May 31, 1913 



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BODDINGTON'S QUALITY GLADIOLI 



America 



This beautiful new Gladiolus has produced as great a sensation as the now 

 famous Princeps. The flowers, which are of immense size, are of the most 

 beautiful flesh-pink color, and. as a florist who saw it said, it is "fine enough 

 for a bride's bouquet." ' 



100 1000 

 rOP ROOTS $2.75 $25.00 



100 1000 

 FIRST SIZE $2.25 $20.00 



100 1000 

 SECOND SIZE $2.00 $17.50 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON 



Seedsman and Importer 342 West 14th St., NEW YORK CITY 



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SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Ofllc»rg — President. Chas. N. Page, 

 De» Moines, la.; lat vice-president, 

 Harry L. Holmes, Harrlsbarg, Pa.; 

 2nd Wee- president, Arthur B. Clark, 

 Mllford. ronn.; secretary and treaa- 

 nrer, C B. Kendel, Cleveland, O. ; as- 

 ■Istant secretary, J. M. Ford. Ravenna. 

 O. Neit convention at Cleveland, Ohio. 

 Jnne 24-25, 1913. 



American Seed Trade Association. 



The 31st annual convention will be 

 held in Cleveland, Ohio, June 24-26, 

 with headquarters at the new Hotel 

 Statler, commencing at 10 o'clock A. 

 M.. Tuesday, June 24th. 



As the Statler is Cleveland's new- 

 est hotel, it is running full most of the 

 time, so it is urged that rooms be en- 

 gaged as early as possible. Price of 

 rooms, $2.00 and upwards. 



A cordial invitation has been ex- 

 tended to the members by the Storrs 

 & Harrison Co. to be their guests on 

 Thursday afternoon to inspect their 

 nurseries and greenhouses. 



Cleveland is advantageously sit- 

 uated to be easy of access to a large 

 part of the members and the impor- 

 tance of the work to be considered 

 should insure a large attendance. 



Seed Trade Ethics. 



Horticulture has done a courageous 

 and needful thing in the interest of 

 the seed trade, in publishing that evi- 

 dence last week in regard to our na- 

 tional seed shop and its methods. A 

 national government of 9(1.000,000 peo- 

 ple is such a powerful agency that 

 only one in a million would dare to 

 niak3 It cheep. The evidence indicates 

 what has long been known, persistent 

 hostility to an honorable American 

 business — the seed trade. It is to be 

 hoped that the new Secretary of Agri- 

 culture will give this matter his atten- 

 tion and make a clean sweep. The 

 writer was in Providence last fall and 

 heard a foreign representative of a 

 grass seed house bragging that he had 

 sold the Department at Washington 

 their grass seeds. With the unthink- 

 ing this had its affect. But as Hor- 

 TicuLTTRE rightly mentions, the United 

 States is a private customer and a due 

 regard for the ethics precludes an en- 

 deavor in that direction. Those who 

 "sell to the seed trade only," should 

 sell to the seed trade only. To boast 



of doing otherwise is to condemn 

 themselves. Of course, those in the 

 know, will understand all that the 

 aforesaid anecdote reveals. Taken 

 with the Farquhar episode, and nu- 

 merous others that will occur to many, 

 the leaf reveals the tree. I wish you 

 would put one honorable Holland con- 

 cern on record as selling to the seed 

 trade only: Messrs. Barenbrug. Bur- 

 gers & Co.. grass seed specialists of 

 Arnhem. They sell to the trade only, 

 and consider their customers worthy 

 of protection. There are many honor- 

 able houses in Holland, and we must 

 not judge all by the abominable prac- 

 tices of a few. The world owes a lot 

 to the genius of the Netherlands. 



George C. Wat.som. 



Parcels Post Discrimination. 

 The Leonard Seed Company call our 

 attention to the following extract from 

 a letter received from one of their 

 customers, to which we gladly give 

 space: 



"Iiioidently it seems to mo the seed and 

 florist tr.Tde should protest against the 

 unjust (lisi-rimination of the parcel post 

 under jpiesrut rulings. For instance, a 



lustorner from wrote for seed 



sweet potatoes by parcel post. Had he 

 applied to the grocery across the street 

 from me, they could have been delivered 

 by the rural carrier right tf> his door for 

 29 cents. But they were 'Seeds, roots, 

 bulbs or tubers for plantiug,' and would 

 require 71 or 72 cents to go by parcel post. 

 The express company carried them to 



for 2.5 cents. Should one of my 



customers require 11 lbs. of alfalfa to 

 feed to his canary, it could go to any 

 point reached by our carrier for 1.5 cents 

 or any poiut within 50 miles tor ?,o cents. 

 But if this customer intends to plant the 

 seed instead of feeding his 'bird,' it would 

 cost him 88 cents to send either to any 

 one on a routa from this office or to the 

 remotest corner of the United States. It 

 certainly is a great system, but who can 

 call it just, fair or right?" 



Notes. 



C. W. Scott and A. Kakuda of the 

 Yokohama Nursery Co., are on a busi- 

 ness trip in the South. 



W. A. Sperling, who has been in 

 Europe on business for Stumpp & Wal- 

 ter Co., New York, is on the Atlantic, 

 homeward bound. 



Among the New York visitors this 

 week are: Wm. Satter. representing 

 J. Blaauw & Co., John Radder and K. 

 van Kleef, all of Boskoop, Holland. 



Walter J. Barnwell, brother of the 

 well-known Barnwell Bros., of Worth- j 

 ing, England, and for many years in 



the employ of Peter Henderson & Co., 

 has taken a position in the seed store 

 of Burnett Bros., New York City. 



The Horticultural Society of Chicago 

 will have a Peony and Hardy Peren- 

 nial Show at the Art Institute, June 

 12th and 13th. The premium list is 

 still in the hands of the printer but 

 the growers have taken a great inter- 

 est in the show and there is promise 

 that the affair will be a success. The 

 admission fee will be 25 cents. Among 

 the prizes offered will be gold, silver 

 and oronze medals as well as money 

 by the society and many individual 

 prizes. 



An inventory of the personal estate 

 of the late Joseph Ault Bolgiano, 

 shows that at the time of his death, 

 on March 1 last, he owned securities 

 worth $630,803 and $47,452 cash, a total 

 of $678,255, in addition to over $50,000 

 worth of real estate. For many years 

 Mr. Bolgiano was head of the seed 

 firm of J. Bolgiano & Son. Baltimore, 

 Md. His will, made February 7, 1890, 

 gives the bulk of his estate to his 

 children. The business is now owned 

 and conducted by his son. Mr. Charles 

 J. Bolgiano. 



Formosa lily bulb crop will be short 

 this year and prices tend upwards. 

 Dealers have already accepted orders 

 for more than they are going to be 

 able to supply. The crop has been re- 



NEW CROP 



Areca Lutescens Seed 



Arrived May 17th 



$6.00 per 1000, $27.50 per 5000 



HOSEA WATERER 

 Seedsman 



107-109 So. 7th St., Philadelpliia, Pa. 



