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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Vay 4, 1005. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCUTNM OT NtRSCRYMCN. 



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

 71ce-PreB., C. L. Watroua, Des Molnea; S«e'y, 

 Oeo. 0. Searer, Boc heater; Treaa., 0. L. Tatea. 

 Roeheater. The tSth annual convention will b< 

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



The nursery interests are profiting by 

 the prolonged planting season. 



J. J. Harrison, president of the Storrs 

 & Harrison Co., has been in Florida with 

 his family for some weeks. 



The Peterson Nursery, Chicago, 

 moved its down-town office to the Stock 

 Exchange building. La Salle and Wash- 

 ington streets. May 1. 



On April 21, the Storrs & Harrison 

 Co., Painesville, 0., had shipped over 150 

 cars, a record exceeding that of any 

 previous season at the same date. 



John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, 

 N. Y., has bought the Paradise Nur- 

 series of Adolph Scharflf at South Pasa- 

 dena, Cal. Mr. Scharflf has been in the 

 business for years and will now retire. 



The Association of American Ceme- 

 tery Superintendents, the members of 

 which are large buyers of nursery stock, 

 will hold its annual convention at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, September 19 to 22. 



Geo. E. Kessler, who was in charge 

 of the landscape department at the St. 

 Louis World's Fair, is now a member of 

 the Kansas City park board. J. H. Had- 

 kinson, superintendent of floriculture, 

 is at Lincoln, Neb., at the State Fair 

 grounds. Chief Taylor, of the Horti- 

 cultural Department, is in Europe. 



At Webster City, la., an agent for the 

 Watrous concern, at Des Moines, took an 

 order for $35 worth of nursery stock 

 from a Dr. Mahood, who in turn did 

 dentistry for the agent to the amount of 

 $25, taking the agent's receipt for the 

 amount as part payment on the shrubs. 

 On delivery the receipt was repudiated 

 and the dentist has brought suit against 

 Watrous to secure its recognition. 



The Illinois Central Bailroad has en- 

 gaged Mrs. A. E. McCrea of Chicago to 

 go over all the lines of the company be- 

 tween Chicago, Sioux City, Omaha, St. 

 Louis and New Orleans to plan and exe- 

 cute effects in landscape gardening on 

 station grounds. Every important sta- 

 tion along the lines of the company will 

 receive attention. Flowers, trees and 

 shrubs will be planted to get the best 

 eflFects. Much attention will be given to 

 lawns, and the color scheme for buildings 

 will be gradually changed, the idea being 

 to make the system pleasing to travelers 

 and residents of the different towns and 

 cities. The work will be under the di- 

 rection of Vice-President J. T. Hara- 

 han. 



NURSERYMEN'S PROGRAM. 



Harlan P. Kelsey. chairman of the 

 program coniinittpe of the American As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen, sends out the 

 following changes for the program as 

 published in last week's Review. 



Under Wednesday morning, June 14, 

 10 o'clock, change "Welcome to Indi- 

 ana," Hon. Jesse Overstreet, Indiana. 



Add "Welcome to West Baden Springs," 

 Andrew J. Rhodes, Indiana, 15 minutes. 

 Also notice that under Thursday even- 

 ing, 7.45 o'clock, the entire statement re- 

 garding the executive session is to be 

 eliminated, as the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture has given per- 

 mission that Prof. Hedgcock's lecture be 

 made without restrictions of any kind, so 

 please cut out that entire paragraph 

 from the program, leaving the lecture 

 under the same conditions as the other 

 lectures on the program. 



. BEST STREET TREES. 



In the annual report of the park com- 

 missioners of the city of Lowell, Mass., 

 City Forester C. A. Whittet gives the 

 following list of recommended street 

 trees, stating that "they are named in 

 the order c^ their desirability, although 

 in some instances their preferment ,is 

 somewhat a matter of taste : ' ' 



Wide Streets. 

 American Elm 

 Hard Maple 

 Tulip Tree 

 Linden 



Horse Chestnut 

 Sweet Gum 

 Sycamore 

 White Ash 

 Scarlet Oak 

 Red Oak 

 White Oak 

 Honey Locust 

 American Chestnut 



Narrow Streets. 

 Norway Maple 

 White Maple 

 Red Maple 

 AUanthus 

 Cucumber Tree 

 Ginkgo 

 Bay Willow 

 Pin Oak 



Red Vl'g Horse Chestnut 

 Black or Yellow Locust 

 Hackberry 

 Hardy Catalpa 

 Lombardy Poplar* 



Y^etable Forcing. 



The London health department has 

 (iiscovered that much typhoid fever is 

 caused by eating watercress grown in 

 polluted outdi«or beds. 



