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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Afbil 6, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERKAOI ASSOCUTKW OT NURSOYMCN. 



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

 yice-Pre»., O. L. Watrous, Des Moines; Sec'y, 

 Geo. 0. Se«rer, Rochester; Treas., C. L. Yates. 

 Booheater. The S9th annual convention will b« 

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



K A. CusTSR has purchased the Mound 

 Nursery near Farmington, 111. 



At Lake Arthur, N. M., the Townsite 

 Co. has planted 70,000 apple grafts for 

 the improvement of the town. 



The Phoenix Nursery Co., Delavan, 

 Wis., is working on spring orders with a 

 full force and expects the largest season 

 to date. 



The Graham Nursery Co., Mechanics- 

 ville, la., has been incorporated, with 

 $10,000 capital stock, by H. F. CoUver 

 and J. M. Graham. 



D. T. McCarthy, nurseryman, of Lock- 

 port, delivered an address on grafted 

 fruit trees before the Niagara County 

 Farmers' Club on March 25. 



Nurserymen as well as fruit growers 

 will be interested in "Raspberries," by 

 L. C. Corbett, juat issued by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture as Farmers' 

 Bulletin No. 213. 



A SHIPMENT of 60,000 fruit trees 

 from a Missouri nursery was recently 

 held up at North Yakima, Wash., by the 

 state inspector. The shipper was given 

 the privilege of removing the stock from 

 the state. 



H. E. Weed, landscape architect at 

 CShicago, has sent out a circular offering 

 his services as "consulting gardener and 

 entomologist" to visit his clients' places 

 periodically and "intelligently direct the 

 work of his gardener." 



E. F. Crouse, of Paris, Tex., has 

 boqght forty acres of land at Eoswell, 

 N. M., and has ordered the stock for 

 establishing a nursery. Mr. Crouse was 

 fonlierly connected with the Texas Nur- 

 sery Co., of Sherman. 



In Eddy county. New Mexico, a jury 

 decided against the Stark Bros. Nursery 

 Company in a suit brought to recover 

 the sum of $3,500 which the company 

 claimed was due to them for trees deliv- 

 ered to F. G. Tracey in 1893. Mr. 

 Tracey, while not denying that the trees 

 were delivered to him, did claim that 

 they were not what he ordered and not 

 what the company represented them to 

 be, and the jury gave him the verdict. 



CHASE BROS.' PLANS. 



Wm. Pitkin, of Chase Bros. & Co., 

 Eochester, says: "We have sold our 

 property on University avenue and have 

 purchased nine acres of land in Brighton 

 just west of the tracks of the Auburn 

 branch of the New York Central rail- 

 road. Here we shall erect two large 

 buildings for packing. One of these 

 will be 300x300, one story and basement, 

 of block concrete or solid concrete. The 

 other building will be of the same con- 

 struction and 100x100. These buildings 

 will give us 40,000 square feet of frost- 

 proof storage and packing room. In ad- 

 dition to this, we shall have a siding 

 from the New York Central running into 

 the buildings, giving us 400 feet of track 



on which to load and unload our stock 

 under cover. 



"Then we intend to build an office 

 building 60x100 feet in size, one story 

 and basement. Our new plant will have 

 a frontage of 600 feet on East avenue. 

 We have been hampered by lack of room 

 the past few years. We estimate that 

 the buildings and equipment of the new 

 plant will cost $50,000. We intend to 

 begin grading in April and will begin 

 the buildings in May so that we can 

 have them completed in September." 



INDIANA NURSERY LAW. 



The legislature of the state of Indiana 

 has just enacted a law intended to pre- 

 vent the delivery of nursery stock not 

 true to name. Here is the text of the 

 act: 



Section 1. — Be It enacted by the General 

 Assembly of the State of Indiana, that It shall 

 be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or cor- 

 poration, acting either as principal or agent, to 

 sell to any person, persons, firm or corporation 

 any fruit tree or fruit trees representing the 

 same to be of a certain kind, variety and de- 

 scription, and thereafter to deliver to such per- 

 son in filling such order and in completing such 

 sale a fruit tree or fruit trees of a different 

 kind, variety or description of such fruit tree 

 or fruit trees so ordered and sold. 



Sec. 2. — ^Any person violating any provision 

 of this act shall be deemed guilty of mis- 

 demeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in 

 any sum not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor 

 more than five hundred ($500) dollars. 



Sec. 3. — Prosecutions under this act may be 

 commenced at any time within five years from 

 the time of delivery of such fruit tree or fruit 

 trees mentioned In Section 1. 



NURSERY IMPORTS. 



According to the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, the imports of 

 plants, trees, shrubs, vines, etc., in three 

 years, with the countries from which 

 consigned, were as follows: 



Country. 1901. 1002. 1903. 



Netherlands $453,231 $458,862 $636,442 



France 236,062 204,841 281,777 



Belgium 126.662 207,693 239,637 



United K'dom.. 66,368 85,816 99,847 



Germany 80,937 92,947 93,139 



Japan 62,732 66,982 61,255 



Bermuda 48,011 31,422 49,726 



Canada 2,545 1,889 6,000 



Italy 4,414 2,771 4,806 



Mexico 2,618 2,070 4.152 



Hongkong 4,371 4.072 3,573 



Brazil 942 2.599 2,986 



Oiinese Empire 6,030 3,641 2,671 



Br. West Indies 2,119 1,901 2.668 



Colombia 891 1,258 2,070 



Costa Kica 23 1,075 10 



Other countries 2,086 2,832 4,440 



Total $1,008,932 $1,172,670 $1,373,198 



EVERGREENS AND VINES. 



