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The Florists' Review 



June 3, 1920 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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Secretary John Watson estimates the 

 annual business represented by the A. A. 

 N. at over $30,000,000. 



A. H. FiNNEGAN, Oregon City, Ore., re- 

 ports shipping out 410,000 strawberry 

 plants since the middle of January, 1920, 

 most of them going to California. 

 Nick Ohmer and New Oregon were the 

 favorite varieties with buyers. 



The death May 26 of Edward W. Reid, 

 vice-president of Holm & Olson, Inc., St. 

 Paul, Minn., was briefly recorded in last 

 week's obituary column of The Eeview 

 and receives more extended notice in that 

 column this week. He and his father con- 

 ducted the Upland Nurseries in Bridge- 

 port, O., about twenty-five years ago and 

 in St. Paul it was under his management 

 that Holm & Olson established the Park 

 Nurseries. 



Of those who were with the California 

 Nursery Co., Niles, Cal., until recently, 

 J. H. O'Neal has joined the forces of 

 Silva-Bergtholdt Co., at Marysville ; A. A. 

 Hunt is in charge of the Arthur Cann 

 greenhouses, at San Jose, and H. H. 

 Sherrer, who was manager, has gone to 

 Oakland. S. E. Bergstrom is on the Sand- 

 born place, near Niles, and W. E. Collins 

 is at his home, in Niles. George C. Roed- 

 ing, the new owner of the California 

 Nursery Co., will open extensive sales- 

 rooms and depots in Oakland. 



FEUIT GROWINa IN FRANCE. 



French Nurseries After the War. 



In comparing the French orchards 

 with American orchards, we must realize 

 first of all that there is no such thing in 

 France as a big, commercial orchard in- 

 dustry as we know it in America, but 

 France does produce an enormous quan- 

 tity of fine fruit, since practically the 

 entire country is dotted with orchards 

 and fruit gardens. 



The grape industry, on the contrary, is 

 commercialized and organized on a 

 gigantic scale, because of the fact that 

 Frenchmen seldom drink water, using 

 their light wine instead. There are sev- 

 eral reasons for this, one of them being 

 that the French water in many sections 

 is dangerous. 



On our arrival in France we landed at 

 Bordeaux, probably the largest wine 

 market in the world and the center of 

 export for all the French vineyard in- 

 dustry. On entering the mouth of the 

 Gironde, as soon as the sand dunes were 

 passed, we found beautiful vineyards on 

 every hand and as we steamed up the 

 river the French vineyardists and peas- 

 ants left their work among the grape 

 Tines to line up along the banks and wel- 

 come us to France. 



During the 50-mile trip up to Bor- 

 deaux, on either side, as far as the eye 

 could reach, we saw almost solid vine- 

 yards. This same condition existed in 



From an addrpis on "French Orchardt and 

 Nurserlea after the War," dellTered bj Major 

 Uoyd C Stark, Tlce-presldent of the SUrk 

 Broi. Nuraeriea & Orchards Co., Louisiana, 

 Mo., ex-presldent and now vice-president of tks 

 A. A. N., at the mpptlng of tlie Tennessee Stat« 

 Horticultural Society at Nashville, 



many other sections of France, along 

 the southwestern coast and the Mediter- 

 ranean shores, and also in the old prov- 

 ince of Burgundy, where the famous 

 Burgundy wines are made, Dijon being 

 the center of the Burgundy district. 

 The climate in the southwest and 

 south of France is, of course, semitrop- 

 ical and citrous fruits flourish and are 

 grown in abundance. In the northwest- 

 ern, central and northern sections of 

 France, deciduous fruits are grown in 

 great quantities. Every little home has 

 its fruit garden and you will see pear 

 trees growing over the stone walls 

 pruned up in fan shape, in every con- 

 ceivable design and fashion. 



In Burgundy, in the garden of the 

 chateau where I had my headquarters 

 after the armistice was signed, I saw 

 a row of dwarf apple trees 50 years old; 

 the trees were only about two and 

 one-half feet high, the base of the trees 

 being only four to six inches in diame- 



ter. They are pruned back every year 

 almost in the way our vineyardists 

 prune a grapevine. They were grafted 

 on the wild dog brier of France. 



Up in the north of France, in the vi- 

 cinity of Calais and Boulogne, where I 

 spent a month or so along the British 

 front, the cider and apple industry is 

 considerable, but in Normandy I saw 

 what I considered the best orchard land 

 and the best orchards in France. And 

 it is in Normandy that the greater num- 

 ber of the apples are produced for the 

 famous French cider, also apples for 

 market. The land in Normandy struck 

 me as being more like our American 

 orchard and farm land than any I saw 

 elsewhere in France. The fields were 

 larger and there was a certain similar- 

 ity between their forest trees and those 

 we see in the central states of this 

 country. 



Most of the orchards are grown in 

 sod. Few of the orchards, except those 



GARDEN BORDERED WITH BOX-BARBERRT 



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 for 1000 or more if requested. 



Have yon seen a gaiden bordered with 



Box-Barberry 



this spring? Every plant bright and 

 green— not a dead one. A strong con- 

 trast to the northern Buxus bordered 

 garden, now either dead or sadly winter 

 injured, brown and dejected looking. 



Mr. Siebrecht, the veteran plantsman, 

 on seeing the garden the other day shown 

 in accompanying illustration, exclaimed 

 with his characteristic enthusiasm: "Mag- 

 nificent! There is a fortune in it for the 

 nurserymen." 



We offer you well rooted dormant summer frame cuttings ready to set out direct into 

 the nursery without further expense to you at 



$65.00 per lOOO 



All sold out of larger sices 



Many of the leading catalogue firms have already contracted with us for their supply 

 for the ensuing season, and others are buying these frame grown plants for their own plant- 

 in?, preparing for the enormous demand which is sure to follow. 



It is a safe statement that BOX-BARBERRY will soon be the plantsman's best seller. 



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