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HORTICULTURE 



December 21, 1912 



NEWS NOTES. 



Westport, N. H.— H. H. Bolles is 

 building an office and workroom at his 

 Hyponeco greenhouses. 



Baltimore, Md.— The greenhouse 

 business of Charles Erdmau has been 

 taken over by Erdman & Ulrich, Belair 

 road. 



Joplin, Mo. — Treganza Bros, have 

 purchased the stock and business of 

 the late D. A. Graham and will con- 

 tinue it under their own name. 



Warsaw, Ind- — The greenhouses of 

 the Argos Floral Co., ot Argos, has 

 been purchased by W. W. Dedrick, 

 who will move it to his range here. 



Reading, Pa. — Paul Blachman. Jr., 

 will continue the florist business for- 

 merly conducted by the late Mrs. Clara 

 L. Blachman. 116 North Ninth street. 



Houston, Texas — The city has pur- 

 chased the florist establishment of M. 

 V. Wright, Washington street, with 

 the intention of using the location 

 for a park. 



Flushing, N. Y. — M. F. Loughman 

 has sold the Thorne Greenhouses on 

 Golden avenue to Mulligan & Muller. 

 The business will be continued by the 

 new owners. 



St. Louis, Mo.. — The florist business 

 of Edward L. Loyet, 918 Kings High- 

 way, St. Louis, Mo., has been pur- 

 puchased by Julius Schaeffer, who will 

 continue the business. 



Lewiston, Me. — Ernest Saunders, 

 florist, 578 Main street, has purchased 

 the store at 50 Lisbon street. It is 

 stated that he does not intend to oc- 

 cupy it at present. He has leased a 

 store at Ash and Lisbon streets and 

 will move his down-town business 

 there. 



Lawrence, Mass. — Stories having 

 been circulated that Thornton Broth- 

 ers intend retiring from the retail 

 flower business the first of the coming 

 year and that their present store is to 

 be closed have been branded by 

 Messrs. Thornton as malicious false- 

 hoods. They assure the public that 

 they have no intention of retiring, 

 either from the flower or seed busi- 

 ness. 



PERSONAL. 



Richard Fowler, formerly with W. 

 K. Harris, Philadelphia. Pa., is now 

 grower for the Port Alleghany green- 

 houses. Port Alleghany, Pa. 



John Van Gemert, formerly with R. 

 & J. Farquhar & Co., ot Boston, is now 

 employed as foreman at the nursery of 

 J. Woodward Manning, East Wilming- 

 ton, Mass. 



Detroit visitors — Charles Frueh, Sag- 

 inaw, Mich.; Mr. McGee, Toledo. 



Boston visitors. — A. E. Thatcher, Bar 

 Harbor, Me.; Peter Zuger, So. Man- 

 chester, Conn.: R. J. Irwin, Phila.. Pa.; 

 Wm. Hall and Wm. Cotter, Montreal, 

 P. Q. ; Jos. Puller, Leominster, Mass. 



Cincinnati visitors — Miss Fannie 

 White, Lexington. Ky.; Chas. P. Kel- 

 ler, Lexington, Ky.; Chas. Dietrich. 

 Maysville, Ky.; Geo. Gause, Richmond, 

 Ind.; S. Seligman, New York; K. H. 

 Zervat, Lisse, Holland. 



New Crop Florist's Flower Seeds 



Tr. 

 VERBENA. Pkt. Oz. 



Mammoth Fancy Blue 30 $1.25 



Pink 30 1.25 



Scarlet 30 1.25 



Striped 30 1.20 



White 30 1.25 



Mixed 30 1.00 



SAL.VI.V. 



Michell's Scarlet Glow 50 4.00 



Bonfire 40 2.00 



Zurich 50 4.00 



Splendens 25 1.25 



KiUK of Carpets 50 3.00 



BEGONIA. 



Vernon 25 2.50 



Gracilis Luminosa 40 



" Prima Donna 50 



" Kosea 30 



.41ba . . . . ^. 30 



CENT.WKEA. 



Gymnocarpa 1000 seeds, 15c. .40 



C'andidis8ima 1000 seeds, 30c. .75 



COBAE.V SCANDENS. 



Purple 10 .40 



White ^. 20 .75 



LOBELIA. 



Cr.vstal Palace Compacta 30 1.25 



Send for our Flower Seed Order Sheet. 

