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HORTICULTURE- 



March 2, 190r 



CALDWELL THE WOODSMAN, 



Introducer of the Wild Smilax. 



Wild Smilax, pe^'ci^e 



THE ONLY PLAGE WHERE YOU OAN ALWAYS GET IT. 



Long Needle Pines, §i.oo per dozen. Palm Crowns, S2.50 per dozen. Extra nke 

 long-stemmed Palm LcaveS, S2.50 per 100. MagnOlIa, ^2.50 per case, 16 cubic 

 feet. Sheet Moss, $2.00 per sack. Grey Moss, ^2.00 per sack. GalaX, $1.00 per 1000. 



Speed a Specialty. Write for Catalogue. 



Caldwell the Woodsman Decorating Co., Inc., 



EVERGREEN, 

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In our WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS' DEPARTMENT in addition 



to our regular wholesale EVERGREENS and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 



8, II and 15 Province St. 

 and 9 Chapman Place, 



HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO., 



See our Greens Advertisement on pase 271 



Boston, Mass. 



L. 0. Telephone, Main 2018. 



PERSONAL. 



Edward Davies, formerly on the E. 

 D. Jordan estate at Chiltonville, has 

 taken a position with the Model Farm 

 Greenhouses, Dalton, Mass. 



Mr. Gaul of the Battles force, Phila- 

 delphia, is laid up with typhoid. Mr. 

 Faust of Pennock's is progressing fa- 

 vorably. Much typhoid in Philadel- 

 phia at present. 



T. E. Brittingham, one of whose 

 public gifts is Brittingham Park, now 

 under construction, has been appoint- 

 ed a commissioner of Forest Hill Cem- 

 etery, Madison, Wis. 



W. H, Ellsworth, for thirteen years 

 chief gardener of the Omaha (Neb.) 

 park systems, is reported to have ac- 

 cepted a similar position at the Battle 

 Mountain sanitarium. Hot Springs, 

 S. D. 



Prof. A. F. Burgess, inspector of 

 orchards and nurseries for the State of 

 Ohio, has resigned to take charge of 

 the Ma.ssachusetts state experiments 

 in the gypsy and brown-'tail moth 

 campaign. 



Visitors in Boston: V. De Rudder, 

 Ghent, Belgium; H. R. Mitchell, Wa- 

 terville. Me.; Charles Loechner and 3. 

 Tokuda, of Yokohama Nursery Co., 

 New York; Julius Roehrs, Jr., Ruther- 

 ford, N; J.; M. H. Walsh, Woods Hole, 

 Mass. 



Arthur Urquhart, recently at Forest 

 Hills Cemetery greenhouses, Boston. 

 has taken a position to commence in 

 second week of March at the Mt. 

 Desert Nurseries. Bar Harbor. This 

 resulted from a "Want Ad." in HOR- 

 TICULTURE. 



M. H. Norton has accepted a posi- 

 tion as representative on the road for 

 F. W. Kelsey of New York in eastern 

 New England territory. Mr. Norton 

 has a wide acquaintance among the 

 proprietors and gardeners in the many 

 large estates on the north and south 

 -shore and starts on his duties with 

 excellent prospects. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Karl Voight, ,380 Eighte(-:nth avenue. 

 Newark, N. J., suffered loss by Are on 

 February 23. 



Albert Klitz has purchased the busi- 

 ness of M. Fink at 2211 Cottage Grove 

 avenue, Chicago. 



Nelson France and Walter Vande- 

 grift have purchased the greenhouses 

 of Dr. Baker, Monroe, Mich. 



A greenhouse belonging to Thomas 

 Wanck, at Woodhaven, N. Y., was 

 destroyed by fire on February 14. 



A part of the roof of the large green- 

 house of E. C. Prizer, CoUegeville, Pa., 

 collapsed recently under the weight of 

 snow. 



J. J. Waaland has purchased the 

 stock of S. M. Hartman of Van Buren, 

 and transferred it to his establishment 

 in Findlay, O. 



Fred Lord of the Lord & Burnham 

 Company visited Elmira a few days 

 ago and drew a prize in the shape of 

 an order for the material complete for 

 a range of eighteen greenhouses each 

 21.9x100 for the United States Cut 

 Flower Company. 



The South Bend Floral Co., South 

 Bend, Ind., is equipping their retail es- 

 tablishment with all the modern im- 

 provements in the way of refrigerators, 

 plate glass cases, etc. Walter Tapper 

 has taken charge of the conservatories 

 at 804 E. Duball avenue. 



At last accounts the benefit fund for 

 the family of the late James Harts- 

 horne amounted to $1,300.00. It is 

 hoped that this will continue to grow. 

 P. J. Hauswirth, 13 Congress St., 

 Chicago, who has the matter in charge 

 will receive contributions. 



The hearing on the proposed legisla- 

 tion against lap seam boilers took 

 place at the State House, Boston, on 

 February 12. before the committee on 

 mercantile affairs. It developed that 

 there are no less than fifteen bills rela- 

 tive to boiler inspection and the licen- 



sing of firemen. A large delegation of 

 prominent growers in the vicinity of 

 Boston was present as well as many 

 representatives of the labor element, 

 boiler makers, engineers, etc. The- 

 two latter interests developed a mutual 

 disdain for one another and came close 

 to a clash as they argued on the proper 

 qualifications of a boiler inspector, and 

 the present inspectors took a shy at 

 the unfitness of both. The florists and 

 market gardeners did not get much 

 opportunity to express their views up 

 to the time of adjournment, but it is 

 understood that a compromise satis- 

 factory to them has been partly ar- 

 ranged, and that the obnoxious clause 

 compellin.g the employment of licensed 

 firemen for agricultural and horticul- 

 tural boilers is to be stricken out by 

 the authors of the bill. The hearing 

 adjourned till February 26, when the 

 inspection question occupied the time 

 fully and the licensed firemen propo- 

 sition is to come up on March 6. 



NOW! 



This is "last call" for advertisements 



in THIRD ANNUAL ROSE NUMBER. 



Copy should be mailed AT ONCE, as 



we go to press on March 7. 



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