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HORTICULTURE 



March 23, 1907 



Wild Smilax, p*?/a^e 



THE ONL Y PLAGE WHERE YOU GAM AL WA YS GET IT. 



jLong Needle Pines, Si .00 per dozen. Palm Crowns, $2.50 per dozen. Extra nice 

 long-stemmed Palm LeaveS, $2. 50 per loo. MagnOlIa, ?2.5o per case, i6 cubic 

 feet. Sheet Moss, $2.00 per sack. Grey Moss, $2.00 per sack. GalaX, $i.oo per looo. 



Speed a Specialty. 



Write for Catalogfue. 



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Introducer of the Wild Smilax. 



Caldwell the Woodsman Decorating Co., inc., 



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8, 1 1 and 1 5 Province St. 

 and 9 Chapman Place, 



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HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO., 



See our Greens Advertisement on paee 405. 



Boston, Mass. 



OBITUARY. 



' James Draper. 



James Draper, secretary of the 

 Worcester, Mass., park commission 

 and one of the best known and highly 

 respected park men and expert horti- 

 culturists in New England, died in 

 his home in Bloomingdale, Mass., on 

 March 12, aged 64 years. Mr. Draper 

 was a member of the park board for 

 20 years and to him more than to any 

 member of the present board is due 

 The development of the city's magnifi- 

 cent system of parks and play grounds. 

 He was one of the best-known park 

 commissioners in New England, his 

 prominence and solicitude for the 

 Worcester parks bringing him into 

 personal contact with the representa- 

 tives of all the parks of this section 

 of the country, and his advice was 

 frequently sought by less expert com- 

 missioners In the development of their 

 public play grounds. At the recent 

 executive meeting of the Association 

 of American Park Superintendents his 

 name was preseTited for honorary 

 membership. 



Mr. Draper was also well known as 

 a horticulturist and agriculturist. For 

 nearly a quarter of a century he acted 

 as judge of fruits at the annual fairs 

 of the Worcester Agricultural Society. 

 He was one of the originators and the 

 first president of the Massachusetts 

 Fruit Growers' Association, and he 

 was master of the Massachusetts State 

 grange when it was organized in 1872. 

 and later he was elected iiresident of 

 the national grange. He was tor many 

 years a trustee of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College at Amherst. 



his home in Dedham, Mass. He was 

 born in County Westmeath, Ireland, 

 April 16, 1833, came to this country 

 when a young man and has worked 

 for the Quincy family for thirty-flve 

 years. 



PERSONAL. 



Philip Breitmeyer, of Detroit, has 

 been visiting Pittsburg, Washington, 

 Philadelphia and New York. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 

 H. S. Morton succeeds Otto J. Bach 

 at the Wisner greenhouses, Rochford, 

 111. 



W. H. Wynian of the Bay State 

 Nurseries. North Abington, Mass., has 

 just returned from his European 

 trip. 



Foster Floral Co. will be located ai 

 612 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo., after 

 April 1. 



LOSSES BY HAIL. 



George Corbett, Henry Corbett, 

 Joseph Sinfoot and Walter J. Gray of 

 College Hill, Ohio, and Mrs. E. H. 

 Martin of Shelbyville, Indiana, have 

 reported losses by a hail storm on the 

 12th inst. Their glass was insured in 

 the F. H. A. 



JOHN G. ESLBR, Secy. 



J. H. McHutchison of McHutchl- 

 son & Co., New York, sailed for Eu- 

 rope on March 21, per S. S. Amerika, 

 on a business trip. 



Visitors in Detroit: J. Marks, rep- 

 resenting A. L. Randall & Co., of Chi- 

 cago; B. Eschner, of Philadelphia, and 

 two trainloads of Dutchmen. 



Visitors in Boston: George F. 



■Stnuck, Summit, N. J.; Louis Dupuy, 



Whitestone, N. Y.; C. B. Weathered, 



New York; S. J. Renter, Westerly, R. 



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NEWS NOTES. 



The seventh lecture of the season 

 before the American Institute of the 

 City of New York was given by George 

 T. Powell on March 20; subject. The 

 Culture of Small Fi-uits. 



Prof. A. F. Burgess, who resigned as 

 chief inspector of the department of 

 nurseries and orchards in the Ohio 

 agricultural department, has entered 

 upon his duties in the Mass:^chusetts 

 State department for the suppression 

 of gypsy and brown-tail moths. 



Other Deaths. 

 Daniel B. Stow, father of Charles B. 

 Stow, florist, of Kingston, N. Y., died 

 on March 4 at his home in Kingston. 



Patrick Daly, gardener for Mrs. 

 Henry P. Quincy, died on March 15 at 



The New England Nurseries has 

 been incorporated under the laws of 

 the State of Massachusetts, and has 

 purchased the entire real and per- 

 sonal property formerly owned and 

 operated by the Shady Hill Nursery 

 Company of Bedford and Boston. Mr. 

 Theodore J. Smith, of the W. & T. 

 Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y., becomes 

 president of the new corporation. Mr. 

 Alfred E. Robinson, who was for four- 

 teen years with W. & T. Smith Co., 

 and who for the past four years has 

 been manager for the Bay State 

 Nurseries, North Abington, Mass., be- 

 comes treasurer and manager. 



F. H. Ballon of Newark, Ohio, who 

 was recently appointed State inspector 

 of orchards and nurseries to take the 

 place of A. F. Burgess, has decided 

 not to accept the position, and C. W. 

 Mally of Texas, has been selected in 

 his stead. Mr. Mally has until re- 

 cently been employed by the British 

 Government in South Africa. The 

 salary is $1,400 per year. 



HORTICULTURE: 



Discontinue Mme. Sallerol ad. as we 

 are all sold out. 



Yours respectfully, 

 HAMMERSCHMIDT & CLARK. 



