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HOETICULTUEE 



October 28, 1916 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 

 Officers— President, KIrby B. White, 

 Detroit Mich.; First Vice-President, F. 

 W. Bolilano, Washington, D. C; Sec- 

 ond Vice-President, i. L. Olds, Madison, 

 WU.; Secretary-Treasurer, C. E. Kendel, 

 Cleveland, O. 



One Week's Imports. 



Imports at the port of New York, 

 of horticultural material, for the week 

 ending October 13, were recorded as 

 follows; 



B u 1 b s — France, $6,325: Nether- 

 lands, $117,945; England, $289; Hong- 

 kong, $473; Japan. 18.660. 



Plants— Netherlands. $2,920; Eng- 

 land, $3,707; Panama, $60; Vene- 

 zuela, $481. 



Red clover seed— France, $4,950. 



Clover seed — France, $6,311; Can- 

 ada, $4,499. 



Grass seed— Denmark. $31,719. 



Other seeds— France. $11,276; Eng- 

 land, $3,356; Argentine. $6,048; Brit- 

 ish East Indies. $663; Japan. $4; Mex- 

 ico, $1,170. 



Nitrate of potash — England, $81,635. 



Other fertilizers— Scotland, $384; 

 Argentine, $1,833. 



GREATNESS ACHIEVED. 



"Some Tuen are born great, .some acliieve 

 greatness and .some liave greatness 

 thrust upon tbem." 



Mr. Shakespeare undoubtedly was 

 thinking of none other than \V. F. 

 Therkildson, advertising manager for 

 the W. Atlee Burpee Co.. 'when he 

 penned those immortal words. 



It is hard to believe — biit it is true 

 — that one man could achieve the 

 greatness in five days that fell the lot 

 of W. F. Therkildson. This is what 

 happened to him between Friday, the 

 13th of October, and Wednesday, the 

 18th. 



First of all, he was unanimously 

 elected secretary of the Poor Hichard 

 Club, the organization that has taken 

 the lead in Philadelphia clubdom 

 since it put over the convention of the 

 Associated Advertising Clubs of the 

 World last June. 



Then he was elected a director of 

 the Ohio Society of Philadelphia, an 

 organization of high type Philadel- 

 phians wiio were born in or lived in 

 the Buckeye State for a long while. 



Tht I he was elected a trustee of 

 the Philadelphia Salesmanship Club, a 

 new organization whose membership 

 will be 2.000 before Christmas. 



Then he was chosen to sit with a 

 group of 40 of the city's leaders to 

 consider plans for advertising Phila- 

 delphia and from that group of 40 he 

 ■was chosen to be one of seven men 

 to consider plans for holding a 

 World's Fair in 1926 to mark the 

 aesqui-centennial of the signing of the 

 Declaration of Independence. 



Then he was called in by the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society to help 

 stage the Chrysanthemum Show on 

 Nov. 7. 



SEEDS for the FLORIST 



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 i^iS i. llil\.0 MARKET. 



rhe best extra early variety, large, double flowers, on long 

 steins. In colors: Crimson, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Rose 

 reach Blossom, White. 



Trade Packet, 20c., Oz., 76c. 



Sweet Peas, Cyclamen, Primnlas, Lily of the Valley, from 



Our Own Cold 8toraee Plant, 



Oar Trade List Mailed on Application. 



FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO., l^J^H^^. BOSTON 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Raynee 

 Park, London, Elngland. Send for Ciitalogue 



CHARTERS TESTED SEEDS, InC^ Omaamt BUgTBoitoa, MMiL 



And still he has time to help to sell 

 the products of the world's largest 

 mail-order seed house. 



John B. Gebaghty. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Forty-Seventh Annual Report 

 of the West Chicago Park Commission- 

 ers, for the year ending December ,31, 

 1915, is an attractive volume of 212 

 pages abundantly embellished with full- 

 page engravings devoted largely to de- 

 picting the various features of the 

 parks, playgrounds, gymnasiums, etc, 

 for the children's amusement and edu- 

 cation. It is an impressive presentation 

 of the manifold uses of public reserva- 

 tions in a great city. The total areas 

 under the jurisdiction of the West Chi- 

 cago Park Commissioners is approxi- 

 mately 813 acres of parks and 445 

 acres of boulevard. The total length 

 of boulevards is 29 ',4 miles. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



Homestead, Fla. — Dade County 

 Nurseries, capital stock, $25,000. In- 

 corporators, A. A. Thompson, D. M. 

 Roberts and Hiram Byrd. 



Los Angeles, Gal. — Staiger & Fin- 

 ken Nursery Co., capital stock, $20,- 

 OOO. Incorporators, Paul G. Staiger, 

 John Finken and Thomas Wolfe. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 

 Westbury, N. Y.— Westbury Nur- 

 sery Co.. voluntary bankruptcy. 



Syracuse, N. Y. — Chester A. Harris, 

 florist, 203 E. Genesee St , liabilities, 

 $1,000. 



Boston, Mass. — Anthony Lahoud. 

 gardener, has been petitioned into 

 bankruptcy by four creditors whose 

 claims aggregate $719. 



"Pruning Shade Trees" is a very 

 timely and useful bulletin issued by 

 the Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at Columbia, Missouri, as Circular 81. 

 H. F. Major is the author. There are 

 cuts showing the right and the wrong 

 way. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Forest City, la. — A. G. Larson has 

 purchased the Secor greenhouses. 



Ithaca, N. Y.— Ralph J. Roskelly 

 has purchased the business of the 

 Bool Floral Co. 



CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 



King Construction Co.. North Tona- 

 wanda, N. Y. — Illustrated booklet on 

 "Some Seasonable Subjects." 



Bristol, Tenn. — The Bristol Floral 

 Company has increased its capital 

 stock to $25,000. 



Bird lovers will be glad to read the 

 report that a treaty for the protection 

 of insect-destroying birds on both 

 sides of the Canadian boundary has 

 been entered into between the United 

 States and Great Britain. Its admin- 

 istration will be left to local authori- 

 ties. It is said that this is the first 

 treaty of its kind. 



Eureka, Cal. — C. W. Ward has pur- 

 chased the greenhouse range of 

 Bauer & Waggoner. 



West Berkeley, Cal.— The Gill Nur- 

 sery Company has bought five green- 

 houses from the John Spring Estate 

 and will remove them to their place. 



Ardisia crenulata was listed as a 

 "new plant" in 1858. 



