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H O R T I C U L T U R i: 



July 8, 1905 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES 



In the early hours of a morning this week 

 till tappers broke into the (}ear\- street store 

 and cash register of the California Florist, 

 Julius Eppstein, i)n)|irittor, and the Sutter 

 street store known ,1- M i;n,> ,-■ Dtroralors 

 andFlorists, con(hi. . 1 '1 ■ ii~r Man- 



ning, manager, ami \l 1 < ('ohm. 



The aggregate am. mm ilir i,,M), 1, rcix-iveii 

 at both stores was only thirty jm-. rs of silver, 

 each of the dollar denomination. The 

 thieves were not posted on present market 



Seed Trade Topics 



solicited and will be e 



conch tions. 



Public and private school commencements 

 this closing vi-eek of June have produced a 

 call for flower constructive work that made 

 it a week of exceeding acti\ity for all local 

 florists. "Yet," said a representative of the 

 industry, " this week of hustle hasn't repre- 

 sented the business it should; flowers were 

 over-abundant — altogether too low in price 

 to quote, all owing to the fact that there are 

 too many price-cutters in the .San Francisco 

 trade, and our lack of union organization to 

 regulate business." 



Following the organization of the first 

 horticultural society south of Tehachapi, as 

 recently reported in Horticulture, another 

 has just sprouted in the name of the San 

 Francisco Horticultural Board of Trade. It 

 is an enterprise on the part of growers for 

 the trade exclusive of Japanese and Chinese. 

 The leading spirit in the movement is P. C. 

 Meyer, proprietor of Glenwood Nursery at 

 Burlingame. This gentleman says that he 

 finds all the principal growers in the bay 

 counties in active sympathy with the move- 

 ment. At a meeting held recently there was 

 a large attendance, worthy of being reported 

 as a very enthusiastic gathering. 



Especially may the people of the great 

 State in which HoRTicuLTtTRE is jjublished 

 be thankful for the safe arrival this week in 

 San Francisco harbor of the liner Maiicliuna. 

 Why? Simply because a portion of her 

 cargo, an infinitely small portion though it 

 be, was a httle prison box containing a colony 

 of war-Uke insects from the coast of .Asia that 

 are death on caterpillars, warriors specially 

 recruited to massacre the army of caterpillars 

 now destroying vegetation in tlie Old Bay 

 State and throughout New England. Re- 

 sponsive to a world-wide inquiry sent out by 

 the Agricultural Department at Washington 

 for a parasite that would stop the ravages of 

 the hopper-moth in this coinitry. United 

 States Minister Griscom, at Tokio, shipped 

 the colony of insects, beheving them to be 

 sure death to the gypsy moths that have been 

 playing havoc in Massachusetts. The para- 

 sites are like ants in appearance, but have 

 four wings, with the aid of which they hop 

 about like fleas. They sting caterpillars to 

 death, and their larv^, hatih out inside 

 of the caterpillars and destroy their con- 

 sumers, so that they work from both ends, 

 as it were. But the parasites imported by 



the Manchuria 



about 



ingcrous as 



the gypsy moths, left to themselves, and the 

 greati^st precautions have been taken to get 

 them into this country, and will continue to 

 be taken until they arrive in Massachusetts, 

 without any of the insects es( apiiif;. If even 

 one of the insects get loos, in California, 

 says the State Horticultural > Mnunissiom-r, 

 a blight on all vegetati<jn Ini-alioui would 

 follow within a few months, lor the insects 

 multiply at the rate of several thousand a 

 day. At Honolulu, horticultural commis- 

 sioner Alexander Craw took extra precau- 

 tions against the insects getting loose upon 

 arrival here, and cautioned the accompany- 

 ing representative guardsman of the Pacific 

 Coast Horticultural Society to watch the 

 imprisoned parasites closely 



• the seed 



2 a place in this column. 



The condition of the pea crop is regarded 

 with mi.xed feeUngs by growers. A few think 

 the crop has been seriously damaged, while 

 others beUeved the damage reports have been 

 exaggerated. A few more weeks will tell 

 the storj'. 



Unusually cool and wet weather in the 

 East is retarding the growth of many crops, 

 particularly beans and corn. It is now prac- 

 tically certain that beans will not be a large 

 crop, and unless we have a late, warm 

 autumn, the sweet corn crop of Ohio, Michi- 

 gan, New York, and Connecticut, wiU be 

 fight and of poor quaUty. Just at present 

 New York appears to be in the worst plight 

 of any, with Michigan a close second. 



Echoes from the seedsmen's 

 bring complaints from a few of those in 

 attendance, among others being the one that 

 the hotel management did not do things in 

 a liberal way — that they e.xacted the last 

 cent, and exacted from every one all they 

 "would stand," or, to quote a famous rail- 

 road magnate, "all the traffic would bear." 

 Although the writer is not personally cogni- 

 zant of these things, information which ap- 

 pears to be authentic seems to justify some 

 of the complaints. 



It is unfortunate that the first impressions 

 of fair and generous treatment should be 

 questioned. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED 



Peterson Nurser)-, Chicago. List of pa;o- 



nies and Ge 

 variety mentioned i 



good one. 



LIST OF PATENTS 



Issued June 13, 1905 



792,018. Fruit-Gatherer. EUjah A. Gallup 

 Hancock, Iowa. 



792,061. Basket or Crate. Walter Morley 

 and Andrew F. McAtee, Salem, Oregon. 



