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The Florists' Review 



May 14, 1914. 



In the interests of the city beautiful, 

 the J. W. Adams Co., of Springfield, 

 Mass., is setting out young maples along 

 several streets of that city, under the 

 direction of Tree Warden George W. 

 Hay den. 



Two tracts of land, one north and the 

 other south of Woodmont, Conn., have 

 been acquired by the Elm City Nursery 

 Co., of New Haven, Conn, Work will be 

 started at once, so that the land may be 

 ready for nursery purposes as soon as 

 possible. 



The joint exhibit of decorative plants, 

 ornamental trees and shrubs staged by 

 the American Nursery Co. and the Jap- 

 anese-American Nursery Co., of Los An- 

 geles, at the Pasadena show, drew more 

 than ordinary attention by its effective- 

 ness. 



An addition of thirty acres of land 

 is being made at the grounds of the 

 GrifEng Bros. Co., at Nona, Tex., where 

 this concern already had forty-two acres 

 of nursery stock. The company is set- 

 ting out 200,000 trifoliata oranges 

 brought from Florida. 



The report of the Iowa Horticultural 

 Society for the year 1913, including the 

 transactions of the society's meeting last 

 December and of the meetings of the 

 auxiliary societies last year, has been 

 prepared by the secretary, Wesley 

 Greene, and is now being distributed. 



The licensed nurseries of the state of 

 Tennessee for 1914 are 352 in number, 

 according to the annual report of the 

 state entomologist and plant pathologist, 

 G. M. Bentley, which has just come from 

 the press. Twenty-five certificates were 

 withheld, mainly on account of the pres- 

 ence of strawberry root-louse, and 108 

 nurserymen of the state will have no 

 stock for sale this year because of the 

 drought. The business of the Tennessee 

 nurserymen last year aggregated $3,500,- 

 000, all but one-eighth of which was done 

 outside the state. 



An examination will be held May 25, 

 by the U. S. Civil Service Commission, to 

 secure eligibles for appointments as or- 

 chardists at $720 a year in the Bureau of 

 Entomology of the Department of Agri 

 culture, for service at Vienna, Va. The 

 duties of the position will be general 

 outdoor gardening and fruit growing and 

 general greenhouse work. At least two 

 years' experience in gardening, the use 

 of coldframes and hotbeds, work in green- 

 houses, experience in growing deciduous 

 fruit nursery stock and the care of or- 

 chards is requisite. 



We have always found The 

 Review a top notcher a> to re- 

 sults received from w^holesale 

 advertisings of nursery stock.— 

 Atlantic Nursery Co., per D. W. 

 Babcock, 'BUgr., Berlin, Md., 

 January 16, 1914. 



According to the records of the New 

 York Central railroad, 880 carloads of 

 nursery stock have been shipped from 

 the nurseries at Rochester, N. Y., within 

 the last six weeks. If the cars were in 

 a single train, they would cover a stretch 

 of track six miles long. 



NURSERYMAN THE GOAT. 



When State Boards Disagree. 



The state inspection of nursery stock 

 is at best a sorry affair, so far as the 

 nurseryman is concerned, but when the 

 inspectors of various states cannot 

 agree among themselves as to whether 

 or not stock is infested or diseased, the 

 nurseryman is distinctly in a hole. In 

 other words, he is the goat, and gets 

 caught either going or coming. The 

 injustice of the case is well illustrated 

 by a recent disagreement of the Louisi- 

 ana and California state boards. 



Early in January the Neuchatel Nur- 

 series, of Burlingame, Cal., purchased 

 100 gardenias from Fred Ziegeler, Jr., 

 of New Orleans, La. The stock was in- 

 spected and passed by the boards of 

 both Louisiana and California, and was 

 received in first-class condition. In fact, 

 the Neuchatel Nurseries were so well 

 satisfied with the gardenias that an 

 order and payment for twenty-five more 

 of the same st.ock were sent January 29. 

 This order was filled with stock similar 

 to that sent in the first shipment; the 

 Louisiana board had approved the stock 

 and it was therefore dispatched to Cali- 

 fornia by Wells Fargo & Co., which, 

 following the invariable rule of express 

 companies, saw to it that there was an 

 inspection certificate attached before 

 the consignment was accepted for trans- 

 portation. 



White Fly Comes Aboard? 



Perhaps some white flies' crawled into 

 the box while it was in transit; then 

 again perhaps they didn't! At any 

 rate, the California inspection board 

 found white fly on the gardenias on 

 their arrival in that state. The ship- 

 ment was therefore promptly confiscated 

 and destroyed. 



The fact that a previous shipment of 

 the same stock had been inspected and 

 passed by the same officials a short time 

 before was a matter of no consequence 

 to the state board of California, no mat- 

 ter how the case looked to the nursery- 

 man. The plants were infested with 

 white fly, said the inspectors, after they 

 had examined them carefully; therefore 

 the shipment was doomed to the flames. 



Who Pays? 



The Neuchatel Nurseries, evidently 

 misunderstanding the limited functions 

 of inspection boards, wrote to ask who 

 was to stand the damages in such a case 

 and how redress was to be obtained. 

 The California board, which, it is quite 

 plain, knows its duty and does it like 

 a man, but unfortunately knows noth- 

 ing more, replied that it had only en- 

 forced the law in this case, in which 

 there was no option, and beyond that 

 could give no further information. 



The Neuchatel Nurseries was in a 

 quandary — and so are we! According 

 to the California state board, Mr. Zieg- 

 eler had shipped infested stock. The 

 Neuchatel Nurseries certainly could not 

 be expected to pay for infested stock 

 — to make firewood for California offi- 

 cials. But, according to the state board 

 of Louisiana, Fred Ziegeler, Jr., had con- 

 signed good stock, free from pests, and 

 for that stock he was entitled to pay- 

 ment. This is a free country, by all 

 means, and all men are entitled to their 

 own opinion, of course; even though 

 they happen to be on the inspection 

 boards of different states. And while 

 these others are exercising their free- 

 dom of opinion with sublime disregard 

 of the question, the nurseryman is free 

 to ask, "Who pays?" The answer, 

 however, is not free; it is not, at pres- 

 ent, forthcoming at all. 



This is only one of many similar cases 

 that have been reported in the last few 

 months. 



KANSAS APPLE SEEDLINGS. 



The growing of apple seedlings in 

 the valley of the Kaw, or Kansas, river 

 is the subject of an excellent article in 

 the May 2 issue of the Country Gentle- 

 man, and the writer, H. W. Doyle, gives 

 a clear and fairly full account of 

 "Where Apple Trees Come From," oc- 

 casionally quoting F. W. Watson, the 

 nurseryman of Topeka, Kan., on va- 

 rious points. The process is described 

 from the purchase of seeds in France 

 to the sale of seedlings to American 

 nurserymen. In connection with this 



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