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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



March 21, 1907. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMIBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NCB8EBTHEN. 



Pre*., Orlando Harrlaon, Berlin, Md.; Vlco- 

 Prea., J. W. HIU, Des Moines, la. ; Sec'y, Geo. O. 

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

 The 83d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit. Mich., June, 1»07. 



The death of James Draper is reported 

 in this week's obituary column. 



Chakles F. Uecke, New London, Wis., 

 has built up a large wholesale business 

 in collected evergreen seedlings. 



F. L. White, Moscow, Idaho, has sold 

 his entire season's output of nursery 

 stock to Kiee & Mumm, Spokane, Wash. 



C. W. Mally has been appointed in- 

 spector of nurseries and orchards in 

 Ohio, succeeding A. F. Burgess, who 

 went to Massachusetts. 



E. RuNYON, of the Elizabeth Nursery 

 Co., Elizabeth, N. J., has been looking 

 after his nursery interests in Cuba, but 

 is expected home in a few days, 



A NURSERY company is being or- 

 ganized by J. T. Lunu, of Abilene, Tex. 

 The site of the company's operations is 

 the Cockrell farm, near Lytle lake. Cap- 

 italization, $25,000. 



The George Wittbold Co., Chicago, a 

 couple of seasons ago, established a large 

 nursery at Edgebrook, just outside the 

 city. They now have ^a big stock of 

 shrubs and hardy perennials ready for 

 market, but only a fraction of what they 

 expect to have another season. 



SEASONABLE REMINDERS. 



Prunas Pissardi is, in eflfect, a minia- 

 ture purple-leaved plum. It is fully as 

 decorative as the latter as far as the 

 foliage is concerned, although, of course, 

 by reason of its dwarf habit it never 

 attains the impressive appearance of a 

 matured plum. This prunus is a desir- 

 able subject when something is wanted 

 with which to make contrasts. In early 

 summer, before the foliage unfolds, beau- 

 tiful pinkish white flowers dot the 

 branches profusely. The foliage, from 

 the time it opens in early summer until 

 it falls in early winter, is almost un- 

 changed in its purple hue. It is suitable 

 for planting in masses, or as single speci- 

 mens. It stands hard pruning, if it is 

 necessary, to keep it within bounds, or 

 it may be allowed to grow unchecked; 

 whichever way it is always satisfactory. 



I doubt if there is any other flowering 

 shrub as much in demand, and deserv- 

 edly so, as Hydrangea paniculata grandi- 

 flora. It is invaluable for the decoration 

 of home grounds and valuable also for 

 the flowers in their cut state. They find 

 usually a ready market, even at a time 

 of the year when outdoor flowers are 

 abundant. Cuttings of this hydrangea 

 can be placed in the nursery in the 

 spring to root and it will not be long 

 before they will give an account of 

 themselves. 



Evergreens require more or less pro- 

 tection during the winter months in 

 nearly every section of the country, not 

 so much in any case for the injury that 

 the frost might directly cause, but be- 

 cause of the damaging effects of cold 

 and sunlight combined. Evergreens, cov- 

 ered up during a great part of the win- 

 ter, should not at one time be wholly 

 relieved of their winter protection, nor 



should any of it be removed until, at 

 least, some sign of spring appears. At 

 any rate it is undesirable to suddenly 

 expose them to the full light of the 

 sun. 



The present is a good time to begin a 

 campaign of extermination upon every- 

 thing visible in the line of scale, as well 

 as upon things pretty nearly invisible, 

 that are a menace to trees and shrubs. 



As soon as the frost is out of the 

 ground work should be commenced in the 

 preparation of beds for the reception of 

 tree seeds. These seeds, stored away 

 somewhere during the winter, will, many 

 of them, need looking after now and ex- 

 amined to ascertain whether or not they 

 are in proper condition. 



Evergreens in the cutting boxes should 

 be potted as soon as they are rooted. 



American Elm. 



It may be found that a few are still un- 

 rooted, but, better than leave them all 

 longer in the boxes, to pot the advanced 

 ones in order to get them ahead for out- 

 doors and put the unrooted ones back in 

 the cutting boxes again. R. R. 



THE AMERICAN ELM. 



The accompanying illustration is from 

 a photograph of such an elm as any 

 nurseryman would be proud to have 

 growing in a big block on his grounds. 

