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horticulture: 



June 19, 190a 



ENGELMANN BOTANICAL CLUB. 



The EngPlraaim Uotank-al Club of St. 

 Louis held its regular monthly meeting 

 on Monday night, June 14, in the 

 rooms of the New Central High School 

 Building. The interesting feature of 

 the m-^eting was a paper read by Or. 

 S. M. Coulter o£ the Shaw school of 

 Botany of Washington University on 

 "The "Relationship Between Physio- 

 graphic Conditions of Plant Life." 

 Other interesting discussions followed. 

 The meeting was well attended. Sec- 

 retary W. W. Ohlweiler announced 

 that "this would be the last meeting 

 of the club until September although 

 there would be field meetings during 

 the summer months. 



The club has enjoyed a very suc- 

 cessful season and all of its meetings 

 have been well attended. The mem- 

 bers are looking forward to interesting 

 meetings for the coming fall and win- 

 ter months. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society will hold their rose show on 

 June 23. 



The Newport (R. I.) Horticultural 

 Society will hold their June exhibi- 

 tion on the 23rd and 24th inst. 



The gold watch found by Wm. J. 

 Stewart at Highland Park. Rochester, 

 on the occasion of the visit of the 

 Nurserymen's Association, has been 

 restored to its owner, Mrs. B. Van 

 Hertf of Yonkers, N. Y. 



The North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold their rose show on 

 June 30 and July 1 at Manchester, 

 Mass. The numerous prizes, cups 

 and medals that are offered are mak- 

 ing this show of more than ordinary 

 interest to those outside of the im- 

 mediate territory. 



DURING RECESS. 



At the Astoria (L. I.) Florists' Bow- 

 ling Club last Tuesday evening an in- 

 teresting feature was the presentation 

 of a fine ball to President W. H. 

 Siebrecht in recognition of his many 

 courtesies to the members and as a 

 token of the esteem in which he is 

 held by the florist fraternity. The 

 speech "of presentation was made in 

 elotiuent form by Alfred Blackwin. 

 W. H. Siebrecht, jr., was not overlook- 

 ed in the general round-up and was 

 presented with a rattle in considera- 

 tion of a recent youthful arrival at 

 his home. The famous auto car is 

 bespoken for a tour to Patchogue on 

 Saturday, 19th, to inspect the estab- 

 lishment of Frank Niquet. 



DIANTHUS NAPOLEON 111. 



A subscriber wishes to know where 

 seeds of Dianthus Napoleon III can be 

 purchased. This is a hybrid and does 

 not produce seeds. Plants only. 

 These can be procured from Dreer. 

 In this connection one of the latifolius 

 varieties (atrococcineus plenus) is an 

 excellent companion to Napoleon III 

 and seeds freely. It is a deep blood 

 red, flowers all summer and is a splen- 

 did cut flower. Seeds can be pur- 

 chased at 50 cents an ounce. 



G. C. W. 



PERSONAL. 



Lebanon, Ore. — At the recent flower 

 show G. L. Allen, florist, was one of 

 the judges. 



Dr. L. H. Bailey of Cornell will go 

 abroad in October and expects to be 

 absent about six months. 



New Castle, I nd.— Peter Welland 

 has taken charge of the greenhouses 

 which he recently purchased from 

 L. A. Jennings. 



Joseph Street, foreman for C. A. 

 Anderson, of Buffalo, N. Y., will sail 

 with his wife on July 3 for a two 

 months' stay in Germany. 



J. H. Hadkinson and wife left Oma- 

 ha last week for Tacoma. Wash., 

 where he will enter on his duties as 

 manager of the city parks. 



Fall River, M-ass. — William Byard, 

 the local tree warden and florist, has 

 been ill for several weeks and little 

 hope for his recovery is now enter- 

 tained. 



\V. H. Siebrecht, Sr., has bought 

 a new place in Connecticut a few 

 miles from Ossining, N. Y., consisting 

 of six acres. He may erect green- 

 houses later, but his main object is 

 for a home and to enjoy himself. 



Ludwig Zimmer, florist, Biddle Mar- 

 ket, St. Louis, will leave next week 

 for a trip to Germany, where, at Ham- 

 burg, he will settle up an estate left 

 by his father. Mrs. Zimmer will look 

 after the business while he is 

 away. 



Visitors in St. Louis last week: 

 Harry Balsley, Detroit, Mich.; G. Reis- 

 ing, of the L. Baumann Co., Chicago, 

 offering florists' supplies; Simon Ma- 

 loney, who represents the American 

 Forestry Co., of Little Lake, Mich., so- 

 liciting Christmas green orders. 



