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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Septembeb 6, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



IMKSICAN ASSOCIATION OF NVBSEBTMEN. 



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

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

 Seaerer, Rochester; Treas. C. L. Yates. Rochester. 

 The 83d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



The prospects for fall are bright ; each 

 year sees an increase in the autumn de- 

 liveries. 



Stocks of the Baby Bamoier rose held 

 hj nurserymen in Holland are reported 

 to be Tery large. ,;.■/{■/'•' ^ -fi; ■':'"•• "T 



The good crops in -western apple- 

 growing states promise to stimulate the 

 demand for stock to plant new orchards. 



A NOTE on the progress of the Bay 

 State Nurseries, North Abington, Mass., 

 in the Boston news letter this week will 

 be of interest. 



G. L. Tabor, Glen St. Mary, Fla., has 

 strengthened his staff by adding Prof. 

 H. H. Hume, of the University of Flo- 

 rida, who also is an experienced nursery- 

 man. 



The fifth annual convention of the 

 National Nut Growers' Association will 

 be held at Scranton, Miss., October 31 

 to November 2. E. W. Kirkpatrick, Mc- 

 Kinney, Tex., is president. 



L. B. Beyant, the Princeton nursery- 

 man who is secretary of the Illinois State 

 Horticultural Society, announces that the 

 annual meeting and exhibition will be 

 held at Champaign, December 12 to 14. 



In practically all wholesale nursery 

 centers the season has been a good one 

 for growing stock, and with the heavy 

 plantings of last spring there will be 

 large supplies for the approaching deliv- 

 ery seasons. 



During the summer some of the lead- 

 ing retail florists have made splendid 

 use of the magnificent irises offered by 

 up-to-date nurserymen, and the nurseries 

 are now feeling the result in good or- 

 ders for plants. 



The annual inspection of the nurseries 

 of the state of Texas under the new law 

 is now in progress. The law requires 

 that these inspections shall be made be- 

 tween July 1 and November 1 of each 

 year. The first of these inspections was 

 made last year and resulted in the con- 

 demnation of a large amount of nursery 

 stock. The inspection is under the gen- 

 eral supervision of the state commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, but the work is 

 performed by a state inspector and six 

 or eight deputies. The present inspector 

 is Captain A. W. Orr. 



MINNESOTA HORTICULTURE. 



The horticultural interests of Minne- 

 sota are making marked advancement. 

 Most of this is due to the efficient work 

 of Secretary A. W. Latham, of the Min- 

 nesota Horticultural Society; he has 

 made the organization one of the strong- 

 est in the United States, it having over 

 2,000 members. 



Having settled some of the fruit prob- 

 lems, so that the apple belt is being 

 moved up to Manitoba, the people are 

 now turning their attention to home 

 adornment. The nurseries all over the 

 state are prospering. L. L. May & Co. 



have an immense establishment at St. 

 Paul. 



A new nursery recently has been start- 

 ed at PaynesvJlle, to be known as the 

 Elmwood Select Nursery. It is a branch 

 of the C. S. Harrison nurseries at York, 

 Neb. Frank Brown, the manager of 

 the new venture, is a progressive farmer. 

 He has taken hold of the woi^ with 

 enthusiasm. His first efforts, even under 

 adverse conditions, have been successful. 

 He already has a fine collection of orna- 

 mental shrubs, peonies and phlox. In 

 the spring he will plant several thousand 

 loniceras for hedges, at least twenty kinds 

 of lilacs, besides syringas and spiraeas 

 of the hardy kinds. He will plant a 

 large number of evergreens also. Mr. 

 Brown will have unlimited backing for 

 the enterprise, and a successful business 

 is predicted. C. S. H. 



PETERSON IN EUROPE. 



After a four months' tour of Europe 

 William A. Peterson, proprietor of the 

 Peterson Nursery, Chicago, has returned 

 to direct the work of the fall season, 

 opened by the digging, dividing, re- 

 planting or shipping of peonies, which 

 are a leading specialty in his establish- 

 ment. Mr. Peterson went abroad at 

 the season of peony blooming in France 

 and Holland, and made automobile tours 

 of the nursery centers of those coun- 

 tries for the purpose of seeing as many 

 as possible of the European stocks of 

 peonies, at the time when he could gain 

 the best information as to their true- 

 ness. By using an automobile he was 

 able to cover much more ground than 

 could otherwise have been gone over, and 

 he says he gained invaluable informa- 

 tion as to which firms keep their stocks 

 unmixed and have varieties true to 

 name. He found- some choice varieties 

 in large supply and bought heavily, not 

 only of -varieties scarce in this country, 

 but also of varieties of which he has 



thousands in his own field, being of- 

 fered some tempting prices as com- 

 pared to our American values. In the 

 i>^ggT^g&tG the shipments soon to arrive 

 will be possibly the heaviest of any 

 peony importations ever brought to this 

 country, although as a rule Mr. Peterson 

 says he would rather buy stock in this 

 country than in Europe, the earlier 

 planting possible with American stock 

 giving a start which is well worth a lit- 

 tle extra ocst. 



Mr. Peterson believes the landscape 

 departments of American nurseries are 

 destined to develop into important fea- 

 tures of the business, and he has devoted 

 much attention to this section of his 

 own establishment. At the dose of his 

 inspection of the peonies he took up the 

 study of landscaping, and devoted some 

 weeks to visiting the best examples of 

 landscaping throughout the whole of 

 Europe. He said that, while he found 

 many things worthy of emulation, the 

 point which impressed him most forci- 

 bly was the better care taken of the 

 grounds for long periods of years, and 

 it was to this spic-and-spanness he at- 

 tributes much of the international repu- 

 tation possessed by many of the famous 

 parks and estates; there is nothing to 

 compare with it in this country. 



Mr. Peterson possesses a splendid 

 horticultural library, one of the best in 

 America, and on this trip he added to it 

 many rare and old volumes. 



METHODS OF GROWING. 



[A paper by T. R. Peyton, read before the 

 Missouri State Horticultural Society.] 



In growing the best nursery trees, the 

 first thing to consider is, what are the 

 chief requisites; and we believe the most 

 important of these principal requirements 

 is the soil. Experiments have fully dem- 

 onstrated that certain soils are best 

 adapted to certain crops, and especially is 

 this true in the growing of horticultural 

 products. Hence, to grow the best nur- 



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