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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVEMBEE 23, 1005. 



NDRSERV NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN^ 



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

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

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

 ter. The 31 St annual convention will be held a. 

 Dallas, Texas, June, 1906. 



The Illinois State Horticultural So- 

 ciety will celebrate its fiftieth anniver- 

 sary at Urbana, December 12 to 15. 



The second annual convention of the 

 National Nut Growers' Association will 

 be held at Dallas, Tex., December 7 to 9. 



This is the fourth season for tlie 

 Tionoke County Nursery, Lonoke, Ark. 

 Their fall shipments numbered thirty 

 cars. 



Mrs. McCrea, landscape architect for 

 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- 

 road, announces that the company will 

 do considerable work in the way of im- 

 provements of station grounds next sea- 

 son. All the new stations being built 

 are surrounded by well planted grounds. 



H. E. Van Deman says that the 

 proper distance apart to 'plant pecan 

 trees in rich soil is not less than fifty 

 feet, and seventy-five or even 100 feet 

 is better. Their tops will interfere at 

 fifty feet apart in about twenty years, 

 if the trees are given proper treatment. 

 On poor land the distance apart should 

 be less, for they will not grow so fast, 

 nor live as long as those on rich land. A 

 pecan tree should be at its prime at fifty 

 years from planting. 



COUNQL OF HORTICULTURE. 



The following firms have each sub- 

 scribed $10 through C. E. Kendel, of the 

 American Seed Trade Association, 

 toward carrying forward a newspaper 

 campaign of publicity, on behalf of the 

 commercial seedsmen of America, through 

 the National Council of Horticulture: 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, W. Atlee Burpee 

 & Co., .Tohnsou & Stokes and William 

 Henry Maulo; together with the follow- 

 ing firms through J. IT, Dayton, of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen, on 

 behalf of the commercial nurserymen: 

 Brown Brothers Co., I. E. Ilgenfritz 

 Sons' Co., C. W. Stuart & Co., Alabama 

 Nursery Co., D. S. Lake, Huntsville 

 Wholesale Nurseries, Ellwanger & Bar- 

 ry, E. S. Welch and the Storrs & Harri- 

 son Co. H. C. Irish, Sec'y. 



PLANTING AND PRUNING TREES. 



[A syiipisis of a paper read by R. Tlmmlor, 

 before tla- Omaha Florists' Club, November :', 

 HH)5.] 



I don't believe that I can tell you 

 many new things in this line, so I will 

 Just bring to discussion some well known 

 facts Irom my observations, and other 

 people 's. First I will discuss the time 

 of planting. About this question there 

 oxi'-ts a regular tug of war. Some favor 

 fall and others spring planting. Both 

 parties are generally in the right. There 

 is generally the belief that after the 

 leaves drop and the ground freezes a few 

 inches, that all the life in trees and 

 shrubs cornes to a standstill. But it is 

 scientifically proved that this is not so. 

 Troo.e, even in zero weather, when they 

 are covered with ice, keep on growing. 

 This growth is not visible, as the part 

 whicli is mostly growing is underground, 



the roots. Then any planting ought to 

 be done in fall. 



People who preach spring planting are 

 right to some extent. A tree perspires all 

 winter and if you live in places where 

 the winter airs are very dry you are lia- 

 ble to lose your trees, but if you have 

 a chance to give them a thorough wetting 

 I think this can be overcome. From a 

 scientific standpoint, where trees are 

 taken up in spring and planted right 

 away they ought to keep right on grow- 

 ing and the circulation of the sap is 

 checked for only a very short time, that 

 is, if the weather is favorable, but 

 should there be a hot drought many of 

 these trees would be lost. An early fall 

 planted tree will always withstand a 

 spring drought better than a spring 

 planted one, as in most instances it is 

 well rooted by that time. 



Now fall and spring planting from a 

 commercial point. Usually there is more 

 time in the fall and the ground is in bet- 

 ter working condition. In spring it often 

 happens that everything gets into leaf 

 right away and anyone who has to do any 

 large planting cannot get around to do 

 it; consequently planting should be done 

 in the fall, as early as possible. Don't 

 wait until the last. leaves fall but start 

 as soon as the leaves discolor, even if you 

 have to strip some of them off. By plant- 

 ing early in the fall you gain time and 

 the trees make better growth the first 

 year. I for myself would do all my plant- 

 ing in the fall. 



I have observed that many people in 

 planting use little manure, many of them 

 saying they are going to use liquid 

 manure in the summer. It is all right if 

 that is done. But in the summer there 

 is other work to do and this is neglected. 

 The cheapest way, and that is what we 

 want, is to use a good deal of manure 

 while planting. Dig the holes large 

 enough and put manure in the bottom, 

 mixed with soil, and put more soil on 

 top so that the roots of the tree do not 

 come in contact with the manure, but it 

 ought to be in easy reach when they form 

 new fiVjrous roots. After covering the 

 roots with good soil put manure on top, 

 so that with every watering and rain fer- 

 tilizer is washed down to the roots. In 

 our short-lived age we want to see quick 

 results and I don't see any other way 

 in getting them. After you fill the hole 

 up, give a good mulching. Mulching has 

 more than one good result. Done in the 

 fall it keeps the frost longer out of the 

 ground and gives the roots of the newly 

 planted tree a longer growing season. 

 And in summer it keeps the moisture in 

 the ground. In spring mulching keeps 

 the ground longer from being thawed up 

 so tlie tree don't get an early start, to be 

 injured by the late spring frosts. 



Trimming or not trimming trees while 

 jdniiting is a greatly argued question. 

 Even experts are of different opinions; 

 some favor the trimming and others like 



to see the trimming done one year after 

 planting. It is hard to tell who is right, 

 but I think that in taking up a tree, 

 large or small, we ought to try to bal- 

 ance the loss of roots by trimming the 

 top. How much to trim cannot be laid 

 down by a rule; everybody has to use 

 judgment. The better and the more roots 

 a tree has, the less trimming it needs. If 

 roots are few, trim heavily. 



I have seen people in the southwest go 

 to the forests and dig up elm trees, 

 which are considered hard to handle. 

 They would cut the top off entirely and 

 just plant the roots and stem. A row 

 of these trees looked, after planting, like 

 a row of posts. I never believed that 

 any of them would live but I hardly saw 

 any losses there. Certainly every tree 

 will not stand for hard trimming and I 

 would not advise to do any severe cutting 

 back like that, but just cut enough back 

 to balance the top with the loss of roots. 



T 



he Royal Tottenham 

 Nurseries Ltd.^fj'VS'''' 



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



Dedemsvaart, Holland 



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 voted for growing this line, including Anemone, 

 Aster, Campanula, Delphinium, Funkias, Hem- 

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 Phlox decussata and suffruticosa. Primula, 

 Pyrethrum, Tritoma, Hardy Heath. Hardy Ferns. 

 Also 5 acres of Daffodils, 12 acres of Conifers, 

 specially young choice varieties to be grown on; 

 3 acres Rhododendrons, including the best Amer- 

 ican and Alpine varieties; 2 acres Hydrangeas. 

 We make it a point to grow all the latest novel- 

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PETER LAMBERT 



TRIER, GERMANY 



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