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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN 4SS0CI 



Pres.N. W. Hal-. Ki 

 F. A. Weber St I. i 

 Ro. I i ate n v . : . 



N. Y. The twenty-. 

 will In- heW ;il Atiant; 



S > i a Beos., proprietors of the 



Home Nursery, Normal, 111., have bought 

 the nurserj business of I'. S. Phoenix. 



I I'.i kiii i:. ..i i anal Dover, < >.. while 



at tlie niii'-ri \ 1 1 1. 1 1 - coi« 'lit ion, soid 



stock uf his big pink peony, Jeimy Lind. 

 t.p C. \V. Ward. 



Alrertson & Hobbs 

 report the recent nurse 

 one of the most ~nti 

 they have ever been 



Bridgeport. Ind.. 

 S men - convent ion 

 Factory a1 which 

 represented. 



Otto Locke, proprietor of the Comal 

 Springs Nursery, at Xe« Braunfels, Tex., 

 has established a branch near San An- 

 tonio, under the management of his son, 

 Kmil Locke. 



With a committee consisting of Win. 

 Pitkin, Geo. C. Perkins and E. Allien 

 son. a practical form of mutual insur- 

 ance for nurserymen should he forth- 

 coming at the Atlanta convention. 



NON-FRUITING FILBERTS. 



I would like in 

 some English filbei 

 from the States sor, 

 which have never fi 

 them on low, loann 

 mained for five yi 

 did not bear, we rei 



:ion respecting 

 ich I obtained 

 years ago and 

 I first planted 

 where they re- 

 Then, as they 

 nil them to higher 



ground, light sandy loam, where they 

 thrive exceedingly but. although there 

 are male and female flowers each year, 



they have never borne fruit. Some ■ 



suggested that they need -alt air and 

 that I am too far from the sea. but 

 cannot think that is the reason, as we 

 have quantities of wild hazel nuts in 

 the woods here. B. B. B. 



In reference to the failure of your 

 filberts to bear nuts, there are some 

 points not elucidated by your note, 

 which have an important hearing on the 

 solution of the problem. First, how 

 many are there of your filbert trees? 

 In the hazel, as you have remarked, the 

 staminate and pistilate flowers are sep- 

 arate, and nature, possibly to disfavor 

 inbreeding, ordains that the staminate 

 catkins appear considerably in advance 

 of the female flowers on the same shrub; 

 hence, if there arc only a limited num- 

 ber of plants in the group, the chances 



eis. _\ like conaiuon occurs in maize, 

 and experience shows that s few'" stalks 

 alone generally suffer from de- 

 ficient pollination. In the cultivation 

 of the filbert in England it has been 

 found that in ccriain localities it will 

 not produce enough catkins for proper 

 fertilization, and the supplying of po| 

 len from the catkins of the wild hazel 

 is advised as a remedy. It would also 

 be important to know whether the til 

 liert has borne nuts in your locality. 

 Because of the structural peculiarity 

 noted above, there are many strictlj 

 local conditions which might affect the 

 result — exposure to winds at the time 

 of blooming, premature opening 

 kins, excessive rains oi moistun 

 of these might hinder the forming of 



igh failure of pollen. In 

 he cutting out of all suckers 

 louth is found to favor the 

 of nuts. Perhaps too 

 iwth is unfavorable to fruit- 



JOHN HlGOINS. 



SUMMER PRUNING. 



Head before the Ge 

 tural Society, June 



1,'cdles. 



ItiWerinK 



iantown Horticul- 

 1903, by George 



oi erowt* 



ins lull- 

 the fruit 



produced lessi 



the greater number 



The Market. 



The cold, cloudy weather of the past 

 two weeks has checked the supply of all 

 flowers. The scarcity of stock made a 

 market for everything, and inferior stock 

 lot the first time this year was eagerly 

 bought up. A lew days of sunshine is 

 all that will be necessary to bring the 

 quantity and quality up again to the 

 standard, and even at this writing stock 

 is again more plentiful. Beauty. Kais- 

 eiin. Carnot and Liberty roses are arriv- 

 ing in large quantites; the quality is 

 very fine. Quantities of good Prosperity 

 and Lawson carnations are in evidence 

 which are particularly well grown; they 

 sell readily at $2 ana $3 per LOO. 



Notes. 



A few early asters arc arriving from 

 Theo. F. Beckert. 



Mrs. E. A. Williams has a house of a 

 fine white gladiolus named Augusta. 



Win. Laueh is sending in quantities of 

 pink and white sweet peas, also some 

 g 1 Win. Scott carnations. 



Oil City Bose Gardens are making 

 daily shipments of roses to almost every 

 fiori'st in the city. 



l-'red Burki has been very successful 

 with his last crop of longitlorum lilies. 



II. P. .loslin has taken up the culture 

 of gaillardias for the wholesale market. 



Last Tuesday the Pittsburg Cut 

 Flower Co. supplied Lloyd -Swarthout 

 with 400 special Beauties. 



The death of our former mayor. Bar- 

 naul McKenna. gave the florists of both 

 cities considerable floral work. The most 

 conspicuous among the many designs was 

 a large one to represent steps, signifi- 

 cant only to Mayor McKenna's friends. 

 Il,i- was made up by T. M. Ulam & Co. 

 Hoo-Hoo. 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY, 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



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