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The Weekly Rorfsts' Review* 



Ai-OUST 9, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NDB8EB¥HEN. 



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

 PreB., J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; Sec'y, Geo. C. 

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

 The 32d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1»07. 



California pears for the last week 

 have been coming forward at the rate of 

 about forty cars a clay. 



r. P. Hedrick, of the New York Ex- 

 j)i'!iment Station, Geneva, reports that 

 the apple crop of the western part of the 

 state will be fifty to sixty per cent of a 

 full crop. 



At Danville, 111., the Greenwood Ceme- 

 tery As-sociation has been incorporated 

 witli .$2(1,000 capital stock to establish a 

 burying-ground. C. E. Bainbridge, G. 

 \V. Dixon and W. A. Chambers may be 

 •iddressed. 



GOOD GROWING SEASON. 



The nurseries of western New York 

 have this season been visited with an 

 unusual amount of rainfall and a uni- 

 i'urm high temperature, which has re- 

 snltt'(| in a luxuriant growth of vegeta- 

 tion rarely seen outside of the tropics. 

 It is sai<l that the last season that would 

 compare with the present one occurred 

 in 1869. Throughout the season the 

 rains have bec^n frequent and, contrary 

 to weather procedure, luive not been ac- 

 companied by an appreciable drop in the 

 temperature. 



Besides producing luxuriant vegeta- 

 tion, the excessive moisrture was not con- 

 «lucive to insect life and, while a num- 

 ber of pests have been reported, there 

 have been no extended ravages in any 

 jiart of the state. On the other hand, 

 the moist weather has produced condi- 

 tions favorable to fungus diseases. A 

 general complaint conies in from the 

 grape-growing sections that black rot of 

 grapes is unusually seA*ere. 



CIVIC IMPROVEMENT. 



The Nurseryman's Relation to It, 



(S.viii)|)sls of u impel- liy K. T. Uuuise.v. of 

 AUMtiii. Tex., read l)efore the State Xursery- 

 nieii's .K^siH'latloii.J 



There was a time, and not long ago, 

 when, if a business man would talk 

 about beautifying a city, he was put 

 <lown as not being sound on business 

 matters. This condition is changing. 

 No nation has ever given a welcome so 

 warm to any suggested movement. Jf a 

 mah's a<Imiration for the beautiful has 

 not lieen cultivated so that he j)uts hi.s 

 heart in the work just because he loves 

 it he will do so because he feels that 

 *'it pays." 



NO two nurserymen are so qualified 

 as to sustain the same relation to this 

 movement, but this is what we should be. 

 As there are but a few professional land- 

 scape men in Texas we should all be 

 landscape gardeners. We should know 

 all the suggestions to be found in about 

 .$.10 worth of books, but the book learn- 

 ing is hut a small part of all that we 

 .»<h«)uld know. 



We should visit the cities that are 

 beautiful in residences and parks. Study 

 the man wiio planned Chicago after the 

 fire; then follow him to Kan.sas City 

 and see hew he took a lot of hills that 



were for a long time considered only a 

 good goat range and see how he made 

 them one of the most beautiful resi- 

 dence additions in the world. Money 

 alone, if handled by the street commit- 

 tee of the average city council, would 

 never have done this. It takes mind — a 

 refined mind. This same man is now in 

 San Francisco. On one boulevard through 

 this residence addition to Kansas City, 

 I understand, are 210 residences that 

 cost over $,50,000 each. A drive on this 

 street is one of the factors that develop 

 great American ideas. 



A nurseryman should be able to name 

 the plants, shrubs and trees that are 

 adapted to a particular section. He 

 should know that some kinds do not 

 like to grow alone, but flourish if 

 planted among other kinds. He must 

 know that in planting nature's trees for 

 beauty, and to entice one to admire or 

 come and rest, he must imitate nature 

 so deftly that it will not be thought of 

 as an imitation. Nature has no straight 

 rows. 



