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HOETICULTTJEE 



October 9, 1915 



BODDINGTON'S BULBS BLOOM 



QUALITY THE HIGHEST 



PRICES RIGHT 



Ask for FALL WHOLESALE CATALOG now ready, containing 

 full list of seasonable BULBS, WINTER FLOWERING SWEET 

 PEAS, SEEDS and SUNDRIES for present use. 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON COMPANY, Inc., 



342 West 14th St., NEW YORK 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 

 Ofllcere — President, J. M. Lnpton, 

 lUttltack, L. I., N. Y.; First Vlce-Presl- 

 deat, Klrbr B. White, Detroit, Uicb.; 

 Second Vice-President, F. W. Boigrlano, 

 WBeliincton. D. C; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 O. B. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; Assistant 

 8«eretarr> B. F. WiUard, Jr., Cleveland, 

 O. Cincinnati, O., next meetins place. 



S. P. Dernison, well-known in the 

 East and Middle West is now repre- 

 senting Arthur T. Boddington Co., Inc., 

 on the road. 



Los Angeles, Cal. — Fire in the ware- 

 house of the Germain Seed & Plant Co. 

 caused a loss of between $40,000 and 

 $60,000, fully covered by insurance. 



Value of horticultural importations 

 at the Port of New York for the week 

 ending September 25, is given as fol- 

 lows: Grass seed, $2,448; fertilizer, 

 $2,075; trees, plants and bulbs, $127,- 

 712. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



J. J. Wilson Seed Co., Inc., Newark, 

 N. J. — "Quality" Bulbs for Autumu 

 Planting and Spring Flowering. 



The Garden Nurseries, Narberth, Pa. 

 — Illustrated Pamphlet of the new 

 evergreen vine euonymus radicans 

 vegetus. 



F. & F. Nurseries, Springfield, N. J. 

 — "Quality First" Trade List of Orna- 

 mental Nursery Stock tor Fall, 1915. 

 A very complete list. 



J. Bolgiano & Son. Baltimore, Md.— 

 Bolgiano's Bulb Book for 1915. A fine, 

 seductive catalogue with much that is 

 unique in its contents. 



Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation, 

 Boston, Mass. ■ — Autumn Catalogue, 

 1915, of High Grade Bulbs, a handsome 

 publication typographically and up to 

 date in its contents. 



V. Lemoine & Son, Nancy, France. — 

 Autumn Catalogue for 1915. As ever, 

 this is one of the most interesting 

 catalogues published, for plant lover. 

 Some enticing novelties in shrubs are 

 listed. 



William Elliott & Sons, New York, 

 N. Y.— "Flowering Bulbs." This Au- 

 tumn Edition for 1915 is a worthy ex- 

 ponent of the best that is offered in 

 tall bulb stock. Attractively illus- 

 trated. 



L. W. Goodell, Pansy Park, Dwight, 

 Mass.— Wholesale Price List of Pansy 

 Seeds. Mr. Goodell has made pansies 



a specialty for over forty years and 

 his strains have an unsullied record. 



J. Chas. McCullough Seed Co., Cin- 

 cinnati, C— Fall CaUlogue, 1915, of 

 Bulbs, Nursery Stock, Seeds and Poul- 

 try supplies. 



Eastern Nurseries, Jamaica Plain, 

 Mass. — Wholesale Trade List for Fall, 

 1915, and Spring, 1916. A 50-page cata- 

 logue, illustrated and very complete. 

 Contains offers of species and varieties 

 in ornamental evergreen and decidu- 

 ous tree and shrub material which is 

 rarely to be found in wholesale nursery 

 catalogues. Anyone wishing to get 

 started into a line of rare and choice 

 things will do well to consult this 

 really superior list of trees, shrubs and 

 hardy herbaceous perennials. 



FERTILE HOLLAND. 

 The whole area of Holland is 12,600 

 square miles (about the size of Mary- 

 land), which is occupied approximate- 

 ly as follows: 



Square Miles 



Flowers and bulbs 30 



Nurseries 85 



Market gardens 195 



Area most highly fertilized 310 



Grain, potatoes and other field crops.. 3,400 



ToUl area fertilized 3,710 



Meadows 4,750 



Parks and trees 1,000 



Buildings, roads, canals, moors 3,140 



Total 12,600 



Considering the fertilized area of 

 3,710 square miles, or 2,374,400 acres, 

 the commercial fertilizer used aver- 

 ages more than 1,270 pounds per acre, 

 which is fully three or four times as 

 much as the average — where employed 

 at all — in the United States. When to 

 this is added the considerable amount 

 of home manures used, it is not diffi- 

 cult to understand the high agricul- 

 tural productiveness of this little coun- 

 try. — U. S. Commerce Report. 



PUBLICATION RECEIVED. 

 The Annual Report of the Public 

 Parks Board of Winnipeg, Canada, Is 

 an attractive volume of 98 pages with 

 several full page illustrations. The 

 secretary's report shows receipts of 

 $173,489.27, and expenditures $169,377.- 

 04. The detailed report of the super- 

 intendent, G. Champion, shows that 

 Winnipeg's parks are well cared for 

 horticulturally. 



Dear Sir: — Enclosed please find 

 check for $5.00 In payment for HORTI- 

 CULTURE till April, 1920. 



Yours very truly, 



Newport, R. I. J. H. G. 



UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



Eight new students have enrolled in 

 the course given in Floriculture. One 

 of the new members is doing graduate 

 work in Floriculture and the others 

 have registered for the regular under- 

 graduate work. This makes a total of 

 twenty-three floricultural students of 

 which eight are seniors, two juniors, 

 four sophomores, eight freshmen, and 

 one a graduate student. 



The courses given during the semes- 

 ter are as follows: 



Greenhouse Construction, with an enroll- 

 ment of 31. 

 Commercial Crops, with an enrollment of 5 

 Amateur Floriculture, " " " "43 



Garden Flowers. " " " " 31 



Several changes were made in the 

 staff this year. W. K. Palmer of Ber- 

 wyn. 111., has been appointed to suc- 

 ceed Mr. Hutchinson, who now has 

 charge of a 350 acre farm recently ac- 

 quired by the Department of Horticul- 

 ture for nursery experiments. Mr. 

 Palmer graduated with the class of 

 1913 when he received the degree of 



B. S. in Floriculture. Immediately af- 

 ter graduation he secured employment 

 with F. Dorner & Sons Company of 

 Lafayette, Ind., where he gained con- 

 siderable knowledge of the work as 

 carried on by them. From Lafayette 

 Mr. Palmer went to Morton Grove, 111., 

 to work for Poehlmann Bros. From 

 here he went to Fleischman of Chica- 

 go, where he received much experi- 

 ence in retail work. Besides having 

 charge of the greenhouses, Mr. Palmer 

 also has charge of the course in com- 

 mercial crops. 



E. G. Lauterbach of Bushnell, Illi- 

 nois, has been appointed to succeed C. 



C. Rees as Assistant to Mr, Peltier in 

 Plant Pathology. 



F. L. Washburn, of Bloomington, 

 visited the experimental greenhouses 

 on Wednesday of last week. 



A. G. H. 



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 your ffreenhouse fflass. 



"Red Devil" Glass Cutters 



Cut more glass with less effort, less 

 breakage and less cost than any 

 other make. "It's all in the wheel" 

 — hand honed and tested. 

 The Standard glazier's tool "Red 

 Devil" No. 024 mailed for 6c. Write 

 for free booklet of 40 styles. 



SMITH & HEMENWAY CO., Inc. 



181 Chambers St., New York City 



