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HORTICULTURE. 



May 18, 190T 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The U. S. Dept. o£ Agriculture, Bu- 

 reau of Biological Survey, has issued 

 a circular on the value o£ swallows as 

 insect destroyers. The importance of 

 protecting swallow s wherever found is 

 emphasized, and the great usefulness 

 of these birds in the war being waged 

 against the cotton boll weevil in the 

 south is forcibly demonstrated. 



The Minnesota Horticulturist, for 

 May contains much practical informa- 

 tion, especially for the fruit grower. 

 A portrait and obituary notes of the 

 late R. H. L. Jewett of Corning, Cal., 

 is included. Secretary Latham gives 

 the membership of the Minnesota 

 Horticultural Society by which this 

 monthly is supported as 232.5, :t pretty 

 good evidence of Minnesota's interest 

 in horticulture. 



Among the recent valuable publica- 

 tions by thB TJ. S. Department of Ag- 

 riculture are Farmers' Bulletins, Nos. 

 282, 283 and 289, on Celery by W. R. 

 Beattie, Spraying for Apple Diseases 

 and the Codling Moth in the Ozarks 

 by W. M. Scott and A. L. Quaintance, 

 and Beans by L. C. Corbett, respect- 

 ively. These are all very practical In 

 their contents, fully illustrated and of 

 great value to the truck farmer and 

 truit grower. 



We have received from Secretary 

 "Wesley Greene volume 41 of the tran- 

 sactions of the Iowa Horticultural So- 

 ciety, teing the animal report for 1906. 

 It is a L-outd voiume of over 500 pages. 

 The fruit grower will find in it much 

 to interest and instruct, fspecially on 

 the subjects of apples, plums, and 

 strawberries. The possibilities of fruit 

 growing in Iowa are well brought out 

 in a number of valuable papers and the 

 ornamental trees and plants are not 

 forgotten. 



The set of Forest Service circulars 

 and leaflets sent out by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture April 29, 1907, con- 

 tain much instructive matter for public 

 enlightenment as well as for the use 

 of those directly interested in tree 

 planting. There are fourteen of them. 

 Among the trees treated upon are the 

 Russian mulberry, white ash, slippery 

 elm, white willow, black walnut, tam- 

 arack, Osage orange, coffee tree, green 

 ash, yellow poplar, black cherry and 

 sugar maple. 



Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annu- 

 al Meeting of the American Carnation 

 Society, held in Toronto, Ont., Janu- 

 ary 23 and .24, 1907. This is an ex- 

 ceptionally fine report, the most com- 

 plete and accurate ever issued by the 

 American Carnation Society we 

 should say. It contains much that the 

 ambitious carnation grower needs to 

 know and nobody should think of car- 

 nation growing as a profession or a 

 p.astime in these days without having 

 a copy of this report. Membership in 

 the society is the only cost and it is 

 cheap at that. A list of members is 

 appended but the honorary members 

 arc, for some reason, overlooked. 



851,675. 

 851,710. 



851,727. 

 851,729. 

 851,741. 



851,750. 



851,840. 

 851,872. 

 851,901. 

 851,902. 

 851,928. 

 851,959. 

 852,086. 

 852,109. 



852,251. 

 852,316. 



852.669. 

 852,746. 



852,777. 



852,843. 



852,996. 



853,004. 

 853,039. 

 853,046. 

 853,047. 



853,072. 



853,160. 

 853,179. 



LIST OF PATENTS. 

 Issued April 30, 1907. 



Harrow. Jacob C. Ferguson, 



Wilber, Nebr. 



Hopple or Regulator for 

 Plows. William N. Thorn- 

 ton, Cedar Hill, Texas. 



Cultivator. William M. Ash- 

 more, near Rara Avis, Miss. 



Plow. Spencer B. Carter, 

 Elizabeth City, N. C. 



Seed Planter. James S. Gard- 

 ner, Java, Ala., assignor of 

 one-half to Jesse W. Dis- 

 mukes, Java, Ala. 



Replanting Attachment for 

 Cultivators. Marion V. 

 Hodges, Rushville, 111. 



Lawn Trimmer. Sumner 0. 

 Sawyer, Traverse City, Mich. 



Plow. Willoughby D. Dozier, 

 Weeksville, N. Q. 



Mower. James H. Sherrard, 

 Sparta, 111. 



Plow Jointer. Roy C. Smith, 

 East Germantown, Ind. 



Manure Spreader. Frank M. 

 Goodhue, Batavia, 111. 



Agricultural Implement. Pe- 

 ter Peterson, Chicago, 111. 



Plow Attachment. Wilson B. 

 Tunnell, Van, Texas. 



Drill. Dean B. Edwards, 

 Wauchope, Saskatchewan, 

 Canada. 



Plow. Charlie C. Addington, 

 Wheelersburg, Ohio. 



