May i4, 1910 



HORTICU LTURi; 



737 



THE "SIMMONS BILL." 



P. W. Kelsey, in a communication 

 to the Committee on Agriculture, at 

 Washington, calls attention to the fol- 

 lowing impracticable and inconsistent 

 features of the Simmons Bill, H. R. 

 23252, for the inspection of imported 

 nursery stock. Mr. Kelsey says: 



First — It Is absurd for any nurseryman 

 or Importer doing an extended business to 

 make "an application stating the number 

 and kind of uursery stock to be Imported," 

 unless duplicates of all orders placed for 

 foreign stock, whether by cable or letter, 

 be transmitted to the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture; a technical proceeding of govern- 

 mental interference with private business, 

 as unreasonable and unnecessary as It Is 

 incousistent with the spirit of our form 

 of Government. 



Second — In Section 7, the provision for 

 detention "in quarantine a necessary time 

 to determine the result of such disinfec- 

 tion" would, in practical workings result 

 In most cases to simple and direct con- 

 fiscation — an object presumably not Intend- 

 ed by the advocates of the Bill and one 

 that would not, if thus understood, be 

 tolerated by you. 



Third — The authority conferred upon the 

 Secretary of Agriculture "to quarantine 

 against any importations from said dis- 

 trict" Is a dangerous precedent, an arbi- 

 trary and wholly unjustifiable imposition, 

 which, in effect, might cause needless In- 

 justice and loss; and in view of the other 

 protective features of the Bill would, un- 

 questionably do much more harm than 

 good. Indeed, in case of fright or a wave 

 of hysteria with subordinate officials, very 

 serious injury would follow without any 

 compensating benefits. 



The desirability of an efficient national 

 law for the proper regulation of nursery 

 stock importatfons in co-operative harmony 

 with the approved Inspection laws of the 

 states, is bf the progressive men in the 

 nursery business generally recognized. But 

 I beg to submit that care should bo taken 

 In conferring arbitrary power and creating 

 new conditions, not to make the proposed 

 lemedy worse than the insect pest diseases 

 which the law alms to prevent. 



George Rackham of Detroit finds a 

 very interested audience at every 

 school where he delivers his short dis- 

 courses on plant growing. There is 

 no limit to tho questions asked by the 

 children. 



DELPHINIUM 

 BELLADONNA 



EverMootnlng Hardy Larkspur, 2-in. pots, $3.50 



per 100, $ 30. CO per 1000. 

 DIANTHUS Latlfolius atroc. fl. pi. Ever- 



bloomiDg. 

 nVOSOTIS PalustrlBSemperflorens. 

 SHASTA DAISIES. 



5CABIOSA Japonica, 2 in. pois. $2 oa per 100. 

 SALVIA Patens, 2}i-in. pots, $3.08 per ico. 



Six trial plants 25 cents. 

 Cash with order, please. 



A. HIRSCHLEBER. Florist Riverside, N. J. 



ASTERS AND PANSIES 



Improved Late BranchiDg, white and shell pink, 

 very double and large Crego, mixed colors, ffne stoclcy 

 plants ready to bed out 5 c, per 100 postpaid. By 

 express icoo $3 00; 500 $t.7S- Pansy Park Perfec- 

 tion the best strain of giant pansics, a great vaiicty of 

 rich and raie colors and markings in mixture. Fine 

 stocky, field-grown plants in bud and bloom 1000 

 $3.50: 500 $2. 00, cash with order. The growing ""of 

 pansy plants our specialty for ^7 years. From G. J. G. 

 Florist, Beverly, Mass.; "The pansies from your 

 seed have the finest thoroughbred flowers I have seen 

 in this neighborhood, which is noted for fine flowers on 

 private places." 

 L. W. OOODELL. Pansy Park. Dwight, Mass. 



GARDENIAS 



Fine large JESSAMINES (Gardenias) with beau liu 



foliage. i 



Stems from 8 to 12 in. $ 7.50 per 1,000 



« 12 " 18 " 10.00 per 1,000 



F. O. B. Alvin. Terms strictly Caih or C. O. D. 



MISS A. WASHINGTON, Alvin, Texas 



Mention Horticulture ivken you xvriie 



GODFREY ASCHMANN 



Is more active than than ever 



LOOK! BARGAINS! 



lam ready to execute every order in bedding plants promptly; having 

 10 houses and an equal number of httbedA, with every hole and crack 

 full of bedding plants alone 



Geraniums, double white, pink and red, 

 in 4-iu. pots, $7.00 per 100. 



Asters, Queen Victoria and other good 

 varieties. .5 or 6 separate colors, 2% to 2%- 

 in. pots, $3.00 per 100. 



Canna Eisele, 4-in., $7.00 per 100. Alphonse 

 Bouvier, Bismark, Patty Gray, 2 to 4-ln., 

 $7.00 per 100. 



EnKlish Ivy, 4-in., 10c. 



Lemon Verbenas, 4-ln., $7.00 per 100. 



Begonia Erfordii, our well-known im- 

 proved strain (5000 now ready), 4-in., $8.00 

 per 100. 



Begonia Vernon, dark and light red. 

