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HORTICULTURE 



September 29, 1906 



NEWPORT NEWS AND TRADE 

 NOTES. 



Business has quieted considerable 

 during the past week. Many cottagers 

 have departed, but a good deal of quiet 

 -entertaining is yet going on and the 

 florists are faring about as well as 

 usual at this time of the year. 



The weather conditions have been 

 unfavorable to the seasonable maturity 

 <3t some kinds of outdoor flowers, es- 

 pecially dahlias, the supply of rne 

 kinds most in demand being totally in- 

 adequate. Now that the demand tas 

 fallen off. dahlias are not only plenti- 

 ful but they are also of very fine qual- 

 ity. Of gardenias the supply was fully 

 equal to the demand, at prices hardly 

 -up to the standard of former years. 



Hot-house fruit paid the growers 

 well this year. .lames McLeish, who 

 grows more hot-house fruit than any 

 one else in Newport, reports a very 

 satisfactory season, with prices for 

 grapes fully as good as last year, nec- 

 tarines higher in price and scarcer, 

 but the demand and price declining a 

 trifle on peaches. 



Among the visitors to the New Bed- 

 ford Horticultural Society's recent ex- 

 hibition were Messrs. James and 

 Colin Robertson and David Mcintosh. 

 James Robertson, in the face of strong 

 competition, captured in all seven 

 prizes, five of which were firsts for 

 dahlia blooms. The Newport \isitors 

 -were very favorably impressed with 

 the exhibits seen at New Bedford, the 

 dahlias especially being much superior 

 to those on exhibition recently at New- 

 port. In fact it was considered doubt- 

 ful if the quality of the New Bedford 

 dahlias had ever been exceeded any- 

 where in New England. The commer- 

 cial growers, of whom there are many, 

 turned out with very large exhibits, 

 making the competition in all classes 

 close and exciting for the exhibitors. 

 This society, by the improvement no- 

 ticeable in the exhibits over that of 

 last year, is doing a good work, and 

 the good feeling easily discernible 

 among the members augurs well for 

 its future. The Newport visitors, in 

 addition to some of them enjoying the 

 bountiful hospitality of the society, 

 had the pleasure of being taken in 

 hand by Mr. J. P. Rooney, gardener 

 for Mrs. Frederick Grinnell. Every- 

 thing on the place showed the indus- 

 try and painstaking of the gardener 

 during his long years of work on this 

 place. After a thorough inspection of 

 the grounds and greenhouses, the vis- 

 itors were entertained with refresh- 

 ments at Mr. Rooney's home «; 



The park commissioners are endeav- 

 oring to have the appropriation for the 

 care of the parks materially increased 

 and placed in the control of the com- 

 mission. At present responsibility for 

 expenditures and the proper perform- 

 ance of the work Is somewhat indefi- 

 nitely fixed. 



Mr. Alfred Emerich, representing 

 Messrs. Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co., 

 Paris, Prance, arrived in New York 

 the early part of this week, and will 

 make his usual business trip through 

 the United States and Canada. His 

 New York address will be, care H, 

 Frank Darrow, 26 Barclay street. 



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Champion City Greenhouses. Spring- 

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 men and dealers only." Lists a gen- 

 eral line of plants, tender and hardy. 



John Lewis Childs, Floral Park. 

 N. Y. Trade price-list of gladioli, lilies 

 and other bulbs and roots. Illustrated. 

 Hoopes Brother and Thomas, West 

 Chester, Pa. Semi-annual trade list 

 of fruit and ornamental trees and 

 shrubs. 



Arthur T. Boddington, New York 

 Citv. Catalogue of bulbs and seeds. 

 A profusely illustrated and most at- 

 tractive production. The cover is 

 unique and artistically appropriate— 

 the work of an artist. 



P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga. 

 A handsome catalogue of good things. 

