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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



At m'si 13. I'.'o: 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



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

 F. A. Weber. St. L.miB; Secy. Geo. C. Seager. 

 Rochester, N. Y.: Tie .is., ('. L. Yates. Ro ' 

 N. Y. The twenty-eighth annual eoi 



Atlanta G.V, June 



i . W. Ward, of the Cottage Gardens, 

 peonies for September shipment 

 selling very well indeed. 



Seymour Nelson, of Chicago, lias 

 made plans for the improvement of 

 South Park at Des Moines, a portion of 

 which will be developed this fall. 



P. J. Berckmans has again been 

 elected president of the Georgia State 

 Horticultural Society, a position he has 

 held for more than a quarter of a cen- 

 tury. 



The consensus of opinion is that the 

 fumigation of nursery stock was by no 

 means general the past season. There 

 are only two fumigation houses at l>an- 

 ville, N. Y., but they have had no San 

 Jose scale there. 



At the session of the Indiana Hor- 

 ticultural Society, at Anderson, August 

 4 and 5, E. Y. Teas, of Centerville, read 

 a paper on "The Catalpa" and C. M. 

 Bobbs, of Bridgeport, one on "Five of 

 the Most Promising New Varieties of 



Apple. ' ' 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 railroad is about to make a practical 

 experiment in forestry, planting catal- 

 pas along its right of way, 640 trees to 

 a mile. It is figured that in sixteen 

 years these trees will have attained a 

 size to furnish one telegraph pole or 

 five eross-ties. 



Charles 11. Vice, director of the New 

 York state horticultural exhibit at the 

 St. Louis World's Fair, states that the 

 extensive grounds around the state build- 

 ing will be largely planted by four Roch 

 ester nursery firms, Chase Pros. Co., Kll- 

 wanger & Barry, Charlton & So,, and 

 Brown Bros. Co. 



The losses at Topeka during the 

 spring flood were: Apple seedlings, SO per 

 cent; apple grafts, 60 per cent; peach 

 seedlings, lo ]„] cent; peach coming one 

 year, 65 per cent, with losses on other 

 items about iii proportion, according to 

 figures compiled l.\ Peters & skinner. 



The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, at 



lie Witt, Ga., has been organized to take 

 over the niii'scrx and L65 acres of pecan 

 groves of <i. M. Bacon. There are 200,- 

 '"iil pecan trees in the nursery and a 

 large business is being done in supply- 

 ing stock to planters, but this depart- 

 ment is to be greatly enlarged. They 

 have a icu variety, Georgia Giant, short- 

 ly to be distributed, the parent tree of 

 which at five years of age bore nuts 

 weighing thirty-two to the pound. 



TREE PLANTING IN NEBRASKA. 



One hundred acres of land in the sand 

 hills of the Dismal Eiver forest re 

 serve, Nebraska, were planted this 

 spring by the Bureau of Forestry. On 

 eighty acres 100,000 ping seedlings were 

 set out; the other twenty acres were 

 sowed with seed. The work will con- 

 tinue this summer. The nursery will be 

 enlarged so us to cover two acres, which 

 will hold 2,000,000 s llings. The bu- 

 reau intends to increase the size of the 

 nursery gradually so us to make it grow- 

 enough seedling trees every year to fur- 

 nish sufficient stock for the planting. 

 It is intended ultimately to turn the 

 whole of the Niobrara and Dismal River 

 reserves, which are now barren sand 

 hills, into forest by planting. The Dis- 

 mal River reserve includes SO, 000 acres, 

 the Niobrara reserve 126,000. A survey 

 of the boundaries of the Niobrara re- 

 serve will be made this summer by E. 

 T. S. Moore, of the Bureau of Forestry. 



Chicopee Palls, Mass.— Field-grown 

 carnation plants are in good demand 

 in this vicinity, :is several florists lost 

 a good many by stem rot in the field. 

 Chrysanthemums are being grown in 

 about the usual quantities, and the 

 plants are looking well. Hitchings & 

 Co., New York, .are building an iron- 

 frame greenhouse for the Springfield 

 Cemetery Association, on Pine street. 



