January 12, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



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lAristocrat, 



(White Perfection 

 and healthy. The quality i 



CHICAGO CARNATION CO. 



per I 

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Beaut if u I cerise, 



1st delivery- $12. OO pe 



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Leaderof al I carnations. Mar. Dj» J DI»l!i.«. ll»»«l Scarlet, $12.00 d 

 rIOO. $100.00 per lOOO. 1160 nlQIng KOOOi lOO. $100.00perlOO 



, RauhrAalr I auienn *6.00 per lOO. $50.u0 per lOOO and many others 

 and UClJIIICaiV UailSUII) ready n^w. There are no better cuttiniis than ouik. Stock is clean 

 and healthy. The quality is guaranteed. Order irom reliable people and get what you want There is nothing too good for the llorist. 

 We grow nothing bi.t 



best varieties. 



JOLIET, ILL. 



A. T. PYFER. Manage 



SEED TRADE. 



The New York Times' humorous ac- 

 count of the encounter between Hon. 

 John We.sley Gaines and William 

 Wolff Smith and their "squirrel-house" 

 chase of one another in the revolving 

 doors until both were exhausted has 

 been going the rounds of the country 

 for the past two weeks. Ridicule has 

 ever been a most potent weapon, and 

 many bra^.en free seed supporters now 

 resort to explanations and apologies to 

 justify their advocacy of it. In short, 

 they are on the defensive, and how 

 long they will hold out depends on the 

 vigor of the attack. Mr. Smith, in a 

 communication to the New York Trib- 

 une of the 5th inst., refers to a sug- 

 gestion of Dr. Galloway of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, in which the doc- 

 tor advocates a plan for spending the 

 money which he seems to assume Con- 

 gress is eager to appropriate. This 

 shows that the doctor has seen a light, 

 as a year ago he made himself ridicu- 

 lous by telling the Agricultural Com- 

 mittee of the House how necessary the 

 Seed Bureau was in guiding and regu- 

 lating the seedsmen of the country. 

 As may be supposed, the numerous 

 "Professors" in the Department are 

 all actively opposed to its discontinu- 

 ance and are doing more or less lobby- 



FLOWER SEEDS 



ASTER Queen of the Market 

 The best variety tor early blooming 



Trade P«t. Oz. 



Dark Blue 20 .60 



Light Ulue 20 .60 



Pink 20 .00 



Scarlet 20 .60 



White 20 .60 



Mixed 20 .60 



P H LOX Choice New Crop 



Trade Pkt.Oz. 



Drummandi Dwarf Mixed .40 1 25 



Orandiflora Tall Mixed . .20 .50 



For a cumplete list of Phlox see 



our whole.sale list 



PETUNIA 



Selected from large well colored flowers 

 which can be depended upon 



a Traoe Trade 

 PIst. Pkt. 

 Single Giants of California 



la niixturi' 30 .50 



Single Dwarf Inimitable 



III luixiurt' for pois . .30 .50 

 Single Urandlflora Fringed 



In inixtuie 30 .50 



Double hybridized and Fringed In 

 mixture ."lOO st-eds. 7Sc., $1.50 per 

 lono seeds 

 Our wholesale price list contains a 

 full variety of Petunias. 



Write for our special handy combina- 

 tion order shett and catalogue of 

 Ficujer Seeds 



Henry F. Michell Co. 



1018 Market St.. PHItA., PA. 



SPECIMEN NURSERY STOCK 



Deciduous Trees and Shrubs. Evergreens. 

 Rhododendrons, Azaleas, over one hundred 

 (100) acres of the choicest varieties. 



SEND FOR PRICE LIST 



COTTAGE GARDENS CO. 



Queens, Lons Island, - New York 



John Waterer & Sons, kd^ 



AMERICAN NURSERY 



BAGSHOT, ENGLAND 



have the finest stock of recognized Mardy Rhododendrons, Azaleas, An- 

 dromedas, high class Evergreens and specimen Conifers. Ask for special !lst 

 •f plants grown for the American trade. 



John Waterer & Sons are the great exhibitors of Rhododendrons Ir 

 London. 



ing as occasion gives them oppor- 

 tunity. 



Batchelor's Seed Store, Utica, N. Y., 

 has been incorporated with a capital 

 of $5,000. The officers are; Charles F. 

 Saul, Syracuse, N. Y., president; D. M. 

 Ross, Syracuse, N. Y., secretary-treas- 

 urer, and the directors are Judge Wra. 

 M. Ross, Syracuse, N. Y., Charles F. 

 Saul. Syracuse, N. Y., and A. C. Lang- 

 don, Utica, N. Y. A new store has 

 been rented and a prosperous and 

 largely increased business may be 

 safely predicted for the firm. 

