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HOKTICULTUKE 



September 21, 1912 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



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Owing to the large increase in our business we have been 

 compelled to move to larger quarters, where with better 

 facilities we will be able to handle orders with more care 

 and promptness. 



W, E:. MARSHALL (Sh CO. 



Seeds, Bulbs, Plants 

 166 W. 23d ST., NEW YORK 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 

 Pa.— New Floral Guide, Autumn, 1912. 



T. C. Thurlow's Sons, Inc., West 

 Newbury, Mass. — Peonies, Iris and 

 Phlox. A carefully selected list. 



The Brecht Company, St. Louis, Mo. 

 — Illustrated Catalogue of Refrigera- 

 tors and Display Counters for Florists' 

 Use. A handsome production. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago and 

 New York. — Fall Edition of Gardening 

 Illustrated for 1912. Colored illustra- 

 tions of Darwin tulips and Narcissi 

 adorn the covers. 



Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, 

 Middlesex, England. — Select List of 

 Desirable Plants. This catalogue in- 

 cludes many plants not often listed for 

 greenhouse and garden. 



Vincent Lebreton, La Pyramide-Tre- 

 laze, France. — Wholesale Trade List of 

 Nursery Stock for 1912-1913. Mc- 

 Hutchison & Co., New York, are sole 

 agents tor United States and Canada. 



Thomas J. Grey Co., 32 South Mar- 

 ket street, Boston. — Autumn Catalogue 

 for 1912. A very tasty production. A 

 fine view of the spring bulb border in 

 Harvard Botanic Garden is used as 

 cover illustration. 



P. J. Looymans & Zonen, Ouden- 

 bosch, Holland— Wholesale Offer of 

 Hardy Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, 

 Evergreens, Roses, Conifers, etc. Au- 

 gust Roelker & Sons, New York, are 

 selling agents for this extensive nur- 

 sery. 



San Jose, Gal. — Miss M. W. Williams 

 and J. W. Edmundson, formerly with 

 C. P. Breslan have formed a co-part- 

 nership under the name of the Califor- 

 nia Seed Growers' Association with of- 

 fices in the First National Bank Build- 

 ing. Their specialty will be California 

 garden seeds. Miss Williams is secre- 

 tary and treasurer and will have 

 charge of the office. Mr. Edmundson 

 is vice-president and manager and will 

 travel for the firm. 



A NEW GERMICIDE. 



The Aphine Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which is now manufacturing a 

 general line of agricultural chemicals. 

 and which in this issue for the first 

 time is advertising its new germicide 

 and soil sterilizer Vermine. reports 

 that experiments made by experts 

 with this product under various con- 

 ditions have proven most successful. 

 It has been tried in the greenhouse on 

 carnation, chrysanthemum and rose 

 benches for various worms and in each 

 instance proved effective, destroying 

 the worms in a few minutes after the 

 material was applied and showing no 

 injurious effects whatsoever on the 

 plants. 



In an experiment made on a bench 

 of carnations literally loaded with the 

 small eel worms and the plants al- 

 ready showing the injuries done by 

 the ravages of the worm, a heavy ap- 

 plication of Vermine was applied to 

 the soil with the result that within 

 five minutes the top of the soil was 

 covered with the worms. Examination 

 of the bench a few hours afterwards 

 did not find a live worm, and the 

 plants within a few days took on new 

 life. 



Phoenix attacked by ants were 

 treated with Vermine with the result 

 that the ants were effectively de- 

 stroyed. 



Outdoors the material has been 

 tested against the white red-headed 

 grubs, which are doing so much dam- 

 age in many parts of the country, and 

 applied to a cabbage patch which was 

 being ravaged and it was found that 

 where Vermine was applied the grubs 

 could not live. 



The manufacturers do not claim a 

 new discovery; they have simply se- 

 cured possession of a formula which 

 has been successfully used for a num- 

 ber of years in one of the European 

 countries. 



HORTICULTURE Is a grand paper 

 and should be read by every florist. — 

 E. C. M., Washington, D. C. 



Oats 

 Barley 

 Wheat 



Swedish Specialties I Oats 



Grown Under Government Control by the B ^^^^^^^^ 



The General Swedish Seed Co. Rorlpv 



SVALOEF, SWEDEN UQI ICJ 



Descriptive pamphlet, prices and samples on application | ^^^^^^^^ 



SOLE AGENTS: UlUftnt 



Loechner & Co., "n^w vo".^' M??! 



Our Introduction for 1913 



The New Clear Scarlet Bed- 

 Ing Geranium 



"HELEN lyilGHELL" 



ITS MERITS: 



1 . The Finest Scarlet Geranium ever intro- 



duced. 



2. The only scarlet variety, which blooms ail 



summer. 



3. The largest truss and single bloom of any. 



4. Is semi-double, compact and medium dwarf. 



5. Has most blooms to a single plant. 



6. The best Propagator oi all. 



7. Stands all kinds of weather. 



8. Blooms early and continuous. 



ALL IN ALL 



THE BEST MONEY-MAKER FOR THE FLORIST. 



Orders boohfdtit ir ar.- fhlcd iu rotation as 

 > .c< i7-cd frofii January iqi^ oni^mrd. 



2'4 inch pots, U50 doz : V5.00 per 100; $125.00 per 1000 



550 00 ^^ GOLD WE (JFFER as a pnze for 

 ^'SMMM jj^g ^gj ^jj, p^,j ,,j -'Helen Michell" 

 to be competed for at the National Flower Show, 

 at New York, April, loij. 



MICHELL'S SEED HOUSE 



I^SIS Market Street, Phila., Pa. 



QUALITY 



SEED 

 BULB 

 PLANT 



SEND rOH CATALOG UF,. 



ARTHUR T. BODDI.NGTON 



:;42 Went I 4th St., New \o\V. 



BULBS 



^i^-tc?K ^rtd 



Ready Now 



0. V. ZANGEN, Hoboken, N. J. 



POULTRY and 

 FRUIT REVIEW 



A piihlirntion on tbo fnrm jonriinl that 

 reviews all poultry and fruit p;ipers in 

 L'nited States, will be sent on trial one 

 yt'.ir t(t all who send 1(5 cents, to pay 

 wrappin^^ and post;if?e, and names of 

 tliree fruit or poultry raisers. 



THE REX COMPANY 



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