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The Weekly Florists'' Review* 



Dbcbhbeb 6, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTHEN. 



Pres., Orlando HarrUon, Berlin, Md.; Vice- 

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

 2S?''^i;'.^^<'*^®8ter; Treas. C. L. Yates, Rochester. 

 The Md annual convention wUl be held at De- 

 Irolt, Mich., June, 1907. 



Frank A. Weber, of H. J. Weber & 

 Son's Nursery Co., St. Louis, is visiting 

 eastern nurseries looking for stock. 



James Truitt & Sons, of Chanute, 

 Kan., are building a storage and packing 

 house for nursery stock. It will be 

 115x225 feet, frame, with brick veneer. 



The nurserymen in Chester county, 

 Pennsylvania, were still digging and 

 planting up to December 4 and have 

 had an especially long and prosperous 

 autumn season. 



^ The Vermont State Horticultural So- 

 ciety is in session at Burlington Wednes- 

 day and Thursday of this week. J. H, 

 Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn., is on 

 the program for two addresses. 



L. L. May & Co., of St. Paul, Minn., 

 will build a cold storage house at Lake- 

 land, Minn., for the purpose of wintering 

 their nursery stock. The building will be 

 157x200 feet, the wall to be provided 

 with four dead air spaces. 



The death of George Ellwanger, head 

 of Ellwanger & Barry, Eochester, N. Y., 

 occurred November 26. He was 90 years 

 of age. A brief account of his long and 

 active life will be found in the obituary 

 column on another page of this issue. 



Several nurserymen, among them M. 

 J. Wragg, C. L. Watrous, C. G. Patten 

 and W. M. Bomberger, are on the pro- 

 gram for the forty-first annual conven- 

 tion of the Iowa State Horticultural 

 Society at Des Moines, December 11 

 to 13. 



J. E. McMahon, the nurseryman at 

 Home, Kan., has bought a section and a 

 quarter of land near Denver, Colo., and 

 will establish a branch nursery on a 

 quarter section of it. He is said to be a 

 good authority on soil and tree culture 

 and says he is satisfied that the soil and 

 climate are well adapted for fruit grow- 

 ing. 



STARK BROS. CONSOLIDATE. 



The following report comes from At- 

 lantic, la., under date of November 29: 

 "The Stark Bros. Nursery Co. is to quit 

 business in Atlantic. This was the word 

 received by I. N. Brown, local manager 

 for the concern, in the shape of an order 

 from the main oflice at Ix)uisiana, Mo., 

 to ship teams, stock, etc., to them and 

 wind up the business here. The reason 

 of the decision on the part of the nurs- 

 ery firm is not exactly known, but it is 

 said that they have not found the local 

 nursery a profitable one and that many 

 of the local conditions are not auspi- 

 cious. The company purchased the Wil- 

 son nursery business some years ago and 

 since that time I. N. Brown has been 

 the manager." 



A SHRUBBY GOLDENROD. 



Bigelovia graveolens, a low growing 

 and very hardy shrub common to sterile 

 soils throughout the Eocky Mountain re- 

 gion, bears profuse blooms so like those 

 of the goldenrod that it may be re- 

 garded horticulturally as only a shrubby 



form of the latter. It appears to grow 

 well in the east in any dry situation, 

 soon forming bushy, spreading clumps 

 three or four feet high and as much in 

 diameter. The leafage is narrow but 

 dense, and covered with short, woolly 

 hairs, giving the plant a distinct if not 

 especially ornamental appearance. The 

 yellow inflorescence consists of abundant 

 feathery flower heads thrown well above 

 the foliage, and is produced in Septem- 

 ber. While not comparable in floral ef- 

 fect to the most showy species of sol- 

 idago, or goldenrod, to which it is closely 

 related, its shrubby habit and distinct 

 appearance make it worthy of a place 

 in mixed plantings. It is readily in- 

 creased by seeds, layers and cuttings. 

 Nurseries generally offer collected plants, 

 as the demand is too limited to encour- 

 age propagation. We have received a 

 dwarfer variety, known as albicaulis, 

 from D. M. Andrews, Boulder, Colo. The 

 foliage is densely woolly. Mr. Andrews 

 considers it a suitable shrub for low 

 hedges and edgings as well as mixed bor- 

 ders. — W. Van Fleet, in the Eural New- 

 Yorker. 



FLOWERLESS LILACS. 



Will you kindly tell me why my lilacs 

 never bloom? I mean the outdoor ones. 

 Should all the suckers be kept off and 

 just have have one main growth? The 

 plants seem in good health, but never 

 have any bloom, and my neighbor's are 

 just the same way. Please tell me what 

 to do for them. Can there be such a 

 thing as all males and no females 



^ M. E. A. 



The lilacs we import from Belgium for 

 forcing are grafted or budded on the 

 common privet, Ligustrum vulgaris, and 

 when planted out suckers will occur, and 

 should, of course, be kept off. With 

 lilacs propagated .from cuttings or lay- 



ers, which our American nurserymen 

 sell, the suckers, if any, are as true to 

 species as any part of the shrub. 



There may be several reasons why your 

 lilac bushes do not flower. Eemember 

 that flowering and bearing fruit in 

 shrubs and trees is no indication of health 

 and vigor, rather otherwise. 



The lilac is one of those hardy decidu- 

 ous shrubs that should be pruned, if at 

 all, immediately after it has done flower- 

 ing. It sets its flower buds for another 

 year at the same time that it is flower- 

 ing. Now if you go, during winter or 

 early spring, and cut off or shorten back 

 the growth the plant made last June you 

 will be cutting off all the flower buds 

 and induce only a strong, blind growth. 

 If this is not your error, then dig a 

 trench all around your lilac bushes. Keep 

 five or six feet from the stem, but deep 

 enough to cut off all the strong roots. 

 This will impair their vigor and throw 

 them into flower. Keep your knife and 

 pruning shears away. W. S. 



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