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HORTICULTURE 



May 30, 1914 



SEED TRADE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 

 ©«««•«— President, Ch«». C. M»8b1«, 

 lIlBmeapolis, Minn.; Irt Tlce-preeldent, 

 t. H. Lnpton, HstUtnck, N. Y.; 2nd 

 Ttee - pTMldent, W. F. Therklldson, 

 PaiaecTllle, O.; •ecret»ry. C. E. Ken- 

 «il; MtUtknt leoreteiT. S. F. WUlwd, 

 Jr.. both of Olerelaad, O. 



American Seed Trade Association. 



Notice is hereby given of the 32nd 

 Annual Convention, which is to be held 

 at Washington, D. C, June 23, 24, 25, 

 1914, with headquarters at The Ra- 

 leigh, corner ot Twelfth and Pennsyl- 

 vania Avenue. 



Special rates on the European plan 

 have been granted as follows: 



Single rooms, without bath $2.00, with 



bath $3.U0 per day and ,upw.ird. 

 Double rooms, without bath $3.00, witn 

 bath $4.00 per day and upward. 

 The National Capital of itself, should 

 attract a large attendance, but there 

 are two subjects on the program that 

 should especially appeal to all mem- 

 bers who are concerned about the 

 future of the Seed Trade, that of our 

 counsel on "The Use of the Disclaimer" 

 and of Mr. Bruggerhof on "The Cental 

 System." These two subjects are 

 apropos because of the noticeable trend 

 of legislation along these lines and it 

 Is therefore hoped that there will he 

 a full attendance to fully discuss these 

 matters. Program is as follows; 



Opening Sessions, June 23, 10 o'clock 



A. M. 



Selling Seeds at Wholesale— Sales- 

 men— Catalogues— Surplus Lists and 

 •Circulars. Watson S. Woodruff, Orange, 



Conn. „ 



Printer's Ink Advertising — Farm 

 Journals— General Advertising. A. E. 

 McKenzie, Brandon, Man. 



Trial Grounds and Their Advantages 

 to Seedsmen. Dr. W. W. Tracy, Wash- 

 ington, D. 0. 



The Cental System of Selling Seeds 

 and Its Advantages. F. W. Bruggerhof. 

 New York. 



The Proper Use of the Disclaimer. 

 Curtis Nye Smith, Boston, Mass. 



Overhead Costs System. Max Fischer, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Social Features — Tuesday Evening, 

 Annual Banquet. Plans are being made 

 for a trip to Mount Vernon, Arlington 

 and the City of Washington and also 

 for a Reception to the Ladies. 



C. E. Kendel, Secy. 



portunity in the country. Every ap- 

 plicant's past record is carefully 

 searched and only those who are found 

 to be honest, reliable, sober, capable 

 men of good character are given con- 

 sideration. With the employer it has 

 been found to be a mighty great help, 

 as by simply applying to this Depart- 

 ment, they are furnished with help 

 that can be relied upon and are, there- 

 by, relieved of the trouble, worry and 

 annoyance occasioned in order to get 

 help of this character. 



GOVERNIVIENT ACQUIRES PISGAH 

 FOREST. 



The beautiful mountain estate of 

 the late George W. Vanderbilt crown- 

 ing the Alleghany mountains in west- 

 ern North Carolina, 86,700 acres in 

 extent, will soon become a part of the 

 national forest reserve. The national 

 forest reservation commission approved 

 at Washington Thursday the purchase 

 of the vast Pisgah forest tract at an 

 average price of $5 an acre, which 

 brings the total cost to $433,500, a 

 considerable discount from the figure 

 at which Mr. Vanderbilt was willing 

 to dispose of the property, even with 

 the federal government for his pur- 

 chaser. The tract includes portion., 

 of Transylvania, Henderson, Bun- 

 combe and Hayward counties in North 

 Carolina. It covers the entire eastern 

 slope and considerable portions of the 

 northern and western slopes of the 

 Pisgah range, one of the most pictur- 

 esque of the southern Appalachian 

 mountain chain. 



In accordance with Mrs. Vander- 

 bilt's expressed wish the commission 

 will retain the name of Pisgah forest. 

 It also purposes to make ot it a game 

 refuge for the preservation of the 

 fauna of the eastern mountains. It is 

 particularly well suited to this pur- 

 pose, as it is already well stocked 

 with game and fish, including deer, 

 wild turkey and pheasants, and in the 

 streams are rainbow and brook trout. 

 The members of the commission re- 

 gard the acquisition of the Pisgah 

 tract as the best purchase yet author- 

 ized because the forest is in the finest 

 possible condition. With this pur- 

 chase and with others approved 

 Thursday the sum total of acreage of 

 the new Appalachian forest reserve is 

 now approximately 1,077.000 acres. 



