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The Florists' Review 



NOTUMBBB 24, 1921 



The Shore Road Xursory, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., has been incorpoiiited witli a capi- 

 tal stock of $10/J00. Tlic iiu'ori)oratorH 

 are (J. F. and J. V. Catzcr ami l'\ (,'ond)er. 



Eugene Donnok, fonnerly of San 

 Francisco, Cal., has purchased eight 

 acres of land near Rocky I'oint, Lakeport, 

 Cal. Mr. J)onnor's intention is to build 

 up a nursery business on this tract. 



Favorable weather, reports the Mount 

 Arbor Nurseries, Shenandoah, la., has 

 made it possible for practically all nursery 

 stock to ))e dug and in storage at this time. 

 Business for this company has been quite 

 good. 



Mild autumn weather in the middle 

 west has made conditions ideal for dig- 

 ging and planting. As a result, the sea- 

 son, which started slowly, has i)rogressed 

 rapidly and the prolonged open weather 

 has given added opportunity for business. 



Hershall Marshall, a nurseryman 

 and landscape gardener, has purchased 

 three acres of land at Avalon, a subdivi- 

 sion of Middietown, O., and will use the 

 site for a modern nursery. A good line 

 of stock will be placed on hand immedi- 

 ately. 



Send to F. F. liockwell, Bridgeton, N. 

 J., a list of i)apers in your section in 

 which you believe advertising would bene- 

 fit you. To them will be sent the free 

 articles on nursery subjects prepared by 

 the market development committee of the 

 A. A. N. 



ROWE'S RAMBLES. 



Wyomissing Means Farr. 



Wyomissing, Pa., is liardly big enough 

 to be shown on the state map. Only 

 the slowest local trains stop at the little 

 two-by-four station; really classy, up-to- 

 the-minute visitors go to Heading and 

 hire a taxi to take them to the charm- 

 ing suburb. Or they may include Wy- 

 onTissing on the summer motor trip 

 through eastern Pennsylvania. 



Did I say Wyomissing is small! Sup- 

 pose it is; the natives don't care, for 

 the town is known all over the United 

 States, in Europe and in Japan. When 

 a person says, "Wyomissing," the re- 

 sponse is, "Farr," and Farr means 

 peonies and irises. 



For a number of years it has been 

 my pleasure to visit Mr. Farr's fields 

 when they were a mass of color and to 

 know first-hand of the work done there 

 in hybridizing and producing new va- 

 rieties. Probably irises have been the 

 favorites in this work, although peonies 

 have been given a great amount of 

 attention. Mr. Farr says he believes 

 the new irises should have "real Ameri- 

 can names"; so he has christened his 

 introductions with names that have a 

 local significance or hark back to the 

 days when the red man hunted over 

 what is now the nursery. Among Mr. 

 Farr's productions are Mount Pcnn, 

 Brandywine, Wyomissing, Glory of 

 Eeading, Swatara, Red Cloud, Pocahon- 

 tas, Powhatan, Nokomis, Minnehaha, 



Hiawatha and a score of other varieties 

 that are ])opular favorites. 



Talking recently with Mr. Farr, I 

 asked, "How is business this fall?" 



"Splendid! Great!" was the reply. 

 "But I'm in trouble over it. It's like 

 this," he continued; "along in Sep- 

 tember my bookkee])er offered to bet me 

 that the fall sales would be the biggest 

 in our history. I was a pessimist and 

 took the bet. Now I've got to pay. 

 That bookkeeper was betting on a sure 

 thing, and he knew it all the time." 



Afterward the bookkeeper gave me 

 more details. The volume of sales was 

 surprising to all; labor was plentiful 

 and packing and shijiping went forward 

 at toj) spe(Hl. 1 was told that a rail- 

 road strike would do little if any harm; 

 distant orders are put through the day 

 received, and most of these are over by 

 the end of October. Nearby points are 

 covered by motor truck. 



About 200 acres of land are included 

 in the nursery ])roiK'rty., A large por- 

 tion of tills acreage is given to peonies, 

 irises, phloxes and kindred perennials. 

