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horticulture: 



March 5, 1910 



Seed Trade 



The Army of Unemployed. 



Much thought is being given by one 

 or two of the leading seed houses to 

 the problem of the large army of un- 

 employed gardeners who block the 

 wheels of trade from daylight to 

 dark especially in the busy season. It 

 is not always the good men that cause 

 the trouble; but largely those who 

 cannot keep a job more than three 

 months— the majority of whom are 

 neither more nor less than ordinary 

 laborers— although they call them- 

 selves gardeners. The solution of 

 the problem will no doubt be found in 

 a registry charge and a stern sifting 

 out of the incompetents and malcon- 

 tents. Some one must take the hull 

 by the horns. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Pcott Bros., Elmsford Nurseries, 

 Elmstord, N. Y.— List of Chrysanthe- 

 mums, Ro:5es, Carnations, etc., for ItilO. 

 A neat and useful S-page pamphlet. 



Old Colony Nurseries, Plymouth, 

 Mass. — Established 70 years, this 

 pioneer institution goes on the even 

 tenor of its way. The catalogue is 

 unpretentious, without pictures of any 

 kind, but gives a good list of desir- 

 able hardy tree, shrub and herbaceous 

 material. 



Griffith & Tuj-ner Co., Baltimore, 

 Md.^Farm and Garden Supplies. Rich 

 but unostentatious in external appear- 

 ance. This is a very "meaty" cata- 

 logue. We see that this issue is No. 

 23. We sincerely hope that the popu- 

 lar superstition regarding No. 23 will 

 prove unfounded so far as the G. & T. 

 Co. are concerned. Our regular ad- 

 vertisers say that the most potent 

 charm to secure immunity would be 

 to advertise in HORTICULTURE. It 

 also looks that way to us. 



McGregor Bros. Co., Springfield, O. 

 —Floral Gems for Spring of 1910. All 

 flower are "gems," but McGregor Bros, 

 are happy in their selection of the 

 finest gems in the floral kingdom as 

 exemplified in the selections and col- 

 lections with which they undertake to 

 corral the public eye and the public 

 patronage In this publication. There 

 are colored plates — some of them 

 mighty pretty — and illustrations in 

 abundance. The artist missed his 

 proper tint in the portrait — otherwise 

 excellent— of Marechal Nie! rose which 

 adorns the front cover. 



INCORPORATED. 



Oswego, N. Y.— The Campbell Flow- 

 er & Seed Co.. capital stock $10,000. 



North Yakima, Wash.— Selah Valley 

 Nurseries, capital stock $5,000. Chas. 

 Wood, A. C. E. Brown, incorporators. 



San Diego, Calif. — San Diego Flower 

 Association. Alfred D. Robinson, L. 

 A. Blochraan, S. M. Daley, Kate O. 

 Sessions. Linian J. Gage. Rodney 

 Stockes and Mrs. P. P. White. 



Hollister, Calif.— Pieters & Wheeler 

 Seed Co., capital stock subscribed en- 

 tirely by A. J. Pieters, president; H. 

 M. Pieters, vice-president; L. W. 

 Wheeler, secretary. Mr. Wheeler was 

 formerly with Vaughan's Seed Store of 

 New York. 



THE GLADIOLUS. 



Planting, Culture, Storing, etc. 



The best soil for the gladiolus is a 

 sandy loam with gravelly sub-soil, 

 fairly well enriched with cow dressing 

 spread on the land in the fall and 

 plowed under in the spring. 



The small sized bulbs and bulblets 

 may be planted about the last of 

 April and first of May and the larger 

 bulbs from that time in succession to 

 the 20th of June or later and they may 

 be had in flower in the latitude of 

 New England from the last part of 

 .July until freezing weather. 



Plant in rows 18 to 20 inches apart, 

 placing the bulbs not more than three 

 times the size of the bulb apart in 

 double rows alternating thus — 



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and the foliage will touch and sup- 

 port itself and stand up perfectly with- 

 out staking or artificial support of 

 any kind. Depth to plant varies with 

 size of bulb, soil, culture, etc., in most 

 cases two to four inches deep being 

 customary. 



The soil should be kept well culti- 

 vated from planting time until the 

 flowers begin to come; especially stir 

 the soil after every rain to break up 

 the soil particles and prevent evapora- 

 tion of moisture. Later in the season 

 mulching between the rows with grass 

 or strawy dressing would be better 

 than cultivation. 



