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H ORTI CULTl) RE 



July 8, 1911 



Seed Trade 



Chicago, III.— By taking in No. 226 

 West Kinzie street, the Leonard Seed 

 Co. has added about 15,000 square feet. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — The Moore Seed 

 Co. is moving into its large store at 

 125 Market street. 



San Francisco, Cal. — The Trumbull 

 Seed Co. has opened a store at 259 

 Market street. 



Richmond Hill, N. Y. — A retail flor- 

 ist branch has been added to the seed 

 business of Carter & Son. 



Baltimore, Md. — The Frederick 

 Weiseman Seed Co. and Robinson 

 Bros, are two new seed houses to be 

 established here. 



New Ulm, Minn. — F. W. Kosek is 

 now manager for the Minnesota Seed 

 Co. He was formerly with the Farm- 

 ers' Seed and Nursery Co., Fairbault, 

 Minn. 



Memphis, Tenn. — The United States 

 Seed Co. has established a branch 

 office at Front street and Gayoso ave- 

 nue. Charles Jackson of Fredonia has 

 been appointed manager. 



Langdon, No. Dak. — Specifications 

 are out for a new seed building to be 

 erected here. It will be much the 

 same as the seed building at the 

 agricultural college. 



Jackson, Mich. — The American 

 Seeding Co. lost several carloads of 

 farm machinery on June 27 by a fire 

 which totally destroyed the big build- 

 ing of the Storage and Transfer Co., 

 where it was stored. 



Chicago, III.— The W. W. Barnard 

 Co. have leased the stores at 231-233- 

 235 W. Madison street, Chicago, and 

 will move from their present quarters 

 on Fifth avenue, January 1st, 1912. 

 This will give them a much larger 

 place and a better oportunity for hand- 

 ling their increasing retail business. 



Howard M. Earl, manager for W. 

 Atlee Burpee & Co., arrived home from 

 his crop inspection tour of the 22nd 

 ulto. The journey extended as far as 

 the Pacific coast, and was a strenuous 

 eighteen-day flying trip. We hope to 

 get a line on how crops are looking, 

 and what the prospects are — when he 

 gets his breath. This will be of much 

 interest to the seed trade — coming 

 from a keen observer and one repre- 

 senting big things in seed growing 

 and distribution. 



Little Ads Bring 

 Big Returns 



Little ads in our Classified Columns 

 bring big returns to both advertiser 

 and purchaser. 



Anything that can be sold to florists, 

 gardeners, park and cemetery superin- 

 tendents, etc., can be sold through this 

 medium in this department, and at 

 very small cost. 



Don't fail to read them each issue, for 

 you will find one or more that will 

 prove profitable to you. 



I They Cost Only One 

 Cent a Word Undlsplayad 



RHODODENDRONS AT REGENT'S 

 PARK. 



What is claimed to be the largest 

 flower show made by' any one firm in 

 the world was held during the month 

 of June in a shady dell covered with 

 a huge ridge and furrow tent in the 

 garden of the Royal Botanical Socie- 

 ty. Regent's Park, London, by the well 

 known firm of John Waterer & Sons 

 of Bagshot, Surrey, specialists in 

 American plants. This imposing an- 

 nual display has been made by that 

 firm in the same place for many years 

 past. 



It is an ideal spot, chosen with a 

 view to the picturesque, and our best 

 compliments must be offered to the 

 firm on the marvellous artistic taste 

 displayed, somewhat a rarity amongst 

 English horticultural exhibitors. The 

 area covered is something like half 

 an acre. 



We are about to proceed to make 

 our notes and wander round the show 

 on our own sweet way when a cour- 

 teous attendant offers to place himself 

 at our disposal. The mere mention 

 that we are taking notes for HORTI- 

 CULTURE of Boston, U. S. A., is suf- 

 ficient to arouse his interest and to 

 point out all that is newest and best 

 in the vast agglomeration of beauty 

 and color effect. We learn from him 

 that there are approximately 3000 

 plants in the show, and that these 

 comprise about 120 varieties. There 

 would seem to be an increasing section 

 of the flower-loving fraternity devoting 

 their attention to the plant and small 

 amateurs in and around our great 

 cities are using the rhododendron 

 much more freely than formerly, leav- 

 ing aside aucubas, privets and other 

 evergreen shrubs once so much the 

 fashion. 



It would be practically impossible to 

 note all the many varieties that form 

 the bulk of this important display, but 

 passing along the outer border we no- 

 tice at intervals some very attractive 

 plants of Mrs. Tritton, crimson, light 

 centre. Gloriosum, blush white, Sap- 

 pho, white heavily spotted, Baroness 

 H. Schroder, white spotted, Mrs. Hol- 

 ford salmon crimson, Mrs. John 

 Waterer, rosy crimson, Album Grandi- 

 florum, white, Everestianum, rose lilac. 

 Concessum light centre margined rose. 

 Pink Pearl, seen in several fine ex- 

 amples is most attractive. Corner 

 Waterer white, slightly blushed, Pro- 

 metheus, crimson, Stella, pale lilac, 

 spotted, John Henry Agnew pale blush. 

 chocolate spots, Frederick Waterer 

 fiery crimson, Michael Waterer scarlet 

 crimson and Princess Hortense, lilac 

 rose are all noted as fine samples that 

 will maintain the best traditions of the 

 firm. We pass rapidly in review in 

 the various beds and groupings others 

 that can only be just briefly mentioned 

 and of which a special note was taken, 

 viz.: Charlie Waterer, Strategist, Mrs. 

 John Penn, Mme. Carvalho, Minnie, 

 Lady Eleanor Cathcart, B. de Bruin, 

 Mrs. John Clutton. J. Marshall Brooks, 

 Mrs. Holford, Lady Clementine Walsh, 

 Helen Waterer, Mrs. Bvitton, Countess 

 of Tankerville and numerous others. 



We can only briefly add a few notes 

 concerning the remainder. A pretty 

 bed further on contains a number of 

 plants of Kalmia latifolia; another bed 

 close by is composed of Viburnum pli- 

 catum, Japanese maples and azaleas. 



Then we pass on to several more large 

 and well filled beds of rhododendrons. 

 Altogether the show is an eminently 

 successful one and does great honor 

 to the firm that has organized it es- 

 pecially considering that only a few 

 days previously they made a fine dis- 

 play at the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Hall of a similar character. In 

 fact they filled the hall from May 30 

 to June 2nd with a similar kind of 

 show entirely on their own account. 



SOME INDUSTRIOUS BOYS. 



There is an innovation in the Syra- 

 cuse Park Department that might be 

 followed with advantage by other 

 cities. Two years ago some of the 

 manly and independent high school 

 boys asked the Superintendent of 

 Parks, David Campbell, for work on 

 the parks. After some consideration 

 he consented to give some a trial, and 

 gave them to understand there were 

 no soft snaps, that they would have 

 only rough hard work to do. He was 

 agreeably surprised to find they made 

 good. This year over eighty are em- 

 ployed, shoveling soil, digging, hoeing, 

 raking and the like. One can see doc- 

 tors', lawyers' and other professional 

 men's sons with overalls and jumpers 

 on working like good fellows — they do 

 men's work and get men's pay. This 

 roughing it will do them a vast amount 

 of lasting good. 



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