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The Florists' Review 



Jdly 17, 1019. 



Of $167,846 worth of nursery stock 

 imported during the month of April, 

 $137,248 came from Holland. France 

 was second with $15,255. 



The quarantine by the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board prevents nurserymen tak- 

 ing a great deal of interest in the an- 

 nouncement, made July 11, that the 

 blockade of Germany had been lifted. 



The low-price customer is not going to 

 buy again from the nurseryman whose 

 poor stock died on his hands last year. 

 He may be some one else 's sucker, but he 

 won't be a steady patron for anybody. 



Planting of memorial trees is finding 

 favor in various cities in this country. 

 New Orleans dedicated a grove of sixty- 

 one live oaks July 4, each bearing a 

 bronze tablet for a soldier from that 

 city who died during the war. 



D. S. Olson, who has charge of the 

 forest service nursery at Hogan, Mont., 

 is visiting nurseries in Minnesota, Wis- 

 consin, Michigan and Illinois for the pur- 

 pose of exchanging ideas. Mr. Olson will 

 be at this for six weeks. He expects to 

 visit fifteen nurseries. 



William A. Pktkeson, Chicago, re- 

 cently has added a eoMidewble number 

 of stone implements to the collection of 

 Indian relics at the museum in the nurs- 

 ery. The grounds were a favorite camp- 

 ing spot in early times, and still show 

 some of the old Indian trails. The Peter- 

 son collection of Indian relics is said to be 

 the largest in the middle west. 



NO FEAB OF RISING PRICES. 



We notice in the issue of The Re- 

 view for June 12, in the Nursery News 

 department, a paragraph reading: "The 

 nursery trade can execute a quick about- 

 face on occasions. Where a few years 

 ago the cry was for higher prices, now 

 there is fear that prices will go so high 

 that the public will stop buying. ' ' 



We do not have any such fear, and do 

 not think nurserymen in general who 

 know the inward workings of the nurs- 

 ery trade have such a fear. The greatest 

 fear we have is that we shall not have 

 the stock to furnish, irrespective of 

 price. There is going to be a tremen- 

 dous shortage in the nursery line for 

 the next six or seven years, on account 

 of conditions brought on by the war, 

 and a great shortage of stock to plant, 

 caused by weather conditions, etc. 



The growing of nursery stock has sel- 

 dom been profitable to the grower, on ac- 

 count of the many losses that occur 



over which he has no control. We feel 

 that now is the time to get the nursery 

 business on a business basis. We know 

 from experience that people are willing 

 to pay a good price for a good article, 

 and that is what the business is going 

 to hinge on in the future. 



Wilmer W. Hoopes. 



Thorough-thinking persons will agree 

 with Mr. Hoopes that nurserymen who 

 fear prices so high that they hinder buy- 

 ing are dismayed at an empty bogy. 

 Prices of nursery stock are not rising 

 out of proportion to the prices of other 

 commodities. So long as this continues 

 true, the public will always have money 

 to buy nursery stock, if they think the 

 stock is worth the price. The nursery- 

 men who grow stock of the best qual- 



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 proposed eradication from the state of 

 Berberis vulgaris and Berberis vulgaris 

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