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HORTICULTURE 



May 18, 1907 



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NEWS NOTES. 



Robt. Klagge of Mt. Clemens. Mich., 

 declares La Detroit to be the best pay- 

 ing rose on his place. 



The Society of Horticulture of Or- 

 leans and Loiret, Prance, has awarded 

 a gold medal to Levavasseur & Sons 

 for their pink "baby rambler" rose, 

 Maman Levavasseur. 



The Woman's Club of York, Pa., has 

 inaugurated a movement to convert 

 the public school yards into flower gar- 

 dens and playgrounds for the children 

 during the summer. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle for April 

 27 contains a supplementary illustra- 

 tion of Hippeastrum Queen of Spots, 

 a cross between a show variety and H. 

 pardinum. It appears to be a perfect 

 beauty, uniquely spotted carmine on 

 white ground. 



The Royal Horticultural Society of 

 London, Eng., awarded the silver gilt 

 Lindley medal on April 30 to the beau- 

 tiful Gloriosa Rothschildsiana. An 

 award of merit was given to carnation 

 Jessica, color "white flaked with scar- 

 let." Any relative of our Jessica? 



A new rambler rose named Tausend- 

 schon, of German origin is well spoken 

 of in foreign horticultural journals. 

 The flower is described as large— nearly 

 three inches across— fairly double, five 

 to eight in a cluster, color pink suf- 

 fused yellow. Its habit of blooming 

 clear down to the base indicates future 

 popularity as a pot plant. 



There are on exhibition in the glass 

 show case in Welch Brothers' estab- 

 lishment in Boston several seedling 

 carnations raised by John Barr, one of 

 which is to all appearances a highly 

 improved Victory. In color, form, fra- 

 grance and habit it strongly resembles 

 that famous variety, but the flower is 

 considerably larger and more sym- 

 metrically built. It is surely worth 

 watching. 



MONTREAL NOTES. 



The weather still continues very 

 cold and but little planting or seeding 

 has been done. The trade in general 

 is complaining of dullness. The seed 

 people are not rushed as usual owing 

 to the backward spring. 



There have been many changes 

 among the florists this spring. S. S. 

 Bain has given up his Beaver Hall 

 store; Jos. Bennett has gone out of 

 the retail business, and is missed from 

 the place on Windsor street that he 

 occupied so long; D. J. Sinclair has 

 closed his branch here, and Mrs. 

 Graves has retired from business. We 

 hear that Mrs. White will go out of 

 business and Baker of Longueville 

 will probably succeed her. Drennan 

 of Westmount is also looking for a 

 place to locate. Mr. Gray, late Mon- 

 treal manager for Sinclair, has taken 

 full charge of the Wright store on St. 

 Catherine street. He took the third 

 prize for window decoration for the 

 Horse Show held last week. 



The Dutchmen have shipped large 

 consignments of roses, palms and 

 other stock to the auction rooms 

 lately, where they were sold for any- 

 thing they would bring. This injures 

 the trade to a very large extent. 



Spring Bedding Plants 



Crimson Ramblers 



strong, shapely plants witli an 



abundance of flowers, 7-in., 50c, 



75c, $1 00 each. 

 Baby Ramblers, 5-in., 200, 25c each : 



6-in., 35C, 5Dc each. 

 Cannas, strong plants, $10, $12.50, $15, 



$20 per lOO. 

 Crotons, assorted varieties, $25,_$35, 

 i*t $50 per 100. ; 



HydraoKeas, $20, $25, $50, $75 per 100. 



Periwinkle, extra long, 4-in., $15, $18 



per 100. 

 Qeranium*, 4-iu., all colors, $8, $9 per 



100. 

 Coieus, 3-in., $4, $4.60 per 100. 

 Aiternanthera, 2>4-in., red and yellow, 



$4 00 per 100. 

 Hardy Ivy, 3 and 4-iD., $10, $12.60, $15 



Alsori a^CenerairAssortment ^of^;llVliscellaneous 

 JBeddingland (Basket [Plants 



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THE Wholesale Florists of PHILADELPHIA. 1 608- 1618 Ludlow St. 



