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The Florists' Review 



February 4, 1915. 



The officers of the Greorgia Horticul- 

 tural Society elected for the coming year 

 are: President, Robert C. Berckmans, of 

 Augusta; vice-president, B. W. Hunt, 

 ■of Eatonton; secretary, T. H. McHatton, 

 of Athens. 



Thk death of F. B. Stowe, well known 

 to the trade through his connection 

 with the Maywood Nursery Co., May- 

 wood, 111., and the Phoenix Nursery, at 

 Delavan, Wis., is recorded in this 

 week's obituary column. 



NEW ENaiiAND ASSOCIATION. 



Officers Elected. 



At the fourth annual convention of 

 the New England Nurserymen's Asso- 

 ciation, held at the Narragansett hotel, 

 Providence, R.- I., January 26 and 27, 

 the following officers were elected: 



President, Charles H. Greaton, of 

 Providence. 



Vice-president, George C. Thurlow, of 

 West Newbury, Mass. 



Secretary, Daniel A. Clark, of Fiske- 

 ville, E. I. 



Treasurer, V, A. Vanicek, of New- 

 port, R. I. 



Executive committee, C. R. Fisk, of 

 Worcester, Mass.; A. P. Home, of Man- 

 chester, N. H., and John R. Barnes, of 

 Yalesvillfe, Conn. 



Springfield, Mass., was selected as the 

 meeting place for next year's conven- 

 tion. 



Uve Sessions. 



There were some excellent papers 

 presented, which created discussion of 

 still greater interest and value. Harlan 

 P. Kelsey, of Salem, Mass., assailed the 

 practice of burning surplus nursery 

 stock, upheld by W. W. McCartney, 

 treasurer of the Elm City Nursery Co., 

 Woodmont, Conn., in his address on 

 ^'Effects of the European War on Nurs- 

 ery Business." 



"That is the worst economic blunder 

 that has ever been made in the world, ' * 

 said Mr. Kelsey. "In every other line 

 of wholesale and retail business there 

 are sales of surplus stock at cheap 

 rates. There are too many people in 

 the soup line to burn anything that is 

 produced. Create a market for the 

 stock. You can sell shrubbery stock to 

 poor people at low prices, people to 

 whom you would not sell otherwise, 

 and, consequently, you do not curtail 

 your market." 



Considerable diversity of opinion was 

 expressed on the subject. Mr. McCart- 

 ney maintained that nursery stock was 

 more permanent than most other stocks, 

 and the market was thus less elastic 

 than for many lines of goods. Others 

 expressed the opinion that a love for 

 plants ought to be created and intensi- 

 fied and that when this is done the sur- 

 plus stock would be taken care of. 



A. E. Robinson, of Lexington, Mass., 

 seconded Mr. Kelsey, saying that not 

 enough ornamental shrubbery was be- 

 ing produced to burn it up, and that a 

 love for shrubbery could be created in 

 this country, a love which already ex- 

 ists in Europe. 



Please cut out of my ad for Privet 

 the 18 to 24-inch, as I am all sold 

 out of that size. The Review cer- 

 tainly does bring the answers. 

 Chakles L. Smith, 

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



In his address on "Standardization 

 in Sizes of Nursery Stock," E. W. 

 Breed, of Clinton, Mass., advocated uni- 

 fied methods of description in all cata- 

 logues. As a result of this address a 

 committee will be appointed by the 

 incoming president to consider the pa- 



per and report at the next meeting, and 

 to confer with a similar committee from 

 the American Association of Nursery- 

 men. 



On the evening of January 26 the 

 annual dinner was held. Afterwards 

 the members were entertained at a 

 theater party at Keith's, in charge of 

 the executive committee. 



The Program. 



The program of papers and addresses, 

 as presented, was as follows: 



President's address, by John R. 

 Barnes, of Yalesville, Conn. 



"Soils," by H. J. Wheeler, Ph. D., 

 Boston. 



TREE SEEDS 



Lb. 10 Lbs. 



Concolor Fir $1.00 I 7.50 



Douglas Fir 2.75 25.00 



Hemlock 4.00 37.50 



Enselmann Spruce 3.50 90.00 



Colo. Blue Spruce 3.75 36.00 



Silver Cedar 50 3.50 



Jack Pine 3.50 30.00 



Ponderosa Fine 1.75 15.00 



Pitch Pine 3.00 25.00 



White Pine 2.50 20.00 



Lb. 10 Lbs. 



Scotch Pine 12.50 $20.00 



Am. Arbor Vitae 2.75 25.00 



European Larch 1.75 15.00 



Am. Red Oak (per bu., $2.00) .25 1.00 



Hard Maple 75 6.50 



Wild Black Cherry 26 1.60 



Catalpa Speciosa 1.00 7.50 



Syringa Vulgaris 75 6.50 



Rhus Glabra 50 4.00 



Cornus Paniculata 75 6.60 



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