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H ORTI CULTURE 



November 26, 1910 



Seed Trade 



Ames, la— F. J. Olson expects to 

 erect a new block for his seed busi- 

 ness. 



Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. — Permit 

 has been issued for the Barteldes 

 Seed Co. to erect a two-story brick 

 warehouse to cost $2,000. 



Sheboygan, Wis. — Plans, necessi- 

 tated by the steadily growing business 

 of the John H. Allan Seed Co., have 

 been prepared for a building 50 x 130 

 feet. 



Toronto, Ont. — The Steele-Briggs 

 Seed Co. was damaged by fire recent- 

 ly to the extent of about $5,000 to 

 stock and about $1,000 to the build- 

 ing. 



Consul-General Thomas Sammons, 

 of Yokohama, quotes the following 

 statistics showing the exportation of 

 lily bulbs from Japan to the United 

 States from 1905 to 1909, inclusive: 



Ye.ir. Number. Value. 



1905 4,.854.215 $84,056 



1906 6,206.456 117,453 



1907 6,640,674 141,80.3 



1908 5.105,899 92,169 



David Burpee and W. Atlee, Junior, 

 are at the Culver Indiana Military 

 Academy in preparatory school tor the 

 seed business and are being visited by 

 their parents this week. We trust the 

 training will be strong enough to en- 

 able them to stand and buck the line 

 on the seedsmens guarantee when it 

 comes their turn. 



The building occupied by the Holmes 

 Seed Company, No. 9 North Market 

 Square, Harrisburg, Pa., was partially 

 destroyed on the night of Nov. 21, by 

 a fire which originated in an adjoining 

 building. The damage to the Holmes 

 Company is estimated at $24,000, fully 

 covered by insurance. Practically all 

 of the damage was by water. Several 

 tons of bulbs were destroyed. The 

 holiday goods were not in. Last week 

 the Holmes Seed Company transferred 

 $40,000 worth of seeds to their ware- 

 houses on Tenth street, where orders 

 are being filled. This transfer was 

 made in order to make room for the 

 holiday goods. The cellar was filled 

 with water to the depth of six feet. 

 Here were stored hundreds of bags of 



seeds. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



The Maurice Fuld lecture on bulb 

 growing at the Michell Seed Store on 

 the 21st, was largely attended and 

 proved a great success from every 

 point of view. 



J. Murray Bassett opened a retail 

 flower store in the Ballard Building, 

 Bellevue avenue, Hammonton, on the 

 19th inst. A full line of cut flowers, 

 plants and sundries are being carried, 

 and the new house starts out with the 

 brightest prospects. 



John M. Hughes, late gardener for 

 George W. Childs, at Wooton, is now 

 living in retirement at 758 George 

 street, Norristown. While unable to 

 be on deck as of old on account of 

 physical disability, he is as bright and 

 alert as of old mentally, and keenly 

 appreciates a call from his friends in 

 the trade. 



M. Rice had a gala day on Monday, 

 his 25th anniversary. The biggest 

 mail in the history of the house. Let- 

 ters of congratulation and orders from 

 every state in the Union — and many 

 cablegrams from abroad. Floral offer- 



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ings from near and far — making the 

 offices bowers of beauty and fragrance. 

 If ever there was an astonished and 

 happy human being on this earth, it 

 was M. Rice last Monday! 



The two aristocrats in the carnation 

 world this year are Alma Ward and 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward. These have brought 

 as high as six cents, while the best 

 going for other fine ones like En- 

 chantress and Beacon was two. The 

 Leo Niessen Co. have had almost a 

 monopoly of these fine novelties so 

 far, and could have sold them all 

 many times over if they had been in 

 sight. The demand for young plants 

 for spring delivery is already quite 

 brisk. 



