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HORTICULTURE 



Fobnmry 19, 1916 



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AMBRICAM SBBD TRADE ASSOCIATION 



onirrra — Trraldrnt, J. M. Laptcn. 

 Muillurk. I.. I.. N. v.; rlr»t Vlr»-I"r««l- 

 dral. klrb; li. HlilU<. Drtrolt. Mlcb.l 

 Bfvsn.l \ Irr-rrMldrnl. F. W. Bolclaaa, 

 MB»hln|luD, It. C; Mrrrrlmrr-TrCBaarcr, 

 C. K. Kwdrl. Clp<rlBDd. O. ; Aaalslant 

 ••rrrlmr;, H. F. WUlaril. Jr., t'lvTalamd, 

 O. Ctf l«»«ll. O,. maxi m — tim placa. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York of 

 hortirultural material for the week 

 eDdiiiK Kel). 4th, were recorded as fol- 

 lows : 



Bulbs— Denmark. $2(i.t;!<9: France, 

 1256; Netherlands, $:;,725; England, 

 1551; Japan, $:>1'2. 



Other plants, etc. — Denmark, $618; 

 France, ?130; Netherlands. $3,120; 

 England, $1,115; Ireland. $229; Japan, 

 $10. 



Red clover seed— France, $22,808; 

 Ital.v. $188,682. 



Grass seed — Denmark, $1,168; Scot- 

 land, $213; Ireland, $487. 



All other seed— Denmark, $35,799; 

 France, $15,772; Netherlands, $643; 

 England, $2(;.576: Scotland. $6,183; 

 China, $l.ii51; Hongkong, $4S: Japan, 

 $1,372: Morocco, $1,684. 



Kainit— Peru, $21. 



Sulphate of potash — Peru. $2ti8. 



Dried blood— Argentine, $3,960. 



Other fertilizers— England. $58; .Ar- 

 gentine, $1,224. 



The freight rates on lily bulbs from 

 Yokohama to inland cities via rail- 

 roads has been advanced $4.50 per 

 1,000 in 7-9 size, and $7.00 per 1,000 

 on larger sizes. By the all water 

 route the rates are still higher and 

 the worst feature is that it is almost 

 impossible to get ships to carry the 

 goods. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



Baltimore, Md. Baltimore Whole- 

 sale Florist & Supply Co., capital stock 

 $10,000. 



PIggott, Ark. — Piggott Nurseries, in- 

 corporators, H. H. and E. H. Ballard, 

 and T. L. Davis. 



Rochester, N. Y.— Edwin C. Kaelber, 

 florist, capital stock $5,000. Incorpora- 

 tors, K. C, F. Z. and C. F. W. Kaelber. 



Martinsville, Ind.— Union Orchard & 

 Nursery Co., capital stock, $10,000. In- 

 corporators, Benjamin F., L,aura L. and 

 Grace Mason. 



Boise, Idaho. — Central Coal & Seed 

 Co., capital stock. $25,000. Incorpora- 

 tors, Wm. H. McGuffin, Don McGufiin, 

 Edward McGuffin, C. F. Harmon and H. 

 W. Baker. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE NOTES. 



H. D. Grant has relinquished his 

 position in the Grounds Department 

 here at the college to take up land- 

 scape work in Richmond, Va., with C. 

 F. Gillett. 



Mr. Ulman of Butler & Ulman. 

 Northampton, discussed the organiza- 

 tion of a greenhouse establishment 

 with the senior class in Floriculture 

 last Tuesday afternoon. 



SEEDS for the FLORIST 



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 Our Trndr I.Int Mallcfl on ApplUatlon. 



FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO., jn^J^SnYZe BOSTON 



»EEDS--OIMIOIM SE 



.\liljreciation of a high order of Merit in Seeds and Seed Service 

 leads naturally to purchasing from 



LEONARD SEED COMPANY 



226-230 W. KINZIE ST., 



CHICAGO 



SEED AND PLANT FORCING DE- 

 VICE. 



