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The Florists^ Review 



March 1, 1917. 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 

 I'rosidciit. .Idlin Wutsou, Newark, N. Y. ; Vice- 

 prcsiili'iit. I.lo.vd C Stiirk, Louisiana, Mo.: Secre- 

 tar.v and Counsel, Curtis Nye Snjitli, 19 C'onfjress 

 St., I'.oston. Mass.; Treasurer, I'eter YounKors, 

 Geneva, Neb. 



It is proving an excellent season for 

 the luusei ynien of the south. 



The obituary column contains a brief 

 sketch of tlie life of D. E. Mayo, of 

 Knoxville, Tenn., who died from apo- 

 plexy February 16. 



B. Tkhrell Hoyt, proprietor of the 

 Hoyt Nursery Co., of St. Paul, Minn., 

 died February 14, at the age of 41. Mr. 

 Hoyt enjoyed a wide reputation as a 

 landsca]H' architect. The Inisiness will 

 be continued by Mrs. Iloyt. 



Cable advices last week stated that 

 after the S. S. Xieuw Amsterdam, of the 

 Holland-America Line, had sailed with 

 a cargo containing hundreds of cases of 

 nursery stock, the vessel was recalled to 

 Rotterdam and that a portion of the 

 cargo will come forward on a smaller 

 boat. 



The GrilTing Bros. Co., which operates 

 one of tlie largest nurseries in the en- 

 tire soutii, will soon be located on a 100- 

 acre tract near Beaumont, Tex., with 

 general headquarters at Beaumont. The 

 GrifTing brothers, W. C. and W. D., arc 

 located near Tort Arthur, Tex., where 

 they have built up a large business in 

 ornamentals. The nursery at Port Ar- 

 thur will be continued as a branch, as 

 well as the other nurteries operated by 

 the com]iany at Mobile, Ala., Jackson- 

 ville ami ]\Iiami, Fla., and San Benito 

 and Nona, Tex. 



CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION. 



The eleventh annual meeting of the 

 Connecticut Xurserymen "s Association 

 was held at Hotel (Jarde, Hartford, 

 Conn., February 21. It was a most in- 

 teresting session. Tlie (piestions of for- 

 eign importations, diseases of ]ilants, etc., 

 wei'e disiussed, and much information 

 relative to diseases was obtained through 

 addresses by such able speakers as Br. 

 W. E. l^ritton, state entomologist; Br. 

 G. B. Clinton, state botanist; W. O. Fil- 

 ley, state forester; V. B. Kelley and 

 others. 



The election of oflicers resulted in the 

 choice of the following: President, F. S. 

 Baker, of Cheshire; vice-president, C F. 

 Brainard, of Thom])sonville; secretary, 

 F. Ij. Tiiouias. of Meriden. reelected; 

 treasurer. W. W. Hunt, of Hartford, re- 

 elected. 



UNSATISFACTORY EVERGREENS. 



T liave noted some recently ]iublished 

 remarks on Cunninghamia lanceolata. T 

 have been well acquainted with this tree 

 for a great number of years, and am 

 also well acquainted with the specimen 

 referred to as growing in a cemetery at 

 Wilmington, Bel. This tree, though of 



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considerable size, is not a siuh-osh and 

 certainly is not nnich of an ornaniciit. 

 The growths are annually killed back, 

 giving it a struggling-to-exist appear- 

 ance, so that it is more fit for the rub- 

 bish heap than to occupy a space where 

 so many good trees might b»» an orna- 

 ment and a success. 



I have met with this cunninghamia 

 from near I'hiladelphia down through 

 the Carolinas and (ieorgia and into 

 Florida. There is a sample of consid- 

 erable size across the St. Johns river, 



Paeonia Chinensis 



All the worth-while old varieties 

 and most of the new and rare iu- 

 troductions. Peonies are a money- 

 making investment for any florist, 

 for the first crop of flowers often 

 pays for the plants. 



Get our wholesale list, order your 

 Peonies now; they will be shipped 

 in time for you to set them out next 

 fall. 



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 you time. Write to New York. 



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 New York City 



opposite .Tacksonville, but it shows the 

 same half hardy, cut-back appearance 

 that it shows farther north, just as it 

 does in sections of (ieorgia. If it will 



