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The Florists' Review 



July 28, 1921 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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Alvin E. Nelson, of Swain Xelson & 

 Song Co., Chicago, is sit present spending 

 a two weeks' vacation in Michigan. 



Notice of the y)etition in bankruptcy 

 of the firm of De Giorgi Bros., of Council 

 Bluffs, la., will be found under the head- 

 ing, ' ' Business Embarrassrments. ' ' 



The death of John K. M. L. Farquhar, 

 president of the New England Nursery- 

 men's Association and head of R. & J. 

 Farquhar Co., Boston, is recorded in the 

 obituary column this week. 



The Massachusetts Nurserymen 's As- 

 sociation will hold a field day, starting 

 from Horticultural hall, Boston, Mass., 

 at 9 a. m., August 2. The Eastern Nurs- 

 eries, HoUiston Nurseries, Framingham 

 Nurseries and Little Tree Farms will bi- 

 inspected. 



The set of new hybrid tea roses being 

 sent out for 1921 by Samuel McGredy & 

 Son, Portadown, Ireland, includes Prin- 

 cess Victoria, Una Wallace, Martha Drew, 

 Ethel James, single; Irene Thompson. 

 Each lias been awarded the gold medal of 

 the British National Rose Society. Six- 

 teen shillings is asked for a plant. 



A 20-paoe pamphlet has been sent out 

 to his friends by Lee R. Bonnewitz, of 

 Van Wert, O., retiring president of the 

 American Peony Society, entitled, "A 

 Visit to the Boston Peony Show," and 

 reprinting the accounts of the show pub- 

 lished in The Review and in some other 

 publications, together with sonic notes by 

 Mr. Bonnewitz. 



At the summer show, at Regent 's paik, 

 London, of the National Rose Society of 

 Great Britain, a deputation from the 

 American Rose Society jiresented Elislia 

 J. Hicks with a gold medal and a bronze 

 diploma for Climbing Lady llillingdoii. 

 Hugh Dick.son & Sons were awarded a 

 bronze medal for T. F. Crozier by the 

 American organization. 



PACIFIC COAST NURSERYMEN. 



The attendance at the convention of 

 the Pacific Coast Association of Nurs- 

 erymen represented the states of Cali- 

 fornia, Utah, Oregon. Idaho and Wash- 

 ington and British Colimiliia, more than 

 100 Ix'ing present at the various ses- 

 sions. 



The report of the lioard of trustees 

 showed that much had been accom- 

 ]ilislied during the last year to stabilize 

 the nursery Itusiness. Tlie policy of 

 keeping seedling stocks in the hands of 

 regular nurserymen has been estab- 

 lished; a cost .-iccouiiting analysis to 

 determine cost of production has been 

 devised and the entire membership of 

 the association is under a definite form 

 of allegiance for cooperation by means 

 of a fair play meniberslii{> covenant 

 Ix'iiring the signature of each individual 

 or firm. 



The fruit stocks on the coast are in 

 fair condition and there will be no 

 oversupply, except in prune trees. 



The policy of progress instituted by 

 the board of trustees will continue. 

 For the coming year the allied voca- 

 tions, comprising florists, landseapc gar- 



deners, quarantine boards and horti- 

 cultural officials, will assume the form 

 of bureaus and by that method each de- 

 partment will cooperate with the nurs- 

 erymen and meet together at the next 

 convention, at Portland in 1922. 



The following officers were elected: 



President — Henry J]varts Weed, 

 Beaverton, Ore. 



Vice-presidents — C. T>. Hobbs, Milton, 

 Ore.; F. W. May, Yakima, Wash.; A. W. 

 Wagner, Pasadena, Cal.; Frank Walton, 

 Salt Lake City, Utah; Carl E. Wright, 

 Kimberly, Idaho; Richard Lavritz, Vic- 

 toria, B. C. 



Board of trustees — .T. .1. Bonnell, 

 Seattle, Wash.; S. A. Miller, Milton, 

 Ore.; F. A. Wiggins, Yakima, Wash. 



Executive secretary — C. A. Tonneson, 

 Burton, Wash. 



THURLOW'S NEW PEONIES. 



In the pamphlet he has just sent out 

 to his friends, entitled "A Visit to the 

 Boston Peony Show, ' ' Lee R. Bonne- 

 witz, of A'^an Wert, O., retiring presi- 

 dent of the American Peony Society, 

 comments on the new peonies of T. C. 

 Thurlow 's Sons, which lie saw while he 

 was there. He says: 



"As you have noticed in the jiub- 

 lislied reports of the show, T. C. Thur- 

 low 's Sons, of West Newbury, Mass., 

 exhibited ten times as many blooms as 

 Jill the other exhibitors combined, and 

 the thanks of the society are due them 

 for the great expense in time and money 

 which they went to, in order to make 

 this show all it could be made. They 

 told me they could have done much 

 better a week or ten days earlier, and 



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 would have shown us at that date would 

 have been a great deal finer than tht 

 ones we saw, because many of tin 

 choice varieties had been kept in stor- 

 age for this occasion. I was greatly 

 pleased with their peony, Mrs. C. 8. 

 Minot, and I hope to have it in my own 

 garden. It is not a very full peony, 

 but it is more charming than if it were 

 too heavily loaded with petals. Its 



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