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HORTICULTURE 



November 14, 1914 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED THAK ASSOCUTIOK 



Officers — President. Lester L.. Morse, 

 San Franeisi'o. Calif.; First Vice-Presi- 

 dent. J. M. Lupton. Mattituck, L. I.; 

 Second Vice-President, E. C. Donsan. 

 Philadelphia. Pa.; Secretary and Treas- 

 urer. C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. ; As- 

 sistant Secretary, S. F. Willard, Jr., 

 Cleveland, O. 



Bulb Trade in California. 



Further shipments of imported 

 bulbs have arrived this week, and 

 while few. if any more are expected, 

 there is quite an abundant supply. 

 The jobbing business, however, has 

 Tbeen very good, and is still holding 

 up in good shape, large individual or- 

 ders being more numerous than usual. 

 The retail bulb business, which started 

 out well, is hardly holding up to ex- 

 pectations, as a good many depart- 

 ment stores have gone into the busi- 

 ness and are offering keen competi- 

 tion to the regular retailers. 



Notes. 

 Los Anqeles, Cal. The Aggeler & 

 Musser Seed Company have moved 

 into larger (jnarters at 1200-12 Produce 

 street. 



Imports of grass seed to the port of 

 New York during the week ending Oct. 

 31. 1914. amounted to $1,058. The 

 value of trees and plants received dur- 

 ing same period was ?6,117. 



MANHATTAN REVISITED. 



Of course we pass through the big 

 town quite often and stay for an hour 

 or two. year in and year out. But it 

 must be twenty years since we put in a 

 Sunday in Manhattan. The most as- 

 tonishing thing we saw on last Sunday 

 morning was the prevalence of the tall 

 hat with the cutaway coat which is as 

 extinct as the dodo in other parts of 

 the world. It was a fine mild joyous 

 sunny "Indian summer" Sunday morn- 

 ing and the ride up Fifth avenue on 

 top of a bus was delightful and 

 brought back old recollections of 

 thirty years ago. How splendid com- 

 pared with the subway! 



Those "bite you" cars on Broadway 

 are certainly funny, and make one 

 think of Jim Shea's hippo "with the 

 lovelight in her eye." 



The most solemn places we went 

 through were the new i)ost office at 8th 

 avenue; and the new Pennsylvania 

 station at Seventh avenue. But both 

 these are meant for the future — and 

 fifty years from now will be probably 

 considered very cramped and inade- 

 quate. As the United States grow in 

 population so must New York grow — 

 not because of its people but because 

 of its harbor and geographical posi- 

 tion. The Knickerbocker thinks he did 

 it all. But geograijhy did more. Geog- 

 raphy brings the big brains there from 

 all over the world to make NeVv York 

 what she is. 



They've taken the horse cars oft 

 Chambers street at last and cute little 

 baby electrics take their place. "The 

 world and New York do move." When 

 we smile at her provincialism let us 

 not forget the wonders performed for 

 her by McAdoo and Cassatt. 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 



Chrysanthemum Novelties. 

 Owing to the war the National 

 Chrysanthemum Society has been com- 

 pelled to abandon its Crystal Palace 

 shows. In order that interest in the 

 Society's operations shall be main- 

 tained a series of smaller exhibitions 

 is to be held at the Floral Committee 

 meetings in London. A special con- 

 ference will take place on Dec. 9th. 

 when papers will be read by experts. 

 At a recent meeting of the Floral Com- 

 mittee awards were made to a number 

 of - novelties hereunder enumerated: 

 Lowe & Shawyer received first-class 

 certificates for General French, chest- 

 nut crimson; Delight, silvery pink; 

 Miss Edith Webb, white florets, flushed 

 with reddish purple; Cragg, Harrison 

 & Cragg obtained a first-class certifl- 

 cate for Hestonia, buff, suffused with 

 chestnut. 



Items of Interest. 

 The suggestion by the Horticul- 

 tural Trades Association that the 

 motto of "Business as usual" during 

 the war should be acted upon is evi- 

 dently bearing fruit. The "Nursery- 

 man and Seedsman," a London trade 

 paper, has lately issued an Inter- 

 national Novelty Number— the largest 

 in point of advertising pages which 

 has so far been published by that pa- 

 per. This is very gratifying, at a time 

 when most of the Britisli pai)ers have 

 to deplore deplenished revenue from 

 advertising. The Belgian grower, de- 

 spite his perilous experience, comes up 

 smiling with enterprising notices, 

 whilst the Dutch bulb growers are not 

 relaxing their enterprise. It is appar- 

 ent that every effort is being made to 

 turn to good account the crippled con- 

 dition of the German seed trade, and 

 to smash the competition in the horti- 

 cultural world from that quarter. 



Sir Harry Veiteh. the veteran horti- 

 culturist, has recently sustained a loss 

 by the death of his nephew, J. G. 

 Veiteh. 



No less than 671 growers entered a 

 competition organized by Dobbie & 

 Co.. of Edinburgh, for the best six sam- 

 ples of the potato, Burnhouse Beauty. 



About 70 employes of Sutton & Sons 

 have joined the araiy. Two sons of 

 Leonard Sutton are serving as second 

 lieutenants in infantry regiments. 



\V. H. Ad.sktt. 



National Dahlia Society of England. 



On the 15th of October last the an- 

 nual conference of the society was held 

 at Carr's restaurant. Strand, London. 

 The chair was taken by Reginald Cory 

 of Cardiff, a well-known dahlia enthu- 

 siast whose trials are well-known and 

 were referred to in Jos. Cheal's paper 

 on The Dahlia as a Decorative Plant 

 for Parks and Gardens, delivered be- 

 for the Society at this conference. J. 

 Stredwick opened the meeting by read- 

 ing a paper on the history of tlie dah- 

 lia. There was practically nothing new 

 or original in his remarks and for a 

 full authentic and instructive paper on 

 the subject nothing has yet surpassed 



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late Shirley Hibberd on the occasion 

 of the Great Dahlia Centenary Confer- 

 ence held in 1889 at the Crystal Palace 

 We have not been able to obtain the 

 text of Mr. Stredwick's papers but that 

 by Mr. .1. Cheal is in our possession 

 and we hope to have space for it in one 

 of our issues of the near future. 



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