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The Florists^ Review 



Apkii. 7, 1921 



Early poonios in Toiinesspo arc ro- 

 jiortcMl an heavily ilaniajred V)y tiic frosts 

 a week ago. 



(;. II. I'ERKINK ir, of Jackson & Per- 

 kins ("o., Newark, N. Y., called on the 

 trade at ('liicafi;o last week. He made a 

 trip to Minneapolis April 1, returning 

 the following day to Chicago. 



TiiK spring season in southwest Iowa 

 has been excejitionally mild and stock 

 was planted earlier than usual. There 

 have recently been showers through the 

 section, although a general rain is 

 needed. 



In its second year of business the May 

 Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, la., 

 reports a satisfactory increase over last 

 year. A 15-acre tract of land has been 

 l)urchased for experimental and trial 

 ground purposes. 



Nurserymen regard the cold spell last 

 week as a godsend. "Stock can now be 

 held sufficiently long to clean u]i, from 

 present indications of the season's de- 

 mands," said William A. Peterson, of 

 Peterson Nursery, Chicago. 



Edgar Stark, of the Stark Bros. Nurs- 

 eries & Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., 

 has been visiting southern California, 

 putting in part of his time with an old 

 friend, J. D. Meriwcather, of the Arm- 

 strong Nurseries, Ontario, Cal. 



Two bulletins of interest to nursery- 

 men recently published by the College of 

 Agriculture of the University of Mis- 

 souri are No. 176, "Nursery and Orchard 

 Insect Pests," and No. 177, "Dipping 

 and Fumigation of Nursery Stock." 



Many lines of ornamentals were sold 

 out by April 1, report the Mount Arbor 

 Nurseries, Shenandoah, la. They have 

 shipped practically the same number of 

 cars as at this time a year ago. A few 

 lines arc rei)orted as slow, but. taken as 

 a whole, demand has been good. 



The most striking exhibit at the "Own 

 Yoiir Own Home" show at the Coliseum, 

 Chicago, last week was the jdanting by 

 Swain Nelson & Sons Co. for small home 

 grounds. Brick walks divided a lawn, 

 made of moss, into plots that were ar- 

 tistically filled with evergreens from the 

 Glenview nurseries of this company. The 

 booth adjoining was constantly besieged 

 l>y inquiries as to jdantings suitable for 

 each one's' home. A handsome illus 

 trated folder on landscape gardens was 

 distributed. 



The attention of all nurserymen op- 

 crating in the state of Washington, or 

 maintaining agents there, is called to a 

 recent law now in eff^ect. Under its pro- 

 visions, the state department of agricul- 

 ture shall issue licenses to all "agents, 

 salesmen or collectors" for all nurser- 

 ies, ' ' either in or out of the state. ' ' The 

 agent's or collector's license costs but 

 $1 per year, but the firm represented is 

 required to take out a dealer's license, 

 costing $5. This latter must also have 

 with it a bond for $1,000, to be filed 

 as surety with the state treasurer at 

 Olympia, Wash. 



The recent cold wave retarded the 

 })looming of roses in the extensive fields 

 of George F. Verhalen, at Scottsville, 

 Tex., always a remarkable sight in this 

 month of the year. 



Spring packing is keeping C. R. Burr 

 & Co., of Manchester, Conn., quite busy. 

 An early spring with unseasonably hot 

 weather is making nurserymen in that 

 section hustle to get stock out. 



PRACTICAL REFORESTATION. 



Possibilities in the Project. 



Reforestation is a subject which looms 

 on the trade horizon like the mirage on 

 the horizon of a desert. Perhaps the 

 simile is incorrect in that the nursery 

 business is not by an^ means a desert, 

 yet the efi'ect is the same. How puny 

 the total nursery business in the United 

 States seems when compared with the 

 possibilities in reforesting millions of 

 acres of waste or cut-over land! Unfor- 

 tunately the mirage is only looming on 

 the horizon. The nearer we get to it, the 

 farther away it is. 



