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The Florists^ Review 



JUN* 10, 1920. 



St. Louis will send a good-sized repre- 

 sentation to the forty-Sth annual con- 

 vention of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen at Chicago June 23 to 25, 

 according to Frank A. Weber, of the H. J. 

 Weber & Sons Nursery Co., St. Louis. 



The spring season has been a decidedly 

 good one, despite the drawbacks of the 

 transportation situation, the labor short- 

 age and, to some extent, the weather, 

 according to S. G, Nelson, president of 

 the Swain Nelson & Sons Co., Chicago. 



There is little chance of assistance in 

 reporting service such as the A. A. N. 

 discussed with Department of Agriculture 

 officials last year, since the department's 

 activities are being so decidedly curtailed. 

 Beport of commercial fruit crops will be 

 dropped and gypsy moth control will be 

 diminished. 



Pennsylvania nurserymen have suf- 

 fered with the rest, according to William 

 A. Peterson, of tiie Peterson Nursery, 

 Chicago, who recently returned from a 

 trip to Philadelphia in connection with 

 the show of the American Iris Society, of 

 which he is vice-president. One large 

 establishment had lost half of its ever- 

 greens, because of the injurious effects of 

 the severe winter. Another was 120 men 

 short of its needed number just in the 

 busy season. The third prevalent evil, 

 inadequate transportation facilities, had 

 also shown itself there as elsewhere. 



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FEBST lEIS EXHIBITION. 



The first annual exhibition of the 

 new American Iris Society was held in 

 the store of John Wanamaker, at Phila- 

 delphia, June 1 and 2, in conjunction 

 with the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society. Most of the exhibits were by 

 amateurs, but splendid displays were 

 made by the Wyomissing Nurseries, 

 Wyomissing, Pa., and the Movilla 

 Gardens, at Haverford, Pa. Some seed- 

 lings of interest were shown by B. H. 

 Farr, Arthur H. Scott and Mrs. M. W^ 

 Jacob. 



The annual meeting, held June 1, re- 

 sulted in the election of the following 

 officers: President, John C. Wister; 

 vice-president, William A. Peterson; 

 secretary, R. S. Sturtevant; treasurer, 

 Frank H. Presby. 



HACKEE JOINS KOHANEIE. 



Charles Hacker last week resigned his 

 position with the Storrs & Harrison Co., 

 at Painesville, O., after being in that 

 company's service for over thirty years. 

 He has accepted a position as general 

 manager for Henry Kohankie & Son, at 

 Painesville, widely known as ornamen- 

 tal growers. Mr. Hacker held an im- 

 portant position in the employ of the 

 Storrs & Harrison Co.; he had charge of 

 all the hardy roses, azaleas, rhododen- 

 drons, etc.; in other words, of practical- 

 ly everything in cold storage. 



Mr. Hacker is a son of the late Otto 

 Hacker, who also worked for the Storrs 

 & Harrison Co. for thirty years, as 

 botanist and propagator. He was the 

 originator of the well known begonia 

 which bears his name. Otto Hacker, 

 which was first sent out by the Storrs 



& Harrison Co. Although it was new 

 a score of years ago, it still holds a 

 place in the front rank of li^rge-flower- 

 ing begonias and is always itTydemand. 

 TJ J. M. 



FBUIT GBOWTNa IN FRANCE. 



[In the first section of Major Uoyd C. Stark'* 

 account of "French Orchards and Nurserlea 

 After the War," which appeared in last week'* 

 issue of The Review, he described the conditions 

 he saw in Burgundy and in the northern part of 

 France, where the cider and apple Industry Is 

 of considerable importance, touching also upon 

 I>ear growing. This week he proceeds farther 

 towards the battle front.] 



In manj sections of France fruit 

 trees »re used to line all the highways. 

 This is a practice that should be, and 

 some day will be, carried on in our 

 country. Think of the millions of acres 

 now entirely idle that could be produc- 

 ing fruit here in America if we planted 

 hardy varieties of fruit trees along all 

 the state and county roada. as ffell as 

 the national highways./ Mai\y claim 

 that it cannot be done satisfactorily in 

 this country, but there is absolutely no 

 argument there. We have better va- 

 rieties and just as good soil and climatie 

 conditions. 



Up in the country to the north of 

 Verdun, in the edge of the Ardennes 

 mountains, as we pushed the German 

 armies back through the Argonne and 

 Woevre forests we saw many fine apple 

 orchards that had been uprooted and 

 wantonly destroyed by the enemy. It 

 will take a long time to bring these 

 orchards back again and a great many 

 of the fruit-tree stocks that formerly 

 came to America must now be used to 

 replant the destroyed orchards of 

 France and Belgium. 



In visiting the nurseries throughout 

 France where they grow the apple, pear 

 and cherry seedlings, we found a pitiful 

 state of affairs. Many of the men had 

 been killed in the war and the nurseries 

 >had been kept going by the older men 

 and women left behind. It will take 

 several years before they are back to 

 their former standard. In the mean- 

 time the great shortage of the seedling 

 crop is being felt not only in Europe 

 but in America as well. 



For instance, apple seedlings that 

 used to cost us $5 or $6 are now worth 



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 garden, now either dead or sadly winter 

 injured, brown and dejected looking. 



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 on seeing the garden the other day shown 

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