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HORTICULTURE 



Juae 24, 1911 



Seed Trade 



California Sweet Pea Outlook. 



Edwin Lousdale, resident manager 

 of the Burpee Seed Farm at Lompoc, 

 Cal., reports under date o£ June 12th: 



"Our crops are late this year — quite 

 a month later than 1910. This has 

 been a very trying season, but it may 

 turn out all right at harvest time. The 

 sweet peas have brightened up very 

 much in the past few days, and if we 

 get some warm weather they will just 

 jump. Howard M. Earl, manager of 

 our company, paid us a visit last week, 

 and we expect him back again after 

 he has inspected other crops in vari- 

 ous parts of California. We have a 

 number of Spencer novelties which he 

 is very anxious to see here, and they 

 will be more advanced by the time he 

 gets back, I am more than ever im- 

 pressed with the glorious improve- 

 ment the Spencer type is over the 

 grandiflora, and the end is not yet. 

 We are all watching the new develop- 

 ments with keen interest." 



Notes. 



Rochdale, III.— The Rochdale Seed 

 Co. is erecting a 4S x 82 building ad- 

 joining their present quarters. 



Champaign, III. — L. B. Ransom of 

 Columbus. O., is organizing a seed 

 company and has decided to locate 

 here. 



Portage, Wis.— The T. H. Cochrane 

 Co. have increased their capital stock 

 from $48,000 to $100,000. They con- 

 template erecting a large seed house. 



Rockford, III. — Condon Bros, is a 

 new seed firm with offices at 413 West 

 State street. Both Leonard R. and 

 John R. Condon have been with H. 

 W. Buckbee. 



Martinez, Cal. — George A. Putnam, a 

 prominent vineyardist of the Ignacio 

 Valley, has commenced suit in the 

 Superior Court against the Oregon 

 Nursery Co. charging that plants and 

 teeeds shipped him by the company 

 had proved worthless. He seeks to 

 recover $1624, the price of the seeds 

 and cost of planting. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Quaker City Machine Co., Rich- 

 mond, Ind. — Illustrated Catalogue of 

 Evans Ventilating Apparatus. 



Union Nurseries, Oudenbosch, Hol- 

 land. McHutchison & Co., 17 IVIurray 

 St., New York, sole agents. — A very 

 complete wholesale list of forest and 

 ornamental trees, shrubs, forcing 

 plants, etc. 



Yokohama Nursery Co., Yokohama, 

 Japan. — Descriptive Catalogue of 

 Bulbs, Plants and Seeds, 1911-12. A 

 very attractive catalogue, as always. 

 The colored plates and cover are fine 

 examples of Japanese color printing 

 art. The subjects are peonies, maples, 

 lilies. Iris Kaempferi, flowering cher- 

 ries, fern designs and porcelain flower 

 pots — to each of which a full page 

 plate is devoted. 



June 20, '11. 

 HORTICULTURE: 



Will you please take out our adver- 

 tisement as we are having more or- 

 ders for peonies than we can fill. 

 T. C. THURLOW'S SONS, INC., 



West Newbury, Mass. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Samuel S. Pennock and family left 

 on the 16th inst. for a visit to Wester- 

 ly, R. I. 



William R. Smith and John Clark of 

 Washington, D. C, will take the boat 

 fron. Baltimore on the 22nd inst. en 

 route for Commodore Westcott's open- 

 ing at Waretown on the 23rd. 



Parry & he Blache have opened a 

 wholesale flower store at 14 South 17th 

 street. Mr. Parry is well known in 

 wholes-'.ale circles in this city and Mr. 

 Le Blache is a grower with green- 

 houses at Somerdale, N. J. 



The new Niessen building at 12th 

 and Race streets is making rapid pro- 

 gress, having now reached the seventh 

 story. The Niessen Company state 

 that they will be doing business in 

 their new quarters by Oct. 1st. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. have 

 announced that during July and Au- 

 gust their store will be closed at 5 

 p. m. daily instead of 6 p. m., as at oth- 

 er seasons. The Philadelphia whole- 

 sale flower trade has been slow in 

 adopting the modern humanitarian sys- 

 tem of shorter hours. 



The chief event this week in local 

 circles will be Commodore Westcott's 

 opening at Waretown (23rd). The 

 interesting affair for next week will be 

 the Sweet pea show and convention of 

 the sweet pea show and convention of 

 hook at the invitation of W. Atlee 

 Burpee is scheduled among the local 

 courtesies to visitors. 



