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HOETICULTUKE 



July 17, 1915 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, J. M. Lupton, 

 Mattituck, L. I., N. Y. ; First Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Kirby B. Wliite, Detroit, Mich.; 

 Second Vice-President, F. W. Bolgiano, 

 Wasiiingrton, D. C; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 ('. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; Assistant 

 Secretary, S. F. Willard, Jr., Cleveland, 

 O. Cincinnati, C, next meeting place. 



Shenandoah, la. — The Ratekin Seed 

 Company have changed their name to 

 the Ratekin Seed House, capital stock, 



$75,000. 



Lexington, Ky. — C. S. Brent, Inc., 

 have changed their firm name to C. S. 

 Brent Seed Company. Liability is 

 fixed at $100,000. 



Value of imports of horticultural 

 material to port of New York for week 

 ending July 3, was as follows: fer- 

 tilizer, $1,453; clover seed, $15,073; 

 grass seed, $1,309: trees and plants, 

 $335. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



J. Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore. Md. — 

 Special Vegetable Seed List, July 1, 

 1915. John Baer Tomato and Long 

 Lost Lettuce are special features. 



Chris. Renter, New Orleans, La. — 

 Fall List of Reuter's "Peerless" Seeds. 

 Looks good and reads encouraging. 

 "Ask the man who plants them." 



A. T. Boddington, New York. — Mid- 

 summer Garden Guide. Contains a 

 list of strawberry plants, bulbs for tall 

 planting, seasonable seeds, insecti- 

 cides, implements and sundries. A 

 business publication. 



H. G. Hastings Co., Atlanta, Ga. — 

 Seed Catalogue No. 50, for Fall, 1915. 

 An excellent iiublication for the agri- 

 cultural or horticultural planter in the 

 South. Illustrated cover in colors — 

 strawberries predominating. 



We have been receiving, regularly, 

 each week and each month respective- 

 ly The Pennock-Meehan Weekly and 

 Pennock-JMeehan Monthly, sent out 

 from the headquarters of that enter- 

 prising firm at 1620 Ludlow St., Phila- 

 delphia. The "Weekly" is a compre- 

 hensive folder telling of the weekly 

 offerings of flowers at wholesale and 

 timely supplies of florists' plants, sup- 

 plies and ribbons. The ".Monthly" is de- 

 voted to florists' plant stock. The cur- 

 rent issue lists field grown carnations, 

 early flowering chrysanthemums, ger- 

 aniums, bay trees, ferns, etc., and 

 strikes us as an excellent business 

 getter. 



Little Ccmpton, Mass. — William 

 Dickson, superintendent and land- 

 scape gardener at "Sea Lands" farm. 

 the estate of John E. McGowan, of 

 New York, has resigned his position, 

 and with his family has returned to 

 Providence. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



How TU L.\Y OlT SriilKliAN HoilE 



Gkou.xd.s. By Herbert J. Kellaway, 

 Landscape Architect. 

 This is a new edition of a book that 

 has already made a place for itself in 

 this country and proved most helpful 

 to the rapidly growing legion of at- 

 tractive home makers. Landscape 

 architecture is today recognized as 

 one of the fine arts. The application 

 of this new art is becoming more uni- 

 versal as the days and years go by, 

 not only in the large public and pri- 

 vate undertakings, but even, about the 

 modern moderate home, for which 

 this work was especially written as an 

 inspiration. That it has accomplished 

 much in making the home surround- 

 ings beautiful is the best reason for 

 the believing that this new edition 

 will l)e helpful. It embodies a num- 

 ber of new features, four new chap- 

 ters having been added. They give 

 suggestions as to the kind of trees to 

 plant, the use of shrubs for the 

 beautifying of grounds, and planting 

 of perennials, vines and annuals. 



Taking the book in its new edition 

 as a whole, it is both suggestive and 

 practical, and one that may well be 

 studied by all desirous of making the 

 most of their grounds, be they even of 

 very modest dimensions, from the 

 standpoints of beauty and usefulness, 

 ness. 



The subject of harmonious planting 

 and arrangement of grounds in rela- 

 tionship to buildings and environment 

 is as yet but faintly understood in its 

 fundamentals. This book with its 

 well-founded maxims and practical 

 rules for guidance will go far to pre- 

 vent costly mistakes and to eliminate 

 regrets and dissatisfaction in later 

 years. There are fourteen comprehen- 

 sive chapters, forty-one half-tone 

 plates and fifteen plans and maps. 

 Cloth $2.00 net, postpaid. John Wilev 

 & Sons, Inc., New York, are the pub- 

 lishers. Copies can be supplied bv 



HoUTKULTrRE. 



