Mabch 10, 1910. 



The Florists^ Review 



75 



NURSERY STOCK lor Horists' Trade 



Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Small Fruits, Roses, Clematis, 



Phlox, Peonies, Herbaceous Perennials 



EXTRA FINE SELECTION OF 



RHODODENDRONS, AZALEAS, PYRAMIDAL BOX, TREE ROSES, 

 CHINESE MAGNOLIAS, KOSTER'S SPRUCE, HEMLOCK, RETl- 

 NOSPORAS, JUNIPERS, MUQHO PINE, CONCOLOR FIR, ARBOR 

 VITAE PYRAMIDALIS and HOVEY'S GOLDEN. 



Ampelopsis Veitchii, California Privet, Barberry Thunbergll 

 and Rosa Setigera, Clematis Jackmanii, Tree Hydrangea. 



Writ* for our wholosalo trado list. 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY, 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



70 YEARS 



1000 ACRES 



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I The New Rose, MRS. BAYARD THAYER, | 



= that we are offering this season, will make a fine addition to a class of large-flowered roses = 



= which is rapidly coming to the front, since we introduced Mrs. Charles Russell, of which the E 



= new claimant is a sport. The color is a most beautiful clear rose pink, inside of petals a shade = 



= ^ lighter. The foliage heavy and smooth and carried on strong stems. It won the American E 



= Rose Society medal, over a strong class of competitors, at the Cleveland Show, scoring 90 points S 



E PRICE LIST I 



= MRS. BAYARD THAYER AND DARK RUSSELL E 



= 100 250 500 1000 2500 5000 10.000 E 



= Grafts $35 00 $82.50 $150.00 $30(i.OO $090.00 $1250.00 $2300.00 = 



= Eyes 27.00 62.50 110.00 220.00 490 00 850.00 1500.00 § 



s Grafted Plants and Eyes ready now. S 



I WABAN ROSE CONSERVATORIES, Natick, Mass. | 



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favorite varieties, is subject to the dis- 

 ease, but when we come to the chest- 

 nuts of Japan and China we find great 

 resistance, amounting in some varieties 

 to almost practical immunity. There 

 now appears to be no method of con- 

 trolling this disease, which is caused by 

 a fungus whose spores are carried 

 about by birds and insects, creating 

 new infections wherever they reach the 

 sap wood, or inner bark, of the chest- 

 nut tree. There is no apparent diminu- 

 tion of its virulence since it came under 

 observation. 



The most obvious means of replacing 

 the great losses of chestnut timber and 

 nuts would seem to lie in substituting 

 for our native forms the Asiatic species 

 that best resist the disease, having 

 evidently for ages been accustomed 

 to its presence, and also in breeding 

 the chestnut as a valuable genus of 

 forest trees, by hybridization and se- 

 lection of varieties better adapted for 

 our purposes. 



Some chestnut breeding has already 

 been accomplished in various parts of 

 our country, and generally with good re- 

 sults. A promising experiment of this 

 character has been under the direc- 

 tion of the office of forest pathology of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 for several years. 



Hybrids between the highly resistant 

 Japanese chestnut and our native chin- 

 quapin have been grown in consider- 

 able numbers, quickly forming hand- 

 some dwarf trees, bearing at an early 

 age profuse crops of nuts of excellent 

 quality, five or six times the size of 

 those of the wild chinquapin parent, 

 and ripening weeks before any other 

 chestnuts. So far these trees show a 

 high degree of disease-resistance. The 

 second generation of hybrids, grown 

 from self or chance-pollinated nuts, 

 appear to be as good as their parents, 

 which is an important feature when 

 the cost of propagation of nut trees by 

 ' budding and grafting is considered. 



HILL'S EVER6REENS 



Beat tor Orar Half » Ctontory. Vm, Spraee, 

 Pinac Janlpen, ArtwirltMS, T»w«, In maU 

 and larva ataea. Prlca LM Now Bcadj. 



THK D. HILL NURSBIY CO- 



Kvafgnan SpedaUsta. Lanreat Growenia Amarica 



Another line of breeding lies in the 

 intercrossing of disease-resisting Jap- 

 anese and Chinese varieties that are 

 rapidly being imported into this coun- 

 try by the office of foreign seed and 

 plant introduction, and selection of the 

 best resulting forms. Four generations 

 of crossbred Japanese chestnuts of an 

 early-bearing type, producing nuts 

 when two or three years old, have 

 already been g^own, and the varietal 

 characters appear to be well fixed. 

 Some of the Chinese chestnuts are said 

 to grow nearly 100 feet high in their 

 home forests, and it may be possible 



