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EOCHESTER, N. Y., nurseries report 

 heavier business than has been experienced 

 at this time for many years. The early 

 season is largely responsible. 



Digging began in the nursery of H. F. 

 Baker, at Minneapolis, Minn., as April 

 opened, since the frost was later leaving 

 the ground here than in other sections. 

 Mr. Baker has just purchased a Eeo truck. 



Following Rochester's example, the 

 high school at Dansville, N. Y., postponed 

 the Easter vacation until the middle of 

 April, in order to make it possible for 

 the many nurserymen there to avail them- 

 selves of the boys ' services at this time. 



The attempts of nurserymen to re- 

 strain customers' enthusiasm for early 

 planting received their justification and 

 reward when the drop in temperature 

 played havoc with the plants of those who 

 had not followed the nurserymen 's advice. 



The price of the postage stamps on 

 that surplus list you are going to mail 

 out would buy ample space to print it 

 in the Nursery Department of The 

 Review, while you'd save the cost of the 

 paper and printing, and reach more buy- 

 ers in need of your stock than are on 

 your mailing list. 



One reason that nurserymen have not 

 taken more interest in many excellent sug- 

 gestions brought out at the meetings of 

 the various associations in the past is be- 

 cause they are too busy. The first breath 

 of spring sees most firms up to their eyes 

 in work, and before they have time to 

 think about anything else again, winter 

 has arrived. 



Edwin A. Reeves, of Cleveland, O., for 

 twenty-five years one of the leading peony 

 specialists in the country, but now retired 

 from active business, broke into print at 

 Toledo, O., recently. The new school on 

 Jackman road, Toledo, will have grounds 

 planted with peonies, ornamentals and 

 perennials, a present from Mr. Reeves' 

 nursery. 



C. A. Tonneson, Burton, Wash., execu- 

 tive secretary of the Pacific Coast As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen, is conducting a 

 column in one of the Seattle daily papers. 

 The column appears every Saturday and 

 deals entirely with horticultural prob- 

 lems. It is proving helpful to the busi- 

 ness in that section. The articles are well 

 prepared, as Mr. Tonneson 's previous ex- 

 perience, as publisher of a horticultural 

 paper, stands him in good stead in tliis 

 work. 



F. N. Rhodes, Seattle, Wash., district 

 state horticultural inspector, is warning 

 local dealers and buyers that a quarantine 

 against the shipment of nursery stock 

 from Linn, Marion and Polk counties, in 

 Oregon, into the state of Washington 

 exists, on account of the prevalence of 

 pear thrips in that section. Only stock 

 dipped in a solution approved by the state 

 horticultural department may come in. In 

 addition there is a quarantine against the 

 importation of 5-leaved pines, currant or 

 gooseberry plants for states east of North 

 and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, 

 Oklahoma and Texas. 



Fkom Minnesota nurseries it is reported 

 that Ribes alpina and R. aurea are quite 

 scarce. 



UGUSTRUM IWATA. 



Ligustrum Iwata, a hedge plant now 

 being offered by a few nurserymen, is 

 reported to be the offspring of L. Ibota 

 and to have come from Japan. 



A x'lant of this variety was imported 

 by Charles Fremd, of the Rye Nurseries, 

 Rye, N. Y., along with other plants 

 from Japan for the winter home, at 

 Thomasville, Ga., of Mrs. J. C. Morse, 

 of Cleveland, O., some fifteen years ago. 

 Mrs. Morse, taking a fancy to the plant, 

 asked Mr. Fremd to import enough 

 plants to make a hedge along the main 

 drive leading to her residence. The 

 plants he received from Japan proved to 

 be mainly L. ovalifolium and the re- 

 mainder L. sinense, commonly known as 

 L. amurense in the south. 



Mrs. Morse thereupon asked P. J. 

 Hjort, of the Thomasville Nurseries, to 

 grow sufficient plants for the hedge de- 

 sired. This he did by grafting on L. 

 ovalifolium the wood supplied by Mrs. 

