vegetable garden seeds and agri- 

 cultural implements. An attractive 

 publication. 



I 



Mohican Peony Gardens, Sinking 

 Springs, Pa —An interesting booklet 

 on the peony, in whch Is comprised a 

 general price list of one hundred va- 

 lieties of double peonies, selected as 

 the best extant. 



T. C. Thurlow & Co., West Newbury, 

 Mass.— Special Price List of Cherry 

 Hill Nurseries. Ornamental trees and 

 shrubs, deciduous and evergreen, her- 

 baceous plants, etc., are specialties 

 with this well known firm. 



Rockmount Nursery, D. M. Andrews, 

 Prop.. Boulder, Colo.— Catalogue of 

 Hardy Garden Material. 



Louis P. Faulk. West View, Pa.— 

 Wholesale Price List of Rooted Cut- 

 tings and Potted Plants. 



Barnes Bros. Nursery Co., Yalesville, 

 Conn.— Descriptive and Illustrative 

 Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental 

 Trees, Shrubs, etc. 



Thomas J. Grey Co., Boston, Mass.— 

 Seed Catalogue for 1909. Fiill of good 

 material and strong on agricultural 

 implements, as usual. 



Mrs. Bessie M. Rupert, Portland, 

 Me —Descriptive List of Dalilias. A 

 well-selected list, including many of 

 the choicest novelties. 



Meier & Shoemaker, Cincinnati, 0.— 

 "A Book of interest to Seed, Plant and 

 Bulb Buyers." Price list of flower and 

 vegetable seeds, plants, etc. 



Conard & Jones Company, West 

 Grove, Pa.— Trade Price List. 1909. 

 Illustrated; cover picture, new white 

 Canna -'Mont Blanc Improved." 



W. W. RawsonX^., Boston, Mass. 

 —Special Catalogue of Dahlias. A 

 splendid list which every dahlia fan- 

 cier should have. Handsomely illus- 

 trated. 



Ralph M. Wai^^&'co., New York 

 Citv —Wholesale List of Lilies and 

 Japan Products. French and Dutch 

 bulbs. Many interesting illustrations, 

 views in .Japan, etc. 



Wilhelm Pfitzer. Stuttgart.— General 

 Catalogue and Price List of Seeds and 



M. H. Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass.— 

 Handbook of Roses. A beautiful pub- 

 lication with attractive cover in colors, 

 showing i-ambler roses. Snowdrift and 

 Bonnie Belle, on front and Paradise 

 and Excelsa on back page. 



W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J — 

 "Pocket Garden Dictionary and Cata- 

 logue of Everything Pertaining to Hor- 

 ticulture, 1909." A complete list of 

 outdoor and indoor material freely 

 Illustrated and carefully edited. 



Valrtesian Nurseries, Bostic, M. C— 

 Surplus list of Forest and Shade Trees, 

 Shrubs, Roses. iBerry Plants, etc. 

 Wholesale only. A half million of 

 California and Amoor River Privets 

 for spring delivery are among the 

 special offers. 



Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, 

 Conn.— Catalogue for 1909. A publica- 

 tion at once ornamental and useful. 

 Well edited and indexed, and brim full 

 of suggestion and valuable informa- 

 tion on the subject of ornamental 

 shrubbery and trees. 



Wagner Park Conservatories, Sid- 

 ney, Ohio.— "A Catalogue of Some 

 Beautiful Flowers." This is an art 

 publication from start to finish, and 

 the taste displayed in its make-up is 

 creditable to author and printer alike. 

 Cover conventional, in two colors on 

 cream-tinted paper. 



New England Nurseries, Bedford, 

 Mass.— "New and Rare Things Worth 

 Wliile Planting." This publication is 

 a supplement to the general catalogue 

 sent out by this enterprising nursery 

 establishment. It lists many gems of 

 recent introduction as well as the best 

 of the older varieties that deserve to 

 be more widely known, in trees and 

 shrubs and hardy border plants. 



Michell's UnexGelled 

 ASTERS 



QUEEN OF THE MARKET 



EXTRA EARLY Tr. pkt. Oz. 



Dark Blue $u ^o $o.6j 



Light Blue 2o '^ 



Crimson '° «> 



Pink ^> ■6o 



White '° -oo 



nixed =° -6° 



INVINCIBLE 



A superior strain of great value to florists for 

 cuttings Tr. ptct. Oz. 



Blue $0.30 $'5° 



Crimson 3° '5° 



Lavender 3° '5° 



Rose-Pink 3° "-si 



White 3° '-so 



nixed 3° ' 50 



Write for our Wholesale Catalog 



HENRY F. MIGHELL GO. 



IOI8 Market St., PHILA. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



FOR TRANSPLANTING 



CABBAGE- Wakefield and Succession 



$ I. coper 1000 

 EGG PLANT-N.T. Improved and Black 



Beauty 4octs. per 10 , $3.00 per 1000 



PEPPER — Bull Nose, Kuby King and 



Sweet Mountain 40cts. per 100, $3 00 per 1000 



Chinese Giant and Cayenne, socts. per ico 



TOMATO-Earliana, Chalk's Jewell and 



Early June Pink, jocts. per loc, $2.00 per 1000 



Ca?h with Order 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO. 



White iVIa rsh, Md. 



200,000 GLADIOLI BULBS 



)i to i5< inches, $2 per 1000. iK to i'4, $4 per loco. 

 i^^ and up, $^ per loco. 



CALIFORNIA PRIVET 



I yr. well branched, $30 per 1000. Cash with order. 



Nice lot of AMERICAN CHESTNUT TREES at a 



bargain, about SO LARQE SUGAR TREES, most 



of them sample trees. 

 , Surplus of STONE TOMATO SEED; Ruby King 

 1 Neapolitan, Bull Nose and Sweet Mountain 



Pepper Seed at a bargain. 



I. & J. L LEONARD, - lona, N J. 



Vegetable Plant Nurserymen and Seed Growers 



BRIDGEMAN'S SEED WAREHOUSE 



RICKARDSBROS. 



Props. 



37 East lath St., - HEW YORKJITY 



Ward'sTily^ulbs 



Send for Catalogue 



Ralph M. Ward & Co. 



12 W. Broadway 



NEW YORK 



AN INTERESTING DECISION. 



The appeal case in which Alex. Dick- 

 son, of Woortlawn Nurseries, Dundnim. 

 Co. Dublin, as defendant, appealed to 

 the higher court against an order of 

 the Master of the Rolls, of May 9th 

 last, whereby he was to desist from 

 using the name and title of Alex. Dick- 

 son and Sons, or Alexander Dickson 

 and Sons, has been dismissed with 

 costs. 



Randolph, Mass.— P. Bova Conti has 

 purchased the Lucy Clarke estate, on 

 which are six greenhouses fully 

 stocked. 



