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The Florists' Review 



March 18, 19ir>. 



Nurserymen who send plants through 

 the mails should read the article under 

 the heading, "Must Mark Plant Pack- 

 ages," iu this week's issue. 



Geo. H. Ferguson has purchased a 

 tract of land just north of Gerihg, Neb., 

 on which he will establish a nursery, 

 'growing stock especially adapted to the 

 section. 



The father of W. N. Scarff, of New 

 Carlisle, O., John J. Scarff, died March 

 7 at New Carlisle, at the age of 90, from 

 a complication of diseases. An uncle by 

 marriage, Jacob Kissinger, died on the 

 adjoining farm the previous day, at the 

 age of 82. 



To make up for the shrinkage of orders 

 from their regular customers this year, 

 many nurserymen will make an effort to 

 open up new fields. If the stock sold 

 does no more than pay the bills for ad- 

 vertising it, it will have done better than 

 if it had only served for firewood. 



During the com and alfalfa conven- 

 tion at Aberdeen, S. D., the Northwest 

 Nursery Co., of Valley City, N. D., 

 rented a store in the J. F. Kelley build- 

 ing for display purposes. E. C. Hilborn, 

 manager of the company, addressed the 

 meeting on "Trees for the Farm 

 Home." 



' A BILL introduced in the California 

 legislature, which will come up for pas- 

 sage at the next session, provides for 

 the centralization of the horticultural in- 

 spection force under the state commis- 

 sioner of horticulture, insuring uniform- 

 ity, instead of dividing the authority 

 fijnong the various county commissioners. 



A. B. French, the almost 80-year-old 

 head of the French Nursery, at Clyde, 

 O., is among these working for a mon- 

 ument in memory of George B. Meek, 

 a native of Clyde, who was the first 

 American killed in the Spanish-American 

 "war. Natives of Clyde point with some 

 pride to the town's record in martial 

 mortality; General James B. Macpherson, 

 the highest ranking oflScer killed in the 

 Oivil war, was born and raised there. 



1 Accompanying a page of descriptive 

 and historical matter on the Rochester 

 park system, in the Rochester Democrat 

 and Chronicle for March 6 was a por- 

 trait and a biography of William C. 

 Barry, president and treasurer of Ell- 

 granger & Barry. He has been a mem- 

 ber of the park board since its incep- 

 tion, and is vice-president of the present 

 board, which will give "way, under the 

 new law, to a commissioner of jrtirks 

 appointed by the mayor. Mr. Barry has 

 long been chairman of the Highland 

 Park committee, and his firm has con- 

 tributed liberally to the collection there. 



EVEBGBEENS FOR MTDDLE WEST. 



[The following is from a. paper read by A. H. 

 Hill, of Dundee, 111., before the North Shore 

 Hortlciiltiiral Society, at Lake Forest, 111.] 



Anyone who has seen or studied 

 European landscape gardening is im- 

 mediately impressed with the extensive 

 use of evergreens. They furnish the 

 buUc of the material for the basic con- 

 struction of their gardens. Evergreens 

 in one form or another are seen eve;^y- 



Knolosed you ^rlll find some adver- 

 ttsins: matter. We have a surplus, 

 and we beUeve IF ANYONE CAN 

 HELP US MOVE IT, TOU CAN.-Atlan- 

 tlc Nursery Co., Berlin, Md., D. W. 

 Baboook, Mgr., January SO, 1915. 



where throughout Europe, and from the 

 sixteenth century onward their popu- 

 larity has been preeminent. 



It is only within comparatively re- 

 cent years that the American landscape 

 architect, gardener and planter has 

 awakened to the many and varied uses 

 of evergreens and the important part 

 they must necessarily take in garden 

 making, if permanent effects are de- 

 sired. 



We are a new country, growing and 

 learning fast, but in the mad race for 

 money during the last hundred years 

 but scant interest has been given to 

 permanency. Results are wanted in 



a day or week, at best a few months. 

 Quick growing, short-lived material 

 hasi been used with never a thought for 

 the future. 



Planters are now waking up to the 

 fact that something is lacking, that 

 something which gives solidity, strength 

 and virility so noticeable in European 

 gardens, where the use of evergreeiis 

 has predominated for centuries. 



But we are learning fast. Fifty years 

 ago it could be said that the average 

 ornamental planting on a country es- 

 tate consisted of seventy-five per cent 

 deciduous stock and twenty-five per 

 cent evergreens, whereas today, in the 

 eastern part of the United States, along 

 the Atlantic coast, the ratio is sixty- 

 five per cent evergreen stock and 

 thirty-five per cent deciduous, and this 

 ratio is gradually spreading westward. 



Best Varieties. 



Generally speaking, I believe it is 

 best to confine our middle-west plant- 

 ing to as few varieties as possible, se- 



800,000 California Privet 



Two years, 2 to 3 feet, 6 to 8 branches, extra fine 1X9.00 per 1000 



Two years, 2 to 3 feet, 3 to 6 branches .. IS.OOperlOOO 



Two and three years, 3 to 4 feet, 6 to 12 branches, extra fine 26.00 per 1000 



Bright, clean and handsome, with remarkable root system. 



IHAnD DMI7I7T One year, 12 to 18 inches, extra fine 116.00 perlOTO 



AnUllR IIUiIjI Twoyears. l^a to2feet 20.00perl000 



*u»vwm ••»«*««« Two years, 2 to 3 feet 30.00perl000 



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