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The Florists' Review 



Mabch 23. 1922 



The demise of William K. Tipton, 85 

 years of age, founder of the Tipton Nurs- 

 eries, Inc., Little Eock, Ark., is reported 

 on the obituary page of this issue. 



The ofScial roster of the J. W. Adams 

 Nursery Co., Springfield, Mass., is as 

 follows : President, Walter Adams ; treas- 

 urer, Charles Adams; secretary, E. J. 

 Oatman. The nursery is at Westfield, 

 Mass., and Albert Vander brook is super- 

 intendent. 



Greater knowledge of this country's 

 production of nursery stock would free 

 some wholesale nurserymen of the fear 

 that an open quotation of their prices 

 would wreck the market. No output 

 of one firm is so large as to cause more 

 than a splash — certainly not a tidal 

 wave — in the nursery market at any time. 



Porterville, Cal., has been selected 

 by the oflScers of the Oregon Nursery Co., 

 Orenco, Washington County, Ore., for the 

 planting of the first California orchard 

 unit of the famous "Coates 1418" date- 

 prune. It was found that Tulare county 

 possesses the finest prune land in Cali- 

 fornia, the soil of this territory being a 

 sandy loam, which is best adapted to the 

 growing of this fruit. The prune in ques- 

 tion was produced by Leonard Coates, of 

 the Leonard Coates Nursery Co., Morgan- 

 hill, Cal., and this company transferred 

 the propagating rights to the Oregon 

 Nursery Co. A subscription list of $50,- 

 000, which meant the purchase of 5,000 

 date-prune tree contracts, was signed up 

 in one day by the Chamber of Commerce 

 of Porterville. 



NUESERY AND FRUIT CROPS. 



In 1920, the last year for which figures 

 were gathered by the government, the 

 total sales of trees and plants and nurs- 

 ery stock of all kinds amounted to $21,- 

 000,000, while the fruit crop for the 

 same year — the fruit crop from trees 

 sold by nurserymen — put into the pock- 

 ets of the fruit growers over $710,000,- 

 000. Commenting on these facts at the 

 meeting of the Illinois State Nursery- 

 men's Association, John Watson said: 

 "It seems to me that nothing so elo- 

 quently points out the value of nursery- 

 men 's annual contribution to the coun- 

 try 's wealth as the fact that one year's 

 fruit crop would buy thirty-five times 

 as much salable stock as they have in all 

 their nurseries; that it would buy not 

 only all the stock they have now, but 

 that it would buy, as well, the nurseries 

 themselves and every dollar's worth of 

 property connected with the entire nurs- 

 ery industry." 



TAXING GROWING STOCK. 



The question of taxing growing nurs- 

 ery stock is the subject of an interesting 

 controversy that is now occupying the 

 attention of the authorities of Middle- 

 town, Conn., wherein are located several 

 of the large greenhouses of the nursery- 

 men and growers who supply the mar- 

 kets. At the annual financial town 

 meeting, held last week, petitions were 

 presented from the Wilson Nurseries 



and the Bhode Island Nurseries, of 

 which V. A. Vanicek is proprietor, ask- 

 ing for the refunding of certain money, 

 which, it was represented, had been 

 paid to the town under protest, as hav- 

 ing been wrongfully assessed against 

 the firms for growing nursery stock in 

 June, 1921. 



The petitions caused considerable dis- 

 cussion and, while no action was taken 

 at the town meeting to refund the 

 money, the matter was taken under ad- 

 visement for an investigation of the 

 state laws concerning such property, 

 and it is expected that an adjustment 

 may be made in accordance with such 

 findings. The outcome of this contro- 

 versy will be watched with more than 

 usual interest, as it is a pertinent ques- 

 tion that concerns every grower of 

 nursery stock in the country. 



W. H. M. 



DEMAin> FOR FRUIT. 



The frequent statement that if all 

 the trees that are planted ever come 

 into bearing there will be so much fruit 

 that the market will not be able to 

 consume it, is opposed by G. Hale Har- 

 rison, of Harrison's Nurseries, Berlin, 

 Md. "Such is not the case," he as- 

 serted recently as president of the 

 Peninsula Horticultural Society. "By 

 consulting statistics you will find that 

 in 1920 there were twenty-eight per 

 cent fewer bearing apple trees in the 

 United States than there were in 1910, 

 and at the same time there were forty- 

 five per cent fewer trees of nonbearing 

 age than there were in the last decade. 



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oonfidence that they'll give , 

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This also holds true of peaches. In 

 1920 there were thirty per cent fewer 

 bearing peach trees in the United States 

 than there were in 1910 and also forty- 

 nine per cent fewer peach trees of non- 

 bearing age than there were in 1910. 

 At the same time, with this great de- 

 crease in the number of trees in bear- 

 ing and nonbearing trees, there was an 

 increase in the population of the 

 United States of five per cent. Since 

 there were so many bearing trees in 1910, 

 with a smaller population consuming ' 

 fruit at that time, it certainly looks rea- 

 sonable that with a decreased number of 

 trees and an increased population there 

 should not be any trouble to sell good 

 fruit at fair prices during the coming 

 years. The prospect for both peaches 

 and apples looks encouraging." 



VARIETIES OF HARDY PHLOX. 



Please give me growing instructions 

 and the names and colors of the best 

 propagating varieties of phlox. Where 

 can I secure cuttings of plants that 

 will come true to seedf 



J. B. S.— Ind. 



There are numerous varieties of 

 hardy herbaceous phlox. While it is true 

 that seedlings can be grown readily, 

 these will not come true to color and, 

 while some good varieties may be se- 

 cured in this way, the best way to in- 

 crease stock is to propagate by cuttings 



Just a Few Left 



.THEY ARE GETTING SCARCE 



Berberis Thunbergii 

 Hardy Privet 

 Hydrangea P. G. 

 Climbing Roses 

 Boston Ivy 

 Clematis 



Write for trade list on treaa, ghmb* and 

 perennials before the surplus is all taken. 



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 ONARGA, . ILLINOIS 



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