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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Dbcembeb 5, 1907. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHIBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTMBN. 



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

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

 Bearer, Kocheeter; Treas., C. L. YateB, Roches- 

 ter. The sad annual convention will be held at 

 -Milwaukee, June, 1908. 



Wild Bros, Nursery Co., Sarcoxie, 

 Mo., is selling nursery-grown Christnjas 

 trees. 



STORING TREE SEEDS. 



Seeds kept through the winter in bot- 

 tles or jars are often, when spring ar- 

 rives, found to have been entirely spoiled 

 because the air in these vessels has be- 

 come contaminated by the exhalations 

 from the seeds and has got into a wet 

 condition from the closely confined mois- 

 ture they contain. There is no danger 

 of such a result with seeds if they are 

 put away in sand or fairly dry soil 

 and kept in a cool place. 



Now, or a little later, is the time to 

 procure seeds of holly, which should, 

 when collected, be mixed with sand or 

 fine loam in a box and put away in some 

 cool place indoors or buried where they 

 will be safe outdoors until spring. Then 

 they may be taken in hand and freed of 

 pulp, and the seeds again mixed with 

 sand and put away as before, until au- 

 tumn, when they diould be sown in the 

 open ground. 



There are a great many seeds of trees 

 and shrubs which, unless preventive 

 measures are taken, will be welcome prey 

 for mice and rats. There are many meth- 

 ods that will suggest themselves to who- 

 ever is interested in the preservation of 

 seeds, that will avoid their loss in this 

 way. M. 



USE OF NITROGEN AND LIME. 



Plants derive their nitrogen from am- 

 monia and nitric acid, and though at one 

 time it was supposed that they obtained 

 nitrogen from the atmosphere, it is now 

 universally admitted that the nitrogen of 

 plants is assimilated from the two sources 

 above mentioned. 



Estimated by its proportional weight, 

 nitrogen forms only a small part of 

 plants, but it is never entirely absent 

 from any part of them. 



If poor growth on trees in a nursery 

 is not the result of neglect in the thor- 

 ough tillage of the soil for the preserva- 

 tion of the moisture, the soil needs nitro- 

 gen, which may be given in the form of 

 nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia, 

 at the rate of about 300 pounds to the 

 acre. The application should be made in 

 spring. 



Lime acts more by bringing other sub- 

 stances into a proper condition for being 

 absorbed by the roots of plants than by 

 directly affording nourishment of itself. 

 Some soils, especially such as are peaty, 

 become acid or sour because of the pres- 

 ence of vegetable acids. On such soils 

 lime acts in a beneficial and corrective 

 manner, by uniting with and neutralizing 

 the vegetable acids. B. B. 



- FOLL^GE INJURY. 



For a number of years it has been a 

 problem with pathologists to find some 

 successful way of treating the peach with 

 fungicides in order not to injure the fo- 

 liage. Some of the standard fungicides 

 often cause complete defoliation. For 



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VIBURNUM PLICATUM 



Hydimnc** Pan. Grand. 

 Hon«y snokle Heokrottll 



Barberry TbonbercU 



In large stock. Write for prices. 



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VERGREEN 



An Immense Stock of both large and 

 small size EVEBOREBN TRBB8 is 

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 SHBUBS. Correapondence solicited. 



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this reason it has been found diflScult to 

 control a number of serious diseases af- 

 fecting the peach by any of the ordi- 

 nary treatments. This year it was dis- 

 covered, by the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, that a sulphur wash made 

 by combining lime and sulphur, with 

 no other heat than that produced by the 

 slaking of the lime, gave a preparation 

 which was not injurious to peach foliage 

 and which prevented the scab and re- 

 duced peach rot to ten per cent on the 

 sprayed trees, whereas unsprayed trees 

 had seventy-five per cent of the disease. 

 This fungicide, further, completely pre- 

 vented the leaf-spot fungi and produced 

 no injury whatever, either to foliage or 

 fruit. While this preparation has been 

 previously used in winter, when the trees 

 were dormant, this is the first time it 

 has been tried on trees in active growth, 

 with the success as indicated. 



BERBERIS THUNBERGH. 



The manner in which Berberis Thun- 

 bergii thrives when planted in widely 

 varying soils and situations makes its fu- 



Choice Ornamentals 



90,000 Berberis TbsnbersU. 18 to M-inch. 



6.000 " " 12tol8-inch. 



40,OuO " " a-yr. seedUnrs. 



8tol6-lnch. ~~— . 



SO.OOO vine* Minor (Grave Myrtle). 



8,000 Bed Oak Trees, 4 to 6 feet. 

 18,000 Cherry and Plnm Trees, 1-yr., I feet. 

 40,000 Norway Spmce, Wblte, Anstrlaa 

 and Seotoh Pine, 1-yr., transpl., 6 to 13-inch. 



1,IK>0 Wblte Pine, 12 to 18 Inch, transplanted. 



S,0<tO Norway Sprace, 12 to 18-lnch, transpl. 



1,000 Vlbarnona ounlns, 2 feet. 



1,000 Vibnrnana dentatam, 2 feet. 



1,000 Bhodotypos kerrloldes, 2 feet. 



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TREES and SHRUBS 



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LARGE TREES 



OAKS AMD BIAPLES. PINKS AND 

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The True Anoor River Priret 



Ligastrom Amareose 



2H to 8 feet. stronK, fleld-frown plants, 

 any qaantlty, $26.00 per 1000. 



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ture demand a certainty. For a beauti- 

 ful, hardy, compact shrub, there is 

 scarcely anything to beat this Japanese 

 barberry. It never seems out of place, 

 either when seen growing singly, in large 

 groups or in hedges. It is equally satis- 

 factory in whichever way used. 



This shrub has, of course, for long 

 been used as a shrub for planting as iso- 

 lated specimens and in grouping, but it 

 is only quite recently it has been to any 

 great extent taken advantage of as a 

 hedge plant. Its hardiness and orna- 

 mental character from early spring right 

 through the winter will cause it to take 

 the place of privet to a considerable ex- 

 tent, especially for locations where privet 

 has occasionally proved disappointing in 

 its liability to winter killing. 



This plant will not make such an im- 



