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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
AUTOMOBILIOUSNESS 
In response to an invitation to join the automobile parade 
in Rochester, Mr. Chas. J. Brown, of the Continental Nur¬ 
series, of this city, received the following interesting letter: 
In reply to your invitation to join the automobile parade 
on Oct. 22d, I would say that my automobile seems to be 
strictly an annual. It has been a very prolific bearer the 
past summer but refuses to work now, and I am inclined to 
think it will have to lie dormant until spring when it will 
need either pruning, grafting or spraying, or perhaps all 
three combined. 
I have recently had ic in the hands of three experts, each 
of whom has rendered a very nice bill but has failed to make 
the automobile respond to his treatment; and I have con¬ 
cluded that perhaps it needs more humus in the running 
gear, or an application of lime and sulphur to the universal 
joint, or possibly some Bordeaux mixture in the carburettor 
might help. Do you think that Paris green in the cylinders 
would destroy the automobile bug or would you look for the 
blister mite under the leaves of the springs? 
Some think that the top should be cut back, while others 
contend that the bark needs to be scraped from the body, 
but I have laid it up for the winter and shall wait for the 
opening of spring before I resort to any drastic methods. 
^Therefore, in view of the complications I have mentioned 
I shall be unable to accept your kind invitation, a fact which 
I very much regret, for I am sure the parade will be a great 
success and a pleasure for the participants. 
Yours very truly, 
Frank W. Cady. 
Hmong tbe florists 
|Mr. Jo seph Kift, florist,of Weschester, Pa., has recently extended 
his greenhouse plant by adding 15,000 sq. ft. to his equipment. 
The forcing of Sweet Peas is coming to be an industry of some 
importance. Edward Swaine of Westchester, Pa., devotes about 
6000 feet of glass annually to the growing of this crop. 
Mr. R. T. Brown, manager of the Cottage Gardens Nurseries, 
Long Island, recently returned from an extensive European trip. 
Mr. Brown visited the principal nursery regions m France, Holland, 
and England and comes back with much information and many new 
ideas regarding plant growing in these countries. 
Hoopes Bro. & Thomas Co., Westchester, Pa., have been enlarg¬ 
ing their glass house area to a very considerable extent. Nearly 
half of their 18,000 ft. is now devoted to the growing of roses. 
NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY 
The first planting of sweet peas on the trial grounds of the 
National Sweet Pea Society by the Department of Horticulture of 
Cornell University was made on the 18th of October. Successive 
fall and spring plantings will be made of the same varieties to deter¬ 
mine if possible the most favorable time for either fall or spring seed¬ 
ing. The main planting for comparative study will be made in 
spring. Large collections of seed have already been donated by 
Messrs. Boddington of New York, and Rawson, of Boston. A 
meeting is called for November third, in the museum of natural 
mstorv New York. 
]\ote and Comment 
GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION 
One of the most interesting discussions of this increasingly im¬ 
portant branch of nursery work that we have seen recently is the 
paper presented before the American Carnation Society at its 
Toronto meeting, by R. O. King. In this paper Mr. King discusses 
in a careful and accurate manner many of the technicalities asso¬ 
ciated with the roofing question which are very important in con¬ 
struction work. He has studied the breaking strength of glass of 
different sizes and thicknesses. He finds that the strength of glass 
is not proportionate to its thickness but rather to the quality of the 
glass. This he thinks is due to the difference in annealing. If a 
careful study of this question were made by greenhouse men, and 
glass of uniform thickness and uniform quality were selected, much 
less trouble would be experienced and much less expense sustained 
in the winter time, when glasses so frequently break under the stress 
of snow and ice. This point is only one of many of equal interest 
treated in Mr. King’s paper, and to those who have special interest 
in the subject we would commend the whole article to their careful 
attention. 
CO-OPERATIVE SELLING ASSOCIATION 
Peninsula Exchange 
“As a type of a well organized and managed association in the 
East, W. N. Hutt, of the North Carolina Station, gives the following 
description of the Peninsula Produce Exchange of the eastern shore 
of Maryland: This exchange operates along the lines of the New 
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk and the Baltimore, Chesapeake and 
Atlantic Railroads. It has 25 local shipping points at each of which 
is an agent who inspects and brands the grade of produce, and re¬ 
ports to the head office at Olney the amounts and grades of fruit and 
truck received. The general manager in the head office is in touch 
by wire with prices in all the large markets, and as soon as the daily 
reports of receipts and grades are wired in from his local agents is in 
a position to make his sales and place his consignments where the 
demand is greatest. The exchange is said to spend over $10,000 
annually in telegrams regarding crops, markets and prices. The 
capital stock of the exchange was reported in 1905 at $31,000. This 
was owned by the 2,500 farmers who sell through the exchange. In 
1905, a dividend of 7 per cent, was declared and m 1906, a 10 per 
cent, dividend. In addition to this a surplus was laid by for emer¬ 
gencies. The exchange forwards annually thousands of cars of both 
sweet and Irish potatoes in addition to other truck and fruit. It is 
reported as doing an annual business in the neighborhood of 
$2,000,000.” 
CANADIAN FRUIT CROP REPORT 
The effect of the aphis in Ontario has been clearly demonstrated 
at harvest time by the large quantities of partially developed apples 
and the unusually small size of all specimens. As a rule the apple 
crop in Ontario will range light as to quantity and low as to quality. 
The pear crop in Southern Ontario has been moderate but of good 
quality. Plums were plentiful and of excellent quality. The peach 
crop was large and better in quality than growers have secured for 
many years. 
Reports from Europe indicate that the fruit crop of Britain, Ger¬ 
many and France is medium to light. 
MR. MOON’S ARTICLE ON CONIFIRS 
The remainder of this valuable paper will appear in the 
December issue. 
