November 7, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



605 



A HITCHINGS HOUSE. 



In these days when the product of 

 the rose house goes a-begging and the 

 pocket book of the grower gets more 

 emaciated every day the attention of 

 the wise manipulator is constantly 

 fixed upon the problem of so regulating 

 and diiecting his crops that when the 

 good-time-coming has put in its ap- 

 pearance he will be ready to meet it 

 with one of those luxuriant harvests 

 from which the dollars stand wistfully 

 ready to jump into his coffers. That 

 was the trick our friend Eber Holmes 

 at Montrose on the outer fringe of 

 Boston's environs was trying to turn, 

 when we looked in upon him the other 

 day. "Cutting out the small wood to 

 induce strong growths to start now for 

 the holiday cut" said Mr. Holmes as 

 he vigorously plied the knife. 



It is a big establishment over which 

 Mr. Holmes presides although it con- 

 sists thus far of but two greenhouses. 

 One of these is 32x500, the other 54x300 

 ft. The latter is of Hitchings con- 

 stiuetion. built two years ago and in 

 the good-time-coming is to be extended 

 to a length of 1100 ft. It. is 25 ft. from 

 the ground to the ridgepole and N. F. 

 McCarthy, the opulent owner, declares 

 it to be the limit of achievement to 

 date in greenhouse building and a 

 model of perfection, good enough to tie 

 to for many years to come. It is of 

 steel frame and every nut, bolt aud 

 foot-piece is electro-galvanized. Each 

 support is imbedded in a cement base 

 one foot square and three feet deep, 

 and the arrangement of the ventilating 

 apparatus is the ideal of convenience 

 and accuracy. 



What are grown in the houses? 

 Nothing hut roses — Bride, Bridesmaid, 

 Killarney and Richmond — the big 4. 

 There are small plantations of the 

 newer aspirants and among them 

 Queen Beatrice gives especial satisfac- 

 tion with its productiveness and its 

 beautiful color particularly under ar- 

 tificial light. Keep your eye on the 

 Montrose Greenhouses. 



AN INVITATION. 



The Buffalo Florists' Club will hold 

 a Flower Show November 18th at 

 the Iroquois Hotel parlors. Exhibi- 

 tion opens at 3 P. M. and banquet at 

 8 P. M. The Committee of Arrange- 

 ments have endeavored to procure 

 flowers of interest to you. A paper 

 will be read by Prof. John F. Cowell 

 on his visit to the National Flower 

 Show held at Chicago. 



The Club extends to you an invita- 

 tion for the afternoon of November 

 ISrth, and also to the banquet in the 

 evening. The banquet will be a stag 

 affair; the price of banquet tickets 

 will be $1.00. 



The Club will be very grateful to you 

 should yon have any flowers or plants 

 of interest that you could send (not 

 necessarily chrysanthemums, but any 

 other flowers of commercial value will 

 be acceptable). Exhibits sent are at 

 the disposal of the Committee. 

 Yours respectfullv, 



BUFFALO FLORISTS' CLUB. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Peter's Nursery Company, Knoxville, 

 Tenn. — Vegetable Plants. 



The Advance Company, Richmond, 

 Ind. — Illustrated Folder of the Ad- 

 vance Ventilating Apparatus, Pipe 

 Carriers. Brackets, etc. 



FOUR GREAT CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Virginia Poehlmann (Poehlmann). 



See Cover Illustration. 



An ideal commercial; a round in- 

 curved, finishing pure white, stem stiff, 

 foliage perfect ; everybody likes it. 

 Oct. 15. 

 Mile. Marguerite Desjouis (Liger). 



A pure paper-white, perfectly globu- 

 lar, a splendid incurving commercial 

 with long stiff stem and beautiful foli- 



canary center. Oct. 15. A very free, 

 easy doer, perfecting every flower. 



The above are all very charming and 

 valuable sorts, splendid additions to 

 our earlies. 



age, perfecting a very large per cent, 

 of blooms, lasts for a very long time 

 in perfect condition: can be had from 

 September until late November. 

 Madagascar (Calvat). 

