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CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



K K. St.wiiri, Itiunklvn. Mich. 



Wlioli-Hule I'rire lAsl o( Cliiilioll. It 



U iiionlloiiod (luTt'lii lliat iiiosi Ili-nix 



an- rodiiroti 25 to 50 por n-iit. 



C'liniiibrrlnin & Company, Wollesley. 

 Mush.— I'ricf Liiil of Cladioliis Dulbs 

 for \itla. An tntcri'Stini; list in which 

 the nioHt popiitiir and promising novel- 

 tifs lire fully dcsirilu'd. 



J. K. Alexander. Kasl llrldKewater, 

 Muss. — WhoUsulf Trndc l-lst for 

 Spring iyi5 of the Kast llridcewater 

 Duhliu Gurdons, "which are the largest 

 in the world." Quotations per doz., 

 100 and 1.000. 



Good & lleese Co.. SprliiBtield, O.— 

 Sprins Trade !>lst. 1915. for Florists, 

 Nurserymen and IJealers Only. Good 

 & Keese Co. (•lain\ to be the largest 

 rose growers in the world. This cata- 

 logue covers a lengthy list as well as 

 of other plants hardy and tender. 



J. J. Wilson Seed Company, New- 

 ark, N. J. — List of Flower and Vege- 

 table Seed Novelties and Specialties — 

 1915. Antirrhinum nanum grandi- 

 florum The Fawn. Calliopsis conipacta 

 Fire King, and other useful florists' 

 flowers are illustrated. 



Weeber & IJon, New York. — General 

 Seed and Garden Catalogue for 1915. 

 A very handsome catalogue, fine 

 paper, flne cuts and excellent arrange- 

 ment. The trade mark of the firm, a 

 sower scattering seeds, make an ap- 

 propriate cover medalion. There is a 

 tempting novelty list. 



K. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston.— 

 Garden Annual. 1915. A ITli-page vol- 

 ume, with a very artistic and unique 

 cover showing a blooming specimen of 

 Lilium myriophyllum in dark green 

 on a pure white surface and overlaid 

 with a panel giving a birdseye view of 

 the extensive plant nurseries and 

 plant houses of this firm at Dedham. 

 Mass. On the back cover appears a 

 group of eifJht views in different sec- 

 tions of the nurseries. The book is 

 profusely illustrated and well indexed 

 and attractive throughout. 



Sluis & Groot, Enkhuizen, Holland. 

 — General Price List of Vegetable, 

 Flower and Agricultural Seeds. Issued 

 under date of December 22. 1914. This 

 is a wholesale price list of 125 pages. 

 very comprehensive, and to anyone in- 

 terested in Kuropean flower seeds and 

 Holland vegetable specialties the book 

 has an intrinsic value of uncommon 

 scope. We must look to Holland as 

 the "go-between" for commercial re- 

 lations with many European sources 

 of supply under the conditions now 

 existing and in that country Sluis & 

 Groot stand well equipped to be of 

 service. On mignonette, candytuft, 

 ■calendulas, etc., in florists' flowers 

 and spinach and root crops in market 

 gardening specialties this firm has an 

 enviable record. 



H. A. Drecr, Philadelphia. Pa.— 

 Dreer's Garden Book, 1915. Ajjpro- 

 priately bound in forest green, with 

 gold embossed lettering and the well- 

 known trade mark of the Dreer house 

 and handsomely printed and embel- 

 lished with engravings, this book will 

 have no trouble in finding its way to 

 the hearts of the garden people. It 

 contains 272 pages of solid, substan- 

 tial material, including fine full-page 

 colored plates of roses, larkspurs. 



HORTICULTURE 



January 16, 1915 



Pulverized Sheep Manure 



^ . From B!g Feeding Barns 



V No Adulteration-No Weed Seeds^ 



Sheep's Head Manure is the clean- 

 est in America, i I ere are the bij^ 

 covered corrals of the railroads, 

 where the sheep are unloaded and 

 kept from 6o to 90 days to fatten 

 for the Chicago market. 



^^^5i^P!f^^ We Guarantee 



our product to be absolutely clean 

 — no ]Hg manure or other adultera- 

 tion — nothing but sheep manure — dried and pulverized 

 for easy handling, and all the weed seeds killed. 



Some of the largest growers in the East have used our 

 product for years. 



THIS IS TIIK HU.\ND 

 (JIAK.XNTKKI) I'lKE 



Shipped in 100 lb. sacks 



Write for quotations and freight rates 



NATURAL GUANO CO. 



815 River Street 



Aurora, 111. 



dwarf zinnias and garden vegetables. 

 Dreer's is a big institution and this, 

 its 77th annual edition of the Garden 

 Book, is in every respect a worthy 

 herald of its spring ministrations lo 

 the growing horticultural appetite of 

 the American people. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Uar(l( ncr.s' and Florists' .Vunual for 

 1915. Published by A. T. De La .Mare 

 Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., New- 

 York — The contents of this volume 

 are quite fully indicated on the title 

 page, as follows: "A Digest of the 

 Events of the Horticultural Year at 

 Home and Abroad; A Business Sec- 

 tion Devoted to Banking, Insurance, 

 Exporting, Importing, etc.; Special Ar- 

 ticles of Current Interest, Men Prom- 

 inent During the Year and an Inval- 

 uable Section of Practical Rules; 

 Hints and Recipes all Indexed and 

 Classified." The book contains 232 

 pages, besides some 50 pages of adver- 

 tising. It embraces much of timely 

 interest and will, no doubt, be found 

 useful as a handy reference and, as 

 such, will be welcomed by the profes- 

 sion. It gives evidence of much patient 

 and painstaking application in its pre- 

 paration and insofar as it is intended 

 to fill a new field not hitherto sup- 

 plied in this country in a practical 

 way, it looks like a success and de- 

 serves to be such. The sflliiie pricf 

 is 50 cents. 



well as a very interesting compilation 

 of information valuable for anyone 

 whose mind is engrossed in park 

 work and modern methods of enter- 

 taining and refreshing the public in 

 metropolitan communities. Type mat- 

 ter and the illustrations, which are 

 many and beautiful, are printed in 

 dark green- ink. There are eight 

 folded maps and plans which add ma- 

 terially to the lucidity of its story 

 and Superintendent Duncan is to be 

 congratulated on the very evident suc- 

 cess of his administration. 



First Report of the Board of Park 

 Commissioners, Si;okane, Washington 

 — A model of artistic excellence, as 



The' Fifteenth Annual Rejiort ui 

 the Minnesota State Entomologist, a 

 bound volume of over two hundred 

 pages is just received and is worthy 

 of more than passing notice. The con- 

 tents include chapters on Insect Con- 

 ditions in \'.n:i and 1914, Useful Birds 

 found in Minnesota. Nursery Inspec- 

 tion, Tree Insects, Spraying, Index to 

 Insect Life, Fly Control, Warble Flies, 

 Truck Crop Insects, Wire Worms, Pre- 

 liminary notes on Odonata and The Ac- 

 ridiida? of Minnesota. In addition to 

 the text which is freely illustrated 

 there are sixteen full page plates of 

 which four pages of birds and four of 

 grasshoppers are beautiful examples 

 of color work. The chapter on use- 

 ful birds. 19 pages, is written in popu- 

 lar form and should prove of much 

 educational value in impressing upon 

 the public the close relationship be- 

 tween bird protection and freedom 

 from destructive insects. In short, the 

 book is teeming with valuable and in- 

 teresting facts presented in an exact, 

 but not too scientific manner. 