Near London gardeners have had the 

 greatest diflBculty in growing parsley, 

 as the fully grown leaves are destroyed 

 by a whitish mold. This disease spreads 

 rapidly and for some years, with the re- 

 sult that in some places parsley can 

 only be grown under glass. On exami- 

 nation of diseased leaves it was found 

 that the injury was caused by a parasitic 

 fungus, Plasmopara nivea, Unger, which 

 produces its spores and spreads in the 

 same way as the fungus which causes 

 damping-ofif in the seed bed. — Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, May 3. — The market has 

 been very erratic thia week in conse- 

 quence of express shipments being tied 

 up by strike. Today head lettuce is 

 $6 per bbl. ; leaf lettuce, 25c. case; cu- 

 cumbers, 35c. to $1 doz. 



New York, May 1. — Cucumbers, 30c 

 to 85c doz.; lettuce, 15c to 50c doz.; 

 mushrooms, 30c to 60c lb.; radishes, $1 

 to $2 per 100 bunches; tomatoes, 10c 

 to 25c lb. 



Boston, May 1. — Cucumbers, $2 to $5 

 box; tomatoes, 30c lb.; lettuce, $1.25 to 

 $1.50 box of three doz.; beets, $1.50 

 doz. bunches ; radishes, 25c doz. bunches ; 

 carrots, $1.25 doz. bunches; parsley, 

 $2 bu. 



FUNGUS CAUSES LOSS. 



Attention is often called to two very 

 common diseases which greatly trouble 

 tomato and cucumber growers in Eng- 

 land. The leaves of the tomatoes show 

 brownish spots and dry up, and dark 



olive-green velvety patches appear on the 

 fruit, rendering them unfit for sale. Thia 

 is due to an attack of the parasite Glad- 

 osporium fulvum of Cooke. The cucum- 

 ber leaves are covered with dry spots, 

 which increase, killing foliage and even 

 the young fruits. This is caused by an- 

 other parasitic fungus, Cercospora me- 

 lonis, of Cooke. A cucumber and to- 

 mato grower near London, who was se- 

 verely troubled with this disease year 

 after year, calculated his loss at £3,000 

 each season. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



SAVING SEED OF TOMATOES. 



In nearly all classes of plants that are 

 regularly propagated from seed a great 

 deal can be done toward the improve- 

 ment of the strain by the careful selec- 

 tion of seed. The importance of this 

 matter will at once appeal to the man 

 who forces vegetables as soon as he gets 

 his thinking cap on and begins to con- 

 sider the matter carefully, as so much 

 depends on the variety or strain of the 

 variety that he is using. It is a great 

 waste of time, energy and money to at- 

 tempt to force a variety unsuitable for 

 forcing; that is, a variety that won't 

 adapt itself to the artificial conditions 

 under which it has to be grown. On the 

 other hand the better adapted the variety 

 is for the purpose in hand, the more 

 profit there is in the growing of it. 



New varieties are annually being 

 placed on the market and it is a good 

 plan to try some of them, but to a 

 limited extent only. In tomatoes quite a 

 number of new varieties have been in- 

 troduced in recent years, all cracked up 

 as improvements over existing varieties. 

 Some have done fairly well; others have 

 been rather disappointing. Our experi- 

 ence is that none of the newer aspirants 

 can beat the old Lorillard variety when 

 a good strain has been secured and that 

 a good strain can only be secured by 

 careful selection. You can depend upon 

 getting the variety true in most cases 

 if you are dealing with a reliable seed 

 house, but the seed is apt to be saved 

 from all sorts and sizes of fruit, as the 

 seed grower can hardly be expected to 

 make the most careful selection in re- 

 gard to the size and shape of the fruit 

 from which he saves his seed, nor to 

 make a critical examination of the 

 growth or habit of the individual plants. 

 In almost any batch of plants raised 

 from seed there will be more or less va- 

 riation. Sometimes the variation is 

 only slight, but the man who has his 

 eyes open can readily pick out the plants 

 that show some improvement, either in 

 habit of growth, freedom of setting, in 

 size, shape or solidity of fruit, or in 

 earliness of ripening, and by being care- 

 ful to pollinate the flowers of the plant 

 with its own pollen only, a majority of 

 the seedlings resulting will in all prob- 

 ability show the characteristics of the 

 parent plant. Even if no variation ap- 

 pears, by the selection of well-shaped 

 fruit alone the strain can be considerably 

 improved. In any case it takes time 

 and patience, as it is only by slow stages, 

 not by leaps and bounds, that the de- 

 sired end can be attained. 



W. S. Crotdon. 



HARDENING OFF. 



The gradual hardening off of tender 

 plants, such as tomatoes, egg plants and 

 peppers, is a matter that should receive 

 jnore attention than it usually does. If 