[An extract from a paper by Joseph Meehan. 

 read under the general heading, "Our Horticul- 

 tural Indebtedness to Japan," read before the 

 Gormantown Horticultural Society March 13, 

 1905.] 



How very much we are indebted to 

 Japan for many beautiful evergreens. 

 For many years the Cryptomeria Japon- 

 ica, the Cephalotaxus Fortunei, Abies 

 polita, Pinus Korsensis and many other 

 coniferous sorts have been familiar on 

 our grounds. The cryptomeria exists in 

 many a fine specimen about Philadel- 

 phia, and the cephalotaxus is not rare. 



The Japanese holly, Ilex crenata, and 

 its near relative, the Osmanthus aqui- 

 folium, are quite hardy hereabouts and 

 more of these two beauties should be 

 seen. 



The use, beauty and utility of the 

 many species and varieties of retino- 

 sporas need hardly be referred to, so 

 well are they known. The golden tinted 

 ones, Retinospora pisifera aurea and 

 Retinospora plumosa aurea, are particu- 

 larly valuable because of their color. 

 Whether it be winter or summer the 

 golden color is pronounced and pleas- 



ing. Pisfera aurea is a less dense grow* 

 er than the other, and for this reason 

 for contrast sake both should be 

 planted. 



Among evergreens of shrub-like char- 

 acter, Japan has not been backward in 

 supplying us. There are the many 

 euonymuses, from the green-leaved Ja- 

 ponicus to its gold and silver-leaved 

 forms, the climbing one, radicans, and 

 such larger growing sorts as Siebold- 

 ianus. Then there is the Skimmia Ja- 

 ponica, now a favorite with florists for 

 winter decoration of windows; and all 

 these are hardy. The little Andromeda 

 Japonica and the Azalea amoena are 

 also from that far off country. 



Vines were not to be mentioned in 

 these notes, but I cannot refrain from 

 noticing some of them, to show what we 

 owe to that country. 



The Actinidia polygama, Bignonia 

 grandiflora, Celastrus articulatus. Hy- 

 drangea scandens, Jasminum nudiflorum, 

 Lonicera brachypoda and Vitis hetero- 

 phylla variegata, are among the number; 

 and then there is Clematis paniculata 

 and Dolichos Japonicus to add to the 

 list. And what would we do without 

 our Japanese wistarias, beautifying our 

 dwellings in spring better than any- 

 thing of like nature could do, and last- 

 ly, and to end these notes^ let me call 

 attention to the queen of all useful 

 vines, the Ampelopsis Veitchii, which 

 clothes our dwellings with its bright 

 green leaves in summer and its bronzy 

 red ones in autumn. 



The Tottenham Nurseries Ltd. 



(EstaliUBhed in 1872.) 

 Managing Director, A. M. C. VAN DER ELSL 



Dedemsvaart, Holland.. 



Headquarters for Hardy PereanlalB, amooR 

 whicb are the latest and choicest. 13 acres 

 devoted for RrowinR this line, including Anemo- 

 ne, Aster, OampBoula, Delphinium, Fnnkias, 

 Hemerocallis, Uepatica. Incarvillea, Iris, 

 Peonies, Phlox decussata and suflruticosa. 

 Primula. Pyretbrum, Tritoma, Hardy Heath, 

 Hardy Ferns. Also 5 acres of Daflodils, 12 acres 

 of Conifera, speciallT younK cbolce varieties to 

 be grown on; 8 acres Rbododendrons, including 

 the best American and Alpine varieties : 2 acres 

 Hydrangeas. We make it a point to irrow all 

 tbe latest novelties In these lines. Ask for catalog. 



Mention Tfte Review wha« yog wrtte. 



PbyUocaotl. Saccnlentai 

 BeconUM. 



_ FRANTZ De LAET, 



COHTZCK (Beliriam,) 



CACTI 



Hakes a 



Specialty of 



and Succulent Plants— Import— Export. 



Taberoua Beffonias a specialty, finest type 



cultivated. Ask for my catalogue. 



Mention Tbe ReTiew when yon write. 



VAN DER WEIJDEN & CO. 



The VnrMrlea, BOBKOOP, HOLI^ABB. 



We are oflerin? to the trade a fine lot of Qrst- 

 clasB Nursery and Florist stock— Rhododendron, 

 Azalea (Indica). Peonies. Roses, onifers, etc. 



Ask for catalogue with special prices. 



Address all correspondence to 



Mr. D. O. WIBOAND BRCS8. care of Maltna 



& Ware, 136 Water St., NEW VOBK. 



For the trade only. No atrenis. 



Mpntl«>n Thp Rerjpw when yon WTlt». 



I.ABOEBT STOCK OF Alili 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Asaleas, Araucariaa, Sweet Bays, 

 Palms, Begonias, Gloxinias, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE PERE 



GHENT, Belgium. 



Ilentlon Hie Berlew when yoa write. 



