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The Florists' Review 



Mabch 4, 1920 



The parking commission of New Or- 

 leans, La., recently decided to establish 

 a 60-acre nursery on Gentilly road. 



The death of James B. Hutchinson, who 

 was engaged in the nursery business for 

 nearly fifty years, is recorded in this 

 week's obituary column. 



M. H. Havice, an employee in the 

 shrubbery department of the Templin, 

 Crockett, Bradley Co., Cleveland, O., in- 

 tends to start a nursery of his own at 

 West Park, O. 



Early buying promotes sane and steady 

 business conditions. Frantic efforts of 

 late buyers to fill orders force up prices 

 by creating a disproportionate impres- 

 sion of the demand. 



The Howard-Hickory Co., was recently 

 organized at Hickory, N. C, to do a 

 general nursery and landscape business, 

 with O. J. Howard, of Greenboro, N. C, 

 as manager. This firm is capitalized at 

 .$125,000, of which Mr. Howard subscribed 

 .$50,000. 



The official roster of the Mount Arbor 

 Nurseries, Shenandoah, la., is as follows: 

 President, E. S. Welch; vice-president 

 and treasurer, E. E. May; secretary, R. 

 M. Gwynn ; superintendent, F. W. 

 Welch. The business was established 

 in 1875 and incorporated in 1916. 



"Nurserymen should become identi- 

 fied by attendance at meetings of their 

 state horticultural societies," President 

 Earl D. Needham told the members of 

 the Western Association of Nurserymen. 

 "Really it is a pleasant surprise to some 

 members of these societies to find that 

 nurserymen wear no horns and look and 

 act like other honest merchantmen. ' ' 



IMPORTS AND THE FUTURE. 



Large Peace-time Demand. 



Do not blame the French growers for 

 the present high prices of PVcnch fruit 

 and rose stocks; they are barely get- 

 ting their bait back. The high prices 

 are due, first, to scarcity and, second, to 

 the increased cost of production, both 

 resulting from the war, for it should be 

 remembered that the stocks dug this 

 winter were started while France was 

 still at war, with every able-bodied man 

 planning and working and fighting more 

 for the immediate export of the invad- 

 ing Hun than for the later export of 

 such peaceable items as fruit stocks. 

 Seeds were scarce and high-priced, limi- 

 tations were still in ofifect on the pro- 

 duction and transportation of all non- 

 essential items and who could foresee 

 today's demands? 



When the armistice was signed, in 

 November, 1918, it changed the situa- 

 tion completely; men were rapidly re- 

 turned to peaceful vocations and inter- 

 national markets for fruit opened, which 

 stimulated the planting of fruit trees 

 in all countries. Great Britain, Russia, 



Tho address of James MrHntchison. of New 

 York, on "Imports and Quantities of Stock Avail- 

 able in the Future," dellverod l)efore the oonvon- 

 tlon of tlie Western Association of Nurserymen 

 at KHnsas Pity. 



Italy, Scandinavia, Australia, all want- 

 ed their share of the small crop and 

 were willing to pay almost any reason- 

 able price for their pro-rata share, but 

 it was then too late in the year to pro- 

 cure more seeds or to plant them for the 

 1919 crop even if they were procurable. 



Quarantine Uncertainty. 



In competing with other countries as 

 buyers of fruit stocks, America is at a 

 distinct disadvantage by reason of 

 Quarantine No. 37, which places impor- 

 tations of nursery stock absolutely un- 

 der the control of five bureau chiefs in 

 the United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture. If these officials were in 

 touch with business life or the commer- 

 cial needs of the nation, the French 

 gp"Owers would feel reasonably safe in 

 producing for American markets, but 

 since this board stopped shipments of 

 all varieties of ornamental stocks, many 

 of which were grown exclusively for 



American markets and are unsalable in 

 France or elsewhere in Europe, and paid 

 little or no heed to the arguments and 

 protests from the American buyers or 

 the French sellers, the French grower 

 does not know when the ax may fall on 

 the exportation to America of fruit and 

 rose stocks; so he is not overeager for 

 American trade. 



French Growers Reasonable. 



Be it said to the everlasting credit of 

 the French growers that they did not 

 meet our ill-considered and unwise quar- 

 antine by adding the price of the orna- 

 mental stocks that must be destroyed 

 to the price of the fruit stocks we must 

 have, as they could easily have done 

 with adequate justification. On the con- 

 trary, the prices to American importers 

 are no higher than to importers in other 

 countries, though these buyers do not 

 expect credit from French firms this 

 season. This is proved by the prices of 



SHADE TREES 



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We have a full line of the 

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Ash ^ Elm 



Hackberry 



Soft Maple 



Black Walnut 



Ranging from 5 feet up 



Write for special prices . 



GURNEY SEED & NURSERY CO. 



YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA 



