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The Rorists^ Review 



Aphil 21, 1921 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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Shkuus tire selling better tlian ever 

 this season and reports indicate that 

 privet, barberry and hydrangeas are prac- 

 tically cleaned up at most of the nursery 

 centers. 



The second bulletin of the American 

 Iris Society, a 44-page pamphlet, is en- 

 titled, ' * Garden Irises Past and Pres- 

 ent, ' ' and contains a collection of articles 

 that should be of much interest to dev- 

 otees of the flower. Some additional 

 matter of value is added by the secretary, 

 R. S. Sturtevant. 



John S. Kerr, president of the John 

 S. Kerr Nursery Co., Sherman, Tex., 

 says that the season just closing was a 

 satisfactory one for the nursery business 

 of the southwest. On account of the de- 

 pressed financial conditions and the de- 

 moralization of farm products during 

 last fall and winter, the nurserymen had 

 misgivings about the past season's busi- 

 ness, but they have come out as well as 

 could be expected. They have cleaned up 

 their stocks and have realized the best 

 prices that they have ever had. He 

 states that the plantings for the new year 

 are ample and that the general impres- 

 sion is that there will be good stock on 

 hand for the fall of 1921 and that the 

 prices will be good. 



WOUIJ> BOXWOOD BE HARDY? 



Is there any variety of boxwood that 

 is hardy in our locality, about 100 miles 

 south of Chicago? E. A. R.— 111. 



Boxwood is not hardy in the locality 

 named, no matter what the variety. Box- 

 barberry or Cotoneaster acutifolia would 

 be the best substitute. J. A. Y. 



NOVELTIES FOR NORTH. 



In the latest bulletin of the depart- 

 ment of horticulture of South Dakota 

 State College Dr. N. E. Hansen lists 

 some northern novelties, including some 

 new fruits and ornamentals. Among 

 them are some hybrid plums, one of 

 them two inches in diameter, a non- 

 blighting, red-jellied crab apple and a 

 new hybrid of Siberian crab and 

 Duchess apple. Others among the new 

 offerings are described as follows: 



Siberian buckthorn, hardier than the 

 common buckthorn, foliage a brighter 

 green and appears earlier; an attrac- 

 tive ornamental shrub for the lawn, 

 either for hedges or as single specimens. 



A new bush honeysuckle brought 

 from Siberia, of tall growth, with yel- 

 low or red berries. Good for hedges, 

 screens or as single specimens. 



A new Siberian willow, good for a 

 nursery tie willow or for basketry. 

 "You may tie bowknots in these pli- 

 able shoots," says Dr. Hansen, "but 

 it appears practically impossible to 

 break them." 



Russian silver-leaved willow. These 

 trees have made a strong growth, are 

 perfectly hardy and are noteworthy for 

 the silvery foliage, a rich silver satin 

 on both sides. 



Wild gooseberries, pure native seed- 

 lings of the seventh generation; vig- 



orous, exceedingly productive; thorny; 

 fruit large, black, smooth, makes an 

 excellent red sauce. 



There is also a short-season musk- 

 melon of the Turkestan group, besides 

 an early watermelon, both of these 

 found in cultivation in Siberia. The 

 results in breeding hardy roses are evi- 

 dent from the Tetonkaha, a new hybrid 

 variety. 



ERADICATING THE BARBERRY. 



The job of eradicating the common 

 barberry has proved to be a much more 

 extensive one than was anticipated by 

 the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture at the outset of the campaign 

 in April, 1918. This campaign was be- 

 gun as a control measure against the 

 enormous losses of grain from black- 

 stem rust. 



In the grain-growing districts of the 

 upper Mississippi valley, where the 

 campaign has been carried on, it was 

 supposed that barberry bushes existed 

 chiefly as ornamental plants in the 

 towns and cities. This was disproved 

 during the first year of the campaign 

 by the finding of 176,430 bushes on 

 1,166 rural properties. About 75,000 

 of these were scattered widely over 127 

 properties, showing that all country 

 bushes are not confined to the farm- 

 steads, but had been spread to wood- 

 land, pastures, stream banks and fence 

 rows by the distribution of seeds by 

 birds. 



With these facts in mind, the cam- 

 paign was more vigorously pushed in 

 1919. As soon as the survey of most 

 cities and villages was completed, a 

 farm-to-farm survey of certain definite 

 areas was begun. The results in 1919 

 were as follows: 338,000 bushes were 

 found on 14,100 city properties, while 

 1,760,000 bushes were found on 4,600 

 farms. Of these last. 1,680,000 bushes 

 wore escaped from cultivation on 1,300 

 properties. 



During the calendar year 1920 efforts 



20.000 



SPIRAEA VAN lODHEI, 



in storage 



12 to 18-iD $10.00 per 100 



18 to 24-in 12.00 per 100 



'2 to 3-ft 15.00 per 100 



:^ to 4-ft IH.OO per 100 



4 to n-ft 22.00 per 100 



5 to 6-ft 80.00 per 100 



12,000 



Houghton Gooseberries, 



in storage 



2-yr. No. 1 $10.00 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. 



were concentrated upon the farm-to- 

 farm survey. 



In the entire campaign of three field 

 season-s a total of 5,444,000 bushes have 

 been found and 4,230,000 removed. In- 

 cluded with these, in so far as estimates 

 were furnished, are hundreds of thou- 

 sands of bushes removed from commer- 

 cial nurseries during the early part of 

 the campaign. The larger numbers 

 were about 600,000 for Minnesota, 500,- 

 000 for Iowa, 200,000 for Wisconsin, 

 and 75,000 for Ohio. Of the 1,214,000 

 remaining bushes about 1,000,000 are 

 seedling bushes less than eighteen 

 inches in height in a single area in 

 southern Wisconsin. The others are 

 scattered over 6,636 properties. State 

 laws requiring the removal of these 

 bushes are now effective in all thirteen 

 states, a law having been enacted re- 

 cently in Wyoming. The work for the 

 field season of 1921 is to continue the 

 farm-to-farm survey in as many coun- 

 ties as possible adjacent to those al- 

 ready completed. 



EVERGREENS AND QUARANTINES. 



Necessity Mother of Invention. 



In the past entirely too much de- 

 pendence has been placed on European 

 and other exotic evergreens for our 

 American plantings and on foreign 

 nurseries to grow and supply this mate- 

 rial, while our native American ever- 

 greens have been sadly neglected — 

 even some of the most common and 

 easily grown sorts, as well as rarer 

 varieties not so readily available. As 

 an example, the Scotch pine, or even 

 the Austrian, which is a beautiful and 



From a paper rend by Hiirlan P. Kelsey, Salem, 

 Mass., before the Massacliusetts Nurserymen's 

 Association recently. 



t-yr. Ibolium 

 Privet 



IBOLIUM 

 PRIVET 



THE NEW 



HARDY 

 HEDGE 



Resembles California 

 Hardy as Ibota 



Dormant Summer Cuttings, 

 $15.00 per 100 



Ail larger grades sold 



Box Barberry 



Hard-wood cuttings for grceniiouse licnch 

 propagation, $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 Gty Nursery G). 



WOODMONT NURSERIES, Inc. 

 NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT 



Buy Box Barberry and Ibolium Privet 

 of the introducers. 



