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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVGMBEB 22, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTMEN. 



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

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

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

 The 32d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



Peyton & Barnes, Boonville, Mo., will 

 go heavily into the growing of nursery 

 stock for wholesale. 



Ilgenfritz & Sons Co., Monroe, 

 Mich., reports this the busiest fall sea- 

 son the company has had. 



The Illinois State Horticultural Soci- 

 ety will hold its fifty-first annual meeting 

 at Champaign December 12 to 14. 



One of the storage buildings at the C. 

 L. Watrous nursery, Des Moines, la., 

 burned November 16. The loss is $3,000. 



The Clinton Falls Nursery Co., Owa- 

 tonna, Minn., is putting in a new side 

 track connection with the Northwestern 

 railroad. 



If diggers of nursery stock trusted 

 more to the spade and less to the 

 strength of the arms the laborer might 

 be more worthy of his hire. 



The Phoenix Nursery Co., Blooming- 

 ton, 111., has just acquired sixteen acres 

 adjoining its property in Normal which 

 will be used to increase its output. 



The Northern Illinois Horticultural 

 Society will meet at Joliet December 4 

 and 5. L. E. Bryant, H. M. Dunlop and 

 other nurserymen have places on the pro- 

 gram. 



J. A. Young, of the Aurora Nursery 

 Co., Aurora, 111., has completed the plant- 

 ing of the De Kalb county courthouse 

 grounds at Sycamore, 111. Trees and 

 shrubs to the number of 1,400 were 

 put in. 



John Watson, former secretary of the 

 Pioneer Nursery Co., Salt Lake City, 

 Utah, who has been located at Newark, 

 N. Y., is charged with irregularities in 

 the books, which the president of the 

 company has asked that he return and 

 set right. 



A PARTY of twenty-five nurserymen 

 from all parts of the south, members of 

 the National Nut Growers' Association, 

 visited Ocean Springs November 4 to 

 inspect the various pecan nurseries in the 

 vicinity. They were entertained at lunch- 

 eon by a delegation of citizens. 



It is said that when the nurseries in 

 Tennessee notified their customers of fall 

 shipments they created a famine in postal 

 cards and penny stamps at Smithville, 

 McMinnville, Liberty, Alexandria and 

 Watertown that was reflected in hurry 

 calls on Washington for supplies. 



TREE SEEDS IN GERMANY. 



Conrad Appel, of Darmstadt, Germany, 

 reports as follows: The home-grown de- 

 ciduous tree seeds were this year har- 

 vested mostly under favorable conditions. 

 Both Acer platanoides and Acer pseudo- 

 platanus are sufficiently grown for the 

 small wants in that article, and obtain- 

 able in good quality. Betula alba is 

 very different in quality and for light- 

 colored seeds we have a heavy demand, so 

 that we shall probably see higher prices 

 when the seedsmen are covering their 

 wants. 



Carpinus betulus gave a satisfactory 

 result, both with regard to quantity and 

 quality, while Fraxinus excelsior had a 

 perfect failure this year, and wintered 

 seed, which is still obtainable in good 

 quality, must make up for it. 



Fagus sylvatica promised at first a 

 poor result only, and according to the in- 

 formation I lately received, the crop will 

 be a failure. 



Quercus pedunculata and Quercus rub- 

 ra are a medium crop in some centers of 

 production and qualities seem to be satis- 

 factory according to the first arrivals. 

 Quercus rubra brings also a good harvest, 

 and fine qualities. 



Tilia grandiflora and T. parvifolia are 

 not yet harvested, but my collectors an- 

 nounce a fair average crop, and samples 

 I have seen show a satisfactory quality. 



From the evergreen tree seeds which 

 are already harvested, Abies pectinata, 

 gave a perfect failure. Pinus strobus 

 had a short crop in Germany, while the 

 other centers of production announce that 

 new seeds are nearly not obtainable. The 

 crop of the other evergreens, as Larix 

 EuropaBa, Picea excelsa and Pinus sylves- 

 tris, begins next month and seem to be 

 satisfactory. 



EMBELLISHMENT OF WAYSIDES. 



Avoid Crowdins;. 



For sanitary and hygienic reasons, 

 streets ought not to be too much shaded. 

 The sun should be permitted to shine on 

 the walks, and on the walls of the houses, 

 in turn, as the earth moves in its course. 



Glimpses of light and shadow, too, have 

 an esthetic value, which is worth consid- 

 ering. 



Sixty-five feet apart is the minimum 

 distance, I think, at which street trees 

 should be planted. For large-growing 

 trees, as the elm or soft maple, seventy- 

 five feet or one hundred feet apart 

 would be none too much space to allow. 

 Wayside or highway trees need not be 

 set with the same precision as street 

 trees. An irregular planting, conform- 

 ing, in general, to the surrounding scen- 

 ery, would be in better harmony. In 

 places, an accentuation of existing 

 groups of trees may be 'all that is neces- 

 sary, or simply a thinning out of over- 

 crowding trees, or of poor trees which 

 are damaging more valuable ones; for 

 let it be an axiom with the tree planter,, 

 who is planting for ornamental effect, 

 never to permit the growth of one tree 

 to injure that of another. 



An important matter also in the care 

 of trees is the pruning of all broken or 

 diseased limbs or branches, by cutting 

 the limbs off closely at the bole of the 

 tree, leaving no stumps projecting, which 

 the bark cannot grow over, to carry rot 

 into the tree. Cut off smooth, and paint 

 over the wound with coal tar. 



If tne soil is good, no preparation for 

 planting is necessary, other than loosen- 

 ing up the ground for each tree for a 

 space of from seven to ten feet in diam- 

 eter, and from two to three feet in depth. 

 When the soil is poor, not less than te» 

 yards of good soil should be substituted 

 for an equal amount of poor soil exca- 



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2X-it. Bushes, 75c each; B^-tt, Pyramids, $6 00 each. 

 Every plant a specimen. Other sices at proportionate prices. 



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18 to 24 inches busby 6.00 70.00 



2 to 2}4 feet, bushy 11.00 100.00 



2J4 to 3 feet, heavy 18.00 165.00 



Lig^ustrum Ibota (true) 



18 to 24 inches $6 00 50.00 



2to3feet 8.00 70.00 



8to4feet 10.00 90.00 



4 to 5 feet, extra 15.00 140.00 



Lycium Chinense 



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2}4 to 3 feet, headed back 



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