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HORT1CULTURL 



July 22, 1911 



List of Advertisers 



Page 



Advance Co 122 



Aphine Mfg. Co. 121 

 Aschmann, G.... 95 

 Am. Woodenware 



Mfg. Co 122 



Badgley, Reidel 



& Meyer 114 



Barnard, W. W. 



Co 109 



Barrows & Son . . 94 

 Bayersdorfer, H. 



& Co Ill 



Bay State Nur- 

 series 107 



Bobbink & At- 

 kins 107 



Boddington, A. 



T 106 



Bolgiano, J. & 



Son 109 



B o s t on Florist 



Letter Co 112 



Boston Plate & 



Window Glass 



Co 123 



Braslan Seed Co.l(J9 

 Breck. J. & Son.109 

 Breitmeyer, J. 



Sons 110 



Brldgeman's Seed 



Warehouse ...109 

 Budlong, J. A.. .112 

 Burpee, W. A. & 



Co 109 



Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co 95 



Child s, John 



Lewis 109 



C 1 a r k e " s, D. 



Sons 110 



Coldwell L a w u 



Mower Co 108 



Cowee, W. J 114 



Craig, Robt. Co. 94 

 ■Craw-buck, G. W.114 



Dards 110 



Dorner & Sons 



Co 95 



Dreer, H. A. 122-123 



Dysart, R. J 114 



Dunlop, John H.110 

 Eastern Chemical 



Co 121 



Edwards Folding 



Box Co 112 



Elliott's W. Sons.106 



Esler. J. (i 123 



Ernest. W. H...122 



Eyres 110 



Farquhar, B. & 



J. & Co 96-109 



Foley Mfg. Co. .123 



Ford, M. C 114 



Ford. W. P 114 



Fottler, F i s k e, 



Rawson Co. . . .109 

 Froment. H. E..114 

 Galvin, Thos. F.lll 

 G r e a t er N. Y. 



Florists' Asso.114 

 Grey. T. J. Co.. 109 

 Gude Bros. Co.. 110 



Hail Asso 123 



Hammond's Paint 



& Slug Shot 



Works 121 



Hart. Geo. B. . . .112 



Hatcher m 



Heacock. Jos 94 



Herbert, D. & 



Son 94 



Hews. A. H. & 



Co 122 



Hillfinger Bros. .122 

 Holland Nurser- 

 ies 107 



Home Corres. 



School i"o 



Holm & Olson.. 110 

 Horan, E. C... 114 



Hunt, E. H 121 



Jacobs, S. & 



Sons 123 



Jansky, J 112 



Easting, W. P 



Co us 



Kervan Co 114 



King Tons. Co. .123 

 Kroesehell Bros. 122 

 Kuebler, W. H. .115 

 Lager & Hurrell. 94 

 Langjahr, A. H.114 

 Leonard Seed Co.109 

 Leuthy. A. & Co. 95 

 Loechner & Co. .107 



Long, W. H 110 



Lutton. Wm. H.124 

 MncMulkln, E...110 

 Matthews 110 



Page 

 McCarthy, N. F. 



Co 115 



McConnell, Alex.llO 

 MeCullough's, J. 



M. Sons Co... 112 

 McHutchison & 



Co 94 



McManus, Jas..,114 

 Michell, H. F. 



Co 109 



Mi c h i g an Cut 



Flower Ex.... 115 

 Millang, Chas...ll4 



Millaug, F 114 



Miller, E. S 94 



Moltz. A. & Co. 114 

 Moninger, J. C..123 

 Moore Hentz & 



Nash 114 



Murray. Samuel. 110 

 X. K. Nurseries. 107 

 Niessen, Leo Co. 112 

 Oechslin, Frank. 94 

 Ordonez Bros. ... 94 

 Ouwerkerk, P...107 

 Palethrope, P. R. 



