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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 23, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHKBICAN ASSOCIATION OF HTUBSEBTMEN. 



Pree., Orlando Harrison. Berlin, Md.; Vice- 

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

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

 The 32d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



The Dansville, N. Y., nurseries report 

 a good growing season. 



Southern nurserymen are finding a 

 heavy demand for citrus fruit trees in 

 Cuba. 



The nursery that has no frost proof 

 storage and packing shed is not up to 

 the times. 



The Southern Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion, in session at Lookout Mountain last 

 week, adopted a resolution condemning 

 the free distribution of seeds by the gov- 

 ernment. 



Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. 

 Y., has been incorporated with $^.00,000 

 capital stock. The incorporators named 

 are Charles H. Perkins, George C. Per- 

 kins and E. A. Miller. 



T. C. Thurlow & Co., West Newbury, 

 Mass., say that they now have on trial 

 over 600 varieties of peonies, and in 

 the same breath add, "which is alto- 

 gether too many." 



Griffing Bros. Co., Jacksonville, Fla., 

 use Crimson Bambler as a stock for hy- 

 brid perpetual and tea roses, not the 

 least of its advantages being the ease 

 with which it strikes from cuttings. 



The Georgia Experiment Station has 

 issued a bulletin entitled "The Peach- 

 tree Borer," by Hugh N. Starnes, deal- 

 ing exhaustively with a subject of much 

 importance to the orchardists of the 

 state. 



Geo. E. Kessler, the landscape gar- 

 dener who designed the Kansas City 

 park system and the St. Louis world's 

 fair grounds, has been engaged to plan 

 the changes in the park system at Cin- 

 cinnati. 



Herr Spath, of Berlin, fifth head of 

 the firm in direct line, owns the largest 

 nurseries in Europe, 800 acres in extent, 

 with a staff of 500 hands. The establish- 

 ment is decentralized and managed on 

 the basis of individual responsibility and 

 with that thoroughness so characteristic 

 of the German nation. 



SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN MEET. 



The eighth annual meeting of the 

 Southern Nurserymen 's Association was 

 held August 15 and 16 at Lookout Inn, 



Nursery 

 Stock Cheap 



Berberis Thunbergii, all sizes 

 Roaa Lucida, 3 years 

 Viburnum Dentatum, 2 years 

 Viburnum Cassinoides, 2 years 

 Prunua Maritima, 2 years. 

 Write for prices. 



LITTLEFIELD & WYMAN 



BuooesBora to Sidney LittleUeld 



NORTH SBINGTON,MASS. 



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Chattanooga, Tenn., and was attended 

 by about 100 nurserymen and their 

 wives. The election of officers took place 

 on the morning of the second day, and 

 those put in nomination by the commit- 

 tee were unanimously elected. John A. 

 Young, of Greensboro, N. C, was made 

 president; he was last year's vice-presi- 

 dent. C. N. Griffin, of Jacksonville, Fla., 

 is the new vice-president, and C. T. 

 Smith was re-elected secretary-treasurer. 

 The convention voted to meet in Rich- 

 mond, Va., in August of next year. 



The first session of the Chattanooga 

 meeting was taken up with President 

 Orlando Harrison's opening address, 

 papers by J. A. Young and others, and 

 discussions of questions brought up. 

 President Harrison urged co-operation 

 among nurserymen, and said that a uni- 

 form system of grading was what the 

 trade needed worst. Mr, Young spoke 

 on "The Retail Nurserymen's Success 

 or Failure." He touched on the ques- 

 tion of free seed distribution by the 

 government, and expressed his hope that 

 the practice can be abolished if it is 

 agitated enough. 



The committee appointed to deal with 

 the free seed question drew up resolu- 

 tions condemning the practice. A com- 

 mittee on legislation was appointed, to 

 co-operate with similar committees of 

 other associations in the matter. 



The question of whether the Alabama 

 immigration law should be adopted in 

 other states was covered by Herbert 

 Chase, of Huntsville, Ala., and a dis- 

 cussion of the matter followed. Taking 

 negro laborers from one state to another 

 under contract was condemned. Prof. 

 R. I. Smith, of Atlanta, told of the 

 work being done by other societies 

 toward the adoption of a uniform tag, 

 and discussed the question of state nurs- 

 erymen 's licenses. 



J. C. Miller, of the auditing commit- 

 tee, reported $254.43 on hand, and Treas- 

 urer Smith said that collections would 

 bring the sum up to $300. 



HOLLYHOCaCS. 



Seeds for bloom next year should be 

 sown by the middle of July, and when 

 transplanted to the blooming bed the 

 seedlings should be given, for best ef- 

 fect, a space of not less than eighteen 

 inches each way. Hollyhocks are peren- 

 nial and fairly hardy, but the finest" 

 blooms are borne on young plants, so it 

 is better to start a new lot each season. 

 They thrive in any good garden soil, but 

 appreciate reasonable fertilization with 

 fine rotted manure and clean cultivation 

 throughout the growing season. The 



finest strain has been developed by 

 Chater, the English nurseryman, and his 

 varieties are everywhere offered by seeds- 

 men. They come in colors, from snow 

 white to all conceivable shades of red 

 and yellow, and include ashy grays and 

 maroon blacks. Varieties differ in vigor 

 and stature, but the average height is 

 about four feet. 



These highly developed hollyhocks are 

 quite subject to a destructive imported 

 fungus disease known as hollyhock rust, 

 which often attacks the plants just be- 

 fore blooming, causing the leaves to 

 brown and wither, and hinders the de- 

 velopment of the flowers. Bordeaux 

 mixture, freely applied before infection, 

 has proved quite efficient in staying the 

 trouble, but is highly objectionable, as 

 it disfigures the foliage and blooms. 

 Hollyhock rust has, however, either di- 

 minished in virulence or additional vigor 

 has been bred in the good varieties, as 

 there appears to be less uncertainty in 

 their culture now than ten years ago. 



Several years ago Peter Henderson & 

 Co. introduced a strain of early and 

 continuous blooming varieties. W. Van 

 Fleet says that on the trial grounds of 

 the Rural New-Yorker he has repeatedly 

 grown this race and regards it as of the 

 highest value to those who do not care 

 to risk the uncertainties of a year's 

 growth before blooming. While peren- 

 nial under good protection, they flower 

 so promptly from spring-sown seed, 

 showing blooms by July or August and 

 continuing until frost, that they may 

 very properly be treated as annuals. 

 There is a great range of color, and 

 the blooms vary in different plants from 

 single to fully double, both with and 

 without the usual flat outer guard 

 petals. In rich soil the plants are of 

 surprisingly thrifty growth, the main 

 spike rising over eight feet high, re- 

 maining a long time in bloom, and is 

 succeeded by many branches from the 

 base, thus furnishing a succession of 

 flowers until growth ceases. While very 

 fine for cutting and garden decoration 

 the flowers have scarcely the finish of 

 the choicer perennial varieties. As they 

 furnish such a great quantity of bloom 

 in a comparatively short growing period 

 they need a plentiful supply of nourish- 

 ment and should be freely watered in 

 dry weather. 



Bloomington, III. — The Phoenix Nur- 

 sery Co. is having three large iron frame 

 houses built. 



Macon, Ga. — The State Horticultural 

 Society is hard at work endeavoring to 

 get a bill passed establishing a state 

 immigration bureau. 



CHOICE ORNAMENTALS 



100 ACRES 

 UNDER CULTIVATION. 



Specimen Evergreens, Boxwood 



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