75,000 Pot=Grown Strawberry Plants 



rants for special low qu 



T. J. DWYER & SON, 0r 



ies CORNWALL, N. Y. 



& T. SMITH COMPANY, 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



u/k,ii i l^^lrnamental Trees, ShrubB 



Wholesale r|I Roses, Clematis, Fruit 



Growers of I ■ J Trees, and Small Fruita 



E B al in sreat variety. 



Send for oar Wholesale Price List. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Peterson Nursery, 



<w| 164 La Salle St , CHICAGO. 



Ueoimies 



And HARDY ORNAMENTAL STOCK. 



THEM00N ORCHIDS.. 



Company 



For J Trees, Shrubs, Vines, 

 Your | and Small Fruits. 



Descriptive Illustrated Catalogue Free. 



THE WM. H. MOON CO., 



Morrisville, Pa. 



Mention the Review when yon write. 



Arrived in splendid condition a Brand 

 lot of Cattleya labiata; also C. Max- 

 ima. Write for prices. 



Lager & Hurrell, SBC Summit, N, J. 



Mention Review when yon write. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres.. J. ChaB. 

 S.-c-y anil Ti-eas., C. E. Kend'i-1. Cleveland, 



The 'JM annual ineeliin: u ill lie held a' si Loins. 



Jesse E. Northrup, of Minneapolis, 

 has fully recovered from his recent in- 

 jury. 



' John C. Leonard and his bride are 

 again at Chicago after a trip to the 

 Pacific coast. 



August Rhotkrt sailed from N.u 

 >oik tor Europe August 11. on the 

 Eronprinz Wilhelm. 



Another two weeks should give much 

 more satisfactory information as to the 

 outcome of the growing season. 



The July issue of Prank B. White's 

 Class Advertising is devoted to the Seed 

 Trade convention and to seed advertis- 

 ing. 



Bessemer, Ala. — W. D. Taylor will 

 open a wholesale and retail seed store in 

 the building now being erected adjoining 

 his premises. 



Practically all seed crops may be 

 said to be late and early frost is likely 

 to be a very large factor in determining 

 next season's supply in many lines. 



The Department of Agriculture is ask- 

 ing seedsmen for back copies of cata- 

 logues to complete the department 's files 

 and aid in the work of tracing the origin 

 of varieties and giving proper credit. W. 

 W. Tracey, Jr., is in charge of the work. 



The discontinuance of the Landreth 

 retail department leaves some good men 

 in the market, among them James Vick, 

 who had charge of the mail order de- 

 partment, and Robert f'arpenter, who has 

 been with the firm upwards of forty 

 years. 



I.'ni Kt'ORD, III. — The insurance on the 

 II. W. Buekbee seed stock destroyed by 

 lire some time ago is iu a fair way to 

 be settled, the companies involved hav- 

 ing left the matter to a committee rep- 

 resenting three of their number for ad- 

 justment. 



Annually increasing quantities of 

 radish seed are being grown in the 

 United States. The Michigan crop is 

 short, but rather better than a year ago, 

 while the silence with regard to condi- 

 tions in California leads to the belief 

 thai :i good crop may be expected there. 



A. II. Goodwin, of the Goodwin-Har- 

 lies Co., Chicago, returned August 10 

 from a trip to the northwest and says 

 corn is not in an encouraging condition. 

 Mr. Harries is just back from the Mich- 

 igan bean and pea districts, where condi- 

 tions are better, but the critical stage is 

 not yet passed. 



Philadelphia.— Both the hay and 

 grain crops of New Jersey and Penn- 

 sylvania are below the average. Corn 

 and tobacco crops are very backward. 

 Both wheat and oats are of average 

 quality. Late planted potatoes are look- 

 ing thrifty and promise to develop nice- 

 ly. The cold nights of late are working 

 great havoc with the tomato and vine 

 5 i crops. The rust has .tthtciud some 



