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HOETICULTUEE 



January 31. 1914 



HENDERSON'S 



NEW CROP 



ASTER SEED 



HENDERSON'S INVINCIBLE ASTERS 

 A superior strain of Giant Peony 

 Flowered Asters — of great im- 

 portance for florists' cutting pur- 

 poses. 



LAVENDER. CRIMSON. BEUE, 



ROSE-PINK, WHITE, PURPLE. 



Trade pacliet of 1000 seeds, oOc; 



per oz.. $2.00. 



SEMPU'S UTE FLOWERING ASTERS 



liarge. double. long-stemmed 

 tlowers, splendid varieties for 

 florists. 



1^4 VENDER, C'RI.MSON. SHELL- 

 PINK. WHITE. PURPLE. 

 Trade packet of 1000 seeds, 25c.; 

 per oz,. $1.25. 



CRESO'S ASTERS 



A highly devehtped Comet type 



of florists' Asters. Our seed 



iM.iii.'S from the originator. 



WHITE, CRIMSON. ROSE-PINK, 



SHELL-PINK. LIGHT BLUE, 



VIOLET. 



Trade packet of 1000 seeds. 75e. ; 



per oz., $:iM. 



"QUEEH OF THE EARLIES " ASTERS 



(Queen of the Market), valuable 

 on account of tlieir extreme ear- 

 liness and for cutting; plants 

 12 inches high; medium-sized 

 double flowers on long stems. 

 WHITE. ROSE-PINK, INDIGO 



BLUE, SCARLET. 



Trade packet of 1000 seeds, 25c.; 



per oz,, 75c. 



ASTERMOMS . 



A new race of .\merican Comet 



Asters resembling .Japanese 



Chrysanthemums, 



SNOW WHITE. ROSE-PINK, 



LAVENDER. 



Trade packet of 1000 seeds. 75c.; 



per oz,, $4,00. 



PETER HENDERSON & CO., 35-37 Cortlandt St., NEW YORK 



During Recess 



Morris County Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Society. 



The Morris County (N. J.) Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Society assembled 

 around the festive board on Tuesday 

 evening, January 20, and enjoyed to 

 the limit the 18th annua! reunion of 

 this energetic organization. Charles 

 B. Weathered filled the position of 

 toastmaster with the ability grown 

 from long experience, and the speech- 

 es were replete with wit, wisdom and 

 Instruction. The tables were beauti- 

 fully decorated and there was plenty 

 of excellent music, instrumental and 

 vocal. After the opening words of 

 welcome by President Ernest 'Wild 

 the various toasts and those who re- 

 sponded were as follows: 



The Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society, by W. H. Duckham; 

 The Society of American Florists and 

 Ornamental Horticulturists, by Chas. 

 H. Totty; Gardening as a Profes- 

 sion, by Dr. Evans, Morris Plains; 

 The New York Florists' Club, by 

 Frank H. Traendly; The work of 

 the Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society, by C. Turner, 

 Morristown; Morris County, by E. J. 



Burke; The Horticultural Trade Press, 

 by J. Harrison Dick; The Ladies, by 

 J. Austin Shaw; The Provincial Press, 

 by F, G. Aulsbrook; The National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners, by M. C. Ebel. 

 The floial decorations were grand. 



. The third annual banquet and dance 

 of the employees of Bobbink & At- 

 kins, Rutherford, N. J., was held at 

 the Municipal Square School, Friday 

 evening, Jan. 24. The ballroom was 

 beautifully decorated with palms, bay 

 trees and flowering plants from the 

 firm's nurseries, and the table decora- 

 tions were potted azaleas and ferns. 

 Dancing followed the banquet until 

 a late hour. 



Among those present were Mr. and 

 Mrs. L. C. Bobbink, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. 

 Atkins, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Atkins, 

 and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bobbink. 



UNPACKING FROZEN SHIPMENTS. 



Shipments of soft wooded plants at 

 this season are occasionally received 

 ill a frozen condition; not entirely on 

 account of insufficient protection in 

 packing, but owing largely to unfore- 

 seen and severe weather changes. 



When the thermometer suddenly 

 drops below the zero point, as it did 

 recently, plant shipments are apt to 



suffer while waiting on station plat- 

 forms or during wagon delivery no 

 matter how carefully packed, and a lit- 

 tle judgment in unpacking will in 

 most instances bring the plants out of 

 a frozen condition with little or no in- 

 jury. 



The undersigned received during 

 the recent severe spell a shipment 

 which included geraniums of various 

 types, fuchsias, begonias and other 

 soft wooded subjects from pots; the 

 ball of earth on practically every plant 

 being frozen hard, the frost penetrat- 

 ing even to those in the center of the 

 boxes. Although the shipment looked 

 rather hopeless, the boxes were placed 

 immediately in a cool shed with a tem- 

 perature just above the freezing point 

 and allowed to remain 48 hours, thaw- 

 ing out gradually. The plants were 

 then unpacked, placed in a siightly 

 higher temperature, kept well shaded, 

 and were soon in condition to be 

 potted. 



The loss on the entire shipment did 

 not exceed 5 per cent, the begonias 

 suffered no more injury than the 

 geraniums and the plants are now 

 well established and in a growing con- 

 dition. A. N. PlERSON. lye. 



One hundred rats a month is a rec- 

 ord for a trap in one establishment, 

 but that is the number caught in a liv- 

 ery stable in Seranton, Pa., in one of 

 the traps invented by H. D.,Swarts of 

 that city. See ad on page 172 this 

 issue. 



