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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Fbbbuabt 2, 1905. 



NURSERY NEW& 



AMERICAN ASSOCUTION OF NURSERYMEN. 



Pres., B. W. Klrkpatrlck, McElnney, Tex ; 

 Vlce-Preo., O. L. Watroua, Des MolneB; Secy, 

 Geo. O. Searer, Rochester; Treas., C. L. Yates. 

 Rochester. The 29th annual convention will be 

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



Irrigation in the west will mean as 

 much for nursery interests as it will for 

 agriculture. 



Crimson Bambler roses, field grown, 

 are generally one of the scarce items, 

 but one Bochester firm is offering a sur- 

 plus. 



TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES. 



Many nurseries now do a large busi- 

 ness each winter in the planting of large 

 trees for those whose pocketbooks are so 

 deep that it is unnecessary for them to 

 await the slow process of growth. The 

 elm is probably more often than any 

 other moved in the larger sizes and so 

 expert have many tree movers become 

 that trees sixteen to eighteen inches in 

 diameter are transplanted with rare fail- 

 ures. Of course nursery-grown trees are 

 most easily moved but when the right, 

 article is not available the nurseryman 

 does not hesitate to go into the woods 

 for a specimen which shall be worth any- 



The Arrival of the Tree at Its New Location. 



(Note the bareness of the situation.) 



Edward Friedly, of South Dodge, la., 

 is dosing out his nursery. 



The Montana State Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its annual meeting at Helena 

 January 19 to 21. C. P. Dallman, of 

 Missoula, was elected president and W. 

 Spurgeon, secretary. 



John Charlton & Sons, Rochester, 

 are re-introducing the York and Lancas- 

 ter rose, which has been practicaUy lost 

 to commerce for many years. It is one 

 of the hardiest varieties. 



The Missoula Nursery Co., Missoula, 

 Mont., is introducing a new hardy red 

 apple originating with C. E. HoUings- 

 worth, of that place, and named for their 

 )own. 



Prof. E. A. Embhison, of the Univer- 

 aity of Nebraska, says that in experi- 

 ments made last season two sprayings 

 with Bordeaux mixture, one just before 

 the blossoms opened and one just after 

 the petals fell, held apple scab practi- 

 cally in check. 



There are thus far ten entries for the 

 prize of $1,000 offered by the Minnesota 

 State Horticultural oociety for a seed- 

 ling apple which shall combine the good 

 qualities of the Wealthy with the hardi- 

 ness of Duchess and the keeping ability 

 of Malinda. Competition is open to the 

 whole world. 



Tou may continue our advertisement 

 in the Nursery Department of the Re- 

 view; results are satisfactory so far. — 

 Riverside Nursery Co., Confluence, Pa. 



where from $100 to $250 to him wheo 

 replanted. 



It is, of course, necessary for the soil 

 to be thoroughly frozen to a depth of 

 not less than fifteen inches. The first 

 process is that of digging. A circle of 

 about eight feet in diameter is laid out 

 around the tree. On the outside of this 

 circle a trench, large enough for a man 

 to work in comfortably, is dug to about 

 two feet below the frost line. This is 

 allowed to stand and freeze from the 



outside in toward the trunk. When this 

 is frozen, the trench is continued deeper 

 and gradually slanted towards the center 

 of the tree, thereby leaving a ball of 

 earth of the above diameter and about 

 three feet deep. 



After this has been accomplished, the 

 tree is tipped over by the use of tackle 

 and dirt is filled in under the frozen 

 ball. The tree is then tipped back so 

 that the ball rests on this earth, which 

 has just been thrown in, and dirt is 

 then thrown in on the other side. This 

 operation is repeated until the ball of 

 earth rests on a level vnth the ground. 



At this point the wagon is run up to 

 the side of the ball and the tree, by the 

 use of tackle, is rolled over onto the 

 truck, great care, of course, being ex- 

 ercised in having the top considerably 

 above the ground so that the branches 

 will not strike when rolling the ball of 

 earth* In all this operation great care 

 must be taken in the use of the tackle 

 and the position in which the roots are 

 placed on the truck and the strength that 

 is exerted by the team on this tackle, as 

 in some critical positions a slip would be 

 liable to make the ball joU back, there- 

 by breaking the whole top. 



After a tree of this kind has been suc- 

 cessfully loaded on the wagon it is a very 

 simple matter to transport it almost any 

 distance. In planting this, tree the hole 

 should be considerably larger than the 

 ball of earth in order to allow root 

 expansion in mellow soil after the tree 

 gets started to grow. The operation of 

 planting a tree of this size consists of 

 letting the ball of earth gradually into 

 the hole by the use of tackle. Care must 

 be taken that the tree does not fall, as 

 it is very hard to raise a prostrate tree 

 from that position. 



The accompanying half-tones illus- 

 trative of the process of tree moving are 

 from protographs taken of work done 

 by the Peterson Nursery, who have done 

 so much of this work around Chicago 

 that a writer recentlv remarked that it 

 would doubtless not be long before the 

 tree mover will be sent for as a matter 

 of course, just as the piano mover, when 

 the family makes its annual pilgrimage. 



ROCHESTER, N, Y, 



Bochester is the recognized headquar- 

 ters for the nursery business of the 



Planting a Sizteen-inch Tree on a Gty Parkway. 