 J. A. Pettigrew told the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society recently that "the 

 American elm (Ulmus Americana) is en- 

 deared to the people of New England 

 by the manner in which it has embow- 

 ered many of our towns and waysides 

 with its beautiful pendulous branches; 

 the fame of New England's elms has 

 spread far and wide. The American 

 elm is not suitable for planting under 

 hard conditions in city streets; it loves 

 a rich, moist soil, with plenty of room 

 for development; for wide suburban 

 streets and for waysides it is" a grand 

 tree." 



The demand for elms of good size is 

 so strong that to find a number of trees 

 of fairly large caliper, one like unto the 

 other, is no easy task, as a number of 

 the landscape architects who have tried 

 it recently have found. Several park 

 plantings of elms have been delayed, 

 or other stock used, because of the dif- 

 ficulty of finding enough elms that were 

 of the right size and which would 

 match up. 



PRIVET CUTTINGS. 



Referring to R. R. in the Review of 

 February 28, page 1126, cuttings of all 

 hard-wooded plants should be taken off 

 in the fall, before sharp, freezing 

 weather, and at once made up into cut- 

 tings of the proper length and heeled in 

 in moist sand in a cool cellar Hntil 

 spring, so that the lower ends may cal-, 

 lous, ready for rooting when planted. 



I think there are not many places 

 north of Mason and Dixon's line where 

 California privet is not too much injured 

 by freezing to do at all for cuttings; in 

 fact, in many places the entire top is 

 perfectly dead to the ground. I think 

 the Amoor River privet is much better 

 than the California. Though quite similar 

 in appearance and growth, it is now 

 green to the very tips, while the Cali- 

 fornia near it is entirely dead to below 

 the surface. E. Y. Teas. 



TO REGULATE SALE OF PLANTS 



The following is the text of ' * An Act 

 to regulate the sale of Plants, Trees, 

 Shrubbery, Etc., and to provide against 

 the spread of Infectious Diseases among 

 Plants, Trees, bnrubbery. Etc., and for 

 the Inspection of Nursery Stock, owned 

 or sold by Companies or Corporations 

 doing a Nursery Business in the State 

 of Minnesota," now pending in the Min- 

 nesota legislature: 



It shall be the duty of the state entomolo- 

 gist, or bis assistant, to inspect all companies 

 or corporations doing a nursery business In 

 Minnesota, who are engaged in tlie growing, 

 shipping or selling of ornamental trees, fruit 

 trees and shrubbery of all Iclnds; such Inspec- 

 tion to occur not less than twice each year, 

 and for which the owner, or owners, of each 

 nursery shall pay an inspection fee of $1U. None 

 of the trees, shrubbery, vines, and other plants 

 offered for sale, found to be affected by the San 

 Jose scale, or other infectious plant troubles, by 

 said inspector, shall be offered for sale, but 

 shall be immediately destroyed, or before being . 

 offered for sale shall be tagged with tags 

 containing the announcement that the same are 

 infected by infectious plant disease, the tags 

 to be secured of the entomologist at the rate 

 of 50 cents per hundred. 



All companies or corporations engaged in the 

 nursery business in this state shall annually 

 apply to the secretary of state, the fee to be 

 ^0 for each annual license, together with an 

 additional fee of $1 for recording the applica- 

 tion, and the said license must be secured be- 

 fore said nursery or nurseries dispose of trees, 

 shrubbery, vines, etc., of said nursery, and 

 before the secretary of state shall Issue such 

 license the state entomologist must first Issue 

 his certificate that said nursery or nurseries are 

 free from the said San Jose scale or other plant 

 infectious diseases. 



Whenever any nursery owner of this state 

 ships, or causes to be shipped, the trees, plants, 

 shrubbery, vines, etc., produced by a nursery 

 in any other state, the same, before they are 

 offered for sale, shall contain a tag or tags 

 announcing the place where the same were first 

 grown, and the advertising of nursery stoclc 

 grown in a foreign state as "home grown" Is 

 hereby declared to be a misdemeanor. 



Whenever any nursery in this state trans- 

 plants, or causes to be transplanted, any of 

 its product or products, or the products of a 

 nursery of this or another state, before the 

 same is again offered for sale, the product or 

 products shall be marlced "transplanted" and 

 the failure to do so is hereby declared to be a 

 misdemeanor. 



For the purpose of preventing the spread of 

 the so-called San Jose scale, or other infections 

 plant diseases, the state entomologist, or bis 

 assistant, who may be appointed by him. Is 

 hereby authorized and empowered to have and 

 take access to any and all railroad cars, all 

 railroad stations, all storage houses, ware- 

 houses, or express offices, wherein there may be 



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