January 14, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



47 



L.IL.AOS 



Pot Grown for Forcing. 



Mme. Lemoine, double white; Chas. X., red- 

 dish purple; Marie LeGraye, creamy white, 



$25.00 per 100. 



ELLIOTT AUCTION CO. *V.wvU' 



A BLUE ROSE 



The Greatest 



Rose Novelty 



of the Century 



It flowered with us this sea- 

 son and was greatly admired. 



The New Rambler fViolet B'tie) , hailed 

 by the German rose growers as the 

 forerunner of a genuinely cornflower 

 blue rose, is a seedling of Crimson 

 Rambler, very vigorous and hardy, and 

 free blooming. 



Send for description and price. 



ELLWAMGER & BARRY 



Vfount Hope ^aurserles ROCHESXER, N. Y. 



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oil C2,A.-r.A.L-OC7«-«£ 



Of ALPINE and HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



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NEWS NOTES. 



Marysville, Kans. — H. R. Fisher is 

 now proprietor of what was formerly 

 the Marysville Floral Co. 



Oakland, Calif. — A branch store of 

 the San Francisco Evergreen Co. will 

 be opened here in the near future. 



Chicago, III. — J. H. Rohmer has 

 been engaged as carnation foreman 

 for Wietor Bros. He was formerly 

 with Bassett & Washburn, Hinsdale. 



AltaVista, Va.— The AltaVista Truck 

 & Floral Co, has been organized here 

 by David Harris, formerly manager of 

 the Glennova Gardens, Huntsville, 

 Ala. 



Ocean Heights, N. J. — The green- 

 houses of M. S. Fleming have been 

 purchased by George H. Berke, and 

 will hereafter be known as the 

 George H. Berke Xurseries; a general 

 line of stock will be grown. 



Bar Harbor, Me. — John H. Stalford 

 has erected the largest greenhouse in 

 town on property he recently pur- 

 chased in the rear of the Jlalvern 

 Hotel. This house is 200 feet long 

 with concrete walls and every modern 

 improvement. 



St. Louis, Mo. — The Alexander 

 Floral Co. is a new firm just started 

 here. Four acres of land have been 

 purchased near the North and South 

 road and one greenhouse 25 x 150 feet 

 is being constructed. Roses at pres- 

 ent will be their specialty. 



1011 



NEW and RARE 



SHRUBS 



and 



VINES 



Recently introduced from 

 China. For particulars and 

 prices write for our Garden 

 Annual ready January ist, 

 191 I. 



R.&J.FARQUHAR&GO. 



Boston, Mass. 



There are a lot of grasshopper 

 growers in America — Hopping 

 Willies — kid glove g'eranium grow- 

 ers, who manag-eto exist on a job 

 here and there as long as their 

 canned horticultural knowledge 

 lasts and before the crop comes 

 in and the boss finds out he's up 

 against it. They are the real 

 "green-fly" of the growing busi- 

 ness. The great trouble with the 

 majority of help a man hires is that 

 they gauge their labor by their 

 wages and the boss never believes 

 they are worth more than they 

 g'et. You may think your em- 

 ployer is easily fooled but look 

 out that it is not you who is 

 fooled, for the average employer 

 is very watchful of the actions of 

 hii men and generally knows more 

 than is generally credited to him 

 about it. The only men who ever 

 succeed are the stick-to-it kind ; 

 perseverance pays plus. They 

 are the kind who realize the boss 

 has more cares than the employee, 

 and as they gradually shoulder 

 these cares, they become the boss 

 themselves. There comes a time 

 when every boss is g'lad to lay 

 down his tools, especially when he 

 knows a good man to take them up. 

 Rome was not built in a day. 



Now some buyers of bulbs are 

 like Hopping Willies — buying from 

 one man and another — the first ar- 

 rival usually. Don't do that — 

 make your order interesting- to a 

 good house and that house will 

 take better care of you than half a 

 dozen houses, each with a part so 

 small that it hardly pays them to 

 call again. Get as near the real 

 source of supply of quality as you 

 can, for your own sake, and you 

 will profit by it. In lily bulbs and 

 french bulbs you can't get nearer 

 to the source of quality than Horse- 

 shoe Brand, and the real cost is 

 no more and often less. You can't 

 buy better bulbs anywhere and you 

 misrht get worse. Prices reasonable 



In ordering goods please add " i saw 

 it in HORTICULTURE. " 



Ralph M. Ward & Co 



12 West Broadway 

 NEW YORK CITY 



Cold Storage Gigattieum 0/ su- 

 perior quality on hand — order 

 Bu'i "iTw'ao'd no%v for delivery dwing IQii.. 