Unprotected tlower and vegetable 

 crops in tlie open are subject to 

 weather conditions, while with the in- 

 telligent use of glass the plants will 

 mature quickly and the number of 

 crops grown on a given space can be 

 increased considerably and the vege- 

 table will be tender and juicy. 



Until recently the sashlight and the 

 bell glass have been the only practical 

 devices suitable for the purpose. 

 French gardeners now use what they 

 call the continuous cloche. Amer- 

 icans have styled it the "continuous 

 seed and plant forcer." It is a very 

 simple adaptation of window glass. 

 held together firmly by a patented 

 system of bent wires. The wire grips 

 the glass firmly in a manner that 

 makes the forcer absolutely rigid, in 

 the form of an inverted letter V. The 

 two panes of glass do not quite meet, 

 but leave a small space at the ai)€x 

 which affords ventilation, allowing ex- 

 cessive heat and moisture to escajie. 



When the bell glass is used it is 

 necessary to plant in small round 

 patches, but with the new system the 

 planting may be in long rows as in 

 ordinary gardening, economizing space 

 and labor. Various sizes of glass can 

 be used. For protecting rows of small 

 seeds, such as mignonette, poppies, let- 

 tuce or radish, to hasten growth, the 

 smallest or seed raiser size is used, 

 eighty-three forcers to the hundred 

 feet of row providing ample protec- 

 tion for the seedlings in their early 

 stages. For peas, beans, etc., there 

 are suitable sizes, and larger sizes for 

 covering bushes, or forcing early 

 strawberries, tomatoes, etc. 



The use of forcers extends the 

 length of the season sonsiderably. 

 making it possible to start the garden 

 earlier than usual and keeping it go- 

 ing until late in the season. When 

 these forcers are better known they 

 will be more generally used. When 

 not in use the glass is removed from 

 the wire frames and stored away in 

 boxes and the wires are also packed 

 in boxes and put away until wanted 

 the following season, so the first cost 

 is practically the total expense. 



RATHER CHEEKY, 

 For some reason best known to 

 themselves, the papers of the Western 

 coast do not look with favor upon the 

 purchase and setting apart for public 

 grounds of mountain and forest tracts 

 here in the East. Perhaps it is be- 

 cause they have so much of that sort 

 of thing that is in no danger that they 

 cannot appreciate our anxiety to save 

 what we have here. 



At any rate, we find the San Fran- 

 cisco Chronicle calling the membera 

 of that most useful body, the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, "sentiment- 

 alists," talking about "extorting money 

 from Congress" for our forests and 

 observing that "if any of the Eastern 

 States desire forest reserves, they 

 have the money to pay for them." 



This from a paper of the city that 

 induced Congress to present it with 

 one of the most beautiful spots in the 

 world, the Hetch-Hetchy valley, worth 

 millions of dollars, to be ruined to 

 make a reservoir for the town, is cer- 

 tainly not lacking in cheek. — Boston 

 Traveler. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Cortland, N. Y.— C. V. Hike has sold 

 his interest in the Hike-Allen Co., 

 florists. 



Troy, Ala.— The boiler in U. B. Chap- 

 man's greenhouses exploded Feb. 4th, 

 wrecking the greenhouses completely; 

 no insurance. 



New Britain, Ct. A. A. Weldon has 

 been appointed superintendent of th& 

 Moluniphy and Edelson greenhouses. 

 Vegetable crops are his specialty. 



Milford, Mass. — Fire in the green- 

 houses of Albert L. Smith Feb. 8th, en- 

 tirely destroyed the boiler house and 

 did considerable damage to the houses. 



Lincoln, Neb. — Joseph K. Hiltner has 

 purchased the 15th street greenhouses 

 and retail store of the Griswold Seed 

 Co., recently declared bankrupt. H. A. 

 Johns, Sioux City, purchased the Nor- 

 mal greenhouses of the same Arm. 



