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HORTICULTURE 



Har e, 1914 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCUTION 



Officers — Pre»ldent. Chae. C. Masiile, 

 Mliuiettpolls, Minn.; Int vice-president, 

 t. M. Lapton, Mattituck, N. T.: «nd 

 »»«• - pr«.ldent, W. F. Therklldson, 

 PalmeaTUIe, O.: •ecretary, C. Bl. Ken- 

 Ail; asiUtant secretary, 8. F. WlUard, 

 Jr. both of ClcTeland, O. 



Federal Quarantine Against Maine 

 Potatoes. 

 Washington, D. C— A quarantine 

 against Maine potatoes, effective Au- 

 gust 1, 1914, lias been declared by the 

 U. S. Department o£ Agriculture on ac- 

 count of the prevalence of powdery 

 scab in that State, particularly in 

 Aroostook county. After August 1, no 

 common or Irish potatoes can be 

 moved out of Maine except under reg- 

 ulations which the Department of Ag- 

 riculture will publish shortly. Pow- 

 dery scab has been prevalent for some 

 time among Maine potatoes, but 

 hitherto the State authorities have 

 been responsible for preventing the 

 spread of the disease. With the en- 

 forcement of the new quarantine, the 

 Federal Government will take charge 

 of the work. There will be, it is said, 

 no radical change in the existing re- 

 strictions. 



Chicago Seed Notes. 



Arnold Ringier, manager for W. W. 

 Barnard, regards the retail season as 

 just at its height this week. The 

 wholesale trade is still of much impor- 

 tance, though drawing near the close 

 of a season, which he considers to be 

 two weeks late. For this reason the 

 sale of field seeds is not up to the 

 average, especially field grass seeds. 

 Sales of lawn grass seed, on the con- 

 trary are very brisk. 



This store has just taken on four 

 extra salesmen in the retail section. 



Onion sets are cleaning up, very few 

 being left on this market. 



Recent seed trade visitors In Cleve- 

 land, O., were Tom Hill of Peninsula 

 Seed Co., Port Huron, Mich., and Wm. 

 Emerson of Western Seed and Irriga- 

 tion Co., Fremont, Neb. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Colprit's Arlington Nurseries, Arling- 

 ton, Mass. — Price List of Roses, Rho- 

 dodendrons, Hardy Border Plants, etc. 



Marygold Farm, Onondaga Valley, 

 N. Y. — "Some Plants' for the Hardy 

 Garden." A pocket pamphlet by Mrs. 

 W. L. Lyman. 



V, Lemoine & Fils, Nancy, France — • 

 Catalogue and Price List for Spring, 

 1914. A very complete list of the spec- 

 ialties and novelties offered by this 

 well-known firm. 



Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, 

 Conn. — General Nursery Catalogue for 

 1914. A fine list of the good things 

 in deciduous and evergreen material 

 for ornamental planting. 



J. K. Alexander, East Bridgewater, 

 Mass. — Dahlia catalogue and Cultural 

 Guide for 1914. A carefully arranged 

 and tabulated catalogue, fully up-to- 



date in new varieties. Contains use- 

 ful cultural information. 



H. E. Meader, Dover, N. H. — "Do 

 You Love Flowers? Look Within," Is 

 the motto under which H. E. Meader 

 sends out his gladiolus list for spring 

 1914. It is a very tasty little cata- 

 logue and guide book for the gladiolus 

 lover. 



Jacs Smits & Co., Naarden, Hol- 

 land — Wholesale Nursery Catalogue 

 for season of 1914-1915. This is the 

 "American Edition." A very useful 

 publication and with tabular index of 

 unique and handy form. A colored 

 plate of Spiraea (Astilbe) Naarden is 

 inserted, a beautiful reproduction of 

 a beautiful plant. 



Little Tree Farms, South Framing- 

 ham, Mass. — Price List for Spring, 

 1914. This is the annual spring cata- 

 logue of the American Forestry Com- 

 pany, Boston. White Pine for forest 

 planting is a big specialty with this 

 company and anyone interested should 

 send for this catalogue which quotes 

 these and other coniferous trees in 

 any quantity. 



