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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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OCTOBEB 5, 1905. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOa^TION OF KURSIRYMCN. 



Pres., E. Albertson, Brldsreport, Ind.; Vlce- 

 Pres., Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. ; Sec'y, Geo. 

 <5. Seager, Rochester; Treas., C. L. Yates, Roches- 

 ter. The 3l8t annual convention will be held at 

 Dallas, Texas, June, 1906. 



The American Civic Association and 

 the National Council of Horticulture are 

 in session at Cleveland tbis week. 



Thos. B. Meehan, of Meehan & Sons, 

 Dreshertown, Pa., has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia. 



The forty-fifth annual report of the 

 board of park commissioners of Hart- 

 ford, Conn., just to hand, is a very inter- 

 esting volume. 



H. Den Ouden & Son, Boskoop, Hol- 

 land, are sending the American trade 

 some excellent views in their nursery, es- 

 tablished in 1869. 



The apple tree business is not all that 

 it might have been this fall because of 

 small crops and poor quality in the prin- 

 cipal orcharding communities. 



"When the Gilbertson Nursery Co., of 

 St. Ansgar, removed to Mason City, la., 

 it was with the promise that their prop- 

 erty of some 200 acres should be free 

 from city taxation for fifteen years. Now 

 three othet concerns insist that their 

 property be set outside the city limits, 

 and the upshot may be that the nursery 

 will have to come in. 



The members of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society who made the trip through 

 the Ozark fruit belt as the guests of the 

 railroads of that section obtained an en- 

 tirely new idea of the importance of that 

 region to the fruit and nursery interests 

 of the country. The United States and 

 a considerable part of Europe now get a 

 large part of their apples from Missouri 

 and Arkansas. 



SPRUCE SEED SOWN BROADCAST. 



It is a matter of common observation 

 that evergreen trees spriDg up readily 

 in poplar groves, and hence a notion has 

 become prevalent that spnice finds in 

 such places good conditions for reproduc- 

 tion, and that spruce forests might be 

 started by scattering the seed under the 

 poplar trees. To put the matter to a 

 test, the Forest, Fish and Game Commis- 

 flion of New York, sowed in 1903 about 

 a bushel of native spruce seed in the 

 poplar groves near Aiden Lair, Essex 

 county, New York. The ground was 

 ^uite well covered with poplars which 

 ranged in diameter from four to ten 

 inches. There were no small evergreens 

 beneath them, nor were there any large 

 spruce trees nearby from which seed 

 might be shed. Therefore, any spruce 

 trees that have begun to grow there dur- 

 ing the past three years may be con- 

 sidered as having come from the seed 

 sown. 



The seed was scattered on the fallen 

 leaves, on decaying wood, and especially 

 on all spots where the mineral soil was 

 exposed, and these were quite numerous. 

 About eight quarts of seed were put on 

 an acre. The seed received immediately 

 several showers, but from April 4 to June 

 11 no rain fell in the Adirondacks. 



50,000 Baby Ramblers 



Cor tbia Fall and next SpilnK, 2-incta pots 16.09 per 100: $30.00 per 1000. 



fiOO.OOO SOSEB from 2-iDCb pots at low prices if contract is given now 



lor next spring: delivery. 



PRIVET Regelianum 



Tbis is a new and beautiful plant, 2 to 8 ft., 

 at 110.00 per 100. 



HYDRANGEA P. G. 



2 to 8 ft., 8 yri., very strong, $7.00 per 100; 8 

 to 4 ft., X, $10.00 per 100. 



PRIVET, California 



18 to 24 inches. $15.ro per 1000. 

 sizes, tee new wholesale list. 



For larger 



WEIGELISS 



In variety. 8 to 4 ft. X heavy. $7.00 per 100. 

 4 to 6 ft., X beavy, $10 00 per 100. 



Band for onr n»w wholesale list wbloh Is now ready. 



^ The Elizabeth Nursery Co*, Elizabeth, N« J. 



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PEONIES! PEONIES! 



I have a surplus of 8,000 Peonies in Choicest Double Varieties. 

