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HOETICULTUEE 



October 30, 1915 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Offlcere— President, J. M. I^npton, 

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

 dent Kirby B White, Detroit. Mich.i 

 SMond Viclpresident, F. W. Bolgiano. 

 W^sWnrton. DC.-. Secretary-Treasnrer 

 C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; Assistant 

 sicretary, S. F. WUlard, Jr.. Cleveland, 

 a! Cincinnati, O., next meeting place. 



A GREAT ILLINOIS NURSERY. 



Beaumont, Tex. — The Beaumont 

 Seed Company has moved into new 

 and enlarged quarters at 60S Pearl 

 street. 



The value of imports of horticultural 

 material at the port of New York for 

 the week ending October 16, is given 

 as follows; Clover seed $2,618; grass 

 seed $6,232; sugar beet seed $216; 

 palm seed $867: trees, bulbs and 

 plants $10,239. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



A new issue of "Flower Talks by 

 Maurice Fuld," originally published in 

 1914, has been sent out, substantially 

 bound in attractive blue covers, for 

 1915. 



Bulletin No. 1, of the American 

 Dahlia Society has been received. It 

 deals mainly with the details of the 

 first exhibition of the society held in 

 New York last month and the pro- 

 ceedings of the annual meeting. A 

 strong bid for membership accessions 

 is made and, we understand, responses 

 are many, from all sections. 



We recently published some notes 

 on the book of Hybrid Orchids just 

 sent out by Sander & Sons, St. Albans, 

 England. We neglected to mention at 

 the time that we can supply copies of 

 this book at the publishers' price. $5.00, 

 postpaid. No one interested in orchids 

 and their production can get along 

 without this elaborate work. It has 

 no peer and is indispensable. 



American Seed Trade Association- 

 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Con- 

 vention, held at The Palace of Horti- 

 culture, San Francisco, Cal., June 22- 

 23 and 24, 1915. A striking photo- 

 graph of President Lester L,. Morse is 

 used as a frontispiece in this very com- 

 plete and interesting report by Secre- 

 tary C. E. Kendel. Among the valua- 

 ble papers presented at the Convention 

 and here given in full are the follow- 

 ing: "The Value of Technical Train- 

 ing to a Seedsman," by Prof. H. E. 

 Van Norman. Davis, Cal.; "Report on 

 Postal Laws." by W. F. Therkildson, 

 Phila.; "Horticulture in the Hawaiian 

 Islands," by Prof. John N. Gilmore; 

 "Credits and Collections in the Seed 

 Business," by M. L. Germain; "Seed 

 Growing in the Northwest," by E. C. 

 Johnson; "Flower Seeds in California," 

 by Li. C. Routzahn. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Mobile Nursery Co., Mobile, Ala.— 

 Price List for Season 1915-1916. 

 Trade List also inclosed. 



Ben.i. Hammond, Beacon, N. Y.— 



Slug-Shot Pamphlet. A catalogue of 



the various indispensable remedies 



against insects, .fungus, etc., which 



have made Hammond famous. 



A Winter Window-Box 

 .\s fllk-d by the D. Hill Nursery Co. 



A revelation awaits one who has 

 never visited the D. Hill Nursery 

 Co.'s plant at Dundee, 111. Lying as it 

 does in the beautiful Fox River Valley, 

 thirty-five miles northwest of Chicago, 

 it makes a delightful trip where 

 pleasure and profit can be combined. 

 One will find here the largest nurser- 

 ies in this country, with every detail 

 carefully looked after by efficient men, 

 some of whom are graduates of our 

 highest schools of learning, and will 



D. Hill, 

 Presideut of tbe D. Hill Nursery Co. 



get an idea of what can be done in de- 

 veloping a big business when scientific 

 knowledge goes hand in hand with 

 nature. 



The firm consists of D. Hill, his 

 three sons A. H., G. W. and V. D. and 

 one daughter, all active. Their lead- 

 ing specialty is hardy evergreens and 

 a second is trees for reforestation. 

 The business was founded in a small 

 wav, on a part of its present site, by 

 Wm. Hill, uncle of D. Hill, in 1855, but 

 was developed and brought to its high 

 state by the present firm. The nur- 

 series include 500 acres. 400 of which 

 are devoted to stock and the rest to 

 general purposes. 



Two large electric lighted service 

 sheds are used for receiving, sorting 

 and packing stock and another will be 

 built this winter. Glass-covered houses 

 are used for propagating fancy varie- 



ties and for grafting, and cold slat 

 covered frames for most of the trans- 

 planted seed stock. 



E. B. Stedman. assistant superin- 

 tendent, who conducts visitors over 

 the place, is a graduate of the For- 

 estry Department of Ann Arbor and 

 in reply to a question as to whether 

 he found the course of study of prac- 

 tical value, replied with enthusiasm, 

 that everything he had learned in the 

 University he had found of real value 

 in his work. Visitors drive under 

 long rows of European larch and be- 

 side native white pines and see the 

 great blocks of different kinds of ever- 

 green and forest trees. An extra fine 

 lot of Scotch pine, grown from seed; 

 another of Black Hill spruce; Red 

 cedar from the Platte River Valley 

 were seen, and what remained of a 

 block of Norway spruce which at the 

 opening of the season contained one 

 million trees. There are many species 

 and varieties of juniper, from the low 

 creeping to the tall pyramidal forms, 

 and graceful native hemlocks and 

 blocks of many other evergreens. All 

 imported varieties are thoroughly 

 tested to prove their adaptability to 

 our climate before sending out. 



A special feature is the window box 

 of hardy evergreens for winter use. 

 With the development of the outdoor 

 summer boxes, so popular in the down 

 town districts of Chicago, there has 

 followed a demand for something to 

 take their place in winter and the 

 boxes sent out by the D. Hill Nursery 

 Co. are graceful and artistic and do 

 not have the stilted effect so often 

 seen. 



Mr. Hill has taken a large space at 

 the Grand Floral Festival and some 

 new features will be introduced which 

 will be a welcome addition to the nur- 

 sery exhibits. 



Bulbs For Early Forcing 



Roman Hyacinths, Paper Whites, Olant 

 Purity Freesias. French Trumpet Major, 

 French Golden Spur. 



Ask for 1916 Bulb Catalosne. 



Joseph Breck S Sons Corp., Seedsmen 



47-54 No. Mirlet Si . BOSTON, MASS. 



W. E. MARSHALL & CO. 



SEED PLANTS AND BULBS 

 Horticultural Sundries 



166 W. 23rd St., NEW YORK 



