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Raffia may be had of Thomas Meehan & Sons, Dreshertown, Pa. 
Apple trees are a specialty with J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md. 
Labels of all kinds are furnished by the Dayton Fruit Tree Label Co., 
Dayton, O. 
Five skilled nurserymen are wanted by the West Michigan Nurseries 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
J. Cheal, of the Lowfield Nurseries, Crawley, Sussex, England, is 
visiting nurseries in America. 
L. C. Bobbink, of Bobbink & Atkins, has gone to Europe on busi¬ 
ness, accompanied by his wife and family. 
The Omnia Chemical Co., New York City, calls attention in anothei 
column to the advantages of the use of Kil-lol. 
Apple seedlings, pear seedlings, black locust seedlings, mulberry, 
ash and box elder seedlings, are offered by J. A. Gage, Beatrice, Neb. 
J. E. Ilgenfritz’ Sons, Monroe, Mich., offer a choice stock of apple, 
standard and dwarf pear, small fruits, American elm, maples, Catalpa, 
etc. 
The Franklin Davis Nursery Co., Baltimore, Md., offer a strictly 
first-class stock of peach, apple, pear, plum and small fruits, asparagus, 
privet, etc. 
A surplus of apple, peach, pear, plum, strictly high grade, and 
over 200,000 Elberta, are offered by the New Haven Nurseries, New 
Haven, Mo. 
H. M. Simpson & Sons, Vincennes, Ind., make a specialty of one- 
year-old cherry ; also peach, cherry, two-year cherry, and a general 
line of nursery stock. 
The Chattanooga Nurseries, Chattanooga, Tenn., make a specialty of 
peach, apple, pear, cherry and small fruit plants. They have a fine 
lot of June budded trees. 
McNary & Gaines, Xenia, O., cffer for fall 1902 and spring 1903, 
apple, pear, cherry, plum, peach, apricot and grape vines. Headquar. 
ters for the Opalescent apple. 
Members of the Southern Fruit Growers’ Association will meet at the 
Brown House, Macon, Ga., to arrange for a convention. The secretary 
is J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. 
The Central Michigan, Nursery Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., have a 
complete assortment of small fruits ; also apple, cherry and pear and 
peach in carload lots. Strawberry plants a specialty. 
Louis T. Sanders, senior member of the firm of L. T. Sanders & Son, 
Plain Dealing, La., died June 8th, aged 57 years. He had been ill for 
months. A widow, a son and a daughter survive him. 
HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
In the course of an article on the establishment and devel¬ 
opment of the Lord & Burnham Company greenhouse build¬ 
ers and engineers, New York City, the New York Tribune of 
recent date said : 
The secret of the success of the Lord & Burnham greenhouses lies in 
the practical taste for horticulture of their builders and the close study 
of plant life which led them to originate their improvements. The 
secret cf building a good greenhouse lies in knowing how to make 
plants comfortable. A barren vinery and a flowerless rose house are 
failures from every consideration, no matter how ornate the structure. 
To conserve every ray of winter sunlight, to locate the winter garden 
where, sheltered by wind and warmed by hoarded light, each plant 
shall thrive, to discriminate between palm houses and general purpose 
conservatories, is the foundation of the entire art of greenhouse archi¬ 
tecture. Light supplies plant life ; heat, plant growth. In their 
scientific study of every horticultural problem, from that of judicious 
location to the final completion of the plant home in every detail, the 
Lord & Burnham Company are still the pioneers of their craft. r I hey 
were the first to introduce long lines of ventilators, thus to a great 
extent doing away with the draughts so injurious to plants ; the first to 
increase the light by using small sash bars, with supporting frames ; 
the first to use elliptical or Gothic 'curves instead of ‘circular in roof 
construction. The arm, rod and roof gear ventilating machinery now 
in universal use was invented by Mr. Lord in 1856. Lord & Burnham 
were the first to use the ground glass in conservatories, and the first to 
substitute cast iron gutters and sills for wood in wooden frame green 
houses, and they introduced iron frame supports for beds and tables 
even before they originated the present method of iron framing. 
To reduce greenhouse heating to automatic perfection, to minimize 
all mechanical labor, and to provide for all emergencies, requirements 
and environments, has been the constant study of the Lord A Burnham 
Company since its origin. 
Horticulture is not only one of the strongest artistic passions, but is 
also one of the most refined and elegant of pleasures. As visions of 
carnations and primroses, cinerarias and verbenas, geraniums and lilies, 
all budding unblighted in orderly rows, defended by the well ordered 
glass houses of the Lord A Burnham Company, warmed, ventilated 
with automatic precision, rise before the fascinated vision, one realizes 
how the present immense development of the trade in winter flowers 
and fruits have been indebted to the taste and ability of two gentlemen 
whose sole apprenticeship to their calling was the love of gardening, 
and who for that very reason have not only found means to make their 
glass houses beautiful, but to add grace to their favorite pursuit by re¬ 
lieving it of both drudgery and disappointment. The dual nature of the 
Lord A Burnham Company, architects and manufacturers, has resulted 
in a highly specialized business organization. Mr. W. Addison Burn¬ 
ham is the president of the company; Mr. Warren B. Craw, the treas¬ 
urer; Mr. Henry F. Lord has charge of the manufacturing department, 
and Mr. Andrew Elder is the superintendent of erection. 
Mr. Burnham is an acknowledged authority and writer of merit in 
his line, and his work in the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, 
which is modestly accredited to the Lord A Burnham Company, dis¬ 
cusses, at greater length than space permits, the progress made in 
greenhouse architecture, and sets forth lucidly and forcibly the im¬ 
provements evolved by the science of to-day. 
The long roll of the patrons of the house is remarkable for the list of 
scientific plant growers on the one side, and of patronage, where money 
counts for nothing in the pursuit of amateur horticulture, on the other. 
AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 
The twentieth annual convention of the American Seed 
Trade association, was held at the West hotel, Minneapolis, 
June 24 th, under the direction of President Jesse E. Northrup 
The treasurer reported a balance of $ 233 . 48 . B. T. Galloway, 
of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, read a paper 
explaining the aims of the department in regard to seed dis¬ 
tribution. It is the intention of the department to introduce 
new varieties of forage, grass and field seeds, and jn the future 
the department will endeavor to introduce seeds suitable to 
the locality to which they are sent. The members of the asso¬ 
ciation enjoyed many social features of the convention. The 
following officers were elected: President, Walter P. Stokes, 
Philadelphia; vice-president, C. N. Page, Des Moines; second 
vice-president, S. S. Burge, Toledo; secretary and treasurer, 
S. F. Willard, Wethersfield, Conn. 
PEACHES IN CONNECTICUT. 
J. H. Hale says in the Hartford, Conn., Post that he esti¬ 
mates the Connecticut peach yield this season at about one 
million bushels, which will establish a new record. There are 
three million peach trees in the state, and various orchards 
will come into bearing for the first time. Mr. Hale puts the 
yield of his Glastonbury orchard at 25,000 bushels, and the 
Seymour orchard at 20 , 000 . One-third of the expected crop 
