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1338 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Afbil 20, 1905. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMCRKAN ASSOCUTION OF NURSERYMEN. 



Prea., E. W. Eirkpatrick, McKlnney, Tex ; 

 Vlee-Pres., C. L. Watrous, Des Holnes: Sec'y, 

 O«o. O. Searer, Rochester; Treaa., C. L. Tates. 

 Bocheater. The Wth annual convention will be 

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



John Furrow, Guthrie, Okla., has 

 bought six acres north of town, to which 

 he will remove his nursery. 



San Jose scale is reported at Lin- 

 coln park, Chicago. It had not pre- 

 viously been found in Illinois. 



E. M. Stitt is now proprietor of the 

 College Springs Nursery, College 

 Springs, la., and does a nice business, 

 including seeds and vegetable plants. J. 

 B. Laughlin, the former proprietor, is 

 with Mr. Stitt. 



Vrbdenburg & Co., Eochester, report a 

 great increase in business since the estab- 

 lishment in their new factory. They do a 

 large trade in catalogue printing, es- 

 pecially for nurserymen, and their output 

 of colored lithograph plates of fruits 

 and flowers yearly runs into the millions. 



NURSERY STOCK EXPORTED. 



The Bureau of Statistics, U. S. De- 



{•artment of Agriculture, supplies the fol- 

 owing figures as to the value of nursery 

 stock exported by this country in three 

 years, by countries to which consigned: 



1901. 1902. 1903. 



Canada $ 39,230 f 52,921 $ 61,890 



united Kingdom ... 25,648 21,745 28,372 



Cuba 18,808 20,099 24,651 



Netherlandg 6,313 6,653 19,812 



Germany 19,178 8,765 14,074 



Mexico 12,068 12,792 8,960 



Belgium 1,407 868 1,777 



Japan 36 .S99 1,291 



Bermuda 6S9 1,561 963 



British Australasia. 35 1,207 607 



Denmark 455 1,074 629 



British South Africa l,9n 41 125 



Italy 1,643 15 50 



Braill 4,312 265 40 



Other countries 3,368 3,622 6,818 



TotalB 1134,961 $132,027 $158,959 



TREES FROM JAPAN. 



[An extract from a paper by Josepb Meehan, 

 read under the general beading, "Our Horticul- 

 tural Indebtedness to Japan," before the Ger- 

 inantown Horticultural Society, March 13, 1905.] 



It is well known to everyone with a 

 fair knowledge of trees and shrubs that 

 to Japan we are indebted for very 

 many of the kinds which give us so 

 much pleasure and add to the attractive- 

 ness of our grounds. To those who do 

 not know this, I would say had we not 

 the Japanese sorts which are known to 

 ns, very much of the charm our grounds 

 are would be wanting. Among the trees 

 which are common in our collections or 

 should be, look for instance at the long 

 list of maples which have come to us 

 from Japan! The beautiful shrubby 

 sorts, those of the Japonicum and poly- 

 morphum type, what beauties there are 

 among them ! I would name aureum, 

 palmatum, dissectum, dissectum purpur- 

 eum and polymorphum atropurpureum as 

 particularly choice. And plant them 

 where there is no lack of moisture in 

 summer, but not too much shade, and 

 the leaves take on their bright colors 

 nicely. 



There are two cherries from Japan 

 which all gardens should have, the weep- 

 ing one, Cerasus rosea pendula, and the 

 Sieboldi rubra plena. The former, when 

 grafted on stems of about six feet, 

 forms heads of much beauty, particular- 



ly when they are in flower in spring. The 

 latter, Sieboldi rubra plena, is lovely 

 when in flower; and towards fall its 

 foliage changes to an orange crimson. 



The Paulownia imperialis is of great 

 attraction in late spring when its large 

 heads of sweet scented, blue, trumpet- 

 shaped flowers are expanded. Let grow 

 as it will, it does not usually make as 

 well shaped a tree as it does when the 

 pruning knife is used on it as it grows. 



The koelreuteria, a Japanese or North 

 China tree, we must find a place for, 

 because of the large panicles of yellow 

 flowers it gives us in midsummer. The 

 large seed pods which follow the flowers 

 are a feature but little less ornamental 

 than the flowers. 



When the magnolia list is reached 

 there is a long array of them to be cred- 

 ited to the Japanese. Among all these 

 are the hypoleuca, Kobus, stellata, Wat- 

 soni; and we may add the Chinese one, 

 conspicua and its many hybrids, Soul- 

 angeana and others. 



Two of the most promising of newer 

 trees are Pterostyrax hispidum and 

 Styrax Obassia. Those unacquainted 

 with them have no idea of their beauty. 

