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The Florists' Review 



SeftEmbbr 25, 1913. 



A NxmsEBY has been started at Avon 

 Park, Fla., by A. K. Miller. Over 30,000 

 trees are already set out. 



The Texas Nurserymen's Association 

 was in session««.t Waco September 23 and 

 24, President O. M. Phillips, of Kock- 

 dale, presiding. 



Incorpoeation papers have been issued 

 to the Menary Nursery Co., Omaha, 

 Neb., with a capitalization of $25,000. 

 The incorporators are G. H. Keyes, E. C. 

 Menary, F. W. Menary and A. O. 

 Menary. 



Eepobts from nurserymen of southern 

 California indicate that the supply of 

 orange trees is short, while the demand 

 is strong, on account of the splendid 

 crops this year. Half -inch trees at $1 is 

 the basis for future retail contracts just 

 now and $1.50 is predicted. 



A Sunday edition of a New York 

 daily in an extensive write-up of George 

 W. Vanderbilt's estate at Biltmore, 

 N. C, mentions the Biltmore Nursery, 

 which for ten years after its establish- 

 ment in 1889 was occupied in producing 

 stock for the estate. Now it does a busi- 

 ness of $150,000 a year and has a plant 

 of 300 acres. A library of works on hor- 

 ticulture gathered for Mr. Vanderbilt by 

 C. D. Beadle, manager of the nursery, 

 is said to be worth $50,000. 



The Breck-Kobinson Nursery Co. en- 

 tertained at its plant at Lexington, 

 Mass., September 15, 150 employees of 

 the Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation, of 

 Boston, with which it is connected. After 

 a luncheon, the store baseball team beat 

 the nursery team, and a set of games 

 was run off, to everyone's great enjoy- 

 ment. C. H. Breck, president of the cor- 

 poration ; Edward O. Hatch, general man- 

 ager, and A. E. Eobinson, manager of 

 the nursery, assisted in the fun. 



H. A. Surface, state zoologist, an- 

 nounced before the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society his discovery of an in- 

 ternal parasite that was cleaning the 

 dreaded San Jose scale out of eastern 

 Pennsylvania. This parasite, which he 

 describes as "a hymenopteron, a minute 

 wasp-like insect," has been so success- 

 ful against the scale that, says Mr. 

 Surface, "entire nurseries that could not 

 get state certificates a year ago because 

 of bad infection, are now so clean that 

 the best inspectors have been unable to 

 find a living scale in them this season." 



THE PHOENIX ASSETS. 



John Y. Chisholm, who was appointed 

 by Judge Myers as receiver for the 

 Phoenix Nursery Co., Bloomington, 111., 

 stated to av reporter September 18 that 

 the creditors have not thus far shown 

 a disposition to crowd matters and if 

 this condition continues to exist a 

 much better settlement will be made. 

 "If they crowd us," said Mr. Chis- 

 holm, "we won't be able to pay more 

 than 30 cents on the dollar, but if they 

 give us time I anticipate a satisfac- 

 tory settlement will be possible." Mr. 

 Chisholm stated further that the nurs- 

 ery has much young stock that is prac- 



tically valueless unless the creditors 

 are lenient and give the company time 

 to market it a little later on. 



TBSE seeds in WISCONSIN. 



The following appeared last week in 

 a newspaper published at Sturgeon 

 Bay, Wis.: 



"Frank Graass, of this city, who 

 has for several years been conducting 

 a successful tree seed business in Wis- 

 consin, Minnesota and Michigan, with 

 headquarters at Crivitz, Wis., will this 

 year make this city his headquarters 

 and from now on will conduct the busi- 

 ness here. 



"Mr. Graass' business has grown 

 rapidly, until now he is one of the 

 largest producers of tree seeds in the 

 United States. In jack pine, upon 

 which he specializes, he leads all other 

 producers and alone gets out the bulk 

 of that seed produced in this country. 



"Cone pickers are now at work in 

 this section, in north and south Michi- 

 gan, Minnesota and different parts of 

 Wisconsin, and shipments of cones are 

 being received daily by boat and rail. 

 The early seeds now being picked are 

 white pine, Norway pine, cedar, spruce, 

 tamarack, balsam, maple and bass- 

 wood. Along in October the pickers 



will start leathering acorns, butter- 

 nuts, beechnuts and jack pine. Practi- 

 cally all of the cones and nuts will 

 be shipped direct to this city, but 

 branch stations will be n;)^intained ,^,t 

 Crivitz and in lower Michigan, to re- 

 ceive nearby crops. All of the seed 

 will be handled from this city, how- 

 ever, as soon as the drying process is 

 finisned for this season. 



