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The Weekly Florists' Review; 



Afbil 16. 1908. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMIBIGAN ASSOCIATION OF MUBSEBTHEN. 



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

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

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

 Boonester, N. Y. The 33d annual conventioD will 

 be held at Milwaukee. June 10 to 12, 1908. 



Calycanthus floridus is a species 

 forming a small, compact bush four to 

 six feet high, with deep blue flowers 

 which appear early in the spring and 

 last well into the summer. 



There are two popular forms of gold- 

 en bell, one an upright form, Forsythia 

 viridissima, and the other drooping, For- 

 sythia suspensa. The plants are perfect- 

 ly hardy and will adapt themselves to 

 almost any kind of soil. 



The shell bark hickory is probably 

 more widely distributed than any other 

 edible native nut. It has been a long 

 time in securing the recognition it 

 merits, but its value is now appreciated 

 since the supply of native trees has been 

 so largely exhausted. 



Many florists who have land and who 

 sell at retail, doing garden work, are 

 planting nurseries of hardy stock this 

 spring, not the least of the advantages 

 being that orders may be taken in sum- 

 mer and planting be done in the fall, 

 when other outdoor work is not pressing. 



The nurserymen's convention at Mil- 

 waukee June 10 to 12 will be held at 

 the Plankinton house, the same as in 

 1902. No special railroad rates will be 

 obtainable, for in many states the regu- 

 lar 2 cents a mile is the same as the 

 fare and a third was under the old 

 order of things. 



The queen of Holland recently visited 

 the nurseries of Boskoop and, like a 

 good American politician, spoke pleasant- 

 ly of the things she saw — whereupon 

 the nurserymen at once set the corre- 

 spondence clerks at work to notify the 

 press and public all over the world that 

 ''Her Majesty was specially interested 

 in the firm's collection of rhododendrons 

 in bloom, particularly the new seedlings 

 of large flowering varieties," or some- 

 thing to that effect. 



As AN investment, nut culture seems 

 to be exempt to a great extent from some 

 of the ills atteif^ing ordinary industrial 

 stocks. The production of nuts never ex- 

 ceeds the demand; the business does not 

 have the fixed charges for insurance, 

 wear and tear of machinery, strikes or 

 lockouts so common in other lines. Be- 

 sides, thus far the only fluctuation in 

 value of nut properties has been upwards, 

 as orchards increase steadily in value for 

 about twenty-five years. 



The nurserymen of the middle west 

 are enjoying a more nearly normal sea- 

 son than any in recent years. Planting 

 began as early as ever, and there have 

 been no hot spells to start growth too 

 soon, so that work has proceeded steadily 

 without the great rush that came with 

 the early heat that started growth last 

 year. The results at the end of the sea- 

 son, now not far distant in the southern 

 part and only fairly begun in the most 

 northern states, promise to be perfectly 

 satisfactory all around. The farmers are 

 planting more than ever of fruit and or- 

 namental trees and shrubs, and the 

 wealthy are prosecuting their landscape 

 work as much as in any previous season. 



KstebUsbed 1808 



HARDY 



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Agrosteiniiia Coronaria. JM-in. pots 76 5.00 



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Coreopsis L«nceolata. 2^ in pots 76 6.00 



Dlantbus Barbatus. 2^-in. pots 76 6.00 



Plumarius, 2^-in. pots 76 5.00 



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Papaver Orientale, 2H-in. pots 76 5.00 



Nudicaule, 2!4-in. pou 76 5.00 



Phlox, mixed colors, largre field clumps 60 8 60 



Flatycodon, blue, large field roots 86 6.00 



Rndbeckla, Golden Glow, large field roots .50 S50 



Salvia Azurea Grandiilora, 2U-in. pots 75 6.00 



Spiraea Palmata, large field clumps 86 6.00 



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Stokesia Cisnea, 21^-in. pots 75 5.00 



Veronica Spicata, 2^-in. pots 75 5.00 



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The general report from southern nurs- 

 erymen is that the cutting short of the 

 season, by the ahead-of-time arrival of 

 summer, had the effect of reducing the 

 season 's sales to a point below last year 's 

 business. 



Nurserymen will all be interested in 

 the address on mail order advertising, 

 by Kobert Pyle, of the Conard & Jones 

 Co., delivered before the Florists' Club 

 of Philadelphia and published on page 

 10 of this issue of the Review 



A FEW years ago the large, thin-shelled 

 nuts were eagerly sought for propagating 

 purposes. Now the tendency is to find 

 nuts of medium size, with plump ker- 

 nels, that are produced by trees which 

 bear regularly and abundantly. 



WANT STOCK TRUE TO NAME. 



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At their meeting, at Oklahoma City 

 April 4, the Oklahoma Fruit Growers' 

 Association passed resolutions asking that 

 the legislature provide laws for the prop- 

 er regulation of nurseries in Oklahoma. 



' * Heretofore fruit growers in Okla- 

 homa have lost a lot of good money on 

 trees that were not true to name," 

 said C. A. McNabb. "We want laws 

 enacted so that when a man buys nur- 

 sery stock in Oklahoma he will know 

 positively what he is getting." 



The new officers of the association 

 are: President, C. G. Jones, of Oklahoma 

 City; vice-president, R. L. Peebly, of 

 Oklahoma City; secretary, Ed. E. Blake, 



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It is of extra quality, bright, handsome 

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Mention The Review when yon write. 



of El Reno; treasurer, A. L. Luke, of 

 Wynnewood. Executive committee, C. 

 C. Olson, of Perkins; A. Frank Ross, 

 of Atoka, and John Furrough, of Guth- 

 rie. The next meeting of the associa- 

 tion will be held in Oklahoma City 

 May 4. 



THE SUGAR MAPLE. 



More than fifty years ago, says T. 

 C. Thurlow, of West Newbury, Mass., 

 we decided that the sugar maple was the 

 best street and shade tree for this sec- 

 tion of the country, and we are still of 

 that opinion. It is a clean, healthy tree, 

 freer from insects than most other trees, 

 and it will adapt itself to almost any 

 soil, damp or dry; in fact, on sandy 

 plains or cold, rocky pastures it will grow 

 and flourish better than any other native 

 tree. Many a worn out pasture or hill- 

 side in New England could be planted 

 at a profit with sugar maples for sugar 

 making. We have trees on our place, 

 not over twenty years planted, which pro- 

 duced four or five gallons of sap to a 

 tree last year. We have raised these 

 trees in forpier years by the thousand 

 and sold them into all the towns and 

 cities in this section of the state, also 

 into southern New Hampshire and Maine. 



