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HOETICULTURE 



December 26, 1914 



SEED TRADE 



AMHtlCAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATIOT* 



Officers — President, Lester L,. Morse, 

 San irancisifo, Calif.; first Vice-Presi- 

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

 Second Vice-President, E. C. Onngan, 

 Fhllodelptaia, Pa.; Secretary and Treas- 

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

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

 Cleveland. O. 



See Situations Wanted, page 927, 

 if you are looking for a seedsman. 



OVELTIES in FLOWERS 

 and VEGETABLES 



Garrison, N. D. — A seed store lias 

 been opened here by the Missouri 

 Slope Seed Co. of Fargo, N. D. 



Columbus, O. — T. J. Ludwig, for 

 many years with the Livingston Seed 

 Co., will start in business for himself 

 after January 1st in the new White- 

 Haines building, 82 North High street. 



Horticultural imports into the port 

 of New York during week ending 

 December 12 were valued as follows: 

 Sugar beet seed, ?64,024; clover seed, 

 $5,398; grass seed, $988; trees and 

 plants, $47,481. 



St. Louis, IVIo.— The St. Louis Seed 

 Co. are preparing to move into their 

 new building at 411-13 Washington 

 avenue. They have been occupying 

 temporary quarters at 408 North 

 Broadway since the fire last spring. 



CATLOGUES RECEIVED. 



W. Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 — Advance Offer of Sweet Peas for 

 1915. 



Jas. Carter & Co., of Raynes Park, England, 

 have originated or introduced a large propor- 

 tion of all new varieties in tbe lasi 50 years. 

 That is why Carter's reputation is world-wide 

 and experienced gardeners keep in close touch 

 with Carter productions. 



Study the new Carter Catalog for 1915. Among 

 the Flower Seed Specialties you will find our 

 new strains. Many varieties ot Asters, Mari- 

 golds, Snapdragons, Primroses, Sweet Peas, 

 Petunias and others are listed. 

 In the Vegetable List are novelties of Beans, 

 Beets, Carrots, Radishes, Cabbages, Celery, 

 Cucumbers, Lettuce, Peas, Tomatoes, etc. 

 This new Catalog — Carter's •'Garden and 

 Lawn"— has many wonderful photographic 

 illustrations and valuable cultural directions. 

 Send us your name and address now so we 

 ni:iy mail you a complimentary copy. 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS INC. 



166 Chanaber of Commerce Building, 



Boston, Mass. ' . 



Branch at Seattle, Wash. 

 In Canada. 133 King St. E., Toronto' 



Branch of Jas. Carter & Co., Raynes Park, Eng. 



Tested 



Lilacs, Lily of the Valley Roses and 

 Pansies, Loechner & Co., New York, 

 American agents. 



George Wittbold Company, Chicago 

 — Special Wholesale Price List of 

 Decorative Plants. 



Samuel Murray, Kansas City, Mo. — 

 Folder in colors, listing desirable 

 Christmas plants for retail trade. A 

 very catchy proposition. 



Knight & Struck Company, New 

 York — Price List of "Heatherhome" 

 Seeds. A 240-page catalogue, neatly 

 bound in pale blue. 



Alfred Mitting, Santa Cruz, Cal.— 

 Berry Catalogue for 1915, an interest- 

 ing special list; illustrated. 



Scott Bros.. Elmsford, N. Y. — Price 

 List ot Chrysanthemums, Roses, Car- 

 nations, etc. Here are listed all the 

 desirable novelties, chrysanthemums 

 especially. Interesting to the trade 

 and growers for exhibition. 



Clark W, Brown, Ashland, Mass. — 

 Catalogue and Price List of Gladiolus 

 and Dahlia Bulbs. Illustrated. 



A. E. Kunderd, Goshen, Ind.— Illus- 

 trated Descriptive Cataloarue and 

 Price List of the Ruffled Kunderdi 

 Type of Gladiolus. 



Hjalmar Hartmann & Co. — Copen- 

 hagen, Denmark, 1914-15— Illustrated 

 Wholesale Price List of Danish 



Seedsmen reqnlrlne the very beat 

 selections ot 



Garden Seeds 



(VEGETABLE AND FLOWER), especially 



Kelway's Celebrated English Strains 



can pet them at lowest independent whole- 

 sale rates by sending their orders direct to 



KELWAY & SON 



M holesalo Seed Growers 



LANGPORT, 8 MER8ET. ENGLAND 



Special quotations on application 



Burnett Brothers, New York City — 

 Annual Seed and Bulb Catalogue for 

 1915. Early in the game and a worthv 

 advance herald of the annual cata- 

 logue host. Bound in royal purple, 

 gold embossed. Well printed and 

 fully illustrated. An unique map of 

 the United States in gold lines on 

 the back cover tells its scope. 



H. G. Hastings & Co., Atlanta, Ga. 

 —"Hastings Seeds" catalogue No. 

 49, spring, 1915. Not only a hand- 

 somely illustrated catalogue but full 

 of snap and go and original in manv 

 of its features. A cotton picking 

 scene on front cover and the Watson 

 Watermelon in natural colors on back 

 cover give a distinctively southern 

 exterior to this representative cata- 

 logue. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Two very valuable bulletins have 

 been issued for October and Novem- 

 ber. 1914, by the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Am- 

 herst, Mass. Bulletin No. 156 deals 

 with electrical injuries to trees, the 

 effects of alternating and direct cur- 

 rents and the methods of preventing 

 injury to trees from wires, etc by 

 Dr. George Stone. The subject is 'cov- 

 ered in Dr. Stone's painstaking and 



thorough style and has a number of 

 pertinent illustrations 



Bulletin No. 157 is on the Mar- 

 guerite Fly, by M. T. Smulyan. This 

 IS an exhaustive treatise on the life 

 history, habits and methods of con- 

 n»=l °f .this destructive greenhouse 

 pest, filling 60 pages, including sev- 

 eral plates showing the insect in its 

 various stages and its work. Every 

 greenhouse, man who grows the 

 marguerite will need this bulletin It 

 may be had for the asking 



MICHELL'S NEW CROP 

 FLOWER SEEDS 



ASPAR.iGCS PLCMOSCS NANUS 



^'/^.^"•^""ft Grown per 1000 l^e^s! 

 seeds, |30m "" °'^ '''"'' "■«*» 



A.SPARAGUS HATCHERL ner "inn 



seeds, .S3.a^; ?6.00 per iSoO se^g ^°" 



I VERBENA: ^r Pfct Or 



Mammoth Fancy Blue $.30 ll-^ 



■' P'nk ... .30 1.25 



Scarlet.. .30 1.2.5 



White... .30 125 



Giant l-lower^d, *"''.?''v.-. ^ l^ 

 VfNCA: 



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SALVIA: 



Ball of Fire ko 9 M) 



Scarlet Glare ^ fi; 



Splendens 25 100 



SHAAIROCK: 



Fine Irish jS .75 



Also „ii other Seasonable Seeds und 

 Mipphes for the Florist. 



.Send for Our Handy Flower Seed 

 Order Sheet if you haven't a ropy. 



HENRY F. MICHFLL CO. 



518 Market Street, Phila. I 