Co 121 



Palmer, W. J. & 



Sou 110 



Park Floral Co. .110 

 Parshelsky Bros. 123 

 Pennock-M e ehan 



Co 113 



Perkins St. Nur- 

 series 95 



Peters & Reed 



Co 122 



Pierce. F. O. Co. 123 

 Pierson, A. N. . . 95 

 Pierson, F. R. 



Co 105 



Pierson U - B a r 



Co 124 



Plant Food Co., 



20th Century.. 121 

 Pooblmann Bros. 112 



Pratt, B. G 121 



Rayner, I. M 95 



Reed & Keller. .114 

 Reinberg, Peter. 112 

 Rii e, M. & Co. . 94 

 Rickards Bros... 109 



Riker Co 108 



Robinson & Co. .112 

 Rock, Wm. L...110 

 Uoeui's, Julius 



Co 94 



Roland. Thos.. . 94 

 R 1 k e r, A. & 



Sons 122 



Sander & Sou ... 94 

 Schulz, Jacob. ...110 



Scott, John 94 



Sharp, Partridge 



Co 123 



Sheridan, W. F.114 

 Sielirecht & Sie- 



brecht ....;... 134 

 Siggers & Sig- 



gers 122 



Skideisky & Ir- 

 win 95 



Smith, P. J 114 



Smith, E. D. & 



Co 95 



Smith, W. & T. 



Co 107 



Smyth, Wm. J.. 110 

 Standard P 1 a te 



Glass Co 123 



Stearns. A. T. 



Lumber Co. . . .123 

 Stumpp & Wal- 

 ler Co 121 



Syracuse Pottery 



Co 122 



Tailby Ill 



Thorburn, J. M. 



& Co 109 



Totty, (lias. H.107 

 T r a e n d 1 y & 



Schenck 114 



Valentine, J. A. 110 

 Virk's, .las. Sous.109 

 Vincent, R., Jr., 



& Sons 95-108 



Wants, For Sale.120 

 Ward, R. M & 



Co 107 



Welch Bros 112 



Wheeler. Wilfrid. 106 



Wilson 110 



Withers. J. T...107 

 Wilson Plant Oil 



Co 121 



Wood Bros 95 



Young, A. L 114 



Young & Nugent. 110 

 Zinn, J. A Ill 



Obituary. 



Charles Neiglick. 

 Charles Neiglick, father of Charles 

 T. Neiglick, florist at North State 

 street, Chicago, died on July 6th from 

 heat prostration. 



Leonard G. Ward. 

 Leonard G. Ward, son of George E. 

 Ward, of Beverly, died at his home, 6 

 Pleasant street, Salem, Mass., July 4th, 

 with heat prostration. For the last few 

 years he had been employed by South- 

 worth Bros., Beverly, formerly having 

 been in partnership with his brother, 

 Harry Ward, at the North Street 

 Greenhouses. He was 32 years of age 

 and leaves a wife and two children. 



Marshall Symmes. 



Marshall Symmes, market gardener, 

 and oldest resident of Winchester, 

 Mass., died at his home, Symmes Cor- 

 ner, on July 19. He was in his 93d 

 year, having been born Oct. 27, 1818, 

 in that part of Medford later set off 

 as part of Winchester. 



Mr. Symmes was a direct descendant 

 of Zachariah Symmes, who came to 

 this country in 1634. He was a black- 

 smith until an accident at the forge 

 cost him the sight of one eye. He then 

 purchased the Governor Brooks farm 

 at Symmes Corner and was for more 

 than forty years a market gardener. 



Daniel W. Coquillett. 

 In the death of Daniel William Co- 

 quillett, the Department of Agricul- 

 ture has lost the entomologist who in- 

 vented the hydrocyanic method of 

 purging orchards of insect pests and 

 who discovered the usefulness of the 

 Vedalia beetle as a destroyer of scale. 

