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HORTICULTURE 



April 10, 1909 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Chester Davis, sai'deniT for ilie late 

 William P. Heiizey, tlio millionaire 

 locomotive builder, has been left a 

 bequest of five thousand dollars in the 

 will of the deceased. Mr. Davis has 

 been a faithful employee for many 

 years and Mr. Henzey did credit to 

 himself in recognizing efficiency and 

 loyalty. But why don't our million- 

 aires go further and leave some of 

 their surplus to the Horticultural So- 

 ciety? The wise ones around Boston 

 din that, fifty years ago, and look 

 where horticulture is there today! 



A campaign of education in this di- 

 rection is a crying need. There are 

 oceans of money around Philadelphia, 

 and all it needs to get a good big en- 

 dowment fund for our Horticultural 

 Society is to bring its merits and possi- 

 bilities forcibly before our leading 

 citizens while they are alive. William 

 Schaeffer (all honor to his memory) 

 gave us our hall but nothing to run it 

 with. What's the matter with the rest 

 of our wealthy men? There is grave 



IPOMOEA NOCTIFLORA 



■ Best pure white moonvine In the 



market, very fragrant and as big as a 

 saucer. On this variety we have a world- 

 wide reputation as growers and shippers 

 for the last twenty years. 



Price, lyi in. pots. $5.00 per 100. 

 10,000 are now ready. 



Godfrey Aschmann 



IOI2WestOntarloSt.,Pliiladelphia,Pa. 



Newport Fairy 



The Rose of the Future For 

 In and Out Door. 



FINE, STRONG FIELD-GROWN STOCK 



3-4 Shoots 3-4 ft. long 



50ceach,$30perl00, $250per10O0 



JULIUS ROEHRS CO., 



RUTHERFORD, N. J. 



Hardy Perennial Plants. 



Arabis Alpena superba 7,-> doz. $ ,5 00 per 100 



Flore Plena .83 " 00 "' " 

 Delphinium Kelway Hybrids 



Strone; held grmvn plants $1,S0 '■ lO.OO " " 

 Hollyhocks. White Allegheny 



1.25 " 8.00 " '• 

 5tokesla Cyanea Alba 



field-grown pLints 1 25 " 8.0O " " 



Phlox decussata A choice collection of new, rare and 



standard varieties, field grown plants, including B. 

 Comte, F. O. Von Lassburic, Geo. A. Strohleln, 



Gen'l Von Heutsz , Consul H. Frost., R. P. 

 Struthers and others. $6.00 per 100. 



Wm. Tricker, 



Arlington, N. J. 



Gladiolus Brencliieyensis 



Extra fine Healthy Imported Stock 

 1,000 $10.00 10,000 $80.00 



O. V. ZANCEN 



HOBOKEN, N. J. 



danger at this juncture that we may 

 lose the hall. even. Things are at a 

 crisis. 



Personally I think now is the time 

 to call a big meeting of everybody in- 

 terested to devise ways and means for 

 saving the hall and getting an endow- 

 ment fund sufficient to make the hall 

 effective. It would be a shame and a 

 disgrace to let things go by the board 

 when we have a three-quarter million 

 property in our grasp with only a 

 bonded debt of two hundred thousand 

 ajainst it. 



Where is Burpee, where is Dreer, 

 where is Buist, where is Landreth, 

 where is Meehan, where are all the 

 other old names that have helped to 

 make Philadelphia horticulture 



famous. Don't any of them want to 

 turn a hand to save that beautiful 

 building which Frank Miles Day de- 

 signed and which is recognized every- 

 where as a model of its kind and the 

 crowning monument for all time of 

 , its founder, William L. Schaeffer? It 

 is unbelievable that they can be so in- 

 different. 



What is wanted is not Iheir money 

 but their influence and push. If they 

 will put their shoulders to the wheel 

 and interest their millionaire friends, 

 things will soon be put on a solid 

 financial foundation and be kept there. 



Howard M. Earl, manager for W. A. 

 Burpee & Co., for the first time in 

 twenty years was laid fiat on his back 

 with a severe sick spell, last week of 

 March, the result of overwork and 

 fierce weather. He - is about again 

 much to his own .ioy and that of all 

 concerned. Reported to be a bad pa- 

 tient. Probably lack of practice. 