The immensity of the project may be 

 imagined from the following excer])t 

 taken from an address by M. Mierisch, 

 of Glenview, 111., before the meeting 

 of the Illinois Nurserymen's Association 

 recently. He said: "With practically 

 two-thirds of the original forests gone, 

 according to the American Forestry 

 Magazine, the United States contains 

 .326,000,000 acres of cut-over or denuded 

 forests, containing no saw timber. A 

 great proportion of this land is not fit 

 for agricultural purposes and the 81,000,- 

 000 acres of this completely devastated 

 ;irea of idle land is being increased bv 

 from n,Ono,000 to 4,000,000 acres an- 

 nually. A reforestation policy is badly 

 needed. We all may live to see the day 

 wlion there will be laws passed com- 

 pelling land owners to plant a new tree 

 for every one cut down. A national 

 forest jirogram bill has been introduced 

 ill the Senate and in the House. 



Nurserymen Logical Producers. 



"Now, do you not want to take notice 

 of these things,' Do you want to waif 



Forcing Roses 



We have the largest stock of heavy forcing 

 grade of Climbing Roses left in the United 

 States. Send for list of varieties and spe- 

 cial prices. 



We can furnish all grades, also, of *' 



Ampelopsis Veitchii, 2 or 3-year. 

 Clematis, assorted. 



Spiraea Anthony Waterer. 

 Hydrangeas. 

 Roses. 

 Shade Trees and Ornamentals. 



Write for Price List 



Onarga Nursery Company 



CULTRA BROS., Managers 

 ONARGA, - • ILLINOIS 



until the time has arrived when there 

 will be* millions and millions of those 

 forest plants needed? Then the govern- 

 ment or the individual states will have 

 to grow all of this stock, because it 

 cannot be obtained from the nurserymen 

 in sufficient quantity or in the desired 

 varieties. True enough, we have one of 

 the best and most up-to-date establish- 

 ments right here in Illinois, at Dundee, 

 and there are nurseries specializing in 

 forest plants in the east, but whenever 

 this country goes into reforestation there 

 will be a tremendous shortage of stock." 



Down to Brass Tacks. 



The trouble seems to be where to be- 

 gin. One of the immediate proposals is 

 that the public roads in each state should 

 be lined with shade trees. This, at least, 

 is something definite and has already 

 been started in some states. But twider 

 the present specifications for road build- 

 ing all the earth in the right of way is, 

 in most cases, scraped off and used for 

 the roadbed. On the side of the road, 

 instead of a shoulder of good earth, 

 there is a hollow of disfiguring rock or 

 gravel. 



The first move to make is to have leg- 

 islation passed to change these specifica- 

 tions so that no road shall be built with- 

 out a shoulder of earth on each side on 

 which to plant trees if occasion should 

 arise, is the suggestion of William A. 

 Peterson, of Peterson Nursery, Chicago, 

 who has been active in the work of the 

 Forest Preserve Commission of Cook 

 county. 



Legislative bodies may not see the 

 need for planting trees on roadways, 

 but they can and will see the possibility 

 that trees may need to be planted. If 

 this possibility exists, it follows that 

 specifications for road building should 



t-vr. Iholium 

 Privet 



IBOLIUM 

 PRIVET 



THE NEW 



HARDY 

 HEDGE 



Resembles California 

 Hardy as Ibota 



Dormant Summer Cuttings, 

 $15.00 per 100 



All larger grades sold. 



Box Barberry 



HardwoodciittliiKS for greenhouse benclipropa- 

 Katlon, $7.50per lOOO. Koady Now. 



Summer Frame Cuttings, 



$25.00 per 1000. For lining out. 



10 Samples, postpaid, for 50c 



SURPLUS - American Hemlock, Pin 



Oak, Ginkgo, Ked Maple, Japan Iris. 



The Elm City Nursery Co. 



WOODMONT NURSERIES, Inc. 

 NEW HAVEN. CONN. 



Buy Box Barberry and Ibolium Privet 

 of the introducers. 



Mention Tlie RcTlew when yon write. 



