August 25, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



201 



WHEAT SCREENINGS ARE NOT 



FED TO SHEEP AT CHICAGO 



STOCK YARDS. 



Referring to the complaint that has 

 been made that stock-yard sheep 

 manure contains deleterious seeds 

 due to the feeding of sheep with 

 wheat screenings, the Pulverized 

 Manure Co., handling the '"Wizard 

 Brand" of pulverized sheep manure, 

 sends us the following documents 

 which are convincingly reassuring 

 and will, we trust, be given full 

 weight by our many readers who are 

 interested in the purity of this im- 

 portant article. 



Union Stock Yard & Transit Company, 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



August 13, 1906. 

 The Pulverized Manure Company. 



Union Stock Yards, Chicago. 

 Gentlemen: 



Replying to your inquiry as to 

 whether The Union Stock Yard & 

 Transit Company of Chicago used 

 wheat screenings for feeding sheep 

 at the stock yards, I beg to say that 

 we have never used wheat screenings 

 in the Chicago yards for any purpose 

 whatever. Sheep here are fed on hay, 

 corn and oats alone. 



Very truly vours, 



H. E. PORONTO, 

 Purchasing Agent. 



State of Illinois. 1 

 County of Cook. / * 



William S. Witten, being first duly 

 sworn deposes and says that he is 

 the Assistant General Superintendent 

 of The Union Stock Yard & Transit 

 Company of Chicago, and is in charge 

 of the Feed Department of said Com- 

 pany; that the sheep at the said 

 Chicago Stock Yards are fed nothing 

 but hay, corn or oats; that wheat 

 screenings are not now used and never 

 have been used for feeding live stock 

 at the Chicago Stock Yards. 



W. S. WITTEN. 

 Subscribed and sworn to before me, 



this 14th day of August. A.D.. 1906. 

 BERNARD H. HEIDE, 

 Notary Public in and for County of 



Cook, State of Illinois. 



THE SHAW BANQUET AT ST. 

 LOUIS. 

 As provided for in the will of the 

 late Henry Shaw, the seventeenth an- 

 nual banquet to gardeners, florists and 

 nurserymen took place at the Jefferson 

 Hotel on Tuesday night, Aug. 14. Very 

 few gardeners, florists or nurserymen 

 were present, the majority of the 

 guests being apple growers from all 

 parts of the country, they holding 

 their fourth annual congress in the 

 city at that time. The big banquet hall 

 was decorated very prettily with palms 

 and pink asters. Prof. William Tre- 

 lease acted as toastmaster and the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen were called upon: 

 President Dunlap. James Gurney. Dr. 

 Burrell, President-elect H. C. Irish of 

 the Florists' Club, and Walter Wil- 

 liams. The attendance numbered 

 nearly 250. Among the local florists 

 present were C. C. Sanders, J. J. 

 Beneke. F. H. Meinhardt, Henry 

 Lorenz, George Frow, F. W. Ude, Jr., 

 Phil Goble, Frank J. Fillmore, J. W. 

 Dunford, R. F. Tesson, Theo. Miller, 

 Carl Beyer, Wm. C. Young, Edwin 

 Denker and John Connon. The ban- 

 quet lasted almost until midnight and 

 was one of the best ever given. 



PERSONAL. 



Donald Shepherd, gardener for I. T. 

 Burden. Newport, has secured a situa- 

 tion at East Greenwich, R. I. 



Thomas Heskey, who recently started 

 in business in Grafton, Mass.. had his 

 right arm operated on last week as the 

 result of poison either from a scratch 

 or bite of an insect. 



Mr. A. Leuthy of the Perkins St. 

 nurseries. Roslindale. Mass., has just 

 returned from a five weeks' trip 

 through Holland. Belgium and France. 

 He is looking the picture of health and 

 has found many new novelties which 

 he will soon offer to the trade. 



Carl U. Fohn, who has been forester 

 at Keney Park, Hartford, Conn., dur- 

 ing the past three years, has been ap 

 pointed superintendent on the exten- 

 sive property of Gen. Palmer at Colo- 

 rado Springs, Col., and left Hartford 

 on the 17th inst. to assume his new 

 duties. Mr. Fohn has been an active 

 and popular member of the Florists' 

 Club and the Connecticut Horticul- 

 tural Society, and his many friends in 

 both bodies presented him on the even- 

 ing preceding his departure with a 

 massive silver loving cup. In horti- 

 cultural and social circles "Carl " will 

 be much missed and he carries with 

 him to the West the warmest good 

 wishes of the entire "craft" of Hart- 

 ford. 



