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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



December 31. 1003. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCUTION OF NtRSERYMEN. 



Pre8.,N. W. Hale. KnoxvlUe. Tenn.: Vlce-Pres 

 P. A. Weber. St. Louis; Sec'y. Geo. C. Se-lBer. 

 Rochester. N. T.: Treas.. C. L. Yates, Rocheeter. 

 N. Y. The twenty-eighth annual convention 

 will be held at Atlanta. Ga.. June 1904. 



The Irrigon Nursery Companv has 

 been incorporated at Portland, Ore', with 

 $5,000 capita), by John W. Cook, Alfred 

 Goss and E B. Leonard. 



The proposed work on the lake front 

 at Chicago, or Grant park, as it is now 

 known, will take three years and groat 

 quantities of nursery stock of sizes for 

 immediate effect will be required. 



Pkof. L. H. B.ui.ey has an article on 

 peach farming in Michigan in Country 

 Life for January, which it would be 

 worth while for nurserymen with trade 

 in that section to place in the hands of 

 their customers. 



The Oklahoma State Nursery Co., 

 Perry, Okla., has bought a farm near 

 Guthrie, where Manager C. C. Ailing savs 

 they will at once plant large quantities 

 of fruit trees and build a packing shed 

 with side track connections. 



James- Gordon Bennett will lay out 

 a large public park on the bank of the 

 Hudson, north of One Hundred and 

 Kighty-second street. New York, and 

 dedicate it to the memory of his father. 

 The work will include extensive plant- 

 ings of trees and shrubs. 



The Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists, the Association of Plant and 

 Animal Breeders, the Society of Horti- 

 cultural Science, the Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Agricultural Science and the 

 American Microscopical Society meet at 

 St. Ijouis at the same time next summer. 

 Surely something ought to come of it. 



Springfield, O. — "Word comes from the 

 south that the new concern reeentl.v or- 

 ganized here has secured a tract of 3,000 

 acres of land near Tutwiler, Miss., on 

 which they will engage in the nursery 

 business and in flower growing. The 

 promoters of the selieme are John M. 

 Good, L. Verney, C. T. Eidgelv, Edwin 

 S Houck, C. W. Welsh and L" P. Jnp. 

 all of this city. 



HuNTSViLLE, Ala. — Announcement is 

 made here that the big nursery of Stark 

 Bros., at Lilly Flagg station, seven miles 

 south of this city, will shortly be re- 

 moved to Farmington, Ark. The pres- 

 ent location of the nursery is said to be 

 very unhealthy, in fact, so much so that 

 white labor cannot be kept there. The 

 LUly Flagg nursery embraces about 700 

 acres and a great deal of money has 

 been spent in getting it established. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



CHRISTMAS BERRIES. 



It would be almost impossible in this 

 day for Californians to celebrate Christ- 

 mas and New Year's without the assist- 

 ance of our beautiful so-called California 

 holly. We have notldng to take its 

 place as a decorative material that is 

 purely a home product. It is sold by 

 the thousands of bunches daily on the 

 streets and handled by tons in the tlor- 

 ists' stores. And yet it is only within 

 the last ten years that it has been gath- 

 ered and sold, and with many hundreds 

 of people it forms the principal source 

 of income during our winter months. 

 Strictly speaking, it is properly called 

 Heteromeles arbutifolia and the ber 

 ries are borne in immense clusters of a 

 bright cardinal red. The shrub grows 

 to a height of twenty-five feet in shel- 

 tered locations although from ten to 

 twelve feet is its usual size. The flow- 

 ers come in clusters, small, white, and 

 with a spicy odor in July and August 



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 throughout the country. A large space is devoted each week to news items covering tnese two featiires. 



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antl tlie berries appear about a month 

 later. 



Tliey are generally ripe about Thanks- 

 giving and then the marketing begins. 

 The stems are broken off about a foot 

 in length and packed tightly in boxes, 

 care being taken that the berries do not 

 rub against the boards. Our finest qual- 

 ity comes from the interior mountain 

 valleys, where they are not subjected to 

 too much fog, those on the coast being 

 smaller in size and inferior in color. The 

 ruling price is $40 per ton, wholesale, 

 and some florists in Jsan Francisco use 

 as much as ten tons during the holiday 

 season. This year has been an excep- 

 tionally good one for berries, as we have 

 not had over two or three nights' frost 

 thus far and the berries are at their 

 best. The street venders, of whom there 

 are hundreds here, tic the berries in small 

 bunches and sell them at the uniform 

 price of 10 cents. 



The berries are found growing wild 

 in California from San Diego on the 

 south to Mendocino on the north and 

 are not of natural growth, either in the 

 northern part of Calilornia or in Ore- 

 gon or Washington. The tree makes a 

 handsome shrub in cultivation but is of 

 somewhat slow growth. It has much of 

 the characteristics of the strawberry 

 f-hrub (^AvbutU!-' uncdo} and is our most 

 valuable wild flower. The wild pigeons 

 are very fond of the berries and when 

 they are perfectly ripe they eat them 

 greedily so that by the end of January 

 tliey have generally all disappeared. The 

 berries have a rather pleasant taste, 

 somewhat acid and astringent and are 

 eaten by the Indians with great relish. 

 The Spanish Californians used them in 

 the preparation of a very agreeable 

 drink. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



All our San Francisco florists have had 

 an extremely busy Christmas. Up to 

 Wednesday evening the prospects were 

 iKine too bright, but Thursday eclipsed 

 all expectations and we are all satisfied. 

 I liave spoken with a score of our prin- 

 cipal retailers within the last twenty-four 

 hours. Our weather is beautiful, bright, 

 warm days for the past week, and winds 

 somewhat to the north, but plenty of dust 

 living. Our nights have been somewhat 

 cold, but not enough to interfere with 

 outside crysanthemums thus far. Trade 

 seemed to be divided among all classes 

 lit stock about evenly, although 1 do not 

 tliink palms sold as well as in former 

 years. Some good azaleas, poinsettias 

 and Lilium Harrisii were exliibited by 

 our larger dealers, but the showing of 

 all kinds of pot stuff was hardly up to 

 the mark ancl the public generally con- 

 fined its purchases to cut flowers. 



Owing to our extremely warm weather 

 for the past two weeks the supply of 

 greenhouse stock, with the exception of 

 roses, has been more than equal to the 

 demand, and the prices have suffered in 

 consequence, but within the past forty- 

 eight hours, owing to the almost unpre- 

 cedented demand, the wdiolesalers raised 

 their prices about 200 per cent. Violets 

 are still very scarce and they are being 

 sold wholesale toda.y at .$2 per dozen 

 bunches, and only a fair supply at that 

 price. American Beauty roses sold at 

 from $3 to $5 per dozen ; Brides and 

 Maids at from $1 to $1.50 per dozen; 

 Testont, Kaiserin and Libertv at from 



