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The Florists^ Review 



Apbil, 6. 1922 



V. E. Brubaker is going into the busi- 

 ness of growing hardy perennials at Wash- 

 burn, Wis. 



Changes in the Fordney tariff bill by 

 the Senate finance committee are reported 

 on a forward page of this issue. 



The committee on arrangements of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen has 

 secured the Wolverine hotel at Detroit, 

 Mich., as headquarters for the coming 

 convention, in June. 



The incorporation of the Wliall Nurs- 

 ery Co., San Antonio, Texas, took place 

 March 13, 1922, with a capitalization of 

 .$2,500. The incorporators are Walter 

 Whall, 313 West Cevellos street, and others. 



The nursery business so far this sea- 

 son has not come uj) to the expectations 

 of the trade. Activity has become gen- 

 eral since April, but the loss in March is 

 not likely to be made up, however long 

 the season may prove to be, 



A series of five lectures on home land- 

 scape work was given recently in various 

 communities in Seattle and King county. 

 Wash., by A. M. Doermer, professor of 

 landscape gardening at the Washington 

 State College. Nurserymen were active in 

 arranging this schedule. 



The commission to prepare a detailed 

 landscape planting plan for the Ever- 

 green cemetery, at Seattle, has been 

 awarded to Howard E. Andrews & Co., 

 of Seattle, Wash. The current plans call 

 for making this one of the finest memorial 

 grounds in the Pacific northwest. 



C. M. IlOBB.s & Sons, Marion, Ind., 

 find a good demand for j)ractically all 

 nursery stock this season. Prices are a 

 little less on some items, but on scarce 

 .sorts tliey are about the same as last 

 yeiir. . There seems to be an especially 

 good demand for fruit trees among com- 

 mercial planters and an active demand 

 for sliado trees. 



J. A. YouNCi, father of the ''Plan to 

 Plant Another Tree" camiJiiign, recent- 

 ly caused to lie sent out, in a bulletin 

 of tlic Illinois Nur.serymen's As.sociation, 

 the offer to supply tlie slogan in rubber- 

 stamp form to any nurseryman wlio 

 would write to a certain address for it. 

 Within a few days 178 re(iuests were re- 

 ceived and tliey canu> from almost every 

 state in the Union, indicating that the 

 Illinois ide:i soon will be adopted nation- 

 ally. 



EASTERN TAX CONTROVERSY. 



The controversy that h.us arisen be- 

 tween the several nurserymen in Mid- 

 illetown, (,'()nii., and the tax assessors is 

 iK'ing watched with considerable inter- 

 est by the nurserymen, greenhouse men 

 and tiorists throughout the section. At 

 the recent assessment of taxes, young 

 trees and shrubs under propagation 

 were iippraised and taxes assessed there- 

 on. The owners filed j)rotests and have 

 l)aid the assessments and, at the recent 

 financial meeting of the town, the mat- 

 ter was introduced and discussed, but 

 no action was taken. 



The matter raised so serious a ques- 

 tion as to whether the tax assessors 

 were within their rights or not that it 

 is to be referred to the state tax com- 

 mission for a conference with the Mid- 

 dletown assessors, so that the latter can 

 make a report thereon at the adjourned 

 financial meeting, to be held in May. 



YOUNG'S PLAN UNDER WAY. 



The "Plan to Plant Another Tree" 

 campaign, sponsored by J. A. Young, 

 secretary of the Illinois Nurserymen's 

 Association, and inaugurated by that 

 association during the month of March, 

 is now well under way. Many agencies 

 have been brought into the campaign. 

 Every daily in the state has been asked 

 for its support. The screen, the lecture 

 platform, the banquet table, the pulpit, 

 the grade and high schools, advertising 

 agencies, clubs, organizations and so- 

 cieties of all kinds are doing their share 

 in pushing the campaign to a successful 

 completion. Dr. J. C. Blair, head of 

 the department of horticulture at the 

 University of Illinois, has had his en- 

 tire staff at work on plans to give the 

 campaign additional impetus. W. S. 

 Brooks, secretary of the Illinois Hor- 

 ticultural Society, has given the plan 

 his approval and is supporting it to the 

 utmost. 



Men of importance, in large and small 

 towns alike, throughout the entire state 

 have recognized the value of increas- 

 ing the number of shade and fruit trees 

 in the highways and byways of the 

 state. There is no doubt that the Illi- 

 nois Nurserymen 's Association will 

 bring to strikingly successful comple- 



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There is little likelihood that so valu- 

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ROWE'S RAMBLES. 



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Harrisburg bids fair to become the 

 nursery city of central Pennsylvania, 

 as well as the capital city of the state. 

 Three nursery firms now have oflftces in 

 the city, with the growing grounds al- 

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The Berryhill Nursery Co. is the old- 

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