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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUL! 23, 1903. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



PreB..N. W. Hale. Knoxvllle.Tenn.; Vlce-Pres, 

 Weber. St. Louis; Secy. Geo. C. Seager. 

 ■ster, N.Y.; Treas., C. L. Yates. F ' 



The twenty-eighth annual c 

 ■held at Atlanta. Ga.. June, nun. 



Thomas B. McClunie, the well known 

 landscape gardener of Hartford, Conn., 

 died July 11, aged 77 years. 



David \V. Wright, the nurseryman, of 

 Portland, Ind., was married to Miss 

 Grace Sutton, at Columbus, O., July 5. 



The Association of American Cemetery 



superintendents will hold its seventeenth 

 annual convention at Eoehester, N. Y., 

 September S to 10. 



Clyde L. Leesley, formerly assistani 

 superintendent at Graceland cemetery. 

 Chicago, is in charge of the engineering 

 and landscape work at a new cemetery 

 at South Elmhurst, 111. 



E. A. Kaxst has begun upon his thir- 

 ty-first year in charge of the propagat- 

 ing and planting for the South Parks 

 system at Chicago. He now has 250,000 

 shrub cuttings in fine condition in the 

 nursery at Jackson Park. 



TRADE AND PROSPECTS. 



E. W. Kirkpatriek. McKinney, Tex., 

 writes: "Stock and trade are rapidly in- 

 creasing in the southwest. Prices are 

 also increasing. The season is very favor- 

 able and the grades promise to be high. 

 The outlook for trade in both fall and 

 spring is good; both price and volume 

 will be increased about 10 per cent." 



J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., 

 report: "The condition of nursery stock 

 at this time is all that we could ask for. 

 While we had it extremely wet in the 

 early part of the season, later on it was 

 •dry and at tlii^ time it is quite season- 

 able. The stock is making most excel- 

 lent growth. Our principal items plant- 

 ed last spring were more than three mil- 

 lion apple grafts and probably about 

 200.000 apple seedlings and we have more 

 than a million peach seedlings and a good 

 stock of cherry, plum and quince. Our 

 planting of Kicffer pears last spring was 

 about 200.000. but these have not all 

 grown; in fact, there has been consider- 

 able loss all over the country in many 

 kinds of seedlings and grafts planted and 

 we look for a scarcity in nursery stock 

 in certain lines. The prospect for fall 

 trade looks favorable, although there 

 have not been many large orders booked 

 as yet. The feeling seems to be fairly 

 good all over the country, but a little un- 

 settled." 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



We have not been bothered by the heat 

 for several weeks and the chances are 

 that the cool weather will stay with us. 

 Flowers are coming in much better of 

 stem and deeper of color than we have 

 had the privilege of seeing for some time. 

 Roses are scarce enough and it will be a 

 few weeks yet before we have a quantity. 

 Carnations are good, and cheap as well. 

 They are selling at about $1.50 per hun- 

 dred for ordinary sorts and fancy varie- 

 ties sell at $2 to '$3 per hundred. ' Lilium 

 longiflorum and valley are plentiful and 

 good. Business is quiet in all lines ex- 



cepl funeral work. Most of our folks 

 with money to spare are up in the moun- 

 tains or at the seashore. Quite a few 

 florists are rusticating, also, and they 

 have all earned a few weeks' vacation. 



Various Notes. 



The Pacific Coast Horticultural Soci- 

 •ty held its annual outing at San Rafael 

 Park. While the reunion was limited to 

 members, their families and invited 

 guests, the attendance was large. The 

 following constituted the committee of 

 arrangements: Julius Eppstein, chair- 

 man; Chas. Baker, F. A. Munro, M. 

 Borkheim and Max Eisner. 



H. M. Sanborn, the well known Oak- 

 land florist, is on a two weeks' outing in 

 the northern part of the state, accom- 

 panied by his daughter, Miss Abbie San- 

 born. 



F. i.uilemann is at present very busy at 

 his Milbrae nursery. He is budding 

 about :10.000 roses for next year's trade 

 ami bis stock is in splendid condition. 

 His grounds consist of about seventy-five 

 acres and he carries a general nursery 

 stock. 



We are to have the G. A. E. Encamp- 

 ment next month and this will stimulate 

 trade in the line of decorating, but as a 

 general thing the florists do not have 

 any particular increase of business in 

 the stores during any of the big re- 

 unions of which San Francisco has a 

 goodly share. 



