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HORTICULTURE 



August 31, 1912 



WAKE UP TO THE FACT 



THAT EASTER GOMES EARLY 



ST. DAVID'S ISLAND LILIES 



5 to 7 Strong, Heavy Bulbs, 400 to Case .... $14.75 

 7 to 9 Strong, Heavy Bulbs, Scarce, 200 to Case . . 17.50 



LILIUM CANDIDUM 



Extra Large Forcing Bulbs, 100, $5.00 



WHITE ROMANS 



11 to 12 Ctms , Strong Bulbs . 



12 to 15 Ctms., Heavy Bulbs 



13 to 15 Ctms., Extra Heavy Bulbs 



100 1000 



$2.25 $21.00 



2.75 25.00 



3.25 30.00 



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lOTT & SONS 



42 VESEY STREET, NEW YORK 



PERSONAL. 



W. J. Smart, of A. T. Boddington's, 

 New York, goes on a two weeks' vaca- 

 tion this week. 



PTERIS PARKERII. 



Phil Kessler, tlie hustling New York 

 wholesale florist, is taking his vaca- 

 tion in the Adirondacks. 



Ernest Ludwig has given up his po- 

 sition as foreman at the Burbank Seed 

 Farms, Elmhurst, Calif. 



Mr. Reidel, of Badgley, Reldel & 

 Meyer, New York City, is on an ex- 

 tended vacation tour. He intends to 

 visit some of our Canadian friends. 



H. E. Bates, long identified with thu 

 King Construction Co., and Victor 

 Morgan, who has been on the road 

 for Bobbink & Atkins for many years, 

 have accepted positions with the Lord 

 .& Burnham Company in New York. 



Ernest Townsend, formerly garden- 

 er at the Henry C. Pierce estate at 

 Pride's Crossing, Mass., is now garden- 

 er lor Mrs. Lathrop Brown, West Man- 

 chester. He succeeds \Vm. Swan, who 

 Is now superintendent for Mrs. Levi 

 Z. Leiter, Beverly Farms. 



George H. Penson of Somerville, N. 

 J., well known to the readers of HOR- 

 TICULTURE through his instructive 

 contributions on Fruit and Vegetables 

 Under Glass, sailed for England on the 

 Lusitania, August 2S. He is booked to 

 return on the Carmania from Liver- 

 pool on September 24, bringing with 

 him a fair English flower which he 

 will introduce to America under a new 

 name. Another case of "renaming!" 

 We wish them long life and happiness. 



Boston visitors: David Rust, 

 Phila.; Wm. Anderson, South Lancas- 

 ter, Mass.; George McClure, Jr., Buf- 

 falo; A. E. Thatcher, Bar Harbor, Me. 



This is a new fern, vigorous habit and with bright olive green fronds. 

 It is a sport from the well-known Pteris cretica major, but is greatly supe- 

 rior to that variety in every way. 



