September 4, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



317 



CHRISTMAS FORCING— READY FOR OELIVERY 



NARCISSUS Per 100 



Goltlen Spur, Large Yelloiv Trumpet $2.00 



Silver Spur, \\'liite I'criantll, VeUow 



Trumpet 3.75 



Grand Soleil D'Or (The Yellow Paper 



« liite) 2.00 



Paper White (iranilillura, 13/up 1.00 



Paper White (iranclillora, l4/up 1.35 



FREESIAS 



rrem'Ii, ^4 — % in 



Frenrli, % in. up 



I'urity, %^ — 14 in 



CALLAS 



1^4 — I'/i; in. Diameter 5.50 



1 ' :, — •: in. Diameter 9.00 



■3 — 2V4 in. Diameter 12.00 



WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS 



13/15 I tni> 3.50 



Per 1000 

 $17.50 



24.00 



17. SO 

 9.00 

 12.00 



8.00 

 10.00 

 10.00 



60.00 



80.00 



100.00 



LILY OF THE VALLEY. COLD STORAGE 



••« til.Jiin; Uiiu -. pir iii~e 2.">«, S.').00 ; per eai-e 500, *9.00 



LILIUM HARRISII Per 10« ler Ca.e 



Best Bermiiila stoik. I rom rogued tields. 



— 7 in.. 33.-. bullis to a ease !M.50 jilG.SO 



7 — 'J ill., .Mill liiillis til u ra-e S.UO 15.00 



LILIUM FORMOSUM. NEW CROP 



7 — » in., 300 bullis to a case «.50 18.00 



9 — 10 in.. ilMl liiilhs to u ease X.5<l 10.00 



COLD STORAGE LILIES 



(iiRuntt-iiiti. K — n ill., .'oo litilbs to :i ra^e. 



LILIUM MAGNIFICUM 



u.oo 



Pine yrarlet I.il.v (iinpro^eil Kulinun). \ ery Hne for 



tile Winter hoii<la>>, and ^erj prolltal>le. Flowers 

 DtM-enilMT anil .luiiuar.v if planted now. 



!l — II in.. l-,'5 Ijullis in a rase $8.00 S9.50 



II — 13 in,. IIMI iMilbs in a case 10.00 10.00 



TIIK.SE PKU E.S ARE I'OR THE TRADE OKL,!'. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON COMPANY, Inc., 



342 West 14th St., NEW YORK 



BOSTON. 



The directors of A. H. Hews & Co., 

 Inc., in acknowledgment of conscien- 

 tious and faitlaful service of Thomas 

 J. Benwell, for fifty years associated 

 with the company, have presented him 

 with a flower pot filled witli gold. 



Fottler, Fiske. Rawson Co. have a 

 splendid display of dahlia blooms of 

 all classes in their show window. 

 There are fully 200 varieties, all under 

 number and a crowd of admirers, some 

 with note book and pencil, is con- 

 stantly in evidence. 



Park Commissioner Charles D.Gibson 

 is one of the latest recruits to the mil- 

 itary encampment at Plattsburg, N. Y. 

 In order that Commissioner Gibson 

 might join the citizen-soldiers. Mayor 

 Curley has granted him a leave of 

 absence from Sept. 6 to Oct. 8. 



President Welch and Mrs. Welch 

 have arrived home all safely from 

 their month's tour of the country, full 

 of enthusiasm over the success of the 

 San Francisco Convention and the 

 many courtesies enjoyed at every stop- 

 ping place on the route, going and 

 coming. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. have a field 

 of 50,000 phloxes in bloom at their 

 Dedham nurseries at the present time 

 and it makes a gorgeous sight. There 

 are a good many seedlings of much 

 merit among them. We were particu- 

 larly impressed with one vivid scarlet 

 which in brilliancy far outranks the 

 old favorite Coquelicot. 



summer finery in a series of quick 

 glimpses, snatched a bite of breakfast 

 at the Algonquin Club, and caught an 

 afternoon train for the White Moun- 

 tains at the North Station on Tuesday, 

 Aug. 31. Among the visitors were Dr. 

 Henry S. Drinker, president of Lehigh 

 University; Prof. H. H. Chapman of 

 Yale; S. B. Eliot of the Pennsylvania 

 State Forestry Commission; P. S. 