 Mr. Coquillett, who died July 8th at 

 Atlantic City, was born January 23rd, 

 1856, near Woodstock, 111. In 1881 he 

 was made assistant State entomologist 

 of Illinois. Soon after he went to 

 California, where he became field agent 

 for the division of entomology, United 

 States Department of Agriculture. In 

 1S93 he was appointed assistant ento- 

 mologist and at that time removed to 

 Washington. 



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LITTLE BOBBIE. 

 He Writes About His Pa's Plants. 



By William F. Kirk in Boston American. 



When Pa cairn hoam last nite he walked 

 rite oaver to the gee-ra-nium plants, & he 

 n for to talk to tbem. Oh, you deer, 

 deer littel gee-ra-nums. he said. I wish 

 that you wud become orchids. There is 

 no reeson why you shuddent becum or- 

 chids, Pa sed to the flowers, no reason in 

 the world, besides, orchids cost moar. 



Ma beegan to look at Pa kind of close, 

 the saim old look wich I have seen so 

 often. See here, Lite of my Life. Ma sed 

 to Pa, I want to ask you a questun. How 

 long did it taik you to git hoam after you 

 lefl the olBs? 



Cairn strate hoam. Pa sed. Why do you 

 ask? 



I ask, sed Ma. beekaus you are too 

 talkativ. You are talking to the flowers, 

 & that is a sure sine that sumthing is 

 rong. It is bad enuff wen you cum hoam 

 tliis way & talk to me, sed Ma, or to little 

 Bobbie, tho hevings knows, Ma sed, that 

 you over talk yourself then, but wen it 

 gits so bad that you cum hoam & talk 

 to the flowers In the window, I think that 

 sumthing sbud be did. 



Well, sed Pa, let me explain. I met a 

 friend of mine from Californy this after- 

 noon that is a relative of a man naimed 

 Prof. Von der Naillen & a grate frend of 



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 I TURE" should be sent to 1J Ham- | 

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WANTED to lease near good town a 

 good Market Garden of about five acres, 

 with greenhouse, good dwelling and out- 

 buildings. Where landscape work could be 

 carried on preferred. Reply to B. T., care 

 of HORTICULTURE. 



Luther Burbank. the inventor of the spine- 

 less cactus & t lie un-winking potato & the 

 naked banana, etc. This frend toald me 

 that the way the grate wizard Mister Bur- 

 bank made the funny plants he made was 

 to walk around in bis garden & talk to 

 the plants. For instans. Pa sed. Mister 

 Burbank will walk out into a garden of 

 thorny cactus & look at them gentel & ten- 

 der, & say Deer littel thorny plants, you 

 look ugly now: but in time, if you reelize 

 that I : 1 1 1 1 yure frend. all them ugly spikes 

 will go off you & you will be smooth all 

 over, like a music publisher. Then, sed 

 Pa, the littel cactus plants wud always 

 look back at Mister Burbank & say. All 

 rite, old chap, we will do the best we can 

 to lose our ruff ways, & in time the plants 

 wud becum butiful and smooth. 



Ma was lookig kind of scared, she kept 

 following Pa around & I went with ber. 

 Then Pa Cairn to the lettuce. Lovely 

 Letuce, sed Pa, be calm & pashunt. Yu 

 are going to git the rite kind of treet- 

 ment wile you are in this garden, beekaus 

 I am yure frend & shall always be yure 

 frend. " Cheer up littel Lettuce, sed Pa, & 

 git big & prickly, like a alligator pear. 

 Then you will be a combinashun salad, Pa 

 sed & git ate by a college boy & a actress. 



Then Pa went oaver to the green peas 

 & he said, Precious Peas, lissen to me. 

 I am yure frend. I worship you & shall 

 proteck you. You shall grow & grow & 

 grow until in yure glorus manhood yu 

 shall becum beans, Pa sed, & git baked. 

 Then sed Pa, beware of Boston ! 



Then Ma sed, "Come on. Burbank," & 

 she helped Pa up & made him go into the 

 house. 



