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steam in the fall. It lielps purify the 

 air ill our houses and will destroy niihlew 

 if anv is in sight. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM DAKOMA. 



Elmer 1). Smith declines to abide by 

 the verdict of the C. S. A. committee and 

 in the matter of Chrysanthemum Dako- 

 ma appeals to the court of last resort, 

 the public. It Avill be sent out without 

 C. S. A. ajjproval. Chrysanthemum Da- 

 konia was exhibited before the Clirysan- 

 themum Society's Cincinnati committee 

 November 10 as No. 55-4-05. The com- 

 mittee consists of H. Witterstaotter, 

 James Allan and Wm. Jackson, but, 

 highly as they think of the author of 

 the "Chrysanthemum Manual" and 

 much as they respect his judgment of a 

 chrysanthemum, the best they could do 

 for Dakoma was to score it eighty 

 points on the exhibition scale Tt was 

 a jolt to the manager of the Adrian 

 seedling factory, for he thinks highly of 

 Dakoma, and, without explanation as to 

 damage in transit or other reason for 

 the poor showing at Cincinnati, an- 

 nounces that Dakoma will be sent out 

 ''on its merits." It is a lu'onze and, 

 aside from color, its principal character- 

 istics of llowor are shown in tlie accom- 

 panying illustration ])repaied from a 

 photograpli made by Mr. Smith himself. 

 He says it is a good thing either for 

 exhibition or commercial purposes. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



POLL WORTH IN THE WOODS. 



C. C. Pollworth, of Milwaukee, has 

 returned home after spending a couple 

 of weeks in the woods in northern AVis- 

 ronsiu looking after some lumber inter- 

 ests and also taking in the bouquet 

 green districts, lie reports that on ac- 

 '•ount of the hea\y snow and cold weath- 

 er throughout the northern jiart of the 

 state \eiy little green was picked after 

 October 10, and this commodity will be 

 extremely scarce this Christmas. He also 

 spent several days in the wood.s hunting 

 deer and was succt'ssful in g"ttiMg ;i 

 line specimen of tiie king of the forest, 

 as the accomjianying illuslr;it ieii. pie 

 ]iared from a snap sjujt photiigi;i|«li, will 

 show. 



TOBACCO AS A FERTILIZER. 



We are in a position to procure a big 

 lot of tobacco stems, and ask you to 

 sta^e if they are as valuable a fertilizer 

 • IS is stable manure. S. D. 



There is no doubt you can use the 

 stems as viui would stable inaiuiie. I 

 know nothing about \\hal fertilizing mat- 

 ter they contain. 1 never have seen a 

 chemical analysis of the stems or leaves, 

 but we have often plowed them into the 

 ground and observed nothing but good 

 results. A friend of ours, an excellent 

 rrmateur gardener and farmer, whose 

 business in the city was that of a leaf 

 tobacco jobber, used to cart tons of 

 stems ami broken up leaves to his little 

 farm, mix them with the litter from the 

 stable and plow them into the soil, and 

 o\er them 1 have seen excellent crops of 



Work of the Committees. 



Chicago, November 17. — Sailie May 

 Stremler, sport of Queen, exhibited by 

 .1. S. Stremler, Princeton, Ky., scored 

 eighty-one points commercial scale. 



David FitASKn, Sec 'y. 



Chrysanthemum Dakoma. 



]iotaloes. cab1)age and corn. He also 

 spread two or three inches of the fresh 

 stems on the surface in his dwarf pear 

 orchard, and he grew fine ]iears. What 

 should we do without tobacco.' All the 

 moralizing and lectures in the world will 

 never abolish its use. It is good e\(M\v- 

 wlieir eMi'jit in the abominable ciga- 

 rettes. \V. S. 



SWEET PEAS FOR CUTTING. 



Willll WouM be the liext kind n\' vuicl 

 |>e;|.s to ufiiw t'(ir the \e\\ \n\k IIKilket.' 



|ii> you tliiid\ it i< too hile U> stall then 

 iiciw .' W'e ha\i' mih' lioii-.f w,. wmil'l like 

 til plant in pe;i>-. side lunc-lii-i ;ili(Mit three 

 t'eet t'riuii the »;l;i>>. iniibili' lieni-lics six 



feet. W. P.. 



