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The Florists^ Review 



December 18, 1919. 



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Pressure of business has kept nursery- 

 men from their usual attendance at state 

 and sectional trade meetings this fall. 



Officers of the Waxahachie Nursery 

 Co., at Waxahachie, Tex., are: President 

 and manager, J. E. Mayhew; secretary, 

 G. H. Bladimon. The company's capital 

 stock is $92,500. 



Elmer Rice, of Springdale, Ark., de- 

 livered 135,000 apple trees this season. 

 He had orders for twice that total, but 

 was unable to fiU them. It is estimated 

 that 500,000 trees have been sold in that 

 locality this fall, most of them being 4- 

 year-old trees. 



The owners of the Austin Nursery, 

 Chicago, Henry J. Stockman and Robert 

 Barton, have leased 250 acres of land, 

 known as the Utica Black Ball Cement 

 Farm, just east of La Salle, 111., and ex- 

 pect to employ thirty to fifty men in grow- 

 ing small nursery stock, mushrooms and 

 French endives. 



The "Western Association of Nursery- 

 men will hold its next annual meeting 

 January 28 and 29 at the Hotel Baltimore, 

 Kansas City, Mo. The present officers 

 are: President, Earl D. Needham, Des 

 Moines, la.; vice-president, E. P. Bemar- 

 din. Parsons, Kan.; secretary-treasurer, 

 Gteorge W. Holsinger, Rosedale, Kan. 



As the result of recent court action, 

 L. J. Miner, of Upland, Cal., was pre- 

 vented from collecting on the note of 

 J. Frank Hollenbaugh, a local rancher, 

 for $140, alleged to be due on the pur- 

 chase or citrus nursery stock. Judge 

 Gteorge Crane held that the stock, pur- 

 chased two years ago, was diseased and 

 that the defendant had already sustained 

 heavy loss, having planted the trees and 

 worked on them for two years, only to be 

 obliged to pull them out and replant. 



SXTMMEB PLANTING. 



An Income the Tear Around. 



Don't all say at once, "Impossible." 

 I forgot whose definition it was, but 

 somebody defined impossible as some- 

 thing difficult for the ancients. Sum- 

 mer planting is not only possible, but 

 the biggest asset to any nurseryman's 

 business. Bare-rooted trees cannot be 

 transplanted after the sap has come up, 

 but when trees are taken up with a ball 

 of earth intact around the roots, they 



A paper on "Summer Planting and a Year- 

 Around Income," read by W. C. Grifflng, Port 

 Arthur, Tex., before the Southwestern Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen at Deniion, Tex. 



can be handled at any time of the year, 

 it matters not what the season. 



Most of us are familiar with balling 

 and burlappingj as this process is called. 

 For the benefit of those who are not, I 

 may say that it is one of the most won< 

 derful adventures in the nursery and 

 landscape business. A tree, shrub or 

 plant is dug without disturbing the 

 roots. Growth continues just as though 

 that tree or plant had never been moved 

 from the earth in which it originally 

 grow. The surrounding earth, which is 

 litted intact, yields nonrishment and 

 S'3rve8 as protection for the roots until 

 the tree or shrub is transplanted. 



No Closed SeaBon. 



"We used to think, as many do now, 

 when we were digging stock bare- 

 rooted and getting from 15 cents to 25 

 cents for a peach tree, that when the 

 sap went down we could commence dig- 

 ging and that -when the sap came up in 

 the spring our season was closed. We 

 would then let half or more of our office 

 and field forces go, in that way losing 

 trained help, and stop planting until the 

 following November, being compelled 

 then to break in a new set of workers. 



The nursery business is divided into 

 departments, fruit, ornamental and so 

 on. And there are different methods in 

 selling. Some sell through direct mail- 

 order trade and some through salesmen 

 on the road; then there is a general line 

 of landscape planting locally that every 

 nurseryman and florist has to take care 

 of. Summer planting applies principally 

 to the ornamental department and to 

 those who have, or should have, a land- 



scape department connected with their 

 establishments. 



• We are looking to the moneyed man 

 for our long profits and not to the old- 

 time buyer, who planted four peaches 

 in his back yard and three sycamores 

 on his front walk. The big man's fan- 

 cies come and go over night, and when 

 he gets the home bee in his bonnet, 

 then is the time we want to reach out 

 and be of service to him in improving 

 his surroundings, even though it is the 

 first part of August. 



You may come back at me and say 

 that there is something in the atmos- 

 phere or climate of the gulf coast coun- 

 try that permits us to move this stock 

 at this time of year, but that is far from 

 being true. We move our stock directly 

 from the field to the yard with hardly 

 any losses. In the event that it is a 

 failure with you, try the next best way 



Bobbink & Atkins 



Choice Nursery Stock, includ- 

 ing Rhododendrons, Hardy 

 Azaleas, Hybrid Perpetual 

 Roses, Herbaceous Plants, 

 Bay Trees, Boxwood and a 

 general line of Decorative 

 Greenhouse Plants. 

 RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY 



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