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HORTICULTURE 



September 23, 1911 



LILIUM FORMOSUM 



Can Be Grown Nicely in a Carnation Temperature 



SPLENDID WELL-RIPENED BULBS 



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Size 



6 to 8 inches 



7 to 9 " 



8 to I " 



9 to 10 " 

 10 to 12 " 



No. to case 



400 

 300 

 250 

 200 

 150 



Per 100 



$4.00 

 6.50 

 8.75 

 9.50 



12.50 



Per 1000 



$35.00 

 55.00 

 82.50 

 90.00 



115.00 



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and 



Special Michell Brand Lilium Multiflorum 



Large sizes will be scarce and 

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WHOLESALE BULB CATALOGUE NOW READY, 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518 MARKET STREET 



PHILADELPHIA 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. , 



Wru. Elliott & Sons, New York, N. 

 Y. — Pot-Grown Strawberry and Vege- 

 table Plants. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York.— 

 Henderson's Wheats, Grasses, Etc., for 

 Fall Sowing, 1911. Illustrated. 



T. C. Thurlow's Sons, Inc., West 

 Newbury, Mass. — Peonies, Iris, Phlox. 

 An excellent list of selected varieties. 



E. Turbat & Co., Orleans, France- 

 Preliminary Wholesale List of Roses. 

 21 pages of rose names, including nov- 

 elties for 1911. 



Geo. Wittbold Co., Chicago, III.— 

 Wholesale Price List of Palms, Ferns, 

 etc. Also Nursery Price List of Or- 

 namental Shrubs and Trees. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, New York. — 

 Autumn Catalogue, 1911. Tulips, daf- 

 fodils, etc., in colors on the covers, a 

 general line of bulbs and fall plants 

 within. 



Good & Reese Co., Springfield, O — 

 Fall Trade List. For florists, nursery- 

 men and dealers only. An illustrated 

 price-list of hardy and tender ma- 

 terial. Strong on roses. 



Sutton & Sons, Reading, Eng.— 

 "Sutton's Bulbs for 1911." This is a 

 model catalogue, beautifully illustrated 

 and with a typographical finish rarely 

 met with in such publications. 



Anton Schultheis, College Point, N. 

 Y.— Wholesale Price for Fall 1911 and 

 Spring 1912. A very complete list of 

 foliage, flowering and ornamental 

 decorative plants offered to the trade 

 by this well-known grower. 



W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y — 

 General Catalogue. Hardy fruit and 



|Ornamental trees, shrubs, vines and 

 f roses. "The product of sixty years' ex- 

 perience." A handsome volume of SO 

 pages, profusely illustrated and giv- 

 ing descriptions and planting informa- 

 tion of much value to the buyer 

 Prices are omitted. 



A FRIEND'S TRIBUTE. 

 Editor HORTICULTURE: 



On my return from a short vaca- 

 tion, I was very sorry to learn through 

 a note in HORTICULTURE, of the 

 death of Mr. Archibald Smith, Ox- 

 ford, England. 



Those of the older generation in 

 Boston will remember Mr. Smith as 

 a kindly generous-hearted man, but 

 with a faculty for direct, unequivocal, 

 and exact statement, which, in these 

 days of popularity seeking, is rare. 



Mr. Smith's training as a seedsman 

 was of the most practical kind; liter- 

 ally he knew the business from the 

 ground up. While he was in Boston, 

 it was my pleasure to listen to a talk 

 he gave to a number of gardeners and 

 others, on "Seeds," in which it was 

 agreed he displayed a knowledge of 

 both the practical and technical sides 

 of the business, so intimate that it is 

 attained by few. 



The qualities of his heart and head 

 endeared him to many of us, and the 

 world can ill afford to lose such men. 

 J. C. SCORGIE. 



Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



HOW MANY BULBS TO THE ACRE? 

 Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



In Mr. Newell's article in HORTI- 

 CULTURE of Sept. 9, he seems to re- 

 gard the account of a gladiolus grower 

 planting 200,000 bulbs to the acre as a 

 "lot of rot." Now if he will take a trip 

 to Orange, I will show him how first 

 size bulbs are planted in my field at 

 the rate of 110,000 to the acre, and the 

 smaller blooming sizes can be planted 

 so that 200,000 can easily be planted 

 on an acre. It is not necessary to 

 plant gladioli six inches apart in single 

 rows, nor is it practical, or economy 

 for the commercial grower to waste 

 valuable land in this way. 



Regarding what he says about 

 mulching his gladioli to protect them 

 against the cold ground and weather, 

 this was altogether unnecessary, for 

 I have had my plantings covered with 

 snow and a frozen crust on the surface 

 of the ground after my gladioli were 

 four inches high, with absolutely no 

 harmful results. 



L. MERTON GAGE. 



Andover, Mass., Sept. 19, 1911. 

 Carnation plants all sold, discon- 

 tinue adv. 



J. H. PLAYDON. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Temple, Texas.— J. R. Boyd, of Cle- 

 burne, has established a greenhouse 

 plant upon a site in the northern part 

 of the city. 



Grand Rapids, Mich.— Wealthy Ave. 

 Floral Co. have just completed' office 

 and workroom in cement blocks and 

 contemplate rebuilding a large part of 

 their greenhouse plant in the spring. 



Detroit, Mich.— A heavy gust of 

 wind on September IS, wrecked (he 

 scaffolding around J. A. Stahelius' 

 new chimney, demolishing 50 feet of 

 an adjoining greenhouse at the same 

 time. 



