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HORTICULTURE 



November 3, 1906 



CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



No doubt the California Promotion 

 Committee has been a valuable factor 

 in the State's progression the last four 

 or five years of its existence, and its 

 thousands of State supporters, includ- 

 ing the Growers' and Florists' Associ- 

 ation, like to pat it fondly on every 

 occasion. It has its emissaries now in 

 the East and they are doing good work 

 in interesting all classes of magazine 

 publishers, and prominent daily 

 papers, to run without price splendid 

 notices of the State. And now the 

 committee has come to the San Fran- 

 ■cisco correspondent of HORTICUL- 

 TURE for a like favor, introducing the 

 request with the assuring remark that 

 their forthcoming surpassing work 

 will afford an exceeding opportunity 

 tor plantsmen, landscape gardeners 

 and floriculturists. The news the com- 

 mittee is now handing out is based on 

 a telegram received this week to the 

 effect that Harlow N. Higinbolham, 

 president of the Columbian Exposition 

 of Chicago, is heartily in sympathy 

 with the committee s movement to 

 hold a Pacific Ocean Exposition in 

 San Francisco in 1913. Rufus P. Jen- 

 nings, chairman of the California Pro- 

 motion Committee, had an hours con- 

 ference with Higinbotham, and the 

 latter said: 



"Now is the proper time to launch 

 the proposition. I think it will at- 

 tract a world-wide attendance, ami 

 that exhibitors will be greatly inter- 

 ested. By the time the exposition is 

 held San Francisco will have fully re- 

 covered from the effects of its great 

 April disaster and will in itself be an 

 object lesson to the world of the way 

 things are done in the California sec- 

 tion of the country." 



The Japanese floriculturists and 

 horticulturists on the east side of San 

 Francisco bay have stolen a march on 

 the growers of this, California's me- 

 tropolis side of the bay. Before the 

 April disturbance P. H. Mayer, propri- 

 etor of the Glenwood Nurseries at Bur- 

 lingame, was formulating plans for 

 the organization of the San Francisco 

 Florists' Board of Trade, Chinese and 

 Japanese growers to be barred. Noth- 

 ing has been heard of it since the 

 disaster. But this week's news from 

 the east side of the bay is that the 

 Japs have formed a Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Association, and none but 

 Japs can belong. All workers in these 

 industries have been getting $1.5ft a 

 day and the union immediately ad- 

 vanced the scale to %2 a day. 



The valuable Brandegee collection 

 of botanical specimens, together with 

 the Brandegee library of over three 

 thousand volumes of botanical works, 

 and the furniture and fixtures for the 

 care of the herbarium, have been 

 presented to the botany department 

 of the University of California. "This 

 gift is a most important one to the 

 department for the reason that the 

 herbarium contains over 100,000 speci- 

 mens of plants, gathered principally 

 in Southern California, Arizona and 

 Mexico, a region which is but little 

 covered in the original collection of 

 the university. The university herb- 

 arium is now one of the largest and 

 most valuable west of Harvard. 



ABELLE 



NEW PINK CARNATION 



FOR 1907 



COLOR— .\ pecuUar shadf of lovelv pmk, wiih a faint yellowish cast, s 

 ,aw-on Ualikc most P.nl<s. the brigh.e.t sun does n .t >ojiire_ the colo 

 OD")R — I'lcasing, but not strong. 



It IS 'he m-'si incessant 

 Derivery January Sth to lOthand later. 



several shades lighter than the 

 Law.on Unlilie most Pinl<s, the brightest sun does n ■! injure lue cu.or SIZC— 3 tj 4 inches la 

 dia^e^erwhen estabished ODOR -Pleasing but no. -'-l-„*/evl=i-InvaM..,ly strong but a.w^^^^^ 

 irraceful ran2ine from 12 to 10 inches during the season. HABIT, etc. — .-V very quiLk, a tive grower, 

 m"k?,^g sp'cfme'n pu'.s ,n a short time, evenlrom la.e catlings. . .,, account of ''^ "P'd g'0"'t;. "^i;;"" 

 supporli g verysoon nfter benching. Gets away rapidly, blooms early and gives long stems ngh from he 

 start PROOLlCnVE RSS - Prodigious is tne best word we know of touse here, 

 bloomer early and late, we have ever rnwn. Stock Limited 



Price $12.00 per lOO, SIOO.OO per lOOO 



The H. WEBER & SONS CO.. Oakland, Md. 



loo 1000 



RICHMOND ROSE 2 "4 in. $11.00 $100.00 

 KAISERIN " " 400 35.00 



VAKIEGATEDLAWSONR.C. 600 5000 

 ENCHANIRESS 300 25.00 



QUEEN acd LAWSON 2.00 18.00 



E. H. PYE, FLORIST 



UPPER NYACK, N. Y. 