P. .Joseph Lynch of the Dlngee & 

 Conard Co., West Grove, has just re- 

 turned from a sojourn at Charlotte, 

 N, C, where he has bee.n superintend- 

 ing the planting of outdoor roses for, 

 his firm. The climate and other 

 features at this point have been found 

 to be particularly favorable for this 

 class of stock. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Tipton, Ind. — C. King, one house. 



Whitman, Mass. — Lewis Reed, addi- 

 tions. 



Upton, Mass. — A. A. Bowker, addi- 

 tions. 



Stratford, Conn.— Sniffin Bros., two 

 houses. 



Albany, N. Y.— Park Department, 

 one house. 



Whitestone, N. Y.— .J. McMullen, 

 two houses. 



Lynn, Mass. — P. J. Delansky. five 

 side-hill houses. 



Ship Rock, N. M. — Indian school, 

 range of houses. 



Pawtucket, R. I. — JI. J. Leach, two 

 houses, each 40x200. 



Marion, Mass. — Converse Estate, 

 range of conservatories. 



Archbold, .O. — Carl Baer. carnation 

 house, 27x206, lean-to, 5x206. 



Mansfield, Mass. — Mrs. M. Barnes, 

 two houses, one 150 feet, one 175 feet. 



BARGAIN SALE IN 



ERICAS, ETC.. 



For Immediate Delivery, to malte room. 



BORONIA elatior, pink, in 4 in. pots, $15.00 



per 100. 

 EPACRIS alba, wliite,-3ji-in. pots, $10.00 



per 100. 

 ERICA persoluta rubra, 3K<ii. pots, $10.00 



per 100. 



CHRISTMAS VARIETIES FOR 

 QROWINQ ON 



ERICA melanthera from 5 in. pots, $15.00 



per 100. 

 ERICA regerminans, 3 in. pots, $8.00 per 100. 



The ahnve prices are net cash irilh 

 ortfer. jN'o charges for pacliin{/, 



BOXWOOD 



FOR HOTEL AND VASE WORK 



i2-in. high, 6 in pots, $25,00 per 100 



iS-in. •• 7 in, " 50.00 " ■' 



i6.in. " 7-in. " 75.00 " " 



i8in. '• Sin. " 100.00 " " 



Also PYRAMIDS $3.00, $4.00, $5,00, 



$6.00 to $8.00 a Pair. 



ANTON SCHULTHEIS 



Florist 

 COLLEGE POINT. - L.I, 



We have on hand a large 

 consignment of 



Japanese Bamboo Canes 



Fine Strong Quality. 



NATURAL Per 1000 



6 ft. heavy, original bundle of ^500 (</ $4.25 



6 ft. medium, " " " 25C0 ($1 3,50 



5-6 ft. pencil thicltness " " 50co(^ 3.35 



4-5 ft. " " " " 5000 (a) 2.75 



3 ft. " " " " 100c (« 2.»5 



GREEN COLORED 



ij^ ft. original bundle of 40c o« $1,20 



,?;•• " " " 4coo(a; 1.85 



«» ft. 4OOC [.O; 3.00 



,3 ft. ' 4° oig 3.5. 



354ft. " " 4oco@ 3.75 



Sold in original bundles only. Samples on appli- 



Cycas Stems 



Fine straight stems, in case lots of 300 lbs. assorted, 



4—10 lbs., >^— 4 lbs., i4- 2 lbs., 2— 10 lbs. 



$.9.30 per case. 



Kudzu Vine Roots 



Strong heavy quality. 



The Yokohama Nu sery Go. 



31 Barclay St., N. Y. City. 



Fine Pla 

 bio 



of 



ady to 



ibud 1 



ell 



PANSY PLANTS 



known strain, $2.50 per lOc; large pla 

 bloom, $1.00 per loc, $8,co per icoo. 



QERANIl nS, best kinds, double PETUNIAS 

 (Dreer's), VINCA var., PARLOR IVY, STOCKS, 

 fine plants, 3% in., .$2.00 per 100: 300 for $^.00, 



CABBAOB PLANTS. F,. I. Wakefield, ready to 

 plant out, $1 25 per 1000: 500c for $5.00. 



J.C.SCHMIDT, Bristol, Pa. 



