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 Oltlcrr* — rrrBlUriil, J. M. l.upCoD, 

 Malllluik. I.. I.. N.V.: Flril Vlce-l'rral- 

 drnt. KIrbjr II. \t hllr, DrtroU, Mlclui 

 Hc^ond \ Icr-l'realdfnt, F. W. IIoIcIaoo, 

 W»*blnff(on, L>. r. ; ttrcr^iMrr-TrrMmurer, 

 C. K. Ki*Ddpl, ('lr«el»nd, O. ; Aaalat&nt 

 Boorrtarr. H. F. UlUitrd, Jr., C'lf>«<-lsod, 

 O. Clil«(o, 111., Jun* tO-ti. next mect- 



One Week's Imports. 



Import.'! at the port of New York of 

 horticultural nuiterial, for the week 

 ending June 2. were recorded as fol- 

 low: 



Bulbs— Netherlands, $38; England, 

 $212; Bermuda, $6; Japan, |3. 



Plants -France. $39; Netherlands, 

 $405; England, $4,928; Bermuda, $150; 

 Guatemala, $427; Mexico, $90; Trini- 

 dad. $174; Brazil, $25; Japan, $34. 



Clover Seed-— Norway, $7,911. 



Grass Seed — Netherlands, $301; Ar- 

 gentine, $762. 



Other Seed— Netherlands. $1,705; 

 England, $20,049; Chile, $1,900; Brit- 

 ish India, $3,114; France, $610; Hong- 

 kong. $160; Japan, $284. 



Nitrate of Soda— Panama. $14,266. 



Notes. 



New York. N. Y. — W. A. Sutherland, 

 formerly with the Leonard Seed Com- 

 pany. Chicago, is now representing S. 

 D. Woodruff & Sons. 82 Dey street, in 

 the eastern states. 



Rockford, III. — Condon Bros., seed 

 growers, have purchased the McFar- 

 land farm, in Guilford township, and a 

 large portion of it will be devoted to 

 seed trials. 



The Iowa Seed Dealers Association 

 held their annual meeting at Des 

 Moines, la., in the Savery Hotel on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, June 7 and 

 8. It was a very successful and well 

 attended meeting. Henry Field of 

 Shenandoah is president and J. F. Sinn 

 of Clorinda, secretary. 



Theodore Outerbridge writes from 

 Sunnylands. Bemiuda. that the weath- 

 er has been very cool there thus far 

 this season but that rain is needed 

 very badly and plants and bulbs are 

 suffering for it. We should be very 

 glad to share some of the rainfall 

 which we have been getting in New 

 England during the past fortnight. 



Our advices from France state that 

 there is a great shortage of labor with 

 correspondingly high wages. Agricul- 

 tural and horticultural productions, 

 including seed growing, has been very 

 much reduced this spring. Instead of 

 growing seeds, growers prefer to raise 

 potatoes and grains, which with a good 

 deal less expense, command now very 

 high prices. 



SWEET PEA HISTORY. 

 Ilenr Kditor: 



liererrliig to the aililretii< of II. .\l. 

 i:.irl on the Devolopuieut of the Mod- 

 ern Winter Sweet I'oa In Hoiiiii ii.tihk 

 of May 27th, page 726, I And several 

 mistakes which I want to correct for 

 the sake of hl.story and nomenclature 

 of the Winter-Flowering Sweet Pens. 

 I hope you will correct the following 

 facts which can be very easily proved 

 by any mentioned firms. 



Mr. Karl admits in his address, that 

 the Earliest of All and ChristmaR 

 Pink, of which I was the originator, 

 are practically the same. I agree with 

 him as they are today, but ten years 

 ago or right after the Introduction of 

 the Earliest of All it was very similar 

 to my first Winter Sweet Pea the Win- 

 ter Blanch Ferry. He admits that the 

 Earliest of All was introduced In 1898, 

 which is correct. But Mr. Earl omits 

 entirely how it has happened that two 

 practically the same varieties bear 

 two different names. One must sure- 

 ly be misrepresented and renamed. 



My original Christmas Pink was 

 grown by many growers before 1898, 

 also before the introduction of Earliest 

 of All. The first greenhouse of it was 

 grown by Thos. Young Co., In the sea- 

 son 1895-6, and the first flowers so far 

 as I can recollect, were sent to Thorley, 

 New York, at the price of 50 cents per 

 dozen flowers. Later it has been sent 

 to Fleishman's and other New York 

 flower stores. I was In charge of the 

 greenhouses at that time. 



