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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Dkck-miji:u IT. I'.'o; 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



a^l^^iJ^L'^- H"*'^- KnoxvlUe.Teun.: Vlce-Prea. 

 P. A Weber, St. Louis; Sec'y. Geo. C. Seager, 

 Rochester N. Y.; Treas., C. L. Yates, Rochester, 

 £;,7c J'v? twenty-eighth annual convention 

 will be held at Atlanta, Ga., June, HK)4. 



Many eastern nurseries are reported 

 sold down closely on Tea's weeping mul- 

 berry. 



Albekt C. Tuttle, one of the pioneci 

 uursei-ymen of Wisconsin, died at Bara- 

 boo December G, aged 65 years. 



Prof. N. E. Hansen, of Brookings, S. 

 D., advocates Pyrus baccata as a stock 

 for apple grafts for the northwest. 



The heirs of J. Sterling Morton pro- 

 pose to erect a monument to the memory 

 of that distinguished horticulturist by 

 creating on the estate at Nebraska City, 

 Neb., an arboretum which shall include 

 specimens of every plant which is hardy 

 in that latitude. C. E. Dwyer is iii 

 charge of the estate. 



HuNTS\^I.LE, Ala. — W. P. Heikes. 

 manager of the Huntsville Wholesale 

 Nursery, has purchased the Metz farm of 

 eighty acres near the city and the firm 

 will establish warehouses and shipping 

 headquarters there. The Alabama Nurs- 

 ery Company is arranging to build a big 

 warehouse at Mercury. 



Spkingfield, O. — Springfield men have 

 organized a nursery company in Missis- 

 sippi and on December 9 a number of the 

 stockholders left for that state to look 

 over tlie ground and arrange for busi- 

 ness. The new company is tn be know ;i 

 as the Good Nursery Company, and lias 

 a capital stock of $60,000. ' John M. 

 Good is at the head of the enterprise, 

 and he ha.s interested with him Albert 

 Halm, L. Vinuey, Edwin S. Houck, Ward 

 Welsh and L. S. .Tob. They propose to 

 purchase a plantation at about .$37,00ii. 

 They have an option on the land. 



Merrill, Wis. — N. Grievelding has 

 just installed a new boiler and has his 

 place in good shape for winter. 



We could not do business without your 

 paper. — Callister-Smith, Irondequoit, 

 N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN: 



CARNATION 



HOW TO GROW IT. 

 FULLY ILLUSTRATED. 



By C. W. WARD. 



A practical work on Carnation grow- 

 ing: complete in every particular 

 including the full calendar of operations 

 for the year, with chapters on Soils, Ferti- 

 lizers, Insects, Diseases, Heating. Each and 

 every phase of commercial Carnation culture 

 treated clearly and comprehensively The 

 book contains 290 large pages, finely printed. 

 It should be in the bands or every grower. 

 Sent earrlscre paid on receipt of gS.SO. 

 Florists' Publishing Company, 

 Caxton BIdgr., Chicago. 



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HYDRANGEA 



Faniculata Orandlflora. 



4 fo 5 feet. 



83.00 per doz.; 81B.0O per 100; 

 $120.00 per 1000. 



ANDORRA NURSERIES 



Chestnut Hill, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



HentloD Review when yoo write. 



Peterson Nursery, 



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Write for Illustrated price list. 

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Shrnbs, Boses, Clema- 

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RHODODENDRONS 



Large stock of forcing varletleB Just received; 

 plants are well budded. All the good ones, such 

 as Mrs. John W.iterer, Kate Waterer Prince 

 Camllle de Rohan. Catawblenais Grandlflora and 

 several other good kinds. Write us for list of 

 varieties and prices. 



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Mention the RcvIpw when yoo write. 



VREDENBURG & CO. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Lithographing;, Printing, Engraving, 



Binding exclusively for FLORISTS, 



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Sample Colored Plates free — Send for Catalogue 

 t»- UNEQUALLED FACILITIES 

 Mention the Review when yog write 



Gladiolus Bulbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 

 TRY THEM. 



Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



STI.VANIA, OHIO. 



We enclose a dollar for another year 

 of the Beview. Your paper vpe consider 

 the best paper, for both the experienced 

 and inexperienced, of any of the florists' 

 papers ; we could not think of doing busi- 

 ness without. — W. J. Miller & Son, Pon- 

 tiac, 111. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Santa Cruz, C.u..— The Leedham Bulb 

 (Jonipany is now cutting large quantities 

 of Paper White narcissi from outside 

 bed.s, and is beginning to out Ard Kigh 

 daffodiJs inside. Geo. Butler has pur- 

 chased the glass for a large new house to 

 lie erected soon. The vines in his cu- 

 lumber houses are in splendid shape and 

 ho is beginning to cut in quantity for 

 market. 



PLANT NOTES. 



Carnations and Gophers. 



Any nurseryman in this part of Cali- 

 fornia will tell you that the demand for 

 carnation plants for use in private gar- 

 dens is not as lai-ge as it was formerlv. 

 There are several reasons for this. The 

 skill of the greenhouse grower has devel- 

 oped such a large, perfect flower and 

 lung stem, that those grown outside, even 

 under the best conditions, are not to be 

 compared either in texture of bloom ..r 

 quality of stem and the only dealers -.x ho 

 use them are the street venders who sell 

 largo hunches for a mere trifle during 

 the spring and summer months. Another 

 reason given by people who have often 

 very fine collections of garden plants is 

 that the gophers have such a liking for 

 the roots of any kind of a carnation that 

 when they taste one they burrow under 

 an entire garden and cat off all the carna- 

 tion roots first before they bother with 

 anytliing else. One gopher will clear out 

 <i whole bed of pinks in a night, leavina: 

 nothing but the wilted tops on the 

 gruuud, each plant eaten completely off 

 below the surface. 



Eoses, and mauj- other garden plants 

 are next in line for Mr. Gopher and in a 

 louple of days he can do many dollars ' 

 worth of damage. To exterminate these ■ 

 annoying rodents I have found that ear- 

 rot and strychnine are the best. Open 

 the freshest looking burrow to a depth 

 of eighteen inches and take out all thi'' 

 loose soil until you are sure you have 

 found the hole. Then having previouslv 

 cut up a carrot into cubes of about one 

 inch square in which you have made a 

 little slit with the point of a penknife, 

 drop in about as much strychnine as you 

 can pick up with the point of the knife. 

 Put these pieces of carrot each on the 

 end of a sharp stick and push them down 

 the gopher hole. That gentleman always 

 makes a, tour of inspection very shortlv 

 after his burrow is opened and when he 

 finds the carrot, eats it and that ends 

 him. It is a good plan to put a slice in 

 each run, as there is often more than 

 one gopher in a gai'den. I have found 

 that they do not eat carrot so readilv 

 when it has been much handled and it is- 

 a good idea to soak the pieces in a pan 

 (if water before you put the poison in 

 them and avoid touching with the fingers 

 at all after that. 



In tliis way I have cleared many acres 

 of ground from these pesky gophers, and 

 with a little patience I have never known 

 this method to fail. I have discarded- 

 trajis of all kinds, as they do not do the 

 work quickly enough. Care should be" 

 taken that the pieces of carrot if found' 

 to be uneaten at the end of twenty-four 

 hours are renewed and the others disposed 

 'of where children or pet animals of any 

 kind ■will not get at them. 



Retuniing to carnations, the varieties 

 that succeed outside best in the central 



