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HORTICULTU B t 



April 27, 1907 



Memorial Day in Four WeeKs 



We are all ready with the biggest and most desirable stock ever offered in this country. 



Immortelle and Cycas Wreaths, Metal and Porcelaine Designs, Inscriptions, Letters, 



Emblems, Bouquet Holders, Doves, Gape Flowers, Sheaves, Fibre Ribbon, 



Waterproof Crepe Paper, Vases, Tone Ware, Tin Foil, Wire Frames, Etc. 



All the above and many others. Just what you want. Order early and let people see you have them. Catalogue 



for the asking 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 1129 Arch St., Pliiladelphia, Pa. 



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HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO., 



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8, II and 15 Province St. 

 and 9 Chapman Place, 



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See our Greens Advertisement on page 57 1. L, O. Tolephona, Main 2B1B. 



FRUIT PROSPECTS IN WASHING- 

 TON STATE. 



While the fruit growers in Washing- 

 ton received more than $12,500,000 for 

 their tree, shrulj and vine products in 

 1906. reports received by F. M. Hunt- 

 ley, State horticultural commissioner, 

 indicate that the crop this year will 

 break all records by large increases; 

 in fact, he places it at 50 per cent, larg- 

 er than in 1906. 



"Frosts and cold snaps, so injurious 

 to delicate trees, were not known," he 

 says, "and on that account the spring 

 indications are for a full crop. The 

 apple season was off last year, and un- 

 less unforseen weather conditions oc- 

 cur late in the spring, apple trees, 

 meager of fruit last year, will yield a 

 bumper crop this season. The crop of 

 fruit of all kinds grown this season 

 will he considerably augmented by the 

 yield of a large number of trees that 

 will now begin to bear. According to 

 figures submitted, 10 to 15 per cent, 

 of new trees will yield a harvest this 

 year 



"No one district Is making a more 

 rapid advance than another, and all 

 irrigated districts are keeping pace 

 with each other. Trees have been re- 

 ceived in the State all winter, and 

 more will be set out this year than 

 ever before. Many of the old districts 

 have been pretty well planted, but as 

 fast as one section becomes an orchard 

 another springs up to take its place, 

 and there is continual Improvement as 

 far as borticultural conditions are con- 

 cerned." 



THE MOTH CAMPAIGN IN RHODE 

 ISLAND. 



The College is in receipt of a large 

 number of specimens of insect cocoons 

 from various parts of the State with a 

 query as to whether they are not 

 either the gypsy or the brown-tail 

 moth. A large majority of the 

 cocoons have been those of the Pro- 

 nietha moth, Callosamia prometha, an 

 insect which has been with us for 

 years but which is seldom materially 

 injurious. 



The cocoon is invariably formed in 

 a folded leaf, the edges of which, to- 

 gether with the petiole and the twig 

 to which it is attached are strongly 

 bound with silk. Inside of the leaf 

 is a firmly woven cocoon which holds 

 the pupa or resting stage of the in- 

 sect. The leaf may sometimes wea.- 

 away during the winter but its pres- 

 ence at the time of formation will 

 still be suggested by' the form of the 

 structure. 



It is to oe hoped that the people of 

 the State will continue to send in all 

 suspicious insects, for only in this 

 way can we hope to keep track of, 

 and poRsibl^ also prevent the spread 

 pt notably injurious ones, and especi- 

 ally the gypsy and brown-tail moths. 



Insects when sent in will gladly be 

 identified whether injurious or not. — 

 Extension Department I!. I. Ovl. of Agr. 

 <ft Meeh. Arts, Kingston, It. I. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



We regret to report that our brave 

 bowlers got the worst of it again In a 

 three-cornered match with Washing- 

 ton and Baltimore on the Casino Al- 

 leys, this city, on the 19th inst. The 

 concluding match will be held in Bal- 

 timore. 



Edwin Lonsdale will move his resi- 

 dence from Wyndmoor to West Phila- 

 delphia in the near future. 



It is reported that W. C. Smith has 

 been offered $1"5,000 for his property 

 at 61st and Market streets, and is very 

 much tempted to accept and go to 

 growing plants in some less expensive 

 locality. 



C. MacKubbin of Di'eer's has moved 

 his residence from Morton, Delaware 

 Co., to Germantown. 



August Fredericksdorp makes a spe- 

 cialty of sweet peas, lupins and snap- 

 dragons, and returns the past season 

 have been unexpectedly satisfactory. 



OBITUARY. 



Franz Kjellman, professor of botany 

 at Upsala University, Sweden, died on 

 April 22. 



Edward W. Fenn of Terryville, CL. 

 died on April 14. He leaves a widow 

 and one son. 



FIRE RECORD. 



Albert Davis of .alliance, O., lost one 

 of his greenhouses by fire on April 1. 

 Three hundred dollars is the loss re- 

 ported, with no insurance. 



INCORPORATED. 



Mt. Hope Floral Co., Brewer, Me.; 

 president, Helen M. Tolman; treas- 

 urer, A. C. Blake; capital, $10,000. 



Abilene Nursery Co., Abilene, Texas; 

 capital, $10,000; W. F. D. Battjar. W. 

 A. Minter. Jr., .J. V. Cockrell, incorpo- 

 rators. 



Edward Tonquest, who about a year 

 ago left Kansas City, Mo., for Colorado 

 in search of health, died in Canon City, 

 Colo., on April 7. 



W. Louis Kidwell, aged 18, son of 

 Wm. H. Kidwell of Chicago, died on 

 April 16. He had returned to his home 

 from New Mexico but a few days pre- 

 vious, having gone there to recover his 

 health. 



