December 11, 1915 



HORTICULTUBB 



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HEWS 



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 Special Shapes to Order. Chicken Founts, Pigeon Nests, Bean Pots, Etc. 



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Warehouses: 

 CAMBBIDOE, MASS. 

 NEW YORK. N. T. 



FREAKISH FACTS AND FACTLESS 

 FREAKS. 



■ Pleasant Lake. Mass.. Die. 7 -While 

 snowflakes v.'ere falling here yeslerUay. a 

 bunch of mayflowers was picked in llio 

 ■woods near this village. Old residents de- 

 clare that this is the result of a few mild 

 days about a wepk ago, and indicates an 

 exceedingly severe winter, followed by a 

 late spring. — Boston Traveler. 



Apples growing on birch trees may be a 

 possibility in the opinion of ".Tohnny" 

 Martin of Canton, who is experimenting 

 along that line. He claims that on his 

 estate twigs of apple trees continued to 

 live for three jears after being grafted to 

 birch trees. He e.xpecls to make addi- 

 tional experiments this spring, and if 

 successful is thinking of calling the result 

 of his labor "the birch apple." 



— Bostoti Traveler. 



Don't, fair reader, turn up your nose 

 and exclaim that a seed is a seed. So is 

 an egg an egg. Somebody even proved 

 that "pigs is pigs." 



Compared to some of the seeds Mr. Uui- 

 pee raises, gold is ,1 cheap and insiguifi- 



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with lu 410 ptLgea packed 

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 almost exhausted. 

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Boston, Mass. 



DREER'S "Riverton Special' 



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or us exclusively. 'Iho host tub ever introduced. The neatest, lightest- 

 iiitfd green, with t-lertric welili'd Imops. The four largest sizes have 



drop handles. 



HENRY A. DREER, ^"^^^ f^"^^- B"")'- '"^ ^m^'i. 



714 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. 



cant commodity. It is only worth around 

 $250 a pound. 



A particular flower seed commands $1600 

 a pound. "But we don't deal in it by the 

 pound, only by the ounce or the d>>zen of 

 seeds." remarked this erstwhile physician, 

 who turning from healing sick humans to 

 perfecting flowers aud vegetables. 



If you can develop a fine new variety of 

 sweet-pea. for instance, it will bring you 

 more than Kipling gets for one of his 

 poems, and, measured by the poet's recent 

 output. I think it worth considerably 

 more. 



— Philadelphia Ledger. 



"What is their little game anyway !" 

 That is what people asked us jit the 

 time the Luther Burbank Society was send- 

 ing out its rose-tinted guff and asking 

 people to join tbo immortals by becoming 

 a "life member." Wc did not know what 

 the game was, but it is being developed 

 now. All capital stock in this Burbank 

 Society has been assessed one dollar per 

 share! There are liabilities of $73,023.58! 

 Among the "assets" is the item of $287,500 

 as "value of the exclusive right to use the 

 name of Luther Burbank and to distribute 

 his horticultural productions." The "little 

 game" seems to have been the same as 

 that of the shell-game man — a run for 

 your dollar. You had the run after the 

 society of Burb.mk and then you give up 

 your dollar! \\'hat a farce the \\ bole 

 thing -n-as. How they did play on Ilie 

 vanity of hundreds of men and women 

 who ought to lave known better. The 

 Burbank Society! A seat in it has proved 

 Just about as satisfactory as a seat on 

 ;( ImiM-lt of dried luirdocks! 



-Rural A'eit; Yorker. 



That there are meat eating plants is gen- 

 erally known, but that there are also plants 

 that cough— not figuratively, but in the true 

 literal sense of the word — will be surpris- 

 ing to most readers. Indeed, to the re- 

 searches of the I'rench botanist we owe the 

 description of a plant growing in certain 

 tropical regions which obviously "coughs" 

 like a human being. The plant externally 

 is in many respects related to our common 

 bean. It is very sensitive, and shows a 

 strange dislike of every kind of dust. No 

 sooner do a few grains of dust settle on its 

 leaves and thereby Irritate the air chambers 

 of the sheath scale, which represents the 

 organs of breathing, than these organs All 

 with a kind of gas, swell up and then ex- 

 plosively reject the gas, whereby the dust 

 is expulsed. But this explosion produces a 

 sound that has a striking resemblance to 

 the cough of a cblld that lias caught a cold. 

 The stranger who. in the midst of the wil- 

 derness, hears the sound Involuntarily looks 

 about for some man or aiiliual. aud discov- 

 ering, of course, nowhere a living being 

 that might ha%'e coughed, will be seized 

 with the uncanny feeling of the presence of 

 some spook. — Exchange. 



The U. S. Court of Customs Appeals 

 has decided against the appeal of 

 George Quirk and others from the as- 

 sessment of duty on budding and 



pruning knives, which they claimed 

 should be admitted free as "agricul- 

 tural implements," and proclaims that 

 such knives "with folding blades and 

 spring backs" are dutiable at ad va- 

 lorem rate under paragraph 12S of the 

 tariff act of October 3, 1913. 



HILFINGER BROS., Potterr. Fort Edward, N.Y. 



AiiCiKt Rolker i Soqs. 51 Barclay St., N. T. City, A{Mt> 



0ll> SPEClUn — Lmi DIsUoct nl \nU Eaid 



I— STANDARD FLOWER- 



If your greenhouses are within COO 

 miles of the Capitol, write us, we can 

 save you money. 



W. H. ERNEST 



— 2gth ft M Sts., WiMhlngton, D. C.^ 



WANTS, FOR SALE, Etc. 



HELP WANTED 



WANTED— First class assistant in large 

 flower store In Middle West. Address with 

 record and references, M. M., care HOR- 

 TICULTURE. 



FOR SALE 



FOR SALE — Freeh from factory, new; 

 10 X 12, 16 1 18, 18 I 24, double thick. A 

 and B qaulltles. Market dropped. Now Is 

 the time to buy and save money. 



PARSnELSKT BROS., INC., 

 Havemeyer St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



21B-X1T 



FOR SALE— Greenhouses and residence; 

 paying retail business; amount of business 

 shown and reason for selling; 65 miles 

 from Boston. Address R., care of IIOK- 

 TKTLTI'HE. 



TO LET 



TO RENT — Truck and poultry farm, 5- 

 room resilience, small greenhouse, 200 bead 

 of p.iultrv, all In llrst class condition. For 

 particulars, address G. IIANLEY, 2341 Bay 

 St.. Taunton, Mass. 



