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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 13, 1905. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



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

 Vlco-Pres., C. L. Watrous, Des Moines; Seo'y, 

 Qeo. 0. Bearer. Rochester; Treas., C. L. Yates. 

 Rochester. The 29tb annual convention will be 

 held at West Baden, Ind., June, 1905. 



The nurserymen are strong on Crim- 

 son Rambler rose. 



Stocks of two-year cherry trees are 

 reported as not large. 



There are many surplus offers of 

 June budded peach for lining out. 



The Pleasant Grove Nurseries, Pleas- 

 ant Grove, 111., are going out of business. 



The importations of European nursery 

 stock have been coming to hand in first- 

 class condition this season. 



The Huntsville "Wholesale Nursery re- 

 ports the sale of 270,000 Kieffer pear 

 two years old, in the fall of 1904 and 

 spring of 1905. 



A PiiANTEai recently asked seven repre- 

 sentative nurseries to recommend eight 

 roses and in every reply Mrs. John 

 Laing headed the list. 



There is a revival in interest in the 

 Spitzenberg apple. It is not a good 

 grower and it is recommended that it be 

 top worked on vigorous stocks. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has published C. L. Marlatt's report on 

 the gypsy moth, the result of investiga- 

 tions near Boston, as circular No. 58, 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



W. W. LiLLEY has bought a tract of 

 land at Hankinson, N. D., and will do 

 business as the Lilley Nursery Co. He 

 will plant considerable stock this season 

 and put a number of agents on the road 

 next fall. 



Op all good apples for winter market 

 few are equal to the Bhode Island 

 Greening but the real article is becoming 

 scarcer each year and the average nur- 

 sery would have hard work to supply a 

 hundred three-quarter inch trees to a 

 planter. 



Those who decry the use of the Caro- 

 lina poplar should inspect the row of 

 trees along Stony Island avenue, Chicago, 

 planted aa a part of the work of restora- 

 tion after the World's Fair. They have 

 reached a foot in caliper and are splen- 

 did specimens of a very useful tree. 



The second annual report of the park 

 commissioners of Lowell, Mass., is a most 

 interesting volume. Besides park statis- 

 tics it gives halt-tone views to show the 

 great damage done by linemen and by 

 neglect to the fine old elms of that city. 

 By act of legislature the street trees have 

 Ijeen placed under the care of the park 

 officials. 



It is proposed to invite the American 

 Association of Nurserymen, at its West 

 Baden meetin,'x, to wrestle with the ques- 

 tion of uniform grading of nursery 

 stock. The Society of American Florists 

 had the same question as applied to 

 plants before it at St. Louis last sum- 

 mer, but declined to tackle so large a 

 ,iob. However, with many kinds of nurs- 

 ery stock the point to be defined is noth- 

 ing more than where to apply the cal- 

 ipers. 



HARDY ROSES IN ILLINOIS. 



What hardy roses in red, white and 

 pink are recommended for the climate 

 of lUinbis? We are often asked this 

 question by those who wish such plants 

 for the cemetery, etc. They want va- 

 rieties that will live and bloom with 

 little attention. Is April the month for 

 putting out when we have them in pots? 



C. M. B. 



I have grown the following varieties 

 year after year in this climate with 

 much success: Pink, Mrs. John Laing, 

 Baroness Rothschild, Magna Charta and 

 Mrs. E. G. Sharman-Crawford. Red, 

 Alfred Colomb, General Jacqueminot, 

 Ulrich Brunner and Marshall P. Wild- 

 er. White, Merveille de Lyon, Mme. 

 Plantier and Mabel Morrison. Rose, 

 John Hopper, Anne de Diesbach and 

 Paul Neyron. 



While the above are quite hardy any- 

 where in Illinois, a little covering of 

 leaves or other suitable material during 

 the winter months is recommended. 

 There are perhaps thirty or forty 

 equally hardy varieties, but those enu- 

 merated are among the best. In order to 

 secure an abundance of bloom, prune 

 these roses down to three or four eyes, 

 as soon as the severe frosts are over in 

 the spring. 



About May 5 is a good time to set 

 out roses that have been kept in pots in 

 the greenhouse. E. A. Kanst. 



THE NURSERYMAN LANDSCAPER 



A great many of the large retail nur- 

 series have in recent years added land- 

 scape departments and found them val- 

 uable in many features of their business. 

 In an address before the Chicago Archi- 

 tectural Club Howard E. Weed, a land- 

 scape architect, paid his compliments to 

 the nurserymen landscapers, as follows: 



"It ia unfortunate that there are at 

 the present time so many men engaged 

 in the work of planting trees and shrubs 

 who are entirely without training and 

 whose knowledge of nursery stock is 

 limited to the names of a few flowers. 