PERSONAL. 



A. W. Mcintosh has recently been 

 appointed chief gardener at the Sol- 

 diers' Home, Togus, Maine. 



W. J. Marshall of Togus, Me., has 

 taken a position with the Copeland 

 Street Greenhouses, Campello, Mass. 



The marriage of Philip Lunden of 

 Olsen & Lunden, Southington, Ct., to 

 Miss Anna Olsen of Plantsville is an- 

 nounced. 



Madison Miesse of Lancaster, Oh'O, 

 one of the largest market-gardeners 

 and forcers of lettuce and tomatoes, 

 has secured the services of Fred Wind- 

 miller, w!iJ has late'y been with the 

 Cleveland Cut FlDwe; Company. 



Park Commissioner Philip Breit- 

 meyer and Secretary M. P. Hurlbut 

 of the Detroit park department are 

 visiting Boston on a tour of inspec- 

 tion of park roads, "bathing houses, 

 etc.. under conduct of W. W. Castle, 

 J. A. Pettigrew, P. Welch and W. J. 

 Stewart. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Jonas Brooks has purchased the 

 Summit street greenhouses, Woonsock- 

 et, R. I., from Thos. H. Greene. 



Tha Ozark Nursery Co., Tahlequah, 

 Okla., has absorbed the Ben Davis 

 Nursery, Bentonville, Ark., and the 

 Parker Nurseries, FayettevlUe, Ark. 



G. H., Chapman of St. Johns, Mich., 

 who purchased at auction the portable 

 house and greenhouse stock of C. H. 

 Manley, has formed a stock company 

 lor the purpose of erecting suitable 

 buildings and gaining facilities for 

 carrying on the business. 



OBITUARY. 



A. M. Pitt, for the past 20 years in 

 the florist business in Hudson, Mass., 

 died on April 21, aged 65. 



John V. Walker of iSharpsburg, Pa., 

 for the past four years gardener for 

 Mr. Harry Darlington, died on May 1, 

 figed 71 years. A widow and several 

 sons and daughters survive him. 



THE GLASS MARKET. 



At the present moment practically 

 all the hand operated window glass 

 factories have closed their plants for 

 the summer and will not resume work 

 until some time in the fall, so that the 

 present stocks will have to supply the 

 demand for the next four months at 

 the least. 



As greenhouse sizes are in the way 

 of being a specialty and not always 

 turned out in suflicient quantities to 

 meet the demand, it would seem ad- 

 visable for buyers who are going to 

 need glass during the summer or early 

 fall months to cover themselves on 

 their requirements now. Prices now 

 are on a lower level than they have 

 been at any time since the first of the 

 year, and as present stocks become 

 exhausted it would seem advances 

 should naturally be looked for. 



Pittsburg, Pa. — The agreement to 

 close the window glass factories for 

 the annual summer suspension was 

 practically fulfilled on April 20. 



Glass plants throughout western 

 Pennsylvania and West Virginia sus- 

 pended. A number of factories will 

 remain open until the latter part of 

 May. 



Fully 20,000 men are affected. 



Charles Adams has purchased the 

 greenhouse property of Benjamin St. 

 John, Darien, Ct. 



3000 to 4000 Geraniums, S. A. Nutt, 



Beaute Poitevine, in 3 and 3^4 In. 



pots, $6.00 per 100. 



200 Beaute Poitevine. very large 



plants, 13-15 inches in diameter, 



$6.00 per dozen. 



50 Vinca variegata in 8-in, pots, 



$6.00 per dozen. 



too Spiraea astilboides grandiftora, 

 $6.00 per dozen. 



Call and inspect the stock before 

 buying elsewhere. 



A. C. LAKE 



Wellesley Hills - - - Mass. 



Look through the Buyers' Directory 

 and Ready Reference Guide. You 

 will find some good offers there also. 



