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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



November 2, 1905. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOOATION Of NURSERYMEN. 



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

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

 O. Seag'er, Rochester; TreaB., C. L. Yates, Koches- 

 ter. The Slst annual convention will be held a. 

 Dallaa, Texas, June, 1906. 



At Sarcoxie, Mo., Wild Bros. Nurs- 

 ery Co. will conduct the business of J. 

 B. Wild & Bros. 



C. A. DoswELL, formerly at Bluffton, 

 Ind.., is now landscape gardener at 

 Winona park, Warsaw, Ind. 



A Holland peony groweiv writing of 

 general conditions, says that there is a 

 very heavy demand from America and 

 very likely all stocks, ready for sale, 

 will be cleared out at good prices by fall 

 shipments. 



OUR POSSESSIONS. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has gone to the trouble of showing by 

 statistics how slight are the business re- 

 lations of the nurserymen of the United 

 States with our "noncontiguous" pos- 

 sessions. During the years mentioned 

 we sent nursery stock to the values stat- 

 ed to the following countries: 



Country. 1903. 1904. 



Alaska $ 270 $ 406 



HawaU 1,693 1,400 



Porto Rico 1,318 1,611 



Philippines 24 



Tutolla 82 



In the same period we received nurs- 

 ery stock as follows from our posses- 

 sions: 



Country. 1903. 1904. 



HawaU % 104 % 218 



Philippine* 646 490 



TEXAS AND A TEXAN. 



It was in 1874 that A. W. Kerr started 

 in the nursery business at McKinney, 

 Tex., in which he was soon joined by 

 John S. Kerr. After removing to Sher- 

 man, in 1889, the latter became sjle own- 

 er of the business and has, in the sixteen 

 years which have since elapsed, made a 

 large impression on the horticultural af- 

 fairs of the state. Not only did Mr. Ken- 

 establish a large business through agents 

 and a catalogue business, but he built 

 up the wholesale end to good propor- 

 tions. He has preached orcharding for 

 other Texans, and he has practiced what 

 he preached, having established large 

 orchards near Pottsboro, in the Red river 

 country, and in the peach belt in the 

 eastern part of the state. In the early 

 part of the present year the business was 

 incorporated as the Commercial Nursery 

 ^nd Orchard Co., several of the force 

 taking stock. 



Mr. Kerr has been an active worker 

 in the affairs of the American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen and is rejoicing that 

 the association is to visit Texas next 

 June. "The growth and development of 

 the entire southwest in the past decade 

 *is something marvelous,' " says Mr. 

 Kerr. "King Cotton is gradually losing 

 his sway, being supplanted by the di- 

 versification idea. Cattle, hogs, rice, 

 fruit and truck growing are the princi- 

 pal factors in the new agriculture of the 

 southwest. In this great movement, 

 there has been nothing more marked than 

 the great interest manifested in fruit- 

 growing as one of the best means of di- 

 versification. Texas especially is taking 

 a front rank among the fruit-growing 

 states of the union. Last year there 



John S. Kerr. 



were perhaps 2,000 cars of fruit shipped 

 from eastern Texas to the northern mar- 

 kets, and not more than one-third of 

 the orchards already planted were in 

 bearing. This year the output will be 

 greatly increased on account of the young 

 orchards coming in, and still not more 

 than half the orchards that have been 

 planted are bearing this season. In ad- 

 dition to these, large plants are continu- 

 ally being made. Texas has no fears at all 

 of California in the stone-fruit business, 

 and has little fear of Georgia, Louisiana 

 and other states, because the quality, the 

 time of ripening, and the accessibility 

 to market for Texas peaches are such 

 as to place her easily an equal competi- 

 tor with any of these. 



XiABOSBT STOCK OF AI.L 



BELGIAN PLANTS! 



Azaleas, Araucarias, Sw^eet Bays, 

 Palms, Begfonias, Gloxinias, etc. 



LOUIS VAN HOUTTE PERE 



GHENT, Belfirium. 



Kentlon The Rerlew when yon write. 



PETER UMBERT 



TRIER, GERMANY 



RnCAC strong, field-grown bedding and forc- 

 ■*"^^^ Ing varieties. Best HOVSIiTZEB. 



Pr«n K. Drnschkl, (the best white hybrid), 2yr8., 

 extra larpe plants, 40,()0 ', for fall, $8 '.0 per 1000. 

 Soleil d' Or, $10.0" per 1 0; Teplits, $8.00; Etolle 

 de Fruee, $25.00 per 100. CitilHui m appllcitlM. 

 Mention The Bevlev wben yon write. 



"These great strides in horticultural 

 development have, as a matter of course, 

 played into' the hands of the nursery- 

 man, and southwestern nurserymen are 

 equal to the march of progress and have 

 increased their plants and have shared a 

 degree of prosperity not heretofore en- 

 joyed or expected. With the increased 

 demand for trees, there has been a rapid 

 increase in nursery plantings, and this 

 has been aided by better methods, bet- 

 ter grading, and more activity in the cre- 

 ation of new varieties suited to our de- 

 mands. 



"Although great progress has been 

 made among the nurserymen of the 

 southwest, yet there is room for more 

 improvement. We need to give more 



Maoetti Stocks 



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

 Also a large stock of Roses, all leading kinds, 

 per 1000 strong plants. Quantities siiipped an- 

 nually to leading American firms. Reference: 

 Bassett & Washburn, Ctiicago. c 



W. C. SLOCOCK, Woking, Surrey, England. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Van Der Weijden & Co. 



THE NURSERIES, BOSKOOP, HOLLAND. 



Obeap, Best Quality— Tree Boses in best 

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

 Crimson Rambler, Clematis, etc. Pine Box- 

 wood, 2-.') feet; Blue Spruce. Koster, 2-4 feet: 

 Ornamental stock for landscape work, etc. Ask 

 for prices and catalogue. No Ag'ents. 

 Mention The Bevlew when too writs. 



