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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Decembisb 24, 1903. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCUTION OF NURSERYMtN. 



Pres., N. W. Hale. Knoxvllle. Tenn. : Vlce-Pres. 

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

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

 N. Y. The twenty-eighth annual convention 

 will be held at Atlanta. Ga., Juue. laoi. 



At Eoeliester, N. Y., Greene's Nur- 

 sery Company has been incorporated by 

 Charles A. Greene, Jennie C. Greene anil 

 E. E. Burleigh. 



■ Charle.s H. WooDiiUFi', of Ailes. 

 Mieli., (lied Dw. 13, aged 77 years. Hi' 

 was the originator of the Ann Arbor. 

 Woodruff and Nina grapes. 



E. BUNYAN, president of the Elizabeth 

 Nursery Company, is interested in the 

 promotion of the Cuba and United State.s 

 Fruit, Nursery and Mercantile Company. 



Frank S. Merrelt., nurseryman, of 

 Verona, X. Y., died Deeeuiber IS, of a 

 complication of Bright 's tlisease anil 

 heart trouble. He was 71 years of 

 age. 



Brown Bros. Co., Pelham, Ont., have 

 asked the courts to enjoin A. E. Coon 

 from entering on a strip of laud which 

 they contend is included in a lease made 

 ■with Coon. 



The horticulturist of the State of 

 Washington has record of 230,822 fniit 

 trees planted there this fall, many thou- 

 sands having been set in counties not 

 heretpfore counted as adapted to fruit 

 growing. 



WESTERN WHOLESALERS MEET. 



Representative nurserymen from Mis- 

 souri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Ne- 

 braska, Iowa and Alabama have been in 

 session at Kansas City. It was the an- 

 nual meeting of the Western Association 

 of Wholesale Nurserymen. Owing to tlie 

 absence of A. L. Brooke, of Topeka, the 

 president, the sessions were presided over 

 by the vice president, R. H. Blair, of 

 Kansas City. The secretary is E. .J. Hol- 

 raan, of Leavenworth. Aside from a dis- 

 cussion of matters intimately connecteil 

 with trade affairs, there wa"s a list of 

 addresses on general topics. A. Willis, 

 of Ottawa, Kan., urged the necessity of 

 the association forming a fund to punish 

 dishonest dealers and salesmen, and pre- 

 sented feasible plans as to how it can be 

 done. Other papers presented were from 

 J. Brown, of Geneva, Neb. ; E. S. Welch, 

 Shenandoah, la.; F. N. Stannard, Otta- 

 wa., Kan.; J. H. Skinner, Topeka, Kan.; 

 J. AY. Schuette, St. Louis. Favorable 

 comment was expressed by the delegates 

 that farmers are devoting more attention 

 to fruit culture, and are reaping the ben- 

 efits from the good prices brought for 

 apple.s, peaches and plums. There is also 

 a growing demand for western fruit 

 trees in the coast countiy, and the num- 

 ber of exclusive fruit growers is increas- 

 ing. 



Spkixgfield, Mass.— Wm. F. Gale has 

 filed a petition in bankruptcv, liabilities 

 $961.22, no assets. 



Colorado Springs, Col. — A. J. Baur, 

 who was formerly witn Wm. Clark, has 

 returaed to the east to take the manage- 

 ment of the Baur Floral Co., successor to 

 8. Alfred Baur, Erie, Pa. 



DATE OF EASTER. 



Note that Easter, 1004, falls on April 

 3. In 1905 Easter will be the latest 

 iu many years, falling on April 23. 



LARGE, BUSHY 



HYDRANGEA 



Fanlcnlata Qrandiflora. 



4 fo 5 fee*. 



83.00 per doz.; 815.00 per 100; 

 8120.00 per 1000. 



ANDORRA NURSERIES 



Chestnut Hill, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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|}/\^E~Q for Spring bloomlntr. The prop- 

 |\\/^LO per aorta. ClothildeSoupert. Co- 

 qiK'tle dea Blanclies. Coquette 

 des Alps Gen. JacMii.'miiiot. La France. Crimson 

 Rambler, etc.. fine 1 and "J-yuar lield-jrrown plants 

 that have never been forced; suitable for r»-lnch 

 pots, at 7c; largrer. for f.-lnch pots at Vic. 



