January 26, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



117 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS — Continued 

 Detroit. 



Michlgau Cat Flower Exchauge. 38 & 40 

 I!ri):l(lway. Will. Dilgcr. Mgr. 



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New York. 



J. K. Allen. 106 W. 28th St., New York. 

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Wm. Stuart Allen Co., 53 W. 28tli St.. 

 New York. 

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C. W. Eberman, 53 W. 30th St., New York. 

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J. S. Fenrlch. 110 W. 28th St., New York. 

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Ford Bros., 48 West 28th St., New York. 



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 H. E. Froment, 57 W. 28th St., New York. 



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 Alex. J. Guttman, 43 West 28tb St. 



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 E. C. Uoran. 55 West 28th St., New York. 



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 A. H. Langjahr, 55 W. 28th St., New York. 



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James McManus, 42 W. 28th St., New York. 



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 Chas. Mlllang, 50 West 29th St., New York. 



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 John I. Raynor, 49 W. 28th St.. New York. 



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 W. F. Sheridan, 39 W. 28th St., New York. 



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 tracudly & Schenck, 44 W. 28th St., New 

 York. 



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A. L. Young & Co.. 54 W. 28th St., N. Y. 

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John Young, 51 W 28th St., New York. 

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Philadelphia. 



W. E. McKlsslek, 1221 Filbert St., Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



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 Leo Nle.ssen Co., 1217 Arch St., Phlla 

 rtelphla. Pa. 

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 The s! Sl Pennock-Meehan Co., 1608-18 

 Ludlow St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

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 Edward Reld, 1526 Ranstead St., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. 



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Pittsburg, 



J. B. Murdoch & Co., 545 Liberty St, 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 

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 Pittsburg Florists' Exchange, 228 Diamond 

 St., Pittsburg, Pa. 



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New Offers in This Issue. 



ASPARAGUS PLUIVIOSUS NANUS 

 SEED. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 6-7 So. Market St., 

 Boston. 

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ASTER SEED. 



Jas. Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y. 

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BEGONIA AND GLOXINIA BULBS. 



Johnson Seed Co., Philadelphia. 

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CARNATIONS, ROOTED CUTTINGS. 



R. Engelman & Son, Pittsfleld. Mass. 

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CARNATIONS, ROOTED CUTTINGS: 

 FERNS: CINERARIAS. 



Geo. A. Kuhl, Pekin, 111. 

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CARNATION WHITE IVIAID. 



John Barr, South Natick. Mass. 



K. E. Moir, Broektou, Mass. 

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New Offers in this issue— Continued. 



FLOWERS BY TELEGRAPH, 



Thos. F. Galvin, 124 Tremont St., Boston. 

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FORCING SPIRAEA. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons, 201 Fulton St., New 



York. 



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NEW CANNAS: ROSES: SHRUB- 

 BERRY. 



The Ccnard & Joues Co., West Grove, Pa. 

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PHOENIX ROEBELINI SEED, 



Yokohama Nursery Co., 31 Barclay St., 



New York. 



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POMPEIIAN TONE WARE, NEW 



CHIFFON, ETC. 



H. Bayersdorter & Co., 1129 Arch St., 



Philadelphia. 



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SWEET PEA NOVELTIES. 



Watkius & Simpson, 12. Tavistock St., Lon- 

 don, Bug. 

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MR. WILSON'S TRIP TO CHINA. 



Mr. E. H. Wilson, who will spend 

 the next two years on a botanical ex- 

 ploration tour in China in the inter- 

 ests of the Arnold Arboretum, sailed 

 from Sau Francisco for Shanghai on 

 January 8. He will proceed at once to 

 Ichang, at the base of the gorges of 

 the Yangtse, where he will establish 

 his permanent base for the first year. 