 Seeds from this 



Barnard's Perpetual $.25 $1.00 



Crystal Palace Speciosa 15 .50 



V-1r. Tr. 

 PETUNI.\. Pkt. Pkt. 



Michell's Monstrosns $.00 $1.00 



California Giants 30 .50 



Grandillora Fringed 30 .50 



Dwarf Inimitable.^ 30 .50 



Snowball .30 • 



Tr. 

 PHLOX DRIIMMONDII. Pkt. Oz. 



Dwarf Crimson with Eye $.40 $1.75 



Fireball 40 1.75 



Pink ,..^ 40 1.75 



SnowbaU 40 1.75 



Mi.xed 40 1.25 



PYKBTHBUM. 



Aureum 10 .25 



THUNBERGIA. 



White with Dark Eye 15 .60 



Buff with Dark Eye. 15 .60 



Orange with Dark Eye 15 .60 



Mixed 15 .50 



ASP-4.BAGIJS. 



Plumosus Nanus (Greenhouse Grown) 



100 seeds, 50c.; $3.75 per 1000 seeds; 



5000 seeds, $18.00; $34.00 per 10,000 



seeds. 



It's very handy to order your Flower 



order sheet. 



HENRY F. MICHELL 



518 Market Street 



COMPANY 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



W. J. PALMER WINS. 



In the proceedings started by Wil- 

 liam J. Palmer, Buffalo, N. Y., to com- 

 pel the state to make an appraisal of 

 plants destroyed by state inspector be- 

 cause they were affected, as alleged, by 

 gipsy and brown-tailed moths. Justice 

 Marcus directed the jury to find in fa- 

 vor of Mr. Palmer. The state plans to 

 appeal from the order. Rebadow & 

 Ladd represented Mr. Palmer and Hen- 

 ry W. Killeen, the state. 



Inspectors of the state found a con- 

 signment of azaleas at Mr. Palmer's 

 Lancaster greenhouses infested with 

 the moths and destroyed the whole. 

 The statute under which they were de- 

 stroyed makes it necessary for the 

 owner to start proceedings of this char- 

 acter if he wislies to establish his claim 

 that the plants were wrongfully de- 

 stroyed. 



BOOMING THE SHOW. 



W. C. Rickards, Jr., now traveling 

 for Charles H. Totty, is in Lenox, 

 Mass., headed east, and reports all the 

 private gardeners enthusiastic and 

 making great preparations for the 

 coming International Flower Show at 

 New York. 



A NOVELTY WITHDRAWN TILL 

 NEXT YEAR. 



H. P. Miohell Co., Philadelphia, are 

 sending out the following letter: 



The sale of plants of our new geranium. 

 '"Helen Michell/' of which we announced 

 the dissemination for January, 1913, has 

 eclipsed our expectations to such a degree 

 that the orders now booked exceed by a 

 very great number the plants available, 

 even if our dissemination extended until 

 tjuite late in the Spring of 1913. 



In order to do justice to all, and to the 

 geranium itself, we have decided to with- 

 hold the dissemination until January, 

 1914, and we have therefore booked your 

 order for delivery at that date. In this 

 manner, all orders booked up to time of 

 shipping date will be tilled promptly. You 

 will receive this geranium as early as any 

 other grower in the country and no one 

 will, by this deferrment, be placed at a 

 disadvantage. 



Our prize offer announced in connection 

 with the National Flower Show at New 

 York has been withdrawn, but will be re- 

 newed for an exhibit in 1914, date and 

 place to I)e announced in ample time to 

 allow preparations for competition, when 

 all who desire can participate. 

 Yours very truly, 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



Many of the familiar Christmas deco- 

 rations which have been used for gen- 

 erations will disappear this year, as 

 the result of a decision of the New 

 York Boad of Underwriters. A letter 

 has been sent this week to every holder 

 of a fire insurance policy in this city, 

 which reads: 



"Your attention is called to the fact 

 that the introduction about premises 

 of Christmas greens and other inflam- 

 mable materials, such as cotton to rep- 

 resent snow, constitute an, additional 

 fire hazard and will not be permitted." 



APPRECIATED. 

 HORTICULTURE: 



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 C. C. W., New Jersey. 



Roses, Carnafion Plants, 

 Seeds, Bulbs 



Send us your want.s. We will take care of 

 them. We supply stock at market price. 



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1215 Betz BIdg. Philadelphia. 



