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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



DacBMBSB 26, 1907: 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHIBICAN A880CI1TI0N OF MUBSEBIMBN. 



PreB., J. W. Hill, DeB Molnea, I».; Vice-pres. 

 C. M. HobbB, Brtdjeport, Ind.; Sec'y, Geo. C 

 Se»»er, Rocheater; Treas., C. L. Y»te«, BpchM- 

 ter. The 83d annual convention will be held at 

 MUwaukee, June, 1908. 



The Grandview Nursery & Orchard 

 Co., Des Moines, la., has completed a 

 new oflBce building and warehouse at 

 East Ninth and Hull streets. 



Crimson Eambler roses are still called 

 for in large numbers, but it has been a 

 noticeable fact that larger numbers of 

 pink climbing roses have been planted. 



William H. Most, of the government 

 forest service, has collected 600 pounds 

 of seed of the Douglas fir near Thunder 

 City, Idaho, which will be planted in the 

 forest reserves in Colorado and Utah. 



Pbivet, no matter how old or how 

 large, will stand cutting back to any 

 extent, but in the event of cutting back 

 young or old privet being necessary, it 

 will be better to delay the work until 

 spring. 



Eeal estate agents at Nelson, B. C, 

 are endeavoring to interest the English 

 people in Kootenay, which is being ad- 

 vertised as "British Columbia's greatest 

 fruit district" in English horticultural 

 publications. 



Abbor vitaes are perhaps the most 

 serviceable of what may be termed the 

 minor evergreens. Among them are vari- 

 eties useful alike for hedges, groups and 

 isolated specimens, and invariably satis- 

 factory in varying situations. 



The Garden and Farm Almanac for 

 1908, just issued by Doubleday, Page & 

 Co., New York, contains the American 

 Pomological Society's "Catalogue of 

 Fruits" as a list of varieties adapted to 

 each section of the United States. 



There is a growing demand for Eho- 

 dodendron maximum. It is gaining in 

 favor because it is almost hardy every- 

 where, besides being unquestionably one 

 of the most decorative shrubs, easily ob- 

 tained and needing little after care. 



All rhododendrons, even E. maximum, 

 are benefited by some covering over the 

 roots in winter in many sections of the 

 country, while those that are not hardy 

 should have the protection of evergreen 

 branches laid over them in addition. 



At Beeville, Tex., A. V. Schwab and 

 E. A. Eolleck have established a nur- 

 sery and will be ready for business in 

 the spring. F. G. Hutchison, a Cali- 

 fornian, also contemplates locating in 

 that vicinity and starting a nursery. 



John C. Olmsted is planning the im- 

 provement of the park system of Port- 

 land, Ore., and has made a report to the 

 city council in which he recommends, 

 among other things, the purchase of land 

 along the hiU west of the city for the 

 extension of the system. The property 

 is valued at nearly a million dollars. 



PROPAGATING. 



Cuttings of yews, arbor-vitses and reti- 

 nosporas root readily in sand in a prop- 

 agating house where bottom heat is avail- 

 able in winter. Cuttings of the last sea- 

 son's growth, taken with a heel, will root 

 freely. After the cuttings are put in the 



sand they should bo well watered and the 

 sand kept fairly moist right along. Light 

 shade also is necessary. 



If the cuttings have been put in the 

 bench, when rooted they will require to 

 be put in boxes filled with sandy soil and 

 kept for at least two weeks in a growing 

 temperature. Then they may be removed 

 to a cool house and kept there until early 

 spring, when they should be placed in a 

 coldframe to harden and finally be dis- 

 posed of for the summer by placing in a 

 somewhat shady, sheltered place. For 

 the first winter it will be well to' keep the 

 young plants under cover and then in the 

 spring following plant them in beds in 

 the open ground. 



If instead of putting the cuttings in 

 the sand on a bench, they are put in 

 boxes and the boxes placed over beat, the 

 necessity for transplanting the cuttings 

 when rooted will have been obviated, 

 while equally satisfactory results in root- 

 ing the cuttings will usually follow. 



M. 



PRUNING. 



When, in pruning trees, it is necessary 

 to remove branches wholly it is much 

 the better way to saw the branch close 

 up to the trunk of the tree than to leave 

 a portion of the branch. Some have still 

 the idea that benefit results from leaving 

 a part of the branch (about one foot), 

 but from actual experience it has become 

 well known that such a practice invaria- 

 bly injures the trunk of the tree if the 

 portion referred to is aUowed to remain 

 and decays." The decay often extends in- 

 ward to the trunk. On the other hand, 

 when the branch is cut off close up to the 

 trunk, the wound soon heals, leaving no 

 trace of its infliction upon the tree. And, 

 besides, the latter method produces neater 

 work. 



