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HOKTICULTURE 



November 29, 1919 



KUNDERD'S BIG BULB SALE 



Mr. A. E. Kunderd, of Goshen, In- 

 diana, reports the sale of all the sur- 

 plus Gladiolus bulbs of his entire cata- 

 log list for this season, and will not 

 issue a catalog for 1920. The sale of 

 the stock was made to Mr. Albert W. 

 Henn, President of The National Acme 

 Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, for a consid- 

 eration of $60,000. This is the largest 

 single Gladiolus bulb sale on record. 

 Mr. Henn is the owner of extensive 

 farms near Painesviile, Ohio, where 

 he raises the highest class pedigreed 

 stocks of farm animals, as well as 

 high class farm seeds, etc. The man- 

 agement of the bulbs and seed depart- 

 ment is under the supervision of Mr. 

 Ralph E. Huntington, of Painesviile, 

 Ohio, the well known nurseryman and 

 bulb specialist. The Gladiolus is Mr. 

 Henn's favorite flower and he has 

 grown most of the finest varieties of 

 the leading specialists for years. Dur- 

 ing the season just past, he grew 

 some 200 of Mr. Kunderd's named va- 

 rieties which were a great revelation 

 to him, and a great attraction to tour- 

 ists on the main line of the National 

 Highway between Buffalo and Cleve- 

 land, not far from the Garfield home 

 at West Mentor, Ohio. It is Mr. Henn's 

 intention not to resell any of the bulbs 

 the present season in order to be able 

 to first grow on larger quantities in 

 order to supply the demand from seeds- 

 men and the catalog and nursery trade. 



It may be remarked in passing that 

 Painesviile is the home of The Storrs 

 & Harrison Co., and a number of other 

 well known nurseries. In all, some 

 17,000 acres of nursery stocks are 

 grown in this vicinity, making it per- 

 haps the largest section where nur- 

 sery stock is grown in America, if not 

 in the world. 



GENERAL NEWS NOTES. 



John F. Piper, foreman for Charles 

 H. Totty Co. of Madison, N. J., sails 

 for England, Nov. 29, on the Maure- 

 tania. His trip abroad is to be one 

 combining business and pleasure and 

 all his many friends wish him a pleas- 

 ant voyage. 



Fire of unknown origin recently de- 

 stroyed the florist shop, dwelling and 

 two hothouses of Mrs. J. Carrol, 11th 

 street, and Cedar avenue, Darby, Pa. 



Says the Richfield, N. Y., Mercury: 

 What is to be considered a record 

 chrysanthemum has been grown at the 



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Iroquois Farms greenhouse, Coopers- 

 town, by the gardener. The chrysan- 

 themum, which is of the garden cham- 

 pion variety, measured 45 inches in 

 circumference and 12 inches in diam- 

 eter and is orange bronze in color. He 

 also has the distinction of growing a 

 45-lb. cabbage. 



H. B. McCullough of the J. M. 

 McCullough & Sons Co., Cincinnati, 

 O.. is in the hospital as the result 

 of an auto accident. Very close call 

 and a miraculous escape. 



Ben Delancy of the J. Chas. McCul- 

 lough Co., is laid up with broken arm 

 the result of an auto accident. 



NEW ENGLAND. 

 Alexander H. Johnson of Providence 

 was h nored by being appointed ser- 

 geant ut-arms at the convention of the 

 American Legion in Minneapolis. 



Robert Clifford, of the Leikens, Inc., 

 stores, expects to sail for Porto Rico 

 soon to take charge of the floral de- 

 partment in a new hotel there. 



The greenhouses of H. M. Totman 

 Co., Inc., at Randolph, W„ are being 

 improved and enlarged. The office and 

 work room have been replaced by a 

 two story addition, which gives a much 

 better work room on the ground floor, 

 and on the second floor a carpenter 

 shop and drying room. A new boiler 

 has been installed in the cellar, from 

 the fact that additional building in the 

 spring will nearly double the present 

 glass surface of the greenhouses. The 

 company also expect to build a cement 

 bulb cellar. The improvements al- 

 ready made and to be made, will 

 amount to $12,000 in valuation. 



Frederick Shawyer, for several years 

 head gardener for Miss Mary Share- 