J. Bolglano & Son of Baltimore, have 

 established in connection with their 

 seed business a Free Employment De- 

 partment under the management of 

 Claude B. Ramsay. Several hundred 

 people have already found profitable 

 and healthful employment through 

 this department with no cost either to 

 the employer or the employe. Mr. 

 Ramsay stated he finds among the ap- 

 plicants mostly men who have .been 

 born and reared on the farm; but, 

 from tales of the wealth that could so 

 easily be acquired in the big cities, 

 they had been lured from a good live- 

 lihood in the country to the city in 

 search of some of the so easily gotten 

 wealth. With the majority, it takes 

 but a very limited time for them to 

 find out their mistakes and they are 

 more than glad to have another op- 



OBITUARY. 

 Prof. Bert C. Georgia. 

 Prof. Bert C. Georgia, who, since 

 February, 1913, has been at the head 

 of the market gardening department 

 of Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 Amherst, died suddenly on Sunday, 

 May 24, at Orient Springs, where he 

 had gone with a week-end party. His 

 body was removed to Ithaca, N. Y., on 

 Monday. Through his genial manner 

 and pleasing personality. Prof. Bert 

 had won many friends among the stu- 

 dents in the brief period he had been 

 connected with the college. 



A correspondent of The Garden, 

 London, suggests the planting of chi- 

 onodoxa bulbs in June or July instead 

 of in late fall as is the usual custom. 

 He states that if planted in summer 

 and at a good depth they will produce 

 flowers equal to those that have been 

 planted a number of years. 



Michell's 

 Primroses 



Primula Chinensis 



ITrd. Trd. 



Pkt. Pkt 



Prize Mixture, even blend- 

 ing, all colors $.60 $1.00 



Alba Magnlflca. White 80 1.00 



Chlswlclj Ked. Red 60 1.00 



Duchess, White, rosy ear- 

 mine; yellow eye 60 1.00 



Holborn Blue 60 1.00 



Kermesina Splendens. 



Crimson 60 1.00 



Rosy Morn. Pinlt 60 1.00 



Primula Obconica Gigantea 



Lllacina. Pale lilac .50 



Rosea. Pink .50 



Kermesina. Deep crimson .50 



Alba. White .50 



Hybrida Mixed .50 



Michell's Cinerarias 



Dwarf Gfandiflora Prlie. 



Mixed colors M 1.00 



Medium Tall Grandiflora 



Prize. Mixed colors.. .80 LOO 



.Tames' Giant Strain. Mix- 

 ed colors 60 1.00 



ASPARAGUS 



PHIMOSIS NANUS SEED. 

 Greenhouse Grown. 



100 $0.50 5,000 $15.00 



1,000 3.25 10,000 29.00 



I.athhou8e Grown. 



100 $0.35 5,000 $12.00 



1.000 2.50 10,000 23.00 



ASPARAGUS HATCHERI SEEDS. 



100 $1.00 500 $3.25 



250 2.00 1,000 6.00 



Get WhoUsale List. 



MICHELL'S f,E^s^ 



518 Market Street, 



Dept. Q. 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



SWEET PEA TRAINER OR SUP- 

 PORT. 



I found last year the best support 

 for sweet peas, running up to 8 feet or 

 10 feet, is to run chair cane, the un- 

 polished or second-class kind, between 

 posts on each end ot the rank at inter- 

 vals of 6 inches in height to the top, 

 which may be a bar of wood not too 

 heavy, and to tie upright strands to 

 these horizontal ones at the same in- 

 tervals from the top to the bottom. 

 This cane Is cheap — about sixpence a 

 quarter of a pound — is warmer than 

 wire, and does not sag like string. It 

 lasts for years. If soaked in water for 

 ten minutes it's as easily tied as string, 

 and stiffens when dry. The size of the 

 cane I have used is No. 3 and No. 4. 

 The strands run about 15 feet or 16 

 feet long. — E. Righton in The Gurden. 



AMHERST NOTES. 



The seventh session of the summer 

 school of agriculture and country life 

 at the Agricultural College at Amherst, 

 Mass., will open June 29. Four hours 

 of class work is arranged for each 

 forenoon. Laboratory work, educa- 

 tional trips and excursions, and class 

 conferences will occupy the after- 

 noons. The evenings will be devoted 

 to lectures upon vital subjects by men 

 of national repute and to social gather- 

 ings. John R. Boardman. ot New York 

 City, Dr. G. Walter Fiske, of Oberlln, 

 C, and William C. Landon, of New 

 York City, are included in the faculty. 

 The summer school bulletin may be 

 procured from William D. Hurd. Am- 

 herst. 