 This will be devoted to the exploration 

 of the Tapashan, the great mountain 

 range of Hupeh, that separates the 

 waters of the Yangtse from those of 

 the Han. In February or March of 

 1908 Mr. Wilson intends to ascend the 

 Yangtse and Min Rivers to Kia-Ting- 

 Fu, in Ssu-chuan, which will be his 

 base for the second year. From Kia- 

 Ting-Fu he will travel overland, by 

 the way of Mounts Omei and Wa, to 

 Ta-Chein-lu, the Chinese frontier 

 town on the highway from central 

 China into Thibet. After exploring 

 the great forests of conifers and 

 rhododendrons in this mountainous 

 region, he will travel north from Ta- 

 Chein-lu in an attempt to penetrate a 

 part of northwestern Ssu-chuan not 

 before visited by Europeans, then 

 descending the Min River valley he 

 hopes to reach Ichang in February, 

 1909, and return to Boston the follow- 

 ing April or May. 



By an agreement with the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of the United 

 States, Mr. F. N. Meyer, who has been 

 in China during the last two years as 

 an agent of the Department, is to 

 collect for the Arboretum during the 

 spring and autumn of 1907, under the 

 direction of Mr. Wilson, on Mt. Wuti, 

 in Sansi. This is one of the Ave 

 sacred mountains of China, and, owing 

 to its holy character, it is believed 

 to be still covered with the original 

 forest growth. Although Wuti has 

 been visited by Potanin, and later by 

 H. Mayr, little is known of the moun- 

 tain flora of this part of northern 

 China. 



Mr. John E. Thayer, of the Class of 

 'S5, has joined to the Wilson expedi- 

 tion a young zoologist to collect the 

 birds, mammals, and reptiles of central 

 and western China, which are still 

 very imperfectly represented in Ameri- 

 can and European museums. 



MECHANICAL WATERING. 



By Louis Wittbold. 



Read before the American Carnation So- 

 ciety at Toronto. 



I have been asked by your secretary 

 to give my views on mechanical water- 

 ing, and I wish to ask whether any of 

 us believe that the present mode of 

 watering cannot be improved upon. If 

 we look back at the different things 

 that have been accomplished all along 

 the line in greenhouse construction 

 and heating, etc., even in watering, 

 inasmuch as the hose has superseded 

 the can, we certainly must admit that 

 there is always room for still further 

 improvement. It is only a short time 

 ago when all watering in greenhouses 

 was done with the watering can, and 

 we all know with what prejudice the 

 hose was looked upon as a factor in 

 greenhouse work. This prejudice has 

 gradually been overcome until today 

 even our cousins across the water are 

 using rubber tubes to save time and 

 labor. 



The improvements in construction, 

 pumping machinery, specializing of 

 stock grown, etc., have made possible 

 a saving of a large part of the labor 

 of watering. Formerly a mixture of 

 different kinds of plants were grown 

 in one greenhouse in one grand con- 

 glomeration, and, of course, each dif- 

 ferent species of plant needed different 

 care and special attention, and the 

 watering pot or hose could hardly be 

 dispensed with, but at the present time, 

 where houses or ranges of houses of 

 one kind of plants are grown when 

 conditions are equal or as nearly equal 

 as it is possible to get them, this has 

 been changed and a watering machine 

 can be applied and the labor of water- 

 ing, which formerly took hours, can 

 now be done in so many minutes, with 

 less waste of water than with the hose 

 and with more accuracy in its distribu- 

 tion. 



The question will, of course, be 

 asked. What have I to prove the above 

 assertions? And I must admit it is a 

 natural question, as talk is cheap and 

 facts are what we want in this year 

 1907. Gold bricks are good things for 

 the "con game" man, and we can 

 hardly be blamed for being skeptical 

 about things which are not entirely 

 clear to us and familiar with; but is 

 it fair to allow prejudice to put a brake 

 on improvement when every minute of 

 time .saved is money in our pocket, 

 and when a labor which now must be 

 attended to by the most experienced can 

 be mechanically arranged so that af- 

 ter it has been studied out to the sat- 

 isfaction of the proprietor 'he can give 

 his instructions so that water is given 

 in just the amounts he has by experi- 

 ence found best for the good of the 

 plants. 



I have been asked to give my ex- 

 perience up to date, and will say that 

 I at first started using a watering sys- 

 tem for syringing palms by running a 

 pipe along underneath the plants in 

 center of bench, using my patent noz- 

 zles, which produces a sheet of water 



WHAT AM IJFFERED 



2000 Paper Whites 

 2000 White Romans 



Wm. Elliott & Sons, Auctioneers 



aOI Fallon St., Mew York 



