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HORTICULTURE 



December 30, 1916. 



cSon ALBERT ROPER 



This Splendid Production of the Late Albert Roper, previously known as No. 360, will be disseminated 

 the coming winter. Color cerise ; flower medium size : a very free rooter : long stiff stem ; healthy 

 g-ood bloomer and free from splitting: "A real bread-and-butter Carnation," sa\s William Nicholson. 



Winner of the Silver Medal at the Boston Spring Show, 1916 



ROOTED CUTTINGS $12.00 per 100; $100.00 per 1000, 250 at 1000 rate 

 Orders taken now will be filled in rotation 



ALBERT ROPER ESTATE, 



TEWKSBURY 

 MASS. 



MARK ROPER, Administrator 



Obituary 



Samuel Snyder. 

 Samuel Snyder, retail florist. Second 

 avenue and 59th street. New York 

 City, died at the Flower Hospital on 

 December 17, aged forty years. He is 

 survived by his widow. 



L. D. Baldwin. 

 Leslie D. Baldwin, florist. I'"oxboro, 

 Mass., died on December \'i. aged 

 thirty five years. His parents and one 

 sister survive him. The funeral was 

 brightened by many floral toliens of 

 esteem from friends in the trade and 

 others. 



C. J. Blackert. 

 ('has. J. Blackert. for many years a 

 prominent florist of St. Louis. Mo., 

 died on December 9. aged 72 years. 

 He was a native of Sweden, coming to 

 this country 45 years ago. His son. 

 Chas. .1. Blackert, Jr., will continue 

 the business. 



J. E. Hoopes. 

 Joseph E. Hoope.s senior member of 

 the firm of J. E. Hoopes & Co.. seeds- 

 men, -Muscatine, la., died on December 

 15. after a long and painful illness, 

 aged 63 years. He was a man of large 

 activities in the business and civic life 

 of Muscatine. He leaves a widow. 



Robertson Kirkpatrlck. 



Robertson Kirkpatrick. landscape 

 gardener, died on Wednesday. Decem- 

 ber 20, at a local hospital in Nashua. 

 N. H., aged 55 years. The cause of 

 his death is stated to have been rup- 

 ture of the spleen. For the past month 

 he had not been feeling in his usual 

 good health and Tuesday night there 

 was such a turn for the worse that he 

 was taken to the hospital. His death 

 came as a great shock to the members 

 of his family and the community. 



Mr. Kirkpatrick was born at Ruther- 

 glen (near Glasgow). Scotland. Nov. 

 4, 1861. He served his apprenticeship 

 at Gallowflat (Rutherglen), the estate 

 of F. R. Reed, remaining there five 

 years in all. After two years on pri- 

 vate estates in Glasgow and St. An- 

 drews. Fifeshire. he came to the 

 United States in 1882. He was in 

 the employ of Mr. Bowles, editor 

 of the Springfield Republican and 



then went to Nashua where he was 

 with C. \V. Hoitt two and one-half 

 years and then with George E. 

 Buxton, after which he went to New 

 buryport, .Mass.. in charge of T. W. 

 Goodwin's greenhouses returning to 

 Mr. Buxton's two years later. He final- 



RoBERTsoN Kirkpatrick 



ly went into landscape and nursery, 

 business on Ferry Road. Nashua, 

 where his nursery is located. He 

 leaves a widow, one son, \Vm. R. Kirk- 

 patrick, superintendent of parks in 

 Nashua, a granddaughter, three broth- 

 ers and one sister in Scotland, and one 

 brother in Montreal. Canada. 



THE FERTILIZER SITUATION IN 

 CONNECTICUT. 



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very unsettled condition prevails in 

 the wholesale market on "chemicals." 

 .Manufacturers are buying only for 

 their immediate needs. In small lots, 

 such materials as Nitrate of Soda, Sul- 

 phate of Ammonia. Tankage. Blood. 

 Cyanamid. Cottonseed .Meal. Acid Phos 

 phate and Bone are all high. Acid 

 Phosphate seems to be slightly lower 

 than last year but Cottonseed is 30 

 per cent higher. Nitrogen in .Nitrate 

 of Soda and Sulphate of .Ammonia is 

 about 2?, cents per lb. and 22 cents in 



9-9 Tankage. In mixed goods Nitro- 

 gen is about 23 cents. These values 

 are based on cash quotations, carload 

 lots. No firm will hold quotations 

 open on unmixed goods, indicating the 

 instability of prices. Those in close 

 touch with conditions seem to feel 

 that plant food can be purchased 

 cheaper in mixed goods than in un- 

 mixed. This is probably true when 

 the cost of mixing is considered. The 

 safest procedure would be to get quo- 

 tations from several sources on both 

 mixed and unmixed goods and make 

 the comparisons. 



If present conditions continue, we 

 may be able eventually to supply our 

 needs. Several firms are offering as 

 high as 4 per cent Potash goods. Some 

 offered this goods earlier but are sold 

 out now, the .Maine growers having 

 contracted for the entire supply. 



Our results so far on corn indicate 

 that potash pays at normal prices. 

 This, however, is on the Gloucester 

 Sandy Loatii on the Station Farm. On 

 heavier soils the results might differ. 

 We very seriously question the advis- 

 ability of paying $5 a unit for potash 

 to be used on the common field crops. 

 Where large applications of potash 

 have been made in previous years, as 

 on tobacco land, it does not seem wise 

 to use much if any potash this year. 



Lij[E — Last year it was suggested 

 that stress be laid on the use of lime, 

 the price at that time being normal. 

 'This year lime has advanced, and 

 notice is given of a further increase 

 on March 1. In spite of this fact, we 

 believe that lime will in the long run, 

 repay the investment, although every 

 means should be used to secure good 

 quotations. 



-M AMiiK — We have this year another 

 opportunity to hammer on this point. 

 Too much stress cannot be laid on the 

 proper care and use of manure. An 

 Extention bulletin on this suijject is 

 now in press. 



Tn.wsi'ORTATTox — This would seem 

 to he the most serious problem we are 

 facing. The fertilizer manufacturers 

 are at present working to secure pref- 

 erence for fertilizers over some other 

 classes of freight. Some pressure 

 might be brought to bear if farmers' 

 organizations were to take up the 

 matter with the railroads. The wise 

 man will order early. It is already 

 late. 



— Arjronomy Dept. Conn. Agri. Col. 



