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The Florists^ Review 



FnBanABT 23, 1922 



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

 has been in Chicago this week. 



An account of the death of Herman 

 C. Steinhoff, nurseryman of Hoboken, N. 

 J., appears on the obituary page of this 

 issue. 



Recent visitors at Dayton, 0., Charles 

 and Ralph Perkins, expressed themselves 

 much encouraged over prospects for spring 

 business. / 



The nursery business in the southeast- 

 ern section of the country has been bet- 

 ter than was expected. Most of the Ten- 

 nessee nurserymen report that they are 

 already sold out on many items and that 

 there are indications of a shortage devel- 

 oping in small fruit plants. 



The nursery department of the Henry 

 Field Seed Co., at Shenandoah, la., last 

 week received 1,870 orders as against 

 907 for the same week a year ago. Since 

 the company's seed orders are correspond- 

 ingly higher, it would appear that the 

 farmers of the central west have passed 

 through the bottom of their slump and 

 are again able to buy fruit trees. 



At the meeting of the Rhode Island 

 Nurserymen's Association at Providence, 

 February 9, officers for 1922 were elected 

 as follows: President, C. W. Morey, 

 Woonsocket ; vice-president, L. F. Kin- 

 ney, Jr., Kingston; secretary, H. H. de 

 Wildt, 521 Elmwood avenue, Providence; 

 treasurer, V. A. Vanicek, Newport; exec- 

 utive committee, C. H. Greaton, 1333 

 North Main street. Providence; D. A. 

 Clarke, Fiskeville, and L. F. Kinney, 

 Kingston. 



According to a notice issued by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, Henry C. Wal- 

 lace, the states of New Hampshire and 

 Massachusetts are placed under quaran- 

 tine for the prevalence of the satin moth 

 (Stilpnotia salicis) within their bound 

 aries. This quarantine is effective on and 

 after January 1, 1922, and provides tliat 

 no species or variety of poplar (populus) 

 and willow (salix) shall be moved or al- 

 lowed to lie moved interstate from the 

 said quarantined states. 



FOLLOW SALES WITH SERVICE. 



Watson Points Out Means. 



In his talk before the Illinois nurs- 

 erymen at Chicago last month, John 

 Watson, former president and executive 

 secretary of tlie American Association 

 of Nursorj-nien, used the statement of 

 Dn L. H. Bailey that less than one per 

 .GCJit of the trees and plants sold by 

 nurserymen live to be of value to their 

 planters, to indicate the need of better 

 care of stock after it has left the nurs- 

 erj', a need to be met in part by nurs- 

 erymen themselves. 



Not recommending that nurserymen 

 should replace trees that die, he pointed 

 out, on the oth^ jbi^nd, that a certain 

 percentage of mwtaUty is inevitable 

 and that nurserj-men should not, in their 

 catalogues or in their advertising, en- 

 courage buyers to expect all trees to 

 live, but that nurserymen should em- 

 phasize the value of those that do live 

 and that they should, in their own in- 



John Watson. 



terest, do everything within ability and 

 reason to help their customers with such 

 directions as would aid in making tree? 

 live and grow and produce results. 



Mr. Watson does not agree with Dr. 

 Bailey's figures, but he believes that the 

 fact that he makes sucli an estimate is 

 enough to urge nurserymen to follow 

 their sales with service. 



Mr. Watson said in his address at 

 Chicago on this point: 



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* ' I have read with interest and much 

 surprise a statement printed in Dr. 

 Liberty H. Bailey's Cyclopedia of Hor- 

 ticulture. It is stated on page 2,293, 

 volume IV, that of all trees and plants 

 sold by nurserymen, it is probable that 

 less than one per cent arrive at an 

 age to prove of value to the planters. 

 Now, I quote that with surprise and also 

 with doubt and questioning. The arti- 

 cle is personally contributed by Dr. 

 Bailey and signed by him. It is not 

 the careless statement of an unimpor- 

 tant contributor. Dr. Bailey is not a 

 man who makes statements carelessly. 

 Those of you who were there will re- 

 member Dr. Bailey's address at the 

 Niagara Falls convention of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Nurserymen, in 1900. 

 His subject was: 'What Becomes of All 

 the Nursery Trees f and one of his state- 

 ments in the address delivered on that 

 occasion was that there were then in the 

 nurseries of the country twice as many 

 apple trees as there were in all the 

 orchards of the country. I do not recall 

 that the statement was challenged. I 

 have heard, or read, no dispute of Dr. 

 Bailey's one per cent estimate in hip 

 cyclopedia. But here is one of Ameri- 

 ca's foremost educators, for many years 

 dean of the school of agriculture at 

 Cornell University, a man who has lec- 

 tured in many places, the author of 

 numerous books on fruit growing, rec- 

 ognized here and abroad as an authority, 

 who tells us that not one per cent of 

 what we sell proves of value to the 

 buyers. I have not the facts or the 



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