August 18, 1906 



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A DISTINCTION 



I Our Exhibit at Dayton Speaks for Itself I 



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staples we have ever shown. Our Mr. Paul Berkowitz = 



with an efficient corps of salesmen and decorators will S 



be on hand to greet visitors. 



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CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



The first full carload of tomatoes 

 ever shipped East from the San Joa- 

 quin valley was sent out this week, 

 contracted by the railroad to be deliv- 

 ered at Chicago inside of eight days. 

 The car contained 780 crates of thirty 

 pounds each, supplied by forty-three 

 growers, and a good price was paid 

 for them. There is a great demand 

 at present for vegetables and fruit 

 throus^hout the East, and as high as 

 $1.9011 has been paid for a carload of 

 plums shipped from Lodi. The grow- 

 ers are reaping a rich harvest this 

 season. Peaches are selling from 

 $35 to $45 a ton, and Bartlett pears 

 bring as high as $60 a ton. Not 

 many peaches will be shipped from 

 San Joaquin valley, as the canneries 

 are buying every pound they can 

 secure. The crop of grapes will be 

 large, and fancy prices will be se- 

 cured, as wine grapes are in demand 

 now at $24 to $.30 a ton. 



HORTICULTURE'S Pacific Coast 

 correspondent is in receipt of a very 

 attractive price list, now being issued 

 and sent to the trade by Grower H. 

 Plath, proprietor of "The Ferneries,'' 

 formerly Union Nursery of Ocean 

 View, a suburb of San 'Francisco. This 

 hustling tradesman. California's vice- 

 president of the Society of American 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists, is working up a large stock of 

 young ferns for the fall trade, as he is 

 expecting increased demand on account 

 of April's destructive fire. Ferns for 

 fern dishes have been used here of 

 late more and more each year, the 

 increase being so great that Mr. Plath 

 has not been able to grow sufficient 

 to fill all orders. 



In these turbulent times in San 

 Francisco the Pacific Coast Horticul- 

 tural Society's meetings are held 

 roundabout in the city homes of the 

 various members, reminding me of my 

 kiddish days on the farm back in 

 Ohio when the district preacher took 

 his big Sunday chicken dinners round- 

 about at the various homes of his 

 parishioners. Since last week's re- 

 port, the society's monthly meeting 

 was held far out in Western Addition 

 at the home of its president, J. W. 

 Bagge. But henceforth it will be bet- 

 ter, for at this meeting a communica- 

 tion from the Park Commissioners 



WHO WANTS THEM! 



WE have plunged in the open ground eighl thous,ind two-year-old roses, :ill 

 ou own roots, now in 4 and 5-ini.li pots. Tliey are in a semi-dormant con 

 ditiou— just nght for p anting m the open ground in August and Septem- 

 ber, or for conservatory and greenhouse planting for quick results. While they 

 last we will close theui out at the exfreniely low price of 



$15.00 per hundred: 25 or more at the 100 rale; $125.00 per one thousand 

 No charge for packing. Our selection of varieties ; not less than two of a kind 

 W here purchaser has a preference, we will follow same as near as possihie 

 They are worth twice as much as we as); tor thiun: they have strong working 

 roots, and can he depended upon to produce tlie goods. 



The collection embraces three hundred varieties of 

 Teas, Hybrid Ts^s and Hybrid Perpeiualx 

 liKlrding such new and rare sorts as La Detroit. Ideal. I'rhnro.se. President 

 Roosevelt. Admiral Schley. Etoiie De France, Intensity, Florence Peraberton 

 Olivia. AVellesley, Rosalind Orr English. Mildred Grant, and Rii'limond: thi'S.' 

 varieties cannot be had, at the presi n, time, elsi-where In this country or Europe: 

 the collection also includes smh standitd sorts as Souvenir De Woottou C imbiic' 

 Clotilde Sonpert, Madame .\bel ChtUe jay. Helen Gould, Muriel Graham, Gloire 

 Lyonaise, Merr'lle de Lyon, Crim.-on Itanibler, Pink La France, Bon Slleiie An 

 toin<.' Verdier, Red Sonpert. Belle Slebrei-ht. tUrich Brunner, etc, 



^-^ Send us your order to-day: Satisfaction guaranteed. Ask for catalogue - it is free. Address 



The Dincee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



ESTABLISHED 1850 



70 GREENHOUSES 



was read tendering the society for 

 meeting purposes the picturesque ivy- 

 covered Park Lodge in Golden Gate 

 Park. It goes without saying that 

 John McLaren, superintendent of 

 Golden Gate Park, a member of the 

 society, is responsible for all this good 

 fortune. 



Another thankfully received com- 

 munication was read at this meeting. 

 It was from President P. J. Hanswirth 

 of the Chicago Florists' Club, and with 

 it was a draft enclosure for $150 for 

 distribution to florists and growers in 

 need of help through the recent ca- 

 lamity. This is the second Chicago 

 club contribution that has followed its 

 original remittance of much larger 

 amount. 



D. Raymond, an old-time horticul- 

 turist, is manager of the Garden City 

 Pottery of San Jose. This enterprise 

 has recently enlarged the capacity of 

 its plant by installing two electric 

 motors and is now supplying almost 

 the entire Pacific Coast with flower 

 pots. A considerable price reduction 

 has been made, which is of great bene- 

 fit to growers, as heretofore flower 

 pots have been a great deal higher 

 here than in the east. 



Professor W. L. Jepson of the botany 

 department of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, who has been abroad for a year 

 visiting the botanical gardens in all 

 the European capitals and conferring 

 with the leading European authorities 

 on botany, returned to the university 



this week. He promises the trade pa- 

 per correspondents some interesting 

 matter as soon as he gets rested and 

 formulates his material for report to 

 the university and the department at 

 Washington. 



Vi'hat has always been an eye sore 

 to beautiful Oakland and its pictur- 

 esque Lake Merritt is the marsh land 

 bordering on the lake between Tenth 

 and Twelfth streets. But the intel- 

 lectual relish of Oakland is in the as- 

 cendant, for this week at a meeting of 

 Oakland's Merchants Exchange the 

 project of reclaiming this marsh land 

 was indorsed, and at the following 

 evening meeting of the city aldermen 

 this indorsement was concurred in for 

 immediate action. 



CYCLAMEN GIANT 



My own strain, selected from only exhibition flowers 

 4 in. plants at $12.00 and $18.00 per 100 



Seed ft .ibove slr;iin. $' on per i"-- ■ 



C. WINTERICH, Cyclamen Specialist, 



DEFIANCE, OHIO 



CANE STAKES 



FRRSH CARLOAD FRO.T THE BRAKES 



S6 .00 per 10 00 



WM. ELLIOTT & SONS 

 201 Fulton Street • New York 