 Morse. Mr. Fremd in a letter to Mrs. 

 Morse stated that L. Iwata was a seed- 

 ling of L. Ibota, having originated in 

 Japan in 1895 and having been named 

 by the Japanese. 



This variety has also been grown com- 

 mercially at the greenhouses of Mills 

 the Florist, at Jacksonville, Fla. 



The operators of the Thomasville 

 Nurseries did not at first realize the 

 commercial possibilities of L. Iwata, but 

 found that customers who selected their 

 purchases on the grounds the last few 

 years were partial to this variety. It 

 is reported to be com])aratively re- 

 sistent to the attacks of the white fly, 

 Aleyrodes citri, which is a strong point, 

 in combination with the beauty of its 

 foliage. 



L. Iwata branches well. It makes a 

 plant that may be trimmed as a speci- 

 men, or it will make a hedge or at- 



20.000 



SPIRAEA VAN HOUTTEI, 



in storage 



12 to 18-in $10.00 per 100 



18 to 24-in 12.00 per 100 



2 to 3-tt 15.00 per 100 



i to 1-ft 18.00 per 100 



4 to o-fl 22.00 per 100 



to (i-ft 30.00 per 100 



12,000 



Houghton Gooseberries, 



in storage 



2-yr. No. 1 $1(;.00 per 100 



1-yr. No. 1 12.00 per 100 



1-yr. No. 2 8.00 per 100 



Send for wholesale trade list. 



T. W. Rice 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



tractive clump planting, according to 

 those who have used it. 



STOCK INJURED IN TRANSIT. 



Carrier's Liability. 



Although shipments of florists' or 

 nursery stock are in the main governed 

 by the same legal principles that apply 

 to shipments of other commodities, their 

 peculiar nature gives rise to considera- 

 tions not applicable to all other kinds 

 of freight. Therefore the few judicial 

 precedents specifically bearing on the 

 problems of florists and nurserymen 

 should be of particular interest to the 

 members of these trades. 



One of the leading cases under this 

 head is that of Bobbink & Atkins vs. 

 Erie Railroad Co., 82 New Jersey Law 

 Reports, 547. The principal points de- 

 cided in this case by the New Jersey 

 Court of Errors and Appeals are as 

 follows: 



1. A clause in a bill of lading exempt- 

 ing the carrier, the railway company, 

 from liability for loss or damage caused 

 by fire does not relieve it from liability 

 for negligence. 



2. In an action to recover for the loss 

 of goods destroyed while in the posses- 

 sion of a carrier under a bill of lading 

 containing an exemption of liability for 

 loss by fire, the evidence was examined 

 and held sufiBcient to warrant an infer- 

 ence of negligence — in shipping the par- 

 ticular goods upon open cars, rather 

 than in box cars, and in failing to keep 

 the spark-arresting screen upon one of 

 defendant's locomotives in a proper 

 condition. 



3. The responsibility of a carrier of 

 goods does not terminate until after the 

 consignee has had a reasonable time 

 within which to remove the goods. 



4. A carrier of goods holding them as 



t-vr. Ibolium 

 Privet 



IBOLIUM 

 PRIVET 



THE? NEW 



HARDY 

 HEDGE 



Resembles California 

 Harriy as Ibota 



Dormant Summer Cuttings, 

 $15.00 per 100 



All larger grades sold. 



Box Barberry 



Hard-wood cuttiriKS for greenhouse benchpropa- 

 RaUoD, $7.50 per 1000. Ready Now. 



Summer Frame Cuttings, 



$25.00 per 1000. For lining out. 



10 Samples, postpaid, for 50c 



SURPLUS — American Hemlock, Pin 



Oak, Ginkgo, Red Maple, Japan Iris. 



The Elm City Nursery Co. 



WOODMONT NURSERIES, Inc. 

 NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



Buy Box Barberry and Ibolium Privet 

 of the introducerB. 



