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The Florists^ Review 



July 20, 1922 



Announcement is made by the Pfund 

 Nursery Co., now at Soutli boulevard and 

 Oak Park avenue, Oak Park, 111., that its 

 Elnihurst and Chicago offices have been 

 consolidated into general oflSces located 

 at the above mentioned address. This 

 change was made necessary by the expan- 

 sion of the business of the firm. 



At the third meeting of the California 

 Nurserymen's Bud Selection Associa- 

 tion, held at Sacramento, the following 

 officers and directors were elected to serve 

 during the coming year: President, W. 

 T. Kirkman, Jr.; vice president, J. E. 

 Bergholt ; secretary-treasurer. Max J. 

 Crow; field manager, Charles B. Weeks; 

 directors, J. S. Armstrong, Ontario ; J. E. 

 Bergholt, Newcastle; Max J. Crow, Gil- 

 roy; L. H. Elmer, San Jose; H. A. Hyde, 

 Watsonville; W. T. Kirkman, Jr., 

 Fresno; Alman Wheeler, San Jose. 



To further the work of the art exten- 

 sion committee of the University of Ill- 

 inois, which is to make art a more potent 

 elevating force in the lives of the people 

 of the state of Illinois, a photographic 

 competition for the school children 

 throughout the state of Illinois has been 

 inaugurated with pictures of rural school 

 grounds before and after decorating and 

 any native beauty in Illinois as subjects. 

 0. C. Simonds, landscape gardener of Chi- 

 cago, and J. C. Blair, head of the depart- 

 ment of horticulture. University of Illi- 

 nois, have consented to act as judges in 

 the state competitions and to prepare the 

 designs for planting of school grounds. 



TEN BEST PEONIES. 



Will you mention ten of the best 

 peonies for commercial cut flower pur- 

 poses, both as to keeping in storage and 

 shipping qualities? V. E. B. — Tenn. 



Following is a list of ton first-rate 

 commercial varieties of peonies: 

 Duchessc de Nemours, early white; 

 Couroune d'Or, late white; Octavie 

 Deniay, early light pink; Venus, early 

 Ught pink; Pierre Duchartre, late light 

 pink; M. Jules Elie, early dark pink; 

 Livingstone, late dark pink; Claire 

 Dubois, midseason ))ink; Augustin 

 d'llour, dark red, and Felix Crousso, 

 midseason red. W. A. Peterson. 



PEONY BOOT DIVISIONS. 



Are the divisions from a peony root 

 which is from 8 to 12 years old good to 

 jjlant? Arc these divisions as good as 

 a division from a 3 year-old root? If 

 divisions are taken from an old peony 

 root, will the plant discontinue to 

 bloom? E. S. S.— Ind. 



Divisions from any peony roots that 

 are more than 3 years old will be 

 coarser and heavier, with much more 

 labor 1o cut out the rotted portions 

 which invariably are found in the old 

 stools, where the water soaks into the 

 holes made by the rotting away of the 

 stems of the previous year's growth. 

 If the major portion of the old tuber 

 was cut awav and not to exceed two 



eyes were left on any division, cutting 

 off the remaining eyes, such a plant 

 will in the course of two years build a 

 new system of roots and make a fairly 

 good plant. 



It is not profitable, if the plants are 

 grown for propagating purposes, to let 

 them stand for more than three years. 

 So, anyone offering older plants mu'st 

 have been growing them for blooms. 

 A division cut from a young, thrifty 

 plant is worth more than two of those 

 cut from a plant more than 3 years old. 

 William A. Peterson. 



WHAT'S AROUND THE CORNER? 



Wliat Awaits Trade There. 



I am no prophet, son of a prophet, 

 seer or crystal gazer, but I do believe 

 that the nursery industry is approach- 

 ing a "corner" and that one guess is 

 as good as another as to what awaits us 

 around that corner. Generally speak- 

 ing, the last few years have been good 

 for the nurseryman; we have enjoyed a 

 good business, a live market at profit- 

 able prices. For the season of 1921 and 

 1922 the price tendency was downward 

 as compared with the previous year, 

 except on some few items that were in 

 short supply, and my prediction is that 

 the price tendency for the fall of 1922 

 and the spring of 1923 will continue 

 downward on nursery products taken as 

 a whole. There are some exceptions, 

 because the supply of some few items 



Paper read by H. R. Cliase, of Chase, Ala., 

 on "What's Around the Corner?" at the con- 

 vention of the American Association of Nurs- 

 erymen, at Detroit, Mich., June 28 to 30. 



SATISFACTION 



TREES 



SHRUBS 



PERENNIALS 



GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



Whatever you buy of us, Its 

 •atUfaction we sell 



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will continue short throughout this com- 

 ing season. These price declines, com- 

 ing by degrees, are right and proper, 

 and strictly in keeping with the read- 

 justment from the war-time peak. 

 There is no objection whatever to this 

 program; it is the natural thing; we 

 expect it and are prepared for it. 



Overproduction. 



As I see it, the nursery industry to- 

 day is on a production basis. The in- 

 dustry is now in position to expand its 

 productions greatly, and overproduc- 

 tion I would put first on the list of 

 "What's Around the Corner." Most 

 earnestly do 1 sound a note of warning. 

 Do not go wild on your plantings. Stop 

 and think it out. Stop and think and, in 

 thinking it out, go over your old pay 

 rolls, your old trial balances, your old 

 freight and express bills, your old over- 

 head account and compare these items 

 with their costs today. By old accounts 

 I mean those of the years of 1911 and 

 1914, the pre-war period. If you will 

 but take the time to make this compari- 

 son, you will find that it is utterly out 

 of the question for you to live under 

 the prices which you secured for your 

 products during that time. As sure as 

 the sun shines, overproduction will bring 

 our industry right back to 6-cent ap- 

 ples, 9-cent Kieffers, 14-cent cherries, 

 6-cent peaches and 12-cent roses, in 

 spite of your present operating expense, 

 which is fifty to 150 per cent greater 



On Assorted Carloads 



of ornamentals we can save 

 you money. Let us talk it 

 over. Also a few surplus 

 carloads of Amoor River and 

 California Privet. It will 

 pay you to get our prices on 

 assorted carloads. 



Onarga Nursery Company 



CULTRA BROS^ 

 ONARGA, 



Managers 

 ILLINOIS 



READY TO DO BUSINESS 



FALL 1922-SPRING 1923 



Roees, fine atsorlment, forcing grades. Privet, California and Amoor River. 

 Barberry Thunbergii, 2 and 3-year. Shrubs, full line. 



Climbing Vines, Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Small Fruits, Ever- 

 greens. 



Imported French-grown Rose and Fruit Tree Stocks, (luoted, graded 

 and shipted from Manchester. 



Multiflora Japonica Rose Seedlings, very scarce. 



Barberry Tbunbertfii Seedlings, lower than pre-war pi ices. 



Kansas-grown Apple Seedlings, shipped from Topeka. Produced by one of the oldest 

 and best growers in Kaw Valley. 



Write for prices. We give you service and our grades are right. 



C R. BURR & CO., Manchester, Conn. 