Hugh Dickson, the rosarian, arrived 

 home at Newtonards. Ireland, from 

 his American trip safe and well re- 

 cently and w-rites with great apprecia- 

 tion of the good time he enjoyed in 

 America. Writing from Belfast under 

 date of August 6th, he says: "I had 

 Charles Sim, of Rosemont, Pa., with 

 me at the nurseries last week. I think 

 he enjoyed his day. I have had Dr. 

 Robert G. Huey of Philadelphia, down 

 for the past three days and he certainly 

 has enjoyed himself among those new 

 roses of ours. If you happen to run 

 across him you will be interested in 

 his enthusiasm over some of our new 

 hylirid teas. Convey my kind regards 

 to all my friends on your side. I ap- 

 preciate their great and manifold 

 kindnesses fully." 



BOSTON BREVITIES. 



Jackson Dawson has just returned 

 from an expedition to the native 

 heather fields bringing with him five 

 hundred fine clumps, 



Daniel Iliffe, greenhouse fitter, has 

 moved to 49 Washington street, north, 

 where his work-shop and office will 

 hereafter be located. 



One of Boston's oldest established re- 

 tail flower stores will be obliged to 

 move within a few weeks, owing to 

 remodeling of the building in which 

 it has been located. 



The elm leaf beetle is doing an im- 

 mense amount of mischief about New- 

 ton. Brookline, Cambridge and other 

 suburban districts to the westward of 

 Boston. Many of the finest trees are 

 entirely defoliated. 



N. F. McCarthy & Co., are putting in 

 a ten-ton ice machine for cooling their 

 flower storage apartments. It is ex- 

 pected that a temperature of from 32 

 to 35 degrees will be attained with the 

 system adopted and a consequent ad- 

 vantage gained in holding fiowers for 

 shipment. 



ECHOES FROM THE NEWPORT 

 SHOW. 



Of the trade exhibits at the show a 

 large display of gladioli from John 

 Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y., was 

 one that attracted a great deal of atten- 

 tion, the variety America, which has 

 been recently introduced, was especial- 

 ly con.spicuous and the object of much 

 favorable comment from gardeners and 

 others. For this collection Mr. Childs 

 was awarded a first-class certificate of 

 merit and a gratuity. 



Vaughan's Seed Store exhibited a 

 large case of gladiolus Mrs. Francis 

 King; of peculiarly pleasant scarlet 

 color, the spikes large and well fur- 

 nished with good sized flowers. This 

 exhibit also received a certificate. 



There was only one entry tor the S. 

 G. Harris prize for Hybrid Tea roses 

 and this was from the F. E. Conine 

 Nursery Co., Stratford, Conn. This 

 firm, besides taking the Harris prize, 

 was awarded a first-class certificate. 

 Mr. F. E. Conine staged the exhibit and 

 for each day of the show received a 

 consignment of blooms, with which he 

 was able to keep his exhibit looking 

 fresh and attractive. Chronicling 

 this fact snould be a hint to others to 

 do likewise. 



Henry A. Dreer received a certificate 

 of merit and a gratuity for a display of 

 aquatics; also certificates for Pteris 

 Winsettii grandis, Pteris Childsii and 

 Asparagus Duchanii. 



James Garthley, gardener for H. H. 

 Rogers, Fairhaven, Mass., exhibited a 

 fine lot of blooms of tuberous begonias, 

 for which he was awarded a first-class 

 certificate. 



Asparagus plumosus Crawshawii was 

 much admired. The raiser of this 

 novelty hails not from Olneyville, as 

 last reported, but from Providence. 

 And while we are on the correcting 

 line we might state that the Whaling 

 City cannot claim Mrs. Wordell. who 

 was an exhibitor of dahlias; North 

 Westport is her home. 



Phoenix Robelenii was exhibited by 

 two firms, Julius Roehers and F. L. 

 Zeigler. 



Gibson Bros, took first for table 

 decoration on Wednesday with a pink 

 seedling dahlia piece; Andrew Chris- 

 tensen was second. 



For gardeners' assistants. William 

 Austin took first, Alex. Main second, 

 and A. Tolstrop third. 



For Mrs. Berwind's special for an 

 original table decoration, John Mar- 

 shall took first with a garland arrange- 

 ment made of Stephanotis and Aspara- 

 gus Sprengerii. Colin Robertson was 

 second with carnations in a jardeniere. 



CLIP A COUPON, EVERYBODY. 



We haven't seen that souvenir 

 which the Foley Mfg. Co. offers in its 

 advertisement in this paper, but Foley 

 never does things by halves and we 

 advise everybody to clip the coupon 

 and send it along as requested. 



The Southern Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion met at Lookout Mountain. Tenn., 

 on Aug. l.'i and 16. President Orlando 

 Harrison of Berlin, Md.. opened the 

 session. There was a good attendance 

 and the addresses and papers covered 

 important questions of interest. 