"Mr. Graass handled about 18,000 

 bushels of cones last year and pro- 

 duced about 3,000 pounds of seed. Most 

 of the seed is sold to foreign govern- 

 ments, to be used in the reforestation 

 projects now being carried on exten- 

 sively in Europe. Among the countries 

 sold to last year were Germany, Aus- 

 tria, France, Sweden and states in the 

 Balkan territory. 



"A new seed firm has entered the 

 local field recently, and is known as the 

 Wisconsin-Michigan Nursery Co. H. 

 Cabot, of St. Louis, and Frank Welter, 

 of this city, are the managers." 



LOW SHBUBS FOB BANK. 



I am planting a lot of shrubs for 

 one of my customers. As a part of the 

 contract, I have sodded a bank of clay 

 soil on a lake beach, with a slope of 

 about 45 degrees or a little less. I 



LANCASTER COUNTY NURSERIES 



LANCASTER, PA., R. F. D. No. 7. 



DAVID S. HERR, Prop. 



Wholesale Price List 



TERMS— Cash with Order or satisfactory reference. Packing at cost of box or bale, 



unless cash is sent with order. 



SHRTTBBERY— 2 to 3 feet at 10 cents each; 



3 to 4 feet at 12 cents each; 4 to 5 feet at 15 

 cents each. 



VARIETIES — Grafted Althaeas In twenty ya- 

 rieties; Mock Orange, Common Lilacs, purple and 

 white; Welgelias in ten varieties; Snowball; 

 Spiraeas In five varieties; Deutzias in four 

 varieties; Hydrangeas, Paniculata Grandlflora 

 and Everblooming; Tamarix Afrlcana: Giolden 

 Leaf Elder; Calycanthus or sweet scented shrub, 

 and a few others in smaller quantities. 



Asparagus Roots three years old. at $8.00 per 

 thousand. Conover's, Palmetto and Giant. 



Dorothy Perkins Ramblers, three years old, at 

 15 cents each. 



Cuthbert Red Raspberry Suckers, at $5.00 per 

 thousand. 



APPLE TREES — 4 to 5 feet, at 10 cents each; 

 5 to 6 feet, at 12 cents each. VARIETIES— 

 Baldwin, Ben Davis, Dominie, Fall Pippin. Gano, 

 Hubbardston, Jonathan, King, Mann, Mcintosh 

 Red, Northern Spy, N. W. Greening. Pawaukee. 

 Red Astracban, R. I. Greening, Stark, Sutton's 

 Beauty, Talman Sweet. Wagner, Wealthy, 

 Winter Banana, Wolf River, Yellow Transparent, 

 York Imperial, Transcendent. 



PEACH TREES— 3 to 4 feet at 4^ cents each; 



4 to 5 feet at 6¥t cents each; 5 to 6 feet at 8^ 

 cents each. VARIETIES— Elberta, Carman, 



Mt. Rosa, Chair's Choice, Champion, Crawford's 

 Late, Old Mixon. Stump, Salway, Greensboro, 

 Fox Seedling, Belle of Georgia, Yellow St. John, 

 Foster, Iron Mountain. 



CAT ALP A SPECIOSA— 6 to 6 feet at 8 cenU 

 each; 6 to 8 feet, at 10 cents each; 8 to 10 feet, 

 at 12 cents each; 10 to 12 feet, at 15 cents each. 



CALIFORNIA PRIVET- Two-year-old. 12 to 18 

 inches, at $10.00 per thousand; two-year-old, 18 

 to 24 inches, at $12.00 per thousand; two-year- 

 old, 2 to 3 feet, at $15.00 per thousand. 



CAROLINA AND L0MBABD7 POPLARS— 

 Trimmed six feet from ground, 8 to 10 feet, % to 

 1 In., at 7 cents each; 10 to 12 feet, 1 to IVi-ln., 

 at 10 cents each; 12 to 14 feet. 1^ to 2 in., at 12 

 cents each; 14 to 16 feet, 2 to 2^ in., at 15 cents 

 each. 



LOMBARD? POPLARS — Branched from ground 

 up. 8 to 10 feet, 1 to lyi in., at 10 cents each. 



AMERICAN ARBORVITJE— 2 to 3 feet, at 15 

 cents each; 3 to 4 feet, at 20 cents each; 4 to 6 

 feet, at 25 cents each. 



NORWAY SPBTTCE— 1 to 2 feet, at 15 cents 

 each; 2 to 3 feet, at 20 cents each. 



Oermaa Iris, 10 varieties, at 6 cents each. 

 Peony Roots, 40 varieties, at 15 cents each. 

 DahlUs, 115 varieties, at 10 cents each. 



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 Pines, Junipers, Arborvitaes, Yews, in small 

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