September 28, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



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DREER SPECIALTIES 



Dreer*s Imperial Japanese Iris 



Dreer*s Select German Iris 



^^ Dreer's Unrivalled Hardy 

 Perennial Phlox 



Dreer's Choice Herbaceous 

 Paeonies 



The above are leaders in our Perennial Depart- 

 ment and now is the time to secure your supplies 

 for the coming season. Special Circulars offering 

 and describing complete lists of the above have recently been 

 mailed to the trade. If you have not received a copy and are in- 

 terested, write us. 



We are acknowledged as headquarters for Hardy Perennials and our Current Wholesale 

 List describes and offers everything in this line worth growing. 



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PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



NEW YORK NOTES. 



Jos. A. Graham, known to a great 

 many gardeners around New York, has 

 secured a superintendent's position in 

 Texas and we hear is doing well. 



Don't forget Elliott's big auction 

 sale of the entire stock of Bonnie 

 Brae Nurseries, at New Rochelle, N. 

 Y., on Wednesday morning, October 2. 



The headquarters for gardeners in 

 the city seems to be P. Hamilton Good- 

 sell's store rooms at 157 and 159 Wil- 

 liam street, where gardeners looking 

 for positions keep a secretary. 



Theo. Ficke, the New York truck- 

 man, of 109 Broad street, reports the 

 busiest season in history owing to the 

 enormous increase in the importations 

 of bulbs and general nursery stock. 

 During the past six weeks his staff has 

 been taxed to the limit. 



The Flower Auction Company's first 

 sale for the current week resulted in 

 better attendance and higher prices 

 than wei-e generally anticipated, lilies, 

 chi-ysanthemums, galax and asparagus 

 bunches being disposed of. Ferns, 

 rubber plants, kentias and dracaenas 

 in large lots fetched satisfactory 

 prices. 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



A large exhibition will be held on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday next of fruit, 

 flowers and vegetables in the Lord Me- 

 morial Hall in Brookland, D. C, by 

 the Brookland Brotherhood. This is 

 an annual event and has heretofore 

 been very successful. A large number 

 of prizes are offered. 



Robert Pyle of the Conard cS; Jones 

 Co., West Grove, Pa., will deliver on 

 October S, before the Florists' Club of 

 V/ashington, a lecture on rose grow- 

 ing in Europe. The lecture will be 

 illustrated by lantern slides. The reg- 

 ular monthly business meeting of the 

 club will be held next Tuesday even- 

 ing in its rooms 1214 F street, N. W. 



Among the recent visitors in this 

 city was Prof. Hugo DeVries, director 

 of the Botanical Gardens of Amster- 

 dam, Holland. While here, Prof. De- 

 Vries conferred with the agricultural 

 officials on matters relating to horti- 

 culture and delivered a lecture before 

 the Botanical Society of Washington. 

 He has left Washington for the south 

 in search of new specimens of the 

 forms of life witli which he has ex- 

 perimented in Holland. 



BULB NOTES. 



French bulbs are scarce and the 

 market is depleted excepting on free- 

 sias. Of Roman hyacinths there are 

 none to be had. 



The crop of longifiorum giganteum 

 lily bulbs in Japan is 65 per cent good. 

 Prices have advanced, especially on 

 the large sizes, which are in very lim- 

 ited supply. 



Bulbs of Narcissus bicolor Victoria 

 from Holland are arriving in poor con- 

 dition, many being rotten at the base, 

 due to a six-weeks' rain during the 

 bulb packing time. Horsfeldii is show- 

 ing more or less of the same trouble. 



Visitors — Mr. Moore of the Moore & 

 Simons Seed Co., Philadelphia; Charles 

 Johnson, Boston, England; J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar, Boston; A. F. Barbe, Kan- 

 sas City, Mo.; Carl Cropp. Chicago, 

 returning from Europe; R. H. James, 

 St. Georges, Bermuda. 



Prof. E. R. Lake, 3333 Twentieth 

 street, N. W., Washington, D. C, has 

 been appointed Secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society to fill out the 

 unexpired term of the late lamented 

 Prof. Craig, former Secretary. Prof. 

 Lake is a man of much experience as 

 secretary of horticultural societies, a 

 valued assistant to the U. S. Pomo- 

 logist and has the reputation of being 

 an indefatigable worker, a faithful 

 student and one who never shirks bis 

 duty. 



Judging from what we saw on a 

 recent look-through at Boddington's, 

 we may expect something far beyond 

 the ordinary in the spring flowering 

 bulb department of the big exhibition 

 in New York next spring. Anyone 

 who intends to grow bulbs for that 

 occasion will do well to take a glance 

 a! these monster hyacinths, tulips and 

 narcissi. Preparations have been 

 made for a heavy fall business, every 

 corner of the spacious floors being 

 loaded down with stock. There are 

 175.000 Darwin tulips alone. This 

 class of tulips is rapidly forging ahead 

 for outdoor display and to some ex- 

 tent supplanting the single earlies in 

 public favor. Holland bulb stock gen- 

 erally is in fine quality and ample sup- 

 ply. 



"You cani no more conduct business 

 without advertising than you can 

 farming without fertilizing.— Uncle 

 Peleg. 



