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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 3, 1921 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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Ip the 2,753,000 miles of highways in 

 the United States were all planted with 

 appropriate shade trees, about 578,000,000 

 trees would be required froin the nursery- 

 men of this country. 



Quarantine :{7, says Dr. Marlatt, is 

 here to stay. Nurserymen are realizing 

 that lining-out stock, formerly imported 

 by the millions, will now have to be 

 grown, and is being grown successfully 

 here. 



The nurseries of Thonms Meehan & 

 Sons, Dresher, I'a., were oflfered at jmblic 

 auction in Philadelphia recently by the 

 executors under the will of the late 

 Thomas Meehan. There were no offers 

 and the property was withdrawn. 



The incorporation of the Floral Nurs- 

 eries, Inc., with a capital of $200,000, 

 is reported at Wilmington, Del. The new 

 firm will be interested in general agricul- 

 tural, horticultural and nursery business. 

 The incorporators are C. T. Cogee, C. B. 

 Outten and S. L. Mackey, of Wilmington, 



California nurserymen will hold their 

 annual meeting in the Assembly room of 

 the Hotel Green, Pasadena, Cal., October 

 26 to 28, it was decided at a recent meet- 

 ing of the Pasadena Horticultural So- 

 ciety, the Board of Trade and the ex- 

 ecutive committee of the California As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen. 



Lists of surplus stocks that members 

 of the California Association of Nursery- 

 men wish to dispose of will be published 

 by the executive committee of the asso- 

 ciation, it has been announced. Nursery- 

 men in that state have been requested to 

 send in their lists so that the work may 

 be gone ahead with. 



NURSERY STOCK FOR FLORISTS. 



In speaking before the Illinois Nurs- 

 erymen's Association at Cliicago, Feb- 

 ruary 9 and 10, M. Mierisch, of Glcu- 

 vievv. 111., referred to the ])ossil)ilitips 

 for nurserymen in growing flowering 

 plants for the florists' trade. In this 

 connection he said: 



"There is another field hardly 

 touched at all and that is the growing 

 of flowering plants in pots for forcing. 

 The florists are badly in need of some- 

 thing different from cyclamens, hydran- 

 geas and primulas. There is really 

 some variation needed. In the days bo- 

 fore the quarantine any amount of tliis 

 stock was imported every year from 

 Holland. I have in mind varieties, 

 most of which are grown already in 

 manv a nursery and which, if intended 

 for the florists' trade, must bo potted 

 and prepared fr)r a year for forcing un- 

 der glass. 



"I do not have to tell you how boiin- 

 liful plants, such as double-flowering li- 

 lacs, Pyrus floribunda, Prunus triloba, 

 double flowering almonds, peach and 

 snowball look when forced in green- 

 houses. I firmly believe that those 

 plants could be sold in considerable 

 quantities every year. The growing of 

 bulbs, such as gladioli, tulips and nar- 

 cissi, is increasing every year and it 

 has been proved that lily bulbs, at the 



present time imported from Japan l)y 

 the millions, can bo grown with success 

 right here in America.'' 



TRADE CONDITIONS TODAY. 



Stock Scarce. 



1 believe that the nursery business is 

 one of the few lines of industry in this 

 country which have gone into the pres- 

 ent readjustment crisis on a fortunate 

 basis. This is largely due to the fact 

 that the average nursery croj) turns 

 over only once in every three, four or 

 even five years. This means that the 

 nursery products which we have for sale 

 this coming spring were started in their 

 course of manufacture during the war 

 jieriod, when labor was extremely scarce 

 and high, when transplanting stocks for 

 the same reason were available only in 

 limited quantities, and when the general 

 policy which seemed most desirable in 

 its application to the nursery trade was 



From iin :i<i(lrt'«s doliver^tl by Miles llryaiit, 

 of rriiH'Otoii, III.. l)efore tlie Illinois Nursory- 

 incii's Association, at CliifUKO, Feliruary 9, 

 entitled "Koadjustnient imd the Nurseries." 



one of retronchment rather than expan- 

 sion. The result is that, through the 

 effects of the war and the stone-wall 

 embargo which Quarantine 37 affords 

 us, the nursery trade faces today, espe- 

 cially in the east, one of the nhortest 

 salable stocks which it has ever expe- 

 rienced in its history, a stock which, in 

 1914, would have had the bulk of the 

 nurserymen scurrying out in an effort 

 to bolster up their evidently depleted 

 stocks and would have placed the whole- 

 sale market in an active state long be- 

 fore this time of year. 