 A grand yellow — pure deep golden 

 color, very full, slightly reflexing, of 



very large size, with stiff stem and 

 abundant small foliage. Oct. 15 to 20. 

 A fine commercial. 



Fee Orientale (Nonin). 

 An "early Guy Hamilton," a very 

 beautiful, informal white with deep 



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PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Joseph Heacock Co., of Wyncote, re- 

 port October palm business twelve per 

 cent, ahead of the same month last 

 year notwithstanding the panic and 

 the election. Good goods and publicity 

 is a winning team if well driven. 



Edw. J. Fancourt will represent the 

 Pennock Meehan Co. at the National 

 Flower Show at Chicago. S. S. Pen- 

 noc'v of the same firm also expects to 

 make a flying visit to the great ex- 

 hibition. 



The Moore-Livingston Co. of this 

 city and Lansdowne, Pa., will have 

 their new telescope plant stand on 

 view at Chicago in the exhibit of the 

 Henry A. Dreer Co. E. J. Fancourt 

 will also have samples of this useful 

 invention. The latest pattern is made 

 of oxidized copper, polished like gun 

 metal, just the thing for use in church 

 or parlor decorations. 



A fire broke out at the Irwin green- 

 house (late Graham's) at Logan on 

 the 2Sth ult. The boiler shed was de- 

 -t roved and the ends of four green- 

 houses. Damage about $1,000. 



Robert Kift is having a big run on 

 his new miniature fernery and berry 

 globe. It is proving one of the best 

 selling novelties ever introduced to the 

 flower trade. 



W. E. McKissick announces that on 

 November 2 he took into partnership 

 his two brothers, Ayres P. and Howard 

 E., and that the business will hence- 

 forth be conducted under the title of 

 W. E. McKissick & Bros., at the old 

 stand, 1619-1021 Ranstead street. 



PLANT IMPORTS. 



Entered at New York, October 28th 

 to November 2nd, 1908: 



From Holland: A. T. Boddington, 1 

 cs. bulbs; H. Bisehoff & Co., 7 cs. 

 trees; H. F. Darrow, 17 cs. plants, 2 

 cs. bulbs; Wm. Elliott & Sons, 7 cs. 

 plants, 11 cs bulbs; A. Gips, 4 pgs. 

 plants; Wm. Hagemann & Co., 67 cs. 

 plants; P. Henderson & Co., 153 bags 

 seed; W. R. Huntington, 14 cs. plants; 

 Maltus & Ware, 55 cs. plants, 8 cs. 

 trees, 20 cs. bulbs, 3 cs. flower roots: 

 W. A. Manda, 15 cs. trees; Mutillod 

 Marius, 33 cs. plants; P. Ouwerkerk. 

 7 cs. trees; Vaughan's Seed Store, 4 cs. 

 bulbs; Sundry Forwarders. 1 cs. 

 shrubs, 30 cs. trees, 43 cs. plants. 



From .Antwerp: H. F. Darrow, 18 

 cs. plants; Ph. Einsmann, 21 cs. do.; 

 Wm. Elliott & Sons, 7 cs. do.; Fruit 

 Auction Co., 7 cs. do.; Hussa & Co., 

 1 cs. do.; W. R. Huntington, 4 cs. do.; 

 McHutchinson & Co., 34 cs. do., 100 

 tubs laurel trees; Maltus & Ware, 163 

 cs. plants, 10 tubs laurel trees; Julius 

 Roehrs Co., 4 cs. plants; August Rol- 

 ker & Sons, 72 cs. do.; J. Ter Kuile, 

 31 cs. do.; Sundry Forwarders, 5 cs. 



Via Southampton: Hussa & Co., 6 

 cs. plants; Maltus & Ware, 9 cs. do.; 

 Siegel, Cooper & Co., 32 cs. do.; Tice 

 & Lynch, 5 cs. do. 



Via Hamburg: Maltus & Ware, 3 

 cs. plants; J. M. Thorburn & Co., 12 

 bags seed; Sundry Forwarders, 130 

 baskets live plants. 