A visit to Sutro Heights, near the 

 Ocean Beach, shows these popular 

 grounds in good shape. Many thousands 

 of plants have been bedded out this 

 season ami the efi'eet of such a quantity 

 of blooms is very striking J. T. Mur- 

 phy is in charge and is one of the 

 pioneer gardeners of California. He 

 spent many years as head gardener to 

 Senator Stanford, founder of Stanford 

 University, at his mansion on California 

 street. G. 



Murphysboro, III. — Lewis R. Allen 

 is building a house 19x70 for roses. 



Earlville, III. — Charles Hoss. mayor 

 of Earlville, would like to correspond 

 with a competent, energetic young green- 

 house man who would like to go into 

 business. There is a fine opportunity to 

 establish a profitable business here. 



St. Louis, Mo. — At the World's Fair 

 work has begun on the Horticulture 

 building. It will be finished before win- 

 ter and the conservatories will be used 

 for lender plant exhibits arriving this 

 fall. April 30 next is the opening day 

 of the exposition. 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY, 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



Wholesale 

 Growers of 



m 



Trees, and Small Fruits 

 great variety. 

 Bend for our Wholesale Price List. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



THE MOON 



Company 



J For f Trees, Shrubs, Vines, 

 Your { and Small Fruits. 



Descriptive Illostrated Catalogue Free. 



THE WM. H. MOON CO., 

 m - Morrisville, Pa. 

 Mention tlie Review wheo yon write. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., S. F. Willard, Wethersneld. Conn. 



Visited Louisville. — John M. Clark, 

 of the Leonard Seed Co., Chicago. 



Arnold Rixgier, with W. W. Barnard 

 & Co., is in Bermuda looking after lily 

 business. 



Hot weather in the California seed 

 growing district has injured crops dur- 

 ing the past ten days. 



Jesse E. Northrup, of Minneapolis, is 

 about again, after being laid up with a 

 ruptured blood vessel in his leg. 



Visited St. Paul: — Max Wilhelmi, 

 Lawrence. Kan. ; Louis Goeppinger, rep- 

 resenting Peignaux & Lorin, Angers, 

 France. 



for Harrisii have been booked 

 at 20 to 25 per cent less than last year, 

 although the crop promises to be fully 

 that much less than a year ago. Deliv- 

 eries are now at hand. 



Santa Cruz, Cal. — E. Leedham. the 

 bulb grower, has sold an interest in his 

 business to Messrs. J. T. Lowry and 

 Theo. Wust, and it will be continued as 

 the Leedham Bulb Co. Ten acres of ad- 

 ditional land will be secured, making six- 

 teen acres of fine sediment soil for bulb 

 growing. A new house 30x320 will be 

 added to the present one. which is 

 28x150. The company will grow mainly 

 daffodils, gladioli and dahlias, largely for 

 the wholesale trade. The gladioli and 

 dahlias now in bloom show that the col- 

 lection of varieties has been most wisely 

 made, and some of Mr. Leedham's seed- 

 lings are of really great merit. 



Philadelphia: — On July 18 this part 

 of the state was visited by a very heavy 

 down-pour of rain, accompanied by a high 

 wind, which did great injury to the to- 

 mato and fruit crops. Corn looks as 

 though a roller had passed over it. Many 

 fine fields of tomatoes had the green 

 fruit threshed from the vines. Egg plants 

 likewise suffered. Spinach seed is not 

 giving more than one-half the expected 

 yield, rutabagas not more than forty 

 per cent. We have one thing to encour- 

 age us, however, and that is the farmer 

 and market gardener are realizing very 

 good prices for all their produce. To- 

 matoes, peas and potatoes have not 

 brought such uniformly high prices for 



ONION CROP PROSPECTS. 



The Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., Cam- 

 bridge, N. Y.. sends out its usual report 

 on onion seed prospects, from which the 

 following is summarized: 



New York. — Acreage a slight increase 

 over last year. Drought necessitated 

 much re-seeding. Maggot doing consid- 

 erable damage, but except in Orange 

 county, where there are 1,000 acres of 

 Red Globes, the conditions are generally 

 rather more favorable than at this date 

 last year, 



Ohio. — Acreage considerably increased, 

 Hardin county alone having 700 acres 

 more than last year. Largely Yellow 

 Globes. Some loss has occurred, but 



