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The Florists' Review 



April 10, 1919. 



NURSERY STOCK for Florists' Trade 



Trait Trees, Oraamental Trees, Shrubs, SinaH fruits, Roses, Clefliatis, Phlox, Peonies, Herbaceous Perennials 



Writ* for our wholMal* trad* list. 



73 YEARS W. & To SMITH COMPANY lOOO acres 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



Mention Th> B«t1«w whan yon write. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AK£&ZOAN ASSOOXATIOK OF NTTSSERYKEN. 

 President, J. R. Mayhew, Waxabacbie, Tex.; 

 ▼Ice-presldent, J. Edward Moon, Morrlartlle, Pa.: 

 ■ecretary, Charles SUemore, Louliiana, Mo. ; coun- 

 sel, Curtis Nye Smith, 19 Congress St., Boston, 

 Mass.; treasurer, J. W. HIII, Des Moines, la.; 

 forty-iourtb annual conyention. Hotel Sherman, 

 Chicago, June 2S to 27, 1919. 



The McKay Nursery Co., of Madison, 

 Wis., reports extremely heavy business. 

 Everybody connected with the concern is 

 busy packing stock for spring shipment. 



The Morningside Nurseries, of Sioux 

 City, la., recently successfully removed 

 twenty-eight trees in the courthouse 

 yard at Spencer, la., and replanted them 

 in various parts of the town. 



The Nurserymen's National Service 

 Bureau is the right idea. Properly man- 

 aged, it will accomplish for that trade 

 what the publicity committee is ac- 

 complishing for the S. A. F. 



The Thomas B. Meehan Co., Dresher, 

 Pa., reports that orders have been difficult 

 to fill, due to the number and size and the 

 shortage of labor. Mr. Meehan says that 

 he is forced to spend a portion of his days 

 in the nursery and work in his office at 

 night to keep up with the rush. 



Fifty-six nurseries were doing business 

 in Ehode Island during 1918 and fifty- 

 four were allowed to continue after in- 

 spection, according to the thirty-third an- 

 nual report of the state board of agri- 

 culture, presented to the Rhode Island 

 general assembly recently. The two closed 

 were not sufficiently free from plant dis- 

 eases and insect pests. 



C. J. McGregor & Sons, of Newbury- 

 port, Mass., have purchased the farm, 

 greenhouses, barns and dwelling houses 

 which for many years were owned and 

 operated there by the firm of Kent & 

 Marsh. The farm is composed of all 

 kinds of land, from bog to high upland, 

 and it is the intention of the new owners 

 to carry on a general nursery business 

 in addition to their present retail flo- 

 rists' business. All sales will be made 

 from the office, located on Chapel street. 



STANDABDIZATION NEEDED. 



Question Is Ck)mplicated. 



The subject of standardization in the 

 nursery business, not only as to prices, 

 but as it relates to every phase of nurs- 

 ery endeavor, is a question that is to- 

 day engrossing the minds of nursery- 

 men in every part of the United States. 

 While this is true, this problem is pe- 

 culiarly difficult by reason of the fact 

 that such a large part of those who han- 

 dle trees and plants are not brought un- 

 der the influence of any of our many 

 associations, and because this is a large 

 country, with varying conditions in dif- 



FLORISTS 



Are you on our mailing directory 'i 



We have a good trade with FLO- 

 RISTS who sell Fruit Trees, Small 

 Fruits, Shade Trees and Seedlings, Shrubs, Roses, Vines, Evergreens, etc. 

 Write for a copy of our Wholesale Trade List. 



SHENANDOAH NURSERIES, Shenandoah, Iowa. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



FARMERS NURSERY CO. 



Troy, O. 



FRUIT TREES. 

