. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. MARKET GARDENS. Croton Baron Rothschild. One of the plants disappeared directly alter the show, the other was sold for a sum in three figures. That plant is now at Kew and is Irotn filteen to twenty feet high, and it has been renamed Pritchardia grandis. The article which recently appeared in the American Florist respecting Mr. Spencer's new seedless apple has been widely quoted in the horticultural papers on this side. Commenting on the novelty a correspondent, signing himself "Apple Grower," writes to
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. MARKET GARDENS. Croton Baron Rothschild. One of the plants disappeared directly alter the show, the other was sold for a sum in three figures. That plant is now at Kew and is Irotn filteen to twenty feet high, and it has been renamed Pritchardia grandis. The article which recently appeared in the American Florist respecting Mr. Spencer's new seedless apple has been widely quoted in the horticultural papers on this side. Commenting on the novelty a correspondent, signing himself "Apple Grower," writes to the Market Growers' Gazette (London) as follows: "In your issue of July 27 you quote from the American Florist a statement relating to the seedless apple in which it is said that the new variety bears a fruit with- out blossoming. Is not this simply an impossibility? If any reader can give information about this seedless apple, which is described as proof against ' codlin moth, because the caterpillar (they call it worm on the other side of the Atlantic) leeds on the pips, many growers would be ; This remarkable apple has certainly aroused considerable interest, and if the raiser could only arrange to send over some specimens to one of the fortnightly shows of the Royal Horticultural Society I am quite sure it would prove a magnetic attraction. The autumn show of fruit will take place at the new horticultural hall October 4 and two following days. An exhibition of colonial fruit and pre- served home-grown fruit takes place on December 13 and 14. Rockland, Mass.—E. F. Denham is building a 70 foot (greenhouse on his premises on South Union street for his son, Edward Denham, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural college, who will engage in floriculture. Arlington, Mass.—A new greenhouse is being built on the John S. Crosby farm on Mystic street, of generous dimensions as a companion to two others which were' put up several years ago. The dimensions
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