 Ridsdale, secretary of the association; 

 Alfred Gaskell, New Jersey State For- 

 ester; and Charles Quincy of New 

 York, 



The Boston trade will not lack for 

 fine home grown plant stock during 

 the coming season judging from what 

 is already in sight at Thomas Roland's 

 Nahant greenhouses. There are up- 

 wards of 4000 Erica melanthera plant- 

 ed out in the fields and a lot more in 

 pots plunged in frames. The latter 

 are the best for Christmas blooming. 

 A house now full of early chrysanthe- 

 mums mostly Golden Glow will be 

 filled up with plants which are now 

 outside as soon as the flowers have 

 been cut. Begonia Lorraine and cy- 

 clamens are many and there is a good 

 stock of ardisias, which are scarce this 

 year. Crotons are being pushed as a 

 specialty and there is a grand stock 

 of that finest of all crotons, Reidii. 

 Mr. Roland finds that the red foliaged 

 varieties sell much better than the 

 yellow. Mr. Roland's place might be 

 aptly termed "the place of no bugs," 

 everything looks so spotless and trim. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. are enlarg- 

 ing their seed establishment by taking 

 In the building No. 8 and 9 South .Mar- 

 ket street, adjoining their old quarters. 

 There are four stories with basement. 

 All the floors are being thoroiighly 

 renovated and equipped. Pari of one 

 floor win be used for a draughting 

 room In connection with their land- 

 scape planting department. 



The directors of the Amerii an For- 

 ■estry Association flashed through Bos- 

 Ion's parkways, saw Boston's raid- 



PHILADELPHIA 

 The latest advice from the sick bed 

 of our good old friend George Ander- 

 son Is: "A little better this morning 

 (Aug. 30), but not able to sit up yet, 

 and cannot see anyone." Mr. Ander- 

 son has been ill for three weeks. Some- 

 thing wrong with the circulation — 

 which does not respond readily to med- 

 ical treatment. One side of the body 

 has been entirely numb and useless. 



Horticulturists, flower specialists and 

 vegetable Ksrdeners, of Norwood, as- 



sembled last night In the headquarters of 

 the Norwood Horticultural Society to re- 

 ceive prizes for tbe best-kept place In the 

 borough. There were ten prizes offered, 

 six of wbkb were contributed by the 

 Heury F. Michell Company, seed mer- 

 chants, of Philadelphia. The judges, all of 

 whom are authorities on flower and vege- 

 table raising, were Fred Cowperthwalte, 

 (.'. Vander Breggen and Mr. Michell. (Here 

 follow the names of the winners.) 



The Norwood Horticultural Society la 

 an enterprising organization and has done 

 much to boost the "town beautiful" cam- 

 paign in Delaware County. Dr. John A. 

 Borneman is president of the society. 

 — Phila. Public Ledger. 



We cant' have too much of this kind 

 of thing. Grand for the business every- 

 where. And I am pleased to see the 

 tendency on the increase as the years 

 roll by G. C. "w. 



The death of Edwin Lonsdale, re- 

 corded in another column of this pa- 

 per, recalls the many social and convivi- 

 al occasions in the early days of the 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia when 

 "Ned's" buoyant personality, merry 

 laugh and jolly humor counted for so 

 much. "The Brave Old Duke of York " 

 as sung by him, never failed to bring 

 down the house and receive encore 

 after encore. But let Ned tell about 

 it in his own artless way: 



"I remember the first time I ever 

 sang that song. It was a long time 

 ago, before the club was organized or 

 anything, back in '81 or '82 — some- 

 where along there — and the boys 

 didn't know each other very well. 

 Craig and Fancourt. I think, were the 

 committee and thoy were getting up a 

 supper. I said to Craig that day, "I 

 know a kind of a nice little song and 

 I'll sing it for you tonight if you like; 

 it's a simple little thing and I guess 

 they'll like It. It's got a chorus.' Well, 

 when the time came. I thought he 

 would just cull me up and ask me to 

 sing, but he told them I had volun- 

 teered to sing a song and 1 didn't like 

 that; it didn't please lue a bit. I 

 thought he woultl just ask me to slug 

 it." 



