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The Florists^ Review 



•Apuil 22, ;l,9ao 



Lack of help is the greatest problem of 

 nurserymen this spring. 



Do your bulletins reach as large a nvmi- 

 ber of buyers as do the offers of nursery 

 stock in the pages of The Review? They 

 cost a good deal more. 



The difficulty of getting printing done 

 promptly, together with the high cost, 

 has created a renewed demand for 

 catalogues for use in the nursery trade. 



Nursery firms have ceased to quote 

 prices in some trade papers to prevent 

 such information going outside the trade. 

 Do they watch their mailing list as 

 closely! 



Allan Dunster, formerly of England, 

 has bought ten acres of land in the Im- 

 perial valley, in southeastern California, 

 where he expects to grow ornamental 

 trees, plants and fruit stock. 



Joseph Zimmerman is to be in charge 

 of the Caldwell Nursery, at Cincinnati, 

 O., where the park board has acquired 104 

 acres of land and plans to open a nursery 

 where all flowers and plants for municipal 

 parks will be grown. 



There is a groundless fallacy prevalent 

 that a publisher has not the right to re- 

 fuse subscriptions. The Review accepts 

 them only from persons who can give 

 proof of their connection with the florists ', 

 seed or nursery trade. 



Even high-priced efficiency experts 

 would find the difficulty in determining 

 production costs far greater in this busi- 

 ness than in any branch of manufactur- 

 ing industry, but the nurseryman who has 

 some idea of them at least is more apt to 

 be making a profit. 



PRIOEITY ON BAIIiROADS. 



As a result of conferences with the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission and other 

 officials at Washington, the A. A. N. has 

 secured action which practically gives 

 priority to nursery stock on the rail- 

 roads after vital necessities, such as 

 food and fuel. This is in the form of a 

 letter to all railroad officials from the 

 American Railroad Association. Al- 

 though this association now acts in an 

 advisory capacity since the return of the 

 railroads to private owmership, its sug- 

 gestions have the weight of orders. The 

 letter sent out under date of April 17 

 reads as follows: 



Complaints In considerable volume are reach- 

 ing us and the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 as well, from nurserymen in various parts of the 



country, indicating that there is little uniformity 

 among the various roads with respect to ex- 

 empting nursery stock, u highly seasonal and 

 semi-perishable commodity, from embargoes. 



To establish a uniform practice, it appears to 

 be important at this season, and it is therefore 

 suggested, that whenever general embargoes are 

 placed which exempt food, feed, perishable 

 freight, live stock and fuel, that such seasonal 

 articles as field and garden seed, seed grain, 

 and nursery stock, be considered next in order 

 of importance to receive preference in transpor- 

 tation. 



CAUFOBNIA BUD SELECTION. 



Association's Work Begins. 



Elimination of nonproductive strains 

 of deciduous fruit trees of California by 

 standardizing the desirable varieties to 

 varietal name is the program of the 

 leading nurserymen of the state, 

 through the California Bud Selection 

 Association, which was launched April 

 12 with the opening of offices at San 

 Jose. In charge of the project is L. B. 

 Scott, a Department of Agriculture spe- 

 cialist of experience in standardizing 

 deciduous fruits, subtropical and citrus 

 groves. 



Although nurserymen are financing 



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 will satisfy your customers and build up your 

 trade. 



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SHERANIOAH HIRSERIES 



D. S. LAKE, Pres. 

 SHENANDOAH. IOWA 



the movement, it has been placed on a 

 public service plane and the Depaii 

 ment of Agriculture will cooperate &h:\ 

 conduct the work on the lines laid dovm 

 for the citrus fruit bud selection inves- 

 tigation and program now being con- 

 ducted for the citrus growers by the use 

 of a congressional appropriation. 



Plans of the association call first for 

 an investigation of the varieties of fruit 

 which the canners, dried fruit assccia 

 tions and various other associations of 

 growers would rather handle. Then sui 

 veys will be started of the orchards of 

 the state for individual tree-perform- 

 ance records. A bud selection orchard 

 will be established near San Jose for 

 research work and finally guaranteeti, 

 pedigreed stock of the most desirable 

 qualities of each variety will be sold. 



Follows Citrus Selection. 



In explaining the plans of the asso 



and 



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The largest stock left 

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 lots or more. 



Trade list containing prioes on 

 TREES. SHRUBS, ROSES and 

 PERENNIALS now ready. 



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CULTRA BROS., MaBageri 



Onarga, Illinois. 



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