 ORNAMENTALS, 

 SHRUBS, PERENNIALS 



GET OUR 

 PRICES 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PRIVET 



Over 200,000 strictly hardy Amoor River Privet North 

 our specialty. Write for special prices on 18 to 24-inch, 

 or 2 to 8-foot in 6,000, 10,000 or car lots. Strong, heavily 

 branched, the bushy kind. This strain has been grown in our nurseries in central Illinois 

 for eighteen years and has not winter killed. Also have a very choice list of the lead- 

 ing varieties of fancy ornamental shrubs. Write for list. ■ 



LA SALLE COUNTY NURSB^Y 



0*0. winter. Prop. 



La Salle, III. 



Th«a«w 

 Hybrid 

 Introdneen of THE BLM CITY NUR8KRY CO.. 

 BOX-BABBEBRY WOODMONT MUB8EBIE8. Inc.. 



IBOLIUM 



HARDY PRIVET ^ "^* " QMUFOUOM. To be sent out 



1919. More about it later. 



■EW HAVER, com 



Mention The Review when yoo write. 



mmONS OF SEEDLINGS ^^:-4^,^^.. 



Hnndieds of varieties to select from. Evergreen 

 and Decidaoas Trees, Hbmbs, Bulbs and Plants. 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY CO.. PEMBINE. WIS . 



ferent localities. Therefore, the prices 

 which might be equal on certain com- 

 modities in one section of our great 

 country would perchance not be applic- 

 able to another section. 



To illustrate, the south can grow 

 peach trees cheaper than any other sec- 

 tion of the United States, but the south 

 would go bankrupt growing apples in 

 quantity. I believe the nursery business 

 is attempting a solution of this problem 

 and that in the "future each nurseryman 

 will determine just the items which can 

 be grown successfully and profitably, de- 

 pending upon the more favored loca- 

 tions for such items as he has been try- 

 ing to grow and which have been losing 

 money for him. 



Committee Appointed. 



There is a rapidly growing sentiment 

 in favor of standardization, and in view 

 of this fact, the writer, who is president 

 of the American Association of Nursery- 

 men, has appointed a special committee 

 to meet prior to the convention, which 

 is to be held in Chicago June 25-27, this 

 year, and this committee will endeavor 

 to work out certain policies for the 

 guidance of the membership, and stand- 

 ardization is certain to be one of the 

 questions considered. Just how far it 

 will be possible to go in the matter of 

 standardization, future events alone 

 can determine, but, to say the least, we 



PINUS MUGHO 



(Dwf. Mt.Plnc) 



Inch Per 100 



4- 8 Bedded Stock 1 tr $7.00 



6-10 Field-Grown Stock 2 tr 16.00 



10-12 Field-GrownStock2tr 20.00 



12-18 Field- Grown Stock 2 tr 26.00 



18-24 Field-Grown Stock 2 tr 86.00 



Feet Per 10 



1 -lifl Specimens B. <& B. 8 tr $9.50 



1^-2 Specimens B. «fe B. 8 tr 15.00 



TAXUS CANADENSIS 



(Amcricaa Yew) 

 Inch Per 100 



6-16 Bedded Stock Itr... $ 6.00 



10-12 Field-Grown Stock 2 tr 16,00 



Feet Per 10 



1 -l^a Specimens B. & B. 3 tr $20.00 



1^-2 Specimens B. & B. 3 tr SO.'JO 



Nice, thrifty, acclimated Amerlcan-ffrown 

 stock. Send for complete Wholesale Price LHt. 



The D. HiD Nursery Co., Inc. 



Evergreen Specialists 



Largest Growers In America. 



Box 407 DUNDEE, ILL. 



can do better in the future than in the 

 past. Certainly there should be i-owM 

 uniformity in prices, both wholesale anfl 

 retail, all over the country, thougl , *"! 

 be sure, that organization which is .'il'l^i 

 because of its efficiency, to produce at » I 

 minimum cost its stock, will be ablf, ^ 

 has been true in the past, to rendf' 

 services at a lower price than its u"' 

 fortunate competitor, who has product'' | 

 stock at the maximum cost. 



I cannot say anything of definite o*| 

 ture on the subject, but Ijelieve that dfi' 



