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HORTICULTURi: 



February 9, 1907 



ments of plant .food, or whether it 

 helped by increasing the contents of 

 soil solution. In these experiments 

 the station had the assistance of ex- 

 perts from the bureau of soils of the 

 Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington and the work has been carried 

 on continuously for several years un- 

 der widely varying conditions, in wet 

 and dry seasons. 



These experiments have thrown some 

 new light upon the question of how 

 soda is beneficial; chiefly that where 

 potash is used the soda may not be 

 of benefit, and again, if the potash sup- 

 ply is short soda may be helpful. It 

 has been learned that some plants can 

 be helped by the use of soda though 

 there is a shortage of potash, while 

 others are not, and particularly it has 

 been learned that the use of nitrate of 

 soda and kainit, which contains large 

 quantities of soda, is an insurance 

 against a shortage of potash in soil 

 where those plants are grown which 

 are capable of being benefited by soda. 



There is much yet to be learned, but 

 because everything is not known it 

 is not a good reason for stopping the 

 assistance that is needed to continue 

 the work. Other scientific investiga- 

 tion has been continued for centuries 

 before the desired results have been 

 •obtained. Successive generations have 

 handed down the results of the labors 

 to their posterity, and the experiments 

 in plant life are but the beginnings of 

 a scientific investigation, which others 

 will continue and in the distant future 

 find out what it is desired to know. 

 After the address questions were 

 .asked bearing upon other peculiar and 

 not very well understood actions of 

 chemicals on plant life. The questions 

 were answered at least very courte- 

 ously by the speaker although it must 

 be confessed that the questioners were 

 left pretty nearly as much in the dark 

 as ever; this is especially the case in 

 regard to the sterilizing of soils in 

 regard to which Prof. Wheeler was 

 questioned. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 

 New. 



Oakville, Ct.— Charles Abbott, one 

 house. 



Springfield, 111.— Thomas Peaker, 

 one house. 



Indianapolis, Ind.— T. F. Parrv, one 

 house, 40x300. 



Additions. 



Muskegon, Mich. — L. Wasserman, 

 two houses. 



Danville, 111. — Frank Smith's Scms, 

 two houses, .30x300. 



Elmira, N. Y.— U. S. Cut Flower Co., 

 18 houses, each 100 feet long. 



Pomfret Centre, Conn. — Mrs. R. M. 

 Clark, two sections, each 50 feet in 

 length, by Weathered; Miss Clark, 

 rose house, by Lord & Burnham Com- 

 pany. 



FARTHER NORTH "Ii is the 

 lightest and strongest house 

 imaginable.'^ 



HALL & ROBINSON. 



Monlrcal. P. Q. 



NORTH. The lightest and most 

 perfect greenhouse construction yet 

 attempted. Best crop of beauties 

 1 ever had. 



J. H. DUNLOP, 



TotoDlo. Oat 



NEW ENGLAND. "No shade 



in my new house, crop is a 

 record brealcer." 



EAST. 



"So well pleased 

 with all points, we 

 intend to build 

 more of them." 

 G, MATTHEWS. 

 Greal Neck. N, Y 



CENTRAL 



" Lightest house on 

 the place, strong 

 as a bridge." 



W J PALMER 



&SON. 



Bufialo. N. Y. 



N. TONAWANDA, 



N. Y. 



TORONTO. 

 ONT. 



Extract from a letter received from J. J. Lampert & Sons, 

 Xenia, Ohio- 

 '' Wc h ive the larger house planted to mums and 

 they have outgrown considerable stock that was 

 planted a niDnch earlier in this locality. We also h ivc 

 one house planted to roses which are doing nicely. We like the 

 King Houses ever so much and would use nothing else again " 



Vours very truty, [Signed] J. J. LAMPEFT & SO*NS. 



Extract from letter received from The E. G. Hill Co-, Richmond, Ind. 



'■ The wood is all up and we are ready for glazing; everything 

 fits admirably an J we fiad no more trouble with the irons after be- 

 coming familiar with the methods of building. Everything is pro- 

 gressing nicely and we are much attached to the King Gutters We 

 think that the next time we build we will use the entire King Con- 

 struction. Yours very truly, 



[Signed] THE E. G. HILL CO., Per F. H. Lemon. 



J A, LONG. 

 Eaal Haven, Coon. 



FAR WEST. 

 "After making a 

 trip East to see all 

 constructions am 

 ordering yours. 

 Best in every 

 way." 

 C H HOPKINS. 



Kent. Wiuh. 



WEST. 



"They arc perfect 

 in every way." 

 C F. MALER 



DcDVCT. Colo. 



KING CONSTRUCTION CO., ^oRSfJ^o' ont^' "• ^• 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



The writer made a brief call last 

 Sunday at the Santa Rosa residence 

 of Luther Burbank, and learned that 

 he had just concluded an article pre- 

 pared for publication on "The Origin- 

 ator's Aim," in which he declares that 

 the plant originator is an explorer 

 into the infinite who has "no time to 

 make money," and whose castle, the 

 brain, must be kept clear and alert for 

 throwing aside fossil ideas and replac- 

 ing them with new sci.jntific thoughts, 

 followed by action. 



Professor C. W. Woodworth, head 

 of the department of entomology of 

 the State University, is at present en- 

 gaged in important e.\periments de- 

 signed to prove how much poison in 

 the form of a spray is necessary to 

 kill insect pests and how much poison 

 can be put into the spray without in- 

 juring the vegetation on which the 

 pests feed. All classes of pests will 

 be included as subjects of the savant's 

 experiments, and the results are ex- 

 pected to be of great value to orchard- 

 ists throughout the state. The expen- 

 sive materials being used in the ex- 

 periments were ordered from Ger- 

 inany. 



LIST OF PATENTS. 



Issued January 15, 1907. 



841,132. Draft Rigging for Vehicles. 

 William J. Drees, Coving- 

 ton, Ky. 



841,166. Tedder Attachment to Mow- 

 ing Machines. John Moore, 

 London Township, Ontario, 

 Canada. 



841,171. Cultivator. Matthew H. 

 Nicholson, Tyler, Texas, 

 assignor to Eugene Rosen- 

 baum, Dallas, Texas. 



841,306. Combined Hothouse Grapery 

 and Greenhouse. Robert 

 Bender and Frederick W. 

 Taylor, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 said Bender assignor to 

 said Taylor. 



841,390. Plow, Andrew GuUickson, 

 Gatzke, Minn. 



841,406. Dump Wagon. Carl E. Kauf- 

 man, Rosedale, Kans. 



841,431. Weeder. Eugene Pearl, Pas- 

 saic, N. J. 



841,461. Hand Cultivator. Benjamin 

 F. Shuart, Oberlin, Ohio. 



841,488. Garden Implement. William 

 C. Dodge, Lodi, Cal. 



831,574. Flower Stand. Paul J. Sand- 

 hofer, Flora, 111. 



831,586. Weed and Grass Trimmer, 

 &c., Obadiah Shidler, 

 Alliance, Ohio. 