H. L. Holmes of the Holmes Seed 

 Co., Harrisburg, passed through this 

 city on Thursday en route for the 

 seedsmen's convention at Marblehead. 

 He reports a very successful season 

 for his company — notwithstanding the 

 backward March and April. The de- 

 mand for their introductions Premo 

 sweet corn and Hauser cabbage has 

 been greater than ever. 



That gay troubador of the Reading 

 system, Paul Huebner, will twang his 

 guitar at the July meeting of the 

 Florists' Club on "Railroad Gardening 

 as a Paying Investment." Note that 

 the stated date for this meeting, 1st 

 Tuesday of each month_ happening to 

 fall this year on the fourth will be 

 held one week later, to wit: July 11th. 

 Jno. Stephenson Sons have com- 

 pleted glazing their new house, 70x400 

 feet, at city line and York Road. 

 Killarney, white and pink, will be the 

 sole crops. Wide passage-ways — 

 enough for a team to drive in are a 

 feature. Soil, manure — going and 

 coming — just like a factory. This is 

 one of the best specimens of Lord & 

 Burnham construction we have seen. 

 The old range of houses, about half a 

 mile nearer the city, will be kept on 

 as usual. Mrs. Jardine rose is a feat- 

 ure there, and Mr. Stephenson has 

 given them all an object lesson on its 

 culture. It is really a great rose, but 

 few know how to handle it 



Visitors this week: — Antoine Leu- 

 thy, Boston, Mass., Harry A. Bunyard. 

 New York City. 



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FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 

 ASPARAGUS 



ASPARAGr.S pliimoBus nanns. 



True greenhouse-^irown. 60e. 



per 100 seeds, .$1.2(1 for 250 



seeds, $4.00 per 1000 seeds. 



plumosus nanus. Cillifornifl- 



grown. 50c. per 100 seeds, 75c. 



for 250 seeds, $2,00 per 1000 



seeds. 



SpreDgeri, 25c. for 250 seeds, 



75c, per 1000 seeds, $3,00 for 



5000 seeds. 

 DR.-VCAENA AnstraliR. Broad 



foliage. $1.00 per 1000 seeds, 



15c. per 100 seeds. 



Indivisa. Loug slender leaves, 



Vi lb. $1.00, 07,. 30c., pkt. 10c. 

 DRAC.4ENA CANES: 



I'orto Rican, 15c. per foot, 



Brazilian, 25c, per foot, 



PALM SEE") 



Per 100 1000 lO.OnO 

 Kentia Forster- 



iana $0.50 $4,75 .$45.(K) 



Kentia Belmore- 



ana (to arrive) .50 4.50 42. .50 

 tocos Wedilellianal.OO 7,50 70.011 

 Areea lutescens, , ,1,00 7,50 70,00 

 .Musa Ensete 1,00 7,50 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON 



SEEDSMAN 



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VEGETABLE PLANTS 



CABBAGE, Wakefield, All Head, Succes- 

 sion, and other varieties, $1.00 per 

 1000; 10,000 and over, (g85c. per 1000. 



I.ETTCCE. Grand Rapids, Big Boston, 

 Boston Market and Tennis Ball $1.00 

 per lOOO; 10,000 and over, @85e. per 

 innn, ^ 



BEET, Crosby, Egyptian and Ecllpie, 

 $1,25 per 1000. 



Cns/i With Ordt-r 



R, VINCENT, IR. & SONS CO., WHITE MARSH, MO. 



Golden Self-Blanchiog Celery 



White Plume, Oiaut Pascal transplanted 

 plants, $2.75 per tbousand, Untransplanted 

 plants, $1,00 per thousand, 



FOX HALL FARM 



NORFOLK, VA. 

 Headquarters for 



SPRING BULBS 



Send /or Trade JJst 



John Lewis Childs 



Flcwerfield - LONG ISLAND, N.Y. 



HERBERT, ATCO,N. J. 



DAHLIAS Every Day in the Year 



Grand Rapids^ Mich. — Crabb & Hun- 

 ter Co. liave sold tlieir ground at .509 

 Madison Ave. on which their original 

 greenhouse plant was located to the 

 city, and will remove their houses to 

 the new plant in the suburbs. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



994,816. Basket for Growing Plants. 



Helen M. Cahill, Oregon 



City, Ore. 

 995,291. Steering Device for Land 



Rollers. Arthur Samuel 



Francis Robinson, Beccles, 



England. 



