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The Florists^ Review 



July 8, 1920 



NEW PRESIDENT OF A. A. N. 



Lloyd C. Stark, vice-president and 

 general manager of the Stark Bros. 

 Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., 

 elected president of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Nurserymen at its convention 

 in Chicago, June 23 to 25, was born at 

 Louisiana, Mo., November 23, 1886. He 

 was the eldest son of the late Clarence 

 M. Stark, who for many years was 

 head of the Stark Bros. Nurseries & 

 Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo. He was 

 educated in the public schools and 

 graduated from the TT. S. Naval 

 Academy at Annapolis, Md. In 1917 

 he resigned the position of vice-presi- 

 dent and director in the Stark Bros. 

 Nurseries & Orchards Co. to accept the 

 commission of captain in the army. 



Mr. Stark was elected to the office of 

 president of the American Association 

 of Nurserymen in 1917, but hari scarcely 

 begun his term of office before he en- 

 tered the army. So, on his return, he 

 was elected vice-president last year and 

 now assumes leadership once more. He 

 has also served as jtresident of the West- 

 ern Association of Nurserymen, presi- 

 dent of the Mississippi Valley Apple 

 Growers' Association and president of 

 the Louisiana Commercial Club. 



Mr. Stark is a member of the Whole- 

 sale Ornamental Growers' Association, 

 American Protective Association, Re- 

 tail Nurserymen's Protective Associa- 

 tion, Missouri Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion, American Eose Society and the 

 Missouri Horticultural Society. He is 

 also a member of the Army and Navy 

 Club, Washington, D. C; University 

 Club, St. Louis, Mo., and the Army and 

 Navy Club, New York city. 



SOUTHERN PROSPECTS. 



A recent visit to two of the chief 

 nursery districts of the south, that 

 around Winchester, Tcnn., and that 

 around Huntsville, Ala., found an even 

 smaller acreage planted than was ex- 

 pected. On an estimate, hardly twenty- 

 five per cent of the normal number of 

 cherries are in the field this year. 

 Peaches are nearest normal, with apples 

 next, but both are decidedly short. It is, 

 however, in evergreens and other hardy 

 ornamentals that the shortage is the 

 most pronounced. It seems as though 

 at least tliree years would be required 

 before there could be much change. But 

 some of the larger growers are prepar- 



ing to propagate in large quantities 

 those items which have hitherto been 

 imported. Thousands and tens of thou- 

 sands of cuttings are in the sand, but 

 it will be years before they are ready 

 for sale. F. B. 



WINTER INJURY TO EVERGREENS. 



Variation in Effects. 



Last winter was quite severe on ever- 

 greens in many parts of the middle 

 Atlantic states. The injury was not 

 confined entirely to transplanted trees, 

 as native red cedars and other species 

 were killed in places, but transplanted 

 trees usually have a shallow, confined 

 root system, wliich makes them more 

 susceptible to winter killing. 



The extent of the winter injury to 

 the evergreens varies from the brown- 

 ing or death of the tips of the neeedles 

 to the death of fairly large trees, which 

 have been planted ten to fifteen years. 

 Trees of the same kind growing together 

 in rows often show considerable varia- 

 tion in the amount of injury; thus one 

 tree will be entirely killed, another will 

 lose its leaves, while a third tree will 

 be apparently unharmed. Different 

 kinds of trees also show considerable 

 variation in their resistance to winter 

 injury; for instance, arbor-vitae trees as 

 a class suffered severely, while i)ines 

 came through with little injury. Trees 



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in exposed locations were much more 

 severely injured than those protected 

 by other trees or by buildings. The 

 injury as a general rule was more severe 

 on western exposures and on the west 

 side of individual trees. 



Most of the evergreens which lost 

 only parts of their leaves are putting 

 out vigorous new growth, and their 

 value as ornamentals will not, in the 

 long run, be seriously impaired. Some 

 of the hemlocks and holly trees which 

 lost all of their leaves are also rapidly 

 recovering. On many trees, where the 

 ends of the twigs and the more exposed 

 branches were killed, new growth is 

 developing farther back toward the 

 main stem. 



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 quite close to the new, live sprouts, as 



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