July 21, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



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NEWS NOTES. 



Olson & Linden have purchased the 

 greenhouses of C. W. Blatchley, South- 

 ington. Conn. 



Carl Erickson of Fitchburg has pur- 

 chased the Riverside Greenhouses at 

 Gardner, Mass. 



Martin Hays succeeds W. H. Lea- 

 man as florist at the Carlisle Indian 

 school, Carlisle, Pa. 



George W. Wood of Portland, Me., 

 met with a slight loss Ijy Are in the 

 building in which his store is located. 



The business men and summer resi- 

 dents of Arverne, L. 1., N. Y., are pre- 

 paring for a floral parade on Aug. 25. 



Millville. N. J., and vicinity was the 

 scene of a terrific hail storm last week 

 which, in a short time, did great dam- 

 age to the greenhouses and the truck 

 farms. 



Alexander Emslie has disposed of 

 his greenhouses in Montpelier, Vt, to 

 Alexander Broadfoot who has been a 

 partner of Mr. Emslie's in his Barre 

 business. 



Mrs. E. M. Bartow, now doing busi- 

 ness at 315 Market St., Chester, Pa., 

 has purchased the estate 317 Market 

 St., to which she will remove after 

 fitting it up with modern appliances. 



John W. Ingalls has purchased the 

 business of E. Dempsey & Co., Rock- 

 ford, 111. The store at 106 W. State 

 street has been discontinued and a 

 new one opened at 212 South Main 

 street. 



A plan to centralize such instruc- 

 tion as is not purely technical will be 

 undertaken at Yale University, Conn., 

 next year, which will bring the de- 

 partments of botany and forestry un- 

 der the same instructors. 



On account of dry and unfavorable 

 weather the crop of Bermuda Harrisii 

 lilies is reported short, and growers 

 are notifying the jobbers that orders 

 can be only partially filled, especially 

 in the larger sizes of bulbs. 



The Society for the Preservation of 

 Native Plants has sent out an appeal 

 . to the clubwomen all over the country 

 for aid in preventing the careless and 

 wanton destruction of wild flowers 

 and shrubs, some varieties of which 

 a.ve almost extinct. 



Governor Terrell of Georgia, in his 

 annual message, lays great stress upon 

 the necessity of agricultural colleges, 

 and urges the appropriation of a sum 

 sufficient to erect buildings in connec- 

 tion with the university that shall give 

 Georgia an agricultural college second 

 to none. 



The elm leaf beetle is again ravag- 

 ing many districts in eastern Massa- 

 chusetts and doing its share with the 

 moth pests to devastate the trees 

 which constitute so much of New Eng- 

 land's beauty. The notorious tussock 

 moth is also showing a threatening 

 activity in and around Boston this 

 season. 



The report of the State Agricul- 

 tural College at Amherst, Mas>., shows 

 that the two years' course in horticul- 

 ture designed especially for women is 

 discontinued, although women students 

 will still be welcome to all the regular 

 courses; and a change in the conditions 

 in which graduates may pursue studies 

 for the degree of master of science. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, of the bureau of 

 entomology, Department of Agricul- 



ture, Washington, will assume personal 

 direction of the work of the U. S. 

 government against the gypsy and 

 brown-tail moths in New England. 

 He will be assisted by Dexter M. 

 Rogers of Boston. The plan is to 

 clean up the infested districts in sur- 

 rounding States before carrying the 

 fight into the central stronghold in 

 Massachusetts. 



A partial reorganization of the South 

 Bend Floral Company, South Bend, 

 Ind., will result in enlarged buildings 

 and the introduction of new lines of 

 business. The Foley Mfg. Co., of 

 Chicago, have the contract for the 

 wood work and the King Construction 

 Co. of N. Tonawanda, N. Y., the con- 

 tract for the steel work. The three 

 new houses will be devoted to roses, 

 chrysanthemums and lettuce. The 

 new stockholders are Mrs. Irving Gin- 

 grich, C. W., William and Arthur 

 Studebaker. 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



President Roosevelt has airected the 

 State Department to name David 

 Lubin of this State a delegate to the 

 International Institute of Agriculture 

 and Horticulture to meet at Rome in 

 the palace just being completed for its 

 accommodation by King Emmanuel. 



"One hundred million for irrigation 

 will be the slogan of the fourteenth 

 annual convention of the National Ir- 

 rigation Congress which meets Sept. 

 3 to 5 at Boise, Idaho," said M. B. 

 Gwinn, chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee of the congress, who is in San 

 Francisco this week. 



