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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Dbcembeb 20, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTHEN. 



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

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

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

 The 32d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



The Association of Penuaylvania Nurs- 

 erymen will hold its annual meeting at 

 Harrisburg January 16 and 17. W, H. 

 Moon is president. 



The apple crop of 190G is estimated 

 as fifty per cent larger than in 1905, 

 totaling over 36,000,000 barrels. All the 

 cold storage houses are full. 



After many years of service L. R. 

 Bryant, Princeton, 111., declined reelec- 

 tion as secretary of the Illinois State 

 Horticultural Society at its recent meet- 

 ing. 



Edward Morris, for thirty years head 

 of the firm operating the Fonthill Nur- 

 series, Fonthill, Out., purposes retiring 

 as shortly as he can find a purchaser for 

 his large interests. 



I. N. Brown, who has had charge of 

 the Atlantic nursery for the last fifteen 

 years, expects to continue in the busi- 

 ness on his own account. As Stark 

 Bros, intend to go out of business in 

 Atlantic, Mr. Brown will remain on the 

 present site. 



C. G. NiEMAN, manager of the Eose- 

 dale Nurseries, at Fremont, Neb., is pre- 

 paring to establish branch nurseries in 

 Pierre, S. D., and on his land near Hayes 

 in Stanley county. He will ship for 

 spring delivery 200,000 Norway maple 

 trees. 



Good apple seedlings are scarce, as has 

 previously been reported, but the cry of 

 the growers has been that prices were too 

 low and now that buyers are compelled 

 to accept the higher level it ought to be 

 possible to keep prices on a profitable 

 oasis, even with a larger crop next year. 



TiGHE & McDonald, of the Montana 

 Nursery Co., Missoula, Mont., are mak- 

 ing preparations to establish a nursery 

 at Billings, They have just purchased 

 100 acres of land on the big flat near 

 Billings and are making arrangements 

 to erect a warehouse and packing plant. 

 The cost of the plant will be more than 

 $10,000. 



Western nurseries, most of which 

 have paid little or no attention to orna- 

 mental stock, are getting in line with 

 the demand and it may freely be said 

 that although the supplies are twice what 

 they were a brief while ago, the call for 

 hardy stock for decorative planting is 

 only at its beginning in the greater part 

 of the country. 



The prospectus for the adoption of 

 uniform state standards of inspection 

 and certification of nursery stock do not 

 brighten at the rate nurserymen had 

 hoped they would. In fact, it looks as 

 though the only hope lies in a national 

 system of inspection and certification of 

 stock in interstate traffic, and this seems 

 to be a long way off. 



TIMBER PLANTING. 



It is stated that the Wichita Nursery 

 Co., W. F. Schell, proprietor, Wichita, 

 Kan., recently sold two large orders of 

 trees, one order of 100,000 trees to R. 



V. Converse, of Cheyenne, Okla., and a 

 second one of 150,000 to Underwood & 

 Viles, of Hutchinson, Kan. These trees, 

 which are mostly for timber, will be 

 planted as an investment and consist 

 principally of Catalpa speciosa and black 

 locust, to be used for railroad ties and 

 posts. 



The Yaggy plantation at Hutchinson 

 has proven a wonderful success in the 

 hardy catalpa and, in fact, they have 

 already sold enough to pay for the cost 

 of the land three times, with hardly one- 

 half of the plantation exhausted. As 

 the railroad tie proposition increases 

 and the forest supply is diminishing the 

 catalpa growing industry is one of the 

 best in this section of the country. 



SMITH'S BENEFACTION. 



It has become known that William 

 Smith, the wealthy nurseryman of Ge- 

 neva, N. Y., head of the W. & T. Smith 

 Co., has made a proposition to the trus- 

 tees of Hobart College whereby that in- 

 stitution will receive from him $500,000. 

 It is stated that the principal condition 

 is that a woman's department shall be 

 established in connection with the insti- 

 tution. The plan is not to convert Ho- 

 bart College into a coeducational insti- 

 tution, but rather make it a college in 

 which the woman's department is to be 

 coordinated with the men's. This means 

 that the men and women will not attend 

 classes together, but will be taught by 

 the same faculty. The classes for the 

 two sexes will be at different hours. 



