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The Florists^ Review 



August 21, 1919. 



Knowledge of the actual cost of pro- 

 ducing stock is rarer than it should be in 

 the nursery trade. Do you know yours? 



The officers of the Elm City Nursery 

 Co., of New Haven, Conn., are: Presi- 

 dent, Ernest F. Coe; treasurer and general 

 manager, W. W. McCartney; secretary 

 and sales manager, Walter E. Campbell; 

 nursery manager, W. H. Eagan. 



OUTLOOK FOR ORNAMENTALS. 



In place of the importations now cut 

 off by Quarantine No. 37, nurserymen 

 will be called upon to supply either na- 

 tive stock which they already produce 

 or stock which they may be able to 

 propagate of the varieties desired. In 

 the course of a few years it may be 

 expected that ornamentals previously 

 imported will be propagated and grown 

 by American nurserymen to some ex- 

 tent. How general or liow successful 

 will be the results, it is too early to pre- 

 dict. The better stocks require a longer 

 time before they are ready to be put on 

 the market. In the meantime there will 

 be an increasing demand, as the profits 

 of wartime industrial activity and the 

 savings resulting from war economy are 

 spent for better homes and more beauti- 

 ful home grounds. This fall will prob- 

 ably witness a shortage of stock to fill 

 orders even at high prices. No one, 

 despite the activities of the govern- 

 ment in forcing down food costs, antic- 

 ipates general price lowering. Predic- 

 tions are general the other way. When 

 all others are getting plenty for their 

 wares, the growers of ornamental stock 

 seem likelv to fare well also. 



PRICES OF FRENCH STOCKS. 



The frugal Frenchmen are getting 

 even, giving a lesson in profiteering. 

 Stocks for export are one of the ve- 

 hicles. Rose stocks which, before the 

 war, they were ready to sell at about 

 $6 per thousand, they ask $50 for now. 

 Fruit stocks are as bad. 



American growers of rose plants for 

 the forcing trade usually prefer English 

 Manetti, but the supply never has 

 equaled the demand, England as well as 

 America drawing on France for large 

 quantities of stocks on which to graft 

 roses. A British grower is advised that 

 the French exporters pro[)osc to fix the 

 prices for Kosa canina, first choice, at 

 about $48 per thousand, for autumn de- 

 livery, cash to be prepaid ou price being 



fixed. The only reason advanced for 

 this enormous rise is that owing to the 

 drought, growers will onlj be able to 

 supply eighty per cent of the quantities 

 booked to their customers. The price is 

 quite a shock to the British. On learn- 

 ing it, one of the large British buyers 

 of rose and fruit stocks wrote to his 

 supplier: 



"We much regret that you see fit to 

 make such enormous advances in prices, 

 and we feel sure you do not realize the 

 amount of the increase. Compared with 

 autumn, 1917, it is four and one-half 

 times greater and three times greater 

 than last year. It is impossible that 

 your costs of production have increased 

 300 per cent over those of the last year 

 of the war and we much regret that we 

 are quite unable to entertain such prices, 

 and shall be glad if you will cancel the 

 entire provisional order, as the price you 

 ask is quite an unprofitable one for us. 

 When you see fit to reduce the price 

 to one more in accordance with the 

 actual costs of production, we shall be 

 pleased to again entertain the idea of 

 doing business with you. We are ex- 

 tremely sorry to have to come to this 

 decision, but will develop our own re- 



sources, which, fortunately, are now con- 

 siderable, and while fully appreciating 

 the gallant services and terrible sacri- 

 fices of your country in the war, much 

 regret that we are unable to trade at a 

 loss. ' ' 



MENACE PROVES BENEFACTOR. 



Only a few years ago the San Jose 

 scale was looked upon as a most serious 

 menace and fruit trees seemed exposed 

 to almost certain destruction by the 

 ravages of the scale. Now the scale is 

 looked upon as having TJBtti a blessing 

 in disguise. The rapid iaprease of the 

 scale after its first app^Knce made it 

 necessary to spray to ^le the trees. 

 Lime-sulphur solution s^f became the 

 standard remedy for th 

 insect. In a short tim 

 ered that this spray at 

 aided in the control of many tree dis 

 eases and it has also come to be ex- 

 tensively used in a more dilute form for 

 the control of fungous diseases during 

 the growing season. This use of lime- 

 sulphur in dilute form has now been 

 found to aid largely in the control of 

 scale insects by killing the young before 



ontrol of this 

 was discov- 

 liter strength 



CATALPA BUNGEI 



35,000 1-year heads. 



BERBERIS THUNBERGll 



200,000, 3-year, 12 to 18-inch, 18 to 24-inch, 2 to 3-feet. 



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200,000, 2-year, 12 to 18-inch, 18 to 24-inch, 2 to 3-feet. 



Fruit Trees, Small Fruita, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, etc. 



WRITE FOR WHOLESALE PRICES 



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 SHRUBS, PERENNIALS 



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UAOnV DDII/CT L IBOT« X OVAUFOLIUM. 

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