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HORTICULTURE 



August 8, 1914 



New Crop MICH ELL'S ^^"^ ^^°P 



GIANT PANSY SEED 



GIANT EXHIBITION MIXED. A Giant Strain wtiicli for size 

 of bloom, iieavy texture and varied colors and shades cannot 

 be surpassed. Half trade packet, 30c,; trade packet, 60c,; 

 Ms oz., 75c.; per oz., $5.00. 



GIANT PRIZE VARIETIES IN SEPARATE COLORS 



Snow itueen 

 Stripeil 31)4) Mottled 

 White With Eye 

 I'ure Yellow 

 Yellow With Eye 



40o. per trade pkt. ; 



Azure Blue 

 Black Blue 

 Emperor William 

 KinK of the Blacks 

 Lord Bctaconsflelcl 

 Any of the ahove separate colors 

 per oz., $1.75. 

 Hortensia Red. Peacock. Trade pkt., 40c.; $2.50 per oz 



MYOSOTIS SEED 



Alpehtris Y'ictorla 



Eliza Fanrohert 



ralustris 



I'alu«:itris Senipertlorens 



Also all other SeasoDable Seeds and Snpplies which 

 are Described in our Wholesale Catalogue and Price 

 List. Send for one if you haven't recei%ed it. 



MlchelVs Giant Prize Pansy 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518 Market St., PHILA., PA. 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEH) TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Offlcers — President, Lester L. Morse, 

 San Francisco, Calif.; First Vice-Presi- 

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

 Second Vice-President, E. C. Dungan, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Secretary and Treas- 

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

 sistant Secretary, S. F, WUIard, Jr„ 

 Cleveland, O. 



A. T. Boddington of New York has 

 1,000,000 Kentia seeds tied up In Ham- 

 burg. 



Beets, carrots, radishes, cauliflower. 

 cabbage and many varieties of turnips 

 are among the important seeds which 

 we look to Europe to supply this coun- 

 try with annually. 



William Elliott & Sons are burnish- 

 ing up the interior of their store at 42 

 Vesey street. New York City, adding 

 new cabinets and retiring the old ones 

 on a pension after their long and use- 

 ful service. 



Schenectady, N, Y, — A new seed 

 store, to be known as the Empire Seed 

 Company, opened for business last 

 week at 144 Clinton street, and will 

 handle seeds, grains, fertilizers and 

 poultry supplies. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



W. E. Marshall & Co., New York- 

 Bulbs, strawberry plants and seeds. 



E. Neubert, Wandsbek, Germany — 

 "Wholesale price list of florists' plants. 



Coolidge Rare Plant Gardens, Pasa- 

 dena, Cal. — Illustrated list of tropical 

 fruits, greenhouse ferns, etc. 



J. Bolgiano & Son. Baltimore, Md. — 

 Wholesale summer and fall catalogue 

 for market gardeners, truckers and 

 farmers. Illustrated. 



Plymouth, Mass. — Fritz J. Schlecht 

 will continue the business of Brauneck- 

 er & Schlecht, the firm having dis- 

 solved. 



RAISING HARDY PERENNIALS 

 FROM SEED. 



Can you furnish me with diicctioiis :is 

 to the methods employed by nursery con- 

 cerns in raising perennial and other 

 plants from seed in the open air. What 

 Is the size of the seed bed. how is it pre- 

 pared, what is the usual distance between 

 the rows, the length of the row. tlie 

 manner of identifying tlic varieties of 

 plants sown, giving the size of label it 

 one is used, and such other information 

 as would be helpful in this connection. 

 As perennials are frequently slow lo 

 germinate, what is done to control the 

 weeds between and in the rows, to prevent 

 injury to the seedlings It is desired to 

 to preserve? 



Thanliing you in advance for any hints 

 you may furnish particularly with regard 

 to weed control. I am, 



Tours Iruly. 



C. I'. 



Size of Seep Bed. For all large seeds 

 such as lupins, lathyrus. hollyhocks, 

 etc., five row 4 ft. beds, with 15 in. 

 walks. Fine seeds do better in frames 

 that can be shaded with screens until 

 they germinate. 



How IS Bed Prepared.'' Manure and 

 trench the ground in the fall, and in 

 spring when the ground is dry enough, 

 dig with spading fork and rake fine 

 and form beds or frames according 

 to the seed to be sown. 



Distance Between Rows and Length 

 OF Rows. For plants that are to re- 

 main in the beds for a year or more, 

 8-in. to 1 foot. For plants that are 

 to be transplanted early and are sown 

 in frames, 3 or 4 inches. Length of 

 rows to be convenient to water with 

 hose in dry weather. 



Identifting the Varieties. Mark 

 name on painted labels. 



Size and Kind of Label. Twelve 

 inch painted labels and sixteen inch 

 for plants that are to remain where 

 sown for any considerable length of 

 time. 



Weep Control — Between and in 

 THE Rows. Weeds between rows are 

 best controlled by hoeing carefully 

 when they are small, and by hand 

 weeding in and along the rows also 

 when small. Keep the ground stirred 

 up between the rows with a narrow 

 rake after rain or watering, when the 



surface is about dry enough so the soil 

 will not adhere to the rake. Small 

 seeds are much better not to be dis- 

 turbed. I find that cultivation with a 

 narrow rake will keep the small weeds 

 from getting ahead. 



P. FOEDHAM. 



LILIUM MYRIOPHYLLUM FROM 



SEED. FORCING BULBS 



SECOND TIME. 



I want to Id some of my Lilium 

 myrlophyllum go lo seed. How can I tell 

 Ihelr maturity, the sowing and treatment 

 alter? Will sucli liulbs as Narcissus 

 mycrophyllum, grape hyacinths, produce 

 the same quality of flowers it forced 

 again the coining winter? 



Very truly yours, 



J. R. 

 Let the seed stay on Lilium myrio- 

 phyllum as long as there is no danger 

 of frost. They can be kept until 

 March and then sowed in flats in the 

 greenhouse and transplanted in sum- 

 mer or early fall to the open ground. 

 Narcissi and grape hyacinths will pro- 

 duce fairly good flowers the second 

 year provided the plants have been 

 watered after flowering, the foliage al- 

 lowed to remain, and such conditions 

 given as wall insure thorough develop- 

 ment and maturing of the bulbs. 

 Otherwise they will turn out much 

 weaker than the previous year. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 



Calgary, B. C. — Cluny Nurseries, 

 Ltd., voluntary bankruptcy. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — The H. A. Fisher 

 Company, in voluntary bankruptcy; as- 

 sets, $9,930,65; liabilities, $18,635.81. 



New Crop Seeds 



FOR FLORISTS AND MARKET 



GARDENERS. 



8AI.TIA — Splendens, Bonflre. 



ASTERS — All varieties. 



TERBENA— SWEET PEAS. 



Send lie* of wants. 



Stamford Seed & Nursery Co., 43 Atlantic St. 



STAMFORD, CONN. 