But today the situation is, of course, 

 almost the oiijiosite. Today the nurs- 

 oryiiian with a surplus, however slight, 

 shows a decided tendency to want to 

 shift that surplus into other hands and 

 there are few buyers who are buying 

 more than on a hand-to-mouth basis. 

 The result is that comparatively little 

 business is being done at the present 

 time and that things are generally a 

 little "up in the air." 



Uncertainty Prevails. 



Can you imagine what the situation 

 would have been like if the nursery 



As Sure As You Are a Foot High 



many items will be out of the marlcet just when you want them. So why not get our 

 Bulletin right now? A postal card with business address will bring it — and you must 

 be interested in the following: 



APPLES, a general list; good kinds, too. 



PEARS, big quantity Bartlett. Also other varieties, 3 yrs. old, line for retail trade. 



DWARF PEARS, too, at right prices. 



CHERRIES, not long on, mostly sour varieties. 



PEACHES, take no back seat in growing this item. Lots of Elberta, Carman and 



J. H. Hale. 

 ORNAMENTAL TREES, Norway, .Silver and Ash Leaf Maples, from 6 feet up to 



15 feet high. 



EVERGREENS, about cleaned out, except Arbor Vitae; a good quantity from 12 inches 

 up to 6 feet. 



BARBERRY THUNBERGIL You know we are the largest growers in the world. 



2 to 3-foot, 18 to 24-inch, and 12 to 18-inch grades. Also seedlings. 

 CALIFORNIA PRIVET, some nurserymen say it is out of the market; come to us; 



can offer you 2 to 3-foot, 18 to 24-inch, and 12 to 18-inch, strong 2-year grade. 



AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII, strong 2-year grade. Mso Seedlings at very low prices. 



FRENCH APPLE AND ROSE STOCK, quoted h .e at Manchester. Most of them 

 trimmed ready to plant. 



ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS, you should see our list before you buy. 



ROSES, Climbing and H. P., a long list of scarce kinds. 



Please let us hear from you if you want SERVICE and GOOD STX)CK this spring. 

 WE CAN SERVE YOU RIGHT. 



C. R. BURR & CO., Manchester, Conn. 



Ampelopsis Veitchii or Boston Ivy 



3-year. 3 to 4 ft. tops and e.vtra heavy roots, 

 much heavier than the usual grading, fin: 

 for the Florists' trade. pg^ ^^ Per 100 

 Very heaviest grade. . . .$3.C0 $28.00 



3-year, good grade I'.oO 24.C0 



•J-year . No. 1 grade 1 .80 16.00 



Also fine .St. Regis and early King Rasp- 

 berry an I Snyder and Kldor.ido Blackberry 

 at right prices. 



S'. Regis Raspberry. ..$22.50 per 1000 

 Early King Raspberry. 20.00 per 1000 



Snyder Blackberry 20.00 per 1000 



Eldorado Blackberry .. 22,00 per 1000 



This is all e.xtra fine stock strictly fresh. 



Can't be beat. 



LA SALLE COUNTY NURSERY, La Salle, III. 



NURSERY STOCK 



AT WHOLESALE 



A coniplf te as.-;ortniPnt of general nursery 



oik- shrubs, roses, vires, shade trees, fruit 



rre.s, etc.. well grown and well gra<ied. such a.« 



.vill satisfy your customers and build up vour 



trade 



We sorcit a trial o'der. believing that our 

 stock. service and I oasonable prices will makf 

 you our regular cusiomer. 



Our Wholesale Trade List free upon request. 



SHENAIDOAH NURSERIES 



D. S.LAKB, Pres. 



SHENANDOAH, IOWA 



