March 12, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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LILIES FOR YOU 



The same High Grade for Easter that we 

 Have Been Furnishing in Years Past 



Packed in Boxes of Twenty-five Pots each, nicely Crated over the Top. Our 

 Packing is undoubtedly the BEST IN THE UNITED STATES. Average 5 

 flowers to the plant. One extra plant, gratis, in each Crate. Prices in case lots, 

 12 J-2:. per Flower. Five or more cases I2c. per Flower. ORDER EARLY so 

 that we may be able to ship them Direct from the Greenhouses without rehandling. 



We carry a full line of fresh flowers, all varieties and 

 the largest stock of Florists' Supplies in New England 



Roses are our specialty. Ths two Killarneys, Richmond, Bride, Bridesmaid, Chat- 

 enay, Maryland, in all grades and prices. 



We can supply Grafted Roses — very fine stock; Also Bedding Plants in any 

 variety and quantity. 



Plant Auction Saies for Spring Season will begin first week in April 



N. F. McCarthy & co. 



Wholesale Florists and Supply Dealers 84 Hawley St., Boston 



ing nicely when the boy had a second 

 fall, this time down stairs, and was 

 talien to the Augustina hospital, where 

 an operation was ijertormert. 



F. B. Dickinson has resigned his 

 position as secretary of the E. H. 

 Hunt Co. and with his wife has re- 

 turned to his home in Chattanooga, 

 Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson very 

 much disliked the cold climate of the 

 North. No one has yet taken Mr. 

 Dickinson's place and Mrs. E. H. Hunt 

 is in the office temporarily. 



Visitors — Wm. A. Garden, Thorley, 

 N. Y. ; E. A. Fancourt, with Pennock- 

 .Meehan Co., Phila.; Harry Balsley, De- 

 troit, Mich.; C. W. Shepherd, Joliet, 

 111.; Mrs. S. M. Ellison and Harry Elli- 

 son of Ellison Floral Co., St. Louis, 

 Mo. 



A Correction. 



One paragraph in our notes from 

 Joliet, in last week's issue, got out of 

 its proper sequence and would be in- 

 terpreted as referring to the Chicago 

 Carnation Company, whereas it had 

 reference to the Thompson Carnation 

 Company. Beginning with the line, 

 "Under the supervision of Mr. Peter- 

 son," the paragraph refers to the lat- 

 ter concern. 



If you want reliable aster seed of 

 the most advanced type you can't do 

 better than send to Vick, who has 

 •done more for the development and 

 dissemination of high grade asters 

 than any other American seedsman. It 

 will pay you to read carefully his full 

 page advertisement on page 339, last 

 week's issue of HORTICULTURE. 



PERSONAL. 



Prof. Charles S. Sargent will start 

 in a few days for Texas in search of 

 new plants, plums especially. 



Julius E. Raether, of the Franklin 

 Park Floral Company, has been ap- 

 pointed florist for the Columbus, O., 

 State Hospital. 



J. R. Merritt, Woodbury, N. J., a 

 young man with a twelve thousand 

 carnation range, has been making a 

 good name for himself as a grower for 

 the Philadelphia market during the 

 past two years. 



Robert Laurie, the irrepressible, 

 erstwhile traveling salesman for W. 

 W. Rawson & Co., has returned to his 

 old love — "back to the mines" — and if 

 Colorado and Nevada mining stocks 

 do not now take on new activity it 

 will not be "Bob's" fault. 



Stewart Barclay Lohman, late of the 

 Merion Country Club, is now with the 

 Santa Barbara County Club, Santa 

 Barbara, Cal. This is within seventy 

 miles of his old friend, Edwin Lons- 

 dale, at Lompoc; and it will go hard 

 if there be not a congenial meeting in 

 the near future. 



J. W. Rodgers, superintendent of 

 parks of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been 

 visiting Riverside, Cal., and handed out 

 some very eloquent compliments to 

 that city. It is stated that Mr. Rodgers 

 is in California studying the eucalyp- 

 tus conditions, with the expectation of 

 starting a corporation in Cincinnati. 

 For this purpose he has been spending 

 some time in Fresno and Tulare coun- 



ties, where he is contemplating pur- 

 chasing land. 



Mr. and Mrs. William Kennedy of 

 Greenfield. Mass., celebrated the fif- 

 tieth anniversary of their marriage on 

 Jlarch 2. Mr. Kennedy was born April 

 N. 1842, at Aver, Scotland, and married 

 Miss Jane Sherrard in his eighteenth 

 year. At that time he was serving a 

 seven-years' apprenticeship as gar- 

 dener on the estate of the Duke of 

 Argyle. He began his apprenticeship 

 when 14 years of age, and at the com- 

 pletion of that period had to serve 

 another year in nursery work. He 

 then took a course in a botanical col- 

 lege at Glasgow. After fitting himself 

 for his chosen calling of gardener, Mr. 

 Kennedy was employed by Rector 

 White on an estate outside of Glasgow 

 and was later employed on the estate 

 of Sir Richard Wallace in Ireland, and 

 held similar positions on large estates 

 in other parts of Great Britain before 

 coming to the United States, 28 years 

 ago. For five years he was employed 

 on the estate of I. C. Nickerson at 

 East Brewster as landscape gardener. 

 For over 20 years Mr. Kennedy has 

 lived in Greenfield, where he has been 

 employed by the late James C. Con- 

 verse, the late G. Clinton Gardner, the 

 late George H. Hovey, George E. Rog- 

 ers and William H. Ulrich. He was 

 engaged for some time in business as 

 a florist. 



Visitors in Boston: E. S. Miller, 

 Wading River, N. Y. ; Paul Berkowitz, 

 of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia; 

 Julius Rozitsky, New Bedford, Mass.; 

 W. Dykes, representing Ed. Jansen, 

 New York; E. J. Harmon, Portland. 

 Me; E. Weinhoeber, Chicago. 



