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HOETICULTUEE 



October 11, 1913 



Walter Mott's 

 Notes by the Way 



In Georgia. 



Idlehour Greenhouses, Macon, Ga., 

 are very busy, for in addition to the 

 extensive local trade several surround- 

 ing towns are supplied by them. 

 Americus. a town of 8000, without a 

 greenhouse, looks as though there 

 should be a good location for a live 

 florist who wishes to branch out. Cer- 

 tainly times were never better here 

 than now; with cotton bringing as 

 high as 15c. the farmer has money to 

 spend. Albany is another instance of 

 of a live town of nearly 9,006, yet no 

 florist. The inhabitants are flower 

 lovers, as is shown by the well-kept 

 gardens and tasteful displays. One of 

 the finest sights I have seen is right 

 on the porch of my hotel, which covers 

 an entire block. On the north Wis- 

 taria sinensis: facing south, Antigo- 

 non leptopus with its lovedy long 

 racemes of pink flowers backed with 

 rich green foliage. Plumbago coerulea, 

 Jasminum nudiflorum, Lamarque and 

 Marechal Niel roses. Ipomrra iniperi- 

 alis is a glorious liicture, while can- 

 nas are now in full bloom. 



Speaking with .Mark AV. .Johnson, a 

 pioneer seedsman of Atlanta, he re- 

 marked that never to his knowledge 

 has there been a better demand for 

 high-class stock. Farmers are doubling 

 their acreage in alfalfa, which has not 

 only yielded a phenomenal seed crop, 

 but with many who are growing it for 

 the first time, four crops have been cut 

 in the year. It is practically immune 

 to the ravages of the bug and adapted 

 to almost every variety of climate. 



English or Perennial Rye makes a 

 fine lawn here the first year succeeded 

 by Bermuda grass. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Oregon State Horticultural Society. 

 —Proceedings of the 27th Annual 

 Meeting held at Portland, Ore., No- 

 vember 20-22, 1912. Devoted mostly to 

 fruit topics, orchard management, etc. 

 Frank W. Power is Secretary. 



Illinois Horticultural Society. — Pro- 

 ceedings at first Summer Meeting, An- 

 na, 111., July 30-31, 1913. The different 



Send your biuiness direct to WaaiiingtoB. 

 Saves time and inaures better service. 

 Personal attention ffUBrnnteed. 

 Thirty years active service. 



SIGGERS & SIGGERS 



PATKNT LAWYHHS 



Box 9, National Union Building 

 Waihington, D. C. 



KING AUTOMATIC AIR VALVE 

 HOT WATER HEATINQ 



This little valve will keep your 

 hot water system absolutely free 

 from air. Place one on the high 

 point of the coils and your air 

 troubles will be over. Price $2.00 

 each, charges paid. 



KING CONSTRUCTION CO., 



28 Kiag's Road fe 

 North Toaawanda, N. Y 



Makers of &loS Iron Frame Grecnliogsas 



phases of gardening for utility and for 

 ornament appear to be given due at- 

 tention in this periodical, which is un- 

 doubtedly doing useful work. 



Proceedings of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Nurserymen, 1913. Secre- 

 tary Hall has come forward with com- 

 mendable promptness with this excel- 

 lent record of the convention held 

 June 18, 19 and 20, at Portland, Ore- 

 gon, jointly with the Pacific Coast 

 Association of Nurserymen. Portraits 

 of the president and secretary of each 

 organization appear as a frontispiece. 



Bulletin No. 10, "Suggestions on the 

 Preparation and Use of Spray Formu- 

 las," has just been issued by the State 

 Board of Entomology of Tennessee. 

 The correspondence coming to the 

 Board continually for information on 

 the simplest and best remedies for the 

 control of insect pests and plant dis- 

 eases is daily increasing and to facili- 

 tate replies this bulletin has been ar- 

 ranged. 



It is a publication consisting of 24 

 pages with nine half-tone cuts. Special 

 attention is given to preventives. 

 While much may be accomplished in 

 the control of insect pests and fungous 

 diseases by the use of fungicides and 

 insecticides, more attention should be 

 given to the prevention of the intro- 

 duction of crop pests by judicious leg- 

 islation, to the selection of resistant 

 plants, to the elimination of weeds 

 and worthless plants which harbor 

 pests or act as intermediary hosts and 

 are often of the same family as those 

 under cultivation, to judicious rotation 

 of crops, and to better drainage, culti- 

 vation and fertilization. 



The formulas are arranged under 

 five heads, those for biting insects, 

 those for piercing insects, combined 

 insecticides and fungicides, fumigating 

 and fungicides. Attention is given to 

 apraying to kill weeds. General su.c- 

 gestions are also given in this bulle- 

 tin regarding spray chemicals and nec- 

 essary precautions of their use. From 

 cover to cover it contains valuable in- 

 formation and should be in the hands 

 of all the readers of this paper. Cop- 

 ies may be had by sending 4 cents in 

 stamps to the State Board of Entomol- 

 ogy, Knoxville, Tenn. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED, 



Denver, Col. C. F. Maler, one house. 



Oneida, N. Y. Wm. Kraft, one house. 



Hudson, Mich. R. J. Peterson, two 

 houses. 



Cameron, Mo. Ralph Ward, one 

 house. 



Spokane, Wash. Patrick Leavey, 100' 

 ft. house. 



Muskegon, Mich. L. Wasserman, 

 one house. 



Kirkwood, Mo. A. F, Kopp, range 

 of houses. 



Quincy, Mass. Walter .\I. Packard, 

 one house. 



South Portland, Me. \V. E. Dyer, 

 one house. 



Avondale, Pa. Chas. B. Snyder, 

 three houses. 



Baltimore, Md. H. J. Quick, two 

 Moninger houses. 



Danbury, Ct. F. E. Mathewson, 

 house. 4ii by 200. 



Fremont, Neb, Charles H. Green, 

 house 32 by 120. 



Worcester, Mass. Whittemore & 

 Co.. River St.. one house. 



Vancouver, B. C. Brown Bros., 

 Port Hammond, rebuilding. 



San Antonio, Tex. F. C. .\lbrecht, 

 E. Commerce St.. one house. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. Alfred Hannah 

 Greenhouse Co.. Easton Ave.. 



Baltimore, Md. A. Spath, Jr. & 

 Son. Roland Park, additions and al- 

 terations. 



Flushing, N, Y. Louis Enne. White- 

 stone avenue, four houses, each 300 

 feet long. 



Wilmington, Del. .Alfred I. du Pont, 

 range of conservatories; two 24 x 85 

 feet each, two 12 x 18 feet each. Jas. 

 M. Smyth, builder. 



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