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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 





Septkmbeb 15, 1904. 



WDBSERT NEWS. 



AMERICAtS ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



Pres., E. W. Kirkpatrlck, McElnney, Tex. 

 Vlce-Pres., C. L. WatrouB. Dea Molneu; Sec'y 

 Qeo. C. Sealer, Bocbester; Treas., C. L. Yates 

 Boohester. The 29th annual convention will be 

 held at West Baden, Ind., June, 1Mb. 



C. W. Carman has determined to re- 

 move his nursery business from Lawrence, 

 Kan., to Fort Madison, la. 



Head the peach trees low. That is, let 

 them sprout out near the ground and 

 make several trunks instead of one only. 

 This advice is specially applicable to the 

 northern edge of, the peach belt. 



In planting his first Georgia peach or- 

 chard, J. H. Hale set his trees fifteen 

 feet apart, but this proved too close. The 

 later orchards, composed of Thurber, 

 Waddell, Carmen, Hiley, Belle and El- 

 berta, have been set twenty feet apart. 



The Tamarix Africana seems likely 

 to find a large use as a box edging 

 through its successful employment by 

 the landscape department at the St. 

 Louis World's Fair. It grows to con- 

 siderable height, but by hard cutting 

 back it may be kept quite low. 



An unusual feature, sure to attract at- 

 tention on any lawn, is that form of the 

 sumach known from its peculiar flower 

 effect as the smoke tree or mist shrub. 

 It is Rhus Cotinus. In the fall it makes 

 a fine foliage effect. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Among the out-of- 

 town nurserymen who were in the city 

 to attend the funeral of J. C. Blair, of 

 Blair & Kaufman, were E. Albertson, 

 Bridgeport, Ind.; L. E. Taylor, Topeka; 

 ,E. J. Holman and Col. U. B. Pearsall, 

 Leavenworth, and A. Miller, Ottawa. 



FORSYTHIA EUROPAEA. 



John .Charlton & Son, Rochester, 

 N. Y., write as follows : 



"In the Gardeners' Chronicle of Jan- 

 uary 16, attention is called to Forsythia 

 Europsea, saying that it has been in the 

 Berlin Botanic Garden for several years, 

 but that it has not yet bloomed. We 

 have the plant in our nursery, and have 

 without doubt the first plant of its va- 

 riety to bloom in America. So far, we 

 have only heard of its existence in one 

 or two places. We, in common with 

 others, did not know of the existence of 

 an European species until a recent pe- 

 riod, and wonder how it could have es- 

 caped the attention of botanists so long. 



"The late Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, 

 offered seeds of it four years ago, from 

 which our plants were produced, and he 

 only offered the seeds one season. This 

 shrub is a good compact grower, of an 

 upright habit, with no procumbent or 

 drooping branches. Its flowers are about 

 the same size as those of Forsythia sus- 

 pensa, but are of a lighter shade of sul- 

 phur-yellow color, the flower stems are 

 shorter or the flowers nearly sessile; 

 and we should think when the plants at- 

 tain age they would become very attrac- 

 tive. In foliage it is similar to F. sus- 

 pensa, but the habit, as stated above, is 

 v«ry distinct from that variety. For- 



Sthia suspensa is the finest early bloom- 

 g shrub we possess here, forming 

 when in bloom glorious drooping bushes 

 bf deep golden-yellow, which are very 

 showy and most attractive." 



Bay State Nurseries 



HIGH GRADE NURSERY STOCK OE EVERY DESCRIPTION, v 



Free from Disease. Carefully Pached. Prkes Reasonable. Personal attention givea to ev«ry order. 



A few Leaders: — BERBERIS THUNBEBGII, SFIBAEA VAN HOUTTEI and 

 OLEHATIS PANICUIiATA by the thousand. 



NORWAY IttAPLE. Bxtra fine, all sizes, in carload lota. 



CALIFORNIA PRIVET. SI 9 to 930 per 1000. 



RHODODENDRON MAXIBfUAI and KALMIA LATIFOLIA 

 smaller quantity. Wholesale Trade List on application. 



in carloads or 



WINDSOR H. WYM4N, NORTH ABINGTON, MASS. 



Mention' Th6 Review when yon writ** 



