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The Florists' Review 



Sgptembbk 11. 1919. 



Thk Southwestern Nurserymen's Asso- 

 ciation will meet at Denison, Tex., Sep- 

 tember 24 and 25. 



Chester H. Moon has purchased 

 twenty-seven and one-half acres at Leaven- 

 worth, Kan., and will grow peonies and 

 ornamental nursery stock. 



BIG PROGRESS IN IRIS. 



"Not many realize how great has 

 been the advance in the iris in the last 

 few years," said William A. Peterson, 

 of Peterson's Nursery, Chicago. "II 

 one were to compare a list of the 

 twenty-five best peonies made five years 

 ago with such a list made today, there 

 would be only five varieties or so that 

 would be different. But if I made a list 

 of the twenty-five best irises today, 

 there would be fifteen or twenty not on 

 such a list of five years ago, so great has 

 been the improvement of this flower." 



AT THE DXTNDEE NURSERIES. 



A trip through the grounds of the D. 

 Hill Nursery Co., at the little town of 

 Dundee, 111., is of much interest to the 

 trade visitor. 



This nursery was founded sixty-four 

 years ago and has grovra rapidly, so that 

 it now occupies 450 acres. The writer 

 was met at Elgin by the firm's able 

 sales manager, Mr. Vallery, and driven 

 to their elaborate oflSces, then to the 

 packing sheds, which are most modern 

 in all their details — a system long since 

 perfected with all the latest appliances. 



The seed beds contained thousands of 

 seedlings under cover and carefully 

 culled out, true to form. The trans- 

 planted seedlings, just beginning to 

 show character, are still under cover. 

 The propagating beds, thoroughly 

 equipped for rooting such evergreens as 

 are possible to root, contain conifers 

 showing root form. From here they are 

 lined out, six inches apart, into larger 

 frames for cultivation. 



The growing stock, cultivated up to 

 the last minute, is laid out in blocks for 

 immediate sale, so true and symmetrical 

 that one can imagine he gazes upon a 

 sea of green. Then come the blocks in 

 rotation of the larger specimens for 

 landscape planting, which bear tags 

 giving their height and price, as well as 

 variety. Countless blocks, as far as the 

 eye can see, contain numerous varieties 

 of evergreeTis for window boxes. This 

 stock is classed in three forms, tall, 

 medium and dwarf, which are sent out, 

 where collections are required, one-third 



tall, one-third medium and one-third 

 dwarf. Four large blocks are given 

 over to evergreens for tubs. This stock 

 is spaced far apart and sheared closely, 

 then root-trimmed so scientifically that 

 one can scarcely tell it has been moved. 

 These, like all the other stock, are bur- 

 lapped carefully and go to the trade 

 intact. 



The firm has recently acquired more 

 land along the railroad tracks and is 

 building shipping rooms with a spur 

 track entering to them. J. A. L. 



EXTROPEAN BARBERRY DANGER. 



Japanese Variety Safe. 



The European barberry has been used 

 for ornamental planting in many places 

 and in some cases has escaped and be- 

 come thoroughly established in open 

 wood and pasture land. This European, 

 or common, barberry is such a factor in 

 the spread of black rust that public 

 sentiment should condemn its existence 

 and nurserymen assist in its extinction. 



The European barberry is not a par- 

 ticularly handsome shrub. It is sur- 

 passed in every way by the Japanese 



barberry, Berberis Thunbergii, which is 

 perfectly safe from insects and plant 

 disease. These two barberries can be 

 easily distinguished. The European 

 form has leaves with spiny margins and 

 fruits in clusters, like red currants, 

 whereas the Japanese variety has leaves 

 with smooth edges and berries singly 

 or in twos*, liSe gooseberries. The 

 Japanese variety grows more compactly 

 and makes a superior hedge. No one 

 having the Japanese barberry need feel 

 any alarm, but the European barberry 

 is dangerous even in a town or city, 

 since the seeds may be distributed by 

 animals or birds and thus plants may 

 grow where they do damage to our most 

 important food crops. 



Wheat that has been the victim of 

 black rust via the European barberry 

 bush early in the season has a reddish 

 appearance on the stem. When the 

 plant matures it turns black. What 

 farmers sometimes call red rust is noth- 

 ing more than the black rust in its early 

 stage. Black rust has caused a marked 

 cutting down of the wheat yield in some 

 places. In infested areas some farmers 

 did not harvest more than seven bushels 

 to the acre, on account of the severe at- 



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