"SECOND EDITION" 



2000 Gloire de Lor- 

 raine Begonias 



Even better than uur last crop, and they 

 were winntrrs. 



$10 per 100. $90 per 1000 



Order now before cold weather. 

 Money refunded If not satis- 

 factory. 



In two inch pots, reaoy at once for threes. 



E. A. Butler & Son 



NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. 



DON'T Be Afraid To live-t In 



ROSE PINK ENCHANTRESS 



It IS both free and "f mcy" — a sine money-maker. 

 Price $7.0U per lOO; $60 per lOOO 



Del very January and later. Write fur Descriptive 

 Circular. 



S. S. SKIDELSKY 



824 No. 24th Street, Philadelphia 



PHOENIX ROEBELINI Chicago Carnation Co. 



BEAUTIFUL. GRACEFUL. USEFUL WIllWM^W WMI iim • ■«■• w»> 



BEAUTIFUL. GRACEFUL. USEFUL 



Each 10 loo 



7-inch POT PLANTS. $4.00 $35.00 $300.00 

 4-inch ■• '■ 1.00 9.00 80.00 



WELL ROOTED SEEDUNGS 



lOO lOOO Ii.,iX10 



4 to 5-inch HIGH, . . $5.00 $40.00 $300.00 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS 



Floral Park, - - Now York 



Brockton Dahlia Farm 



Has the largest and finest collection of 

 Dahlias in United States, with prices that will 

 suit the trade. Sen J for prut lis/. 



W. p. LOTHROP, Prop., 



East Bridgewater, Mass. 



JOL IET, ILL. 



We have the leaders in carnations 

 for 1907. 



Look through the Buyers' Directory 

 and Ready Reference Guide. You 

 will find some good offers there also. 



Geraniums 



Rooted Cuttings in any quantity after Nov. 

 :5, at moderate prices Send for price list. 



ALBERT M. HERR, Lancaster, Pa. 



Mention Horticulture when you write 



In dealing with the question of olive 

 pickling in California Professor F. T. 

 Bioletti, viticultural expert of the 

 State University delivered this week a 

 smashing blow at the prestige of the 

 big, green olives which are imported 

 from Spain and paid for and eaten by 

 gourmets in America. Persons who 

 have been in the habit of devouring 

 the fancy variety of imported olive, 

 green and acidulous, are informed by 

 Professor Bioletti that the Spanish 

 olive Is absolutely indigestible. Such 

 olives are as valuable, says the pro- 

 fessor, as unripe peaches or apples, 

 and no more. And in the same breath 

 he sounds the praises of ripe pickled 

 California olives which he declared 

 constitute an extremely nutritious and 

 digestible form of food; that this 

 home product contains a large amount 

 of oil, carbo-hydrates and some nitro- 

 genous matter, and in some countries 

 replaces meat to a certain extent. 



MINNEAPOLIS PLANTINGS. 



The local nurseries are doing a 

 good business — particularly in outside 

 shipments. Stock in this section is 

 clean and free from San Jose scale, 

 neither is there appearance of elm leaf 

 beetle or gypsy moth. 



The park department are planting 

 bulbs in the principal flower beds for 

 a spring floral display, and weather 

 conditions still permit outside work. 



Clirysantlieiiium Stock Plants 



Heavy Plants of f Testout an'l .Ipnn"e 

 Noiiin. 8c. each; M-'e Mnntinort, Opah, 

 A. Bvron, H. Parr, L Kilkins. K. Wells, 

 Dr. Entcuehart, M. Bailey. Mrs.T. W. Poc- 

 kett. Lord Honetown, Chiln«. 5c. each; 

 Monrovia and Cheltoui, Cc. each. 



W. WY'AN. 



Swmpscott, Mass. 



The U. S. Propagating Gardens at 

 Washington, D. C, have a noteworthy 

 exhibit of chrysanthemums, most of 

 the standard varieties being cutivated. 

 Amorita and Baden Powell are note- 

 worthy pinks, Donald McLeod is a fine 

 yellow, while W. J. Bryan is white as 

 a new 16 to 1 silver dollar — and much 

 larger. 



SMILAX PLANTS 



Strong bushy plants many times cut back, and ready 

 for ^ shlit. 



2-in. pots $1-00 per 100; S9 00 per 1000 

 3-in. pol8 2 00 " *' 18 00 " " 

 Seediirgs from flats • ■ • 4.00 '* " 



Have g'Own smilax pi 'nts for the trade 18 years and 

 never had finer stock. Sampes 10 cents. 



R. KILBOURN, Clinton. N.Y. 

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