When pruning is necessary it should 

 be done to most trees in late fall or win- 

 ter. Pruning in spring has the effect of 

 weakening the vitality of the subjects 

 operated upon, a condition to be espe- 

 cially avoided when the desire is that 

 . strong and vigorous growth should result 

 from the operation. No trees should be 

 pruned when the buds are bursting in 

 spring; rather than do that, when strong 

 resulting growth is the object, it will be 

 better to defer the work until another 

 autumn. M. 



THE LAXTONBERRY. 



The Loganberry has been successfully 

 used abroad in breeding berry fruits. The 

 most promising appears to be the Lax- 

 tonberry, raised by Laxton Bros., Bed- 

 ford, England, from a cross of Logan- 

 berry with Superlative, long considered 

 the best European raspberry. The new 

 fruit is raspberry-like in appearance and 

 flavor, being darker red than the Logan- 

 berry, and pulls off in the manner of rasp- 

 berries, instead of retaining a black- 

 berry like core as does the Loganberry, 

 but grows like the latter in long trailing 

 canes. The growers think it will super- 

 sede the Loganberry, which has become a 

 recognized market fruit in eastern Eu- 

 rope, South Africa and Australia, though 

 in common with other hybrids of the 

 western dewberry it is a flat failure on 

 this continent, except along the Pacific 

 coast, where it originated, says the Eural 

 New Yorker. Plants will grow and bear 

 for several years in eastern fruit-growing 

 localities, but are never productive and 

 satisfactory. Many crosses of the Logan- 

 berry with blackberries and raspberries 

 have been made in this country, but none 



appears to be desirable. Superlative is a 

 large, long, red raspberry of the Euro- 

 pean type, productive 'where it thrives 

 and of excellent quality. It is said to do 

 well at Eochester, N. Y., but the foliage 

 blights severely. 



WESTERN ASSOCIATION. 



The eighteenth annual meeting of the 

 Western Association of Nurserymen was 

 held at the Coates house, Kansas City, 

 December 17 and 18. In the morning 

 session of the first day routine business 

 was discussed and committees were ap- 

 pointed. In the afternoon President 

 Willis delivered his address on "The 

 Past, Present and Future. ' ' In the 

 course of his remarks he said that the 

 most troublesome question the nursery- 

 men had to face was in connection with 

 railroads. Shipments which should be 

 delivered in three days are often delayed 

 a week, until trees are killed. "The 

 discoveries of Luther Burbank have not 

 affected us much," he said. "And in 

 the hubbub over him many other faithful 

 workers have been ignored." 



One of E. M. Skinner's suggestions 

 aroused a warm discussion. He proposed 

 that the association resolve to pay com- 

 mon laborers only $1.25 per day. J. W. 

 Hill, of Des Moines, and C. G. Ferguson, 

 of St. Joseph, protested, and it was 

 finally decided to allow the labor question 

 to remain unsettled. 



In the afternoon session, also, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected to serve dur- 

 ing the ensuing year: President, E. P. 

 Bernardin, Parsons, E[an. ; vice-president, 

 E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, Iowa; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leav- 

 enworth, Kan. Executive board: F. H. 

 Stannard, Ottawa, Kan.; W. P. Stark, 

 Louisiana, Mo.; E. J. Bagby, New 

 Haven, Mo.; J. W. Hill, Des Moines, 

 Iowa, and A. J. Brown, Cieneva, Neb. 



The program for Wednesday, the sec- 

 ond day of the meeting, included a long 

 list of brief papers on topics running aU 



2-Yr.-olil Everbloomlng Roses 



OWN ROOTS 



These are stron?, well brancbed plants. 

 They have been potted for some time and are 

 well equipped with roots. Packing can be 

 done very light and they will carry safely to 

 any part of the country. 



$1.00 per dos.; $8.00 per 100; 

 $76.00 per 1000: 



Baby Rambler Kalserln 

 Maman Coohet Wbite Coohet 

 caotbilde 8oup«rt Harmoaa 

 Marie Van Houtte Helen Gould 

 Ktolle de Lyon Papa Gontler 

 Meteor Brfdeamald 



Bride Snowflake 



Mme. Jules Grolez d'g Kalserln 

 Mme. Abel Chatenay Queen's Scarlet 

 Cllmblns Meteor R. H. Henrietta 

 Bessie Brown Strtp'd " 



Isabella Sprunt Sstrano 

 Coq. da Lyon Marscbal Nlel 



KlUamey Blclunond 



Perle des Jardlns Wblte La France 

 La Prance Pres. Camot 



Tellow Cocbet Ktolle de France 

 Sunrise 



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