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HORTICULTURE 



November 10, 1906 



Seed Trade Topics 



Rennie & Thomson have opened a 

 seed, plant and supply house at 135 

 and 137 Washington street, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. Both partners in the new 

 firm have been long identified with 

 the seed trade, and their business out- 

 look is good. 



The fact that the farmers through- 

 out the country have made up their 

 minds that Congress must give them 

 really rare and valuable seed in place 

 of the common squash and turnip seed 

 now distributed, has been further em- 

 phasized by the action of the Kentucky 

 State Grange and the Farmers' Insti- 

 tute last week in unanimously adopt- 

 ing resolutions condemning the pres- 

 ent method of free seed distribution 

 and calling upon Congress to give the 

 money now appropriated for that pur- 

 pose "toward the upbuilding of our 

 agricultural colleges and experimental 

 stations, the development of important 

 crops and the advancement in educa- 

 tion perfaihing to agriculture." 



NEWS NOTES. 



Harry Richmond has opened a 

 greenhouse on Chestnut street, Terre 

 Haute, Ind. 



The Alpha Floral Co. of Kansas 

 City, Mo., had $100 taken from their 

 safe on the night of Oct. 2o. 



Wm. Sim, Cliftondale, Mass., has a 

 promising new violet, Princess of 

 Wales form and California color. 



The employees of the wholesale 

 florists' of Chicago gave their first re- 

 ception and ball on Hallowe'en. About 

 500 were present. 



Some very interesting information 

 for American hop-growers is furnished 

 by the Department of Commerce and 

 Labor, In a recent bulletin. 



Cleary's Horticultural Hall, 60 Vesey 

 street. New York, will be conducted 

 hereafter by John P. Cleary, who has 

 acquired the business and lease. 



The large greenhouses at the yards 

 of the Lake Shore R. R. in Hillsdale, 

 Mich., have been torn down. It is 

 said that hardy perennials and shrubs 

 will be given the preference in future 

 except at the most important stations 

 on the line. 



The City Park greenhouses at Den- 

 ver, Colo., under the management of 

 Supt. A. J. Graham and his able as- 

 sistants, F. J. Rushmore and A. 



EASTER LILY BULBS 



Just received— a shipment of late dug, WRLL MATURED PLUMP bulbs. If planted 

 now ih^y will c) n • iQ nic-ly fir nett Eister. Late duz bulbs ar-^ demanded by « large number 

 of Exte isi /e Li!y Grjwer.s, who claiii that they produce better plants than the early dug. There is 

 money in Easter Lilies. Order today. 



Per loo Per icoo 



IJL. MULTIFLORUn, 6-8 inch, 400 bulbs in case $325 $30.00 



" " 7-g " 300 *" " *' -••. 5.00 4500 



LIL. LONG. GIQANTEUiT, 6-3 inch, 400 bulbs in case 5.25 47.^0 



" " " 7-9 " 300 " " " 6.25 60.00 



" " 9-10 " 203 " " " 10.00 95 -OQ 



DOUBLE PAEONIES 



Extra Fine Imported Clumps (4 to 5 Eyes} Per doz. Per ico 



Wnite Ji 50 $10. GO 



Red t.50 10.00 



Pink 1.25 900 



Send for our Wholesale Price List of Bulbs, Seeds and 5upplUs 



HENRY F. lYIICHELL CO. 



1018 Market Street, - Philadelphia, Pa. 



Kohankie, are now open to the public 

 with the finest e.\hibit of chr.vsanth>>- 

 mums ever shown there. 



Superintendent W. R. Smith, of the 

 United States Botanical Garden.s, is 

 now greatly interested in getting the 

 new houses finished at the gardens be- 

 fore cold weather comes. The Lord & 

 Burnham Co. have the contract and 

 are pushing the work. 



Harry and Daniel D. Tompkins have 

 leased the greenhouses of Mrs. Wood- 

 ford in Plainville, Conn., and wih con- 

 duct the business under the name of 

 Tompkins Brothers. Harry Tompkins 

 has been manager of the houses for 

 several years, and his brother comes 

 from New York. 



The Bureau of Soils, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has recently 

 published a twelve hundred page vol- 

 ume, dealing with surveys of soils in 

 practically every state of the union. 

 The volume is accompanied by a num- 

 ber of maps and illustrations. The 

 work is a very exhaustive one, and 

 contains a great deal that will be of 

 much interest to agriculturists. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



"Lawns and How to Make Them" is 

 the title of Vol. Ill of the Garden 

 Library, published by Doubleday, 

 Page & Company. The author is 

 Leonard Barron. Mr. Barron states in 

 his preface that "the main hope in 

 this book is that it will result in 

 more and better suburban gardens." 

 A laudable ambition and one that is 

 sure to be realized when this very 

 practical little volume of 175 pages has 

 liad the wide dissemination which it 

 merits among the thousands of subur- 

 ban home makers, every one of whom 

 will find in it something of practical 

 value. The making of new lawns and 

 the renovating of old ones, grading, 

 rolling, mowing, watering, feeding, 

 weeds, insects, tools, mixtures for 

 special purposes and many other vital 

 topics are well handled and fully il- 

 lustrated In the various chapters. The 

 price of the book is $1.10 net. 



A. J. Boothman of N. Adams, Mass., 

 has just completed a new rose house, 

 which is a model in the matter of ven- 

 tilation, heating, etc. He has also 

 added a new room for the sale of jar- 

 dinieres. 



DOUBLE 



SWEET 



SCENTED 



PEONIES 



PLANT 

 NCW 



Selected Roots with 3 to 5 Byes from a splendid collection 

 6 sold at dozen rate; 25 at I 00 rate 



CHINESE VARItTIES 



Per Per Per Per 



Each Doz loo Each D z. loo 



Pink Shades 25 $1.25 $8 fKi White . . . 25 ff ] 5n $ 1 rt.OO 

 Red ... 25 1.25 8 <H) HUtd-all colors:;0 125 7.00 

 P/CO\Y OFFlCINALIS-The "Old-fashioned Pa;o..y," flow- 

 ering about two weeks eaiiier than the Chinensis variery, with 

 large, (raerant d"ublc flowers, the " Rubra " or ciimson being the 

 most p -pulaf of t is species for cutting. 

 Rubra — Bril'iam gtowin cninson, 20c. each, $1 00 per do2., $G 00 per liXt. Rosea — 

 Bright 'nsy-.iok, '^5c ra h #l 511 per doz., $12 CO per 100. Alba — Llush-whiic, 25c. 

 ca h. $2 00 per do' , $15.00 per ifK). 



Send for om complne P/F.ONY LIST of Named Sorts — Beg'-nias, Gloxinias and 

 Japan I-ily Bu n-, due to a> nvc early in November. Write for pruc-^. 



JOHNSON SEED CO.. 217 MarketSt., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Herbert W. Johnson, of the late firm of Johnson & Stoko, President 



