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Ktibruary 13, 1915 



Eat. 1765 



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I'AMIIICIIX.K. MASS. 

 NEW %'ORK, M. T. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 



iJiiriuK KarnuTs' Woek al llic Col- 

 lege, two (la.vs. .March 16 and 17, will 

 be entirely dcvotpil to floriculture. On 

 these dates several prominent llorlcul- 

 tiiral men will spenk. In connection 

 with this series of lectures a Spring 

 Flower Show, occup.vlnB the entire 

 lirst floor of Freiuh Hall, will be held. 



The Short Course in lloriculture 

 has been In propress since the first 

 week in January. Fifteen students 

 are enrolled, the reRistration having 

 been limited to this number in order 

 that more personal supervision might 

 be given and more efficient work 

 done. Several obser\ation trips to 

 commercial greenhouses are included 

 in the course. 



Two seminars are being given this 

 semester for the regular college stu- 

 dents; one in Commercial Floricul- 

 ture conducted by Prof. Xehrling and 

 one in Plant .Materials for Garden 

 Work by Mr. Thurston. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Worcester, Mass.— The market gar- 

 deners of Worcester county have 

 joined forces to fight the middlemen, 

 wholesalers and commission mer- 

 chants, and have started their attempt 

 to place products directly in tlie hands 

 of the retailer or the consumer. The 

 gardeners have incorporated them- 

 selves into a co-operative organization 

 with a capital of ?in,000 for this pur- 

 pose. 



Rumson, N. J. — George K. Kiihn. who 

 for years had been employed in the 

 Borden greenhouse, has taken a posi- 

 tion with Bertram H. Borden and is 

 now in charge of the Borden green- 

 houses on the B. H. Borden property, 

 which was recently bought from the 

 Cornelius N. Bliss estate. Many large 

 ornamental plants that are owned by 

 Bertram H. Borden are being moved 

 from the large greenhouse on the How- 

 ard Borden property to Mr. Borden's 

 greenhouses on the former Bliss prop- 

 erty. 



Paint fWithout Oil 



Remarkable Ditcovery That Cntt Down the Cat 

 of Paint Seyenty-FiTt Per Cent 



.\ Free Trial Pnckage Is Maiird to Every- 

 one Who Writes. 



A. Ij. Rice, a prominent mnnuf.Kturfr of 

 Adams, N. Y., lias dlsrovered :i process of 

 making a new kind of paint without the use 

 of oil. He calls It Powdrpalnl. II comes In 

 the form of a dry powder and all that is 

 required Is cold water to make a paint 

 weather proof. Are proof and as durable as 

 oil paint. It adheres to any surface, wood, 

 stone or brick, spreads and looks like oil 

 paint and costs al>out one-fourth as much. 



Write to Mr. A. L. Rifp. Manufaiturer. 288 

 North St., .idaras. N. Y.. and he will send 

 you a free trial package, also color card 

 and full information showing you how you 

 can save a good many dollars. Write today. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Long Branch, N. J. .loiin Kemp, oim- 

 hiiiisc. 



Tyrone, Pa. William H. Brause, one 

 house. 



Jamestown, N. Y. Grant Babcock, 

 additions. 



Rumson, N. J. Howard S. Borden, 

 additions. 



St. Albans. Vt. Kennedy & LeDuc. 

 house IL' X IGll. 



Newport, R. i. — Thomas Gibson. Tn 

 ft. palm house. 



Woodlawn, N. Y. — A. Friedman, one 

 liouse .ISxUH and two smaller ones. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Chicago — E. S. Johnson, Benton Har- 

 bor, Mich. 



Pittsburgh. — C. Colyn, representinj; 

 C. Colyn Sons of Voorhout, Holland. 



New York— W. H. De Graaf, Leyden, 

 Holland; .Mrs. .lohn Forbes, Newport. 

 R. I.; Chas. H. Vick, Rochester, N. Y.; 

 L. J. Renter, Westerly. R. 1. 



Boston — Charles H. Vick, Rochester, 

 N. Y.; A. E. Kuiiderd, Goshen. Ind.; 

 Geo. Hampton, Phila., Pa.; J. S. Hay. 

 representing 11. A. Dreer, Phila., Pa. 



Washington. D. C. — John G. Heinl, 

 Terre Haute. Ind.; Samuel Bernstein 

 and David Benjamin, Kingston, X. Y ; 

 H. B. Ruppert. representing Philip I. 

 Carbone, iJoston, Mass.; William H. 

 Caldwell. Newburgh, N. Y.; T. A. 

 Warne, Edgely, Pa.; W. H. VanWinkle, 

 Jr., Newark, N. J. 



Philadelphia — IjOuIs J. Reuter, West- 

 erly, R. 1.; Joseph Manda. West 

 Orange, N. J.; W. C. bangbridge. 

 Jerome B. Rice &. Co., Cambridge, N. 

 Y.; Joseph J. Lane, Garden Magazine, 

 N. Y. City; W. G. Livingston, Colum- 

 bus, O.; W. Siebrecht, N. Y. City; 

 Samuel Spiers, Newport, R. I. 



Cincinnati— Milton Alexander, New 

 York; Julius Dilhoff of Schloss Bros.. 

 New York; C. W. Scott of Yokohama 

 Nurseries, Ne\^ York; S. Lipman of 

 Thomsen & Co., New York; Frank J. 

 Farney. Philadelphia. Pa.; H. V. Thom- 

 as, Augusta, Ky.; W. C. Nolan, Ports- 

 mouth, Ohio; Fred Rupp, Lawrence- 

 here. Ind. 



INCORPORATED. 



Philadelphia, Pa.— Harry S. Betz 

 Nursery Co.. capital stock, $25,000. 



Stratford, Conn. — HoUister Heights 

 Floral & Nursery Company. Capital 

 subscribed for, $2,750. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1.127,191. Flow.T-Piii Handle and 

 Plant-Support. Roger H. Comstock 

 and Robert J. McKie, Milford, Conn. 



West Derby, Vt. — H. J. Ball, West 

 Derby, Vt., announces that, owing to 

 increasing florist trade and the un- 

 settled seed market in Europe, he will 

 not issue a seed catalog this year, but 

 will have a plant catalog as usual. 



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