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HORTICULTURE 



September 10, 1910 



Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill Park 



Middlesex, 

 near London 



England 



BrasBO-Cattleyaa and Braftso-Laellas, Hybrid-Cattleyas and Laello-Cattleyas, Dendrobium by the 1000; Cattleya Lablata 

 and Mennelll by the 1000; Cyprlpcdlum a Most Up-to-date Collection. OdontogloBsum by the 1000; Odontlodat, most 

 charming hybrids ; Oncldium Varlcosum by the lOJO; Oncidlum Marshalllanum. 



Full Catalogue on Application 



LILIUM HARRISII 



We offer selected stock of the original true Harrlsli for 

 early forcing, for which purpose Harrisii is so valuable. Our 

 stock is not picked up iudiscriminately from different sources, 

 but is grown from one stock, and will be found very superior 

 to the ordinary Harrisii usually offered, both in regard to 

 freedom from disease and purity, and not the late type now 

 so often furnished 



6 to 7-inch bulbs, 350 to the case, $17.50 per case; less 

 quantities, $6.00 per 100. 



7 to 9-inch bulbs, 200 to the ease. $18.00 per case; less 

 quantities, $10.00 per 100. 



NARCISSUS PAPER WHITE GRANDIFLORA. 14 c/m 



bulbs, 1,000 to the case, $1.25 per 100, $11.00 per 1,000. 



WHITE ITALIAN HTACINTHS. 12 to 15 C/m bulbS, 1,150 

 to the case, $2.50 per 100, $22.00 per 1,000. 



WHITE ROMAN HlfACINTHS. 12 to 15 c/m bulbs, 2,000 

 to the ease, $2.75 per 100, $25.00 per 1,000; 1.3 to 15 c/m bulbs, 

 1.600 to the case, $3.00 per 100, $28.00 per 1,000. 



BERMUDA BUTTERCUP OXALIS. 



).75 per 100, $6.00 per 1,000. 



Extra sized bulbs. 



FREESIAS, ERENCn-GROWN. Bulbs %-inch and up in 

 diameter, $1.00 per 100, .$8.00 per 1,000. 



SELECT FERNS 



For Fine Store Trade 



We offer a grand lot of exceptionally well-grown plants of 

 NEPHROLEPIS, which will be found one of the best lelUnff 

 and most profitable plants for florists to handle. Our atock 

 is in unusually flue shape, and we will guarantee that It will 

 please the most exacting. It is exceptionally good ralue at 

 the prices quoted. 



ELEGANTISSIMA IMPROVED. The finest of thla typ«, 

 never showing a Boston frond ; has not reverted In the laat 

 four years. Strong plants, 6-inch pots, 50c. each; fine speci- 

 mens, 8-inch pans, $1.00 each; strong young plants, 2^-lncb 

 pots for growing on, $10.00 per hundred. 



ELEGANTISSIMA COMPACTA. Bears the same relation 

 to Elegantlssima that Scottii does to Bostonlensls. Dwarf and 

 compact. Especially fine in the small sizes. Extra fine plants, 

 4-inch pots, 25c. each ; 6-lnch pots, 50c. each ; strong yoang 

 plants, 2V4-lnch pots for growing on, $10.00 per hundred. 



SUPERBI88IMA. Introduced by us In 1908. Very dUtinct 



and very popular. 4-inch pots, 25c. each; large speclmeni, 

 8-inch pans, $1.00 each. 



BOSTONIENSIS. Good plants. 6-lnch pots, 50c. each. 



w. le. i^iei«so:n^ oo 





NEW PLANT FOR H. A. DREER, 

 INC., AT RIVERTON, N. J. 