William J. Muth has been appointed 

 Philadelphia representative of the 

 King Constiucticn Co.. of North Tona- 

 wanda, N. Y. Mr. Muth is an experi- 

 enced florist, both in the growing and 

 merchandising departments, and was 

 until lately manager of the Philadel- 

 phia. Cut Flower Co. He is well- 

 known and popular in the trade and 

 will prove a valuable acquisition to 

 the equipment of this great concern, 

 which is i-apidly growing in local es- 

 teem. His ofiioes are in the Wither- 

 spoon Building. 



W. P. Edgar of Boston has been 

 with us for a week on behalf of the 

 management of the great National 

 Flower Show under the auspices of the 

 Society of American Florists and kin- 

 dred bodies, to be held in Boston next 

 spring and has succeeded in stirring 

 up great enthusiasm among local 

 tradesmen. He is highly elated with 

 the encouragement given the project 

 everywheie, and predicts that in a very 

 fhorl time every foot of space will be 

 engaged notwithstanding the immense 

 facilities of the mammoth Mechanics 

 Hall. This is not a money-making 

 enterprise. On the contrary, it is an 

 ambitious attempt on the part of the 

 S. A. F. and its allies to give a really 

 national show on a fitting scale in the 

 spring when good material can be had 

 and with the object of educating the 

 public to the wonderful things the hor- 

 ticultural trade of today has to offer. 

 Boston was selected at the convention 

 in Rochester as the best place to hold 

 this show and the Boston people are 

 rising to the occasion in great shape. 



The American Florist says that G. 

 Washington couldn't spell. That was 

 no credit to George. What about the 



cherry tree episode? He gets great 

 credit because he didn't tell a lie. 

 Now, what is the difference between 

 bad spell and bad talk — if either be 

 misleading the lie is there, all right. 

 Maybe Father Adam couldn't spell, 

 either. No argument. Meat-Axe! 



There have been lots of historic 

 characters who could not even spell 

 their own names. Also there have 

 been many who were unable to tell 

 their own from another's property. 

 And history is full of historic charac- 

 ters who have busted wide open every 

 one of the ten commandments. The 

 lie-ing and sleal-ing commandments 

 are much on a par with the other 

 eight. And a wrong label, if mislead- 

 ing, is a lie, anyway you look at it. 



The further plea is put up that we 

 ought to look the other way and say 

 nothing when we go up against one of 

 these lies. Any paper that has any 

 claims to be an educator or leader 

 should be ashamed of the evil odor at 

 its front or back door, and be prompted 

 to do its level best to remove and bury 

 the same at the earliest possible mo- 

 ment. There are no personalities in 

 this. It's the evil we are hitting at. 

 And we are proud to say, we are abat- 

 ing it a little. 



The writer is just as liable to make 

 a mistake in spelling as the next one. 

 But, by the Eternal he at least makes 

 an effort to be correct, and will hum- 

 bly apologize if caught napping — and 

 that is all we ask of anyone else. And 

 the Ameiicau Florist — with all due re- 

 spect — has no cause to plume itself on 

 this point, and ought to be the last one 

 to throw bricks. 



Says the article In question — of 

 course, bad spelling is very wrong; 

 but we should not talk about it in the 

 papers. That reminds us of the story 

 about "Ikey," who "outside of the ten 

 commandments was a pretty good fel- 

 low." And so outside of this back- 

 sliding and misleading labels and spell- 

 ing the exhibiiors and judges and the 

 management are "pretty good fellows" 

 and our dear friends! It's not them 

 but their sins we protest against. 



Visitors this week: Johann Dehl, 

 Hamburg, Germany; L. M. Smith, Lau- 

 rel, Del.; J. .Murray Bassett, Hammon- 

 ton, N. J.: E. J. Gabel, Reading, Pa.; 

 Charles and William Feast, and Miss 

 Tillie Held, Baltimore, Md.; W. P. 

 Edgar, representing the National Flow- 

 er Show to be held in Boston next 

 spring; E. A. Seidewitz, Baltimore, Md. 



