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The Weekly Rorists' Revkvf, 



August 2, 1906. 



NURSERV NEWS. 



AMBBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSBSTMEIT. 



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

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

 Sea«rer, Rochester; Treas. C. L. Yates, Rochester. 

 The 82d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



The Missouri apple crop promises to 

 be the best in years. 



The New York apple growers report- a 

 very poor setting of fruit on Baldwin 

 but quality promising to be exceptional. 



Continued rain is accelerating the 

 growth of nursery stock in the east, al- 

 though the strength of the storms' has 

 worked injury in a few minor cases. 



The season continues more than 

 usually dry in the middle west. Nursery 

 stock to date has not made a normal 

 growth, especially the freshly trans- 

 planted blocks. 



On the night of July 21 burglars ex- 

 ploded a charge of nitroglycerine in the 

 safe of J. A. Lopeman, Enid, Okla. 

 There wa^ no money in the safe, but a 

 number of contracts and other papers 

 were stolen. 



Nathan W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn., 

 nurseryman and congressman of the 

 Second Tennessee district, has received 

 a letter from one of his constituents 

 urging him to introduce a bill in con- 

 gress prohibiting women from wearing 

 peek-a-boo shirtwaists and corsets and 

 from using powder and paint on their 

 faces. 



The Sunday World-Herald, of Omaha, 

 on July 22, gave an illustrated half- 

 page article to the peony industry in 

 Nebraska. The farms of J. F. Kosen- 

 field, near West Point, and of C. S. 

 Harrison, of York, were mentioned as 

 the leading places where peony culture 

 is carried on. The former has eight 

 acres devoted to peony raising, and has 

 originated many varieties. 



, Thomas Hawkes, landscape architect, 

 has sued the promoters of the South 

 Shore Country Club, at Chicago. Hawkes 

 declares he was under contract with 

 the defendants to prepare plans for 

 beautifying the land owned by the club 

 and that it was stipulated that he was 

 to superintend the carrying out of his 

 plans. For this work, he says, he was to 

 receive ten per cent of the money to 

 Ih) oxi)eii(lcd, .$300,000. Hawkes declares 

 that, altliough his plans were accepted 

 by the defendants, lie was not allowed 

 to carry them out, and that, altliough he 

 consifliTcd the work on the plans to be 

 worth at least $3,000, he was paid only 

 $300. Hawkes asks the si)ec'ific per- 

 formance of the contract. 



PEONIES AT ITHACA« 



The peony plantation at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N. Y., is progressing 

 nicely. It has been a favorable season 

 and the stock, now in its second year, 

 is making good growth. The plants 

 have flowered lightly this season and by 

 -next June will be in shape to show their 

 true characters. 



The plantation here consists of sev- 

 eral hundred plants and a large number 

 of varieties contribdted by members of 

 the American Peony Society and Eu- 



ropean correspondents. By the time of 

 the peony society's meeting at Ithaca 

 in June, 1907, the plantation will af- 

 ford a splendid opportunity of com- 

 paring the varieties of the several con- 

 tributors and it is expected that many 

 interesting points will be developed. Al- 

 ready interest in the Ithaca meeting is 

 shown by a larger number of peony 

 growers than have attended in previous 

 meetings, and it is thought that Ithaca 

 next June will see the largest gathering 

 of peony growers yet brought together 

 in this country. 



THE MOLE TREE. 



In reply to J. L., in the Beview of 

 July 5, in regard to moles, I can say 

 that we have here what is commonly 

 called a mole tree or bush, which is 

 claimed to keep away moles where it is 

 grown. I cannot certify as to that, only 

 that we have had them growing in our 

 yard for several years and are never 

 troubled with moles, while some of our 

 neighbors are. The bush is quite an at- 

 tractive plant. It is a biennial, and 

 comes from seed. I do not know how 

 the mole tree would stand a cold climate. 

 It grows here during the winter months, 

 making as much growth as in the sum- 

 mer. 



I have also heard this plant called the 

 fish-bone plant, on account of the way 

 the leaves grow on the stalk. I can fur- 

 nish seeds to any one wishing to try 

 them. E. V. Mason. 



Salem, Ore. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



[All catalogues are filed by The Review and 

 lire accessible to the trade lor reference at any 

 time. Following are the latest arrivals.] 



George HoUis, South Weymouth, 

 Mass., price list of peonies; C. & M. 

 Wild, Sarcoxie, Mo., peonies, dahUas and 

 gladioli; Henry F. Michell Co., 1018 

 Market street, Philadelphia, Pa., bulbs, 

 seeds and florists' supplies; Wilfrid 

 Wheeler, Concord, Mass., price list of 

 pot-grown strawberry plants. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



The last week has been unusually 

 quiet, from a business point of view, 

 and a good many florists are taking 

 their vacations. B. F. Pritchard and 



wife and C. E. Sellers and wife have 

 been at the lakes and in Canada to re- 

 cuperate. Others are planning to take 

 in the S. A. F. convention at Dayton. 

 From present reports there will be a 

 good attendance from this city. 



William Hack is bringing a fine lot 

 of gladioli to market. He makes a 

 specialty of growing this flower, and 

 has marked success with it. 



John and August Grande and Baur 

 & Smith have asters in quantity. 



S. S. Skidelsky was in town this week, 

 busy as usual. 



E. A. Nelson is back again after a 

 week 's fishing at Webster Lake. S. 



FRUITVALE. ALA. 



At a recent meeting of the stock- 

 holders of the Southern Floral Nursery 

 Co., J. B. Bridge, A. B. Brown and L. 

 H. Read were elected directors and in 

 turn elected officers as follows: Presi- 

 dent, J. B. Bridge; vice-president and 

 manager, L. H. Eead; secretary and 

 treasurer, A. B. Brown. 



In the city parks of Dayton, not on 

 the fair-grounds, the company has a dis- 

 play of cannas, 1,445 plants in 188 

 varieties, all but seventeen varieties of 

 their own origination. 



PRICE OF CYANIDE. 



We should like to ask W. S. through 

 your valued paper what sulphuric acid 

 by the quart and cyanide of potash by 

 the pound in large quantities would cost, 

 as we think our local druggists charge 

 us exorbitantly. J. W. M. & S. 



The price given us by a reliable retail 

 druggist is as follows: Cyanide of po- 

 tassium, 40 cents per pound; sulphuric 

 acid, 90 cents per gallon. These prices 

 are near the wholesale list. You could 

 possibly save ten per cent on these prices 

 at some wholesale druggist's, but not 

 more, and you can quote the above 

 prices to your local druggist, but mind 

 he does not ask you how much advance 

 you make on your violets. 



A young man entered a drug store 

 with a prescription and asked the price. 

 The proprietor said 60 cents. The cus- 

 tomer remarked he was in the business. 

 Then the clerk replied, "Oh! Excuse 

 me, it will be 15 cents." W. 8. 



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