792,233. Fniit-Preserving Vessel. Viola 

 Norman, Smithton, Ark. 



792,235. Fruit-Evaporator. William J. 

 Patton, Springdale, Ark. 



792,089. Fruit-Scissors. George Towers, 

 Canon City, Colo. 



792,518. Remedy for Tree-Cancer. Emma 

 Homann, Berhn, Germany. 



792,541. Weeder. Neil McEachern, Walla 

 Walla, Wash., assignor to .-Adam W. Sever- 

 ance and Milford H. Broughton, Walla 

 Walla, Wash. 



Issued June 20, 1905 



792,750. Lawn-Trimmer. Edmund Bar- 

 ton, Ivyland, Pa. 



792,771. Banana-Crate. Otto Granke, La 

 Crosse, Wis. 



792,905. Flower-Pot Holder. Clemens 

 Kirchner, WheeUng, W. Va., assignor of 

 two-thirds to Herman Lotz and Thomas 

 Claus, WheeUng, W. Va. 



Issued June 27, 1905. 



793,246. Lawn-Mower. Robert L. Teal, 

 iPaducah, Ky. 



793,365. Insect-Gathering Machine. James 

 H. Fogle, Delhi, Texas. 



793,614. Process of Preserving Fruit. 

 Daniel F. Shennan, Chicago, 111., assignor, 

 by direct and mesne assignments, to Cal- 

 ifornia Concentrated Fruit Co., a corpor- 

 ation of California. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 PROJECTED 



lM)L\NOLA, I.\. — L. P. Springer, one 



Xi WBLTRYPORT, M.\ss. — C. MacGregor, 



WoLLASTON, Mass. — W. C. Ward, pansy 

 house 120X20. 



Cortland, N. Y. — .■\dolph Frost, two 

 houses, 18x50. 



Tewksbury, M.\ss. — John Gale, one 

 house, 30 X 200. 



Greenport, N. Y. — L. M. Rayner, car- 

 nation houses. 



.■\thol Centre, Mass. — E. E. Fairbanks, 

 one house, 23 X 125. 



Norwood Park, III. — Cari Niemann, 

 three houses, each 21 X 135. 



Reported by J. C. Moninger Co. 



Rochester, Ind. — J. H. Shelton, three 

 houses, 17 X85. 



Sherman, Texas. — O. H. Hanna, one 

 house, 22 X 100. 



Be.ardstown, III. — Frank Bros., three 

 houses, 22x75. 



Decatltr, III. — Mrs. K. Dant, two 

 houses, 20 X 80. 



New Castle, Ind. — Peter Weiland, two 

 houses, 27 X 300. 



RocKFORD, III. — H. W. Buckbce, seven 

 houses, 27 X260. 



Pasadena, Cal. — R. Scliiffman, range 

 of orchid houses. 



Ollivette, Mo. — O. Jablonsky, three 

 houses, 20 X 139. 



Iowa City, Iowa. — J. .Mdons & Son, 

 two houses, 22 X 100. 



Br.adford, Pa. — Ernest H. Lucking, 

 two houses, 28 X 100. 



Wichita, K.ans. — Chas. P. Mueller, 

 three houses, 20X150. 



Kirkwood, Mo. — F. W. Ude & Son, 

 three houses, 17X100. 



South Bend, Ind. — J. M. Studebaker, 

 conservatory, 23X92. 



OAKI.AND, Md. — Weber & Sons, eleven 

 hou.ses, new and repairing. 



Carrollton, Mo. — Kennedy & Farn- 

 ham, two houses, 20 X 125. 



RODGERS P.\RK, CHICAGO, ILL. — Peter 

 Ncpper, six houses, 24 X 151. 



Moline, III. — S. -A. Stephens, private 

 range, three houses, 23X75. 

 ' Council Blupfs, Iowa. — Reams Lain- 

 son, three houses, 25 X 260. 



Birmingham, Ala. — Elm Leaf Green- 

 houses, four houses, 14X100. 



Falls Creek, Pa. — Goss & Sons, one 

 house, 24X200; one house, 24X50. 



Boise, Iowa. — Boise Floral Co., one 

 house, 22X70; one house, 22x82. 



High Ridge, III. — F. Fortmann, two 

 houses, 27X143; one house, 22X150. 



Portland, Ind. — H. R. Frank, one 

 house, 31X309; one house, 33X309. 



Sedalia, Mo. — Gelven & Son, two 

 houses, 14X120; two lean tos, 7X120. 



Beatrice, Neb. — Dole Floral Co., two 

 houses, 21X112; two houses, 17X112. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — E. Austin, one house 

 22 X150: John Burmeister, one house, 22 X 



Kansas City, Mo. — R. S. Brown & Son, 

 four houses, 26 X 200: A. F. Barbe, one house, 

 27 X 240. 



.\urora. III. — .Aurora Greenhouses, one 

 house, 26x120; one house, 12X120; one 

 house, 16 X64. 



Park Ridge, III. — Emil Buettner, four 

 hou.ses, 27X125; one house, 29X125; one 

 house, 15 X 125. 



Springfield, III. — R. T. Donnell, one 

 house. 37 X 100; A. C. Brown, one house, 

 30X316, one house, 30X300. 



Libertyville, III. — J. P. Weiland, 

 (Chicago Rose Co.), three houses, 20X500, 

 one house, 10X155, detached and connected 

 with center walks. 



