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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



August 4, 1904. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



Prea., E. W. Klrkpatrlck, McKlnney, Tex.; 

 Vlce-Pres., C. L. Watrous. Des Motneb; Sec'y, 

 Geo. C. Seager, BocheBter; Treaa., C. Li. Yates, 

 Rochester. The 29th annual convention will be 

 held at West Baden, Ind., June, ltl05. 



Nurseries in western New York are 

 finding this a much better growing sea- 

 son than that of 1903. 



W. F. Heiees is spending the summer 

 at St. Louis and is one of the judges 

 on fruits at the exposition. 



The Chicago Tree Planting Society 

 proposes to hold a conference in the a.n- 

 tumn on the subject of tree planting in 

 the city. 



The Aurora Nursery Co., Aurora, III., 

 will shortly put up a good sized range 

 of greenhouses. John Brick is propaga- 

 tor there. 



The Forest Nursery and Seed Com- 

 pany, Irving College, Tenn., is successor 

 to J. H. H. Boyd, of Gage, and Perry 

 Bros., of Irving College. 



The nurseryman who doesn't grow 

 peonies is omitting a profitable item. 

 The best sorts are no more expensive to 

 grow than common stuff. 



A new enterprise is the Millsdale 

 Nursery, of Greenville, S. C. The capi- 

 tal is $5,000 and the officers are C. H. 

 Croskeys, president; M. L. Berry, vice- 

 president, and J. N. Holland, secretary. 



One of the best trees for city use is 

 the rapid-growing ailanthus, or tree of 

 heaven, although there are those who say 

 its flowers smell like the other place. 

 However, the odor of the bloom on the 

 seed bearing form is not offensive and it 

 thrives in poor soils and under conditions 

 which few trees will endure. 



Le Grande, Ore.— C. Plant, of the Le 

 Grande Nurseries, has a new and distinct 

 variety of box elder which from its 

 color he calls the blue box elder. It 

 grows rapidly, very straight and the 

 bark, which is very smooth, is a decided 

 blue. The leaves are very large. The 

 variety, growing near the ordinary type, 

 never fails to attract the attention of 

 visitors. 



THRIPS ON SMILAX, 



We are troubled to death with a lit- 

 tle black bug which destroys our smilax. 

 Will someone kindly tell us what it is 

 and how to get rid of itf S. F. C. 



The little black bug referred to in 

 this query is probably thrips, an insect 

 that is capable of doing great damage to 

 a smilax bed in a very short time unless 

 measures are taken for its extermination, 

 and one that spreads very rapidly dur- 

 ing warm weather. The most effective 

 remedy for this insect is found in the 

 fumes of nicotine, this being applied 

 either by vaporizing some one of the 

 nicotine solutions in the house iu ques- 

 tion, or by fumigating with Aphis Punk, 

 the latter being the easiest and most 

 convenient method of applying the nico- 

 tine. Thrips may be overcome by sev- 

 eral fumigations with tobacco stems or 

 snuff, but strong tobacco smoke is likely 

 to scorch the tender tips of the smilax, 

 whereas the Aphis Punk is not liable to 



harm the plants. I would use six rolls 

 of the punk to a house 20x100 feet and 

 repeat the dose two or three times on 

 successive evenings if the weather was 

 favorable. Such a quantity of this 

 preparation will not harm Boston ferns, 

 so it is not probable that it will do any 

 injury to the smilax. The first appli- 

 cation of the punk will cause a number 

 of the insects to drop to the ground, 

 and unless they are followed up with 

 successive doses they will soon crawl up 

 and resume business at the old stand. 



W. H. Taplin. 



THE YOUNGEST FLORIST. 



We desire to ask a question through 

 the BevieWi: What is the age of the 

 youngest florist in the craft! We re- 

 fer to those owning and managing a 

 business, not to employes. 



H. & C. 



Perhaps some reader may be able to 

 give light on this point but there are so 

 many young men engaged in the business 

 that it is impossible to state without 

 fear of contradiction who is the young- 

 est; indeed, the youngest today might 

 not be the youngest tomorrow for, de- 

 spite the cry so often raised that our 

 trade is not attractive to those just em- 

 barking on the sea of business, yet 

 ours is rapidly becoming a young man's 

 craft. Competition is ^coming as keen 

 in our line as in any other, with the 

 result that the successful ones are re- 

 quired to lead what would be called a 

 strenuous life in comparison to that 

 of many a successful florist of even a 

 decade ago. However we regret their 

 passing, and we shall never cease to 

 revere the many grand old men of our 

 profession, still it is to the young men 

 we look to do the hustling. 



While it is not intended to cite the fol- 

 lowing as the youngest men in the trade, 

 still the conspicuous successes which they 

 have achieved warrants note of Leo Nies- 

 sen, of Philadelphia, as an example of 

 the young man in the commission busi- 

 ness and of the Wittbolds, in Chicago, 

 combining plant growing, wholesaling 

 and retailing. It is true that the latter, 

 the brothers all young men, built on the 

 foundation which their father was years 

 in laying and still have the benefit of 

 the advice of that fine old plantsman, but 

 the results of their youthful enthusiasm 

 have been none the less apparent for 

 all that. Ages are like white folks ac- 

 cording to the darkie, "mighty on- 

 sartin, " but we know of no young- 

 er wholesale cut flower dealer th-iii 

 Mr. Niessen, not yet 27, certainly 

 there is no one of his years who 

 has been so long handling cut flowers 

 on commission, for he began in a small 

 way in 1895, and few who have been 

 more steadily successful. Peter Weiland, 

 of New Castle and Cincinnati, just 

 turned 27, has 100,000 feet of glass and 

 is well pleased with his start in the whole- 

 sale way. 



We shall be pleased to hear of othf-r 

 young men of the trade. 



PEONIES. 



Festiva Maxima $36.00 per 100 



Fine White. KeneraUy called Queen 



Victoria 9.00perl00 



Rose, the tall-KfowinK.beavy-bloom- 



\dk variety 6.00 per 100 



For other varieties or 1000 rate write 



GILBERT H. WILD, Sareoxie, Mo. 



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PEOHIES 



PRIVET. 



Extra strong, bushy, 2}>i to 3>i ft., $25.00 per lOOOu 

 Strong, 2 to 2>i ft 20.00 " ■ 



1000 Ooreopsis, strong clumps .. 4.00 per IOC 



Achillea The Pearl, strong clumps. «.00 " 



Gaillardia Orandiflora, clumps 6.00 " 



Qolden Glow, strong clumps 2.60 " 



HelianthuB Maximiliani 2.60 



Roseum 3.00 " 



CASH WITH OBDIRS. 



W. G. EISELE, West End, N. J. 



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 Ornamental Stock 



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 hardy and of merit; also Planting In8tructlon» 

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VAN DER WEIJDEN & CO. 



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HUBSEBT STOCK. FI.OBIST 8TOOZ. 



Such as Rhododendrons, Azaleas. Boxwood^ 

 Blue Spruce (Ko8»er), Magnolia, Taxus andCont- 

 f ere In variety. Clematis, H..P. Dwarf and Tree 

 Roses, Crimson Ramblers, Pot-grown Plants for 

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VERGREEN. 



An Immense Stock of both large and 

 small sized EVBR6REEN TRBE8 in 

 great variety; also EVEKOREEN 

 SHRUBS. Correspondence solicited. 



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