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nOETICULTURE 



November 30, 1912 



# 1 



Headquarters for Christmas Greens 



Orders Booked Now for Later Pelivery 



HOL1.Y (Loose). 



Miohell's Superior Quality. 



Selected Quality. 



Vi case $1.50 i 5 cases $18.75 



% case i.7."> 10 cases 55.00 



Full case.... 4.00 | 



Extra Selected Quality. 



% case $1.75 I -: cases $22,50 



Va case '.iM) 10 cases 42.50 



B'uU case.... 5.00 1 



HOLLY WREATHS. Per 100 



Extra fine grade $11.00 



Miihell's "Special," made up 12.00 



Mirliell's Extra "Special" 15.00 



MISTLETOE (Native). 



% case $:).<K) l Full case (18 



% case 5.50 | cubic feet). $10.00 



MISTLETOE (Mexican). 



50c. per lb. 

 Box of .50 lbs. at 40c. per lb. 



Cl'T BOXWOOD (Fresh). 



Per 50 lb. box, $7.00. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Clean and Selected (Dry). 



Per barrel bale $0.60 



Per 5-barrel hale 2,00 



Per 3 5-barrel bales 5.75 



LAIREL WKEATHING. 

 First Quality. 



50 yard lots mc. per yard 



100 yard lots 4 c. per yard 



5(X) yard lots 314c. per yard 



Michell's extra heavy special, made up. 

 25 yard lots 5 c. per yard 



100 yard lots 4i^c. per yard 



1000 yard lots 4 c. per yard 



i;,YCOPOnlUM (Ground Pine). 



Loose for making up. 



5 lb. lot.... .$0.00 I .'iO lb. lot... $4.75 



10 lb. lot.... 1.10 I 100 lb. lot... 9.00 



LYCOPODIUM WKEATHING. 



10 yds. 100 yds. 



Extra flue quality $0.70 $6.50 



Michell's "Special," made 

 up 1.00 9.0D 



LYCOPODIUM WREATHS. 



12 inch, ;i0c. each; per doz,, $3,25. 



(■HRISTM.4S BELLS. 



Made of Ked Paper. 



Doz. 100 



6 inch diameter $0.65 $5.00 



8 inch diameter 1.00 8.00 



MOSS (Green Lump). 

 Bbl. bag, $1.25; 5 bbl. bag, $6.00. 



SHEET MOSS. 



Per barrel sack $2.50 



MICHELL'S SEED HOUSE 



518 Market St., Phila., Pa. 



Send for Our Latest Wholesale Catalogue 



2 1-2 in. slioDg. $5 per 100; 

 $45 per 1000 



POINSETTIAS 



PVPI AMCM CCrn >><« celebrated English 

 UTlLAIYItN OttU strain, $9 per 1000 



niUOV OrCn home-grown, finest giant 

 rANoI OlCU, strain. $5 per oz. 



Send for Catalogue. 



S. S. SKIDELSKY & CO. 



1215 Betz BIdg. Philadelphia. 



CHOICE SEEDS 



FOR PRESENT PLANTING 



SHAMROCK, TRUE IRISH, PER OZ., $1.00 



THOMAS J. GREY CO. 



32 South Market Street, Boston, Mass. 



Seed Trade 



Keeping Onions Over Winter. 



When I was a boy my father sent 

 me with a load of onions to Chicago, 

 which was twenty-five miles away. 

 He measured up about thirty bushels, 

 but I brought bacli pay for about six- 

 teen bushels. Father wanted an ex- 

 planation. They were sold by weight 

 and as it was spring they had shrunk 

 in the cellar about one-half. 



When I had a garden of my own one 

 year. I had a splendid crop, and re- 

 membering our experience I deter- 

 mined to keep them plump. I pulled 

 and dried them in due time, and late 

 in the fall dug a shallow pit where 

 the drainage would be good. I then 

 put in a layer of onions, next a layer 

 of earth till the pit was full and then 

 kept on a little above the surface of 

 the earth making something of a 

 mound. It does not hurt onions to 

 freeze, provided they are well cov- 

 ered with earth. I think the pit froze 

 to the bottom or nearly so. When 

 spring came and the frost was out I 

 took up the onions, and they were as 

 full and plump as when first dug. 



I have spoken of this process to 

 onion growers and they have used it 

 successfully. It does not take long 

 and there seems no other process for 

 keeping them from shrinking. They 



should not be left too long in the pit, 

 for they might grow. Preserved in 

 this way they bring the highest price 

 — often twice as much as if sold in the 

 fall — and then there is no loss from 

 shrinkage. C. S. HARRISON. 



Notes. 



New York, N. Y.— The MacNiff Hor- 

 ticultural Co., seedsmen and auction- 

 eers, expect to move to 56 Vesey street 

 about January 1. They will have a 

 whole building at the new location. 



All the principal- centres are cleaned 

 up on fall bulbs this year to an extent 

 heretofore rarely experienced. There 

 will be no surplus offers this season 

 for those who have been in the habit 

 of waiting for such. 



At the Corn Exhibition in Boston 

 the celebrated Swedish grain tor which 

 Loechner & Co. of New York are sole 

 American agents was exhibited by the 

 American Seed & Implement Co., of 

 Boston and created much interest. 



Large shipments of lily of the val- 

 ley pips reached New York last week. 

 It would appear that the Germans are 

 exercising prudence in view of the pos- 

 sible outbreak of a general European 

 war as in other years the bulk of such 

 shipments came in two or three weeks 

 later. 



A 

 MESSAGE 



OF INTEREST 



FROM 



BRASLAN 



Henceforth, the Braslan 

 Seed Growers Company, Inc., 

 will concentrate on the grow- 

 ing of its specialties. 



Henceforth, a full 90 per 

 cent, of our seeds will be pro- 

 duced under our own per- 

 sonal supervision on our own 

 leased lands. We have 

 learned that this is the only 

 plan by which the quality of 

 our seeds may be maintained 

 and improved upon. 



This New Policy goes into 

 force at once. The present 

 management of the Braslan 

 Company desires to conduct 

 a business capable of render- 

 ing efficient, satisfactory Ser- 

 vice. Lopping off the dead 

 wood that retards the growth 

 of the otherwise vigorous 

 plant, is the only business- 

 like method of securing this 

 result. 



Ihe Braslan Seed 



Growers 

 Company, Inc. 



SAN JOSE. 

 California, . U. S. A. 



We are now booking orders for 

 1913 delivery on the principal va- 

 rieties of ONION, LETTUCE, 

 CARROT, RADISH, MUSTARD, 

 SWEET PEAS, ETC. 



