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HORTICULTURE 



February 2, 1907 





CALDWELL THE WOODSMAN, 



Introducer of the Wild Smilax. 



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Long Needle Pines, Si.oo per dozen. Palm Crowns, $2.50 per dozen. Extra nice * 

 long-stemmed Palm LCaveS, $2.50 per 100. MagnOlia, 52.50 per case, 16 cubic 

 feet. Sheet Moss, S2.00 per sack. Grey Moss, S2.00 per sack. GalaX, Si. 00 per 1000. 



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NEWS NOTES. 



Ludvig Mosbaek, who has disposed of 

 iis business in Onarga, 111., will locate 

 in Minnesota. 



planting will be carried out on this 

 place in the spring. 



Charles Schnell has opened a new 

 retail florist store at 998 Broadway, 

 Buffalo, under the name of "The 

 Rosery." 



Two new houses, each 40x200 are 

 contemplated to go up very soon, for 

 lettuce, by David Johnson, a local mar- 

 ket gardener, at Toledo, O. 



The plant of The Perennial Gardens 

 Co., Toledo, O., is now completed, and 

 the electric circulator from the Holly- 

 Castle Co. works to perfection. 



Many florists from Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee, St. Louis, etc., paid Detroit and 

 Mr. Clemens a visit on their way back 

 from the Toronto Carnation show. 



Arthur Cowee, the gladiolus special- 

 ist of Berlin, N. Y., A. G. Babcox and 

 the Humphrey Co. are planning an ex- 

 tensive exhibit of this flower at Euclid 

 Beach, O., in August. The choicest va- 

 rieties grown by Mr. Cowee will be 

 shown and prizes will be offered for 

 general exhibits grown from Meadow- 

 vale bulbs. Rules governing the con- 

 test may be obtained from Arthur G. 

 Babcox, who is to announce the exact 

 dates of the contest later. This an- 

 nouncement will be made early enough 

 to permit growers to obtain bulbs for 

 spring planting. Features of the ex- 

 hibit will be the offering of new and 

 heretofore unintrortuced varieties. De- 

 signs for lawn decoration exclusively 

 of gladioluses also will be shown. 



This time it is the women of upper 

 New York who have been duped by a 

 man selling them squash seeds pur- 

 ported to spring up into rubber plants. 

 When arrested he gave the name of 

 George Kromer. 



PERSONAL. 



F. Tillman of Rhinebeck, N. Y., was 

 in Detroit for several days. 



The Board of Water Commissioners 

 of Reading, Pa., have advertised for 

 bids for planting and caring for flow- 

 ers at its various reservoir grounds, 

 to be received by February 5. $1,725 

 was expended last year. 



B. Suzuki, who has been in Japan 

 for several months, will not return 

 this year, but in his stead Mr. Tokuda, 

 one of the directors of the Yokohama 

 Nursery Co., arrived Saturday, Janu- 

 ary 26. 



The work of excavating for a lake 

 fifteen acres in extent at "Cranbrook," 

 the estate of George G. Booth at Bir- 

 mingham, Mich., is being carried stead- 

 ily along all through the winter. A new 

 bridge with arches of 50 feet span, dam 

 and overflow have been built by the 

 Kahn svstem of reinforced concrete. 

 H. J. Corfield who is carrying out 

 the work hopes to have everything 

 completed and ready for planting by 

 the time spring' arrives. The build- 

 ing of a new mansion will be com- 

 menced the 1st of April. Extensive 



W. H. Wyman of the Bay State 

 Nurseries, North Abington, Mass., 

 sailed for Europe on January 23 for 

 'the purpose of superintending the 

 shipping and packing of specimen ever- 

 greens, rhododendrons and other 

 stock which he is importing this sea- 

 son. 



We are glad to announce the safe 

 return of Robert Cameron from his 

 trip to Jamaica and Cuba. Mr. Cam- 

 eron arrived in Boston on Saturday, 

 January 26, with a rich botanical col- 

 lection as the result of his tour. He 

 was not in Jamaica at the time of the 

 earthquake, having left Kingston for 

 Cuba the Friday preceding the catas- 

 trophe. 



SALVIA "ZURICH." 



One of the most important all-around 

 novelties suitable for bedding is un- 

 doubtedly the new scarlet sage 

 "Zurich" (Salvia splendeus compacta 

 "Zurich"). My attention was called co 

 this plant several times during the 

 last year in the European floricultural 

 press reporting the various flower- 

 shows held through Germany and it is 

 remarkable how unanimous all reports 

 were in praise of this magnificent 

 plant. 



It originated with the Park Depart- 

 ment of Zurich in Switzerland about 

 four years ago and has since been 

 tried by a limited number of prominent 

 park men and florists in Germany. 

 Salvias are much more used through- 

 out Europe as bedding plants and all 

 the varieties such as Clara Bedman 

 and Ball of Fire are far better known 

 there, but this new salvia "Zurich" is 

 said to beat them all. It is dwarfer 

 than Ball of Fire, which is the 

 dwarfest we have so far, never ex- 

 ceeding 18 inches in height and its 

 flowers are produced in wonderful 

 freedom, while plants are still small, 

 making it practically an everblooming 

 variety and I have no doubt that it 

 will soon find its way to our side. 



A great drawback with Salvia 

 splendens and its other so-called early 

 flowering varieties has always been 

 its late time of blooming and a new 

 variety which will unfold its wealth 

 of fiowers simultaneously with a 

 geranium must be welcome to all 

 florists who have groups to plant for 

 effect. It is also said to last much 

 longer when in flower, blooming long 

 after the ordinary varieties are 

 through. One of my correspondents 

 calls it the 'Gloire de I^orraine" of 

 salvias which he says is a fitting 

 description, though far fetched. 



J. L. SCHILLER. 



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WM. ELLIOTT & SONS. 



