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HORTICULTURE, 



January 5, 1907 



IMPERIAL and PINK IMPERIAL CARNATIONS 



You Cannot Afford to be Without these Two Excellent Varieties 



Price $12.00 per 100 ; $100.00 per 1000, 250 at 1000 rates, a discount allowed when cash accompanies the order 



A. J. CUTTMAN, JOHN E, HAINES, 



The Wholesale Florist of New York ^C^UI ELJEHJI DA 



43 WEST 28TH STREET Bt I riLtnCIVI, fA. 



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ANNOUNCEMENT 



We have opened a WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS' DEPARTMENT in addition 

 to our regular wholesale EVERGREENS and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 



HENRY M. ROBINSON & GO., 



See our Creens A dvort Isantent on page 70S. 



8, II and 15 Province St. 

 and 9 Chapman Place, 



L. D. Telephone, Main 2313. 



Boston, Mass. 



with center passages and the 8-inch 

 mains and 5-inch returns are in 

 trenches right through them. There 

 are two 1 1-4 inch pipes under each 

 bench, two flows under one bench, 

 two returns under next lower, and 

 four 1 1-4 inch pipes hanging on each 

 side of the house." 



"I find the large house is cheaper to 

 heat; we haven't figured it out on a 

 percentage basis, but here is a com- 

 parison: When there are two pipes 

 on the 18 1-2 foot house, then there 

 should be four on the 37 1-2 foot house 

 and six on the 55 foot, but we need 

 to only run three on the 37 1-2 foot 

 and four on this. That big volume of 

 air, as I said before, when once 

 heated up is easy to keep up. 



"Now you must see the work room. 

 It is as near flre-proof as possible. 

 The siding is plaster board with a 

 pebble-dash finish on the outside and 

 the floor is made with iron beams 

 and brick arches between, the whole 

 cemented over. Another time we 

 would make a solid concrete floor and 

 no bricks. In the boiler cellar those 

 concrete walls were built right in the 

 trenches without any framing, and 

 then the cellar dirt dug out. An ex- 

 periment, but it worked and saved all 

 that expense of framing a mould. 



"Yes, we are every way satisfied with 

 the construction of that big Hitchings 

 house, and put me down as a firm be- 

 liever in wide iron-frame construction." 



A PROMISING CHRYSANTHEMUM 

 SPORT. 



Phillip Kirchner who is in charge of 

 the Chicago Conservatories of E. M. 

 Barton, 4629 Greenwoood Ave., Chica- 

 go, has a beautiful pure white sport 

 of Pink Enguehardt chrysanthemum 

 which originated on his place the pa.st 

 season. It has been given the name 

 of Mrs. Enos M. Barton and Mr. 

 Kirchner thinks so well of this new 

 variety that he will propagate all 

 possible for next season. The stock, 

 however, is limited. Several chrysan- 

 themum growers who have seen the 

 same predict that it will prove to be 

 one of the best varieties produced in 

 years. 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



Growers of flowers, and plants that 

 bloom in the Yuletide season, have 

 just had a Christmas inning that beats 

 the record. The great holiday of the 

 year was wet and windy, but the peo- 

 ple refused to remain indoors, and 

 there were enough of these shoppers 

 who neglected purchases Christmas 

 eve to keep the fiower stores thronged 

 December 25. Thirty-six of the seven- 

 ty-five florists San Francisco had be- 

 fore the earthquake is all the city now 

 has, and these that have re-established 

 themselves are well pleased with the 

 way business has come their way, and 

 this Christmas business, a veteran 

 plant and flower trader told the writer, 

 "was the best we ever had." 



It has been three days since Santa 

 Claus was here with his hoisted um- 

 brella, but now the fine, warm weather 

 is superb, and as warm sunshine after 

 rain always causes the grass and other 

 forms of vegetation to grow, and dor- 

 mant seeds to sprout, it goes without 

 saying that California growers, and 

 horticulturists generally, are in a con- 

 tented frame of mind. 



On the opening day of the New Year 

 S. P. Hosp, a noted landscape garden- 

 er, will go to Pomona, Cal., to super- 

 vise the planting of eucalyptus trees 

 in the parks of that city and map out 

 decorative desig-ning for each of the 

 several parks. Last fall Pomona pur- 

 chased 4000 red and sugar gums, and 

 these will be planted by landscape gar- 

 dener Hosp. 



On Christmas eve, while the proprie- 

 tor of the Dwight Way Nursery Com- 

 pany and his wife were stufiing good 

 things in the children's stockings, 

 they were startled by the cry of 

 "Fire!" It was their property that 

 was burning — the engine room of the 

 nursery, corner of Grant and Derby 

 streets, in West Berkeley, across the 

 bay, the loss being fully $500. The 

 Berkeley fire department responded 

 promptly and confined the fire to the 

 engine room. Oil is burned under the 

 boiler to heat the greenhouses, and 

 fire caught on the building when no 

 attendant was present. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Paul Huebner is of opinion that the 

 best cannas are not always the newest 

 ones. His motto is: test all but hold 

 fast to that which is good. And send 

 out no nubbins and side eyes for roots. 



Robert Schuck, late of Kohler's, 

 started in at McKissick's Monday 

 morning. There were many greetings 

 from old friends during the days fol- 

 lowing and much good business. 



George D. Clark of Dreer's is an en- 

 thusiast in natural sequence in catalog 

 making. Instead of massing novelties 

 in all departments he believes the most 

 effective way is to bring the novelties 

 and standards of each department one 

 after the other. This helps in both 

 the making out and filling of orders. 

 Dreer's 224 page book is an ideal in 

 every way this year. 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS 



NANUS 

 Greenhouse Grown, 100 seeds 60c, 

 $2 75 fur 500 seeds. 1000 seeds $5.00, 

 $23.75 fdr 500(1 seeds. 



Please do not compare tfiis with the 

 price of cheap, out door grown seed 

 which is Inferior andsffeted at tempt- 

 ing figures. 



VERBENA 



(Mammoth Fancy Strain 



111 seuaiattt colors. Blue, Pink.5car= 

 let. Striped, and White. 30c per 

 Traflf Pkt., 07.. $1.50 

 Mammoth Fancy Mixed, of all colors, 

 30c per Trade Pkt., oz. $1.50, 



VINCA 



Carefully selected from choice 



P'^"'^ Trade 

 Alba. White with rose ?•"• Oz. 



centre 20c 60c 



Alba Pura, Pure white . . 20 60 



Rosea, Pink 20 60 



Mixed. All colors .... IS IS 



Carnation Bands 



Used by alt progi-essive florists to 

 utitiz>i bursted carnations. 



1000 ISc, 2Scfr2000 



4500 SOc. 75c for 7000 



$1.00 for 10000 all postpaid. 



Henry F. Michell Co. 



1018 Market St., PHILA., PA. 



