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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



May 12, 1904. 



Samuel S. Pennock, florist 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCWTION OF NURSERYMEN. 



PreB..N. W. Hale, KnoxvlUe. Tenn. ; Vice-Pres., 

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

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

 N, Y, The twenty-eighth annual convention 

 will be held at Atlanta, Ga., June, law. 



The Texas niu-serymen report having 

 had a fine season for both stoclc and busi- 

 ness. - 



OxE of the best all around sellers is 

 the ampelopsis. Xearly every customer 

 lias a place for it. 



OxE of the park boards doing eonsid- 

 ciable new work has found ft hard to 

 get American elra of the larger sizes. 



It is said that Koster's form of the 

 Colorado blue spruce is more in demand"' 

 at present than any other evergreen. 



Colorado Springs Colo. — \Vm. Clark, 

 florist, is advertising that his is the onU 

 place in the city to buy trees and 

 shrubs. 



For low hedging and ground cover 

 there are few hardy plants more adapt- 

 able than Berberis Thunbergi. It is of 

 rapid growth. 



The Piedmont hotel at Atlanta, Ga., 

 has been selected as headquarters for the 

 convention of the American Association 

 of Nurserymen, June 22 to 24. 



The J. Van Lindley Nursery Co.. 

 Pomona, N. C, is doing a steadily in- 

 creas-ing business and will double its 

 office space before another season. 



P.utTlES at Wabash, Ind., are planting 

 a large number of catalpa trees for fence 

 pest material and the venture is arous- 

 ing considerable interest in the neigh- 

 borhood. 



The retinosporas are hardy but 

 sLould be somewhat protected from win- 

 ter winds. Small plants are much in 

 demand for use in cold weather window 

 boxes in the larger cities. 



T. H. DorGi..vs, of B. Douglas' Sons, 

 says that all piceas, including the very 

 largely planted Norway spruce, stand 

 pruning well, but that it should be done 

 before July 1 in the northern states. 



GYSOPHILA PANICULATA. 



This member of the stitchwort family 

 was unknown to the general public ten 

 years ago. and now it is seen every- 

 where, and at every summer flower show 

 it is very much in evidence, both as a 

 setting to the displays of hardy flowers, 

 and as a feature of the table decoration 

 competitions. It is of simple culture, 

 growing in any soil in a sunny position, 

 but only attaining perfection where there 



is a good supply of lime in the soil, when 

 it forms a bush threa feet high, and as 

 man_v through, covered all over with 

 myriads of tiny white flowers. Its name 

 is formed from two Greek words, mean- 

 ing "love of lime," and where the soil 

 is not obviously rich in this constituent 

 some lime or mortar rubbish should be 

 added to it before planting. 



It is a perfectly hardy perennial, and 

 an unlimited number of plants can be 

 obtained by sowing a small packet of 

 seed in the early spring, and pricking out 

 the seedlings in a prepared nursery bed, 

 six inches apart, where, though the young 

 plants will not appear to be doing much 

 the first season, they will become strong 

 and well-rooted. (X. B. — Be sure you 

 get Gypsophila paniculata, or you may 

 find you have reared plants of an annual 

 kind only.) 



In the autumn the plants should be 

 taken up, with a nice ball of earth, if 

 possible, though this is by no means easy, 

 as the roots are long and fibreless, ancl 

 very brittle. In planting them in their 

 permanent positions space should be al- 

 lowed them to make bushes three feet in 

 diameter, and they should not be dis- 

 turbed again. The second summer after 

 sowing, if they were sow-n early in the 

 spring, and given good treatment, they 

 will make fine specimens, and the third 

 summer be at their best. They need 

 protection from slugs in their young 

 state, as also afterwards, when the shoots 

 are emerging from the ground in the 

 early spring. They are then apt to be 

 grazed off level with the ground, which 

 means the plants will be much later com- 

 ing into flower, and much less strong, to 

 say nothing of a possible loss if the in- 

 jury is repeated. A few cinder ashes 

 over the crowns in the autumn is the best 

 .safeguard against this, and if the season 

 is wet, some soot should be mixed with 

 the ashes. 



The plants need the support of stout 

 sticks, or even short stakes, in the sum- 

 mer time, as each one of the myriad blos- 

 soms holds a drop of water even after a 

 moderate shower, and the total weight 

 then is sufficient to bring the whole in- 

 florescence to the ground, even without 

 any wind. As three or four stems will 

 come up from each crown, when the 

 plants get well established, stout sticks 

 should be put to each shoot early in the 

 season, and at a good distance apart, for 

 though the shoots look slender at first, 

 they will produce, later, an abundance of 

 laterals from top to bottom, and each 

 lateral a number of secondary shoots. If 

 more than five shoots come up from one 

 cro>vn, the weakest should be pulled out, 

 as there is not room for more than four 

 or five to develop properly. 



From one well-grown plant handfuls 

 of sprays may be picked without spoiling 

 its appearance, if they are carefully cut 

 where thickest. As the laterals "reach 

 from the summit of the main stems, 

 right down to the ground, the lowest 

 sprays should be' picked first, as a heavy 



raiu beats them on the ground, and ren- 

 ders them useless. If a little superphos- 

 phate of lime is applied in the spring, 

 and hoed in round the plants, their vigor 

 and floriferousness will be much in- 

 creased. Gj-psophila has the advantage 

 of lending itself to association with al- 

 most all other flowers, and serves as 

 blossom and greenery at the same time. 

 — Gardeners' Magazine. 



New Albany, Ind. — A. Rasmussen 

 will shortly remove his store to Pearl and 

 ilarket streets. 



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 Blue Spruce ('Kosten, Magnolia. Taxua and Coni- 

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 Roses, Crimson Ramblers, Pot-grown Plants for 

 forcing', etc. First quality only. Moderate prices. 



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Pin Oaks, 



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