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HORTICULTURE 



December 4, 1915 



TO THE 



ADVERTISING 

 TRADE 



Horticulture is a busi- 

 ness-getting medium for 

 those firms who make 

 use of its advertising 

 columns. This paper is 

 read ever}^ week by men 

 representing enough 

 buying power to make 

 the investment of a few 

 dollars in telling them 

 what you have to sell, a 

 wise business proposi- 

 tion. The position of its 

 subscribers in the indus- 

 try and the quality of its 

 reading matter make 

 HORTICUTURE an unex- 

 celled publicity medium 



FOR- 



They All Read It 



-AND- 



They Read It All 



^S^Next Week's Issue will 

 be the Eleventh A nniversary 

 and Holiday Trade Number. 

 Order space now and We 

 shall take good care of your 

 interests. 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 



Officers — President, J. M. Lnpton, 

 Mattituck, L. 1., N. V.; First Vice-Presi- 

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

 Second Vice-President, F. W. Bolgiano, 

 Washington, D. C; Secretary-Treasurer, 

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

 Secretary, 8. F. Willard, Jr., Cleveland, 

 O. Cincinnati, O., next meeting place. 



Resolutions on the Death of W. Atlee 

 Burpee. 



The following resolutions on the 

 death of the late W. Atlee Burpee were 

 adopted at a meeting of seedsmen and 

 others held at the Hotel Sherman, 

 Chicago, on November 29. 



Whereas, The death of W. Atlee 

 Burpee, of Philadelphia, Pa., has taken 

 from us one of our most earnest co- 

 workers in the cause of horticulture 

 and one whose high standard of busi- 

 ness ethics has aided materially in ad- 

 vancing the trade to a higher plane, 

 we, the undersigned, representing the 

 Chicago Seed Trade, the Horticultural 

 Society of Chicago and the Chicago 

 Florists' Club, desire to place on rec- 

 ord our high appreciation of his life 

 work and it is therefore 



Re.solved, That we consider the serv- 

 ices of W. Atlee Burpee in his chosen 

 field, particularly Ids work in sweet 

 peas, and garden flowers and vege- 

 tables generally, worthy of the great- 

 est prominence in the annals of Amer- 

 ican horticulture, and it is. further 



Resolved, That we extend to his 

 family and business associates our 

 heartfelt sympathy in the great loss 

 they have sustained. It is further 



Resolved, That signed copies of 

 these resolutions be forwarded to his 

 family and business associates. 

 Signed 



Chns. Dickinson, The Albert Dickin- 

 son Co. 



J. C. Vaughan. Vaughan's Seed Store. 



Arnold Ringier. The W. W^arnard 

 Co. 



Simeon F. Leonard, Leonard Seed 

 Co. 



0. L. Coulter, C. C. Morse d Co. 



Chas. Hollenhuch. For Peter HoUen- 

 bach. 



W. N. Rudd, Pres. Hort. Society of 

 Chicago. 



TV. ,/. Keiniel Pres. Chicago Florists' 

 Vluh. 



Lily of the Valley Pips Arriving 

 On the steamship "Hellig Olav" ar- 

 riving Nov. 17, there were 360 cases 

 of valley pips for Loechner & Co., New- 

 York, and ex S. S. "Oscar II." which 

 arrived Nov. 29, 72 cases valley pips 

 for Loechner & Co., New York, and 

 13 cases for R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 

 Boston. As far as we can find out, 

 these are the first valley pips arriving 

 from the other side, of this year's 

 crop. 



By S. S. "Orduna" from Liverpool, 

 arriving on Nov. 29, Loechner & Co. 

 received also twenty bags of Spencer 

 sweet peas, which were shipped from 

 Wellington, New Zealand, on Aug. 13, 

 1915. 



Notes. 

 New 'Vork, N. Y. — On or about Janu- 

 ary 1, 1916 after extensive alterations 



are completed A. T. Boddington Co., 

 Inc., will move to their new and more 

 convenient quarters at 128 Chambers 

 street. 



The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce is in receipt of a letter from 

 a firm in Cuba stating that a fertilizer 

 is being manufactured in that country, 

 and they desire to find a market for it 

 in the United States. It is composed 

 of the following substances: Nitrogen, 

 ammonia, phosphoric acid and phos- 

 phate. Address may be obtained from 

 the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce in Washington, or any of 

 its branch offices. 



Value of horticultural material im- 

 ported at New York for the week end- 

 ing November 20 is given as follows: 

 Fertilizer, $973; clover seed, $29,061; 

 grass seed, $12,516; trees and plants, 

 $66,154. 



MINNESOTA STATE HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The forty-ninth annual meeting of 

 the Minnesota State Horticultural So- 

 ciety will be held in the West Hotel, 

 Minneapolis, on Tuesday, Wednesday, 

 Thursday, ITriday, December 7, 8, 9, 10. 



The Minnesota Garden Flower Soci- 

 ety, the Plant Breeders' Auxiliary, the 

 Woman's Auxiliary, the Minnesota 

 State Florists' Society and the Garden- 

 ers' Associations of St. Paul and Min- 

 neapolis meet at same time and place 

 and will have some part on the pro- 

 gram. 



The program is a lengthy one and 

 full of snap. The Minnesota State 

 Florists' Society will meet on Tuesday 

 evening, 8.00 o'clock, Wm. D. Desmond, 

 president, in the chair. The program 

 includes "Bulbs," by Max Kaiser, flor- 

 ist, Merriam Park, and "Greenhouses 

 and Their Appurtenances," Wm. Keel- 

 ing, florist, with Holm & Olson, St. 

 Paul. Two new floral productions of 

 the year, including the cherry pink 

 rose, "Champ Weiland," will be exhi- 

 bited during the week. 



FLORISTS AND GARDENERS OF 

 RHODE ISLAND. 



The last meeting of the Florists' & 

 (Jardeners' Club of Rhode Island elect- 

 ed James Dillon, president; Wm. 

 Steele, vice-president; James Hockey, 

 treasurer: Cornelius Hartstra, Owen 

 McManmon and John Marshall, execu- 

 tive committee; Wm. E. Chappell, sec- 

 retary. 



The officers will be installed at the 

 first meeting of the new year which 

 occurs on the fourth Monday of Janu- 

 ary. 



The large attendance and spirit of 

 good fellowship was one of the feat- 

 ures of the meeting. At the regular 

 December meeting the Club will take 

 up the matter of the annual banquet. 



S. A. G. 



Midlothian, Va.— The packing shed 

 of J. R. Watkins & Bro.. nurserymen 

 of Jlidlothian, was destroyed by fire 

 entailing a loss of nearly $800. The 

 cause of the fire is unknown. It was 

 discovered shortly after workmen had 

 left the shed for the day and it was 

 rapidly consumed. All of the tools 

 and materials for packing were de- 

 stroyed. 



