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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



An. i st 0, lOOo. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Of NURSERYMEN. 



Pres.. N. W. Hale. Knoxvllle Tenn.: Vice-Prea. 

 F A Weber. Si Louis; Secy. Geo. c. Seagrer. 

 Koc ; i''Met . N. V.: Tr.-^s.. C. L Vales Roeliesier. 

 N. Y. The twenty-eighth annua] convention 

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



The .Eleventh National h 



Ml be held at Ogden, Utah, 

 to L8. H. B. Mason, 

 Reno, Xev.. is secretary. 



. \\ \i ki B, editor of the 



Cos politan, [rvington, X. Y., has 



bought Berkeley lake and 100 acres stir- 

 rounding it. in Colorado, and will im- 

 prove the property. 



I.. Barbesb, nurseryman, of Orleans, 



has called on leading ime n 



firms, sailing from New York July 23. 

 He says he found au optimistic sentiment 

 liere in this country. 



W. H. Smith & Son, 

 Springfield. O.. have filed a petition in 

 bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $20,- 

 067, and no assets. The three members 

 of the firm also filed petitions. 



E. F. Stephens, of Crete, discussed 



••The Orchard Interests of the Platte 



Valley'' ■ the summer meeting of the 



-rat. Horticultural Society at 



'- .i :'•■ 18, Peter Youngers, of 



Gent a, is treasurer of the society. 



The bureau of forestry, IT. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has planted S50 

 pounds of evergreen seeds at the station 

 near Halsey, Neb. They find the seed of 

 1'iiius ponderosa gathered near Crawford. 

 Neb., tii.- mosl satisfactory in growth. 



Geneva. X. Y.— William Smith, of the 

 W. & T. smith Co., will, it is announced, 

 found and endow a college for women to 

 be known as the William Smith College 

 for Women. This institution will be on a 

 site of thirty acres in the outskirts of the 

 city. The plans call for one building to 

 cos! $150,000. Mr. Smith has made 

 large donations to public institutions and 

 also maintains Smith Observatory. 



A tarty of Texas nurserymen, includ- 

 ing Fred W. Mally, of Garrison: T. V. 

 Munson, of Denison; J. S. Ken. of Sher 

 man; E. \Y. Kirkpatrick. of MeKinnev: 

 F. T. Ramsey, of Austin: C. Falkner, of 

 Waco; E. J. Kyle, of College Station: 

 A. K. Clingman, of Keithville. La., and 

 Sam. H. Dixon, of Houston, secretarj I 

 the State Horticultural Society, is vi-it- 

 ing the horticultural sections of south- 

 ern California as the guests of the 

 Southern Pacific railroad. 



B-AjSSVtlle, X". Y.— Samuel Allen lias 

 perfected a machine which makes tree 

 the rate of 1,000 in three nun 

 utes. A strip of soft pine is placed in 

 the machine and as it progresses the 

 variety i- printed on both sides, a hole 

 is punched in the end, a wire attached, 

 and the label i- cut off at the proper 

 length. There is also an attachment to 

 the machine which will m 

 stuck in flower pots, printing the name 

 on both -ides, sharpening il to a point 

 and cutting the label off at the right, 

 length. Mr. Allen is fitting up the Gil 

 man foundry on Franklin street for use 

 in manufacturing these machines and 

 making labels. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Plant Registration. 



The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 



Pa., submits for registration Rose Leo 

 XIII. Plant very vigorous; flowers pure 

 white, large, quite double. First blooms 

 open about May 20 and continues in 



bl n all s U ,ninor and fall. This variety 



l- as ii.iil\ as the single Rugosa. 



T! .aid & Jones Co., West Grove. 



Pa., submit for registration Rose North- 

 ern Light. Climbing; very vigorous; per- 

 fectly hardy; foliage large and leathery, 

 deep glossy green. Flowers produced in 

 large clusters of from fifty to seventy- 

 five; single flowers measuring about two 

 inches; very double; fragrant; color 

 variable, pink, some on the same cluster 

 half pink, others w bite. 



War. .1. Stewart, See y. 



Maloxe. X. Y— Mrs. W. C. Stevens 

 has sold out her florist business to Mrs. 

 J. C. I '.any. 



Lansing, Mich.— C. S. Fitzsimmons 



has leased his greenhouse to Guerdon B. 

 Smith, who took possession August 3. 



%n* A BEAUTIFUL STOCK OF 



Xentia Belnioreana— Char. 