Cultivator Shovel or Tooth. 

 Charles Burmeister and 

 Earnest Boldt, Calumet, la. 



Issued May 7, 1907. 



Cultivator. George S. Mayn, 

 Tipton, Ind. 



Draft Appliance for Farm Im- 

 plements. William T. Ste- 

 vig, Pulaski, Iowa. 



Combined Lister Plow and 

 Planter. Thomas J. Dudley, 

 Abilene, Texas, assignor to 

 Ed. S. Hughes, Abilene, 

 Texas, and H. C. Stahl, 

 Bellevue. Ohio. 



Plow. Marvin D. Main, Cort- 

 land, N. Y., assignor of one- 

 half to Lynn R. Lewis, Cort- 

 land, N. Y. 



Plow. Conrad Bohrssen, Gross 

 Munzel, near Wunstorf, Ger- 

 many. 



Plow. Wilhelm G. Danielsen, 

 Logan, Utah. 



Cultivator. John J. Stalder, 

 Meade, Kansas. 



Steam Plow. Jesse W. Vani- 

 man, Wichita, Kansas. 



Plow. Richard J. Vickery and 

 John J. Dinsmore, Clark, 

 S. D. 



Combination Weed Gatherer 

 and Cutter. John N. Eames, 

 Medford, Mass. 



Disk Harrow. Cyrus N. Cass, 

 Spangle, Wash. 



Hoe. James S. Lestel, Atlan- 

 ta, Georgia. 



PAYS US WELL. 



You will please not repeat our large 

 advertisement of last week, as the 

 goods we offered have all been sold. 

 Over $500 worth of direct sales from 

 one offer pavs us well, as in fact all 

 our advertising in HORTICULTURE 

 does. A. H. HEWS & CO.. Inc. 



Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 1907. 



PRIMULA SEED 



Tho Finest in America 



f 



Orange King (novelty) Bright 

 Salmon 



Pure W'hite 

 Blush White 

 Rose 

 Scarlet 

 Royal Blue 

 Mixed 



Trade Pkt. 

 $1.00 



54 Trade Pkt. 

 60c 



Giant 



Novelties 



i Double Pink Trade pkt. 



\ Double Crimson $1.00 



Primula Obconica Kesmesina 

 deep rose Tr. pkt. SOc 

 *' Alba, pure white SOc 

 nixed SOc 



Primula floribunda ^randiflora 



(Buttercup) SOc 

 " Forbesii (Baby Primrose) 2Sc 

 '• Kewensis (Giant yellow 



Buttercup) $1.00 



This charming addition to our 

 greenhouse Primroses originated 

 at the Royal Gardens, Kew, as an 

 accidental cross between the small, 

 but bright-flowered Himalayan spe- 

 cies, P. FLORIBUNDA, and the 

 sweet-scented P. VERTICILLATA, 

 a native of .\rabia. The plant is a 

 strong grower, with bright green 

 leaves, and numerous erect flower- 

 scapes. 10 to l.S inches in height 

 producing flowers in whorls at in- 

 tervals along their whole length. 

 The flowers are fragrant, bright 

 yellow in color, with a slender tube 

 and spreading limb, nearly an inch 

 in diameter. As a v\'iiiter-flowering 

 decorative plant it is an acquisi- 

 tion; its floriferousness when in a 

 very small .state is remartcable. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTGN 



342 W. 14th St., N. Y. 



FIGHTING THE MOTHS. 



Without opposition, the Massachu- 

 setts legislative committee on agricul- 

 ture has recommended an appropria- 

 tion of $225,000 to stop the moth pest 

 as far as possible during the coming 

 year, although Vice-President Elson of 

 the Society for the Suppression of 

 Gypsy Moths said that all idea of ex- 

 terminatitig the moths in Massachu- 

 setts had been given up. 



At the hearing held before the board 

 the moth fighters from the infected 

 sections were present in force and out- 

 lined the work necessary to prevent 

 the ravages of their arch enemy and 

 then asked for the appropriation. 



Extermination is the watchword in 

 the districts outside the reservations. 

 In the latter places they will work on 

 suppression. They said that the para- 

 sites were still in the experimental 

 stage and they would aid in suppress- 

 ing the pests. 



Field Agent Enwright of Medford 

 said that to exterminate the moths at 

 the present time they would need the 

 assistance of the Almighty, but that 

 the parasites had brought a new hope 

 to the fighters. 



We would like to inform the trade 

 that our representative, Mr. De Groot, 

 has left today tor a trip through Eu- 

 rope for the interests of our business, 

 looking after the packing and filling of 

 the orders of our American customers, 

 visiting the Holland, Belgium, French 

 and German growers and make ar- 

 rangements to remove our headquar- 

 ters now at Arnhem, Holland, to Hille- 

 gom, Holland 



JOHN SCHEEPERS & CO. 