M.\RKET Gardening. By F. L. Yeaw, 

 an Elementary Text Book and a 

 Practical. Reliable and Handy Guide 

 for all Growers of Vegetables. 

 The purpose of this little manual 

 which has just been published by John 

 Wiley & Sons. Inc., New York, is to fur- 

 nish, in a, condensed and usable form, 

 information concerning methods and 

 best practices for growing and mar- 

 keting the commoner vegetables. It 

 considers in detail, methods for the 

 propagation, preparation of the soil 

 for planting, cultivation, harvesting 

 and marketing of twenty-three of the 

 more common and hardy vegetables. 

 In addition, much valuable informa- 

 tion is given concerning soils, fertiliz- 

 ers, moisture requirements, seeds, ger- 

 mination, the preparation and care of 

 hot beds and the storing and packing 

 of vegetables. A special chapter is de- 

 voted to the location, planning and 

 care of home and school gardens. 



It is estimated that the income 

 from the sale of vegetables is about 

 tw-ice that produced from the great 

 fruit industries. Market gardening is 

 certainly important enough to justify 

 the preparation of this neat little 

 volume of 108 pages, at the modest 

 price of 75 cents net. It is well 

 printed on fine heavy paper and there 

 are thirty figures. A copy should be 

 in the possession of everyone who 

 prows garden vegetables for commer- 

 cial purposes or home use. 



Personal 



L. Merton Gage, of gladiolus fame, 

 is taking a vacation in Bristol, Vt., 

 and neighborhood. 



Antoine Leuthy of Roslindale, Mass., 

 has been suffering from an attack of 

 ptomaine poisoning. 



A. C. Ruzicka, of late on the Iselin 

 estate. Glen Head, N. Y., has now 

 taken charge of the rose growing es- 

 tablishment of Nason & Sons, Murray 

 Hill, N. J. 



Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Meehan, of 

 East Gorgas Lane, Mt. Airy, announce 

 the engagement of their daughter, 

 Rosa Denham Meehan, to Harold Au- 

 brey Tyson of Germantown, Pa. 



Edw'd Davies, recently superintend- 

 ent for Paul Moore, Convent Sta., N. 

 J., will now take charge of the W. H. 

 Wellington estate, Wayland, Mass. A 

 new range of conservatories is being 

 erected here by the Pierson U-Bar Co. 



W. E. Chappell, the genial secretary 

 of the Florists' and Gardeners' Club of 

 Rhode Island is off on a water trip to 

 Jacksonville. Fla., a vacation much 

 needed as his health has been badly 

 impaired since his nervous breakdown 

 last spring. 



Mr. Alex. Forbes, president of J. F. 

 Noll & Co., Newark, N. J., who was 

 operated on for appendicitis in- the 

 Orange Memorial Hospital, Orange, N. 

 J., was able to leave that institution 

 on the 10th inst., and is now recuperat- 

 ing at home. 



We read in our English exchanges 

 of the dangerous illness of William 

 Wells, Sr.. of Merstham. Surrey. A 

 serious operation was performed on 

 June 23. the result of which looked 

 very dubious for a time, but latest re- 

 ports are more encouraging and it is 

 hoped that his robust constitution will 

 pull him through safely. 



John Garlate, for 18 years in the 

 employ of Samuel Smith, a florist at 

 Jamestown, R. I., learned a few days 

 ago he had become wealthy through 

 the recent death of an uncle in Brazil, 

 who left his entire fortune, estimated 

 at $400,000, to Garlate. The estate in- 

 cludes coffee plantations and vast land 

 holdings. Mr. Garlate, who is 40 years 

 old, came to this country 18 years ago. 



We are delighted to learn through 

 the columns of our California contem- 

 porary that Edwin Lonsdale is not be- 

 ing forgotten by the craft in his days 

 of tedious illness. The Pacific Garden 

 says: 



Thosa who h.ive ccme through a similar 

 experience know that to he rememhered 

 at such times hy friends is a benediction. 



If within reach of the institution, take 

 him a liouquet, or a choice potted plant, 

 and present it with a friendiv greeting. 

 The liindly act will l)rlng sunshine to his 

 soul, and a blessing on the head of the 

 giver. 



A bouquet to the living is worth more 

 than a carload of flowers to the dead. A 

 word of cheer in the ear yet sensitive to 

 si^nnd is worth more to the heart of the 

 hearer than the most eloquent eulogy ever 

 proclaimed is to one whose ear is sealed 

 against sound by the reaper whose name is 

 Death. 



Yes. visit Lonsdale and let him know 

 that you appreciate his services to the 

 horticultural world. 



