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HORTICULTURE 



May 7, 1910 



Horseshoe Brand Bamboo Cane Stakes 



Just Arrived from Japan. 



Four, five, six, ei^Kt and ten feet 

 natural and ^reen stakss, 



LiLii:s 



Speciosums slor^le Giganteums 



Ready for Immediate Shipment. 



Send for the Horseshoe Brand Catalogue. 



Ralph M. Ward ®, Co, 



12 West Broadway, New York 



BLIZZARD DAMAGE. 



A wholesale fruit dealer of Elgin, 111. 

 estimates the loss of fruit in Elgin and 

 vicinity as a result of the recent bliz- 

 zard to be from $15,000 to $20,000. The 

 total loss of the County he states will 

 probably reach $75,000. The cold damp 

 weather after the freeze is all that 

 saved gardens and field truck and pre- 

 vented a wholesale killing of trees. 

 Garden truck while damaged was not a 

 total loss, so that the cash loss will not 

 amount to a high total. The crop can 

 be planted again. Much of the fruit 

 of this section of the country is ruined 

 without question. However there are 

 still hopes tor strawberries, grapes, 

 raspberries, currants and gooseberries, 

 which are now recovering. The great- 

 est damage to garden truck was to the 

 tender tomato plants and beans. 



Mr. Prescott of Marengo was perhaps 

 the greatest loser in this section as he 

 had prospects of a record crop from his 

 7,000 to 10,000 cherry trees. A. F. 

 Hatch of South Elgin lost 8,000 tomato 

 plants and his rhubarb and asparagus 

 were badly nipped. His whole crop of 

 lettuce was destroyed. 



A PATRIARCHAL TREE. 



"SPLENDID RESULTS." 

 Editor HORTICULTURE: — 



The season is now closed for the 

 sale of our Mary Tolman carnation 

 plants. In looking over results we find 

 we have received splendid results 

 from our advertisements in HORTI- 

 CULTURE. Y„^^3 ,^^,y_ 



A. E. HUNT & CO., 

 April 18, 1910. Evanston, III. 



This old apple tree on the farm of 

 L. H. Buzzell, Harrington, New Hamp- 

 shire, is 12 ft. 4 in. in circumference; 

 the three main limbs being 6 ft. 3 in.; 

 5 ft. 9 in.; 6 ft. 10 in. respectively. 

 According to an authentic record it 

 was a large tree bearing fruit in 17S1 

 — 129 years ago. It bore about 25 



bushels of apples in 1909. It is esti- 

 mated to be over 250 years old. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — The Superior 

 Court jury has awarded a verdict of 

 $250 to Charles Leising in the case 

 brought by the lad against Henry 

 Smith, the florist. Leising fell from 

 a tree while picking cherries on the 

 Smith farm last summer and was 

 painfully hurt. 



