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The Weekly Worists' Review, 



OCTOBBB 19, 1005. 



NOKSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN AlSOOATRM OT NURSUYMCH 



Pres., E. Albertaon, Bridgeport, Lad.; Vloe- 

 Atm.. Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. ; Sec'y, Oeo. 

 <i. Smmt, Rochester: Treas.,0. L. Yates, Roches- 

 ter. The SlBt aonaal convention will be held ai, 

 Dallas, Texaa, June, 1W6. 



O. F. Brand & Son, Kiribanlt, Minn., 

 ■are building a frost-prM^ storage -and 

 packing house. 



W. B. Cole, 9§iiuMTi11e, O., has re- 

 ceived a car-load of peach pits, which 

 will be his plant for next season. 



The apple grafts of this season will 

 reach a mighty total. The possibilities 

 in selling apple trees are never reached. 



The Alexander is making the highest 

 prices of any apple at present offered in 

 the New York market, from $3 to $4 per 

 barrel. 



liAlteB nurseries -are beginning to find 

 out that cheap prices are not so good a 

 recommendation, nor so profitable, as well 

 grown stock. 



A. W. Orr, state nursery inspector for 

 Texas, says the soil conditions around 

 Fort Worth are unusually favorable for 

 the nursery business. 



A NUMBER of European nurserymen 

 suffered a rude shock in the assignment 

 of the Clucas & Boddington Co. Sev- 

 -eral claims exceeded $1,000. 



The Texas Nurserymen's Association 

 is already at work preparing for next 

 yeax's meeting of the national associa- 

 tion at Dallas. They plan to give the 

 visitors "the time of their lives." 



SEQUOIA SEEDLINGS. 



The ancient ra^e of the sequoia 

 -seems to be in a fair way to become ex- 

 tinct or to be maintained only in a few 

 protected national parks land forest re- 

 serves. 



The seed of the sequoia commands a 

 good price. It is collected and the spe- 

 eies propagated by nurserymen both at 

 home and abroad, but mainly as an or- 

 namental tree. Neither sapling nor 

 joung seedling reproduction is very 

 abundant in the big-tree groves on the 

 :8ieEra slopes, and little or no attempt 

 4ias been made to transplant the wild 

 forest-grown seedlings. 



An interesting experiment, however, 

 «rhich has proved an entire success, Was 

 started in the early spring of 1904 by 

 Banger L. L. Davis in charge of the 

 General Grant national park. He has 

 succeeded in setting out small big-tree 

 seedlings, collected from a few localities 

 where they had come up naturally, to 

 various sites about the park. 



The germination of the seed of the 

 big-tree is slightly difficult- — ordinarily 

 hindered by the heavy trash and litter 

 accumulating under the sequoia stand, 

 but an opportune seed year allowed ad- 

 vantage to be quickly taken of cleared 

 spots, and seedlings now two or three 

 years old have started several thousand 

 times as dense as they can live to grow 

 up, the number of seedlings averaging 

 on some spots over 2,500 to the square 

 rod. 



The experiments in 1904 were suffi- 

 cient to indicate the exact size of plants, 

 And the methods of transplanting which 



will give most iikured success, and allow 

 the teproduct}<Wl in the park to be very 

 largely extended. 



Some 800 plants were transplanted. 

 I The trial was entirely satisfactory, as 

 Tery few seedlings died even when set 

 <Vut in unfavorable conditions of soil 

 moisture. The plantation came through 

 a summer exceptionally hot and droughty, • 

 even at the elevation — about 6,000 to 

 7,000 feet, of the park, and though the 

 watering of the transplants, carried on 

 into midsummmer, had then to be aban- 

 doned because of failing water supply. 



Seedlings between one and eighteei^ 

 inches high were dug up carefully to 

 avoid injury to the long tap root, were 

 carried in pails in a puddle to the plant- 

 ing sites — generally the small fire- 

 opened spots in the forest, and set out 

 in deep, watered holes, the whole root 

 system being carefully spread out, and 

 the hole filled in with fine earth. 



Planting two seedlings together was 

 at first tried, but as both seedlings al- 

 ways lived the practice was discon- 

 tinued. No deaths resulted from a 

 severe freeze, which occurred in April 

 immediately following the transplant- 

 ing when the soil was bare of snow. 



The best of the transplanted growth 

 occurred where there was most abundant 

 light. Plants of six to ten inches height 

 grew from five to eight inches in the 

 season. Most of the plants set out were 

 from four to eighteen inches in size — 

 that is two to three years old. These 

 have taproots often one to two or more 

 feet long, and they are therefore trans- 

 planted with some difficulty, and if with 

 proper care at some expense of time. 

 However, some plants one to four inches 

 high, or one year old, were set out, which 

 did not succeed so well. Most of the ten 

 per cent loss noted at the end of the 

 first season was confined to this size 

 class. It is evident, therefore, that the 

 larger sizes must be used for trans- 

 planting, in spite of their less suitable 

 root system, and for succeeding years 

 4-inch to 10-inch stock will be employed. 

