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The Florists^ Review 



ApaiL 8, 1920 



The demand for perennials is reported 

 to be exceptionally heavy this spring. 



The Amawalk Nursery, Eddyville, N. 

 Y., was recently reorganized to carry on 

 business with $140,000 capitalization. 



There is little danger of overproduc- 

 tion so long as nurserymen are as short- 

 handed as they are this spring. 



Elaborate nursery catalogues are not 

 numerous this season; it has been found 

 that they are costly and, under present 

 conditions, more or less unnecessary. 



The Easter snow interrupted a period 

 of fine weather that was of great help to 

 nurserymen. Reports indicate that no 

 serious damage will result unless the cold 

 continues. 



The W. & T. Smith Co., one of the 

 pioneers in the business in western New 

 York, next season will celebrate the 

 seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding 

 of the nursery at Geneva. 



That the promotion work of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen is work- 

 ing in the way it was hoped it would is 

 well illustrated by the circumstance that 

 Secretary John Watson received an un- 

 solicited invitation to address the national 

 organization of editors of agricultural 

 papers in convention at Chicago April 6. 

 Of course he accepted and told the editors 

 all about the high aspirations of the nurs- 

 ery trade. 



Thk John W. Baker Nursery Co., at 

 Higginson, Ark., has purchased 110 acres 

 of land, one and one-half miles south of 

 Searcy, Ark., and will install one of the 

 most complete and modern nursery estab- 

 lishments in the south. The consideration 

 for this acreage was $11,000. The officers 

 of the company are: President, John W. 

 Baker, of Higginson, Ark. ; vice-president, 

 C. E. Yingling, of Searcy, Ark. ; secre- 

 tary-treasurer, R. E. Baker, of Higginson. 

 J. V. Smith, of Sherman, Tex., who has 

 had twenty years' experience in this busi- 

 ness, will have charge of the planting. 



BAB OBTENTAL FBUIT STOCKS. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has is- 

 sued a quarantine, effective June 1, pro- 

 hibiting the importation of fruit stocks, 

 cuttings, scions and buds from Asia, 

 Japan, the Philippine islands and 

 Oceania. This quarantine was issued in 

 response to a hearing held at the de- 

 partment in Washington, March 9, and 

 is for the purpose of excluding from 

 the United States diseases and insects 



which are known to infest such mate- 

 rials in various oriental countries. These 

 pests include cankers, blister blights and 

 rusts, the oriental fruit moth, the pear 

 fruit borer and the apple moth. 



This quarantine has little commercial 

 significance, as the importations in- 

 volved are limited in quantity and of 

 minor importance. Such imported fruit 

 stocks and cuttings have hitherto come 

 chiefly from France or other European 

 countries, and only recently have some 

 requests for permits for the importation 

 of such stock from Japan been received. 



Enough is known of the insects and 

 diseases which attack such trees in the 

 orient, state government experts, to in- 

 dicate the extreme undesirability of 

 opening up general commercial importa- 

 tion of such articles. Furthermore, no 

 adequate survey of these countries has 

 been made and the diseases which are 

 not known probably outnumber those 

 which are known. It will still be pos- 

 sible under Quarantine No. 37, to which 

 this action is an amendment, to import 

 the articles prohibited, through the 

 agency of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and under full departmental disin- 

 fection and control to meet all legiti- 

 mate needs for the introduction of any 



new varieties or strains of necessuiv 

 stock which would otherwise not Sc 

 available for horticulturists in tKis 

 country. 



PEONY DIVISIONS. 



I have some peonies which are 7 and 8 

 years old and some of the roots seem to 

 decay. They have not been cultivated 

 for a year. I do not know where each 

 variety is located; I bought the lot in 

 about five acres. They will make six 

 or eight divisions to the plant. Most of 

 them are Marie Lemoine and festiva 

 maxima. I think they need changing 

 and I want to get them in healthy con- 

 dition to sell or replant on my own 

 place. I want to sell blooms if they 

 open for Memorial day. I also should 

 like to know about rooting or propa- 

 gating and how it is done. 



M. F. J.— Va. 



I would suggest that you give the 

 peonies a top-dressing of a good kitchen 

 garden fertilizer as they start to grow, 

 at the rate of 1,200 pounds per acre, and 

 harrow it in. If they have not been 

 cultivated for a year, they cannot be in 

 good condition and are probably weedy. 

 I should keep the cultivator going 

 among them right through the growing 



GARDEN BORDERED WITH BOX- BARBERRY. 



Electros of this illastration free with each order 

 for 1000, if requested. 



Box -Barberry 



Well rooted, dormant summer 

 frame cuttings ready to set 

 direct into the nursery without 

 further expense. 



$65.00 per lOOO 



Many leading catalogue firms will 

 list Box-Barberry next season. 



THE ELM CITY NURSERY CO. 



WOODMONT NURSERIES, Inc. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



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HARDY PLANTS 



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Mentor, Ohio 



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Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Small Fruits, 

 Roses, Clematis, Phlox, Peonies, Herbaceous Perennials 



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