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HORTICULTURE 



July 23, 1910 



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PANSY 



MichelPs Giant Exhibition Mixture 



A Giant Strain wliicli we liave procured from tlie leading Pansy 

 specialists in England, Germany and France, and for size of bloom, 

 heavy texture and varied shades and colors, cannot be excelled. 

 Trade packet, 50e. ; 75c. p-'r Vfe oz. ; per ounce, $5.00. 



GIANT PRIZE Trade pkt. Oz. GI.4NT PRIZE Trade pkt. 



Oz. 



.Izure Blue 40c ?1.50 



Blacli Blue 40c 1.50 



Emperor William 40c 1.50 



Hortensia Red 40e 2.00 



Lord Beaconsfteld.. . . 40c 1.50 



Snow Queen, pure 



white 40c 1.50 



White with Eye 40c 1.50 



Pure Yellow 40c 1.50 



Yellow with Eye 40c 1.50 



MICHELL'S GI.\>T STR.ilN. Our Giant Prize Pansies are not 

 to be compared with the ordinary Giant Trimardeau; the seed we 

 offer will produce flowers of much heavier texture. 



Our Wholesale Summer Catalogue of Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies, 

 free upon request. 



HENRY F. MIGHELL CO. 



518-1018 Market St., Philadelphia 



Seed Trade 



Charles' H. Breck sailed for Europe 

 on the Saxonia. from Boston, July 19. 



Howard M. Earl left Philadelphia on 

 the 14th for an inspection tour among 

 the seed crops in Michigan, and at 

 other points. Burnet Landreth is also 

 off on an inspection tour at present. 



Dallas, Tex.— The Texas Seed & 

 Floral Co., R. Nicholson president, has 

 been reorganized with a capital stock 

 of $12.5,000 instead of $100,000 as re- 

 cently stated. They will erect an 

 85 X 175-fnot building, three stories 

 and basement, construction to begin 

 in September. 



INCORPORATED. 

 Newark, N. J. — The Greenhouse 

 Construction Co., capital stock $12.5,- 

 000, Incorporators, H. A. Froham 

 and others. 



Memphis, Tenn. — Idlewild Green- 

 house Co., capital stock $20,000. In- 

 corporators, C. W. Schwill, T. G. 

 Owen and others. 



Bloomington, III.— The Bloomington 

 Nursery Co., capital stock $200,000. 

 Sidney Tuttle, president, and W, E. 

 Rossney, secretary. 



Lewlston, Idaho. — The Lewiston Val- 

 ley Nursery Co., capital stock, $10,000. 

 Incorporators, E. E. Eastwood, J. C. 

 Whipple and others. 



Evanston, III.— The Frank Kadlec 

 Nursery Co., capital stock $.50,000. 

 Frank Kadlec, Harry T. Kadlec and 

 Herbert Cordt incorporators. 



Lockport, N. Y. — Niagara Mushroom 

 & Spawn Co., capital stock $6,000. In- 

 corporators, Clay W. Parsons, Charles 

 H. Papworth, E. Clarence Papworth 

 and others. 



Ridgewood, N. J.— Weeber & Don, 

 incorporated to deal in seeds, bulbs, 

 etc. Capital stock $100,000. Incor- 

 porators, Alex. L. Don, Emma C. Don, 

 etc., all of Ridgewood. 



We understand that commencing next 

 November, "Country Life in America" 

 will be published semi-monthly. 



INFECTED NURSERY STOCK IN 

 BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



Consul-General George N, West, of 

 Vanc-ouver, furnishes the following 

 particulars of a large amount of im- 

 ported nursery plants destroyed by 

 fire in British Columbia, under the di- 

 rection of the provincial inspector of 

 fruits and orchards: 



The trees destroyed came from Jap- 

 an, Germany, Holland, Belgium, 

 Prance, the United Kingdom, and from 

 the United States, and consisted of 

 some 30,000 trees and plants infected 

 with San Jose scales, borers, root gall, 

 apple-tree anthracnose, pear blight, 

 and all the other various fruit-tree dis- 

 eases known. The trees included ap- 

 ple, pear, quince, peach, apricot, crab, 

 nectarine, small fruit, and ornamental 

 shrubs. The inspector stated that 

 there was enough infection destroyed 

 in this lot to have infected the whole 

 of British Columbia. 



Not only is the imported nursery 

 stock inspected, but all the nurseries 

 throughout the Province. No company 

 or individual is permitted to distribute 

 trees until they have passed inspection 

 by competent inspectors. The same 

 rule is followed regarding the sale of 

 fruit, and there is not a package of in- 

 fected fruit sold in British Columbia 

 today. All is carefully inspected, and 

 if found to be diseased is condemned 

 and cremated or sent back to the 

 country from which it was shipped. 

 This rule is applied as strictly to east- 

 ern Canadian grown fruit as it is to 

 fruit grown in the United States. The 

 policy of the department is to main- 

 tain absolutely clean orchards and 

 clean, wholesome fruit, with a maxi- 

 mum of profit to the grower. Im- 

 portations this year have been unusu- 

 ally large. 



Nurserymen sending stock into Brit- 

 ish Columbia that is at all infected 

 stand to lose, because they have to 

 bear the loss when it is destroyed. 

 Praise was given to the nursery stock 

 and fruit imported from Utah, "it is to 

 the interest of growers of nursery stock 

 in the United States to take particular 

 care to see that any stock sold to be 

 used in the Province of British Col- 

 umbia is perfectly clean in every re- 



spect, and shippers of fruit should also 

 be sure that the fruit and packages 

 are entirely free from parasites; other- 

 wise it will be condemned and not al- 

 lowed to be used in the Province. 



BIG MONEY IN APPLES. 



Pomona Ranch, Dayton, Wash., 

 owned by J. L.. Dumas, former presi- 

 dent of the Washington Horticultural 

 Society, was sold July 3 to Dr, C. F. 

 Schiltz. of Wenatchee, and L. M. Van- 

 nice and E. S. Hubbard of Dayton, for 

 $150,000. This is the largest sale of 

 bearing orchard ever made in the 

 Northwest. Of 240 acres in the ranch, 

 100 is bearing orchard, 30 acres young 

 orchard, and 70 more will be planted 

 at once. This year's crop, estimated at 

 75,000 boxes, goes to the purchasers. 

 Dumas originally invested $3050 in 140 

 acres and returns from his young or- 

 chard enabled him to buy 100 acres 

 more later. Returns from the orchard 

 in the last three years exceeded $100,- 

 000. The orchard has an international 

 reputation. 



A joint ownership plan will be fol- 

 lowed in operating the big farm. C. L. 

 Dornberger will be foreman. Two of 

 the buyers are pioneer wheat farmers 

 of Dayton. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Wilfrid Wheeler. Concord. Mass. — 

 Midsummer and Fall List of Pot- 

 Grown Strawberry Plants. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York.— 

 Wholesale Trade Price-List of High- 

 Class Bulbs for forcing and for outdoor 

 planting. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



C*BBACE— AH Head Sue- Per xoo Per looo 

 cession, SecooH Early. Early 

 Summer. Flat Dutch, Surehead 

 Danish Round and Rail Head ace. $i.oo 



10,000 and over, 85015. per i odo 



CELERY - White Plume, 

 Golden Self Blanching, Giant 

 Pascal, Golden Heart and 

 Boston Market 20c. i.co 



10,000 and over Sscts. per 1,000 

 Cash with Oadkbs 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO. 



White Marsh. Md. 