 A Correction. 



In seed trade notes in issue of De- 

 cember 29, page 722, referring to the 

 "man not afraid of worlv," the lines 

 should read, "and to prove it he lay 

 down with his hoe in a weedy corn- 

 field," etc. Also in the first column 

 the word "where" instead of "when" 

 should follow Indianapolis. In the 

 last column "energetic" should be "en- 

 ergetically." 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Johnson Seed Company. Philadel- 

 phia Pa. Garden and Farm Manual 

 for 1907. Has a striking cover in col- 

 ors and a very extensive and interest- 

 ing novelty list. The same firm also 

 sent out a wholesale price list for win- 

 ter and spring of 1906-07. 



The Northampton Nurseries, North- 

 ampton, Mass., Thomas Foulds, super- 

 intendent. Descriptive catalogue of 

 hardy ornamental shrubs and border 

 plants. 



In a case which was tried in 1S9S, 

 a man bought an orchid at an auction 

 for £2L with a warranty that it was 

 a "Cattleya Acklandiae alba, only 

 known plant." It did not flower for 

 two vf ars. and then produced not a 

 white but a purple flower. The real 

 value of the plant was 7-6. In an ac- 

 tion for breach of warranty the judge 

 found as a fact that if the orchid had 

 been an actual alba it was at the time 

 of sale worth £50; but that until it 

 showed its real nature there was no 

 probability that an orchid grower 

 would give more than twenty guineas 

 for it. Upon this finding it was held 

 that the buyer was entitled to judg- 

 ment for £50, and not merely the 

 twenty guineas he had paid. 



STATEMENT OF PLANT IMPORTS. 



There were entered at the port of 

 New York from December IS, 190C, to 

 January 7, 1907, inclusive, the follow- 

 ing plants, etc: 



From Holland— H. F. Darrow, 4 cs. 

 plants, 11 bales seed; McHutchison & 

 Co., 16 cs. plants; P. Ouwerkerk, 21 cs. 

 trees; Stumpp & Walter Co., 22 bales 

 flower seed; J. M. Thorburn & Co., 105 

 bales sundry seeds; Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, 2 cs. roots. 16 bales seeds; sundry 

 forwarders, 71 cs. plants, C cs. roots; 

 sundry consignees. ." cs. plants, 1 cs. 

 bulbs. 



From Belgium— H. H. Berger & Co., 

 5 cs. bulbs; McHutchison & Co., 16 cs. 

 plants; Chas. F. Meyer, 5 cs. bulbs; 

 Stumpp & Walter Co., 3 cs. plants; 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, 2 cs. plants, 8 cs. 

 bulbs; sundry forwarders. 5 cs. plants, 



5 cs. bulbs. 



From France— C. C. Abel & Co., 17 

 pks. plants; H. F. Darrow, 22 cs. 

 plants, 157 pkgs. seeds; McHutchison 



6 Co., 70 cs. plants; sundry for- 

 warders, 4,38 cs. plants. 



From Germany— H. F. Darrow, 2 cs. 

 trees, 23 pkgs. seed. 31 cs. lily of the 

 valley; P. Henderson & Co., 5 pkgs. 

 seed; W. Hagemann & Co., 45 cs. lily 

 of the valley; McHutchison & Co., 10 

 cs. lily of the valley; Chas. F. Meyer, 

 46 cs. lily of the valley; W. Taat, 73 

 cs. lily of the valley; J. M. Thorburn 

 & Co., 34 cs. lily of the valley, 26 pkgs. 

 seed; Vaughan's Seed Store, 40 cs. 

 lily of the valley: to order. 105 cs. lily 

 of the valley; sundry forwarders, 134 

 cs. lily of the valley, 1 cs. roses, 3 cs. 

 plants. 



Steamer via Southampton: C. C. 

 Abel & Co., .50 cs. plants; H. F. Dar- 

 row, 51 cs. seeds; McHutchison & Co.. 

 43 cs. plants. 14 cs. trees; August 

 Rolker's Sons, 55 cs. plants; Vaughan's 

 Seed Store. 1 cs. vines; R. M. Ward & 

 Co., 1 cs. roots; sundry forwarders, 13 

 cs. trees. 5 cs. plants; sundry con- 

 signees, 21 cs. trees. 



The business of Anderson & Chris- 

 unson. Short Hills. N. J., will here- 

 after be conducted by J. F. Anderson. 

 It is understood that a little later Mr. 

 Christensen will locate and grow 

 palms and ferns for the trade. 