 They are fine, strong: roots and in order to close them out quickly I 

 am selling: them very cheap. Varieties and prices given upon appli- 

 cation. Pink varieties mixed and all colors mized^ strong: roots, at 

 $6.00 per JOO; $50.00 per 1000— and they are really worth double 

 these prices. 



J. T. LOVETT, LITTLE SILVER, N.J. 



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800,000 CALIFORNIA PRIVET 



Branches Per 100 1000 



3 years, 18 to 24 In 5 to 8 $1.60 $13.00 



3 years, 2 to 2^ ft 6 to 10 2 00 1800 



3 years, 2>< to 3 ft 6 to 10 2.6'J 22 00 



4 years, very heavy. 600 &20O 



Branches Per 100 



2 years. 18 to 24 In 8 to 6 $1.26 



2 years, 2 to 2X ft 6 to 8 1.76 



2years, 2>ii to 3 ft 6 to 8 3.00 



2 years, 3 to SX ft 6 to 8 3.00 



1000 



$10 00 



15.00 



18 00 



22.60 



All the above have been cut back 1 to 3 times and transplanted; are bushy and flae. 



700,000 ASPARAGUS ROOTS 



Per 100 1000 



Palmetto, 2 years, very strong: $0.40 $3 00 



1 year, sironf 30 2.50 



B«rr'a Mammoth, 1 year, strong... .30 2 60 



Conover'e Coloeaal. strong 80 2 60 



UoDald's BImIra, strong 30 2.60 



ColambU White, Btrongr 40 276 



STRAWBERRY LAYER PUNTS 



Per 100 

 OandT, Bnbsch and New Home. ...$0.40 

 Glen Mary, Clyde and Michel's 



Early 30 



Fairfield, Haverland and Excel- 

 sior so 



Brandy wine and Tenn. Prolific ... .30 



1000 

 $3 00 



260 



2 50 

 2.60 



These prices are subject to cbangre without notice. 



RIVER VIEW NURSERIES, > h. ohasan LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 



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In July, 1904, an examination of the 

 ground was made. Where mineral soil 

 had been exposed, and on rotten wood, 

 the little trees were doing quite well, in 

 many places four or five trees being 

 found on a square foot. In other places, 

 however, especially where the leaves were 

 thick, they were rather scarce. But over 

 the whole ground they were probably 

 sufficiently numerous to make an ever- 

 green forest if they all continue to grow. 



In August of this year the groves were 

 again examined. The little spruces were 

 still alive, and seemed to be about as 

 numerous as they were last year. 



It is too early yet to form a judg- 

 ment as to the ultimate success of the 

 experiment, and we shall probably learn 

 that the Feed must at least reach the 

 mineral soil. 



THE SEASON'S OPPORTUNITY. 



C. E. Gardner, vice-president and treas- 

 urer of the Gardner Nursery Company, 

 Osage, Iowa, writes as follows: "It is 

 our opinion that the nursery advertiser 

 who does not increase his advertising ap- 

 propriation this season and who does not 

 put special energy and thought into his 

 catalogue and follow-up work, will lose a 

 large amount of business he otherwise 



might have enjoyed. In our mail order 

 department we keep careful watch of 

 general conditions in all parts of the 

 country and one of the very best guides 

 we can get is our own customers' let- 

 ters. From this point of view the pros- 

 pects for the coming season are very 

 bright. Bumper crops almost everywhere 

 and prices will rule high enough to give 

 the average farmer plenty of money for 

 the necessities and some to spare for 

 other purposes. 



In our own case our company is plan- 

 ning to double our last year's appro- 

 priation for advertising and give much 

 closer attention to catalogue and follow- 

 up plans than ever before. We will add 

 some new papers to the list of mediums 

 used and will also use larger space than 

 heretofore." 



PEACH STOCK FOR PLUMS. 



The majority of stone fruits grown in 

 South Africa, such as apricots, peaches, 

 plums and nectarines, are worked either 

 on stocks of the peach, peach almond (a 

 cross between the peach and almond), 

 or the almond. Plums worked on either 

 of the above stocks make much finer 

 growth, are more fruitful and succeed 

 better from all points of view than if 