Large flowered Clematis, finest purple, laven- 

 der, white and pink sorts. 2 year field-grown or 

 from 5 in. pots at 18c: 1 year field- grown or from 

 3-in. pots at He. Clematis Paoiculata fine "i-year 

 field-grown, lie. Packing' free for cash. 



W. H. SALTER, BOCHE&TES. N. T. 



MpDtlf>n the Review whpo yog write. 



Field=Grown Roses 



$s.00 per 100: plants 1 to 3 ft. 60 varieties. 

 ClimbiDg- Sonpert a specialty. 

 Cane Stakes— 6 ft., $3.00 per 1000. Address 



WM. K. NELSON, Augusta, Ga. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



PLANT NOTES. 



Camellias. 



The eamt'llia is hardy in California 

 and thrives well in most locations except 

 in our warm interior valleys. For many 

 years the plants .sold by local dealers 

 were imported either from the eastern 

 nurseries or from Europe. In the last 

 fifteen years wo have received many thou- 

 sands of the native Japanese camellias 

 and some of them are very tine, and when 

 |>roperly handled make a very satisfac- 

 tory garden plant. We used to think 

 that the plant liked a shady place and 

 matured its flowers better when sheltered 

 iu the neighborhood of some wall or 

 building, but experience lias proven that 

 tliey sneceed fully as well in the open if 

 the drainage is good and they are given 

 an abundance of water in the summer 

 time. 



The single camellias seed very freely 

 and there is no trouble in raising plants 

 for grafting or in arching and strong 

 stock is easily propagated in this way. 

 They can also be grown from cuttings, 

 but aro not very quick in rooting and it 

 takes fully four years l)efore a salable 

 plant is the result. In .Tapan camellias 

 are propagaled both by cuttings and 

 grafting and the climate being exactly 

 suited to their requirements they make a 

 Iilant large enough to sell iu much- 

 sliorter time than they do liere. When 

 they are grown in pots they make a 

 sliort. stubby growth and when grown in 

 the open ground the growtli is ranker 

 and with less flower buils. 



The old wliite variety Alba Plena is 

 still the finest of its color and succeeds 

 better under glass — that is, the flowers 

 come more perfect than they do outside. 

 This is true of all the white varieties, but 

 of the other cohu'S there is no advantage 

 in growing any of them in a greenhouse. 

 One of the best points of this beautiful 

 shrub is the fact that its flowering sea- 

 son begins about the niidille of November 

 and extends tln-oughout the entire winter 

 and a. portion of the spring, or until ths 

 warm weather in April starts the young 

 shoots growing and then we have a mass 

 of bright glossy leaves all through the 

 summer and fall. 



Regarding the merits of the dift'erent 

 tidwers I must say the Eni"opean varieties 

 are superior to the .Japanese. Although- 

 some of the latter are verv fine, and I 

 have seen many different shades, I have 

 not found anvthing to eqiml such .sorts 

 as Alba Plena', Mrs. Abby Wilder, Daniel 

 Wel>ster or Sarah Frost. The .Japanese 

 are very fond of single varieties and 

 some of the colors are very beautiful, but 

 they are not as much in demand here 

 as any nf the double sorts. 



\Vlicre a camellia is j)lanted in the 

 groinul and does well its growth is re- 

 markalily rapid. We have a tree in San 

 I'rancisco o^'er twenty feet in height, and 

 in Sacramento, Cal., there are many 

 specimen plants from ten to fifteen feet 

 high. During their flowering season these 

 trees are a beautifid sight and the won- 

 der and admiration of our eastern 

 visitors. Several hundred perfect flowers 

 are to be counted at any time and when 

 there is a great scarcity of garden flow- 

 ers, as is cust(»mary in flie winter time, 

 the camellia beccunes (Uir most valued' 

 garden slirub. O. 



