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HOFwTICULTURi: 



Februai-y 16, 1907 



Wild SmilaX, pe^'cl^e 



THE ONLY PLAGE WHERE YOU OAN ALWAYS GET IT. 



Long Needle Pines, $r.oo per dozen. Palm Crowns, S2.50 per dozen. Extra nice 

 long-stemmed Palm LCaveS, $2.50 per loo. MagUOlia, ^2.50 per case, 16 cubic 

 feet. Sheet Moss, 52.00 per sack. Grey MOSS, S2. 00 per sack. GalaX, $1.00 per 1000. 



Speed a Specialty. Write for Catalogue. 



CALDWELL THE WOODSMAK, 



Introducer of the Wild Smilax. 



Caldwell the Woodsman Decorating Co., Inc. 



EVERGREEN, 

 ALA. 



' •'°"^WETs GARDENIAS """VltZ^^ 



A.ivr> A-r^r^ othisk choice; fi^owjejrs 



In our WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS' DEPARTMENT in addition 



to our regular wholesale EVERGREENS and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 

 CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 



HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO. 



8, II and 15 Province St. 

 I and 9 Chapman Place, 



Boston, Mass. 



See our Greens Advertisement on pase 209. L. O. Telmphonm, Main 26/8. 



NEWS NOTES. 



The weight of snow is responsible 

 for $200 damage at the Kingman green- 

 houses, MicUlleborb, IVIass., recently. 



ate to its place on the Bill from which 

 it was stricken by the House. 



The greenhouses of Rev. H. P. Flem- 

 ing, Orange, N. J., were destroyed by 

 fire on February 10. 



It is reported that Col. Oliver Payne 

 of New York has purchased the Gar- 

 land estate on Prudence Island, New- 

 port, K. I. This estate is very exten- 

 sive, comprising a good part of the 

 whole island. 



A greenhouse belonging to Mrs. C. 

 D. Kingman, at Middlelxiro, iMaps.. 

 was crushed by the heavy snow last 

 week. 



John D. Rockefeller, it is said, will 

 lay out in front of his mansion at 

 Pocantico Hills extensive Italian and 

 French gardens. 



About twenty of the florists of 

 Springfield, Ohio, visited their brother 

 florists in Urbana on the evening of 

 February G. 



Mr. F. R. Proctor of New York has 

 just purchased Southwick's Grove in 

 Middletown, R. I.. — a place which has 

 long been famous as a picnic ground. 

 In the hands oT the new owner it will 

 be improved and turned into a hand- 

 some residential estate. 



The South Park Floral Co., New- 

 castle, Ind., are reported to be look- 

 ing for a building site in the suburbs 

 as business has centered around their 

 present location and the land has be- 

 come very valuable. Their removal 

 will be gradual, as new greenhouses 

 are required. 



Mr. Gerlach, in charge of the green- 

 houses at Mitchell Park, Milwaukee, 

 Wis., has invited the public to inspect 

 the orchids and azaleas which are es- 

 pecially beautiful at this time. 



Civil service examinations are to be 

 held in Boston on February 27 for 

 farmers in the Indian service, salary 

 $600 and $720; March 6, for French 

 translator in the Department of Agri- 

 culture, $1500. 



The opening of a new department 

 store in Detroit recently was the occa- 

 sion for a large dispkn' of floral gifts 

 estimated to have cost nearly $2000 

 in the aggregate. Detroit seems to be 

 all right. 



Protest was made by Alex. Murphy 

 & Co. against the assessment of duty 

 by the collector of customs at the port 

 of Philadelphia on cycas stems, classi- 

 fied as nursery stock under paragraph 

 2.=;2, tariff act of 1S97, claiming that 

 these goods should be free of duty 

 under paragraph 552, as palm leaves in 

 their natural state. Protest has been 

 overruled by the general appraisers. 



Protest of J. L. Hopkins & Co. 

 against the assessment of duty on 

 pumpkin seed by the collector of cus- 

 toms at the port of New York, has 

 been overruled. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING AND 



CONTEMPLATED. 



Additions. 



Denver, Colo. — N. A, Benson, addi- 

 tions. 



Pueblo, Colo. — G. Fleischer, ten 

 houses. 



Appleton, Wis.— B. Zuelke & Co., 

 one house. 



Princeton, N. J. — Stockton & Howell, 

 one house. 



Baltimore. Md.— T. Walter Gray, one 

 house, 18x90. 



Brookville, Ind. — Martin Weber, one 

 house. .'50x120. 



Secane. Pa. — Philadelphia Carnation 

 Co., additions. 



Belle Haven, Ct. — C. A. Moore, one 

 house, '60 feet. 



Westfleld, Mass. — Henry Barton, one 

 house. 100x150. 



Milwaukee, Wis.— W. W. Thompson 

 & Sons, one house, 20x30. 



Los Angeles, Cal.— J. W. Wolfskill, 

 two rose houses, 300 ft. each. 



Holdredge, Neb.— W. E. Davidson, 

 three houses, 10x1000, 27x100, 6x100. 



South Bend, Ind.— South Bend Flo- 

 ral Co., six houses, each 30x90; pot- 

 ting shed, 26x90. 



Have You Read the Advertisements 

 this Week? 



The friends of the school children of 

 Washington, D. C, are hoping that the 

 item of $1,000 appropriated for school 

 gardening will be restored by the Sen- 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



George Vaselos, florist and confec- 

 tioner of 3102 Third avenue, New 

 York, has been petitioned into bank- 

 ruptcy. 



Burnet Galloway, dealer in seeds, 

 Syracuse, N. Y., has filed a petition In 

 bankruptcy; liabilities, $21,738; assets, 

 $7,500. 



Czar Cannon, ruler of thes House ot Rep- 

 lesoiitatives and dictator of legislation, still 

 refuses to admit the .\ppalachlan and 

 White Mopntaln forest reserve bill, despite 

 the urgent solicitation of the governors of 

 the states affected directly or indirectly 

 ,".nd in defiance of the solid sentiment of 

 the southern and eastern Atlantic States. 

 Speaker Cannon's action. If persisted In, 

 means a loss to the people which cann'ot 

 be computed in dollars. The fate of this 

 measure, passed by the Senate, Indorsed 

 by the President, and beyond question sure 

 of a passage ttirougli the House, is an 

 example of what one man's power may be- 

 come lu our present system of law-making. 

 — New England Homestead. 



