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The Florists' Review 



Fbbbcaby 23, 1922 



Good Strong Own -Root Rose Plants 



For Immediate Delivery 



ROSE PREMIER, - $18.00 per 100, $150.00 per 1000 

 ' MADAME BUTTERFLY, 18.00 per 100, 150.00 per 1000 



The Joseph H. Hill Co., 



RICHMOND, 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



INDIANA 



necessary instruction for proper plant- 

 ing. And that, I take it, includes in- 

 . formation as to soil, situation and loca- 

 tion. 



"Pruning is important to fruit trees. 

 I have often thought that it might be 

 a good idea to prune all fruit trees 

 before shipment. It would mean extra 

 work, but it would save some packing 

 cost and transportation expense, and 

 th6se are important considerations these 

 days. I do not know if anybody ever 

 tried that or how well it worked, or 

 whether it would work if tried. There 

 would be objections. The cutting back 

 could be done only with the knowledge 

 and consent of the buyer. Some buyers 

 might ob.iect. Some would not under- 

 stand. I tliink a powerful consideration 

 would be the loss of size in the trees 

 delivered, because buyers are prone to 

 attach importance to size. Some buy- 

 ers want cordwood and some nursery- 

 men may think it an advantage to de- 

 liver cordwood. A big tree often means 

 a big price. But cutting back and proper 

 pruning before shipment would be eco- 

 nomical, would insure proper pruning 

 where the average small buyer will not 

 prune at all, and would mean an added 

 service and a corresponding value to the 

 buyer. 



"Tliere is an excellent book on prun- 

 ing, 'The Little Pruning Book,' I think 

 it is called, by F. F. Rockwell, the 

 efficient chairman of the American As- 

 sociation's market development commit- 

 tee. It was written for a firm that sells 

 pruning knives. Now, that firm doesn't 

 care a hang about trees or pruning, but 

 it does want to sell pruning knives; 

 and so it advertises and sells this little 

 book that tells why and how to prune 

 trees. The trees arc your trees. You, 

 too, are interested in having them 

 pruned properly. Miglit not that be a 

 good book for you to sell or even to 

 distribute free to your customers f 

 Procuring Supplies. 



"Spraying is important, not only in 

 the case'of fruit trees, but other stock 

 as well. And that is the hardest thing 

 to get done. Probably it is the nursery- 

 men 's greatest problem today — to get 

 planters to spray their trees. Neglect 

 to attend to that is the cause of com- 

 ment so widespread as to put it in the 

 class of propaganda to discourage the 

 planting of home orchards. I do not 

 mean that it is organized or traceable 

 to a common source. But we do know 

 that some of the entomologists have in- 

 timated that the small plantings are a 

 menace to the commercial orchards; that, 

 being as a rule unsprayed, they become 



FERNS 



We wish to call particular attention to our fine 

 stock of ferns which we are offering at this time 



H*phrol«pls Victoria (The Victory Fern). A beautiful, new, crested form of 

 Teddy, Jr., nice plants, SH-ln. pots, $26.00 to $35.00 per 100; 6-ln.. Tie to 

 $1.00 each; 8-ln., $2.00 to $3.00 each. 



Heplirolepls Eleffastlsaima. Large specimens, 8-ln.. $2.00 to $3.00 each; 10-ln.. 

 $4.00 to $6.00 each. 



Hephzwlepla BUgaiittsslma Oompaota. 8^-in., SSc to BOc each: 8>ln., $1.00 eaok: 

 large specimens, 8-lnch, $2.00 to $3.00 each; 10-lnch, $4.00 to $6.00 each. 



Vephrolepla XKnaooaa. Nice plants, 2^-lnch pots, $12.00 per 100; 8^-lnch. SB* 

 to 50c each; 5-lnch, 75c each; 6-lnch, $1.00 eac)i. 



arephrolepta KarrlsU, lO-ln., $6.00 to $7.60 each. 



VepbTolepla Dwarf Boston, 8H-ln. pots, $25.00 per 100; 6-ln.. $1.00 each. 

 FaoUsf added extra at cost. 



B ngl l s h rry, nice plants, 4-inch pots, busby, 25c and 86c. according to quality. 



Packing added extra at coat 



F. R. PIERSON, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



FORCING STOCK 



DELPHINIUM BELLADONNA 



Strons: two-year clumps, $15.00 per 100 



POTGROWN LILACS, $1.25 each 



VARIETIES: , 



Marie Les^raye Charles Tenth 



JACKSON & PERKINS COMPANY 



Newark, New York 



breeding places and disseminators of 

 pests. 1 have read, in the late issues of 

 two important and influential agricul- 

 tural papers, articles that must have 

 the effect of discouraging home owners 

 from buying fruit trees. The conclu- 

 sion drawn, if not invited, must be 

 that, after all, it is cheaper and better 

 to buy the fruit grown by those whose 

 business it is to grow fruit commercially, 

 as being cleaner and better and cheaper 

 than any that can be grown at home. 



Bobbink & Atkins 



NURSERYMEN 

 FLORISTS and PLANTERS 



RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY 



Now, fruit growing, I mean commercial 

 fruit growing, is a highly specialized 

 business. It has to be, to be successful. 