 Our so well-known improved strain from 

 Zurich, Switzerland, Introduced by us 4 

 years ago, which has given so much satis- 

 faction all over America. Always in bloom. 

 Stand the sun and all the dry weather. 

 A bed of this novelty plant, once seen 

 grown and same will speak for itself. 

 When we plant our Begonias we plant 4 

 to 8 small seedlings in one pot and they 

 are now grown big and bloom in 4-inch 

 pots, at $8.00 per 100. 



Clara Bedman or Bonfire, in bloom (Scar- 

 let Sage), 4-in., $7.00 per 100. 



Ageratum, dwarf blue, best variety, 4-In., 

 $7.00 per 100. 



Fnchsias, assorted colors, 4-in., $7.00 per 

 100. 



Heliotropes, blue, 4-in., $7.00 per 100. 



Petunias, double, assorted, 4-in., $7.00 

 per 100. 



Lantanas, assorted, 4-in., $7.00 per 100. 



Vlnca Variegata, 4-in., large, for vases 

 or window boxes, 10c to 12c. 



Primula Obeonica (blue), in bloom, 5-in., 

 $2.00 per doz. 



Dracaena Indivisa, 5 to 514-in., 25c. 



Crimson Rambler Roses, 7 to 8-in. pots, 

 75c, $1.00, $1.25 to $1.50. Other ramblers, 

 6 to 7-in. pots, 35c and 50c. 



Dorothy Perkins, one of the best new 

 pink Ramblers, pot grown, 2 to 3 years 

 old, 35c to 50c. 



Kentia Belinoreana and Forsteriana, 4-lD., 

 20c. Kentia Belmoreana, 3-in., 10c. Kentia 

 Forsteriana. 6 to 7-in., 40 to 50-in. high 

 and over, $2.00, $2.50 to $3.00. Hydrangea 

 Otaksa, in bud, 6-in., 25c, 35c to 50c. 



Cobaea Scandens, 4-in., 10c. 



IN SMAI.I., PI.ANTS 



We have the following in 2% to 3-In. 

 pots, .$3.00 per 100: 



Verbenas, assorted colors. 



Phlox Drummondi, dwarf and grandlflora. 



French Dwarf Tagetes (the queen of the 

 marigolds). 



German Asters Queen Victoria, 4 or B 

 separate colors, 2^-in. 



Zinnia elegans. 



German or Parlor Ivy. 



Cosmos, assorted, white, red or pink (by 

 name if desired). 



Coleas, Golden Bedder, Verschatfeltll and 

 Queen Victoria, fancy varieties, $4.00 per 

 100. 



Petunias, California, Dwarf Inimitable 

 and Rosy Morn. 



Sweet Alyssum, Carpet of Snow or Little 

 Gem. 



Tradescantia, two colors. 



Thnnbergia or Black-eyed Susan. Mar- 

 anta Bachemiana. 



Salpiglossis. 



l,obelia Crystal Palace (blue), dwarf and 

 trailing. 



Cornflowers, assorted. 



Parlor Ivy. 



Centanrea Gymnocarpa (Dusty Miller). 

 Echeveria glanea, also large plants, $4.00 

 and .$5.00 per 100. 



Don't forget that we are the wholesale 

 growers of the celebrated, world-wide 

 known 



IPOMOEA NOCTirtORA (MOONVIVE) 



Pure white, rapid grower, very fragrant 

 and earliest moonvine, with flowers as big 

 as a saucer. Grows 50 feet and over In 

 one season, with thousands of flowers on 

 them. We have grown them for the past 

 25 years and have established a world-wide 

 reputation, over 25.000 having been shipped 

 all over the United States, Canada and 

 Mexico. Price: 2%-in. pots, $5.00 per 100; 

 3-in., $8.00 per 100; 4-in., $12.00 per 100. 



Nephrolepis. We have the following to 

 offer : Whitman!, Boston, Scotti, medium 

 size, 4-in., $20.00 per 100. Schoelzell, medi- 

 um size. 4-in., $25.00 per 100. 

 All plants 25 at 100 rate. Cash with order, please. All plants must travel at risk 

 of purchaser only. Watch our ad for Araucarias about May 10. 



Godfrey Aschmann, w ontiri' ^street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



WHOLESALE GROWER, EMPORTEB .4ND SHIPPER OF POT PLANTS 



A BLUE ROSE 



The Greatest 



Rose Novelty 



of the Century 



It flowered with us this sea- 

 son and was greatly admired. 



ELL W ANGER 



Xlount Hope IMurseries 



The New Rambler fViolet Blue) , hailed 

 by the German rose growers as the 

 forerunner of a genuinely cornflower 

 blue rose, is a seedling of Crimson 

 Rambler, very vigorous and hardy, and 

 free blooming. 



Send for description and price. 



St. BARRV 



ROCHESXER, N. Y. 



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PEACOCK'S PEERLESS DAHLIAS 



PI PI n DOOT^ J»ck Rose, Fringed 20th Century, 

 riCl^U K^KJKJ I us, Rose Pink Century, Virginia naule. 



Big Clllef, $3.50 per doz., $25.00 per 100. Best cut flower sorts, 

 $1.00 per doz., $5.00 per 100. 



PEACOCK DAHLIA FARMS, ^J^c^^^^olf'T? 