 Rose Frau Karl Drushki occupies the 

 position of honor on the first cover 

 page and the beautiful Althaea Mee- 

 hanii fills the back cover page. This 

 catalogue marks the semi-centennial 

 of this esteemed firm. 



H. F. Michell Co. Philadelphia. Re- 

 tail and wholesale bulb catalogue for 

 190G. The first has a fine embossed 

 cover showing Emperor narcissus in 

 colors as frontispiece: the latter is full 

 of good offers of indispensable bulbs 

 and seeds that every florist should 

 know about. 



Bridgeman's Bulbs and Seeds for 

 190C, New York City. Although the 

 name does not appear on the catalogue, 

 we know this to be the initial publica- 

 tion of the young firm of Rickards 

 Bros, that has recently come into con- 

 trol of this long-established concern, 

 eighty-two years' old and about thirty 

 years' young. 



Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 

 Autumn catalogue of forcing bulbs, 

 trees and shrubs for fall planting, etc. 

 A practical list for the practical florist 

 and planter. 



Eastern Nurseries, Jamaica Plain, 

 Mass. 'U'holesale trade list for fall. 

 1900. One of the few really wholesale 

 nursery catalogues listing the choicer 

 ornamental trees and shrubs in quan- 

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F. 'Weinberg, Woodside, New York. 

 Catalogue of import and export com- 

 mercial cacti and other succulents. 

 One of the most complete and correct 

 lists of these specialties ever Issued, 

 profusely illustrated. 



Schlegel & Fottler Co. Catalogue of 

 Bulbs and Plants for Autumn. 190C. 

 In contents and make up this is in the 

 high class style characteristic of all the 

 literature sent out by this house. 



Shatemuc Nurseries, Barrytown, N. 

 Y. Shrubs and herbaceous plants for 

 the garden border. A well-gotten-up 

 list. 



Goossens & Hellemons, successors 

 to C. Eschweiler, Oudenbosch, Hol- 

 land. Wholesale list of hardy orna- 

 mental and forest trees, evergreens 



and shrubs. August Rolker & Sons, 

 New York City, are the American 

 agents for this house. 



FALL GRASS ON THE LAWN, 



"E. M." in September 1st issue of 

 HORTICULTURE, asks what readers 

 have to say about ridding a large lawn 

 ot what is known as fall grass. 



It is certainly a nuisance and a great 

 detriment to any lawn whether large 

 or small. 



Here is a little story which may be 

 interesting in this connection. A few 

 years ago it was noticed on the large 

 lawn of P. A. B. Widener that where 

 the automobile lawn mower did the 

 work, accompanied with its heavy 

 roller, no fall grass grew, but wherever 

 the hand mowers had to be used where 

 the larger mower could not reach this 

 lawn pest grew in abundance. 



This information is given for what 

 it may be worth. Certain it is that on 

 small lawns it is out of the question 

 to use an automobile lawn mower, but 

 would it not pay to use a heavy roller 

 freely? It is the heavy roller compact- 

 ing the soil which, I believe, acts as a 

 l)reventive in some way. Fall grass 

 does not grow to any extent in the 

 shade and it is always more plentiful 

 in a wet season. Mowing twice a 

 week, I think, keeps it somewhat in 

 subjection and stops it from seeding 

 to some extent, but, when we want to 

 be sure of getting rid of it, Mr. Hat- 

 field's method of pulling it up by hand 

 is the only practical remedy. 



EDWIN LONSDALE. 



Sept. 4, 1906. 



James J. Curran, formerly with the 

 r. S. Cut Flower Co., and later with 

 the Brant & Nne Co., has taken the 

 establishment of J. Shartzer, Salem, 

 Va., and will conduct the business on 

 his own account on and after October 

 1. The place comprises 40.000 square 

 feet of glass in good condition, four 

 acres of land, dwelling, etc. Soil and 

 water are all right and smokeless coal 

 yards are close alongside. Mr. Cur- 

 ian's son-in-law has taken a position 

 with him as rose grower. 



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