S^w^>et ]ie:is sciwii imw. it in .-i bylit. 

 ^niiiiv hoiisi', should l:c in IIhwim' in e;ul\ 

 April, when liny ;iri' in ^uod ilnnnnd. 

 Some of the old st;iinl;iri| \;irielies will 

 llnwiT Ijv the inidille ot' April. ()!' thesi 

 there are many s|denilid -oit-. .\ |i;ili 

 dozen di.stinct and desir.ible kiinN nie 

 llniily ]leiid(Msoii. while; Pdaiiche l'eii\. 

 white and )uiik; (jiunte^s of Kiidiior. 

 Invender; Kathi'iine Tracy, li^lit ]<\\\k. 

 e\ti;i fine; Prini;i Dniina. lo-e pink; ( m 

 '■iiien, bright sc.-irlet. Tlie-;e .iic iiNe lin<- 

 for sowing outdoor^- in e.-iily -<|iriiii;. The\ 

 are not, however. :iny ;^imii| t'ur suwitiL; m 

 the greenhouse in the tali ]'<>y winter 

 llowering. If vnu ;ire ;iii.\i(ins to pi.k 

 pens by IvTster, then the mily varieties tu 

 sow are the varieties raised liy A. < . /vn- 

 lanek. His Christ iii.-us Pink i< well 

 named, of the Plaiiche I'erry typ.'. with 

 line long stems. I'loieiirc l)cn/,er i^ pure 

 white. 



The side benches, with only IJirre teet 



of headroom, will mit do for >\\eet pe;is. 

 if you cannot use the sp;ii-e for young 

 stock or bedding |)l;ints. then try eaiidv 

 tnft. Sun, fresh air and lots of w.ater at 

 \i\o roots are the great re((iiisites for 

 pldduciiig unnd sweet peas. W. S. 



MARKETING AT WHOLESALE. 



I I'lif |i!i|M'r li.v (liarlfs liit;i!ini iiwanlcil sec- 

 iiiiii |iii/c in the (•oiitcsl t'ur the |iiizcs ciffered 

 l.y \V. F. Kiistin^f.J 



The methoils of disposing to the re- 

 tailer by growers have passed through 

 almost as many stages of evolution witii- 

 in the last twenty years as have the 

 i-onst ruction of greenhouses, varieties 

 L;r<iwii. size of structures, etc. The meth- 

 ■ "Is tiiat were fully competent to take 

 •ate lit the market end nf tiie growers' 

 caie^ n|i to ;i short lime ago would 

 nnw pKivc totally iiiadei|uate In handle 

 liic c\er increasing supply, '•and the end 

 ;* nut yd . ' ■ 



An Individual Problem. 



I'm my way <\\' thinking, there :.< n<> 

 "lie metlied at present, in Migne that 

 weiihi apply e(|ii;illy to all growers, f.^r 

 I he simple rea.soii that all growers are 

 imt eipially favorably situated as reL;ai<is 

 liK-atioii of plant, 'i'o be nmre "■xplicit. 

 I he grov\er tli.-it is in close pin.\imity to 

 a large center i<\' distribulimi can lian 

 die a rush (irder with greater taciliiy 

 'ban one at -^.nne distance I'lcm saiil 

 center, wliere v|ii[,|,iiig facilities mav be 

 li'aite,! Id a certain nunil)er "f exj,resses 

 ■I dav. Where the former can bring iiitn 

 ii-^e anv thing frnm a horse ami vvagen 

 '" an ante, the latter is handic;ip|iei| 

 liy distance, etc., althoiigh iimlMubledb 

 he is lietter (df as regards taxalimi and 

 .-everal other imj)ort;int items. There 

 are other vast dilVerences between gruw 

 els that will be referred to later on. 



The largest growers, who [irodiu-e 

 -leck enoiiuh to enable them t.i run a 

 -hipping department of their own en 

 |oactic;illy ihe s;iiim lines as a wh<ilesale 

 ciinimissi(Ui Inuise, have, it would seem, 

 almost rea(died the clim.ax of perfection: 

 iiot to many growers this metliod of dis 

 p<ising of their goo<ls would be totallv 

 impractical, so we may s;ifely eliminate 

 'he termer from the sniiject and con 