In. high. Size Pots. Leaves. Per 100 



12-15 3in. 5 $18.00 



18-20 4-iD. 5 30.00 



20-24 ' 4-in. 6 50.C0 



latania Borbonica— 



12-15 4-in. 2 15.00 



15 4-in. 3-4 20.00 



18-20 4-in. 5 30.00 



Biota Aurea Nana 



12-15 Very compact. 20.00 



18-24 " 40.00 



CedmsDeodara- 



15-18 Very shapely. 25.00 



20-24 - 30.00 



Oranges— Best sorts, grafted on Citrus 

 triioliata. bearing sizes. 



12 in. 4 in. pot=, bushy 20.00 



15-18 in. 4-in. pots. " 30.00 



Xumquats— 



10-12 in. 4-in. pots, " 20.00 



Exochorda Grandiflora— 



18-24 in. Very bushy, transpl.. 8 00 

 2-3 ft. Heavy. 12 00 



Hydrangea Rosea, Thos Hog-g-, etc. 

 Strong field-trrown. well branched. 



12-15in 8.00 



:>. 1 



12 ' 



(Not less than 40 of a sort sold at 100 rate ) 

 We also offer an immense stock of ornamental 

 trees, shrubs, conifers, azaleas, camellias, and 

 other stock suitable lor landscape work. 



No Disease or Insects on onr Stock. 

 Catalogues sent on application. 



P. J. BERCKMAN'S COMPANY, (Inc.) 



Fruitland Nurseries, 



AUGUSTS, GA. 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY, 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



m 



jrnamental Trees. 



Roses, Clematis, Frnit 



Trees, and Small Fruits 



variety. 



Send for our Wholesale Price List. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



THE MOON 



Company 



For J Trees, Shrubs, Vines, 

 Your | and Small Fruits. 



Descriptive IllOBtrated Catalogue Free. 



THE WM. H. MOON CO., 



Morrisville, Pa. 



Mention the Review when yoo write. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., S. F. Willard. Wetheraneld. Conn.: Fire 

 Vice-Pres.. J. Chaa. McCullough. Cincinnati. O 

 Sec'y and Treas.. C. B. Kendel. Cleveland, r 

 The TM animal meeting will be held at St. Louis 



Visited Chicago.— Chas. Crossman, of 

 Bros., Bochester, N. Y. 



Advance orders for cucumber seed 

 continue to come in at very good prices. 



Visited St. Louis :— Howard M. Earl, 

 of W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia. 



The Manitowoc Seed Qo., Manitowoc, 

 Wis., is building a new brick block for 

 offices and warehouse and will put up 

 another warehouse in the fall. 



Good growing weather is reported at 

 most of the bean-growing stations. A 

 good, sturdy growth at this time will he 

 of value should adverse climatic condi- 

 tions come later. 



Considerable anxiety prevails as to 

 the outcome of the sweet corn crop. Def- 

 inite information about Evergreen and 

 other late sorts seems to be especially 

 asked for. 



Gems, and some other of the early 

 wrinkled peas, do not seem to be as 

 short as at first reported. The pea crops 

 generally are likely to be better than 

 was anticipated a week or two back. 



Ci.ovf.i: -ee.l , rn|, lia- secured a very 

 good start. It look- better than a year 

 ago, when later it did not fill properly. 

 Crop is later than usual. Prospects are 

 very good in Indiana, good in Ohio. Illi- 

 noi- and .Missouri, and not quite so good 

 in Michigan. 



Late advices from Ollioules, France, 

 indicate great unrest among the growers 



■ : . rgt importers expect a break in 

 the market for Romans unless the grow- 



i- and the jobbers reach an early agree- 

 ment, which now seems not unlikely. 

 Only a few small shipments have as yet 

 bei n made. 



The beneficent results of the govern- 

 ment free seed distribution are ver\ up 

 parent to the florists of a western town. 

 The congressman for the district sends 

 the bulk of his quota of seeds to a local 

 politician for distribution "where they 

 will do the most good." This thrifty in- 

 dividual holds outthe cabbage and tomato 

 seed and grows large quantities of cab- 

 bage and tomato plants, which are put 

 on sale at all the grocery stores at prices 

 that "defy competition'' by the local 

 florists, all of whom formerly grew vege- 

 table plants for sale, but have been 

 obliged to abandon that department of 

 their business on account of this sort of 

 competition. 



Philadelphia, Pa,— The outlook of 

 some of the seed crops grown in New 

 Jersey is very discouraging, to say the 

 least. In Cumberland and Gloucester 

 counties quite a large acreage is de- 

 voted to egg plant, tomato, cucumber, 

 |ie|i|.er, watermelon and iiiiiskniel.oi -eed. 

 Egg plants show blight to an extent of 

 twenty-five per cent, with every indica- 

 tion of its extending still further. Many 

 Si Ids of watermelons and muskmelons 

 will not produce twenty-five pounds of 

 seed to the acre, while in one locality 