Most picturesque of any of the spec- 

 tacles yet provided at the summer 

 school of the University of California 

 was that this week of the great botan- 

 ist, Professor Hugo de Vries of Am- 

 sterdam, surrounded by a group of 

 nearly 200 advanced students in botany 

 watcliing and listening while the 

 European savant discussed in the 

 botanical garden of the university his 

 unique theories of evolution as illus- 

 trated in plant life and development. 



A. D. Prial of Oakland thinks he is 

 making good headway in creating a 

 trade sentiment in favor of holding a 

 grand flower show on the east side of 

 the bay in September. It is encourag- 

 ing to note a revival of interest in re- 

 establishing San Francisco stores. The 

 revivals here mentioned are one block 

 within the burned district, from Van 

 Ness avenue, at the corner of Polk and 

 Sutter streets, a busy car transfer sta- 

 tion, and are the resurrected stores of 

 Chas. Stappenbeck. Podesta & Bal- 

 docchi and Frank Shibeley. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Paul Klingsporn, late of Dumont's, 

 has leased the Poryzees store and will 

 conduct same under the title of "The 

 Rosary Flower Shop." It has been 

 rumored that William P. Craig and 

 Horace Dumont are the backers, but 

 these gentlemen on being interviewed 

 emphatically deny any connection with 

 the venture. 



William Gibson, late of Pennock 

 Bros., and now with Comley, Charles- 

 ton, S. C, has been visiting his old 

 friends in this city. He reports the 

 outlook in Charleston promismg. 



Charles Kent, 10th and Chestnut 

 streets, is contracting for a new range 

 of sfreenhouses. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Wilfrid Wheeler, Concord, Mass. 

 Pot-grown Strawberry Plants for 1906. 



J. F. Rosenfield, West Point, Neb. 

 Herbaceous Peonies for fall 19uG and 

 spring 1907. A list of 100 standard 

 sorts. 



Howard Evarts Weed, landscape 

 architect, Chicago, has published a 

 neat and interesting little pamphlet 

 entitled The Ornamentation of the 

 City Lot. There is plenty of room for 

 the dissemination of just the informa- 

 tion this publication provides and it 

 should have a wide circulation. 



Ant. C. Zvolanek, Bound Brook, N. 

 J. A pamphlet entitled "The Culture 

 and History of Winter Flowering, 

 Sweet Peas" has been issued by Mr. 

 Zvolanek. It covers the subject in ex- 

 cellent manner and anyone who pro- 

 poses to grow sweet peas for winter 

 blooming should have a copy within 

 reach. 



A. Dessert, Chenonceaux, France. 

 General catalogue of peonies. No. 15. 

 M. Dessert is known the world over 

 and his peony collections, the results 

 of sixty years' research and cultiva- 

 tion, are renowned wherever the peony 

 is known. His catalogue gives de- 

 scription in French and English of 

 several hundred varieties and is in- 

 valuable as a book of reference. 



A neat little folder issued by 

 Hughes, florist, Chicago, under the 

 title of "The Care of Cut Flowers, 

 Palms and Ferns," gives those simple 

 rules regarding the use and the keep- 

 ing of flowers and decorative plants 

 which every florist's customers are 

 constantly asking for. The liberal dis- 

 tribution of such a pamphlet cannot 

 fail to bring customers to a store. It 

 is wise advertising. 



A superb production is the catalogue 

 of U-Bar greenhouses just issued by the 

 Pierson U-Bar Company of New York. 

 It is a model of the engraver's and 

 printer's art, from cover to cover. 

 There are 71 pages of half tones, dia- 

 grams and descriptions of greenhouses 

 of the U-Bar type, full illustrations of 

 structural details and much to deeply 

 engross any one interested in the sub- 

 ject of greenhouse building. A picture 

 in color adorns the cover. A request 

 addressed to the Pierson U-Bar Com- 

 pany, Metropolitan Building, New 

 York, will bring a copy to you. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Transactions of the Lake 

 Geneva Gardeners' and Foremen's 

 Association for the year ending March, 

 1906, is an interesting pamphlet of 32 

 pages. It contains a paper on Carna- 

 tion Culture by Axel Johnson, one by 

 A. J. Smith on Vegetables Under Glass, 

 Outside Grapes by James Balsdon, 

 Wild Flowers by Wm. Longland, 

 Melons Under Glass by Henry Tolman, 

 Early Chrysanthemums for Outdoors 

 by Frank Kuehne, Seasonable Hints by 

 George Trowbridge, and Peonies by A. 

 J. Smith, also an account of the- 

 Chrysanthemum Show of Nov. 3 and 

 4. 1905. 



George C. Boyd, 214 Walnut street, 

 Wilmington, Del., has enlarged his 

 show-room and oflice to meet the 

 needs of his rapidly increasing busi- 

 ness. 



