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The Florists' Review 



OCTOBBB 16, 1013. 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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C. H. Chandler, of Cedar Eapids, la., 

 has purchased 234 acres near Muscatine, 

 la., at $225 per acre, and will establish 

 a nursery there. 



The Spaulding Nursery & Orchard 

 Co., of Springfield, 111., whose plant was 

 destroyed by fire recently, will rebuild 

 at a cost of $1,500. 



Nurserymen in the southwest lost so 

 much young stock as a result of the long 

 dry, hot spell that a great many advance 

 orders will probably have to be canceled. 



G. A. Chambers, for the last ten years 

 in the employ of the Griswold Seed Co., 

 of Lincoln, Neb., succeeds E. S. Gunn as 

 manager of the retail store at Lincoln. 



Chas. Ernst will move his nurseries 

 to Eaton, O., from Moscow, O. The loss 

 inflicted by the floods last spring decided 

 him in making the change, as well as an 

 inducement of $5,000, put up by the citi- 

 zens of Eaton. 



The Tennessee State Board of Ento- 

 mology has issued a pamphlet by G. M. 

 Bentley, state entomologist and plant 

 pathologist, entitled "Suggestions on 

 the Preparation and Use of Spray For- 

 mulas." The pamphlet, bulletin No. 

 10, gives a large number of formulas and 

 suggestions for the treatment of vari- 

 ous plants for the different pests and 

 diseases. 



D. S. Lake, after successfully conduct- 

 ing the Shenandoah Nurseries, of Shen- 

 andoah, la., for forty-three years, has in- 

 corporated for $200,000 and taken his 

 two sons into the concern. The nursery 

 assets of Mr. Lake, amounting to $300,- 

 000, are to be turned over to the corpora- 

 tion for the stock. The officers of the 

 company are: President, D. S. Lake; 

 vice-president, A. F. Lake, and secretary 

 and treasurer, R. S. Lake. 



One of the reasons why the demand 

 for peach and other fruit trees in the 

 Pacific northwest is not holding the pace 

 of recent years may be found in a report 

 from Wenatchee that the largest peach 

 orchard in Washington will be destroyed 

 before next spring, or a cannery will be 

 built to handle the entire crop. The 

 Moses Coulee Orchard Co. has 500 acres 

 of peach trees in various stages. Ship- 

 ments this year would have totaled fifty 

 cars but for demoraiization of the 

 market. 



In his address on "How to Secure 

 Earlv Matured Stock for Early Fall 

 Shipments," before the Southern Nurs- 

 erymen's Association, Harry Nicholson, 

 manager of the Commercial Nursery Co., 

 at Winchester, Tenn., pointed out a few 

 of the ways in which it is possible to aid 

 nature in her work. Ceasing cultivation 

 as early as possible in the fall is a 

 method generally practiced. He also 

 stated that in his section of the country 

 a successful practice has been to spray 

 peach trees with a fine spray of one 

 pound of copper sulphate dissolved in 

 fifty gallons of water from October 10 

 to 15. This helps to "ripen" the trees 

 and causes the leaves to fall off in less 

 than ten days. 



The office building of the Fancher 

 Creek Nurseries, on J street, Fresno, 

 Cal., has been moved to a location near 

 Eoeding park. There is talk of building 

 a new structure on the old site, but Geo. 

 C. Eoeding, manager of the concern, says 

 no such action will take place this year. 



A decision handed down by Judge 

 Jones of the court of common pleas at 

 Troy, O., which makes nursery stock sub- 

 ject to taxation in that state, is being 

 strenuously opposed. A number of firms 

 of Springfield, O., have combined to en- 

 gage three attorneys to carry the case 

 into the court of appeals in the hope of 

 a reversal of the ruling. 



The Horticultural Trades Association 

 of Great Britain has received complaint 

 to the effect that shipping rates from 

 that country are twenty-five per cent 

 higher on nursery stock sent to the 

 United States, than those paid by Hol- 

 land and Belgium. At the last meeting 

 of the council it was resolved to approach 

 the shipping agencies with a view to se- 

 curing more uniform rates. 



The situation in the nursery trade in 

 the middle west is not so good as most 

 of the men in the business would like. 

 To begin with, last spring's cleanup 

 was not so profitable as it might have 

 been. Then the long, dry, hot summer 

 caused the loss of considerable spring 

 planted stock, deficient growth, and now 

 the loss in the twin kings, corn and 

 cotton, is thought to have impaired the 

 purchasing power of the farmers over a 

 big section of the country. 



BECEIVEB RUNS CONCERN. 



John Y. Chisholm, the receiver of the 

 Phoenix Nursery Co., of Bloomington, 

 111., an account of whose appointment 

 was given in a recent issue of The Re- 

 view, finds his hands full in operating 

 the concern now that the fall rush of 

 business has begun. Mr. Chisholm is 

 now in full possession of the property 



FELIX & DYKHUIS. 



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of the company, and has plans for clear- 

 ing up the indebtedness and leaving the 

 concern in shape to do business. The 

 total liabilities will probably reach $50,- 

 000 to $60,000, and the assets are con- 

 siderably more than that, according to 

 the estimates of the former managers. 

 The creditors have all agreed to let 

 the receiver remain in charge and work 

 out the situation the best way possible. 

 Mr. Chisholm is using every available 

 economy to conduct the business while 

 it is in his charge, in order to realize 

 the most cash for the creditors. One 

 of the things decided upon is to call in 

 the force of traveling men and to make 

 sales by catalogue for a year or two. It 

 is likely that the uptown store will be 

 discontinued after the expiration of the 

 lease of the present quarters. 



The stock and physical property of 

 the company are in excellent condition 

 and the concern has an immense amount 

 of growing stock on its own and leased 

 lands. W. E. Rossney will continue his 

 services with the concern and work 

 with the receiver in the clearing up of 

 the indebtedness and the rehabilitation 

 of the plant. 



INSECTS ON EVERGREENS. 



I am inclosing some insects that are 

 new to me. They are found on cedars 



8000 Carolina Poplars 



1^ to Si^-in. diameter. Straight and 

 symmetrical. The finest stock we ever 

 grew. 



Bargains for those who will come and 

 dig them. At our Wheaton Nursery. 



JAMES KINB NURSERY 



Address for the present, 

 ELMHURSTp ILUNOIS 



Phones: Elmhurst. 102M; Wheaton, 296. 



