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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 18, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



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

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

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

 ter. The 31st annual convention will be held at 

 Dallas, Texas, June, 1906. 



There will be an unusual number of 

 large commercial apple orchards planted 

 this spring. 



The National Ketail Nurserymen's 

 Association will hold its annual dinner 

 at Rochester, January 23. 



W. T. Spelts, of Wood River, Neb., 

 and W, L. Green, of Fremont, will es- 

 tablish a nursery at the latter place. 



Wm. B. Foland, a nursery salesman 

 from Danville, 111., killed himself in a 

 hotel at Bloomington, 111., January 11. 



The Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, 

 Minn., entertained its employees and 

 their families to the number of nearly 

 500 on January 6. 



Agents in Mississippi, or some of 

 them, find many small peach orchardists 

 pretty well discouraged by the ravages 

 of the borer and cuKulio. 



When H. A. Terry, Crescent, la., re- 

 tired from business a few weeks ago he 

 sold his entire collection of peonies to 

 Meehan & Sons, Philadelphia. 



The business in strawberry plants 

 promises to be heavier than usual this 

 season. Haverland, Gandy and Bubach 

 are the best selling sorts for the big 

 growers of plants. 



A NOVEL project, and one of interest 

 to nurserymen, is that of the Kane 

 County Federation of Woman's Clubs, 

 with headquarters at Geneva, 111. They 

 propose to inaugurate a general move- 

 ment for the beautifying of the cele- 

 brated highway along Fox river from 

 Carpentorsville through Elgin and Au- 

 rora. Benjamin Holden, landscape ar- 

 chitect of Aurora, recently delivered an 

 address before the federation. 



THE PRIVATE CAR. 



Any nurseryman or fruit grower who 

 wishes to keep up with the times will 

 find the "other side of the story" set 

 forth by J. Ogden Armour in the Satur- 

 day Evening Post for January 6. In 

 the article Mr. Armour takes foi; his 

 father the credit for having made pos- 

 sible the present extent of the fruit in- 

 dustry, for having raised fruit and berry 

 growing from a local industry to its 

 present national importance. P. D. Ar- 

 mour found the packing business limited 

 by his inability to ship fresh meat in 

 warm weather; the refrigerator car wee 

 suggested; the railroads declined to 

 build them; Armour did it himself; it 

 revolutionized the business; he applied 

 it to the fruit trade; it worked another 

 revolution, and there we are, up against 

 the present agitation against something 

 which is, Mr. Armour says, a public 

 blessing. 



Mr. Armour contends that the fruit 

 growers are more than satisfied <vith the 

 private ear system and that the excite- 

 ment is being stirred up by commission 

 men who have lost the opportunity of 

 cheating shippers with stories of the 

 poor condition in which stock arrived, 



of glutted markets, etc., for all these 

 evils are remedied by the refrigerator 

 car. 



He says, then, that it simmers down 

 to a question of rates. The charges are 

 for refrigeration, not for carrying. The 

 service is naturally costly because of the 

 splendid national organization, affording 

 facilities to shippers entirely beyond the 

 possibilities for a company operating 

 only on one road. The risks are largt, 

 the losses great, as in the case of the 

 failure of the Georgia peach crop in 

 1898, when not only was there no crop to 

 move but hundreds of thousands of tons 

 of ice were lost, brought in ships from 

 Maine to Savannah and thence by rail 

 to Fort Valley and Marshallville, at 

 great expense, only to melt. Mr. Armour 

 says that rates are not too high because 

 the fruit-growing industry has been built 

 up under them and that in fact the 

 rates have been voluntarily reduced from 

 twenty-five to fifty-five per cent in the 

 past ten years. He says that it is the 

 policy of the lines to reduce rates when- 

 ever possible to stimulate traffic, but if 

 it should be decided to go out of busi- 

 nes the fruit growers would be left 

 high- and dry, with no way to reach the 

 best markets. 



MADISON, N. J. 



On W^ednesday evening, January 10. 

 the Monmouth County Horticultural So- 

 ciety enjoyed its annual smoker. Th" 

 was the banner one of its existence; 

 large attendance, excelsior cigars, turkey 

 concomitants equal to Nugent 's and cel- 

 ery the like of which is grown only in 

 Madison and by the author of "The 

 Chrysanthemum." Crowning all was the 

 Totty punch, over which the genial 

 Charles had spent a prayerful afternoon 

 in its concoction, and taking rank with 

 the Westcott and Nugent dreams in 

 unique liquid refreshments. 



The regular meeting of the society, 

 while brief, indicated by the reports a 

 most gratifying progress in number and 



accomplishments. The treasury has an 

 ample balance and harmony prevails. 

 The handsome rooms were well filled and 

 among the visitors were W. J. Stewart, 

 secretary of the S. A. F.; F. H. Traend- 

 ly, ex-president of the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club; Peter Duff and Jos. A. 

 Manda, of Orange; A. J. Guttman and 

 Jos. Fenrich, of New York, and the 

 genial songster representing the Stumpp 

 & Walter Co. All the local lights of 

 horticulture were there except Wm. Duck- 

 ham, who has not returned from the con- 

 tinent. 



The program provided included local 

 musical talent of a high order, and two 

 New York artists in instrumental music 

 and recitations that gave universal satis- 

 faction. 



When the midnight train carried the 

 visitors away the club itself settled down 

 to make a night of it and the last echoes 

 as the train rolled in were the cheers of 

 the happy crowd over one of Totty 's 

 stories. These staid old and young ros<' 

 growers unbend and forget the cost of 

 coal and the other little discouragements 

 of the business at least once a year if one 

 may judge by their happy faces. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



PUEBLO, COLO. 



December was a cold month and used 

 up lots of coal, but trade was good. 

 Holiday trade was the largest on record. 

 The greenhouse lettuce crop was kept 

 bare; in fact all the growers are prac- 

 tically out of lettuce now. There has 

 been no demand for radishes this winter. 

 It is strange, but tastes seem to run 

 that way. 



E. H. Divelbiss has put up two new 

 greenhouses 22x100 feet, using 16x16 

 inch glass. He has them mostly planted, 

 growing vegetables only. 



J. J. Thomas is now growing the third 

 crop of lettuce for this winter. It takes 

 42,000 plants for a crop. He grows 

 nothing but Grand Rapids lettuce. 



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