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l%e Weekly Florists' Review. 



Sbftbmbsb 22, 1904. 



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ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE TRADE 



N OCTOBER Ut, 1904, the undersized firm will open a first^Uss Wholesale Jobbing 

 Cut Flower and Florists* Supply Store at 58-dO Wabash Ave., Growers' 

 Exchange. This will fill a long-felt want among: the city buyers* inasmuch as we will carry 

 a complete line of up-to-date Florists' Supplies and Requisites. All s:rowers consisfning: stock ta 

 us should bear in mind that we are not strangers to the business by any means* as our Mr. Vaughan's 

 experience extends over sixteen years in travel among the trade, soliciting orders in nearly every branch 

 of the Horticulture and Florists' Supply business. Promptness and integrity of purpose is to be the watch- 

 word in all our business transactions, and we ask growers and buyers alike to give us a fair share of their 

 business and we will ** deliver the goods.' 



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VAUGHAN S SPERRY, 



A. L. VAUGHAN, 

 FRED SPERRY. 



58-60 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



RICHMOND, IND. 



I spent a day in Bichmond recently and 

 had a very pleasant visit at several of 

 the establishments there. At George 

 Gause's place everything is in fine shape, 

 the carnations all being planted and the 

 roses making good growth. He has about 

 the nicest bed of smilax I ever saw. A 

 house 14x9Q is being built for miscel- 

 laneous stock. 



The E'. G. Hill Co.'s place is in the 

 usual fine condition. They were all 

 through benching carnations some time 

 ago and the plants all looked well. They 

 have a large planting of Cardinal. I 

 don't believe there are any finer mums 

 than theirs. Aetna rose is in fine shape 

 and is certainly a beauty, as is also the 

 rose that was named for Mrs. English's 

 daughter. They have a light pink rose 

 of a little deeper shade than Golden Gate, 

 the bud and flower of better shape and 

 the foliage the finest I have ever seen on 

 a rose, thick, leathery and glossy. 



The B. K. & B. Floral Co. has a nice 

 house of mums, clean and even in growth. 

 Their carnations are all planted and have 

 started nicely. I am much impressed 

 with Bichmond Gem and believe it will 

 prove one of the best carnations sent out 

 in years. They have a large stock. 



N. H. G. 



WlHtSM HEWS. 



KMUaCAH ASSOCUTKM OF NURSERYMtN. 



Prea., K. W. Kirkpatrlck, McKlnney, Tex ; 

 Vlee-Pree., C. L. W»trouB, Des Moines: Secy, 

 0«o. C. Searer, Rochester; Treaa., C. L. Tales. 

 Rochester. The 29th annual convention will be 

 held at West Baden, Ind., June, 1906. 



M. O. Austin & Co. have been in the 

 nursery business at Norwood, Mo., for 

 twelve years and have supplied stock for 

 numberless orchards in the Ozark coun- 

 try. They report prospects good at pres- 

 ent. 



The Peterson Nursery, Chicago, has 

 moved the business office from 170 La 

 Salle street to the nursery grounds near 

 Bose Hill, the down-town office being 

 given to the landscape department, which 

 is a rapidly growing branch of the busi- 

 ness. 



Ellwanger & Barry say that they 

 cannot too forcibly direct attention to 

 the rule that budded roses should be 

 planted sufficiently deep so that the junc- 

 tion of the bud with the stock is from 

 two to three inches below the surface of 

 the soil. 



E. N. Stitt has purchased the J. B. 

 Ijaughlin nursery at College Springs, 

 near Shenandoah, la. 



The planting season is only a couple 

 of weeks away and the nurseries making 

 a specialty of ornamental stock have a 

 busy time in prospect, 



W. F. Schell, of Wichita, is in 

 charge of the Kansas horticultural ex- 

 hibit at the World's Fair. At his 

 nursery he lost much stock in the July 

 flood. 



A GOOD lawn shrub which ia not used 

 as much as it deserves is the high-bush 

 cranberry, Viburnum Opulus. It flowers 

 attractively in the latter part of May 

 or June and in the fall is full of bright 

 red berries, which hang on for a long 

 time. 



J. H. Hale, at Fort Valley, Ga., starts 

 the heads of his peach trees from a foot 

 to eighteen inches above ground. In 

 general, they are headed back for two 

 or three years after planting to make 

 them stocky, but the brancl^es growing 

 near the base of the tree which produce 

 the first fruit, and which the northern 

 peach grower usually removes to give 

 the tree a slick appearance, are left un- 

 touched until the tree is in full bearing. 

 It is not unusual to see a two-year-old 

 block with considerable fruit clustered 

 near the bsise of each tree, while a year 

 later these blanches often bear half a 

 carrier of high-grade peaches. 



DEATH OF JACOB W. MANNING. 



Jacob W. Manning, for many years 

 proprietor of the well known Beading 

 Nursery, died at his home, 134 High 

 street. Beading, Mass., September 16, 

 after an illness of several weeks' dura- 

 tion. He was born in Bedford, N. H., 

 February, 1826, of old New England 

 stock. Moving to Boston in 1844, he 

 for several years had charge of various 

 large estates in that city and vicinity. 

 Later he was connected with the Winni- 

 simmelt Nursery and removed to Bead- 

 ing and founded the present nursery in 



1854. 



The Beading Nursery earned a na- 

 tional reputation for trees, shrubs, choice 

 fruits and perennial plants, Mr. Man- 

 ning introducing large numbers of de- 

 sirable plants from Europe and popu- 

 larizing them. He was considered one of 

 the best growers and authorities on 

 evergreens in America and was one of 

 the first to promote the horticultural 

 adornment of estates in and around Bos- 



ton. He :«pent much time traveling 

 through thfe united States, studying hor- 

 ticultural effects and the laying out of 

 private and public grounds. 



Mr. Manning joined the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society in 1849 and 

 was for many years a very active mem- 

 ber of it, being a constant exhibitor dur- 

 ing nearly the whole of that long period 

 and winning many medals and other 

 premiums. His last exhibit was made 

 only a few weeks ago and at that time 

 the writer found him just as interested 

 in his favorite plants as ever. He served 

 on the American Pomological Society 

 with Charles Downing, author of * ' Fruits 

 of America, ' ' and on a number of occa- 

 sions received Wilder medals, the high- 

 est award given by that society. He was 

 one of the earliest and hardest working 

 members of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation, as well as American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen, Society of American 

 Florists and other organizations. His 

 death removes one of the last of the pio- 

 neer horticulturists of New Ehgland. 



Mr. Manning leaves a widow and five 

 sons, one of the latter being J. Wood- 

 ward Manning, the well known land- 

 scape architect. The funeral services at 

 Beading on September 19 were largely 

 attended, there being many beautiful 

 floral tokens. W. N. Craig. 



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 Concolor (Black Balsam), 

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