 These gardeners can necessarily see no 

 professional side to their work. Lacking 

 any artistic training or appreciation of 

 the beautiful, they look upon their work 

 simply as a business proposition. Too 

 often this may be said of nurserymen 

 who attempt to do landscape work. The 

 time is coming when a discriminating 

 public will be very careful into whose 

 hands they place the making of their 

 surrounding landscape. The average 

 estate owner knows practically nothing 

 about trees and shrubs and has no means 

 of knowing whether his landscape archi- 

 tect is giving him his money's worth 

 or 'holding him up.' 



"The nursery stock is ordered by the 

 landscape architect, generally from va- 

 rious nurseries, depending upon where 

 the best stock of the different varieties 

 can be obtained for the money. The 

 landscape architect should make it his 

 business to keep in touch with the stock 

 of all the nurseries, paying^ each an an- 

 nual visit. In this way he is able to 

 save his clients considerable in the pur- 

 chase of the nurserv stock and esneciallv 

 to guard against the shipment of small 

 or poorly grown stock. ' ' 



Omaha, Neb. — N. 0. Ward, formerly 

 with the Union Pacific, has resigned to 

 devote all his attention to his plant busi- 

 ness at 717 Cook avenue. He will do- 

 both a wholesale and retail trade. 



Shenandoah Ia. — The Stevens green- 

 houses made an exhibit of dahlias at the 

 St. Louis World's Fair and as a result 

 have just shipped an order for $150 

 worth of roots to a florist in New Jer- 

 sey. 



Surplus 



Evergreens and 



Ornamentals. 



Scotch Pine, 8 to 4 feet $ 7.50 per 100 



2 to 8 feet 6.00 



White Pine, 4 to 5 feet 85.00 



" 8 to 4 feet 26.00 



Am . Arbor Vitae, fine, 8 feet 150.00 



6(eet 4000 



2 to 8 feet 7 00 



Hemlock Spruce. 4 feet 60.00 



Other sizes and varieties at very low prices. 

 Large clumps. Lilacs: Each. 



Purple. 8 ft., 30 to 40 stems .$2.00 



6 It., 30 to 40 stems 1.60 



White. 8 ft., 6 to 10 stems 2 00 



6 to 6 ft.. 6 to 10 stems 76 



Snowballs, heavy, 6 feet 76 



Japan Quince. 8 feet. 60 stems 50 



Weigelia Rosea 25 



Tartarian Honeysuckle, 4 to 6 ft 15 



8 varieties, 8 to 4 ft.. .10 

 Spiraea Van Houttei. fine, 8 to 4 feet 10 



Mention The ReTlew when you write. 



D. HILL, Nurseryman, DUNDEE, ILL. 



PEONIES 



Strong roots, 3 to 5 eyes 



Per 100 Per ICOO 

 Ofllolnklls Bnlora, early 



following, double red S8.(0 176.00 



Ohlnensls, white lAOO 140.00 



pink 12.00 111.00 



red lO.CO M.OO 



HARDY ROSES 



Low budded, all leading varieties, $11.00 

 per 100: $100.00 per 1000. 



Arthur T. Boddington, 



342 West i4th Street, 

 KEW YORK. 



IMt. Vernon, Ind. — Wm. Kirkham, of 

 Chicago, has rented a place here and 

 started in business on his own account. 



SPECmL OFFER. 't:;''effi.*-i 



Wl bWinb Ul I bllf BigonlM. Per 100 



ClematU. S-years-old, No. 1 



Jackmanll. 2-j ears-old No. 1 $1800 



20c each in smaller quantities. 

 Henryl. 2-year8-0Jd, No. 1 18 00 



20c each In smaller quantities. 

 nme. Kdward Andre, 2 ;rB-old, No. 1 19 00 



21c each In smaller quantities. 



Clematis. 2-year8-olu. No. 1>4 



Jackmanl 2-yearB-old. No. IHi 12 00 



l&c each for smaller quantities. 

 Henryl, 2-year8-o)d. No. l)i 12.00 



16c each for smaller quantities. 

 Mme. Kdward Andre, No. 1^ l&.OO 



17c each for smaller quantitlts. 



Iilllnm Anratom. Sound, medtum-sized 

 bulbs. 14.00 per 100; Sc each for ^maller 

 quaa'ity. Medium to lartre bulbs, |6 00 per 

 100. (Ic each for smaller quantity. 



Gloxinias, Large-sized. In fine condition, In 

 four separate colors, I4.U0 per 100; be each 

 for smsller quantities. 



TaberoDS Kooted Krijonlas, small bloom- 

 ing bulbs, II.OU per 100; »8.U0 per lOW). 



V. H. HALLOCK & SON, Queens, N. Y. 



