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HOETICULTTJEE 



June 14, 1913 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTrON 



Officers— President, Clias. N. Page, 

 Des Moines, la. ; 1st vice-president, 

 Harry L. Holmes, Harrisburg, Pa,; 

 2nd vice-president, Arthur B. Clark, 

 Milford, Conn. ; secretary and treas- 

 urer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. ; as- 

 sistant secretarv. J. M. Ford, Ravenna, 

 O. Next convention at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 June 24-25, 1913. 



Keokuk, la.— The Gate City Seed 

 Co. will in the near future erect a 

 three-stor.v office building and ware- 

 house and a five-story mill and ele- 

 vator at Third and Exchange Sts. 



The James Vick's Sons Company 

 was represented by W. H. Dildine in 

 a wholesale trade excursion which was 

 run out of Rochester, N. Y.. under the 

 auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, 

 covering a large part of Western and 

 Central New York, from June 3 to 

 June 5. About forty-five wholesale 

 concerns were represented, two banks, 

 telephone companies and several news- 

 papers. The result was the organiza- 

 tion of a wholesale trade boosters' as- 

 sociation and Mr. Dildine was elected 

 vice-president. 



RETARDING PEONY BLOOMS. 



(The following useful instructions are 

 contained in a folder being distributed by 

 the Horticultural Society of Chicago.) 



' The peony is undoubtedly the most 

 gorgeously beautiful of all our hardy 

 flowers, and the ease with which it 

 may be cultivated, and the fact that it 

 is under any reasonable condition sure 

 to produce a fine crop of blooms every 

 year after it is established, makes it 

 deservedly a great favorite. 



Its only drawback is its habit of 

 opening all its blooms nearly at the 

 same time, giving a great surplus of 

 flowers for a few days and none after- 

 wards. It is not generally known that 

 the blooming of peony buds can be 

 very easily delayed from several days 

 to several weeks, depending on the va- 

 riety and the method of treatment. 



To delay the opening of the blooms 

 for a few days, they are cut when the 

 petals are just loosening, but when 

 none of them have turned back. All 

 the leaves are removed, except a few 

 of the upper ones, sufficient to give 

 the flower a proper setting of green. 

 They are then wrapped somewhat 

 snugly — one dozen or less in a bunch — 

 in two thicknesses of damp (not wet) 

 newspapers, leaving the lower four or 

 five inches of the stems uncovered. 

 The bundles of blooms so wrapped are 

 placed in jars of water so that the 

 lower one-third of the stems are sub- 

 merged, and placed in a cold, dark lo- 

 cation. A cool cellar is an ideal place. 

 In this condition they will keep up to 

 a week without opening, but will open 

 very quickly when unwrapped and 

 brought into the light and warmth. 



If it is desired to retard them a 

 longer time, they are cut earlier, while 

 showing full color but before any of 

 the petals have loosened at all, and 

 treated in the same way. The tighter 

 the bud is when cut, the longer it will 

 keep. 



Some few varieties can be retarded 



MICHEL'S SEASONABLE FLOWER SEEDS 



PANSY SEED (New Crop) 



Micbell's Giant Elxhibition Mixed. A 



truly Giant strain which we have se- 

 cured from the leading Pansy Special- 

 ists in Germany, England and France. 

 Plants are of strong, sturdy habit; 

 flowers of immense size, heavy texture 

 and of varied colors and shades. Trade 

 pkt., 50c.; 75c. per % oz. ; per oz., $5.00. 



ANTIRRHINUM 



MICHELI/S GIANT STRAIN 



Tr. Pkt. Oz. 



Giant Salmon Pink 30 $1.50 



Giant Pink 20 .60 



Giant Scarlet 20 .60 



Giant Striped 20 .60 



Giant White 20 .60 



Giant Tellow 20 .60 



Giant Mixed IB .50 



.41so all other Seasonable Seeds and 

 Supplies for the Florist. 



PRIMULA CHINENSIS SEED 



Alba Magntaca, White 60 $1.00 



Chiswick. Red 60 1.00 



Kermesina Splendens, Crim- 

 son 60 1.00 



Rosy Morn. Pink 60 1.00 



Dncbess, White, carmine cen- 

 tre 60 1.00 



Holborn Bine 60 1.00 



Micbell's Prize Mixture 60 1.00 



PRIMULA OBOONICA GIGAN- 



TEA SEED 



Tr. Pkt 



Lllaclna, Pale lilac BO 



Kermesina, Crimson SO 



Rosea, Pink 80 



Alba, White BO 



Hybrida, Mixed BO 



CINERARIA SEED 



% Tr. Tr. 



Pkt. Pkt. 



Dwarf Grand Prize, mixed 60 $1.00 



Med. TaU Grand PrUe, mixed. .60 1.00 



HENRY F. MIGHELL COMPANY 



518 Market Street, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



PEAS, BEANS. RADISH ) 

 and all Garden Seeds ] 



Growers for the Trade 



„,EM. CB.«"° 



CO. 



ONION SETS 

 Write for Frlees 



only a few days in this way without 

 being injured, while others can be held 

 back for a very long time. The pro- 

 fessional peony grower, after prepar- 

 ing the blooms as described, will place 

 them in cold storage warehouses, 

 where the temperature is kept very 

 low and perfectly even, and will hold 

 them there for six weeks in the case 

 01 son:e varieties. There are probably 

 a million or more peonies stored in 

 tins manner every season by profes- 

 sional florists in Chicago. 



Where the advantages of artificially 

 cooled storage with an absolutely even 

 temperature cannot be had it is prob- 

 ably not advisable to attempt retard- 

 ing the blooms over two weeks in this 

 way, while some varieties can be held 

 only a very few days. 



The annual commencement exer- 

 cises of the Maryland Agricultural Col- 

 lege, College Park, Md., will begin 

 June 15. Twenty graduates will re- 

 ceive the bachelor's degree, four 

 former graduates will receive a mas- 

 ter's degree and nine graduates will 

 l)e given certificates for a two-year 

 course in agriculture and horticulture. 



President Wallace R. Pierson ad- 

 vises us that, the famous rose garden 

 at Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Conn., will 

 be at its best on Thursday, June 19th. 

 It has been decided that the American 

 Rose Society judges will meet on that 

 day to judge the test garden and an in- 

 vitation is extended to all who are in- 

 terested in roses to meet at 11.30 that 

 morning at the railroad station in 

 Hartford and visit the rose garden. 



This rose garden, established by 

 Theodore Wirth while superintendent 

 of Hartford Park System has been 

 maintained with much skillful care by 

 his successors and in a favorable year 

 such as this is especially, is a spec- 

 tacle of beauty worth going even a 

 long distance to see. Those who ac- 

 cept the invitation of the American 

 Rose Society will be well repaid for 

 the trip. 



OTTO HEINECKEN 



Horticultural Agency 



Whitehall BIdg., 17 Batterjr Place 

 NEW YORK 



Sole American Representative of: 

 J. Heins Sons, Ilalstenbek (Germany) 



Fruit Tree Stock, Forest Trees, 

 Hedge Plants. 



E, Neubert, Wandsbek (Germany) 

 Lily of the 'Valley, Lilacs for Forcing. 

 A, Keilholz, Quedlinburg (Germany) 



Seed Grower. 



Also Holland and Be1g:ium stock, as 



Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Palms, etc. 



WRITE FOR PRICES. 



Mention HORTICULTURE when writing 



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are noted the world over (or 



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John Le'w^is Childs 



FLOWERFIELD, L. I., N. Y. 



