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The Florists' Review 



Januakt 16, 1919. 



NURSERY STOCK for Florists' Trade 



fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Small Fruits, Roses, Clematis, Phlox, Peonies, Herbaceous Perennials 



Writ* for our whol«sal« trad* list 



73 YEARS W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



1000 ACRES 



Mention The BeTlew when yon write. 



RDRSERY NEWS. 



AXEXIOAK A8S00ZATZ0N OF NVKSESTICEH. 



Preildent, J. B. Msykew. WazahacUe. Tex.; 

 Tlce-preaident, J. Bdward Mooa. IforritTlUe, Pa.; 

 •ecretary. Ohariee Blaemore, Loulalana. Mo. ; conn- 

 ael. Oortla Nye Smith. 19 Oongreia St.. Boaton, 

 Maaa.; treaanrer, J. W. Hill. Dea Molnea, la. 



Eastern nurserymen report the labor 

 situation as easing rapidly. 



A LOT of people will be in position to 

 plant ornamentals in the spring. 



The Clair Manor Nurseries, Inc., Man- 

 hattan, N. Y., is the name of a concern 

 chartered December 29 to grow farm 

 products of every description. Capital 

 stock is stated at $90,000 and incorpora- 

 tors are named as follows: G. Nasseuer, 

 A. T. Scharps and H. K. Daly, aU of New 

 York city. 



E. M. SHERMAN'S VIEWS. 



"At the present time the outlook is 

 for a shortage of some things in the 

 fruit line," says E. M. Sherman, presi- 

 dent of the Sherman Nursery Co., 

 Charles City, la. "1 am inclined to 

 think, however, that there will be 

 enough ornamental stock to go around. 



"I look for a fair volume of business 

 in the nursery lines next spring. In 

 some sections business is better than a 

 year ago, while in others it seems to 

 have slumped. It is difficult now to tell 

 what the average ■will be." 



WHAT'S THE MATTER? 



A great majority of the nurserymen 

 of the country are confident that the 

 prices the trade is asking for both fruit 

 and ornamental stock are not high 

 enough to meet the present cost of pro- 

 ducing and marketing the output. This 

 is proven by the observations on the 

 condition of the nursery stock market 

 made by a number of the foremost men 

 in the trade during the last few months 

 and printed in the Nursery section of 

 The Review. 



In almost every instance the writers 

 have said that they have raised their 

 prices, but not in proportion to the in- 

 creased cost of production. Undoubted- 

 ly, they would have increased the prices 

 more had it not been for the fact that 

 competitors had not. 



It was agreed at the last convention 

 of the American Association of Nursery- 

 men that some means should be devised 

 by which prices of nursery stock can be 

 based on the cost of production, instead 

 of being controlled by what a customer 

 is willing to pay. "Get what you can, 

 but sell the stock," has been a policy 

 that has kept the prices down. 



There appears to be a chance for the 

 nursery business to come into its own 

 during the next two or three years. The 

 nurseryman who has stock has something 



ROSE STOCK 



Be independent. Grow your own ROSE STOCKS for budding or grafting. Those using 

 ROSA MULTIFLORA JAPONICA STOCK prefer it to Manetti. We offer for immediate 

 delivery New Crop unhulled Seed, at $4.60 per lb. 



McHUTCHISON & CO., 



96 Chambers 

 Street, 



New York, N.Y. 



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PRIVET 



Over 200,000 strictly hardy Amoor River Privet North 

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

 or 2 to 3- 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 NURSERY 



G«o. Winter, Prop. 



La Salle, III. 



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FARMERS NURSERY CO. 



Troy, O. 



FRUIT TREES, 

 ORNAMENTALS. 

 SHRUBS, PERENNIALS 



GET OUR 

 PRICES 



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 CALIFORNIA PRIVETAND 

 BCRBERIS THUNBERGII 



Nearly two million plants of hiKheet grades 



We are now bdoklnir orders for 



Spring delivery. 



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SEEDS AND SEEDLINGS 



Of Forest and Ornamental Trees. Buy now and 



store for early spring planting. 

 Write ns for prices and Mention The Review 



American Forestry Co., Pembine, Wis. 



that people want and when they want 

 it they will pay for it. This is espe- 

 cially true of fruit trees. Boost the 

 prices; the buyer will pay them — or go 

 without his trees or shrubs. 



HELP THE BIG PBOBLEM. 



"Business in general has been consid- 

 erably behind previous years," reports 

 Frank A. Weber, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery 

 Co., Nursery, Mo. "The great trouble 

 has been a shortage of help to do the 

 planting, it being, in fact, almost im- 

 possible to get help of any kind. We 

 have been working with about one-third 

 of our usual force and if it had not been 

 for the excellent fall weather we had, I 

 don't know how we would have been 

 able to keep up with our deliveries. In- 

 dications are that there will be a big 

 demand next spring, by which time we 

 hope matters will liave adjusted them- 

 selves so that people desiring landscape 

 work done will be able to secure suffi- 

 cient help. The shortage is mainly in 

 the fruit tree end of the business. The 

 demand is exceedingly good and from 

 present indications there will be a 



A Big Bargain 



To Nurserymen and Florists 



USING SHADE TREES : 



We have a life-time opportunity. At our 

 nursery in Guthrie, Okla., we have grow- 

 ing 10,000 or more beautiful, straight, 

 clean Sycamore, Ma pie, Elm, Ash, Locust, 

 Hackberry, etc., from 1^-inch to 5-inch. 

 Get them at will by paying a small rental 

 charge, one-tenth regular value. 

 For information write 



Lang Floral S Nursery 



DALLAS, TEXAS. 



shortage next spring. Up to the pres- 

 ent time there is still plenty of orna- 

 mental stock on the market and those 

 growing ornamentals are hoping that 

 business will pick up by spring. Owing 

 to war conditions there has been little 

 ornamental planting throughout the 

 country and we predict a big demand 

 as soon as conditions become normal 

 again." 



THE FBUIT TBEE SHOBTAOE. 



"For the first time in a number of 

 years the demand has exceeded the sup- 

 ply in nearly all lines of fruit trees and, 

 in our opinion, this is only the begin- 

 ning of a short supply and high prices," 

 say Irving Eouse & Son, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



"Importation of fruit tree stocks has 

 been greatly cut down during the war, 

 due both to a scarcity in France and 

 to a lack of demand in this country. 

 The trade generally has been growing 

 trees and selling them at less than cost 

 for at least three years. The mount- 

 ing costs of imported stocks, labor and 



