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The Rorists' Review 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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The Southland Nurseries, Miami, FUu, 

 were recently incorporated, capitalized 



at $150,000. 



S. J. Verhalen, of Scottsville, Tex., 

 stopped in Chicago May 10, leaving that 

 night for Iowa. 



In attendance at the recent Shriners' 

 conclave at Seattle was J. B. Pilkingtoh, 

 of Portland, Ore. 



The annual convention of the A. A. N, 

 will be held at the Congress hotel, Chi- 

 cago, June 22 to 24. 



The Clarksburg Nursery Co., with a 

 c pitalization of $100,000, has been in- 

 corporated at Sacramento, Cal. 



Massachusetts nurserymen express 

 appreciation of the long spell of cool, 

 dark and damp weather they have had. 

 It has enabled them to make longer ship- 

 ments than at one time seemed possible. 

 All have had a remarkably busy season. 

 Roses, in particular, are well cleaned out. 



John M, Hardyzer and wife are spend- 

 ing a couple of weeks in and around Bos- 

 ton. Mr. Hardyzer is with C. R. Burr & 

 Co., Manchester, Conn. He says the nurs- 

 iery business has been remarkably good, 

 that Manetti for rose stocks is scarce 

 and that both privets and Berberis Thun- 

 bergii are sold out so clean that higher 

 prices on each are probable. 



AT SCOTTSVILLE, TEX. 



The opportunity for the man who can 

 grow at low cost nursery stock which is 

 in wide demand was seen by George F. 

 Verhalen when he went to Texas a 

 dozen or so years ago with his father, 

 S. J. Verhalen, then manager of the 

 Standard Orchard Co., which contem- 

 plated establishing large peach orchards 

 near the thriving county seat of Mar- 

 shall. So the property of the projected 

 peach orchards now is growing nursery 

 stock in large quantities. What was 

 the idea of a young man, interested in 

 flowers from the time he carried asters 

 from his home in Elmhurst to the 

 wholesale market in Chicago, has be- 

 come an enterprise that demands all the 

 efforts of George F., who handles the 

 office work; his brother, Raymond, who 

 superintends the field work, and his 

 father, S. J., whose long experience in 

 the commission produce business en- 

 ables him to estimate the market and 

 see the opportunities in such a business 

 as the nurserymen's. George F. Ver- 

 halen, in whose name the business is 

 conducted, and his father, are both 

 known to the nursery trade through 

 their attendance each year at the con- 

 vention of the A. A. N. and their con- 

 nections with the large wholesale 

 houses which handle their output. 



Growing for wholesale has been the 

 plan to which this firm has held from 

 the first. Wise in seeing their big op- 

 portunity, they have not yielded to 

 temptation to depart from it. Now is 

 grown at Scottsville each year close to 

 half a million roses, which are absorbed 

 annually with such ease that it seems 

 the number might be largely increased. 



There are in addition large plantings of 

 spiraea, Amoor river privet, cannas and 

 some other items that do especially well 

 in the soil and climatic conditions ob- 

 taining at Scottsville. These are 

 shipped in the fall in carload lots only, 

 most of them going to northern whole- 

 sale nurserymen. 



In this country, thinks Mr. Verhalen, 

 are many varieties of growing condi- 

 tions. There are some localities best 

 suited to producing stock of certain 

 kinds and for certain uses. Elsewhere 

 are places suited for other kinds for 

 other uses. In this vast country will 

 be found, in time, the localities most 

 suitable for each item, where it can be 

 produced best and most economically. 

 He seems to have found at Scottsville 

 conditions well fitted for what is grown 

 there, judging from the ready market 

 for what is produced and the constant 

 increase in acreage under cultivation. 



MISUSE OF CERTIFICATES. 



A recent statement of the federal 

 horticultural board warns shippers and 

 receivers about quarantine No. 26. This 

 quarantine covers the shipment of cur- 

 rant and gooseberry plants with pine 

 blister. 



The board says that several nursery- 

 men in the quarantined area have made 

 arrangements to get orders of the plants 

 from nurserymen west of the quarantine 

 line. This practice in itself causes no 

 trouble, but there is decided objection 

 to the misuse of the state certificates 

 in connection with such shipments. A 

 number of instances have come to the 

 attention of the board in which the tags 

 of the firm situated in the quarantined 

 area, bearing the inspection certificate 

 of the state, have been attached to the 

 shipment. 



The use of these tags under these cir- 

 cumstances, says the board, is not only 

 fraudulent, but is likely to cause much 

 trouble both for the shipper and the re- 

 ceiver of the stock. There is not only 



the risk of prosecution as violators of 

 the quarantine, but there is also the ex- 

 pense of having the stock seized and 

 destroyed. 



The board, therefore, warns nursery- 

 men who have engaged in this practice 

 that the certification of such goods must 

 be made by the ofBcials of the state 

 from which the shipment is actually 

 made. 



THE WHY OF INSECT CONTROL. 



Pests' Habits Guide to Spraying. 



A better knowledge of the life and 

 habits of the more common insect pests 

 and of the nature of insecticides will add 

 much to the efficiency of control meas- 

 ures in nurseries and orchards. The 

 general character of sprays to be used 

 depends on the character of the mouth 

 parts of the insects. 



Broadly speaking, all insects secure 

 their food in one of two ways: (1) By 

 actually biting out and swallowing por- 

 tions of the food material; (2) by suck- 

 ing out the juices. The first type includes 

 caterpillars, or the larvae of moths and 

 butterflies, adult beetles and their grubs, 

 grasshoppers, crickets, sawflies and their 

 larvae, bees, etc. 



All biting insects are subject to de- 

 struction by arsenicals or other stomach 

 poisons. Some biting insects, however, 

 such as borers and certain root-infesting 

 forms, do not feed in situations where 

 poisons may be applied, and for these a 

 different treatment is necessary. 



Contact Sprays for Sucking Insects. 



Among sucking insects may be listed 

 plant lice, scale insects, leaf hoppers, the 

 pear psylla and the true bugs. For their 

 control the so-called contact sprays are 

 used, sprays that corrode the body or 

 permeate the breathing spores of the 

 pests or otherwise effect their destruc- 

 tion. 



Biting and sucking insects often occur 

 in a way to permit their destruction by 

 poisoning the air which they breathe, as 



BARGAIN LIST-LAST CALL! 



We still have the following first-class stock to help you out on your late orders: 



AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII 

 CLEMATIS, Assorted 

 CLIMBING ROSES 

 WEIGELA 

 BUTTERFLY BUSH 

 CALYCANTHUS 

 DEUTZIA GRACILIS 

 EVONYMUS 



LILAC, Assorted 

 PRUNUS PISSARDII 

 RHUS TYPHINA LACINIATA 

 HIGHBUSH CRANBERRY 

 SNOWBALLS 

 WEEPING MULBERRIES 

 CATALPA BUNGEI 



The aoove is just a partial list of some of the good things that we still have left 

 for you. We have the largest assortment of high quality Nursery stock in the 

 central West. Our packers are on the job night and day and are in a position to 

 give immediate service. 



ONARGA NURSERY COMPANY 



ONARGA, ILLINOIS 



CULTRA BROTHERS, 



Managers. 



