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The Florists^ Review 



April Is: 1922 



tries are coming into bearing in this 

 territory. 



Xew York, which normally has pro- 

 dueeil almost one-fourth of the apple 

 erop of the United States, has not 

 planted as many apple trees in the last 

 ten or twenty years as during the ten 

 to twtjity years just previous. 



The Shenandoah-Cumberland and 

 Piedmont districts of Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland and the Virginias have come 

 into prominence in recent years, and 

 we may expect an increase in produc- 

 tion from this territory for some years 

 to come. 



Orchard sections of the great central 

 west, which include the Ozark and 

 southern Missouri regions, which a few 

 years ago had millions of bearing trees, 

 are not keeping up their former rate of 

 planting. 



Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho and 

 Utah have barely held their own in 

 comniercial planting in recent years, 

 and this territory has probably nearly 

 reached its period of maximum produc- 

 tion. 



Statistics show that the states of 

 Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, 

 Ohio and Kentucky have a considerable 

 less number of apple trees of bearing 

 age and, in fact, all ages, than they 

 had ten to twenty years ago. In some 

 sections of this territory there has been 

 considerable commercial planting, but 

 this has not been general and the total 

 number of trees in this great territory 

 is now only slightly more than one-half 

 of what it was in 1910. So, after sum- 

 ming up the condition of orchards in 

 all parts of the country, I can see no 

 reason why the wide-awake apple 

 grower of the great central west should 

 not be successful. 



Absorbing Surplus Produced. 



There are possibilities of developing 

 foreign markets for a great many more 

 of our apples than we have been ex- 

 porting. European markets, as well as 

 the orient and South America, furnish 

 tremendous possibilities as consumers 

 of the American apple. Before the war 

 we exported about 2,000,000 barrels an- 

 nually. Direct shipments to South 

 America began in 1910 and in four 

 years the shipments to this continent 

 increased about 400 per cent. These 

 factors for increasing our markets are 

 likely to prevent any overproduction 

 for years to come. The lack of planting 

 since 1910 is apt to cause an actual 

 shortage in the near future. 



Are the nurserymen of this territory 

 doing what they should to encourage 

 orchard planting? True, we are sending 

 our catalogues and our representatives 

 to the home owners in all parts of the 

 country. We have not, however, shown 

 enough interest in the spreading of 

 commercial orchard i)lanting doctrines, 

 and I believe it is up to the nursery- 

 men of this association to get more in- 

 formation before the people, that will 

 interest them in this industry. I be- 

 lieve we should have a slogan that is 

 suggestive to every reader. The greater 

 part of the orders received, especially 

 by salesmen, are obtained by the use 

 of this idea: "There's a place for more 

 trees and shrubs." It is a challenge 

 to the country, community and indi- 

 vidual; to the commercial or home or- 

 » hard prospect, and even to the man 

 who needs a few trees to fill in. Sup- 

 pose we all used this as a slogan. The 

 "follow-up" is to suggest the place 

 and what to plant there. "I haven't 



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men. But keeping on with my subject, 

 "Commercial Orcharding," the place ia 



