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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



XOVEMBEK 29, 1900. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTMEN. 



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

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

 Seager. Bochester; Treas. C. L. Yates, Rochester. 

 The 82d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



The Queen City Nursery Co., Sioux 

 City, la., has been incorporated. 



YouNGERS & Co., Geneva, Neb., report 

 an exceptionally busy shipping season, 

 orders running larger than usual. 



The Southwestern Iowa Horticutural 

 Society meets at Omaha December 5 to 

 7. W. M. Bomberger, of Harlan, is sec- 

 retary. 



The nurserymen of Utah had a meet- 

 ing at Salt Lake City November 26 foi 

 the purpose of getting into closer touch, 

 each with the others. 



There were 845 persona employed in 

 the sixty state experiment stations last 

 year. The funds devoted to the work 

 totaled $1,525,489.18. 



The program for the annual meeting 

 of the Pacific Coast Association of Nur- 

 serymen will be found on the Pacific 

 coast page of this issue. 



The city council at East Washington, 

 Pa., has passed an ordinance imposing a 

 fine of $20 per tree for planting Carolina 

 poplars and water maples on the public 

 ways. 



The proprietors of the Barton Creek 

 nurseries, Charlotte, Tenn., have pur- 

 chased the farm adjacent to the nursery 

 property and will make extensive addi- 

 tions and improvements. 



The West Michigan Nursery, Benton 

 Harbor, Mich., has cleared the apple 

 trees from the W. H. Graham property 

 at Berrien Springs, which it held under 

 lease, as the property is to be divided 

 into building lots. 



The latest San Jose scale bulletin is 

 from the Texas State Experiment Sta- 

 tion and is prompted, the author states, 

 by the rapid growth of the fruit indus- 

 try in Texas and the frequency of re- 

 quests for information as to how to fight 

 the pest. 



The Kansas Home Nursery, owned 

 and operated by A. H. Griesa, at Law- 

 rence, Kan., since 1867, has had a busy 

 autumn season. Mr. Griesa covers Kan- 

 sas and Oklahoma with about forty 

 agents. His uniform success indicates 

 his comprehension of the field. 



At the annual convention of the Na- 

 tional Grange, at Denver November 22, 

 a resolution was presented asking for a 

 national law to protect farmers against 

 the sale of nursery stock not true to 

 name, but failed of adoption, being re- 

 ferred to the various state granges. 



U. P. Hedrick, of the Western New 

 York Experiment Station, gives the acre- 

 age of grapes in tiie state as follows: 

 Chautauqua county district, .30,000 acres; 

 Keuka Lake, 15,000; Canandaigua Lake, 

 5,000; Seneca Lake, 4,000; Hudson val- 

 ley, 2,000; Cayuga Lake, 1,000; Romu- 

 lus, 1,000. 



Wayne & Butler, who two w-eeks ago 

 sold their nursery, east of Sac City, la., 

 to A. N. Wyman, are to leave Sac City 

 with their families. Mr. Wayne recent- 

 ly established a nursery at Elk Point, 



S. D., which he will manage. Mr. Butler 

 will move after the holidays to Guthrie, 

 Okla., where he purchased a farm. A 

 considerable part of the Wayne & Butler 

 nursery stock was sold to the nursery 

 firm of J. S. Griffin & Sons. 



John Watson, of Jackson & Perkins 

 Co., Newark, N. Y., advises that he has 

 placed in the hands of an attorney for 

 proper action a newspaper report from 

 Salt Lake City connecting his name with 

 the affairs of the Pioneer Nursery Co. 

 Mr. Watson feels that his reputation has 

 been injured by the reports from Salt 

 Lake and the Eeview takes pleasure in 

 setting him right with the trade. 



AMCXDR RIVER PRIVET. 



Will you please tell us the best way 

 to root Araoor river privet cuttings in 

 the open ground? We have no hothouse, 

 but have frost-proof cellars. In these we 

 have been putting our cuttings in early 

 spring that they may callus before plant- 

 ing in the ground. But we sometimes 

 lose many of tnem, and, as we have only 

 our experience along this line for a few 

 years, we thought perhaps you might tell 

 us a better way, as this method is much 

 trouble and so far has not been very 

 successful. We shall be pleased to have 

 you give us some light along this line, 

 as we think there is a better way to do 

 this work. G. W. J. 



Soft-wooded cuttings of Ligustrum 

 Amurense root freely under glass. See- 

 ing your correspondent, however, has no 

 greenhouse, it would be best for him to 

 take off cuttings late in the fall, tie them 



in bundles and bury them in the ground, 

 transplanting as early in the spring as 

 possible and firming the cuttings well. 

 Allow only a small part to show above 

 ground. This method is preferable to 

 heeling them in a frost-proof cellar, 

 where the soil may be too dry for the 

 cuttings. W. N. C. 



CONTROL OF INSECT PESTS. 



In the annual report of the secretary 

 of agriculture, made public today, the 

 following paragraphs are found under 

 the discussion of work lor the control of 

 insect pests: 



' * It has been shown that it is an easy 

 matter to bring to this country the Euro- 

 pean parasites of the gypsy and brown- 

 tail moths, simply by collecting numbers 

 of the larv8B and chrysalides in different 

 parts of Europe and sending them direct 

 to Boston. A certain percentage of these 

 insects on arrival in New England have 

 given out the European parasites, which 

 have either been cultivated in wire-gauze 

 inclosures, with plenty of food, or have 

 been liberated in the open, there being 

 chosen for this purpose patches of woods 

 not subject to forest fires or to remedial 

 work against the insects. It has been 

 ascertained further — and this as a fact 

 hitherto unknown even to European ento- 

 mologists — that the young larvae of the 

 brown-tail moth in their overwintering 

 nests in Europe are extensively parasit- 

 ized. Therefore, during the winter of 

 1905-6 over 117,000 nests of the brown- 

 tail moth were collected in thirty-three 

 different localities in Europe, ranging be- 

 tween North Germany, South Hungary 



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 Every plant a specimen. Other sizes at proportionate prices. 



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SHRUBBERY BARGAINS 



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Berberis Thunberg^i loo 1000 



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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 fin.OO 



2to3feet 8.00 70.00 



3 to 4 feet 10.00 90.00 



4 to 5 feet, extra 15 00 140.00 



Lycium Chinense 



2J^ to 3 feet 350 30.00 



3to4feet 5.00 45.00 



2% to 3 feet, beaded back 



and busby 6.00 50.00 



3 to 4 feet, beaded back 



and busby 8.50 75.00 



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