APBIL 12, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



J 529 



NEPHROLEPIS PIERSONI 



ELEGANTISSIIVI3 



Grand itock^ in all sLres.^Ver7 poputaf in New York and all the large cities* 



INPRECEDENTED SALE OF LARGE SPECIMENS 



Prices from 75c each ; $9.00 per doz.; $50.00 per 100, up to $2.00, 

 $3.00, $5.00 and $7.50 each. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 



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Various Notes. 



Wm. G. Meyer, one of San Francisco's 

 pioneer florists, died in Alameda March 

 30. Mr. Meyer was 74 years of age and 

 retired from active business several years 

 ago. He "was well known by all the 

 gardening fraternity, having lived in the 

 vicinity for over forty years. 



A. Kingier, of W. W. Barnard Co., 

 Chicago, is in town. 



J. D. Brady, of Gill's Floral Depot, 

 Oakland, has returned from a three 

 weeks' visit to Chicago. 



Chas. M. Eobinson, landscape gar- 

 dener, of Rochester, N. Y., has returned 

 from Honolulu and is stopping for a few 

 days at the Palace hotel. 



Miss Solomon, the decorator, had the 

 big Elsey wedding decoration in Oak- 

 land. 



Louis Nelson, employed at Golden 

 Gate park, was killed by the falling of 

 the big windmill near the Ocean shore 

 drive. Mr. Nelson was 46 years of age 

 and married. 



. Chas. Abraham, of the Western Nur- 

 series, reports a good spring trade in all 

 lines of flowering stock. 



L. D. Carter has purchased two acres 

 of ground near San Leandro and will 

 shortly commence the erection of four 

 greenhouses. G. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMCnCAN ASSOOATION OF NURSCRYMCN. 



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

 Pre.., Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; Sec'y, Geo. 

 O. Seaeer, Rochester; Treas., C. L. Yates, Roches- 

 ter. The 31st annual convention will be held at 

 Dallas, Texas, June 13-15, 1906. 



The Fredonia grapevine growers re- 

 port a very active season, with some va- 

 rieties running short. 



Swain Nelson & Sons Co. proposes 

 to extend its landscape department. In 

 addition to the Chicago ofiice they re- 

 cently opened one in Pittsburg. 



The United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture has issued a bulletin, written 

 by Hermann von Schrenk, discussing 

 ' ' The Wrapping of Apple Grafts and Its 

 Relation to the Crowngall Disease. ' ' 



The Livingston Seed Co., Columbus, 

 O., is planting a collection of evergreens 

 as a show ground for customers. 



The imports of trees and plants at 

 the port of New York last week were 

 valued at $30,739 in consular invoices. 



The nurserymen of the Pacific north- 

 west are closing a very prosperous sea- 

 son. The increase in population is very 

 rapid, fruit growing is having a rapid 

 development and there has been hardly 

 a day the past winter on which nursery 

 stock could not be dug or planted. 



It is stated that in the winters of 

 1900 to 1904 from 2,000,000 to 2,500,- 

 000 peach trees were planted annually 

 in Texas, but that the past season not 

 over 250,000 were planted. A bulletin 

 of the Texas Agricultural Station says 

 that the decrease is due to the loss on 

 earlier plantings, in itself caused by lack 

 of knowledge or neglect of the proper 

 methods of cultivation. 



Many southwestern orchardists are 

 following a method of planting peach 

 trees believed to have originated a num- 

 ber of years ago with W. T. Wilson, 

 Nacogdoches, Tex. He spaces twenty 

 feet apart each way and every six trees 

 in the field form a hexagon, with a sev- 

 enth tree in the center. The rose grow- 

 ers under glass call this diagonal plant- 



ing * ' staggering. 



At twenty feet 



apart it gives 126 trees to the acre. 



Lilacs are budded on the California 

 privet in greater quantities each year. 



The Georgia peach orchards had a 

 remarkably heavy bloom this year, and 

 although considerable damage was done 

 by the cold snap in March in most lo- 

 calities the trees have set enough fruit 

 for a profitable crop. 



Harlan P. Kelsey says of Stenan- 

 thium robustum, the mountain feather 

 fleece, that ' ' this remarkable hardy pe- 

 rennial is, without doubt, one of our 

 best new introductions, and may be 

 classed with the showiest of all herba- 

 ceous plants. As the buds begin to un- 

 fold they are quite upright, and of a 

 light green tinge, gradually becoming 

 whiter until at last they burst forth into 

 a veritable snowbank of drooping, fleecy 

 bloom of purest white, the panicles often 

 two to three feet long. After several 

 weeks the flowers, as they ripen, turn 

 to shades of pink and purple. It is a 

 vigorous perennial, attaining a height 

 of from five to eight feet, and is abso- 



STRONG 2-YEAR SHRUBS, ETC. 



In finest named assortment— AUlieas, 10c; Deut- 

 zlas, 10c; Spiraeas, 10c; Welgellas, 10c; Berberls 

 common, 6c; Purple Leaf and Thunbergl, 10c; 

 California Privet, selected bushy plants, 5c; 

 Japan Quince, 8c; Forsythla, 10c; Honeysuckle, 

 Hall's, 5c; Upright Honeysuckle, 10c; American 

 Ivy, 10c; all best field- grown stock. Packing free 

 for cash and extras added on account of express 

 charges. See offers of other stock In this issue 

 or write W. H. SALTER, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Mention The Review when you write. 



Low Prices 



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 WHOLESALE LIST 



PerlOPerlO« 

 Japan Maples, polymorphum, 2-3 ft... $4.00 



Pin Oaks. 8-10 ft 6.00 



Box Wood. 12-15 in 3.00 



Privet. Regaliana. 2 ft 1.20 



Privet. Californium. 23 ft 



Althea. in variety, 3-4 ft 



Aralia Pentaphylla, 3 4 ft 



Azalea Amoena. specimens 27.50 



(Other Sizes. 70.000 plants.) 



Hydrangea P. G.. 2-3 ft 



Hydrangea P. G., 3-4 ft.. X fine 



Spiraea Van Houttei. 3-4 ft 



Begonia Radicans. strong 



Honeysuckles, strong. In variety 



H. P. Roses, 2-yr.-old 



$2.50 



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Per 100 

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50,000 Creeping Roses. 2 yrs. old. own 



roots, $50.00 per 1000 



Roses, in 4-inch pots 



500,000 Roses in 2-inch pots. $20.00 to 



$30.00 per 1000. 



Baby Rambler Roses, 2-inch pots 6.00 



New Canna Floradora. grows about 4 or 5 ft. in 

 height, has dark foliage and bright scarlet 

 flowers of good size. 15c each; $1.25 per 10. 



New Canna Fairy Queen, is a tall growing variety 

 with dark foliage and large bright orange 

 colored flowers, A free grower and a fine 

 bloomer. 15c each; $1.25 per 10. 



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