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HORTICULTURE 



October 29, 1910 



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OUR SENSATIONAL NEW 

 OSTRICH PLUME CELOSIA 



" Pride of Castle Gould " 



in grand shape at our greenhouses, in ^ and 8 in. pots — 2 to 3 ft. tall. Piice J2.50 and $3.00 each. 



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Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J. 



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Hyacinths Tulips Narcissi 



Best Quality for Forcing and Outdoor Growing 



ALL THE LEADING NAMED VARIETIES 



Special Offer: As an inducement to secure ordeis for a general line of bulbs we quote : Hyacinths Unnamed 

 Single, any color, $2.10 per C, $19.50 per M. 



To secure these prices mention this paper 



Send us an order for other varieties. See our AD in Oct. 15 issue. 



IF YOU WANT THE BEST QUALITY, OUR PRICES ARE LOW. 



James Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



M. Rice of M. Rice & Co., accom- 

 panied by Mrs. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. 

 Knock and party, left on an auto tour 

 on the 22nd inst. Asbury Parlv and 

 other interesting points are on the 

 itinerary. 



Frank Faruey, the popular represen- 

 tative in Chicago of M. Rice & Co., 

 who was stricken with typhoid while 

 in this city six weel^s ago, has so far 

 recovered that he was able to start for 

 home on the 23rd Inst. 



Rushing during business hours and 

 far into the night is the report from 

 Bayersdorfer & Co.'s busy hive. They 

 find that the trade is distinctly partial 

 this season to florists' goods of the 

 higher class and this applies to orders 

 from all sections of the country. 



B. Eschner of M. Rice & Co., reports 

 a very successful trip west, from which 

 he has just returned. A special run 

 was experienced on their new patent 

 flexible cycas leaves. A wonderful im- 

 provement. Coloring and flexibility al- 

 most beyond belief. There was also a 

 big demand for their new butterfly 

 novelty. Even their samples in the 

 latter line had to go pending arrival 

 of a new supply. 



Paul Klingsporn of Berger Bros., re- 

 ports that the subscriptions for the 

 Crawford testimonial, referred to in 

 last weel<'s HORTICULTURE, are 

 coming in freely as most everybody 

 who knew "Jack" and their name is 

 legion are only too glad to have a 

 chance to show their appreciation of 

 his long service and to lend a friendly 

 hand to a fellow-worker under dis- 

 tressing circumstances. 



The Landieth Co. has been in busi- 

 ness one hundred and twenty-seven 

 years and its members are naturally 



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proud of this unequalled record of con- 

 tinuous business in the same family. 

 A mere catalogue of the great things 

 they have accomplished for horticul- 

 ture during that long time would fill 

 volumes. There are enough rare Coni- 

 ferae on Bloomsdale estate to make 

 even W. R. Smith stare — one or two 

 of thorn claimed to be the largest and 

 most perfect specimens in the United 

 States. 



David Rust (local representative of 

 David Landreth Seed Co., of Bristol, 

 Pa.), and George C. Watson, visited 

 Bloomsdale Seed Farms at Bristol on 

 the 21st inst. and were royally wel- 

 comed by the senior member of the 

 lirm, Captain Burnett Landreth, and 

 his sons, Burnett, Jr., and S. Phillips. 

 A pleasant and profitable after- 

 noon was spent looking over the 

 550 acres of growing crops — exclusive- 

 ly for' seeds — the largest area in the 

 country for this purpose outside of 

 California. A most interesting scene 

 witnessed was the washing of the to- 

 mato pulp in the Delaware river which 

 runs past the fariris. For hundreds 

 of yards the water was colored red. 

 Consomme for the Philadelphians a 

 few miles further down the river. No 

 charge. We seedsmen are philanthro- 

 j)ists, we are. 



Visitors: Mr. Chas. Osterman, and 

 bride, (Osterman & Stoelej, Spring- 

 field, Mass. 



PERSONAL. 



Lou Kyrk of Cincinnati, who for the 

 past two weeks has been ill with ap- 

 pendicitis, is now convalescent. 



Prank Benthey is now foreman for 

 Crabb & Hunter, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

 Mr. Benthey was formerly with Hoer- 

 ber Bros., Chicago, 



Wm. Dilger, of Detroit, is now pres- 

 ident of the Rose City Chemical 

 Products Co., whose purpose is to ex- 

 tricate the various oils, etc., contained 

 in pine stumps. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Herms of the 

 Herms Floral Co., Portsmouth, Ohio, 

 celebrated their golden wedding anni- 

 versary Monday, October 3rd, at their 

 bungalow un the Scioto river. 



Visitors in Cincinnati: Ben. Esch- 

 ner of M. Rice & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 

 and Mr. Jackson of the American Rose 

 Co.. Siiringfield, Ohio. 



John S. Nicholas, who conducts a 

 fine flower store on 42d street. New 

 York, has opened a restaurant at the 

 corner of West 28th street and Sixth 

 avenue, right in the heart of the 

 wholesale district. It has caught the 

 goodwill of the florists from the start 

 partly because it is a splendid restau- 

 rant and second because they all like 

 Mr. Nicholas, who is one of the most 

 highly respected of the Greek florists. 

 At the opening of his new venture an 

 abundance of floral tokens were sent. 



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