The man is an artist who can plant 

 trees in such a way that in after years 

 the passer-by will think that the house 

 was built in a grove. The man who 

 plans the grounds around a home to some 

 extent must be an architect that he may 

 the better make all things blend har- 

 moniously, and he must be a civil en- 

 gineer that he may tell the cost of 

 bringing a grade to a certain line. 



People love to be taught. Almost 

 every one is a home builder. Let nur- 

 serymen qualify themselves to teach en- 

 tertainingly in the local press. Teach 

 the people that they need teaching on 

 this subject. Texas neetls just as many 

 landscape workers as there are towns in 

 the state. Encourage them to come. 

 Strive to educate your citizens up to the 

 point where they will realize that they 

 need one and they will be willing to pay 

 for his services. I.,et them get qualified 

 to enjoy his work. When a man in the 

 city builds a house he pays an architect 

 from $50 to $1,000 to be sure that the 

 building will loolc "correct" when done, 

 and be built right, and will be so ar- 

 ranged that his family will enjoy it and 

 take ])leasure in showing it to friertds. 

 While all of these pleasure-giving quali- 

 ties may be given to the grounds that 

 surround a home, the idea has entered 

 the minds of only a few persons in the 

 country at large. Teach that every 

 house should -represent a picture; the 

 ground, properly planted, represents the 

 background and the frame. 



If a man would pay $10,000 for a 

 painting in Europe, bring it home and 

 hang it in a frame that cost a dollar 

 and a half, he would remind me of a 

 whole lot of hoinc-builders I know, but 



they do not know any better. 



Now, then, when in the beginning I 

 said a nurseryman should be qualified 

 to do all this work and all this teaching 

 it was on condition that no landscape 

 specialist is available, or what is worse, 

 when the customer is ignorant of the 

 fact that he needs one. Let your golden 

 text be, "Prepare ye the way for the 

 landscape man," but keep talking all 

 the time about the beauty and pleasure 

 and profit of planting. Tell them that 

 he that cometh after you is greater than 

 you, and then go to growing the trees 

 that are wanted in greater quantities. 

 Make civic improvement popular. 



When a sick man away out on the 

 plains asks the druggist to give him the 

 medicine he should take and the druggist 

 knows no doctor can be had that day, 

 I presume he would give him the medi- 

 cine, but after the doctor comes he fills 

 only the prescription. These ethics 

 should prevail between nurserymen and 

 landscape architects. 



DIANTHUS FREYNII. 



To an old admirer of the charming 

 little Dianthus Freynii it was rather' 

 pleasant to come across it in several ex- 

 hibits at the Temple show, although I 

 have a greater admiration for the typical 

 rose-colored plant than for the white or 

 whitish forms shown at the Temple. I 

 look upon this as one of the neatest and 

 prettiest of our alpine pinks, and, al- 

 though recognized by botanists as but 

 a form of D. glacialis, it is considerably 

 easier to grow in this climate than that 

 species. It has been said by sonfie to be 

 probably the smallest dianthus we hftve, 

 but its flowers are no smaller than some 

 others, dwarf and compact as is the 

 plant itself. When in good condition 

 and well established it makes a densie 

 carpet of small, sharp-pointed, green, not 

 glaucous foliage, and from this rises a 

 number of small, bright rose or deep 

 pink-colored flowers. It is a choice plant 

 in every way, and forms one of the most 

 pleasing things we have in the rock gar- 

 den. A very able grower of alpines 

 recommends growing it on a dry, sandy 

 bank, but I have found that in such a 

 position it required a good deal of sum- 

 mer watering, even when partially shaded 

 from the afternoon sun, so that I think 

 it should do best with more summer mois- 

 ture than it generally receives, although 

 it must have perfect drainage. I found 

 it easy to grow in my former garden, 

 and I had a nice little clump of it there 

 with little attention beyond planting it 

 in a pocket facing southeast, in sand, , 

 peat, and grit, and giving it frequent 

 waterings in summer and occasional top- 

 dressings of soil.— (iardeners ' Chronicle. 



100 ACRES 

 UNDER CULTIVATION. 



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