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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 9, 1907. 



and July. The flowers are white. It is 

 the hardiest of all the hydrangeas and 

 thrives well in shady locations. E. K. 



FOREST PLANTING LEAFLETS. 



Under date of April 29 the Forest 

 Service, U. S. Department ot Agricul- 

 ture, issued another set of its forest 

 planting leaflets. These will be of in- 

 terest to the nurserymen, as they describe 

 the characteristics of each species, 

 treated under the several headings of 

 form and size, range, habits and growth, 

 economic uses, methods of propagation, 

 planting, cultivation and care, etc. 



Not only is the department issuing a 

 large edition of these circulars, but 

 copies are supplied to the daily and 

 weekly press, with the result that the 

 circulation runs into millions of copies. 



The subjects of this series are as fol- 

 lows: Hardy catalpa, Catalpa speciosa; 

 box elder, Acer negundo; white willow, 

 Salix alba; tamarack, Larix laricina; 

 black walnut, Juglans nigra; osage 

 orange, Toxylon pomiferum; coffee tree, 

 Gymnocladus dioicus; green ash, Fraxi- 

 nus lanceolata; yellow poplar, Lirioden- 

 dron tulipifera. 



FOLEY'S FAMILY FRACAS. 



M. F. Foley, president of the Great 

 Northern Nursery Co., Baraboo, Wis., 

 was a candidate for the state senate at 

 the last election and political capital 

 was made of a suit started by his 

 brother, W. E. Foley, who claimed a 

 balance due under a contract. Election 

 circulars said the plaintiff wanted a 

 "square deal." 



W. E. Foley had a contract with the 

 Great Northern Nursery Co., under 

 which he was to receive certain stock 

 from the company at wholesale prices, 

 and he in turn sold this stock to custom- 

 ers in different parts of Wisconsin, using 

 the company's order blanks, but taking 

 the profits between the price he paid 

 to the company and that which he got 

 from the customers. In the season of 

 1905 he took certain orders for deliver- 

 ing the following spring, which he 

 claimed he turned over to the company 

 and upon which he sued for $977. M. 

 F. Foley claimed that the orders taken 

 by W. E. Foley were purchased by the 

 company and more than paid for. 



The questions submitted to the jury, 

 with answers by the jury, were: 



1. Did the defendant company pur- 

 chase of W. E. Foley the orders in ques- 

 tion! Answer: Yes. 



2. Did W. E. Foley have any authority 

 to give free replace contracts with de- 

 fendant's customers? Answer: No. 



Both questions were decided in favor 

 of the company, and the decision wiped 

 out the plaintiff's cause for action en- 

 tirely, and it entitles the company to go 

 on and prove what damages have been 

 caused by the plaintiff having gi^■en 

 replace contracts to patrons which he 

 had no right to do. The company claims 

 that the replace contracts made with 

 customers by W. E. Foley, then agent 

 of the company, were filled because it 

 was obliged to make good agreements of 

 agents in order that it might retain its 

 standing with the patrons. 



Whether the Great Northern Nursery 

 Co. will prosecute for damages is not 

 known, but it is likely that it will not, 

 now that its president has removed the 

 stigma from his name of having "tried 

 to beat his brother." 



PUNT CONIFERS NOW I 



TiMta arc shaptly. waH- 

 furnitbed, fibraus - raatei, 

 aad savaral times traas- 



plaated. 



per 100, 112.00; per 1000, t 90 00 



120.00 

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170.00 



American Arbor Tltae 8-4 feet.... 



Irlah Janlper 2-2^ feet ~ •' 1500 



Norway Spruce 3-4 feet........ " 1200 



Japan Xarch 6-6 feet " 15.00 



And these : 



Bercta, common .4... 4-6 feet " 2000 



.....3-4 feet " 18.00 



purple-leaved 8-4 feet " 26.00 



Birch, cut -leaTert weeplnjr 6-7 feet " 3500 



5-6 feet " 2500 



Thorn, Paul's New Scarlet 4-5 feet 15.00 



CornuB KleKantUslma Yarlegata, 4-5 feet 12.00 



This is a sample lot of bargralns; others are offered in our Bulletin No. 4, just 

 issued; send for copy; use printed statioaery, it's for the trade only. 



