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HOETICULTURE 



October 19, 1912 



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No. Diam. Ea. Doz. 100 



10 20 in. $1.45 $16.00 .$i:i0.00 



20 18 in. 1.30 14.00 115.00 



1.00 11.25 92.00 



.65 7.00 56.00 



.43 5.00 40.00 



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 and cheapest Paiuted green, with electric welded hoops. The four largest sizes have 

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HENRY A. DREER, seeds, Plants, Buits, and Su pplies, 714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Obituary. 



Charles Meckelburg. 

 On October 4, Charles Meckelburg, 

 florist, Fifty-third street and North 

 avenue, Milwaukee, Wis., died of drop- 

 sy, aged 70 years. 



James Caldwell. 

 In an automobile accident on Sep- 

 tember 29, near Venice. O., James 

 Caldwell, florist, of Cincinnati, was 

 killed and the chauffeur received in- 

 juries from which he may die. Two 

 others were seriously hurt. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



Canadian Seed Growers' Associa- 

 tion, Eighth Annual Report— This vol- 

 ume contains the minutes of the An- 

 nual Meeting held at Ottawa, Feb. 8, 

 and 9, 1912. The reports of officers 

 and addresses and contributions in 

 full. It comprises 142 pages and a 

 number of illustrations. 



C. C. Arnold. 



C. C. Arnold, florist, of North Jud- 

 son. Ind., died of heart trouble recent- 

 ly, in his 62nd year. He had been m 

 the florist business in North Judson 

 for many years, giving considerable 

 attention to gladioli. His wife, one 

 son and a daughter survive him. 



The Tennessee State Board of Ento- 

 mology has issued a Bulletin on the 

 Inspection and Transportation of Nur- 

 sery Stock in Tennessee, other states 

 and Canada, which will be found very 

 serviceable by anyone engaged in the 

 shipment of nursery stock between 

 states. It is designated Bulletin No. 

 7, Vol. 1, No. 3, and may be had on ap- 

 plication to the State Entomologist 

 and Plant Pathologist, Knoxville, 

 Tenn. 



Henry J. Horne. 

 Henry J. Horne, of the firm of H. J. 

 Jlorne & Co., nurserymen, Haverhill, 

 Mass., died at his home on Columbia 

 park, that city, on October 10. He 

 suffered a shock last June from which 

 he never fully recovered. He was 

 born in Smithfield, Me., and for 18 

 years had lived in Haverhill. A son, 

 two brothers and two sisters survive 

 him. 



Gus Schoenfield. 

 It Is with profound sorrow that we 

 learn of the death of Gus Schoen- 

 field, for a number of years a large 

 grower of cut flowers and plants for 

 the Buffalo market. The country has 

 lost a sincere lover of our profession 

 and an enthusiast in his chosen field. 

 He was also engaged in grape grow- 

 ing and became one of the leading au- 

 thorities on grape culture in the vicin- 

 ity of Westfield, N. Y. Mr. Schoen- 

 field was a member of the board of 

 education at the time of his death, 

 having served several years. Our 

 heartfelt sympathy goes out to his be- 

 reaved widow and children in this 

 hour of their sorrow. 



E. C. BRUCKER. 



Plant Breeding in Scandinavia, L. 

 H. Newman, Ottawa, Canada, 1912. — 

 In this work the writer aims to set 

 forth the present status of plant breed- 

 ing in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. 

 The bulk of the book is taken up with 

 the work of the Swedish Seed Associa- 

 tion as carried on at its institute at 

 Svalot in Southern Sweden, at which 

 the author spent nine months in study. 

 The aim of this association, which is 

 composed of influential farmers and 

 others interested in agriculture, is "to 

 work for the cultivation and develop- 

 ment of improved sorts of cereals and 

 other crops and for the utilization of 

 these sorts in Sweden and in other 

 countries." While the agriculture of 

 Sweden is said to date back to the 

 Stone Age, modern agriculture in that 

 country may be said to have had its 

 birth about the year 1840. From 1840 

 until about 1870 the growing and sell- 

 ing of cereal giains was the principal 

 industry. Following 1870, the long pe- 

 riod of continuous grain raising began 

 to show its effects in decreased fertil- 

 ity of the soil. This coupled with the 

 extensive importations of grain into 

 Europe from America forced upon the 

 Swedish farmers the necessity of 

 changing their system and also to seek 

 varieties better suited to their north- 

 ern climate, and which would be more 

 productive than those they had been 

 cultivating. 

 The subjects dealt with include au- 



1000 READY PACKED CRATES 



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l.j(V) 2- " " 4.8.S 4.j6 41/j " ■' 5.24 



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mw 3 " " " 5.1:0 144 « " " 3.16 



SOO 3% " " 5.S0 1211 7 •' " 4.20 



00 S " " 3.00 



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 10 X 12, 16 xl8, 16 X 24, double thick. A 

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tumn and spring wheats, oats, barley, 

 peas, grasses, clovers and potatoes 

 and the experimental work with these 

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We think Mr. Newman might well 

 have added some account of the very 

 valuable work now being carried on In 

 Denmark on root-crops (mangel, sugar 

 beet, garden beet, carrot, rutabaga and 

 turnip), cauliflower, cabbage and for- 

 age grasses. Perhaps he will make 

 this Danish work the subject of an- 

 other volume. 



