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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



NOVEMBBB 16, 1906. 



NURSERy NEWS. 



AMKBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTMEN. 



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

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

 Seacrer, Rochester; Treas. C. L. Yates. Kochester. 

 The S2d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



The nurseries all find use for all the 

 help they can get hold of this fall. 



The nursery stock in the vicinity of 

 Rochester suffered from the cold and 

 snow October 31. 



L. L. May & Co., Lakeland, Minn., are 

 building a storage and packing shed 150 

 x200. Last week they shipped two cars 

 of stock to Elizabeth, N. J. 



The Specimen Tree Transplanting 

 and Construction Co., New York city, has 

 been incorporated with an authorized 

 capital of $10,000. Directors: J. L. 

 Lockwood, Jr., New Yorkj G. B. Petti t, 

 Brooklyn ; A. S. Hopper, Paterson, N. J. 



The office of the Xenia Star Nurseries, 

 Xenia, O., will be moved to Dayton about 

 January 1, and it is reported that the 

 firm will close out its business at Xenia, 

 owing to the fact that its lease on about 

 500 acres of land is nearing expiration 

 and no extension can be secured. 



The Rio Grande Nursery Co., of 

 Brownsville, Tex., has been incorporated 

 with an authorized capital of $10,000. 

 The incorporators are Norman G. Kit- 

 trell, of Houston; H. G. Stillwell, J. C. 

 Fernandez, Parker Longworth, of 

 Brownsville; Arthur A. Parkhurst, of 

 Colorado Springs, Colo. 



EDWARD Y. TEAS. 



Edward Y. Teas was born in Union 

 county, Indiana, March 8, 1830. At 12 

 years of age, with his older brother, 

 John C. Teas, now of Carthage, Mo., he 

 began a small nursery, at first only aim- 

 ing to grow sufficient trees for their own 

 orchard, but finally drifting into a gen- 

 eral stock for sale. At that early date 

 the fruits common in Indiana were gen- 

 erally of New Jersey, Pennsylvania or 

 Virginia origin, or introduced from these 

 states. The varieties most popular in 

 New York and New England had not 

 yet generally reached Indiana. For 

 about ten years from 1846 the Teas 

 brothers supplied the nurserymen of 

 Rochester, Geneva and other eastern 

 points with scions of the best varieties 

 of western and southern origin, and 

 quite a correspondence was carried on 

 with Patrick Barry, of Rochester; W. T. 

 and E. Smith, of Geneva; John J. 

 Thomas, of Macedon; Charles Downing, 

 of Newburg, and others. 



In 1844, J. C. and E. Y. Teas grew 

 the first batch of Catalpa speciosa seed- 

 lings ever grown anywhere. One thou- 

 sand of these seedlings sold to Suel Fos- 

 ter, of Muscatine, Iowa, demonstrated in 

 that colder section the superior hardiness 

 of Catalpa speciosa over the common 

 C. bignonioides, which had until this 

 date been the catalpa of commerce. 



E. Y. Teas named and first dissem- 

 inated Garber's Hybrid, raised by J. B, 

 Garber, of Columbia, Pa. Mr. Teas also 

 named and distributed Smith's Hybrid 

 pear near the same date. This pear was 

 quite popular in the south for some 

 years. Mr. Teas first disseminated the 

 Lucretia dewberry, the first really popu- 

 lar dewberry ever introduced. He per- 

 sonally selected in Paris, in the winter 



Edward Y. Teas. 



of 1859-60, seed from which he produced 

 the Early Amber sugar cane, a variety 

 that had a wonderful culture in the west 

 and northwest during and after the civil 

 war. In 1872 he originated the Presi- 

 dent Wilder currant, which many ue- 

 lieve today to be. the best currant in 

 cultivation. 



Mr, Teas is a charter member of the 



American Association of Nurserymen, 

 also of the Indiana Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, now in its forty-seventh year, and 

 of other lesser organizations. His aim 

 always has been to grow and sell stock 

 true to name. Although now in his sev- 

 enty-seventh year, he is busy as ever in 

 searching for new and desirable plants 

 lor beautifying American homes. 



BOXWOOD, By The Carload 



2^-ft. Baahes, 76c each; 6>^-ft. Pyramids, $6.00 each. 

 XTerjr plant a speciineii. Other sises at proportionate prices. 



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



GENEVA, 



PEONIES W. &T. SMITH CO.; "1!!? 



Whol«MU« Noraerynaen 



Ornamental Trees, Fmit Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Clematis. 

 00 Tears. Bend for our Wliolesale Prlc* Ust. 800 Acres. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



