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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januaby 10, 1007. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHKBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUB8EBTHEN. 



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

 Pres., J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la. ; Sec'y, Oeo. 0. 

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

 The 82d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1UU7. 



F. A. Weber, of Weber & Sons, St. 

 Louis, is visiting nurseries in New York. 



The labor question is one whicli 

 tlireatens to assume large importance as 

 the spring planting season approaches. 



Wm. a.. Peterson, proprietor of Pe- 

 terson 's nursery, was reelected a di- 

 rector of the State Bank of Chicago 

 January 8, 



The George Wittbold Co., Chicago, has 

 twenty acres planted to shrubs and peren- 

 nials at its plant at Edgebrook, just out- 

 side of the city. 



The Phoenix Nursery Co., Blooming- 

 ton, J II., puts a red tag, made of metal, 

 on every tree it ships and finds the trade- 

 mark an excellent aid to advertising. 



H. L. Frost, of Boston, addressed the 

 horticultural society at Worcester, Mass., 

 January 3, on " Appliances and Practical 

 Methods of Suppressing San Jose Scale. ' ' 



The United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture has issued a circular. No. 45, 

 on forest planting in eastern Nebraska, 

 which will be of interest to western 

 nurserymen. 



(JlEOR(iK E. Stone, of Hatch Experiment 

 Station, Amherst, Mass., will address the 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society, 

 at Worcester, February 14, on ' ' tthade 

 Tree Problems. ' ' 



Wholesale nurserymen report many 

 coni)>laints of slow movement of cars, 

 probably more trouble arising from this 

 cause in tiie last season than from any 

 difficulty in getting cars when wanted. 



Rhus cotinoides is a very handsome 

 species. «ith oval leaves of good size, 

 which color highly if planted in a soil 

 not over rich. It differs considerably 

 from the common R. Cotinus in having 

 larger foliage and a free, upright habit, 

 which is very striking on a plant of 

 good size. 



As a flowering shrub the North 

 American ilogwood, Cornus florida, is 

 difficult to surpass, its beauty being 

 greatly enhanced by the attendant large, 

 white bracts, and there are few shrubs 

 to compare with it when the leaves as- 

 sume their beautiful ?oft tints in au- 

 tumn. 



The annual meeting of the Oklahoma 

 Nurserymen 's Association was held in 

 the Chamber of Commerce building, in 

 Oklahoma City, Tuesday, January 8. No 

 attempt was made to publish a program, 

 but each member brought up the topics 

 he wished to' have discussed. The ob- 

 jects of the organization are threefold — 

 educational, fraternal, protective. 



The Ohio Horticultural Society will 

 hold its fortieth annual meeting Jan- 

 uary Hi to 18, at the state capitol at 

 Columbus. A number of nurserymen 

 are on the program and many others 

 will be present. A joint session will be 

 held January 19 with the American 

 Breeders' Association. Among those 

 well known in the trade who will ad- 

 dress this meeting are H. H. Groff, of 



Simcoe, Ont., and E. H. Cushman, Syl- 

 vania, O., who will discuss breeding 

 gladioli, and C. W. Ward, Queens, N. Y., 

 wlio will talk on the introduction of 

 new plants. 



E. Y. Teas, Centerville, Ind., says that 

 * ' there seems to be great interest in 

 catalpa seeds and seedlings among those 

 who wish to make plantations for tim- 

 ber. There is general belief that C. spe- 

 ciosa is the best variety to plant. It is 

 said that unscrupulous persons are sell- 

 ing seeds of inferior sorts for speciosa, 

 in spite of the fact that seeds of the 

 latter are distinct from the others." 



The Nebraska State Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold its thirty-eighth annual 

 meeting at Lincoln, Neb., January 15 to 

 17. The officers are: President, J. H. 

 Hadkinson, Benson; first vice-president, 

 H. S. Harrison, York; second vice-ptes- 

 ident, C. H. Green, Fremont; treasurer, 

 Peter Youngers, Geneva; secretary, L. 

 M. Russell, Lincoln; directors, W. G. 

 Swan, Teeumseh; A. J. Brown, Geneva; 

 J. A. Yager, Fremont. Headquarters 

 of the society will be at the Lindell 

 Hotel. 



SHUTT-UPDEGRAFF WEDDING. 



The marriage of Gilbert L. Shutt, late 

 of the park board of Minneapolis, Minn., 

 to Miss Helen T. Updegraff, daughter 



of the late Judge Robert D. Updegraff 

 and granddaughter of the late Congress- 

 man J. T. Updegraff, was solemnized at 

 the family residence, 6314 Franklin ave- 

 nue, Cleveland, Ohio, December 23, 1906. 

 The bride is well known in Cleveland 

 and is one of the most popular young 

 women of the west side. The couple 

 left amid many congratulations and good 

 wishes, for their future home, corner of 

 Hamline and Hoyt avenues, St. Paul, 

 Minn. 



Mr. Shutt is a hard-working, enthusi- 

 astic and progressive horticulturist, hav- 

 ing spent his whole life in his chosen 

 profession. He for a number of years 

 was employed by some of the leading 

 firms in the country, such as the Wm. H. 

 Moon Co., the Storrs & Harrison Co., 

 Robert Simpson, the Park Floral Co., 

 Denver, etc. He was employed on the 

 Westinghouse and Jones estates, Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., for some time and later as 

 superintendent of Ben MacDhui, one of 

 the best equipped and most beautiful 

 rural estates in the state of Michigan. 

 He has resigned his position with the 

 park board to associate himself with 

 the Hoyt Plant & Seed Co., of St. Paul, 

 where he will take charge of the fast 

 growing work of their landscape engi- 

 neering and nursery department. He 

 has many friends in the trade in both 

 commercial and private lines, who join 



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