In 1897-98 it was grown by many 

 growers and the majority of the flow- 

 ers were handled by Gunther Bros., 

 commission florists, at that time in 

 30th street. New York, and by James 

 Purdy. Those firms can show the old 

 books, how much of the Christmas 

 Pink they have handled. Now I ask 

 Mr. Earl— who have named the Earl- 

 iest of All, if it is the same as Christ- 

 mas Pink? As I have mentioned be- 

 fore, today those two varieties are 

 most the same, but ten years ago there 

 was a big difference between them. 

 The so-called Earliest of All was a 

 very dwarf grower with a small flower. 

 In 1906 Lester Morse raised the Christ- 

 mas Pink seed for me. also the Earl- 

 iest of All for other seedsmen on the 

 same field. Asking him for his opinion 

 about the two varieties, he says: 

 "There is a big difference between the 

 two. Yours is double, is large, is a 

 very strong grower and comes two to 

 three weeks later when planted side 

 by side at the same time." Since that 

 time many thousand growers came to 

 the same conclusion and have re- 

 turned to my old Christmas Pink. 



After I have tried out the Earliest 

 of All, I come to the point that this is 

 the same Sweet Pea as my first bi- 

 color, the Winter Blanche Ferry, which 

 I have originated and grown by Mr, H. 

 Bolte at Allentown, Pa., 1890 and when 

 I was with Koge Bros., West Hoboken, 

 N. J., in 1892-94. The Winter Blanche 

 Ferry was never advertised and was 

 grown only by several growers to 

 whom I gave the seed, and in 1895 I 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Raynes 



Park, London, England. Send for Catalogue 



June 17, 1»16 



discarded It In fuvor of the much bet- 

 ter CbrlBtJims I'Ink. 



.Vo doubt that all ihe old groweru 

 know the origin of the Unit Winter 

 Sweet Pea, but It may bo very mis- 

 leading to the younger generation to 

 have them believe that the Earliest of 

 All was the first 



Yours very truly, 



A.NT, C. ZVOLANEK. 



LomiKic, Cal. 



THE PEONY CITY. 



riiero was a notable gathering of 

 the Civic League of Omaha, Neb., on 

 the 7th of June. It was peony day 

 and the exhibit of that flower was 

 fine. It is the aim of the league to 

 make Omaha the Peony City. There 

 is a garden of fourteen acres of this 

 flower in full bloom. The writer was 

 sent for to make an address. 



Found at Last 



The trouble lias been to find a 

 peony for the northern belt of states 

 for Decoration Day. There will be 

 hundreds of blooms on that day and 

 thousands two days after, but after 

 seven years test in Nebraska the Um- 

 bellata Rosea has never failed. This 

 is a beautiful fragrant pink. This 

 year May was so cold we thought they 

 would not come to time, but they 

 came in on the home run gloriously, 

 and now there is a great call for this 

 flower. C. S. Harbison. 



PEONY EXHIBITION. 



The American Peony Society In co- 

 operation with The Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York held a Peony Exhi- 

 bition in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York City, on 

 June 9th to 11th. Our special notes on 

 the exhibits and list of prize winners 

 appears to have miscarried and we are, 

 therefore, obliged to go to press with- 

 out them this week. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of 

 the American Peony Society was held 

 in the lecture room in connection with 

 the exhibition. 



A discussion on the naming of new 

 varieties and the desirability of a 

 simplification of the present nomen- 

 clature resulted in instructions to the 

 secretary to correspond with raisers 

 abroad setting forth the attitude of the 

 American Society. Lemoine & Son of 

 Nancy, France, were made honorary 

 members as was also Sarah A. Pleas 

 of Colorado, whose varieties Jubilee 

 and Opal in her exhibit were very beau- 

 tiful. The directors were authorized to 

 hold a meeting next winter and arrange 

 for a spring meeting in 1917 and It was 

 decided to issue two bulletins for the 

 coming year similar to those of 1916. 

 On the question of admitting Garden 

 Clubs to membership no decision was 

 reached. Arrangements have now been 

 completed for the planting of a full 

 collection of peonies at Washington to 

 he known as the American Peony So- 

 ciety collection. Philadelpnia was 

 chosen for the next exhibition. 



The membership of the society is 

 now \')(i, 34 new members having been 

 added this year. The cash balance to- 

 the credit of the society is over $1,700. 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS, Inc., 



166 Chamber of 

 Commerce BIdg., Boitoo, Max. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Roos Bros.. Milton, Mass. -Special 

 Prices on Dutch Bulbs for Immediate 

 Acceptance, 



