May 9, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



627 



New Crop of Ferns - Decoration Day Stock 



FANCY FERNS, $1.25 PER 1000. DAGGER FERNS, $1.00 PER 1000. 



Edward A. Beaven ... Evergreen, Ala. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Wayland Floral Society of Way- 

 land, N. Y., will hold its second annual 

 exhibition on Augnst 11-12. This is 

 already attraoting much attention 

 from the fact that a large iiroportiou 

 of the proceeds will be devoted to 

 beautifying the local cemetery. 



The annual report of the Society of 

 American Florists and Ornamental 

 Horticulturists for 1907 has been re- 

 ceived from Secretary Rudd. The re- 

 port fills 240 pages and is a credit to 

 Mr. Rudd, who, fiX5m the circum- 

 stances attending his assumption of 

 the oflice of secretary, had an exceed- 

 ingly difficult task in the compiling of 

 this document. The membei-ship as 

 recorded for December 31, 1907, is 

 given as S7G, of wliom 719 are annual 

 and 157 life members. A portrait of 

 President F. H. Traendly appears as a 

 frontispiece. 



At a meeting on April 25 of repre- 

 sentative fruit and vegetable growers 

 of Council Bluffs. Iowa, and vicinity, 

 the National Horticultural CongTess 

 was organized with th4se officei-s: — 



President, J. >'. Hess of Oouncil 

 Bluffs; vice-presidents, J. M. Bechtel 

 of Hamburg, W. S. Keeline aud \V. G. 

 Rich, Council Bluffs; .1. R. McPherson, 

 O. L. Barritt of McClelland; secretary- 

 treasurer. George AV. Reye of Council 

 Blulfs. 



While the association will have 

 charge of all arrangements and plans 

 for the horticultural congress jiroposed 

 to be held in Council Bluffs on Decem- 

 ber 10 to 19, its object also will be to 

 promote the horticultural and allied 

 interests. 



PERSONAL. 



A. L. Knight has taken a position in 

 the nursery of Herbert Jackson, So. 

 Gorham, Me. 



Eugene Barker of Peak's Island is 

 now working for A. W. Dyer, florist, 

 of Portland, Me. 



R. A. Griffith, llorist, Lowell, Mass, 

 has been named by Mayor Farnham a 

 trustee of public burial grounds for a 

 term of five yeajs. Mr. Griffith has al- 

 ready served one year on this commis- 

 sion. 



RUBBERS 



4 inch pots. $20.oo per 

 ICO, $2.50 per dozen. 



ARAUGARIAS 



Nice 4 inch stock, 40c. 

 Larger 50c, 75c, $1.00 



BEDDING PLdNTS 



Geraniums, 4 

 inch Single 

 and Double Dryden, $8.00 per 100. Other 

 varieties at $7.00 per 100. Salvia Zurich 

 and Bonfire, Lobelia Kathleen Mallarj and 

 all other new and standard bedding stock in 

 best quality at lowest market rates. 



JOHN McKENZIE 

 North Cambridge, Mass. 



COLD STORAGE LILIES 



COLD STORAQE LILIES, means that you can have Lilies all the year round. 



What are more useful, or give more character to the funeral piece than the Lily. 



We have, and can deliver at any time cold storage Lilies — snd can refer you to hundreds 

 that are growing Iheni, why not you ? 



LILlUn LONGIFLORUn GIQANTEUn is the oily lorgillorum that gives satis- 

 faction from cold stoiage— we offer them as follows : — LILIUn LONGIFLORUn 

 QIGANIELin (repacked 6 to 8 inch bulbs 400 in a case, $8.50 per 100. $75.00 per 

 1000, case of 400 for $30 CO. 7 to 9 inch bulbs, 300 in a case $9 00 per 100, $85.00 per 

 1000, $25.50 per case of 300. 9 to 10 inch bulbs, 200 in a case, $14.00 per 100, $130.00 

 per loco, $26.00 per case of 200. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman, 



342 WEST I4TH STREET, 

 NEW YORK CITY 



500,000 



Best MarKet 

 Strain Gro-wn 



Grown from seed of uur own raising, this str.iin is the result of over 25 years' careful selection, ami for size, form 

 and substance and wide range of cofor in clear, briiliant seifs and novel shades and marltings they will be found 

 unsurpassed. The colors are very eventy assorted and the growth is very strong and stocky. Fall transplanted 

 plants ready to bud and bloom. 



Price, $10.00 per 1000. Larger sizes, $15.00 and $20.00 per 1000 

 EXPRESS ONLY. CASH WITH ORDER. 



I. E. COBURN, 291 Ferry St., - EVERETT, MASS. 



TWIN CITIES PLANTING AND 

 PARK NOTES. 



The cleaning up In the parks and 

 parkways is in full swing. Mr. Wirth 

 doing his best to have them look in 

 good shape for the Park Superintend- 

 ents" Convention next summer. The 

 operation of dredging Lake of the Isle 

 — by the way, the most pic- 

 turesque lake we have here — 

 is drawing a good many spectators. 

 The contractor is working three 

 different dredges. The first one, which 

 goes ahead, throws up the dirt to form 

 the shore and at the same time act as 

 a dam in halting the mud and water 

 which is pumped in behind to fill ui) 

 the swamps. The pump used for that 

 is a suction dredge with a 12 inch dis- 

 charge pipe. The dipper dredge fol- 

 lows behind to fix up the shore lines 

 and give them the proper slope to the 

 water. 



The setting out of roses in the new 

 lose gardens has commenced and the 

 plants should do -n ell, as the beds have 

 been prepared the best way possible, 

 and the whole garden is so situated 

 as to get the sun all day, but all round 

 there is a natural growth of trees that 

 will keei) the winds off from alntost 

 every direction. The setting out of 

 the trees and shrubs in the parks and 

 on private grounds is well under wiiy 

 and according to the different nurser.\ - 

 men business is very promising. 



Bedding plants in frames have suf- 

 fered some from the last cold speil, 

 when the thermometer went down to 

 %Z one night, but the loss, mostly in 

 begonias, can be niade good yet, as we 

 do not plant out until about the flist 

 week iu June. 



York, are now located at 138 West 

 2Sth St. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Annual Report of the Trustees of 

 the Pleasure Driveway and Park Dis- 

 trict of Springfield, 111. The docu- 

 ments included in this report and the 

 illustrations and maps showing exist- 

 ing and proposed development are 

 good evidence that Springfield's 250 

 acres of parks and boulevards are be- 

 ing well cared for and liberally sup- 

 ported. The total expenditure in four 

 vears for construction and mainten- 

 ance is $141,971.22. 



t'ARPET BEDPING, PLANTS, BAY 

 TREES, PALMS, AND BULBS 



W. ELLIOTT & SONS 



42 Vesey Near Church 

 NEW YORK, N. Y. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Henry Matz has purchased the green- 

 houses of Felix Mense, Glen Cove, 

 N. Y. 



Weigel & Ujfalussy, successors to 

 Emil Steffens, florists' supplies. New 



TOWER HOTEL 



Nias:ara Falls, N. Y. 



is soliciting joiir patronage during the 

 S. A. F. CouTention. 



Very truly yours, 



M. J. HOEMG, Prop. 