H. A. Dreer, Inc., are about to begin 

 the erection of an entire separate 

 greenhouse plant at Riverton, N. J., 

 on a location some distance from their 

 present greenhouses; the plant being 

 designed to eventually cover a very 

 large area. The plant will be built in 

 blocks; the first block to be erected 

 this season. The first block will be 

 built with a service building in the 

 center; the service building being 34 

 feet wide and 203 feet long. On each 

 side of the service building will be 

 one lean-to 203 feet long and from 

 each lean-to, will be built a range of 

 ten greenhouses, each 21 feet 9 inches 

 wide and 203 feet long, making a total 

 of twenty greenhouses and two lean- 

 tos. A cross passageway will be run 

 through the whole block of green- 

 houses from side to side, this passage- 

 way being three feet wide and there 

 being 100 feet of greenhouse on each 

 side of the passageway. The service 

 building will be of iron frame con- 

 struction and practically fireproof and 

 the roof will be built with a clear span 

 so that the interior will be free of 

 posts. Ten of the greenhouses will be 

 open under the gutters and will not 

 be provided with benches. These ten 

 greenhouses will be run at a low tem- 

 perature. The other ten greenhouses 

 will be divided by glass partitions un- 

 der the gutters and will have three- 

 benches in each house. These houses 

 will be run at a temperature of 60 to 

 65 degrees. For the heating plant a 

 fireproof iron frame and concrete boiler 

 house will be erected. There will be 

 four 75 h. p. boilers for heating; these 

 boilers being of the ordinary tubular 

 power type. There is also to be one 

 boiler for steam power. The boilers 

 will burn a low grade of coal and to 

 enable this to be done, a system of 

 forced draft is to be installed. The 

 heating will be by hot water using 2 



inch pipes for the radiating surface; 

 the boilers will be set on the level 

 and the water will be circulated 

 through the houses with centrifugal 

 pumps. The pumping plant will be in 

 duplicate so that in case of damage to 

 one plant, the other will be ready tor 

 operation. 



This is probably the largest piece 

 of construction work undertaken this 

 season and is claimed to be the largest 

 greenhouse building contract which 

 has been let out complete by any com- 

 mercial florist in this country. The 

 cost of the buildings and equipment 

 will be about |70,000. Contract for the 

 complete work has been awarded to 

 the King Construction Company. 



cultural establishments with from ten 

 to two hundred greenhouses each. 



Mr. Leuthy met in his travels a 

 number of American horticulturists, 

 including Mr. Strohlein, of Dreer's; 

 Mr. Brown, of Cottage Gardens Co.; 

 Mr. Bobbink, of Bobbink & Atkins, 

 and Mr. McKenzie, of John Scott. 



OBSERVATIONS BY LEUTHY. 



Antoine Leuthy, of Roslindale, Mass.. 

 has returned from his customary 

 European trip and has some interest- 

 ing things to say concerning condi- 

 tions as he found them over there this 

 year. He says that he found azaleas 

 decidedly scarce in Belgium and the 

 prices are highest on record. In estab- 

 lishments where a man had not been a 

 regular customer they were unwilling 

 to accept an order from him. Last 

 year there was a big freeze in Ger- 

 many which destroyed large quantities 

 of azaleas and the result was that 

 Belgium was called upon and the two- 

 year-old plants were pretty thoroughly 

 cleaned out. This will account in part 

 for the present scarcity, but the fact is 

 that the demand has been increasing 

 tremendously from all parts of the 

 world, Russia being by far the largest 

 consumer of Belgian azaleas. 



Ghent, which is the great market of 

 the world for azaleas, araucarias,. 

 tuberous begonias, palms, etc., holds 

 a monopoly which cannot be disturbed 

 for many years. Labor is cheap and 

 even with a 25 per cent, duty it would 

 be impracticable for America to be- 

 come a serious competitor. There are 

 in Ghent and vicinity over 900 horti- 



Waverley, Mass. — The R. E. Lass- 

 man Greenhouses have been purchased 

 by W. P. Collins, who will make im- 

 provements and grow a general line 

 of plants and cut flowers. 



Two of My Specialties 



FOR FALL DELIVERY 



Piiius resinosa loo looo 



8-12 Incb transplants, $20.00 $180.00 



Berberis Thunbergii 



15-18 ins., extremely bushy, 8.00 75.00 

 18-24 •' " ■■ 12.00 90.00 



24-30 ■' " " 15.00 120.00 



These plants are strong, healthy, shapely, 

 well-rooted and In every respect first grade 

 specimens. 



DANIEL A. CLARKE 



Red Oak Nurseries 



FISKEVILLE, - R.I. 



Godfrey Aschmann 



1012 W. Ontario St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Importer* Wholesale Grower and Ship- 

 per of Oar Specials, Arancarla Excelea 

 Compacta Robasta.ExcelBa Glaaca, Een- 

 tia BelmoreaDa and Forsterlana, also 

 Ferns, Begonia Glolre de Zjorraine, etc. 

 Write for Fricfs. 



BOSTON FERNS, '^ "tlr"" "" 



fa,UI-nijl A Kll 2%>'>c'' Ss-^pcr loo: $40.00 

 Wm I ITIMPIIf per 100?: 350 at 1000 rates. 



IVIAGNIFICA, IS cents each. 



H. H. BARROWS & SONS 



Whitman, Mass. 



