September 24. 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



439 



The cream of the crop in Japan is Horseshoe Brand Giganteum of superior assort- 

 ment. This brand is selected and packed by men who know ; the bulbs will 

 average better per thousand than any brand known. The price is $75 per lOOO 

 for size 7 to 9 inches, no matter who you are or where you are or how many 

 you buy. Every case is recorded and contains a certificate of origin. No other 

 dealer gets this brand — it is sold exclusively from this office direct to the growers. 



RALPH M. WARD & CO. 



12 West Broadway, New York 



Not How Cheap 

 Bat How Good 



FOR PARCELS POST. 



Following upon its big victory In 

 the establishment of rural free deliv- 

 ery service in the '90s, the Farmers' 

 National Congress, which will hold its 

 thirtieth annual session at Lincoln, 

 October 6 to 11, has undertaken a cam- 

 paign for parcels post. Time after 

 time the congress has adopted resolu- 

 tions favoring parcels post and its 

 more active officers have done much 

 detailed work. With a victory in sight 

 the congress hopes at the Lincoln con- 

 vention to make a demand on the na- 

 tional congress that will result in 

 something, the officials having come to 

 the conclusion that a trial of parcels 

 post on the rural routes only at first Is 

 a practicable object. 



In its fight the Farmers' National 

 Congress is seconded by the rural let- 

 ter carriers themselves who, in several 

 recent state meetings, have passed reso- 

 lutions favoring parcels post. The 

 rural letter carriers come in contact 

 with thousands of individuals and are 

 in a position to know what the people 

 of the country want. 



Several officials of the congress have 

 visited Lincoln and have expressed 

 their approval of the efforts that are 

 being made to entertain the delegates 

 to the congress during the October 

 meeting. The congress is expected to 

 draw 2,000 delegates to Lincoln from 

 twenty-five or thirty states. The wide 

 territory and even wider variety of in- 

 terests represented make the resolu- 

 tions of the F. N. C. matters of more 

 significance than the resolutions passed 

 by granges or societies of restricted 

 areas. Another big boost will be given 

 parcels post at the Lincoln convention. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



A special Dahlia show will be held 

 in Michell's stores from Tuesday, Sep- 

 tember 27, until Friday, September 30. 



Paul Huebner has had no vacation 

 this year. Mrs. Huebner was near go- 

 ing the journey. Appendicitis. All 

 sate now. 



Maurice Fuld has now got well set- 

 tled with the Michell Co. and likes the 

 job. He is now located at 5302 Haver- 

 ford avenue, Philadelphia, and will be- 

 come a member of the Philadelphia 

 Florists' Club at its next meeting. 



Lloyd G. Blick and party were enter- 

 tained through Philadelphia by Edward 

 Reid. Atlantic seaboard points from 

 Atlantic City to Maine are on the Blick 

 auto program. Then Buffalo and other 



points in New York, Pennsylvania and 



other states. 



Charles S. Grey is now with Messrs. 

 Habermehl at the Bellevue-Stratford. 

 His intimate acquaintance with the 

 wholesale business ought to make him 

 a valuable acquisition to this great out- 

 fit in retail realms. We welcome him; 

 and hope that he will not crowd the 

 poor grower too hard, and that he will 

 always recognize a good new thing 

 when he sees it. 



Visitors this week: Messrs. Graos 

 & Gibson, of the Zieger Co., Pittsburgh, 

 Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. P. Hobbs, Richmond, 

 Va.; G. P. Mechlin of G. P. Mechlin & 

 Co., East Liberty (late of Randolph & 

 McClements. Pittsburgh, Pa.); L. G. 

 Blick. Norfolk, Va.; Misses Mooney 

 and Weir, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; H. P. 

 Kelsey, Salem, Mass.; Robt. Pyle. 

 West Grove, Pa. 



PERSONAL. 



A. Miller, lately with Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, is now traveling for the Skid- 

 elsky-Irwin Co., of Philadelphia. 



Miss Laura B. Dawson commenced 

 her term as teacher in horticulture at 



Groton, Mass., on Tuesday, September 

 20. 



Richard Vincent, Jr., of White 

 .Marsh, Md., is booked for a lecture 

 before the Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia, first Tuesday in October, and be- 

 fore the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Baltimore on the second Monday. 

 Mr. Vincent has a magnificent lot of 

 lantern slides on the Holland bulb 

 industry. 



Cincinnati. — Wm. H. Gear is again 

 on duty at his store, 15th and Vine, 

 having returned from the Snow's, 

 Sept. 15th. Mr. Herms and sister, of 

 the Herms Floral Co., Portsmouth, O., 

 were in the city the past week, visit- 

 ing the Ohio Valley Exposition. Vic- 

 tor H. Thomas, Augusta, Ky., was also 

 a visitor. 



Visitors in Boston: A. Kakuda, of 

 Yokohama Nursery Co.. New York; H. 

 S. De Forest, of Pierson U-Bar Co., 

 New York; John Hall, secretary Amer- 

 ican Nurserymen's Association, Roch- 

 ester, N. Y.; Frank McMahon and wife, 

 Seabright, N. J., and D. Dean and wife, 

 Little Silver, N. J., on a New England 

 auto trip. 



READY FOR DELIVERY 



Narcissus Paper White Grandiflora 



Of this, the most popular and most profitable ot all bulbs for florists' forcing, 

 we have a very large stock, and also of the very best, largest flowering quality. 

 These bulbs we can place In cold storage for our customers and deliver them as 

 wanted up to January 1st, at an additional cost of 25 cts. per 1000 per month 

 after September 1st. 



100 1030 5000 ioo;o 



FIRST SIZE BULBS, i3 ctms, and up $i.io $9.00 $43.75 $85.00 



MONSTER BULBS, i4 ctms, and up 1.30 11.00 53-75 106.00 



JUMBO BULBS, 15 ctms, and up 250 20.00 



ROMAN HYACINTHS doz. 



White, 12 to 15 elms, 2000 to case $0.50 $2.75 $24.00 



White, 13 to 15 ctms, 1500 to case 75 3.25 30.00 



White, 15 ctms, and up, 1000 to case i.oo 4.5o 40.00 



Lilium Harrisii 



5x7, -ioo to case $0. 75 $5 .00 $40 00 



6 " 7' SS? 'o case 1.00 7.00 50.00 



7x9, 200 to case 1.50 9.00 80 00 



Lilium Formosum 



7x9, 300 to case $1.25 $ 8.50 $75.00 



9 X 10, 200 to case 1.50 10.00 95 00 



Lilium Candidum 



MAWMOTH BULBS $1.00 $6,00 $4000 



THICK PETALED VARIETY 1.00 6.50 60.00 



Stumpp & Walter Co. 



50 Barclay Street, - NEW YORK 



