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11 O RT 1 C U LT U R C 



February 11, 1911 



Obituary* 



George Hobday. 



It Is with sincere regret that we 

 learn ot the death of this distinguished 

 horticulturist, who passed away at 

 his residence, Havering Road, Rom- 

 ford, Essex, on Jan. 18th. Although a 

 business man, Mr. Hobday made gar- 

 dening his one hobby, and so faithfully 

 did he pursue it that his name became 

 well known as a successful exhibitor 

 and a competent judge. He grew 

 flowers and fruits of all kinds well but 

 vegetables were his chief concern and 

 he was responsible for many sterling 

 introductions, especially rhubarT) Hob- 

 day's Giant and Essex Wonder and 

 the Clipper peas. Mr. Hobday was 

 keenly interested in all that apper- 

 tained to the advancement of horticul- 

 ture and was closely connected with 

 the leading societies, being a member 

 for several years of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society's vegetable committee 

 and was also a prominent member of 

 the National Vegetable Society. Horti- 

 culture can ill afford to lose such men 

 as George Hobday. He was a straight- 

 forward, upright, honest man, a true 

 friend and a perfect gentleman, and 

 all who knew him will deplore his loss. 



Gus Van Velsen. 



Many of our readers will be inter- 

 ested and no doubt sorry to read that 

 Gus Van Velsen died at the Nyack, N. 

 Y. hospital Friday night after an ill- 

 ness ot six weeks contracted from ex- 

 posure developing inflammatory rheu- 

 matism. 



He was a native of Holland, son ot 

 the well known bulb grower of Haar- 

 lem, Peter Van Velsen. He came to 

 this country in the early nineties and 

 was employed by Pitcher & Manda, 

 Bobbink & Atkins and other firms near 

 New York. He located in the vicinity 

 of Nyack several years ago and was 

 employed lately by the Palisades 

 Nurseries at Sparkill, up to within a 

 few weeks of his taking sick. 



Henry Mundt. 

 Henry Mundt, florist. Forest Park, 

 111., died Jan. 25th. at his home, age 

 52 years. 



FRUIT GROWERS TO ORGANIZE A 

 SELLING AGENCY. 



Fruit growers of the Pacific North- 

 west met in Portland, January 24 and 

 25 to take the first steps to organize 

 a central selling agency that will han- 

 dle the product of northwest orchards. 

 It is expected this organization will 

 handle practically the entire boxed 

 apple output of the country, Western 

 Colorado being the only other section 

 marketing its fruits in this form of 

 package. 



The convention did not result in an 

 organization being formed, although it 

 was well attended by fruit growers 

 from the northwest states, but consid- 

 erable progress was made and another 

 meeting will be held at Walla Walla, 

 Wash., February 28, when it is ex- 

 pected the final steps in the organiza- 

 tion will be accomplished. 



VACANCIES IN BUREAU OF PLANT 

 INDUSTRY. 



The Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for laboratory 

 aid (male) to fill vacancies in the Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry, Department of 

 Agricultuie, Washington, D. C, to be 

 held on February 23. Applicants must 

 be over seventeen and under twenty- 

 five years of age. The examination 

 will consist ot spelling, arithmetic, 

 penmanship, report writing, copying 

 and correcting manuscript, copying 

 mechanical drawing, tabulating, and 

 elementary chemistry. 



The duties of the position will in- 

 clude the cleaning and care of labora- 

 tory apparatus and glassware, the 

 preparation of culture media, the 

 media, the mounting and classifying 

 of photographic prints, and the prepa- 

 ration of tables and charts. 



Competitors must supply themselves 

 with drawing boards not less than 15 

 inches square, and such drawing ma- 

 terials, except paper and tracing linen, 

 as they deem necessary. Applicants 

 should apply at once to the Civil Ser- 

 vice Commission. Washington, D. C, 

 or to the local secretary of the board 

 of examiners for application Form 304. 

 Further information can be had from 



NURSERY COMPANY GETS JUDG- 

 MENT. 



The Van Holderbecke Nursery Com- 

 pany has been given judgment for $252 

 the full amount sued for, against E. 

 W. Conrad, by a jury in Judge W. A. 

 Huneke's court. The bill, a balance 

 which the defendant refused the nur- 

 sery company claimed, was to pay on 

 a shipment of 2100 trees to the de- 

 fendant's orchard in Okanogan county. 