 The pterostyrax bears flowers resem- 

 bling racemes of white wistaria, pendant 

 from every twig of the tree. Styrax 

 Obassia has white flowers, in narrow 

 racemes; and the leaves of both trees 

 and habits of growth are pleasing. 



Sophora Japonica is a tree long in 

 cultivation; and there are some fine 

 examples of it about our city. It blooms 

 in July and August; the flowers, which 

 are creamy white, are in such large 

 panicles that a great display is made by 

 them. It makes a very large, spreading 

 tree. 



The well known salisburia, the maid- 

 enhair or ginkgo tree, is also well repre- 

 sented in these parts. All our large es- 

 tates have one or more of them ; and 

 Charles J. Wister has two planted as 

 shade-trees along the street in front of 

 his residence. 



The fame of the avenue of this tree 

 fronting the Agricultural building, 

 "Washington, is almost world-wide. It 

 is a good shade tree as well as an orna- 

 mental one; and its foliage is singularly 

 free from insect and fungus attacks; 

 and, add to all, it transplants freely. 

 It is usually given as a Japanese tree, 

 but botanists place it as from North 

 China. 



In the way of larch we have what 

 has now been removed from the larix 

 or larch family, and placed under an- 

 other name, pseudo-larix, the Pseudo- 

 Larix Kaempferi, known as .Japanese 

 larch. It is a good thing, and is dis- 

 tinct in foliage from the usual run of 

 larches. In the pseudo-larix the cones 

 are deciduous, whereas in the larchfs 

 they are retained on the branches all 

 winter. 



Hovenin dulcis is a Japanese tree of 

 merit. The foliage is of a shinin<? 

 green; the flowers are in flat heads, not 

 unlike a head of hawthorn flowers. Th'^v 

 are white: and following them are the 

 thick, fleshy fruit stalks, which are eaten 

 by the Japanese. 



The many species and varieties of 

 pyrus sent us from .Japan are of great 

 interest. Of course we want the old 

 Pyrus .Japonica. And then there are 

 Parkmnnni and the various forms of 

 Pyrus baccata, noted for their prettv 

 white flowers and ornamental fruit. 

 Some sorts hear fruit almost the size 

 of Siberian crab-apples. 



Surplus 



Evergreens^nd 



Ornamentals. 



Scotch Pine, 8 to 4 feet. $ 7.fiO per 100 



2 to 8 feet 6.00 



White Pine, 4 to 6 feet 85.00 



'• 8to4feet 26.00 



Am. Arbor Vitae, fine, 8 feet IWM 



6feet 4000 



2 to 8 feet 7 00 



Hemlock Spruce, 4 feet 60.00 



Other Bices and varletiea at very low prices. 

 Large clumps. Lilacs: Each, 



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



■'^ 6 It., 30 to 40 stems 1.60 



White, 8 ft., 5 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 26 



Tartarian Honeysuckle, 4 to 5 ft 18 



8 varieties. 8 to 4 ft.. .10 

 Spiraea Van Houttei. fine, 8 to 4 feet .10 



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Clematis. 2-year8- old. No. 1 



Jaokmanll, 2-year8-old. No. 1 (18.00 



20o each in smaller quantities. 

 Henryi. 2-yearB-old,No.l 18 00 



20c each In smaller auantltles. 

 Hme. Kdward Andre, 2-yr8-old, No. 1 19.00 



21c each In smaller quantities. 



Clematis, 2-yearB-ola, No. IH 



Jacfcmanl. 2-yearB-old, No. IK 12 00 



16c each fer smaller quantities. 

 Henryi, 2-yearB-o1d, No. 1}^ 12.08 



16c each for smaller quantities. 

 Mme. Edward Andre. No. IK l&OO 



17c each for smaller quantities. 



liillam Anratnm, Sound, medium-sized 

 bulbs. 14.00 per 100; 6c each for i-maller 

 quantity. Medium to largre bulbs, $6 00 per 

 100. 6c each for smaller quantity. 



Oloxlnlas, Lar^e-slzed. In fine condition. In 

 four separate colors, 14.00 per 100; 5c each 

 for smaller quantities. 



Tnberons Rooted Begonias, small bloom- 

 ing bulbs, 11.00 per 100; 18.00 per 1000. 



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



600,000 ROSES 



8-inch pots, $86 per 1000. 



Dorothy Perkins, Empress of China, 

 Evergreen Gem, Etoile de Lyon, 



Gardenia, Golden Gate, 



Mme. F. Kruger. 



Clothilde Soupert $30 per 1000 



Maman Cochet, white and pink 30 per 1000 

 Hybrid Perpetuals, very fine. . . 35 per 1000 

 Climbing and Trailing Roms. . 25 per 1000 



For varieties, see wholesale list. 



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Elizabeth, N. J. 



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 Expreaa prepaid. 



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