Robert Graham, a florist living at 

 Carrollton, Mo., who was disappointed 

 in love, tried to kill himself last week 

 by swallowing a dozen grains of bi- 

 chloride of merciuy. He was taken to 

 the city hospital in a serious condi- 

 tion but at last accounts was improv- 

 ing a little and may pull tlu'ough. 



INCORPORATED. 



Knoxville, Tenn. — Standard Nursery 

 Co.; N. W. Hale, W. P. Wilson, C. W. 

 McCormick, S. J. Herrell; capital, 

 $35,000. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — The Broadway 

 Floral Co.. 1010 Broadway; Elias and 

 Esther Freedman, Bessie Silverstein; 

 capital, $5,000. 



Litchfield, Conn. — The Rosemere 

 Nursery; president, W. T. Marsh; 

 vice-president. Dr. J. L. Buel; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, A. T. Bulkley; 

 capital, $10,000. 



c-c[AWBEPRIFS. 



Burnett Bros., 72 Cortlandt street. 

 New York City, are ready to distribute 

 their new catalogue of pot-grown 

 strawberry plants. The list is strict- 

 ly up-to-date and in it are carefully 

 described the newest and best varie- 

 ties of strawberries as grown by on 3 

 of the leading specialists. All in'er- 

 ested in strawberries should send far 

 a copy. 



The National Nurseryman distributed 

 a very interesting and finely gotten up 

 souvenir pami)hlet at the Nurserymen's 

 convention. Views in Rochester parks 

 and nurseries with portraits of emi- 

 nent men in the trade embellished the 

 pages. 



TUBEROSES 



Our Tuberose Bulbs are all hand lelected 

 and are cntlrelv reliable, blooming the 

 first season, riammoth Pearl, 1st size, 

 $7 SO per 1(00. 



CYCAS REVOLUTA 



Strong Healthy Trunks. 



$7.50 per IfO Pounds 

 $21.00 '• 300 



WRITE FOR OUR CATALOQLE. 



HENRY F. MICHELL 10. 



1018 market St., Phlla. 



Giant Pansy Seeds 



Representing seven of the best growers of Europe. 

 Each color or strain packed separately. 1 he pro- 

 portion of light and dark is well blended. 

 Florist Collection — i6 pkt. Hybrid Giants, 



8 pkt. Giant Five Blotched, J 8 oz. in each pkt. ; 



in all, 24 pkts., weight 301. $786 



Halt Florist Collection — 24 pkts., weight 



■ H oz. $3 93 



Amateur Collecllon — 24 pkt., 5C0 seeds in 



each pkt., 12,000 seeds, S'S" 



Cottage Collection— 12 pkt., 500 seeds in each 



pkt., 6,000 seeds, $1.25 



Mixture— extra fine, loco seeds, >5C. 



Exhibition Collection — 4 pkt. 500 seeds in 



each pkt., 2000 seeds. $l.eo 



Setid for descriptive list 0/ pris:c dinners 



JOHN GERARD, New Britalp. Conn. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Sandusky, O. — D. R. White has pur- 

 chased the Central greenhouses. 



Montpelier, Vt. — R. Bannigan has 

 purchased the Montpelier Green- 

 houses and will start in business on 

 July 1. He has been a grower on the 

 place for several years. 



Auburn, Me. — Hugh Roak, who for 

 several years has been engaged in the 

 greenhouse business with his father, 

 G. M. Roak, has purchased a farm in 

 Vienna and removed there. 



Bangor, Me. — Carl Beers has pur- 

 chased the Winter Gardens from E. P. 

 Lane and also the Mt. Hope Nurseries 

 which he recently sold to Mr. Lane. 

 Both places will be continued and Mr. 

 Beers will give his personal attention 

 to them. 



Green Bay, Wis.— The Everett B. 

 Clark Seed Co., of Milford, Conn., will 

 build a three-story fireproof ware- 

 house, equipped with all modern con- 

 veniences for handling seed peas and 

 beans, on their recently acquired land 

 here. We understand that E. L. Olm- 

 sted will take charge of the place. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



CABBASK. Field Grown, all leading varieliet, 

 $i.co per 1000, 10,000 and over, 85c per 1000. 



CELERY. White Plume, Golden .Self Blanching 

 and Giant Pascal, $t.oo per 1000. 



EGG PI, A NT. N. Y. Improved and Black Beauty, 

 $3.00 per looc. 



LETTUCE. Big Boston, Boston Market, Tennis 

 Ball and Grand Rapids, $1.00 per 1000. 



FEPFEKS.r Ruby King, Bull Nose, Sweet Moun- 

 tain and Neapolitan, $3.o« per 1000. Chinese 

 Giant and Cayenne, 50c per 100. 



FABSLEY. $1.25 per 1000. 



Cash kith Order 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO. 



White Marsh, Md. 



