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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEE 8, 1907. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHSBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUB8EBYMEN. 



Presj J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; Vlce-pres., 

 O. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind.; Sec'y, Geo. O. 

 Seaerer, Rocnester; TreaB., C. L. Yates. Rochester. 

 The 33d annual contention will be helu at Mil- 

 waukee, June, 1908. 



The Oak Hill Nurseries, Boston, have 

 been incorporated with $50,000 author- 

 ized capital stock, by M. T. Twomey, of 

 Boslindale. 



Orlando Harrison, of Berlin, pre- 

 sided over the meeting of the Maryland 

 State Horticultural Society, at James- 

 town, Va., last week. 



H. A. Curtis, of the West Coast Nurs- 

 eries, St. Petersburg, Fla., has reached 

 home from a summer spent with relatives 

 in Iowa, by means of which his health 

 was greatly improved. 



The property of the Central Michigan 

 Nursery has been sold to J. L. Sorn- 

 berger, Geo. Hamilton and Geo. W. 

 Sprague, for $12,000. Liabilities are 

 estimated at $100,000. 



Theodore J. Smith, of the W. & T. 

 Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y., is president 

 of the newly organized New England 

 Nurseries, Bedford, Mass. A. E. Kob- 

 inson is treasurer and manager. 



The Eagle Nurseries Co., Camden, 

 N. J., has been incorporated, with an au- 

 thorized capital of $100,000. The in- 

 corporators are Louis M. Stiles, Robert 

 Peacock and Charles Bridge. 



At the thirty-first biennial meeting of 

 the American Pomological Society, at 

 Jamestown, last week, officers were re- 

 elected: President, L. A. Goodman; sec- 

 retary, John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Nathan W. Hale, congressman from 

 Knoxville, Tenn., found it impossible to 

 attend the Congress of Horticulture at 

 Jamestown last week, and his paper on 

 "Ornamental Woody Plants" was 

 missed from the program. 



KEERIA JAPONICA FL. PL. 



Among the shrubs planted to beautify 

 our parks and gardens in May and June, 

 with their wealth of flowers, Kerria Ja- 

 ponica flore pleno really deserves special 

 attention on the part of our landscape 

 men and lovers of beautiful flowering 

 shrubs. I have often wondered that 

 among many other shrubs the single flow- 

 ering fern, Kerria Japonica, is handled 

 by our landscape gardeners far more 

 than it really merits. Why! Its flowers 

 are not only single; they are small as 

 well and do not last long. That is rea- 

 son enough to look for something better. 

 Kerria Japonica fl. pi. indeed deserves 

 to be handled more than is the case at 

 present. This form is a good and hardy 

 grower and is, in May and June, simply 

 covered with its large double yellow flow- 

 ers, which last for a considerable time 

 and give much pleasure to all passers-by. 

 Kerria Japonica fl. pi. stands severe win- 

 ters well and distinguishes itself through 

 a fine habit and can, moreover, be easily 

 propagated by cuttings. 



I certainly think it might be to the 

 advantage of our landscape gardeners, 

 on the whole, if they would give a little 

 more attention to our better varieties of 

 trees and shrubs and give them a better 

 chance of coming under the notice of our 

 public at large. 



There is, to my knowledge, at least one 



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plat'o in the United States where all sorts 

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W. II. 



PLANT PATHOLOGY. 



[A paper by A. F. Woods, of the U. S. De- 

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be made generally available. We often 

 neglect to reap the benefits of a destruc- 

 tive drought, a cold wave, an epidemic of 

 disease or the failure of a crop by neg- 

 lecting to study and save what is left. 

 The few straggling plants left do not ap- 

 peal to the average man. He plows them 

 up or turns in the hogs. But the man 

 familiar with nature's methods sees in 

 these survivors resistant strains and saves 

 the few straggling plants for seed, with 

 the hope that the few survivors may have 

 some peculiarity transmittible to prog- 

 eny, making them resistant to the factor 

 that caused the general destruction of the 

 crop. In this way originated the wilt- 

 resistant cotton, wilt-resistant cowpeas 

 and flax, and cowpeas and tobacco resist- 

 ant to nematode or root-knot. Strains of 

 red clover resistant to anthracnose, a 

 disease which in many sections of the 

 south makes it impossible to grow ordi- 

 nary non-resistant clover, were also origi- 

 nated in this way. Strains of corn, oats, 

 wheat, rye, clover, alfalfa, sugar beets 

 and other grains, forage plants and vege- 

 tables resistant to cold, alkali apd 

 drought have been developed from such 

 selections, in some cases made purposely 

 by subjecting the crop to these condi- 

 tions, in others by simply taking advan- 

 tage of what occurred naturally, 



Sttrvival of the Fittest. 



In some of the older and more thickly 

 populated parts of the world necessity 



