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horticulture: 



February 23, 1907 



Wild 5milax, Jh'^sJ 



THE OML Y PLACE WHERE YOU CAN AL WA YS GET IT. f 



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

 long-stemmed Palm LeaveS, $2.50 per loo. MagnOlIa, ^2.50 per case, i6 cubic 

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



Sreed a^Specialty. 



Write for Catalogue. 



. CALDWELL THE WOODSMAK, 



v^. lotroducor of the Wild Smilax. 



Caldwell the Woodsman Decorating Co., Inc., 



EVERGREEN, 

 ALA. 



''°"^^.oLETs GARDENIAS ^^Xl^^?'^" 



In our WHOLESALE GOMMiSSION FLORISTS' DEPARTMENT in addition 



to our regular wholesale EVERGREENS and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 

 CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 



HENRY M. ROBINSON & GO. """""'*'" 



See our Greens Advertisement on pase 24 I , 



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and 9 Chapman Place, 



L. O. Talaphons, Main 261B. 



Boston, Mass, 



NEWS NOTES. 



The Co"ttage Gardens, Queens, N. Y., 

 .have the contract for planting Bliss 

 .Park, Saginaw, Mich. 



Fred Gall, a tlorist from Snohomish, 

 was run down by a street car in 

 -Seattle, Wash., and was badly bruised. 



blew up on February 12. Owing to the 

 small amount of pressure no great 

 damage was done, and the prompt use 

 of oil stoves saved the contents of the 

 greenhouses from serious injury by 

 cold. 



John Clark of Cohasset has relin- 

 ■ quished his lease of the Nelson Greeu- 

 houses at Marshfield, Mass., and the 

 place is closed. 



The Jefferson Fruit & Floral Co. 

 has opened on East Lincoln Ave., 

 Goshen, Ind., under the management 

 ■of A. J. Santschi. 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine has been 

 sotting seed in several different places 

 this season, and growers are jubilant 

 over the fact, for seedling plants are 

 much more vigorous than those from 

 cuttings, as has been proven in Eng- 

 land, and this means a revivifying of 

 the stock in this country. 



The park commissioners of Okla- 

 'homa City, Okla., will appropriate 

 $2000 for a greenhouse and equip- 

 ments at Wheeler Park. 



The report of Stanley D. Rood, su- 

 perintendent of the School of Horti- 

 culture, Jlartford, Conn., shows a 

 growing interest in the work, and 

 broadening of opportunities. 



The Lord & Burnham galvanized 

 eave plate, which has been advertised 

 in HORTICULTURE, has evidently 

 found many very appreciative friends 

 among greenhouse men. Robert Craw- 

 ford, Jr., of Philadelphia, is one rf 

 them and is especially enthusiastic 

 over the way in which it cares for the 

 drip and prevents rotting of the wood 

 work. 



A Bill is before the Legislature of 

 •Oregon providing for the appropriation 

 of $5,000 for the importation of birds 

 that are considered destructive to the 

 various insect pests of the orchards. 



George Walnwright, for fifty years a 

 ■well-known florist and nurseryman of 

 Trenton, N. J., is to retire from busi- 

 ness: his greenhouses will be demol- 

 ished and the land converted into 

 building lots. 



Charles Henlock, superintendent of 

 Propagating Gardens, Washington, D. 

 C, is conducting an experiment with 

 virgin mushroom spawn, which points 

 not only to his success, but to the sub- 

 sequent dissemination of valuable in- 

 formation to the trade. The point at 

 issue is to lessen the labor and com- 

 plications attendant upon this indus- 

 try, and thus increase the profits. 



AN OLD-TIME FLORIST. 



William Christie, formerly gardener 

 to Mrs. Mary J. Goddard of Newton, 

 Mass., and later in the retail florists' 

 business at Woodlawn, has offered his 

 place for sale. 



Mr. Christie belongs to the class of 

 "old country" men who, like the sub- 

 ject of Mr. Anderson's article in last 

 week's issue of this paper, constitute 

 such an essential element in the de- 

 velopment of horticulture in New Eng- 

 land. A life member of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, a con- 

 stant exhibitor in the old days, his 

 memory a perfect storehouse of remin- 

 iscences of people, events and inci- 

 dents connected with this branch of 

 activity, show how closely his lite has 

 been interwoven with the culture of 

 trees, plants and flowers. 



Mr. Christie has had a successful 

 business at Woodlawn but desires to 

 pass the remainder of his days in a 

 small place, not far from Boston, 

 where a few sashes, some poultry and 

 a garden are the only care. 



G. H. HIGGINS. 



A default has been declared in the 

 Central District Court at Worcester, 

 Mass., against Miss Gertrude Lamson, 

 known on the stage as Nance O'Neil, 

 in the suit of C, R. Fish of Worcester, 

 for payment for plants and flowers 

 amounting to nearly $250. 



A boiler at the greenhouse of Theo- 

 dore Dellert, Great Barrington, Mass., 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



The Shady Hill Nursery Company, a 

 corporation capitalized for $100,000, 

 which was organized in 1892 and which 

 has operated large nurseries at Bed- 

 ford, Mass., made an assignment for 

 the benefit of creditors. The assignees 

 are Heber B. Clewley, who for about 

 a year has been manager of the nur- 

 series, and Joseph Sargent, Jr., of 50 

 Congress street, Boston, an attorney. 

 Until about a year ago E. L. Beard 

 was manager of the corporation. The 

 oflices are at 155 Milk street. 



OBITUARY. 

 Mrs. Kurtzwell, mother of Mathias 

 Kurtzwell, one of the proprietors of 

 the Iowa Seed Co., has just passed 

 away at the age of 78. She leaves a 

 husband and one son. 



Among the victims of the Larch- 

 mont were the wife of George A. 

 Jansen, proprietor of the Park Green- 

 houses, South Providence, R. I., and 

 their daughter, Mrs. H. V. De Thest- 

 rup. Mr. De Thestrup was recently 

 appointed head gardener at the agri- 

 cultural experiment station at Bur- 

 lington, Vt. 