JACKSON & PERKINS CO., Newark, New York 



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STRONG DORMANT PUNTS 



American Beauty, Clothilde Sonpert, Gloire de Dijon, 

 " ■ — - - _ .- - j.^ 



Rambler, Dorothy Perkins, etc., SUITABLE FOR rORCING. 



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Bay State Nurseries, North Abington, Mass. 



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Hedge Plants 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



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 Wholesale Nurserymen 



Ornamental Trees, Fruit Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Peonies. 

 61 Tears. Send for our Wholesale Price List. 000 Acres. 



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StolO-ffr $0.90 each 



2to2>i-ln 1.76 each 



234to8-in 2 60 each 



Horse Chestnut 



TILIA ARGENTEA, 2 to 2^-in., $2.50 each. 

 Other Shade Trees, Lar^re Shrubs, Boxwood, Evergfreens, etc. 



HIRAM T. JONES, Union County Nursorlos, ELfZABETH, N. J. 



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DEUTZIAS. 



One of the hardiest deutzias is the 

 species par\'iflora, a native of northern 

 China. A native of China and Japan is 

 Deutzia scabra, usually sold in nurseries 

 as Deutzia crenata. It varies in height 

 from six to ten feet, according to condi- 

 tions, with stout, yellowish branches. 

 The upright, spiked, white clusters come 

 into bloom in June and last until July. 

 There are a good many forms of this 

 deutzia in cultivation, differing in semi- 

 double, double and purple or rose-tinted 

 blossoms. 



Deutzia Watereri has a large, double, 

 rose-tinted flower which is showy. Deut- 

 zia discolor, a native of China, is a grace- 

 ful shrub growing three to four feet tall, 

 wit^ white flowers tinged with pink on 

 the outer side of the petals. It needs 

 protection from the cold in New Eng- 

 land winters. Deutzia Kalmaeflora is a 

 beautiful shrub, with large, white, dis- 

 tinct blossoms slightly tinted with rose, 

 but the publicity bureau of the National 

 Council of Horticulture says it should be 

 well protected in winter. 



A large number of forms and hybrids 

 have lately been sent out by French 

 originators in which the parentage of 

 Deutzia gracilis on one side has been 

 largely used, and which are conspicuous 

 for rose tints, large, bell-shaped blossoms 

 and more conspicuous clusters. 



The Beview is the most compact and 

 business-like journal in the horticultural 

 field. — C. Adams, Memphis, Tenn. 



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IMPROVEMENT OF THE GRAPE. 



[A paper by Wm. B. Munson, Denlson, Tex., 

 read before a recent session of his state hor- 

 ticultural society.] 



It has always been the custom of in- 

 telligent and progressive people, when 

 they find there is a quality lacking, or a 

 shortcoming in any article, tool, animal 

 or food, to find out what this shortcom- 

 ing is, or what the defect is, or where it 

 lacks in certain qualities that might be 

 better, and then to see if such can not be 

 improved, either by doing away with the 

 poor qualities and substituting better or 

 to improve that quality already found. 

 Such has been the history of tile grape 

 in Texas and the south. 



Need of the South. 



When the pioneers first came to this 

 country they found no native cultivated 

 varieties, but only wild kinds growing in 

 the woods, and these wild kinds, while 

 the vines flourished, produced no such 

 fruit in good eating qualities or did not 

 have the proper marketing qualities as 

 had such cultivated varieties in the north 

 and east. So the first improvement over 

 the sour grapes of the woods was to get 

 vines of the northern varieties and plant 

 them here. But it was soon demon- 

 strated that they would not be the ideal 

 grape for the south, as they were gener- 

 ally short-lived, and the quality of the 