 In adjoining fields is a splendid stock 

 of evergreens, shrubs and shade trees, 

 which go into local landscape plantings. 

 A greenhouse, specially designed for Mr. 

 Farr's chosen line of work in hybridiz- 

 ing and propagating, completes one of 

 the most interesting outfits in the east. 



E. F. R. 



PROGRESS OF BUD SEIiECTION. 



What California Has Done. 



Previous to 1906 bud selection in Cali- 

 fornia had been seriously considered by 

 some, but nothing notable had been ac- 

 complished. At the California state 

 growers' convention in 1906 L. Cotes, 



Yes, We Have Them 



Berberis Thunbergii 

 Hardy Privet 

 Hydrangea P. G. 

 Climbing Roses 

 Boston Ivy 

 Clematis 



Thousands of other plants. Write 

 for our new fall trade list. 



Onarga Nursery Company 



CULTRA BROS., Managers 

 ONARGA, - ILLINOIS 



Mention The Review whfp you write. 



YOUR CATALOGUE 



"Ready Made" Stti, Vmntrj ud Fall Bnlb Calalofaei, 

 with roar aame aad addreu ob the troat coTer. Bcaa- 

 lifallT UUttrated with BaUral colon on corer paco. 

 Wo keep thoB !■ stock tor prompt •hipmcot. Aik lor 

 •aaplc. They will greatly iacreate yoor lalei-aad 

 thoy doa't coot Back. ____.^^ 



CAMPBELL PRIMTINa COMPAMY 

 917 Walnut St. D«» Moinvs. Iowa 



according to Henry W. Kruckeberg, sec- 

 retary and treasurer of the California 

 Association of Nurserymen, made a plea 

 for bud selection and cited "instances 

 of variety improvement by selection of 

 the finest fruits from the best trees with 

 a view to securing and perpetuating 

 variants." Now, more than a decade 

 later, nurserymen of California are 

 spending thousands in employing spe- 

 cialists toward that end. 



At the convention of the California 

 Association of Nurserymen, at Chico, 

 Cal., in 1919, William T. Kirkman, Jr., 

 of Fresno, presented plans for state- 

 wide organization to consider along 

 practical lines the creation of the Cal- 

 ifornia Bud Selection Association. A 

 committee was appointed, consisting of 

 Max J. Crow, George C. Roeding, Henry 

 A. Hyde, J. E. Bergholdt and John S. 

 Armstrong, to take charge of the pre- 

 liminary work. After several meetings, 

 which were attended by representative 

 nurserymen, the California Bud Selec- 

 tion Association was formed and incor- 

 porated under California state laws, 

 with a capital stock of $150,000; more 

 than $50,000 of this sum has been sub- 

 scribed. 



Progress Made. 



Due to difficult preliminary work, 

 many mistakes were made and much had 

 to be learned. So it was not until Feb- 

 ruary, 1921, that the movement got 

 under way. However, up to November, 

 1920, individual production records had 

 been secured by specialists on 7,912 

 prune trees, 4,076 peach trees, 1,407 

 apple trees, 1,712 pear trees and 458 



American Grown 



Fruit Tree Stocks 



Apple Seedlings, Straight or Branched. 

 Also Pear Stocks from French and Japan 

 Seed, Americana Plum Mahaleb Cherry 

 and Peach Seedlings ia all Grades. Car 

 Lots to Central Poiats. 



Foreign Grown Stocks 



Apple. Pear, Mahaleb, My robalan. Quince, 

 Manetti and Multiflora. All Grades. In 

 Prime Condition. Can quote in France or 

 out of Customs in New York or at Shenan- 

 doah, Iowa. Prices reasonable 



Remember our Complete Line of General 

 Nursery Stock for Fall and Spring Trade. 

 We are now ready to do Business. Submit 

 List of Wants for Prices to 



Shenandoah Nurseries 



D. S. LAKE, President 

 SHENANDOAH, IOWA 



Mention Tbe Review when you write. 



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Also Berberis Thunbergii, Hydrangea 

 Paniculata, Weigela, Spiraeas, etc 



Ask for complete list of Oak Brand Shrubs 



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