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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Februakt 20, 1908. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBYMEN. 



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

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

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

 Rocherter, N. Y. The 33d annual convention will 

 be held at Milwaukee, June, 1908. 



EoBiN Hartwell is now a partner in 

 his father's nursery business at Dixon, 

 111., and the firm is J. L. Hartwell & Son. 



Simon & Son, of Beaumont, Tex., have 

 purchased a quarter section of land at 

 Stowell, Tex., on which they will es- 

 tablish a nursery for citrus fruits. 



The city council of Cleveland, O., has 

 passed an ordinance providing for a fine 

 up to $100 for any person who shall 

 plant a tree without first procuring a 

 city license. 



The Peters Nursery Co., of Knoxville, 

 Tenn., has now been incorporated, with 

 a capital stock of $25,000. The incor- 

 porators are S. V. Carter, L. D. Tyson, 

 G. W. Callahan, K. P. Gettys and R. E. 

 Gettys. 



PiNUS EXCELSA, or Bhotan pine, resem- 

 oies the white pine in general appear- 

 ance, but it is a much shorter-lived tree. 

 It is a handsome tree. Its long, light 

 green needles droop gracefully from 

 long, slender branches. ThiS variety is 

 an exceedingly rapid grower and makes 

 an attractive specimen when given plenty 

 of room to develop. 



Whenever opportunity occurs, Ber- 

 beris Thunbergii should be highly rec- 

 ommended to customers. This is really 

 one of the most satisfactory hardy shrubs 

 made use of today, and the better it is 

 known the greater the demand there 

 will be for it. This barberry can be ad- 

 vantageously planted in many ways. It 

 makes a splendid hedge of compact, 

 sturdy growth, requiring little or no 

 artificial means of keeping it in shape. 

 It makes an effective display when plant- 

 ed in a large or small group out in 

 the open lawn, as well as succeeding re- 

 markably well under the partial shade 

 of the overhanging branches of gigantic 

 trees. 



When privet hedges get naked or bare 

 of foliage, from the base upwards, they 

 are not very ornamental and the sooner 

 the defect is remedied the better. In 

 most cases the best method of correct- 

 ing matters would be that of cutting 

 the plants back to within a foot or so 

 of the ground in spring, and this can 

 be done without any evil results, no mat- 

 ter how old the plants are. One good 

 quality of California privet is, that it 

 stands any amount of cutting. There 

 may be some objection, however, to this 

 method, because of the time that will 

 elapse before the plants are as large 

 as formerly. In the case of such an 

 objection having to be considered, the 

 hedge can be made permanently present- 

 able by planting young plants close up 

 to the old ones, thereby hiding the de- 

 fects of the latter. In a year or two 

 it will not be noticed that resort to 

 such a scheme had been necessary. 



SHADOW MAKES ASSIGNMENT. 



J. W. Shadow, proprietor of the Cedar 

 Hill Nursery and Orchard Co., Winches- 

 ter, Tenn., has made a voluntary assign- 

 ment in favor of Hugh Morton, trustee, 

 for the benefit of his creditors. The es- 

 * timated cash value of the assets is $60,- 



000 and the liabilities are $42,000. In- 

 cluded in the assets are twenty-two peach 

 orchards in Alabama and Georgia. The 

 Cedar Hill Nursery did an average an- 

 nual business of $250,000 and employed 

 a large number of hands. The business 

 will be continued by the trustee and it is 

 said the obligations can be met within 

 a year. 



SAN JOSE SCALE. 



It is sometimes hard to discern San 

 Jose scale, and its presence may remain 

 unnoticed until it has accomplished a 

 great deal of injury. For that reason 

 it will be well, when spraying is under 

 way, to give the trees and shrubs the 

 benefit of the doubt by spraying every- 

 thing that is in any way likely to be in- 

 fested with this veritable scourge. 



It is by no means safe to rely on what 

 has been accomplished in the destruction 

 of the San Jose scale by the spraying 

 done late in fall or in winter. The 

 chances are that a suflScient number of 

 these elusive and tenacious creatures have 

 escaped from former attempts at their 

 destruction to multiply to such an extent 

 as to cause serious damage at a later 

 time, when vegetation is in such a state 

 as to make the application of remedies 

 difficult. 



There are many preparations of more 

 or less efficacy for destroying San Jose 

 scale, but it is perhaps on the whole just 

 as well to use Scalecide. It is fully 

 as effective as any other preparation and 

 it is easily obtainable in condition for 



immediate use by simply adding water. 

 The mistakes liable to be made in the 

 preparation of other mixtures often cause 

 injury to trees, or cause the mixture* 

 to be ineffective. M. 



DRAINAGE. 



It is doubtless the case that some kinds 

 of trees and shrubs will thrive in land so 

 moist as to cause others to refuse to live 

 at all, or at most to exist for a time 

 under protest and then die. Even if 

 some trees thrive in what may be called 

 wet land, very few will thrive in land so 

 poorly drained that it is always in that 

 condition. Wet land is, generally speak- 

 ing, undesirable and. unprofitable for 

 nursery purposes, and the sooner it is 

 made otherwise by drainage the sooner 

 will it become profitable. 



In such winters as this has so far been, 

 much good work in the way of draining 

 may be accomplished before the spring 

 work commences. Before beginning the 

 manual labor of draining a field, it will 

 perhaps save time in the future if the 

 exact locations of the intended drains, 

 outlets, etc., are marked clearly on a plat 

 of the field on paper, which should be 

 carefully preserved for reference in case 

 of trouble occurring in the drains, or the 

 necessity arising for a further extension 

 of the system. In draining, care should 

 be taken that no more laterals empty into 

 the main drain pipe than the capacity of 

 that main pipe warrants ; otherwise there 

 will sooner or later be trouble. M. 



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