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HORTICULTURE 



December 11, 1915 



this method could he used in counting 

 these heavier seeds. 



Orton L. Clabk. 

 Mass. Agri. Exp. Station. 

 Amherst, Mass. 



Round Spinach Seed — Restrictions on 

 Shipment IVlodified. 



Gentlemen: As the result of the rep- 

 resentations made b.v the State De- 

 partment at Washington, the Dutch 

 government has expressed a willing- 

 ness to permit the exportation of a cer- 

 tain quality of round spinach seed on 

 which, as is well known, an embargo 

 had been placed. To obtain the actual 

 permits of exportation, it will be 

 necessary for the Dutch growers to ap- 

 ply to the Dutch Minister of Agricul- 

 ture. 



The above information will be of in- 

 terest to your readers. 



Curtis Nye Smith. 



urged that instead of this Importing 

 business an effort be made to use up 

 lily of the valley pips and other prod- 

 ucts of German origin which now can- 

 not be exported to England, Russia 

 and other countries which formerly 

 were large consumers. 



Notes 



The value of imports of horticul- 

 'tural merchandise at the port of New 

 York, from November 22 to November 

 30, inclusive, is given as follows: 

 Manure salt, $9,261; nitrate of soaa, 

 $290,258; fertilizer, $22,669; clover 

 seed, $56,284; sugar beet seed, $17,678; 

 grass seed, $17,478; trees and plants, 

 $81,547. 



New York, N. Y. — At the annual 

 meeting of the Wholesale Seedmen's 

 League, held November 30, F. W. Brug- 

 gerhof, of J. M. Thorburn & Co.. was 

 re-elected president for the 17th year. 

 The other officers elected were L. W. 

 Bowen, of D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, 

 vice-president; B. Landreth, Bristol, 

 Pa., secretary and treasurer. 



We learn from a letter just received 

 from Paris that Mr. Louis Vilmorin of 

 the firm of Vilmorin, Andrleux & 

 Co., has been called, as a private sol- 

 dier, to the trenches, where he spends 

 twelve days out of each month. Al- 

 though deprived of all toilet luxuries, 

 unable to undress while there or get 

 hot meals he seems to take it philo- 

 sophically and does not complain of 

 these hard lines in the soldier's lot. 

 Thirteen of the staff of the Vilmorin 

 house out of several hundred who are 

 at the front have won the war cross. 



Mr. Eugene Schaettel of Vilmorin, 

 Andrleux & Co., who has been on a 

 business trip in this co\mtry for sev- 

 eral weeks received news on Monday 

 of this week that his mother, 84 years 

 of age, had died on November 19, at 

 her home in Saarunion, Alsace. She 

 had been in failing health for some 

 time and the bereavement is a keen 

 one for Mr. Schaettel because the war 

 restrictions have made it impossible 

 for him to see her, or to hear from 

 her except rarely, since the war be- 

 gan. Mr. Schaettel sails from New 



, York for home on the S. S. Lafayette, 



" Saturday, December 11. 



German papers comment upon the 

 fact that flowers from Italy via 

 Switzerland are still coming into Ger- 

 many in quantity and protest is made 

 against this on the ground that the 

 money paid for these flowers will 

 eventually be converted Into "silver 

 bullets" against the Germans. It is 



Sluis & Groot of Enkhulzen, Holland, 

 write us as follows: 



We herewith beg to advise you of a 

 change in our firm that has taken 

 place the 16th inst., for we have de- 

 cided to transform our seed-growing 

 establishment, which is existing al- 

 ready since about half a century under 

 the name of Sluis & Groot, into a lim- 

 ited company under the name of Sluis 

 & Groot's Zandteelt & Zaadhandel. 

 The direction of our business remains 

 in the same competent hands, which 

 have also the same capital at their dis- 

 posal and will use all efforts to main- 

 tain the high standing of our firm. 

 Si.uis & Groot's 

 Z.\ADTEEi.T & Zaadhandel 



ESTATE OF W. ATLEE BURPEE. 



