August 5, 1905 



HORTICULTURE 



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and a free setter. The chief business of the 

 evening was the launcliing of a schedule for 

 ;i flower show to be held in Glen Cove in 

 iIk- beginning of November. 



John F. Johnston. 



A CINCINNATI OUTING 



A verj- enjoyable day was had at the 

 Florists' Outing at Coney Island on Thurs- 

 day, July 20th. There were plenty of sport- 

 ing events, to occupy the time of men, 

 women, and children through the day, con- 

 sisting of bowUng, foot-racing, and quoit 

 pitching. The event of the day was the 

 base -ball game between two florist teams, 

 namely, the Knockers and the Boosters, 

 the former carrving off the honors. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON 



A well-attended meeting of the Club was 

 lield at Gude Bros.' store on Tuesday 

 evening at which all convention committees 

 were represented and many matters of final 

 detail were settled. A delegation from the 

 Baltimore club came over with an official 

 request that they have the privilege of a 

 few hours of the convention visitors' time on 

 the last day of the convention, for the pur- 

 pose of showing them their city, and extend- 

 ing fraternal hospitality to them and to the 

 Washington florists. So urgently and elo- 

 quently did the delegation voice their request, 

 that after full discussion it was granted, 

 although with great reluctance, as arrange- 

 ments had been completed to fully occupy 

 the day with an interesting program in 

 Washington. So, after the exhibition drill 

 by the U. S. Engineer Corps which takes 

 piace on the elhpse of the White House 

 grounds at nine o'clock sharp, on the morn- 

 ing of Friday, August 18, the official pro- 

 gram of entertainment will close and trains 

 will be taken for Baltimore about one 

 o'clock. 



NEWS NOTES 



Frank T. White of Holbrook, Mass., has 

 completed a fifty-foot extension to a block 

 of three houses and planted the same to 

 chrysanthemimis. 



Mr. Ernest Wilde, gardener to Mr. A. A. 

 Thomdike, Braintree, Mass., has resigned 

 his position and gone to England. Mr. 

 Andrew Castle has been appointed as his 

 successor through R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 

 by whom he was formerly employed. Two 

 new greenhouses have been added to the 

 plant at this estate the present season. 



WilUam G. Patterson of Wollaston, Mass., 

 has the foundation of an 18 X 65 house nearly 

 finished. He will grow violets in this house 

 the coming season. Mr. Patterson's sweet 

 peas, although growing upon a side hiU with 

 a southerly aspect, survived the extreme 

 heat in a remarkable manner and give 

 promise of throwing considerable more 

 bloom. His asters also look very promis- 

 ing. 



A practical joker, on mischief or malice 

 intent, tacked on John Orth's greenhouses, at 

 Versailles, Pa., during his absence, notices 

 bearing these words; 



"Take everything, go as far as you Uke, 

 but leave the telephone." 



The advice was taken literally and the 

 to%vnspeople cleaned things up in short order. 

 When the truth came out many returned the 

 plants taken. Detectives are looking for the 

 joker. 



VACATIONISTS GOING 



Sidney Clack of Menlo Park, Cal., will 

 make a tour along the northern roast of that 

 state, and will probably inchide a visit to the 

 Lewis and Clark j'air. 



SEED TRADE 



Reference has been made in these col- 

 umns to a probable shortage in the seed 

 pea crop of 1905. The first mention was 

 early in June, but most growers failed to 

 see the writing on the wall, and have con- 

 tinued backing orders at the contracting 

 prices of last winter and spring. They 

 have been living in a fool's paradise, but 

 within the past two weeks a change has 

 come over the spirit of their dreams, and 

 they have suddenly awakened to find them- 

 selves facing a very heavy shortage. In- 

 stead of an average of five fold, one of the 

 largest and best informed growers in this 

 country or Canada now estimates the crop 

 at from two and a half to three fold. As 

 the grower keeps back one li>l(i for si-rtl, it is 

 plain that in many vari.iir, \\. ,li,ii| ii,,i 

 have over fifty per cent U> ■liluci .m m.lcrs. 

 It is yet too early to gel a liiir .m iIk , rop 

 of seed beans, but weather for the most 

 part has been favorable for the past few 

 weeks. However there is many a slip, 

 and one can never bank on a bean crop 

 until it is actually housed. Corn has made 

 very gratifying growth during the present 

 month, but the crop is far from "secure." 

 Onion seed has turned out about as ex- 

 pected — a light crop and poor quality. 

 The germination will no doubt prove un- 

 satisfactory. 



It may not be generally known that 

 American grown Bermuda onion seed does 

 not give satisfactory results when planted 

 in this country, but such is the fact. Seed 

 grown in the West Indies, especially from 

 Bermuda or TenerifEe, gives best results. 



