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The Florists' Review 



Dkcbmbbk 10, 1914. 



Henry Kohankie, of Painesville, 0., 

 has purchased the George Welch farm of 

 eighty-two and one-half acres on the 

 Bowhall road near Painesville. 



Elmer Sherwood has incorporated his 

 hursery business at Odessa, N. Y., under 

 ijhe name of the Elmer Sherwood Nur- 

 sery Co. The capital stoclcTa fixed at 

 $10,000. The incorporators are C. B. 

 Swartwood and M. V. and Elmer Sher- 

 wood. 



Active operations have been started 

 by the Cottage Gardens Nurseries, Inc., 

 C. W. Ward's enterprise at Eureka, Cal., 

 in preparing the land for the nursery and 

 the erection of the greenhouses. Thirty 

 of the forty-three lots are already being 

 plowed. 



In its endeavor to prevent the spread 

 of the gipsy moth, the Department of 

 Agriculture has been compelled to re- 

 strict the movement of stone and quarry 

 products from the areas of New England 

 which b%ve p)een quarantined on account 

 of the- presence of this moth. It has 

 been found that egg clusters of the moth 

 were being distributed on shipments of 

 these products. 



A LEAFLET of four pages carries the 

 report of the first annual meeting of the 

 New York State Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion, held at Rochester, September 10. 

 The organization is in good condition 

 financially, having a balance of $481.61 

 in the bank, but wants an increase in 

 membership, which now numbers sixty. 

 The defeat of the Vert bill leaves the 

 workmen's compensation law as the only 

 piece of legislation engaging the associa- 

 tion 's attention. A test case under this 

 law will be brought before the commis- 

 sion by the association. 



Please cut out of my ad for Privet 

 the 18 to 21-iDch, as I am all sold 

 out of that size. The Review cer- 

 tainly does bring the answers. 

 Charles L. Smith. 

 Oct. 13, 1914. Pennsgrove, N. J. 



The nursery business of the late E. B. 

 Norris, at Gardiner, Me., will be con- 

 tinued by George Woodward. 



At the forty-first annual meeting of 

 the Southern Illinois Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, at Centralia, three nurserymen were 

 elected to fill the important offices; they 

 were: President, W. W. Thomas, of 

 Anna; vice-president, C. F. Heaton, of 

 New Burnside, and secretary-treasurer, 

 E. G. Mendeuhall, of Kinmundy. 



Addresses before the Southwest Iowa 

 Horticultural Association, at Atlantic, 

 la., last week, wera made by J. R. Rice, 

 of Council Bluffs^ In "A Closer Sympa- 

 thy and Cooperation Between the Nur 

 seryman and Fruit Grower;" W. M, 

 Bomberger, of Harlan, on "Pruning 

 Roots and Branches ; " M. J. Wragg, of 

 Des Moines, on "Ornamental Trees and 

 Plants," and Charles F. Gardner, of 

 Osage, on "Another Year with the Fall 

 Strawberry. * ' 



IMFOBTS OF 1913-14. 



The accompanying table, taken from 

 the annual report of the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board, shows from what coun- 

 tries the nurserymen of the United 

 States received imported stock during 

 the twelve months covered by the re- 

 port, July, 1913, to .Tune, 1914, inclu- 



sive. It will easily be seen that the 

 principal countries from which we im- 

 port stock are France and Holland, 

 with England and Germany next in 

 importance. 



Another table in the report, giving 

 the receipts by states, shows the states 

 in the lead to be, in the order of their 

 importance. New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, 

 Ohio, California, Connecticut and Mich- 

 igan. No other state imported within 

 500 cases of the number imported by 

 the least of these. The total number 

 of cases imported during the twelve 

 months covered by the report was 

 12,744 more than that of the previous 

 twelve months. The figures were 57,525 

 and 44,781 cases. 



The solicitor of the Department of 

 Agriculture reports that fifteen viola- 

 tions of the .plant quarantine act were 

 reported to the attorney-general for 

 prosecution and the cases are now 

 pending. ' '. 



ELM CITY NURSERY 00. TO MOVE. 



As reported in these columns some 

 time ago, the Elm City Nursery Co., 

 of New Haven, Conn., finding its pres- 

 ent nursery area too restricted for in- 

 creasing business requirements, has pur- 

 chased several adjoining farms at 

 Woodmont, Conn., but a few miles from 

 the nursery 's present office and grounds. 

 The new purchase adjoins the New 

 Haven railroad station at Woodmont, 

 and will serve every economy from a 

 transportation standpoint. The land 

 is mostly level, being part of a section 

 which for many years has produced a 

 high grade of seed corn and onion seed. 

 Heavy plantings, mostly of popular 



