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The Florists^ Review 



Deckmbbb 11, 1919. 



The Siebenthaler Co., Cincinnati, O., 

 has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $1,000 to engage in the nursery business. 



A DOUBLE-ACTING slogan is that of 

 Overman's Nursery, Spokane, Wash., of 

 which Mrs. Euth Day, president of the 

 Pacific Coast Association of Nursery- 

 men, ,ia manager. It reads at the left of 

 the letterhead, "If It Grows — ^We Have 

 It," and at the right, "If We Have It 

 — It Grows." 



Unprecedented demands upon the 

 nurseries of Fresno county, California, 

 for all vines, citrus and deciduous fruits, 

 have caused an acute shortage never 

 before experienced among the nursery- 

 men of the county. Though the planting 

 season has not commenced, practically 

 all vines and trees have been sold. If 

 the nurseries had the stock, the planting 

 this year would have amounted to fifty 

 per cent more than in any preceding year. 

 One of the principal reasons for the lack 

 of nursery stock has been the shortage 

 of rain in the last year. Farmers who 

 planted their own stock were forced to 

 let them die on account of all available 

 water being used for the producing trees. 

 This has thrown the burden of supply 

 upon the nurserymen, who are entirely 

 unable to take care of the present ab- 

 normal demand. 



BUREAU FOR FINDING STOCK. 



In a bulletin just sent out to members 

 of the A. A. N. plans are given for the 

 establishment of a bureau for finding 

 stock. In it President J. Edward Moon 

 explains the project as follows: 



"Every day Mr. Watson is receiving 

 requests for knowledge of where this 

 or that plant may be found. To give the 

 information now — even though he pos- 

 sessed it — would be unfair to members 

 whose stock he has no personal knowl- 

 edge of. In these requests are oppor- 

 tunities for sales — so the American As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen hastens to 

 provide its members with the facilities 

 to secure this business. 



"List the stock you're 'long on' or 

 any items you wish to sell — 1 or 5000, 

 it makes no difference — upon standard 

 3 X 5-inch filing cards, one variety to a 

 card, the number and size you have, the 

 date and your name and address. 



"Send these cards in at any time to 

 Executive Secretary Watson's office — 

 they will be filed under the name of the 

 variety in cabinets provided by the as- 

 sociation. 



"When inquiries are received for a 



variety of plant, the reply from Mr. 

 Watson's office will merely mention the 

 name and address of every member list- 

 ing the variety inquired for. It will 

 give only the information you provide, 

 without additional comment of any kind. 

 Prices and references to quality will 

 not be furnished. 



' ' If sufficient members list their stock, 

 the bureau may be advertised, that it 

 may become a clearing house for nursery 

 stock generally. The information of 

 what is for sale will be given anyone, 

 but the privilege of listing stock is for 

 members only. Information as to quan- 

 tities will be given only to members. 



"In order to have cards filed uni- 

 formly, use the official code of standard- 

 ized plant names as prepared by the 

 American joint committee on horticul- 

 tural nomenclature and adopted by the 

 association as standard, or otherwise 

 your stock may be filed differently and 

 lost track of in the association files, 

 when being inquired for. Cards may be 

 filed or withdrawn singly or in quanti- 

 ties at any time you wish." 



BARBERRY ERADICATION. 



* ' The campaign for the control of the 

 black rust of wheat through the eradi- 

 cation of the common barberry," states 

 the recent report of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, "is in active operation in thirteen 

 north central states, namely, Colorado, 

 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minne- 

 sota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, 

 Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin and 

 Wyoming. State laws requiring the re- 



moval of common barberry bushes have 

 been enacted in all these states except 

 Indiana, Ohio and Wyoming. The cam- 

 paign has been conducted in each state 

 by widespread publicity through many 

 channels. 



' * The first problem, naturally, is to lo- 

 cate all bushes resulting from intentional 

 planting and induce their owners to re- 

 move them. 



"The second, and perhaps the most 

 difficult problem in the campaign, is to 

 locate bushes running wild. The number 

 of localities in which wild bushes are 

 found is immensely larger than was be- 

 lieved at the beginning of the campaign. 

 Through many decades since barberries 

 were first planted in these states, the 

 seeds have been sown in large numbers 

 in thickets and woodlands by wild birds. 

 The difficulty of locating such bushes in 

 rough and broken timberland, often 

 amid thickets and underbrush, will be 

 appreciated by anyone who undertakes 

 it. It is essential, however, that such 

 bushes be located and removed. In most 

 cases they are not far distant from 

 grain fields, and in any case rust spreads 

 readily from them to grain fields by way 

 of wild grasses in their vicinHy. Fur- 

 thermore, if they remain .undisturbed 

 their numbers will continue to increase 

 by the action of birds throughout the 

 years to coidc. 



"The third problem is to insure that 

 every bush located is removed by the 

 owner or agent and so thoroughly and 

 completely removed that sprouts vfill not 

 develop, or, failing this, to insure that 

 sprouts which do appear will be de- 

 stroyed. 



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