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HORTICULTURE 



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PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Ralph Shrigley, late with Niessen, 

 has joined forces with Samuel Lilley. 



Howard Earl will make his winter 

 quarters this year at the Continental, 

 the house where the Prince ot Wales 

 used to stop. 



Philip Freud, of Michell's seed 

 :8tore, has been particularly happy in 

 this year's window displays. An air- 

 ship model and Japanese air plants 

 are the main theme. 



Godfre> Oschman reports large 

 Christmas plant orders and is already 

 nearly booked up to the limit. An im- 

 portant municipal contract froim Bal- 

 timore swelled la.st Friday's engage- 

 ments. 



Papa Green, at the P.-M. Co.'s 

 place, had a bad spell Thanksgiving 

 Day and had to be taken to the 

 Medico-Chi Hospital, where he did 

 not recover consciousness until next 

 day. At this writing he is reported 

 to be getting along all right again. 



Joseph Hurley, late superintendent 

 on the Paul estate at Radnor, is now 

 in charge of the Hunter place at 

 Haverford. The latter is a new estab- 

 lishment and expensive landscape and 

 building operations have been going 

 on there for the past year or more. 



Edward Reid claims that all the 

 troubles of the grower and wholesaler 

 at the present time come from over- 

 production. He cites as an instance 

 the dose of bad medicine the lily of 

 the valley men got a few years ago, 

 and points to the normal and the re- 

 sultant healthy conditicu rf that mar- 

 ket now. 



M. Rice & Co. report an unusual de- 

 mand for Christmas specialties, par- 

 ticularly in the way of beech sprays 

 and red ribbons and red baskets. 

 Their five floors of florists' supply 

 goods are at present an inspiring 

 sight and the Christmas buyer is sim- 

 ply overwhelmed in wonder and ad- 

 miration. 



Among our visitors this week were 

 the distinguished, debonair and hand- 

 some Captain Lynch of West Grove, 

 and the versatile and industrious Par- 

 ker Thayer Barnes of Harrisburg, 

 also H. Holmes of the Holmes Seed 

 Co., HaiTisiburg, Pa. The faithful, 

 fruitful and faultless Edwin Lonsdale, 

 reported all well from Salt Lake— on 

 his way to Oalifornia. 



Andoria Nuseries' business has 

 been increasing so rapidly that addi- 

 tional room has lately been acquired 

 in the Whitemarsh Valley. The new 

 addition is near the Spring Mill sta- 

 tion of the Reading's Schuylkill Val- 

 ley branch, and has been known here- 

 tofore as the "Jerry Comfort Farm." 



We congratulate Mr. Harper on this 

 evidence of well-won prosperity. To 

 make the nursery business pay and 

 grow takes men of the highest ability. 

 J. Otto Thilow, chairman of the 

 Florists' Club essay committee, re- 

 ports that the subject for the monthly 

 meeting, Dec. 7, will be: "The Follies 

 of 1908-9— Will they be repeated in 

 1910?" by C. H. Fox. January, Ed- 

 ward A. Stroud; February, Adolph 

 Fahrenwald; March, Albert M. Herr. 

 Subjects of the latter three will be 

 announced later. We think the new 

 committee shows commendable spirit 

 in planning four months ahead, and 

 congratulate them on getting such 

 able speakers. 



OUR NATIONAL FRUIT. 



By James Handley, Quincy, III. 



(Dedicated to tlie Natiou.il Apple Show, 

 Spoliime, Wash.) 



How graud are the scenes wheu sweet 

 spring is unfolding. 

 And loveliest pictures are opened to 

 Yiew; 

 And shilling in splendor for eyes then be- 

 holding 

 The forests and fields roljes of beauty 

 renew. 

 Then warmly we welcome the songsters of 

 morning. 

 When singing glad praises at advent of 

 spring; 

 M'hcn i)uds and bright blossoms the or- 

 chard adorning, 

 .\waUeiiing our hopes of harvest to 

 bring. 

 The red, rosy apple, the bright-golden 



apple. 

 The ripe, luscious apple, of all fruits 

 the king. 



The fading of bloom when fultilling its 

 mission, 

 Gives speed to our toil in the light of 

 good cheer. 

 Inspiring our zeal for fullest fruition. 



For picking in days when harvest is near. 

 We gather the fi-nits with an exquisite 

 pleasure. 

 In tasting its flavor how closely we 

 cling; 

 And sending to othei-s rich gain of our 

 treasure, 

 We echo the chorus and gleefully sing: 

 The red, rosy apple, the brigbt-golden 



apple, 

 The ripe, luscious apple, of all fruits 

 the icing. 



We choose the sweet bloom for the flower 

 of our nation. 

 To reign with our banners where'er un- 

 furled, 

 And rnlin;; o'er homes from the power of 

 its station, 

 The light of its blessings will shine 

 through the w-orld. 

 And, rising in heights of grandest promo- 

 tion. 

 The sway ot its scepter will speed on the 

 way. 

 Till all o'er the land and far o'er the 

 ocean 

 In strains of sweet music its cadence 

 will sing: 

 The red, rosy apple, the bright-golden 



apple, 

 The ripe, luscious apple, of all fruits 

 the king. 



— Southern Orchards and Homes. 



ABOUT INFESTED PLANTS. 



Editor HORTICULTURE. 



Dear Sir: — As a retail florist for 

 the past several years I have always 

 made it a rule to buy my stock of 

 plants twice each year from whole- 

 salers who have the highest reputa- 

 tion and whose prices are not always 

 the lowest, but still I keep getting 

 disappointed and discouraged from 

 the fact that instead of obtaining 

 stock free from disease and insect 

 pests, in about two weeks after I re- 

 ceive such stock trouble develops so 

 that a continuous battle has to be 

 waged until I either di-spose of such 

 stock or throw them in the trash pile. 

 It seems to me that in the florist busi- 

 ness like every other business nowa- 

 days, the little dog has to bear all the 

 woes and troubles of life while the 

 big dog can wag his tail and lay the 

 blame where it doesn't properly be- 

 long and continue to foist the same 

 inferior stock on the unsuspecting 

 buyer who has yet not learned the 

 way of crookedness or deceit, but who 

 learns to his grief, about the time 

 he expects to begin to realize on his 

 purchase, that the plants are unsale- 

 able from the fact that the germ- 

 laden plants have had about time to 

 develop Mr. Scale in his different 

 shapes, kinds and habits and, as to 

 White Fly, Mealy Bug and some new 

 ones not yet gotten properly named, 

 he is up against the real thing, with- 

 out any apparent relief or sympathy 

 and only rebuke from his customers, 

 who when they do buy a plant, expect 

 it to be perfect in every detail and 

 often require a guarantee as to its 

 health and condition generally. 



I would like to have your opinion 

 as to who should bear the loss when 

 such Infested stock is sent out and 

 what is the remedy for such prac- 

 tices. The little dog is thoroughly 

 tired of suffering for the misdeeds of 

 the big dog. 



Yours truly, 



Roanoake, Va. PATRICK FOY. 



Mr. Foy has surely run into a 

 streak of misfortune. The introduc- 

 tion of injurious bugs into any flor- 

 ist's place is a crime meriting severe 

 punishment, and the bigger the dog 

 the bigger the club should be. It 

 would be a plan worth trying, to ship 

 the plants back to the place from 

 whence they came, with a bill for the 

 board of the bugs during the time 

 the plants were on the place. Other- 

 wise never buy any more goods from 

 the offending party, and in the mean- 

 time seek a remedy among the many 

 excellent insecticides advertised in 

 every issue of HORTICULTURE.— 

 (Ed.) 



