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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



July 5, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMEBIGAN ASSOCIATION OF NDBSEBYMEN. 



Pros., Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; Vlce- 

 Pres., J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; Sec'y, Oeo. O. 

 Seaerer, Rochester; Treas. C. L. Yates, Rochester. 

 The 32d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



The "Proceedings of the Iowa Park 

 and Forestry Association" make a hand- 

 some volume. 



There can be no doubt that the nur- 

 serymen have had a very prosperous 

 season and that the prospects were never 

 brighter for all departments of tne trade. 



The twenty-third annual report of the 

 park commissioners at Minneapolis is a 

 handsome volume containing as a frontis- 

 piece a portrait of Wm. M. Berry, for 

 twenty-two years superintendent of parks 

 at Minneapolis. 



A NEATLY printed pamphlet is being 

 circulated to call attention to the possi- 

 bilities of fruit growing and especially 

 grape growing, in the Lewiston-Clarks- 

 ton valley of Idaho and Washington. 



The Pontiac Nursery Co. has planted 

 1,000 apple and 1,000 peach for Dr. L. C. 

 Newton on his farm near Pontiac, Mich. 

 The apples include Wagner, Ontario, 

 Gano, Stark and Black Twig, and the 

 peaches, late Crawfords, Yellow St. John, 

 Crosby, Bronson, Smock, S. S. No. 1, 

 and S. S. No. 2. 



GEORGE ELLVANGER. 



One of the grand old men of horticul- 

 ture is George Ellwanger, the senior 

 member of the firm of Ellwanger & 

 Barry, of Rochester. In a few months 

 he will be 90 years of age. He has lived 

 at Bochester for seventy years and for 

 half a century was actively associated 

 with many of its leading business in- 

 terests. He possesses a kindly personal- 

 ity which has endeared him to the hearts 

 of all with whom he came in contact in 

 his long and useful career. 



Mr. Ellwanger was born in a little 

 town called Hapbeck, near Stuttgart, in 

 Germany, December 2, 1816. His youth- 

 ful training was of that nature which 

 makes for integrity and industry. At 

 the age of 14 years he began his hor- 

 ticultural life in one of Stuttgart's lead- 

 ing establishments, where practically 

 everything was grown, from seedling 

 evergreens to seedling orchids. He was 

 from youth an omnivorous reader but 

 his preference was for works of a botan- 

 ical character and he became an author- 

 ity on many horticultural subjects, par- 

 ticularly on ornamental nursery stock. 



About 1836 Mr. Ellwanger came to 

 America and at once located at Roches- 

 ter, which was then beginning to be 

 heard of in a nursery way. It did not 

 take Mr. Ellwanger long to start a busi- 

 ness of his own. It was where the of- 

 fice building of Ellwanger & Barry now 

 stands. Many reverses were met in 

 the early days, but, Mr- Ellwanger, who 

 soon became associated with the late Pat- 

 rick Barry, persevered and extended the 

 scope oif the business as the industry 

 developed throughout the eastern coun- 

 try. The business has been almost since 

 its inception one of the leading ones of 

 its kind in this country and now Mt. 

 Hope Nurseries are one of the show 

 places of Rochester. 



Many stories are related of the pains- 



taking manner in which everything was 

 performed under Mr. Ellwanger 's direc- 

 tion. For many years, and after the 

 business grew to large proportions, ii 

 is told that during the budding season 

 he insisted on personally making the se- 

 lection of scions and that in many other 

 particulars he was equally fearful of the 

 results of lax methods. 



which he invested in many local enter- 

 prises. He was interested in many of 

 the industries of Rochester and his birth- 

 day anniversary was for many years the 

 annual occasion for a testimonial of love 

 and esteem by his associates. Up to 

 1904 this took the form of a reception 

 which many attended, but in that year 

 failing strength necessitated an aban- 



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Gtorgt Ellwanger. 



Mr. Ellwanger still holds the presi- 

 dency of the Ellwanger & Barry corpo- 

 ration. His son, George H. Ellwanger, 

 upon whose education and wide and 

 various acquaintance with world activi- 

 ties the father lavished his wealth and 

 personal interest, was secretary of the 

 company. His death early in April of 

 the present year was a severe blow, 



Mr. Ellwanger accumulated a fortune 



donment of this function and instead his 

 friends united and presented a silver 

 service. Subsequent anniversaries have 

 been marked by other evidences of the 

 high regard in which this calm old gen- 

 tleman is held in the sunset days of a 

 life spent in a community where few of 

 his old associates survive but where the 

 younger generation cherishes his friend- 

 ship. 



CHOICE ORNAMENTALS 



100 ACRES 

 UNDER CULTIVATION. 



Specimen Evergreens, Boxwood 



Catalogue Upon Request 



HIRAM T. JONES, Union County Nurseries, ELIZABETH, N. J. 



Mention Tbe Rerlew when 70a write. 



2>^-inch, 

 Elegant Stuff. 



Richmond, 5c. The followmg at 2c: 

 Crioison Rambler, La France, Kais- 

 erin, Malmaison, La Detroit, Meteor. 



JOHN A. DOYLE, R. D. No. 3, 



SInringfield. Ohio. 



ROSES! 



2J4-inch pots, ready now— Baby Ramblers, 

 Teas. H. P Roses, 60 varieties, $80.00 per 1000. 



Crimson Ramblers, $25.00 per 1000. 



Baltimore Belle, Dorothy Perkins, Queen of 

 Prairie: White. Pink and Yellow Ramblers, 

 Seven Sisters, etc., $20.00 per 1000. 



GILBERT COSTICH, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



