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HORTI CULTURE 



July 9, 1910 



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PANSY S E E D — Michell's Giant Strain 



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Our Giant Prize Pansies are not to be compared with the ordl- 

 iinry Giant Trimardeau; the seed we offer will produce flowers of 

 much heavier texture. 



GIANT PRIZE Trade plit. 



Azure Blue 40c 



Black Blue 40c 



Kinperor William.... 40c 



llortensia Red 40c 



I..ord BeacnnHfleld... . 40c 



Oz. 

 $1.50 

 1.50 

 1.50 

 2.00 

 1.50 



GIANT PRIZE Trade pkt. 

 Snow Queen, pure 



white 40c 



White with Eye 40c 



Pure Yellow 40c 



Yellow with Eye 40c 



Oz. 



1.50 

 1.50 

 1.50 

 1.50 



MICHELL-S GI^NT EXHIBITION MIXTURE. A Giant Strain 

 \^ liicli we have procured from the leading Pansy specialists in Eng- 

 land, Germ;iny and France, and for size of bloom, heavy texture and 

 \aried shades and colors, cannot be excelled. Trade packet, 50c.; 

 T.'h'. per Vg oz. ; per ounce, $5.00. 



Our Wliolesale Summer Catalogue of Seeds, Bull>§ and Supplies, 

 free upon reiiuest. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518-1018 Market St.,Philadelphia 



Seed Trade 



Jamestown, N. Dak. — The State Ag- 

 ricultural College has appropriated 

 $4500 for the new seed house at the 

 Dickinson Experiment Station. 



W. Atlee Burpee, Wm. Henry Maule. 

 and other big seedsmen who are mem- 

 bers of the club will no doubt be grati- 

 fied at this evidence of progressiveness 

 on the part of their well-trained serv- 

 ants. G. C. W. 



Springfield, Mo. — The old officers of 

 the Springfield Seed Co. were re-elect- 

 ed at a meeting of the board of direc- 

 tors recently. The officers re-elected 

 are R. R. Ricketts, president; L. H. 

 Murray, vice-president; A. S. Sanders, 

 secretary. 



Dallas, Tex. — The Robinson Seed & 

 Plant Co. and the Texas Seed & Floraf 

 Co. have reorganized with a capital 

 stock of $100,000 and will hereafter be 

 known as the Texas Seed & Floral Co. 

 A new building 85 x 175 feet four 

 stories and basement, to cost $75,000. 

 will be erected at once. New green- 

 houses will be added to their plant in 

 Oak Cliff. The officers of the new 

 firm are R. Nicholson, president; E. P. 

 Brown, vice-president, and C. W. Rob- 

 inson, secretary and treasurer. 



A LITTLE LEARNING. 



An arnusing incident happened in 

 Philadelphia recently. The loniest of 

 all the tony clubs (The Union League) 

 has been building an addition at a cost 

 of about a million, and in front had 

 two spaces of about 12 x 50 ft. to put 

 down to grass. A well-known jobbing 

 gardener was entrusted with the sod- 

 ding contract and just as he had same 

 finished the writer happened along — 

 and was asked for his opinion of the 

 job. "Fine piece of work," said the 

 latter; "but you'd better sow a bit of 

 lawn grass so as to fill up the crevices 

 and any little bare spot." "That's all 

 been attended to," said the artist — 

 "the official awarding the contract had 

 read up all the books and had already 

 put in about four bushels of bone meal 

 and halt a bushel of lawn grass." So 

 the sods were put on top of the lawn 

 grass. This is a new wrinkle for our 

 friend Leonard Barron for his next 

 edition of "Lawns and Lawn Making." 

 Thanks! No charge!! Such leadin.g 

 lights in the horticultural world as 



Erford L. Page 



President-elect American Seed Traile 

 Association. 



INCORPORATED. 



Dallas, Tex.— Texas Seed & Floral 

 Co.. capital stock $100,000. 



Wheeling, W. Va. — Homestead Pe- 

 can & Nursery Co., capital stock $25,- 

 000. Incorporators. A. C. Snedeker. 

 George Rentsch. .John McCall, J. H. 

 Devore and A. L. Meyer. 



Tulsa, Okla. — The Binding-Stevens 

 Seed Co., capital stock $75,000. Direc- 

 tors. W. J. Stevens, Wichita, Kans.: 

 C. R. Binding. Muskogee, Okla.; J. W. 

 Binding, Lewis Orth and J. W. Strat- 

 ton of Tulsa, Okla. 



POPPIES AND PRIMROSES. 



Luther Burhank has been perfecting 

 some more things. While congress and the 

 courts try to perfect railroad rates or a 

 lark thereof, while Norman Mack tries 



to perfect a democratic presidential pos- 

 sibility, while the Boston finance commis- 

 sion tries to perfect a city administration, 

 Burbank is occupied in more aesthetic and 

 fragrant matters. For his emphasis upon 

 the ornamental, with occasional excursions 

 to cactusdom, we praise and approve him. 

 Yet, like all enthusiasts for big things, he 

 neglects the small and important. Just as 

 the lairk of a pin mars the fit and dignity 

 of a silk gown, or as the lack of benzoate 

 of soda makes jam Hat to the modem 

 trained palate, so Luther Burbank's ex- 

 clusive attention to evolving poppies "larger 

 and of brighter hue" by involving poppies 

 smaller and of dimmer hues, and to making 

 white primroses five inches across and pro- 

 portionately deep, he misses the opportun- 

 ity to create a bachelor's button that can 

 he sewed on trousers, edible and luscious 

 candy-tuft, negotiable marigolds, and tour- 

 o'docks tliat keep time. He fails to graft 

 the sagebrnsh on the coxcomb, and to vit- 

 alize a primrose so it will stay prim when 

 the sun shines hot upon it. "There is an 

 opportunity for a Burbank who will attend 

 to the lesser sensations of plant life. — /7<ij- 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



C\BBACF— All Head Sue- Per loo Per looo 

 cession, Second E.»rly, Early 

 Summer, Flat Dutch. Surehead 

 I.ianish Round and Ball Head 2:c. $i.oo 



I o.ooo and over Sscts. per i oo i 



ECC PLANTS - Black 



Beauty a-d New York Improved 40c. 2.00 



PFPPERS-BulI Nose, Ruby 



King and Sweet Mountain 40:. 2.00 



CELERY— White Plum, 



Golden Self Blanching. Giant 



Pascal, Golden Heart and 



Hoston Market 20c. i.co 



iD.ooo and over Sjcts. per 1,000 

 Cash with 0:ders 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO. 



White Marsh, Md. 



SEASONABLE 

 SEEDS 



FOR THE 



FLORIST 



H. E. FUk« Seed Co., 

 BostMk. Hms 



CATALOGUE 



Designing and Illustrating 



For florists, seedsmen, etc. Photographs 

 and designs of all kinds carefully made 

 and promptly submitted. 



CEO. E. DOW 



^— 178 Washington St, Boston, Mass. 



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