Chester Jay Hunt, Montclair, N. J. — 

 The Blue Book of Bulbs, 1914. This 

 is a very "swell" little annual publica- 

 tion, 100 pages of carefully elaborated 

 descriptive notes of spring flowering 

 bulbs, much attention being given to 

 true color definitions. The lists of 

 1914 introductions in Cottage, Darwin 

 and Breeder tulips and in narcissi are 

 of especial interest and value. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE NOTES. 



Professor A. H. Nehrling, head of the 

 department of floriculture at the Mass- 

 achusetts Agricultural College, has in- 

 augurated there one of his many new 

 ideas, which he has brought with him 

 from the breezy west; namely a week- 

 ly informal round table discussion by 

 the seniors in floriculture. Different 

 points which cannot be brought out 

 in the classroom are discussed, such 

 as a review of the trade papers, and 

 other phases of floriculture. In ad- 

 dition, each senior selects a particular 

 phase of floriculture in which he is 

 most interested, and after several 

 months of original investigation, he 

 discusses it at the seminar, and finally 

 writes a thesis. The subjects are — 

 The Nomenclature and Classification 

 of Roses, by S. L Freedman; Herbace- 

 ous Perennials, by A. S. Thurston; The 

 non-commercial Phases of Floriculture, 

 by Miss A. J. Strange; The Commer- 

 cial Side of Floriculture, by G. A. 

 Reid; The Retail Side of Floriculture, 

 by H. W. Levine. A few perhaps of 

 the best at some future time, will be 

 published in the trade papers. 



Professor James S. Pray, chairman 

 of the school of landscape architecture. 

 Harvard University, will address the 

 landscape students in the near future, 

 on some phase of civic design. 



Wm. H. Hatfield, 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1,093,786. Weed Destroyer. William L. 

 Korthauer, Verdi township, Lincoln 

 county, Minn. 



1,093,937. Skylight and Greenhouse 

 Bar. Daniel Kraft, Oyster Bay, N. Y. 



GLADIOLUS PRINCEPS 



The King of Scarlet Gladiolus, 

 brilliant colored, gigantic flow- 

 ers, heavy erect spikes, this is 

 the last word in perfect scarlet 

 gladiolus, strictly first size bulbs. 



Special Price to IVIove 

 Quick 



53.50 per 100; per lOOO, $30.00. 



Our wholesale price list for 

 1914 is a book you need — send 

 for it today. 



MiCHELL'S Seed House 



oept. 0. 518 Market St., Phila., Pa. 



SEEDS FOR FLORISTS 



SPECIAL STRAINS 



OCR A8TGR8. CYCLAMEN AND PKI- 

 MUL,A8 ARE UNEQUAI^LED. 



Trade List Ready. 



THOMAS J. GREY CO. 



32 Sooth MaikctSt., BoMoa, Hms. 



J, I. EtealsH. Mtr. IL W. IUIms. Sk't 



California Seed Growers 

 Association, Inc. 



(Srowers For Wholesale i > « »i «r» 



gAJI J08K OAUV^mVIA 



NEW CROP SEEDS 



FOR FI.ORISTS . 

 Ask for 1914 CataloKoe* 



Joseph Breck & Sons Corp. 



Seedsmen 



47.^4 No. Market St.. BOSTON, yiAflS. 



Whan writing lo odveiliitt* t mdty 

 mm ntfonUORTICULTVRE. 



New Price List of^My 



Winter Flowering Spencer Sweet Peas 



WIEL SOON BE OITT 



I( you are interested in this line, send your name 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK 

 Lotnpoc^ CaL 



CHILDS' GLADIOLI 



Send for List 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS 



FLOWERFIELD, L. I., N. Y, 



New York, April 2», 1914. 

 horticulture Publishing Co., 



Gentlemen — All sold out of Cold 

 Storage Valley therefore please cut out 

 our ad. until we have a chance to get 

 up a new one. 



Yours truly, 



Corp. of Chas. F. Meyer. 