Pick the flow'cr spike when two low- 

 er flowers are open, place in water in 

 a cool room and thej' will keep nearly 

 two weeks. This early picking of the 

 flowers conserves the strength of the 

 bulbs and they make a better growth 

 and produce more bulblets. 



As to varieties, America is one of 

 the very best for florists' use. White 

 Sandersonii, Shakespeare, May and 

 other light colored varieties, may be 

 used in design work and are in good 

 demand. Princeps, Mrs. Francis King, 

 Independence and other varieties of 

 large sized flowers and spike, sell well 

 for bouquets and general decorative 

 work. 



The bulbs should be dug vphen thor- 

 oughly ripened, usually after hard 

 frosts; the tops should be cut off close 

 to top of bulb. The bulbs may be 

 stored in shallow trays with air spaces 

 between in a cool cellar, a temperature 

 of about 40 degrees being best. 



The bulblets may be cleaned off and 

 bulbs sized ready for planting, during 

 the winter after they get dried enough 

 so that the bulblets will clean off eas- 

 ily. E. R. M. 



ROSES FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD 

 AND PRESIDENT TAFT. 



Your issue of February 5th, page 210, 

 contains a query as to Farquhar's ad- 

 vertised rose Flower of Fairfield, 

 whether it is a continuous bloomer. 

 You may state on my behalf, that I 

 saw the rose in question last summer 

 flowering in Orleans, France, with Lev- 

 avasseur & Sons, also in a German nur- 

 sery of Thuringia. Both parties as- 

 sured me that the Flower of Fairfield 

 had thus far proved a continuous flow- 



GREEN 



Cane Stakes 



For Your Lilies 



6 to 8 ft., $7.00 per 1000 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, 



42 Vesey St., New York. 



I OFFER CHOICE QUALITY 



Early Ohio Potatoes, Si.oabu.; Early Irish Cob- 

 blers, $i.oo bu.; Genuine Danish Ball-head Cab- 

 bage Seed (importcil stock) $4.00 lb. AU Early 

 Radish seed (French Stoke) $.40 per lb. N rthern 

 ^rown Kellow or White Onion Sets, $3.35 per bu. 

 All F. O. B, Syracuse. Remittance with ordei. 

 Reference any bank in Syracuse. 



F. H. EBELING, Seedsman 



Established i368. SyraCUSG, N.Y. 



PARRAPP Wakefield and Succession. 

 UnUDHuC $1.50 per 1000. $8.50 per 10,000. 



PARSLEY l\"l,\v:z. 



I CTTIinC B'S Boston, Boston Market mnd 

 LCI I UUL Grand Kapids. $i.c» per looo. 



BEET PLANTS .in? per 1000. 



C\SH WITH OrDEFS 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO. 



White March, Md. 



Peas and Beans 



IE you want our growing prices foe 

 Crop 1910 please let us know. 



Alfred J. Brown Seed Co. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. 



ering Crimson Rambler, only remain- 

 ing shorter in tlie wood, since its 

 strength to make new wood was part- 

 ly aljsorbed in the plant's efforts to 

 produce flowers; otherwise in color, 

 foliage, etc., it is simply a Crimson 

 Rambler. It is reported to be a sport 

 of the Crimson Rambler, originating 

 with a Mr. Ludorf, and put on the 

 market since the season of 190S-1909. 

 1 was told that the rose thus far did 

 not grow taller than about six feet. 

 How it will act in our climate will 

 soon be established. 



Referring to the rose President Taft, 

 placed on our market by a Holland 

 firm, such is the German rose Leucht- 

 feuer, originated with the German rose 

 grower, H. Kiese, who sold it to said 

 Dutch firm, with the privilege of re- 

 naming it. The foreign lists continue 

 fo offer this rose as "Leuchtfeuer," 

 which in German means Beacon-light; 

 it is a Bengal cross of Cramoisi-Super- 

 ieur with Gruss an Teplitz. 



WINFRIED ROELKER. 



Larlmore, N. D. — S. F. Mercer & J. 

 H. Magoris have opened a new seed 

 store under the firm name of M. & M. 

 Seed Store. They do a catalogue trade, 

 buying, selling and growing seeds, 

 plants, etc. 