Doylestown, Pa., Nov. 30. — By the 

 will of W. Atlee Burpee, the widely 

 known horticulturist and seedman, 

 who died at Fordhook Farm last 

 Friday, an estate of from $500,000 to 

 $700,000 was disposed of. The figures 

 given are approximate. 



The will, executed on May 27. 1913, 

 names as executors the testator's wife, 

 Mrs. Blanche Simons Burpee; his 

 brother-in-law, Alexander Buchanan 

 Scott; ex- Judge Harman Yerkes, of 

 Doylestown, and David Burpee, his 

 oldest son. 



It is plainly the intention of Mr. 

 Burpee, as expressed in the will, that 

 the seed business he established and 

 conducted so successfully should be 

 continued by his sons, David Burpee 

 and W. Atlee Burpee, Jr. One-half 

 interest in the business is left to the 

 sons, one-third to Mrs. Burpee, one- 

 sixth to the testator's sister, Mrs. 

 Sarah Coburn Burpee Scott, and, un- 

 til the estate is settled by the execu- 

 tors, one-sixth of the profits from the 

 business is to go to Howard M. Earl, 

 who has been Mr. Burpee's business 

 manager for many years. 



The Burpee property at 9th and 

 York streets, Philadelphia, containing 

 the seed establishment, is given to 

 David Burpee and W. Atlee Burpee, 

 Jr. Fordhook Farm, Doylestown, and 

 Floradale, in the Lompoc Valley, Cali- 

 fornia, are bequeathed to David Bur- 

 pee. Sunnybrook Farm, near Swedes- 

 boro, N. J., goes to W. Atlee Burpee. 

 Jr. But Mrs. Burpee retains a one- 

 third life right in all these properties 

 in lieu of dower. Mrs. Burpee is be- 

 queathed all the personal effects and 

 ' household articles of her husband and 

 $5,000 immediately. Her one-third in- 

 terest in the seed business must re- 

 main invested there unless she should 

 remarry, when it may be withdrawn if 

 she so desires. 



Other bequests to relatives are as 

 follows: Belinda Beatrice Kennedy, a 

 cousin of Mrs. Burpee, $10,000 in trust; 

 Helen Burpee, L. Kate Burpee and 

 Charles L. Atlee, cousins, $5,000 each. 

 Full power to will the principal sums 

 is given in these bequests. — PMla. 

 PutUc Ledger. 



CHRISTMAS 

 GREENS 



PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW 



HOLLY (Loose) 



HOLLY WREATHS 



MISTLETOE 

 LYCOPODIUM (Loose) 

 LYCOPODIUM 



WREATHING 



LYCOPODIUM WREATHS 

 LAUREL WREATHING 



Send for Special Circnlar on Christ- 

 mas Greens; also Our Handy Flower 

 Seed Order Sheet. 



Henry F. Michell Go. 



518 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



WE HAVE STILL, SOJME WINTER 

 ORCHID-FLOWEKINO 



Sweet Pea Seed 



Pink and White Orchid, White Orchid, 

 Mr.s. A. A. Skach, shell pink, Orchid 

 Beauty, dark rose. Red Orchid. Vt oz., 

 TBc; M oi., $1.»9; 1 o«. I1.7B. A.'k fcr 

 priifs on larger quantity and other Sweet 

 Pea seed 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK 



Sweet Fea Ranch 



LOMPOC, 



CALIF. 



Lily of the Valley 



BERLIN and HAMBURG 



FRESH PIPS 



Case of 3000 W2.00 



•' 1000 i»oo 



•• •• 500 800 



BERLIN and HAMBURG 



COLD STORAGE PIPS 



Case of 30O0 $45.00 



•• " 1000 1600 



.' •• 350 450 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



53 Barclay St., through to 54 Park Place 



Our GLADiOLI 



were awarded the Grand 



Prize at 

 San Francisco This Year 



New Catalogue Now Ready 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS,lnc. 



FLOWERFIELD. L. I., N. Y. 



Vntmn writing to adoertUers kmdfy 

 mention HCMTICVLTUPE. 



