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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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January 30, 1908. 



NURSERV NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUB8EBYMEN. 



Pres.. J. W. Hill, Ues Moines, la.; Vice-Pres., 

 0. M. Hobbs, BridKeport, Ind.; Sec'y, Geo. O. 

 Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; Treas., C. L._ Yates, 

 Roche*er, N. Y. The 33d annual couveutiou will 

 be held at Milwaukee, Juue, 1908. 



The honeysuckles' are well suited for 

 planting to wire trellises. 



The Cranbrooke Nurseries, Birming- 

 ham, Mich., have ceased to exist. 



Cedrus Atlantica makes a fine speci- 

 men if given the room it needs. 



From all parts of the country comes 

 the report of strong demand for and 

 short supply of two-year cherry trees. 



From dififerent parts of the country 

 we learn of a serious mortality among 

 large oaks during the last two or three 

 years. 



The white spruce (Picea alba) is the 

 one that can be most safely recommend- 

 ed for planting in exposed places near 

 the sea-shore. 



At the nursery of J. G. Harrison & 

 Sons, Berlin, Md., over twenty-five bush- 

 els of acorna in ten varieties have been 

 planted since autumn. 



Jackson, Miss. — The McKay Nursery 

 & Floral Co. has been incorporated, with 

 an authorized capital of $20,000. The 

 incorporators are A. B. McKay, J. F. 

 McKay and others. 



The beetle whiqh, a few years ago, 

 threatened quick destruction to the elms 

 all over New England, seems to have lost 

 heart and gone elsewhere. At any rate, 

 we hear but little of it now. 



The American Nursery Co. has been in- 

 corporated in New York city, with an 

 authorized capital of $100,000. The di- 

 rectors are Frederick W. Kelsey, 150 

 Broadway, N. Y.; Theodore Foulk, Flush- 

 ing, L. I., and William Flemer, Spring- 

 field, N. J. 



Although the Scotch pine (Pinus 

 sylvestris) is planted mainly because 

 it is being recognized as an adaptable 

 tree to varied conditions of soil and 

 climate, it is also a tree by no means 

 devoid of beauty of form when it at- 

 tains fair proportions. 



A SUITABLE vine for the covering of 

 single posts or like objects of medium 

 height in close proximity to dwellings, 

 is wistaria in variety. These, besides 

 effectually covering the object to be 

 hidden, can in a short time be made to 

 appear attractive specimens in them- 

 selves. 



The pecan has become an important 

 specialty with the nurserymen in the 

 south and there are those who assert that 

 the English walnut would be an equally 

 good thing for the southern part of the 

 United States if growers were taught to 

 graft it on the native black walnut 

 stock. 



The Aurora Nursery Co., Aurora, 111., 

 has bought the tract of twenty acres on 

 which the nursery is located and is re- 

 modeling the residence for the occupancy 

 of J. A. Young, president of the com- 

 pany. He says that business was never 

 better for epring and that the future 

 looks bright to him. The company makes 



a specialty of shrubs and perennials. Mr. 

 Young says that florists in many towns, 

 by planting specimens on their grounds, 

 are able to take many orders for fall 

 planting and call upon the wholesale 

 nurserymen for the stock instead of 

 growing it themselves. 



This is a good time, when there may 

 not be a great deal else to do, to get 

 packing material in shape for easy han- 

 dling when shipping time comes around. 

 Boards likely to be of use should be 

 sorted and laid away in piles ; every nail 

 should be takem out and all rusty nails 

 put where no harm will be caused by 

 them. 



It is not so much what a grower grows 

 as what he sells that butters his bread. 

 A good grower, if left to himself, may 

 be a poor seller, which is not perhaps as 

 bad as being a poor grower. It is much 

 better to be a good grower and a good 

 seller, too. The Eeview will help you to 

 be a good seller, because it is read by 

 those who want to find out where the best 

 growers are. 



Eemember that a reasonable profit on 

 a few thousand plants disposed of next 

 spring means more capital to work on, 

 with the probability of repeating the 

 profit from that same capital the spring 

 following. Marketable stock, unsold in a 

 nursery, is much like a team of work 

 horses standing idle in the stable. They 

 may be the stronger for the work when 

 it comes to be done, but it would be more 

 profitable to have them constantly em- 

 ployed. 



AN ARBOR-VITAE HEDGE. 



I am thinking of planting some arbor- 

 vitae as a fence and also as a wind-break, 

 and should like information as to the 

 best soil and culture. Our soil is light 

 sandstone. How far apart should the 

 plants be placed? Is arbor-vitae a suc- 

 cess here in Pennsylvania? D. B. V. 



Arbor-vitfiB makes a good hedge and 

 wind-break and thrives well all over this 

 country. It likes a good, loamy soil, but 

 it will grow in the kind of soil referred 

 to in the query. It will be better, how- 

 ever, to dig a trench for the plants, deep 

 enough to receive a liberal allowance of 

 top soil mixed with some well rotted 

 manure. This will give the roots a body 

 to work on. Thereafter they should do 

 quite well. 



The distance between the plants must 

 depend on their size when planted, if as 

 fences or wind-breaks they are wanted to 

 be immediately effective. For a hedge 

 the plants, if small, could be placed about 

 sixteen inches apart, or closer or other- 

 wise, as seems desirable for the purpose 

 in view. Larger plants need more room, 

 but if the intention is to allow them to 

 grow into each other it will be as well 

 to plant them closely to begin with. Ar- 

 bor-vitsB stands cutting back and pruning, 

 a feature of it that commends it as much 

 as anything else for a hedge, but it is 

 also of such a habit of growth that very 

 little pruning is necessary to keep it in 

 shape. 



When ready to plant, after the trench 

 is dug and the soil is as already ad- 



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