The defendant claimed that some of 

 the trees, on account of not beinij in 

 good condition, died, and he put in a 

 cross bill of $C2G tor one year's use of 

 the ground and the expense of remov- 

 ing the dead trees. He failed, haw- 

 ever, to convince the jury of the merit 

 of his counter claim. — S/'okmie Chroni- 

 <1e. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Beverly, Mass.— Ralph W. Ward suc- 

 ceeds George E. Ward & Son in con- 

 ducting the Beverly Cove Green- 

 houses. 



Nevada, Mo.— The Weltmar Green- 

 houses have been purchased by F. R. 

 Rowe and they will be conducted un- 

 der the name of the Volcano Green- 

 houses. 



Delphi; Ind. — The greenhouses of 

 Ben Hendrickson were damaged by a 

 boiler explosion recently; three men 

 were more or less injured and the 

 property loss willl be about $400. 



Ventura, Cal. — Ten forest rangers 

 of the Santa Barbara reserve are en- 

 gaged in planting pine seed in the 

 San Guilmas district, Ventura county. 

 These are the native yellow pine and 

 there are 500 pounds of the seed to 

 be planted. 



Heretofore reforestation experi- 

 ments have been made along nursery 

 lines. That is, the seed were planted 

 in nurseries, and when the young 

 trees were well started they were 

 transplanted to the reserve. The new 

 plan is to plant the seed where the 

 trees are wanted, thereby saving 

 much labor, and, it is hoped, secur- 

 ing better results. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Eraser Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala. 

 — Surplus List for Nurserymen and 

 Dealers only. 



W. E. Marshall & Co., New York.— 

 Marshall's Seeds, 1911. Covers In 

 white and soft green, attractively sim- 

 ple. Contents comprehensive and 

 creditable. 



H. F. Michell Co., Phila., Pa.— 

 Wholesale Price-List for Florists and 

 Market Gardeners. Colored plate of 

 new tomato "Michell's Crackerjack" is 

 inclosed with this very comprehensive 

 trade catalogue a copy of which can 

 be had on application by any one in 

 the tra^e but nobody else. 



StumpiJ & Walter Co., New York.— 

 General Catalogue, Spring 1911. This 

 book IS a very fine production through- 

 out. The covers are handsome, one 

 displaying a rich group of Spencer 

 sweet peas and the other a cluster of 

 blooms of Hardy Mallow Marvels. 

 Practically everything timely in seeds, 

 bulbs, plants and tools is included in 

 the list. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons, New York, N. Y. 

 —Seeds, 1911. For "Lo, these many 

 years" this house has been selling 

 seeds and everything else that contrib- 

 utes to make a lovable garden, and no 

 more pleasant duty comes to us than 

 to acknowledge receipt of their annual 

 catalogue of good things for spring 

 planting. This year the spring cata- 

 logue is sparkling in cover beauty. 

 It is all right, exterior and interior, 

 and will sell the goods. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York. — 

 Everything for the Garden, 1911. This 

 widely-known annual visitor is one of 

 the best of the year's publications. It 

 has the Henderson individuality and 

 business enterprise in its make-up and 

 is unique in many features that can- 

 not fail to make the book a busineas- 

 puller with the American public. Gar- 

 den scenes in natural colors framed In 

 silver and cream on a white back- 

 ground form the cover adornment and 

 there are several richly colored plates 

 of sweet peas, stocks, roses, etc. 



E. G. Hill Co., Richmond. Ind.— The 

 1911 Catalogue of this well-known 

 leader in American floriculture is all 

 that one could wish. "Rose Queen" 

 rose occupies the place of honor on 

 the title page and we think it is 

 worthy ot the position. Inside we 

 find a list of "The Best Things of the 

 Year," and lots ot other news and good 

 instruction worth giving close atten- 

 tion to. It you want to know what's 

 going on in new roses, carnations, 

 chrysanthemums, heliotropes, gera- 

 niums and alternantheras send at once 

 to E. G. Hill Co. for a copy ot this 

 book. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., 33 Barclay 

 street. New York — Thorburn's High 

 Class Seeds. 1911. As we noted a year 

 ago J. M. Thorbum & Co. date back 

 to 1802. Their annual publications 

 never take a retrogressive course — 

 each seems a "vade mecum," up-to- 

 date, which outclasses its predecessor. 

 Two catalogues have reached us — the 

 general catalogue, 144 pages densely 

 filled with horticultural lore, and the 

 "Trade List," compressing between its 

 brown covers a treasury of good in- 

 formation as to how and where to 

 buy garden, field, tree and flower 

 seeds. 



