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MABCH 12, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



53 



and will help to maintain the balance of 

 root and foliage growth, the root growth 

 being restricted by the close planting. 



When the plants begin to bloom they 

 require close attention, to see that all 

 blooms are fertilized and set f ruiL Some 

 growers still follow the old method of 

 hand pollinating with a spoon and a tiny 

 brush, by holding the spoon under the 

 blooms and touching them with the 

 brush, which is dipped frequently into 

 the pollen which falls into the spoon. I 

 have never practiced this method, having 

 always had good success by going down 

 the rows every bright, warm . day about 

 noon, when the house is driest, warmest 

 and best ventilated, and tapping the 

 stalks with a newspaper rolled up into 

 a solid roll, making a Ught, soft paddle 

 that will not injure the fruit. The jar 

 shakes the pollen loose and some of it 

 falls onto the pistils of the blooms. 



Some varieties seem to set more easily 

 than others. I have often wondered if 

 tomatoes were not like strawberries, some 

 varieties having both sexes in the same 

 bloom and some in different blooms. 

 Perhaps some botanist can tell us. The 

 variety Winter Beauty seems to set fruit 

 on every bloom, whether fertilized or 

 not, and very seldom bears a crooked or 

 one-sided fruit, such as comes on some 

 other varieties when only one side of the 

 pistil is touched with the brush of pollen. 

 Many failures in tomato growing are due 

 to the blooms not being fertilized and 

 careful attention should be given to the 

 matter. In case any blooms are seen to 

 dry up and fall off, do-^ujt test until sat- 

 isfied you have put a stop to it. 



There are many good forcing varieties. 

 The following are a few of the best: 

 Comet, Sunrise, Winter Beauty, Stirling 

 Castle, Frogmore's Selected, Lorillard's 

 Forcing and Sutton's Best of All. 



H. G. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NCB8BBTHEN. 



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

 C. M. Hobbs. Bridgeport, Ind.; Sec'y, Geo. 0. 

 Seaeer, Rochester, N. Y.; Treas., C. L. Tates, 

 Rochester, N. Y. The 83d annual convention will 

 be held at Milwaukee, June, 1908. 



The nurserymen of the southwest, 

 where the fruit trees are now in bloom, 

 say that the season has been an ex- 

 cellent one. 



A LARGE number of florists are this 

 spring planting nurseries of ornamental 

 stock. One great advantage the florist 

 sees in the nursery business is the 

 amount of fall planting that can be 

 done. 



The Northwest Nursery Co., Valley 

 City, N. D., has been incorporated with 

 $50,000 authorized capital stock. The 

 incorporators are Ernest C. Hilborn and 

 E. A. Pray, of Valley City, and P. A. 

 Pickett, of Leal, N. D. 



It is now generally known by the pub- 

 lic that it is not practicable to rely up- 

 on an orchard of seedling trees, as such 

 trees seldom produce fruit of equal qual- 

 ity to that of the seed planted, however 

 choice and carefully selected. W. F. 

 Heikes says that even in the case of 

 citrus fruits, the trees of which were 

 formerly grown almost entirely from 

 seed, there was such a variation in size, 

 shape and quality of the fruit that in 

 later orchard plantings seedlings have no 

 longer been in use, but the desired vari- 



eties are propagated by either budding 

 or grafting. • . / 



The Southeastern Nursery Co. has 

 been incorporated at Beaumont, Tex., 

 with a capital stock of $6,000. The in- 

 corporators are E. McMickin, J. W., T. 

 A. and A. S. Sporlock. 



The nurserymen evidently have been 

 studying the printers' art during the 

 last few months, and the relation of good 

 printing to the science of getting busi- 

 ness by mail, for the spring catalogues 

 are nearly all better written, better il- 



lustrated and better printed than ever 

 before. 



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 adaptability of particular varieties to 

 climatic and soil conditions. We are 

 just putting a young man to work on 

 fEafsubject, having secured C. A. Reed, 

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