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The Florists' Review 



Adgust 7, 1918. 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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E. H. Rust, one of the leading nursery- 

 men of Pasadena, Cal., was a San Fran- 

 cisco visitor last week. 



David Nicol, formerly of Livermore, 

 Cal., has removed to Walnut Creek, where 

 he has embarked in the general retail 

 nursery trade. 



The drought has had a bad effect on 

 the spring-planted stock, according to 

 Henry Daut, of Decatur, III., although it 

 has not seriously affected the established 

 trees. 



Fire at the nursery of Yager & Mar^ 

 tin, near Fremont, Neb., destroyed a 

 large barn and several hundred bushels 

 of grain. The plant is too far from the 

 city to be accessible for the fire depart- 

 ment. 



At the state nurserymen's convention 

 at Payette, Idaho, the following officers 

 were elected: President, Anton Died- 

 richsen, of Payette; vice-president, 

 George Fenton, of Emmett; secretary, 

 J. F. Littooy, of Boise. 



The Indiana Horticultural Society will 

 meet August 21 and 22 at Centerville in 

 honor of E. Y. Teas, of that place, who 

 is the only living charter member and 

 who recently retired from the nursery 

 business. 



Mrs. Margaret Meherin, widow of 

 tlie late Thomas Meherin, one of San 

 Francisco's pioneer seedsmen, died at 

 Fruitvale, Cal., July 24. She was buried 

 beside her husband in the family plot at 

 Holy Cross cemetery on the following 

 Monday. 



The firm known as the Old Colony 

 Nurseries, of Plymouth, Mass., estab- 

 lished in 1840, has been reorganized and 

 incorporated with Thomas R. Watson, 

 president, and John W. Leonard, Jr., 

 treasurer and manager, continuing in the 

 same hands. 



In his address before the Idaho State 

 Nurserymen 's Association, Horticultural 

 Inspector John U. McPherson declared 

 himself in favor of free inspection for 

 home-grown stock, which the local nur- 

 serymen have been working for. The 

 rate they pay now is $5 per day. 



Ix the oase of Clarence M. Stnrk, re- 

 ferred to in the issue of July 31, when 

 the matter came up for hearing before 

 the probate judge, a motion was filed by 

 the attorney for the guardian of Mr. 

 Stark asking that security for costs be 

 furnished, which was sustained by the 

 probate judge. Failing to furnish this 

 bond, the judge dismissed the suit. It is 

 stated over the signature of T. W. Stark, 

 secretary of Stark Bros. Nurseries and 

 Orchards Co., that Mr. Stark, once presi- 

 dent of the company, having been ad- 

 judged of unsound mind in the autumn 

 of 1912. by the probate judge and after- 

 wards by a jury, the present hearing 

 was not asked for by Mr. Stark, but by a 

 party representing interests said to be 

 antagonistic to the company. 



TEXAS NURSEEYMEN MEET. 

 At the same time that the meetings 

 of the Texas State Horticultural So- 

 ciety and the Texas Farmers' Congress 



were being held, the state nurserymen 

 held their meeting on the morning of 

 July 30 at College Station in the assem- 

 bly hall of the Agricultural and Me- 

 chanics College. After remarks by the 

 president, O. K, Phillips, of Rockdale, 

 the following papers were presented: 



"The Tree Doctor; His Operations, His 

 Worth," by I. M. Johnson, of Houston Heights. 



•'The Home Culture of Roses," by S. U. Mc- 

 Kce, of JacksonvUle. 



"How Nurserymen May Aid Fruit Growers," 

 by J. K. Mayhew, of Waxahacbie. 



"Federal Marketing Bureau," by J. S. Kerr, 

 of Sherman. 



"Express and Freight Rates on Balled Nursery 

 Stock." by W. A. Stockwell, of Alvln. 



MOSE INSPECTION PROBABLE. 



Representative Raker, of California, 

 has introduced in Congress a bill for 

 the inspection in any state having an 

 inspection system, of any fruit, seed, or 

 plant, which the state requires to be 

 inspected. The measure reads: 



All packages addressed to any postofllce in a 

 state having an Inspecting system and contain- 

 ing any fruit, seed, or plant which the laws 

 of the said state require to be Inspected shall 

 be conspicuously marked so as to be easily 

 recognizable by postmasters, such marking to 

 indicate the contents, the place where grown, 

 and the name of the shipper, and that no such 

 package shall bo delivered until inspected, and 

 is mailed subject to the provisions of this Act 

 and any regulations made pursuant thereto. All 

 packages so marked shall be forwarded to one 

 of the designated central postoffices of the state 

 for inspection. The Inspector at the said central 

 station shall declare the sample aforesaid free 

 from Insect or fungous attack, or shall treat or 

 <lestroy, as conditions Indicate. If the contents 

 are not destroyed, thoy sliail be carefully re- 

 packed and sent to point of destination and 

 delivered to the addressees. 



