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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NovBUCEU 30, 1905. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERIUN ASSOCUTION OF NURSLRYMEN. 



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

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

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

 ter. The aist annual convention will be held a. 

 Dallas, Texas, June, 1906. 



H. B. Shafer, of Alexandria, Ind., has 

 bought the Hughel nursery at Anderson. 

 It is the oldest nursery in the county, 

 having been in continuous operation for 

 forty-five years. 



The little resort town of Ocean 

 Springs, Miss., is becoming a center for 

 the pecan industry, no less than half a 

 dozen nurseries making this stock a 

 specialty now being in operation there. 



The park commissioners at Jackson- 

 ville, 111., wish to reforest Nicholas park 

 and, being short of funds, announce that 

 ri tree will be planted, named for and 

 labeled for each person who sends the 

 secretary a half-dollar. 



A WESTERN landscape architect named 

 Weed, whose customers are probably not 

 able to disassociate liim from what he 

 wants to plant, is advertising that neigh- 

 borhoods may, by means of his services, 

 easily free themselves from mosquitoes. 



Chicago capital is taking hold of the 

 pecan industry in Georgia, Chas. E. 

 Yerkes having purchased a three-quar- 

 ters interest in the Geo. M. Bacon Pecan 

 Co., at DeWitt. Another company of 

 which Mr. Yerkes is secretary and treas- 

 urer has also acquired 500 acres of land 

 in the same vicinity which will be plant- 

 ed to pecans. 



CHESTNUT CULTURE. 



The activity of pecan growers in the 

 south in recent years has not been with- 

 out a parallel in the north, where consid- 

 erable interest in the chestnut industry 

 is being manifested. As was the case 

 with the southern nut growers, one of 

 the most significant features of this 

 revival is the tendency toward the 

 selection and propagation of new and 

 improved varieties, especially of Euro- 

 pean or Japanese origin, the fruit of 

 such varieties being much larger than 

 that of the native American tree, and the 

 Asiatic varieties especially being less af- 

 fected by fungous diseases. 



No native nut has such a wide range 

 of adaptability as has the chestnut. 

 Practically the entire territory east of 

 the Mississippi river is suitable for its 

 culture, besides sections along the Pacifia 

 coast. By far the bulk of the crop is 

 still obtained from wild trees, but large 

 groves are now being planted, both in 

 the east and in California. 



Like the pecan, the chestnut has a tap 

 root of such length as to render its 

 transplanting somewhat difficult, and on 

 this account many growers still prefer 

 to plant the nut where the tree is to 

 stand. When planted in nursery rows 

 they should be allowed to attain a size 

 of from %-inch to %-inch in diameter 

 three or four feet from the ground, be- 

 fore grafting. For small stock the whip 

 graft is preferable, while cleft graft- 

 ing should be used on large stock. Fifty 

 per cent of the grafts is considered a 

 ipair result. 



Grafted chestnut trees are early bear- 

 ers, the Japanese varieties often showing 

 fruit the first year, though to secure a 



vigorous growth, the fruit should be 

 picked off for two or three years. Well 

 drained, gravelly soil is considered the 

 best for the chestnut. On rocky hillsides 

 with an eastern or northern exposure, it 

 thrives well. 



The chestnut is by no means immune 

 to the attacks of insects, which damage 

 both the leaves and wood, besides the 

 weevil which works in the fruit, and 

 which is the worst pest the grower has to 

 contend with. Leaf blight, one of the 

 fungous diseases, may be controlled by 

 spraying with Bordeaux mixture. — The 

 Nut Grower. 



APPLE SOILS. 



In his annual report, made public No- 

 vember 27, Secretary Wilson, in the 

 course of 132 printed pages, devoted to 

 r.^counting the past year's accomplish- 

 ments of the Department of Agriculture, 

 claims that the nursery and apple indus- 

 ti ies have been served in two notable in- 

 stances : * ' The soil survey of the Lyons 

 area in Wayne county. New York, was 

 followed by an orchard survey made 

 undci the direction of the horticultural 

 department of Cornell University. Thus, 

 a map showing the adaptation of apples 

 to the various soils has been supple- 

 mented by a comprehensive bulletin 

 which discusses the question of the vari- 

 eties to be raised for commercial mar- 

 keting, the methods of culture and the 

 fertilizi.r to be employed, questions of 

 storage and eLipment, and even the facil- 

 ities offered by the different domestic 

 and foreign markets. In the same way 

 the great pippin belt of Maryland, Vir- 

 ginia and North Carolina has been stud- 

 ied. It was found that the profitable 

 production of pippins was confined to a 

 single soil type — the Porters black loam 

 — occurring in the coves and small val- 

 leys of the eastern ranges of the Alle- 

 gheny mountains. It was also found 

 that not only were the most successful 

 orchards located upon this soil type, but 

 also that a distinct climatic belt also ex- 

 isted within which the pippin production 

 was especially favored. On account of 

 differences in latitude this belt de- 

 scends from higher elevations in the 

 south to lower elevations northward. In 

 Virginia it occurs between altitudes of 

 1,200 and 3,000 feet." 



HARD-WCX)DED CUTTINGS. 



H. E. Van Deman says that the first 

 essential is that the wood should be per- 

 fectly ripened and sound in every partic- 

 ular, and the sooner after that time it is 

 removed from the trees the better, for 

 there is danger of severely cold weather 

 injuring the vitality of the wood and 

 buds. Only the new growth of the cur- 

 rent year should be taken and that which 

 is thrifty. The best wood is usually at 

 the top of the tree, and the same is true 

 of the shrubs. As soon as taken from 

 the trees and tied in bundles, each bun- 

 dle should be carefully labled. 



The cuttings must never be allowed to 

 dry out. It is safe to pack them in 

 damp moss, sawdust or leaf mold. They 

 may thus be placed away in boxes and 

 put in a cellar, dampening the whole 

 mass as it is packed down. However, 

 most propagators bury them in the 

 ground, because the temperature of the 

 ground rarely changes, and if the soil is 

 re?isonably moist and kept covered with 

 straw or any other litter, it will remain 

 so until spring. 



In making the cutting the wood should 



be cut into 10-inch lengths and close to 

 a bud at either end. The latter is im- 

 portant because of the fact that the 

 roots strike out more easily near the buds 

 than elsewhere, and there should be no 

 dead wood above the top bud or buds, 

 which make growth above ground. In 

 case that wood is left above the upper 

 bud it is sure to die back very close 

 to it. 



Canon City, Colo. — A. R. Bess re- 

 ports business first rate. As usual, car- 

 nations are most in demand. 



No progressive florist can afford to 

 miss reading the Review each week. — W. 

 C. ScovELL, Malta, O. 



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