Mr. Smith has had the plan in mind 

 for some years and his interest in Ho- 

 bart College is well understood, as are 

 his desires as to the direction of its fu- 

 ture development. Five or six years ago 

 he was reported as being about to en- 

 dow the institution, but there was a halt 

 in the arrangements until the present 

 time. 



SAN JOSE SCALE. 



Bulletin No. 62 of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 is entitled ' ' The San Jose or Chinese 

 Scale." The author is C. L. Marlott, 

 acting chief of the bureau, and the ninety 

 pages, freely illustrated, contain the last 

 work on the subject, up to December 5. 

 The whole prolific literature of the sub- 

 ject is here summarized, from origination 

 to the latest legislation on the subject. 

 Eight pages are given to remedies. This 

 is what is said of the fumigation of nur- 

 sery stock: 



"All nursery stock which is under the 

 least suspicion of contamination with 

 the San Jose scale should be fumigated; 

 and it is perhaps worth while to fumigate 

 in any case to give the utmost assurance 

 of safety to the purchaser. The hydro- 



cyanic acid gas fumigation is the one to 

 use. The proportions of the chemicals 

 are as follows. Refined potassium cyan- 

 ide (98 per cent), one ounce; commer- 

 cial sulphuric acid, one ounce; water, 

 three fluid ounces — to every 100 cubic 

 feet of space in the fumigating room or 

 house. The latter should be as nearly 

 air-tight as possible and provided with 

 means of ventilation above and at the 

 side, operated from without, so that at 

 the end of the treatment the poisonous 

 gases can be allowed to escape without 

 the necessity of anyone entering the 

 chamber. The generator of the gas may 

 be any glazed earthenware vessel of one 

 or two gallons capacity, and should be 

 placed on the floor of the fumigating 

 room and the water and acid necessary 

 to generate the gas added to it. The 

 cyanide should be added last, preferably 

 in lumps the size of a walnut. Promptly 

 after adding the cyanide the room should 

 be vacated and the door made fast. The 

 treatment should continue forty minutes. 

 It must be borne in mind that the gas is 

 extremely poisonous and must under no 

 circumstances be inhaled. The gas treat- 

 ment is effective against the scale on 

 growing trees in the orchard also; but 

 the difficulty and expense of the treat- 

 ment, except for nursery stock, make it 

 prohibitive in the case of deciduous 

 fruits. ' ' 



NITRATE OF SODA. 



Natural nitrate of soda is at present 

 only obtained from the deposits in the 

 northern part of the Republic of Chili in 

 the Provinces of Tarapaca and Atacama. 

 The district is practically a rainless one, 

 from three to five years sometimes pass- 

 ing without rain, and even when it falls 

 it is hardly in sufficient quantities to 

 penetrate the topmost layer of soil. This 

 fact has an important bearing on the 

 possibility of discovering similar accumu- 

 lations elsewhere, as nitrate of soda is 

 especially soluble in water, and deposits 

 of this character could only -continue to 

 exist in a region such as this. The 

 nitrate district is a desolate waste, says 

 the Gardeners ' Magazine. The surface is 

 usually composed of sand and gypsum, 

 beneath which lies a layer of earth and 

 detritus some three feet to twelve feet 

 thick. Beneath this lies the nitrate of 

 soda to a depth of from one foot to 

 twelve feet. The nitrate is obtained by 

 boring through the upper layers, and in- 

 troducing charges of gunpowder. This is 

 filled by means of a slow match, and the 

 explosion enables a considerable area to 

 be reached. It is then loaded into 

 wagons, and conveyed by a light railway 

 to the factory. Here the natural salts 

 are purified by crystallization to produce 

 commercial nitrate of soda containing 



Boxwood Exhausted, no more to offer until spring: importations arrive. 



lor delivery ) 3-16 to % inch $10.00 per 1000 



January 1 ) >^ to 3-16 inch 7.50 per 1000 



MANETTI 



10,000 HYDRANGEA P. 6. in cellar. What size do you want ? 



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



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Hedge Plants 



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