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The Florists^ Review 



Maucu 9. 1922 



Demand for field-grown roses has been 

 strong this season. 



Lloyd Stakk has written many nieii!- 

 bers of the trade asking their sujjport 

 for the appointment of Samuel Adams, 

 editor of the American Fruit Grower, 

 sm ambassador to Germany. 



A GOOD many wholesale nurserymen are 

 spending in traveling expenses to sell 

 their stock several times what it would 

 cost to move it at equal prices by ad- 

 vertising in a medium which reached all 

 their customers. 



The statement of Dr. Marlatt as to 

 the reasons for calling the conference on 

 quarantine 37, which appears on a for- 

 ward page of this issue, will be read with 

 particular interest by nurserymen with 

 regard to the implied danger as to fruit 

 and rose stocks. 



An account of the death of Mrs. Arthur 

 Bryant, wife of the well known nursery 

 man, of Princeton, 111., appears on the 

 obituary page of this issue of The Re- 

 view. One of the sons, Guy A. Bryant, 

 is the treasurer of the Illinois Nursery- 

 men's Association. 



The shade tree commission of Kearny, 

 a suburb of Newark, N. J., is considering 

 the advisability of opening a tree nurs- 

 ery. Heretofore this commission has 

 purchased all the trees and shrubbery 

 needed, but these are becoming so expen- 

 sive that it is thought the town might 

 better grow its own stock. 



Reports of a number of large nursery 

 houses indicate that orders so far this 

 fear are far larger in total dollars than 

 at this time last year. In some cases, 

 indeed, the orders to date exceed the 

 total season's business a year ago. The 

 fact that prices are generally somewhat 

 lower indicate an even larger volume of 

 business. 



The Federal Horticultural Board has 

 refused the request of the committee — • 

 composed of J. Edward Moon, William 

 Flemmer, Jr., and Thomas B. Meehan — 

 of the Ornamental Growers' Association 

 for a permit to import Norway maples in 

 large sizes for immediate sale. Chair 

 man Marlatt asserts the trees can bo 

 jiroduced in this country and that "any 

 temporary advantage which would follow 

 the granting of the request would be far 

 outweighed by disadvantages." 



DAYTON BOOSTS PAINESVILLE. 



Members of the Chamber of Commerce 

 of I'ainesville, O., who attended the 

 lunclieon of that organization at the 

 Y. M. C. A. February 27, were given a 

 delightful surprise in the form of a talk 

 on the nursery industry by John H. 

 Dayton, manager of the Storrs & Harri- 

 son Nursery Co. "Lake county," said 

 Mr. Dayton, "with possibly the excep- 

 tion of one county in California, ranks 

 fir.st in the United States in the nursery 

 industrv. In this county there are be- 

 tween 30,0(10 and 40,000 acres of land 

 used for this pur])ose and there are about 

 forty firms, shipping a total of between 

 700 and 800 carloads of nursery prod- 

 ucts out of the county per year." 



The territory in the state of Ohio 

 draint'd by the Grand river and compris- 

 ing Lake county and the district in the 

 ^■icinity of Rochester drained by the 

 Genessee river in New York state are 

 exceedingly well adapted to the grow- 

 ing of inirsery stock of all kinds. The 

 texture and constituents of the soil and 

 the nature of the climate and the drain- 

 age in these districts are such as to pro- 

 mote an easy, rajjid and healthful 

 growth of the young plants. 



APPEALS FOR RATE REDUCTION. 



Sizemore at Washington. 



The business of propagating and growl- 

 ing trees and shrubs, essentially an 

 agricultural industry, should also be 

 given the ten per cent reduction in 

 freight rates recently made in the case 

 of other agricultural commodities, the 

 interstate commerce commission was 

 told, February 28. by Charles A. Size- 

 more, secretary of the American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen. 



P'reight rates were increased to meet 

 war expenses on a percentage basis and 

 should now be decreased in line with 

 the gradual reduction in transportation 

 costs, and in the same horizontal manner 

 as they were increased. An increase of 

 $100 in the freight on a carload of nurs- 

 ery stock, the commission was told, is 

 a big factor in the slow recovery of that 

 industry and of the fruit growing in- 

 dustry from post-war depression. 



"According to the latest census re- 

 ports," stated Mr. Sizemore, "there are 

 in the United States approximately 4,- 

 500 nurseries, covering 172,800 acres. 



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These nurseries represent an aggregate 

 investment of $52,500,000. They employ 

 45,600 men and 2,300 women, and use a 

 total of 14,200 animals. There are grow- 

 ing in these nurseries no less than 3,400,- 

 000,000 woody plants and trees. 



' ' The American Association of Nurs- 

 erymen has a membership of 330 of the 

 largest and most important nurseries in 

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Moving the Stock. 



"The transportation of nursery stock 

 may be divided into two general classes, 

 (1) that between nurseries, and (2) that 

 from the nurseries to final destination. 

 I'ractically all of the movement between 

 nur.-eries, especially of trees and shrubs, 

 is by freight. In the course of a year 

 this movement reaches large propor- 

 tions, the carload movement alone ap- 

 proximating 40,000 cars annually. On 

 the other hand, a considerable part 

 of the movement from the nursery to 

 tinal destination is in less than carload 

 lots, and divides approximately eighty 

 per cent by freight and twenty per cent 

 l)y express. 



"The war experience and post-war 

 cxjterience of the nurserymen closely 

 parallel that of agricultural interests 

 in general. The general prosperity of 

 the country during the war created a 

 sharp demand for nursery products and 

 seeds, with the result that the nursery- 

 men were enabled to secure increased 

 prices for tlieir products. The general 

 increase in prices was somewhere be- 



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