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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



January 24, 1907. 



NIlKSERy NEWS. 



AMKBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTMEN. 



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

 Prea., J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; Seo'y, Oeo. O. 

 8«a(^er, Rochester; Treas. C. L. Yates. Rochester. 

 The 83d annual convention will be neld at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



There will be another big increase in 

 the use of phloxes this season. 



The demand for ornamental stock is 

 increasing at a tremendous rate in the 

 west. 



Labor is likely to be one of the 

 scarcest items when the spring planting 

 season comes. 



The Peterson Nursery, Chicago, makes 

 a specialty of irises and reports a large 

 annual increase in sales. 



Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, 

 N. Y., report a wide market for Colo- 

 rado blue spruce. They grow it in con- 

 siderable quantity, seedlings, not grafted 

 plants. 



Texas nurserymen and fruit growers 

 are alarmed because the unseasonably 

 warm weather has started the buds at a 

 date after which severe cold usually is 

 experienced. 



It is becoming a common practice for 

 nurserymen to guarantee the life for one 

 year of, stock they plant for customers 

 and to disclaim responsibility for stock 

 planted by others. The guarantee neces- 

 sitates occasional inspection. 



It will be easily possible for most 

 nurserymen to give customers better 

 stock by the simple means of more care- 

 ful digging, handling and packing. Too 

 little attention is paid to the care of 

 trees while out ot the ground. 



The trouble with standard grades f.»v 

 stock lies in defining with sufficient clear- 

 ness and brevity just what a good tree 

 or plant should be. Ideas differ and 

 what one man would consider good might 

 be wholly unacceptable to another. 



RUSSIAN MULBERRY HEDGE. 



The accompanying illustration is from 

 a photograph taken on Sheridan road, 

 on the north side of Chicago, where 

 there is a clean sweep to Lake Michigan, 

 not over 200 feet away. Anything that 

 will stand the winters there may be 

 classed as reliably hardy anywhere short 

 of the arctic regions. 



But the point of interest in the pic- 

 ture is the excellent hedge of Russian 

 mulberry. This is twelve years old and 

 in perfect condition. This hedge was 

 planted by the Peterson Nursery, and 

 B. E. Gage, of that institution, says 

 they have a number of such in good con- 

 dition planted where only an absolutely 

 hardy plant will meet the requirements. 

 He says the one operation necessary to 

 get a good hedge of Russian mulberry 

 is to cut it back hard when planted, 

 and keep it down by successive hard 

 prunings until it grows from the bot- 

 tom; it must not be permitted to grow 

 tall before an attempt is made to get 

 bottom growth. It will not do well in 

 shade. 



CATALPA SEEDS. 



A large number of catalpa seedlings 

 are being grown for timber plantations 

 and, as speciosa is considered the best 

 variety, it is desirable that planters 



should be able to distinguish this from 

 other sorts. By examining the seeds 

 it will be observed that the seeds of 

 speciosa are much larger in every way 

 than in the other sorts, and also that 

 the hairy ends of the wings are spread 



twenty-two years ago, that now con- 

 tains many trees about ten inches iu 

 diameter, from which fence-posts have 

 been cut the last few years. This grove 

 is highly valued by the owner. 



Catalpa bignonioides, although the 



A HmJge orRtwidn Mulberry on Chicago's Lake Shore. 



out, fan-shaped, while those of bigno- 

 nioides are drawn to a point like a 

 waxed mustache. .... 



J. C. Teas ' Japanese hybrid, which is 

 a cross between speciosa and Kaempferi, 

 has seeds much smaller than the two va- 

 rieties named above, but produces a tree 

 of great vigor and probably possesses 

 merit as a timber tree. Owing to its 

 comparatively recent introduction, its 

 value in this region has not yet been de- 

 termined. The seeds of Kaempferi are 

 much smaller than either of the others 

 and the tree is not as rapid in growth 

 as either speciosa or Teas' Japanese 

 hybrid ; though I know of one grove of 

 about 4,000 trees of this variety, planted 



earliest introduced into cultivation, is 

 believed to be least valuable of any, on 

 account of its crooked, irregular habit, 

 as well as slow growth. Mature trees of 

 speciosa and bignonioides may be dis- 

 tinguished by the outer barks. Speciosa 

 has a very rough, ribbed outer bark 

 much like black walnut, while bignoni- 



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