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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 17, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



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

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

 0. Seatrer, Rochester; Treaa., C. L. Yates, Boches- 

 tep. The 3lBt annual convention will be held at 

 Dallas, Texas, June 13-15, 1906. 



"Visited Chicago: — F. W. Mayer, of 

 the Gulf Coast Nursery, Alvin, Tex. 



Western New York nurserymen re- 

 port generally a better clean-up than in 

 any recent season. 



The imports of trees and plants at 

 the port of New York last week had an 

 invoice value of $13,401. 



J. M. Hall, employed in the McCart 

 & Anderson Nursery, Fort Worth, Tex., 

 dropped dead while at work May 10. 



The Aurora Nursery Co., Aurora, 111., 

 has opened a down-town office, in the 

 Mercantile block, corner Fox and Broad- 

 way. 



The growers of apple seedlings, 

 though some of them complain of low 

 prices, are nevertheless again increasing 

 the production. 



If you have a couple of cars of plum 

 trees you didn't need for spring orders, 

 you are no exception to the rule among 

 wholesale nurserymen. 



St. Xavier's Academy, Fiftieth 

 street and Evans avenue, Chicago, has 

 acquired the city block on which its 

 buildings face and will create a park. 



The Boston Peony Exhibition will be 

 keld about June 15. The date is not 

 definitely decided upon by the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, but will 

 be announced soon. 



The season 's business with the nur- 

 serymen at Albert Lea, Minn., will foot 

 up $40,000, and the editor of the local 

 paper congratulates the town that most 

 of the money stays in town, the principal 

 expense being the payroll. 



Conventions usually swing like a 

 pendulum, from one side to the other. 

 With this year's meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Nurserymen in the 

 south, there is already a strong move- 

 ment on foot to take it to the Charle- 

 voix districl; in Michigan next year. 



Possibly no state nursery law is more 

 arbitrary, discriminating or interpreted 

 in a way to exasperate outside nursery- 

 men than is the law of Oklahoma ter- 

 ritory, where trade is booming. A local 

 judge at Guthrie has now declared the 

 Oklahoma law unconstitutional and con- 

 ditions are in a fair way to be remedied. 



The West Michigan Nurseries. Benton 

 Harbor, Mich., say: "We advocate 

 strongly the cutting back of nursery stock 

 very severely at the time it is planted 

 out in the orchards. Our directions to 

 our customers are to cut the entire tip 

 of tree out, so as to leave but about 

 three or four branches, and that these 

 branches that are left should be cut back 

 to within one or two buds of the trunk 

 of the tree. We do not advocate the se- 

 vere root pruning any" more than to cut 

 out any bruised roots that may be found 

 on the tree. ' ' 



W. A. Peterson, Chicago, reports his 

 safe arrival at Plymouth, England, on 

 the Amerika. He goes first to France 

 to see the peonies in bloom, and will 

 spend four months in Europe. 



William J. Clark, of the Grand 

 Rapids Nursery Co., Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., says the orders from Oceana this 

 season have exceeded in number those of 

 any other county in the state. This is 

 largely due to the number of Chicago 

 people who are buying land and em- 

 barking in fruit growing as a means of 

 livelihood to escape from the confinement 

 of the city. Oceana county is peculiarly 

 adapted to peaches and already the or- 

 chards of some of the best growers in 

 the state are located there. The county 

 is just in process of development and 

 the orchards, all new, are free from dis- 

 ease. Ottawa county, along the la"ke 

 shore, is just embarking in fruit growing 

 and large deliveries of trees are made 

 from Holland. 



ALBERTSON'S ACTIVITIES. 



E. Albertson, president of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Nurserymen, spent 

 Saturday in Chicago, appearing before 

 the Central Passenger Association in an 

 endeavor to get a rate for next month's 

 convention at Dallas, and stirring up 

 interest to get a good local delegation. 



Mr. Albertson is one of those rapid- 

 fire presidents, like the one at Washing- 

 ton, whose activities are bewildering to 

 less alert minds; he gets it done while 

 the other fellow is thinking about it. 

 A case in point was his successful prose- 

 cution of the work on freight classifica- 

 tion. When he and the transportation 

 committee had just begun to get busy 

 they were told that the association was 

 without funds to carry on the work. 

 Mr. Albertson had been so intent on 



the result that he had overlooked the 

 means; but he thought he knew where 

 to get the wherewithal. He sent out a 

 circular stating the urgency of the case 

 and got all the money he needed. One 

 of the estimable gentlemen of the think- 

 it-over school wrote : "Of course you 

 referred your circular to the executive 

 committee for approval!" "No, I re- 

 ferred it to the trade and have $800 of 

 O. K. on it, ' ' replied Mr. Albertson, and 

 a few weeks later the transportation 

 committee was able to announce changes 

 in classification which will save the trade 

 $50,000 a year in freight charges. 



One of Mr. Albertson 's recommenda- 

 tions to the association at Dallas will be 

 tliat a salaried office be created, to be 

 filled by an all-around, thoroughly posted 

 nurseryman, whose duty it shall be to 

 watch the trade's many interests with 

 railroads, state legislatures, congress,, 

 etc., giving it time the committeemen 

 cannot afford from their own business. 

 The changes in freight classification,, 

 which cost the trade $150,000 during 

 the three years they were in force, Avere 

 six months pending before classification 

 committees before they were adopted ; 

 nobody protested because nobody knew 

 what was proposed. 



If the Dallas meeting is the "best 

 ever, ' ' Mr. Albertson will retire from 

 office with content. Prospects are good, 

 A rate of $20 round-trip from St. Louis 

 has now been granted. A car from 

 Rochester is assured. It will be a spe- 

 cie.! train from some point of consoli- 

 dation in Missouri. 



The membership is growing. The 

 president thinks it should be 1,000. 

 Membership fees are about the only 

 source of revenue. The badge book will 

 be closed up about May 22. Mr. Albert- 

 son urges that names be sent Secretary 

 Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, at once. 



35,000 DWARF BOX FOR EDGING 



2 to 4 in., $15.00 per 1000. 3 to 5 in., S25.00 per 1000. 4 to 6 in., $35.00 per 1000. 



Buxus Arborescens J^'peffio" Evergreens for Tubs 



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



GIVE US YOUR ORDER 



Hardy Nursery Stock 



Sizes and prices given on application. 

 150 acres. Catalogue mailed free. 



KLEHM'S NURSERY 



Arllnsrton Helelits, m. 



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H. P. ROSES 



4-lnch, own rootB, 20 varletiea of leading kinds. 

 Plant now, $1.26 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. 



Clematia Fanicnlata, 1-year, $3.00 per 100. 

 Princess of Wales Violets, selected layers, 

 transplanted, $1.00 per 100; $9.00 per 1000. 



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W. & T. SMITH CO. 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



Wholesale Growers of Ornamental Trees, 

 Shrubs, Roses, Clematis, Fruit Trees 



and Small Fruits in great variety, 

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TREES AND SHRUBS 



We malce especially low prices on nursery storlc to 

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We carry immense quantities of tlie finest named 

 yarietiesof peonies. 



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ROSES 



2W-lnch pots, strong, healthy plants. 



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Baby Rambler $5.00 $1000 



Richmond lO.OO gOOD 



Crimson Rambler 2.0O aOLOO 



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 WMte Ramblers, Tellow Ramblers, etc., 

 15.00 per 100. 



Fifty varieties of H. P. Roses, 2 years, own 

 roots. S9.00 per 100. 



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