 Failures were due to the inadequate root 

 system, — not sufficiently developed to 

 reach moisture deeper in the soil, and 

 so to maintain the plant against the 

 summer's drought. 



TRITOMAS. 



I would like to know more about tri- 

 tomas. I had a batch last year and cov- 

 ered them well with horse manure and 

 dry leaves, but they were all frost-killed 

 last spring. I do not believe tritoma 

 is hardy in Illinois. I would like tc 

 know how best to propagate and keep 

 over winter. L. M. 



We have found the tritomas, or knip- 

 hofias, quite hardy in Massachusetts, al- 

 though our minimum temperature has 

 fallen as low as 25 degrees below zero. 

 Everything depends, however, on the situ- 

 ation accorded the plants. If on level 

 ground, where water will lie, they are 

 very likely to rot, but on well drained 

 land there should be no trouble in car- 

 rying them over. 



Give the plants a good coating of dry 

 leaves after the ground is frozen. Do 

 not use any manure over them. Bemem- 

 ber that dampness rather than cold is 

 likely to kill them. 



Propagation may be effected either by 

 seeds or division of the roots. The seeds 

 germinate very readily and make nice 

 flowering plants inside of a year. There 



are now some extra fine forms of tritoma, 

 much superior to the old T. grandiflora, 

 and these are well worth the attention 

 of florists and nurserymen. 



If your land gets water logged in win- 

 ter it would be well to lift the tritomas 

 in November and pack close together in 

 a cold-frame, covering with light, sandy 

 soil and later with dry leaves. 



W. N. C. 



EVERGREEN SEEDLINGS. 



On October 10 the U. S. general ap- 

 praiser^ at New York took up the pro- 

 test of P. Ouwerkerk as to the assess- 

 ment of duty on an invoice consisting 

 of a variety of trees and shrubs, returned 

 by the appraiser as "nursery stock," 

 and assessed for duty by the collector 

 at twenty-five per cent ad valorem under 

 the last clause in paragraph 252 of the 

 tariff act of 1897. The goods are 

 claimed to be dutiable at $1 per 1,000 

 plants and fifteen per cent ad valorem, 

 under the same paragraph, as "ever- 

 green seedlings." The relevant provi- 

 sions of paragraph 252 are as follows: 



252. • • • Evergreen seedlings, one dollar 

 per thousand plants and fifteen per centum ad 

 valorem; • • • stocks, cuttings and seed- 

 lings of all fruit and ornamental trees, decidu- 

 ous and evergreen, shrubs and vines, Manetti, 

 multltlora, and brier rose, and all trees, shrubs, 

 plants and vines, commonly known as nursery 

 or greenhouse stock, not specially provided for 

 in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



The findings of the board were: 



1. "Evergreen Seedlings." — The provision for 

 "evergreen seedliogs" in paragraph 252, tariff 

 act of 1807. la not restricted to such evergreen 

 plants as the conifers and box, but applies to 



The Tottenham Nurseries Ltd. 



(Bstabllslied In 1878.) 

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



Dedemsvaart, Holland. 



Headquarters for Hardy PerennialB, among 

 which are the latest and choicest. 13 acre* 

 devoted for RrowinR this line, incIudlDgr Anemo- 

 ne, Aster, Campanula, Delpbiniam, Funkiaa, 

 Hemerocallig. Hepatica, IncarvlUea. Iris, 

 Peonies, Phlox decasssta and BuSraticoBa, 

 Primula. Pyrethrum. Tritoma. Hardy Heath. 

 Hardy Ferns. Also 5 acres of Daffodils, 12 acres 

 of Conifers, specially yoanK choice varieties to 

 be ffTown on; 8 acres Rhododendrons, including 

 the best American and Alpine varieties ; 2 acres 

 Hydranfceas. We make It a point to grow all 

 the latest novelties in these lines. Ask for catalog. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Manetti Stocks 



One million fine, one-year, English-grown. 

 Also a large stock of Roses, all leading kinds, 

 per 1000 strong plants. Quantities shipped an- 

 nually to leading American firms. Reference: 

 Bassett A Washburn, Chicago. 



W. C. SLOCOCK. Woklig. Surrey, Eigliid. 



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 ZiABOSBT STOCZ OF AJmJ, 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Asaleaa, Araucariaa, Sweet Baya* 

 Palma, Begponiaa, Gloziiiiaa, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE PERE 



GHENT, Bel«rium. 



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VanDerWeijden&Co. 



THE NURSERIES, BOSKOOP, HOLLAND. 



Cheap, Best Quality- Tree Boaea in best 

 var.; H. P. Roses in best var., strictly first-class; 

 Crimson Rambler. Clematis, etc. Fine Box- 

 wood, 2-5 feet; Blue Spruce, Koster, 2-4 feet; 

 Ornamental stock for landscape work. etc. Ask 

 for prices and catalogue. Ho Ag»nt*. 



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