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1078 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Makch 30, 1905. 



WISERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCUTHM OF NURSCRYMCN. 



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

 71ee-Prea., 0. L. Watrous, Dea Holnea; Sec'y, 

 g«o-0. Bearer, Boeheater; Treaa., 0. L. Tatea. 

 Aoebeator. The »th annual conTonUon wiU be 

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



We now have a parcels-post arrange- 

 ment with Belgium. 



The season promises to be a short and 

 desperately busy one for the nurserymen. 



Louis H. Fresse, Coatsburg, 111., will 

 remove his nursery business to Quincy, 



The J. B. Hutchison nursery, at 

 Litchfield, 111., has been established for- 

 ty years. 



The increase in wealth in the middle 

 west is bringing eastern landscape ar- 

 chitects a great many orders from, that 

 region. 



A GREAT many florists are beginning 

 to find out how well a business in shrubs 

 and small trees fits, in with other plant- 

 ing work. 



The Clinton Palls Nursery Co., Owa- 

 tonna, Minn., has secured a big plant- 

 ing contract at Frankfort, South Dakota, 

 for A. C. Johnson. 



At Minneapolis the park department 

 .is doing considerable planting this 

 spring, but much of the stock is coming 

 from the department nursery. 



Several nurseries in the latitude of 

 Long Island are low bidders for north- 

 ern planting contracts, because they can 

 be executed at the close of the local 

 season. 



THROUCiH the middle west a great 

 deal, of ornamental stock will be 

 planted this spring, most of it on small 

 orders, but calling for material of good 

 quality and size. 



W. F. Heikes is developing a big 

 business at Biloxi, Miss., the branch of 

 the Huntsville WTiolesale Nursery, where 

 conditions are peculiarly favorable for 

 roses, pecans, etc. 



The extent of the business in straw- 

 berry plants now done by some nurseries 

 is something surprising. The Harrison 

 & Sons nursery, at Berlin, Md., handles 

 such sorts as Bubach, Gandy, Mitchell's 

 Early and Parsons in half-million lots 

 and more and has a list of some fifty 

 . sorts. 



Congress has passed a law entitled 

 "An act to prohibit importation or in- 

 terstate transportation of insect pests, 

 and the use of the United States mails 

 for tliat purpose. ' ' Any one who shall 

 knowingly cause to be so transported 

 any insect harmful to plant life shall be 

 fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned 

 not less than five years. Specimens for 

 scientific purposes" are excepted under 

 regulations yet to be announced. 



SHHUBS FROM JAPAN. 



[An extract from a paper by Joseph Meehan, 

 read iiiidei. the general heading, "Our Ilortlcul 

 tural Indebtedness to Japan," before the Uer- 

 muntowu Horticultural Society, March 13, 1905.] 



The list of shrubs which Japan has 



dent us is a very large one, and, in fact, 



it is to their introduction that we are 

 indebted for much of the praise travel- 

 ers bestow on the appearance of our 

 grounds in the spring of the year. The 

 well-known Golden Bell forsythia; the 

 Weigelia rosea, many of the spiralis, and 

 the exochorda, are all near neighbors 

 in that part of the world. 



Then think of the beauty and useful- 

 ness of the Hydrangea paniculata 

 grandiflora; the Japanese snowball, Vi- 

 burnum plicatum ; the Berberis Thun- 

 bergii, the Cercis Japonjca and the Les- 

 pedeza Sieboldi, all now among our 

 common shrubs. And there may be 

 added the Kerria Japoniea, the Hama- 

 mclis Japoniea, many hypericums, the 

 Tamarix Japoniea and the Rhodotypos 

 Kerrioides. 



The hardy orange, Citrus trifoliata, 

 which is exciting so much attention as 

 the probable forerunner of a race of 

 hardy oranges, is from Japan. This 

 is hardy as far north as New York. 

 It fruits freely, but the oranges are 

 too bitter to be eaten. 



Yo.u all know the value of the privet 



we now use so freely for hedging. It, 

 too, is Japanese, the name C^ifornian 

 being given it because it found its way 

 east by way of California. There is 

 another privet from Japan, called Ja- 

 ponicum, a true evergreen, and hardy 

 about Philadelphia. 



We must not forget the roses from 

 Japan. The list is a long one, but 

 standing out prominently are the Bosa 

 rugosa and the Rosa multiflora, and 

 the many valuable hybrids raised from 

 them. 



Styrax Japoniea is a large shrub, al- 

 most a small tree, which bears pretty 

 clusters of white flowers in spring. 

 There are many styraxes native here, 

 buj; none of them is the equal of Ja- 

 poniea. 



Xanthoceras sorbifolia is a Chinese 

 shrub, but I am tempted to include it 

 among the rest of the shrubs, it is such 

 a lovely thing when in bloom. The 

 flowers are white, with red streaks at 

 the base, very large, and >aT«^roduced 

 in early spring. It is n(5t yet as well 

 known as it should be. 



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