Troubles are accumulating about the 

 Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture. " Uncle Jimmie's" Department seems 

 to be as badly honeycombed with gralt as 

 was the Post Office Department. The 

 Statistical Department is known to have 

 been corrupt, but now the Bureau of Botany 

 is under suspicion, and the efficient head of 

 that Bureau is accused. This is getting 

 close to Uncle Sam's seed shop, as the .seed 

 cUstribution is under the immediate charge 

 of the chief of the Bureau of Botany. There 

 are certain very suspicious circumstances 

 connected with some of the distributions of 

 a few years back which have never been 

 cleared up. 



It is well known that some of these dis- 

 tributions were scandalously juggled, but 

 there seems to have been a wilUngness to 

 cast the mantle of forgetfulness over them. 

 It is to be hoped that Congress may deride 

 to "turn on the light." 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED 



H. A. Terry, Crescent, la. Price list ni 

 choice seedhng paeonies. 



Kramer Bros. Foundry Co., Dayton, (). 

 Catalogue of iron vases, settees, and chaii- 

 Contains illustrations of some very arti^ll. 

 models. 



Frantz De Laet, Contich les Anvers, Bel- 

 gium. General catalogue of succulents. A 

 very comprehensive list illustrated witli plates 

 of rare cacti. 



H. F. MicheU Co., Philadelphia, have sent 

 out their July and August wholesale price 

 list of bulbs, etc. It starts off with a timely 

 illustration of a "well-matured Liliun'i 

 Harrisii bulb." 



OBITUARY 



A. G. Gutthe, former president of the 

 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, died 

 July 25, at Barraboo, Wis., aged 91 years. 



C. L. Howe who formerly conduded the 

 greenhouses now run by his .son-in-l.iw, W. 



Lewis, at Marlboro, Ma.ss 

 aged 67 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES 



The rumor that the long established 

 Shanahan Floral Coinpany had changed 

 hands, is authoritatively pronounced false. 

 John W. Shanahan holds aU but a minimum 

 interest in this well-patronized cut-flower 

 and plant store, but he has resigned its 

 management in favor of his wife, and changed 

 his place of residence from here to Sacra- 

 mento, where he has engaged in other busi- 



From the great Livermore Valley on the 

 east side of the bay it is just now becoming 

 known that the extensive early apricot and 

 sugar-beet crop of the valley was greatly 

 damaged by the torrid weather of the first 

 week in July; that large quantities of apri- 

 cots were turned brown by the skin being 

 rendered tough, and the inside so damaged 

 that the fruit was made unfit for canning; 

 also that many of the sugar-beets which 

 were just beginning to sprout from the 

 ground, some of them being two inches 

 high, were Uterally burned up, and the 

 intervening time has proved that there was 

 not enough moisture in the ground for the 

 recovery of the plants. 



In paying honor to the memory of the dean 

 of Cahfornia horticulturists, whose recent 

 sudden passing from this hfe was published 

 in HoETicuxTURE at the time, the Menlo 

 Park Horticultural Society voted at last 

 week's meeting as follows: 



Whereas, It has pleased Ahnighty God 

 to remove from our midst our late brother, 

 Michael Lynch, therefore be it 



Resolved, That we, the members of this 

 society, unite in expressing our heartfelt 

 sorrow and sympathy at the death of our 

 late brother. 



Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved 

 wife and family of the deceased, our con- 

 dolence in the loss of a devoted husband 

 and father and pray that God will extend 

 to them His loving and tender care in this, 

 their hour of aflliction. 



And be it further resolved. That these 

 resolutions be printed in full upon the 

 records of this society and a copy sent to 

 the family of the deceased. 



BUSINESS CHANGES 



O. J. Sawyer succeeds George W. Fetzer, 

 at AUentown, Pa. 



Pilcher & Burrows are a new firm located 

 at 717 N. Fourth Street, St. Louis. Their 

 business will be florists' supplies. 



BOSTON FLORIST LEHER COj 



Manufacturers of FLORISTS' LETTERS | 



This wooden box nicely stained and 

 varniBhed, 18x30x12, made In two sec- 

 tions, one for each size letter, given 

 away with first order of 500 letters. 

 Block Letters, lJor2-inch siz per 100, $2 

 .Script Letters, 3. Fastene with each 

 letter or word. Used by le ing florists 

 everywhere and for sale by all wholesale 

 florists and supply dealers 



N. r. McCarthy, Manager 



fU Hawley St., BOSTON. MA.SS. 



Notice of Annual Meeting 



The A 



ual Meetin 



(he Plori! 



Hai< 



Association of America, will he held in S.A.F. 

 O H. Convention Hall, Washington, D. C. oii 

 Thursday Afternoon, Aug. 17th. 1005, at 2 P.M. 

 JOHN a. ESLER. Secretary 