It shall be the duty of the Inspector to keep 

 n record of the condition of the contents of the 

 I iircel, and In case of treatment or destruction 

 t<i give details and to explain what Insect or 

 fungous disease Is present, and in case of treat- 

 ment the method employed. 



It shall be Incumbent on each state that avails 

 Itself of the provisions of tills law to provide 

 Inspectors and to arrange, lu conjunction with 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 for one or more central stations, wliere ail 

 Inspection shall be carried on. 



Representative Raker also has intro- 

 duced a bill to provide for the inspec- 

 tion of any parcel sent by mail which 

 contains field-grown florists' stock, 

 trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, fruit, fruit pits, and other 

 seeds of fruits, and ornamental trees or 

 shrubs, or cotton seed and other plants, 

 and plants produced for propagation, 

 except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, 

 and bulbs and roots, at point of deliv- 

 ery in any postoflSce of the United 

 States that requests such inspection and 



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where the requisite inspectors are pro- 

 vided by the states to perform such 

 service. It reads: 



That it shall be unlawful for any postmaster 

 or postal clerk to receive any parcel containing 

 Ueld-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, 

 cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit, fruit pits, 

 and other seeds of fruits, and ornamental trees 

 or shrubs, or cotton seed and other plants, and 

 plants produced for propagation, except field, 

 vegetable, and flower seeds, and bulbs and roots, 

 to be sent by mall except that the same be 

 plainly labeled, which label shall not only give 

 the character of the parcel but also the name 

 of the person who produced It and place where 

 grown, If possible; also the name of the sender. 

 It shall also be unlawful for any postmaster or 

 postal clerk to deliver at any postofllce In any 

 state any parcel containing fleld-grown florists' 

 stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, fruit, fruit pits, and other seeds 

 of fruits, and ornamental trees or shrubs, or 

 cotton seed and other plants, and plants pro- 

 duced for propagation, except field, vegetable, 

 and flower seeds, and bulbs and roots, until the 

 same has been inspected by a regularly appointed 

 fruit Inspector provided by the state; and It 

 shall be the duty of the postal otflcers to apprise 

 said fruit Inspectors of the presence of such 

 parcels. It shall also be unlawful for any post- 

 master or postal clerk to deliver such parcel 

 until It is released by such regularly appointed 

 fruit inspector, wlio certifies that It is free 

 from injurious insects and injurious fungi. In 

 case any state desires Inspection at destination 

 it shall be divided into a reasonable number of 

 inspection districts, to be determined by the 

 joint action of the Department of Agriculture 

 and the state authorities, and that in each of 

 such inspection districts there shall be desig- 

 nated a point of inspection, and that all nursery 

 stock coming through the mails shall be routed 

 through such inspection point and there subject 

 to inspection prior to resblpment to destination; 

 and In this case, immediately after inspection, 

 the parcel shall be carefully rewrapped and re- 

 malled to the consignee In case it Is free from 

 pests, and otherwise treated and destroyed as 

 the state officials shall direct. 



CAVITIES IN TREE TRUNKS. 



Can you tell me what to do with 

 ovange trees that have decayed and hol- 

 low trunks? I have taken out of some 

 of them a bushel of decayed wood like 

 the enclosed sample, containing ants 

 and other insects. The damage was 

 caused by freezing in 1894 and 1895. 

 I am digging out dead and decayed 

 wood and painting with carbolinium. 

 Would it do any good to fill the cavi- 

 ties with cement? A. B. 



Scrape and chisel out all the decayed 

 wood, brushing it out as clean as pos- 

 sible It would do a great deal of good 

 to fill all the cavities with cement. Do 

 not let the cement come up too high; 

 it should not come quite flush with 

 the trunk. Leave a little margin, so 

 that the tree can tongue over the re- 

 paired cavity, as it will do in most 



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 from Norway Spruce to the finer varieties of EverRreens. send in your lists and we 

 will give you a figure that will make you money. 



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