September 22, 1906 



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DREER SPECIAL OFFER 



SEASONABLE PLANTS ! 



l; i'l;ii!t,-i in five inch pots, $1.00 each. 



DRACAENA 



ful, always 

 $1.25 each, 



QOLDIEANA. 



rare variety, 5 



A fine lot of 

 inch pots, 10 



ARDI5EA CRENULATA, fr 



PANDANUS VEITCHI, .^ nice lot of specimen plants. 6 Inch pots, well 

 furniNheil, 18 to 20 inches h yh, $1.00 each; 7 inch pois, well turnished, 

 22 10 24 inches high, .^1.50 each. 



NEPHROLEPIS WHITMANI. The most distinct and desirable of the 

 crested forms of the Boston Fern: its great points of merit are that it never 

 reverts or never shows plain fronds or part of fronds: it naturally makes a 

 shapely compact plant, it is more graceful than any of the other sorts and 

 is a quick grower. We offer strong 2 '4 inch pots at $3.50 per dozen, 

 $25.00 per 100; 3 inch pots, $4.00 per dozen, $3000 per too; and fine 

 plants in 6 inch pots at $1.00 each. 



NEPHROLEPIS SCOTTII. A grand lot of bushy, sVapely, compact plants 

 in 6 inch pots, 50 cts.; 8 inch pans, $1.00; and 12 inch pans, $2.00 each. 



ADRIANTUn FARLEYENSE. A magnificent lot of specimen plants in 

 7 inch pots, $1.50 each, also a lot of clean, vigorous, 3 inch pots for grow- 

 ing on, $2.00 per dozen, $15.00 per too. 



BEGONIA OLOIRE DE LORRAINE, 3 inch pots, $3.00 per dozen: 

 $20.00 per too. 



this beauti- BABY RAMBLER ROSES, pot grown stock, suitable for 

 inches high, Christmas forcing, 5 inch pots, $3.50 per dozen, $25.00 per 



too; 4 inch pots, $2.00 per dozen, $15.00 per too. 



j HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia \ 



NEWS NOTES. 



Folsom & Nelson, florists, have tak- 

 en a store on Main street, Rochester, 

 N. H. 



William Rhiiland of Athol has pur- 

 chased the greenhouses of H. J. Whit- 

 temore, Winchendon, Mass. 



Josiah Young succeeds Y'oung & 

 Halstead in Troy, N. Y,. and has added 

 a line of florists' supplies. 



J. Newman & Sons are about to re- 

 move to 24 Tremont street. Boston, 

 nearly opposite the location where 

 they have been doing business for 

 many years. 



F. R. Hills, who has had greenhouses 

 at N. Eighth avenue and Tenth street, 

 for several years, will open a retail 

 store on Lake street, Maywood, III., 

 about October 1. 



W. L. Hucke, formerly a retailer in 

 St. Louis, more recently with Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., Chicago, has accepted 

 a position with the Muscogee Carna- 

 tion Co., Muscogee, I. T. 



G. R. Nordell of Long Branch, N. J., 

 who for nineteen years has been In 

 charge of the greenhouses established 

 by his father in 18GS, has retired from 

 business. He will live in Long 

 Branch. 



A fire that started on the second 

 story in the building 304 Boylston 

 street, Boston, was the cause of con- 

 siderable damage by water to the 

 stock of W. E. Doyle, florist, on the 

 street floor. 



Fourteen florists employed at the 

 Phipps conservatory in Schenlpy Park, 

 Pittsburg, Pa., went out on a strike on 

 the morning of September 13, but the 

 matter was adjusted and the men were 

 in their places early in the afternoon. 



William Spinney, while trimming 

 trees on the estate of T. Dennie Board- 

 man, Manchester, Mass., on Septem- 

 ber 18 was thrown from the wa.gon In 

 which he was standing and received 



injuries that will probably result fa- 

 tally. 



Charles Millang has leased the 

 spacious premises at 4.5 West 29th 

 street. New Y'ork, for one year and 

 will make use of it as an annex to his 

 overcrowded establisliment on the op- 

 posite side of the street. John Knick- 

 man and Walter Kline will have 

 charge, 



J. A. Peterson of Cincinnati lost a 

 pair of rimless gold spectacles while 

 at the convention in Dayton. On the 

 case is the name, "Michie Bros., Cin., 

 O." If any of our readers heard of the 

 finding of such they will confer a favor 

 by communicating with Mr. Peterson. 



The Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station is planning a systematic sur- 

 vey of the State with reference to 

 those diseases of plants that are 

 caused by parasitic fungi. They re- 

 quest that specimens of such diseased 

 plants be sent to the Station, Orono, 

 Maine. 



Wm. Spillsbury of Woburn, Mass., 

 has narrowed down his product to 

 violets for winter and cucumbers for 

 summer, and asserts that to attempt 

 more than two special crops in a year 

 is not advisable. Those having cu- 

 cumbers under glass this season are 

 making money, as the local out-door 

 crop is a partial failure. 



Matthew McNair of Providence, R. 

 I., who occupies a one-story, flat-roof 

 building, brought suit against the 

 owner because a bill-posting company 

 was allowed to remove from the roof 

 a flag used by him as an advertise- 

 ment. The court sustained Mr. Mac- 

 Nair, deciding that a tenant has a 

 right to use such roof over his store 

 for advertising purposes. 



The Home Culture Clubs of North- 

 ampton, Mass., have purchased the 

 Loomis property, which includes a 

 greenhouse, 30x60 feet. This green- 

 house will be used for the cultivation 

 of plants and shrubs required for the 



Carnegie garden competition. A part 

 of the Carnegie plant promotion fund 

 of $8,500 was used for the purchase of 

 the property. 



The directors of the Cincinnati Fall 

 Festival Association have called off the 

 floral display that was to have been 

 held September 20. An insufficient 

 number of entries is given as the 

 reason. Five hundred dollars was of- 

 fered in prizes and some of the craft 

 had placed their order for flowers and 

 made other preparations for the show. 

 This leaves some one to hold the hag. 



Among the signs of the opening fall 

 season was the voice of auctioneer W. 

 J. Elliott cheerily calling off the values 

 of a lot of fine plants at 201 Fulton 

 street. New Y'ork, on Tuesday, Septem- 

 ber 19. Sales will be held every Tues- 

 day and Friday throughout the season. 

 Messrs. Elliott will sell on October 2 

 the collection of orchids of the late 

 G. L. Montgomery. This is regarded 

 as one of the best private collections 

 in the country. 



A neat little spring tape measure 

 of steel with the English system on 

 one side and the metric on the other 

 has been received from the Foley 

 Manufacturing Company, Chicago. 

 This is the souvenir which they 

 advertised a few weeks' ago and we 

 doubt not that they have still a few 

 left for those readers of HORTICUL- 

 TURE who neglected to send in the 

 coupons as directed. .lust refer to 

 HORTICULTURE when you write. 



The Spatilding estate at Pride's 

 Crossing, Mass., are erecting a large 

 greenhouse plant on their farm on 

 Greenwood avenue, Beverly Farms, 

 consisting of two houses 30x150 each, 

 also two leanto houses, one 16x55, the 

 other 8x40. They are intended for 

 growing fruit, and vegetables. This, 

 in a<ldition to their already large 

 plant, will be one of the largest private 

 establishments in New England. The 

 Weathered Company of New Jersey 

 are the contractors. 



