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The Weekly Florists* Review, 



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June 17, 1909. 



NDRSERY NEWS. 



AIEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBYHBN. 



Officers for 1909-10: Pres.. F H. Stannard, 

 Ottawa. Kan.; Vice-Pres., W. P. Stark, Louisiana, 

 Mo.; Sec' jr.. (Jeo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; 

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



Frank Kadlec, nurseryman, formerly 

 located at 177 Johnston avenue, Chicago, 

 has removed to Evanston, 111. 



J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., 

 are planning on pushing the ornamental 

 stock department of their business. 



Florists are steadily adding to their 

 facilities for supplying nursery stock and 

 for doing all kinds of landscape work. 



The Eochester newspapers ma,de a 

 special feature of last week's convention. 

 They know at Eochester the full im- 

 portance of the industry. 



William E. Foley, a nursery agent 

 at 1849 Irving Park boulevard, Chicago, 

 has filed a petition in bankruptcy, stat- 

 ing that his liabilities are $4,606.48 and 

 his assets $4,511.25. 



William A. Peterson, proprietor of 

 Peterson Nursery, Chicago, says this 

 looks to him as though it would be a big 

 year for the sale of peony roots. Some 

 of the better sorts are thus early in 

 strong demand with the growers whose 

 stock can be depended on. 



From the talk at last week's meeting 

 of nurserymen at Eochester it appeared 

 that one and all had enjoyed an un- 

 usually good season — not only a busy 

 one, but a season of more than ordinary 

 length. The growers of fruit trees and 

 those whose specialty is ornamental stock 

 appear to have been equally favored. 



STANNARD AND STARK. 



F. H. Stanoard. 



The new president of the American 

 Association of Nurserymen is one of the 

 regular attendants, not liaving missed a 

 convention for many years. He has been 

 an active worker on association affairs, 

 having last year served as chairman of 

 the transportation committee. In Mr. 

 Stannard 's own community he is looked 

 upon as a leading citizen, the nursery 

 being possibly the most important in- 

 dustry at Ottawa, Kan. The business 

 was established in 1879. For many years 

 the firm was Brewer & Stannard, but in 

 1901 the present head became the senior 

 partner, and the firm name was changed 

 to Stannard & Co. A general line of nur- 

 sery stock is grown, the extent of the 

 firm's operations calling for the employ- 

 ment of approximately 1,000 acres. Lead- 

 ing lines are apples and apple seedlings, 

 peach, cherry and plum. The firm has 

 cold storage capacity for fifty carloads 

 of stock. 



V. p. SUrk. 



W. P. Stark is president of the Mis- 

 .souri State Board of Horticulture, and 

 is one of the most enthusiastic of or- 

 chardists, as well as nurserymen. He is 

 treasurer of Stark Bros.' Nurseries & 

 Orchards Co., of Louisiana, Mo., and an 

 untiring worker in the field of horticul- 

 ture generally, and the Missouri State 

 Society under his leadership has become 

 one of the strongest bodies of horticul- 

 turists in the country. 



The Stark firm was established in 1825, 



F. H. Stannard. 



(President American Association of Nurserymen.) 



and is now being managed by the third 

 and fourth generations of the Stark fam- 

 ily. The company has a capital stock of 

 a million dollars, all paid up, and is 

 probably the largest nursery concern in 

 the Avorld. The company grows its stock 

 in nine states. Experience has shown 

 them that no one locality will produce all 

 kinds of stock to the best advantage, and 

 this is given as the reason that the grow- 

 ing end of the business is scattered over 

 such a large'territory. The company em- 

 ploys thousands of agents, and also has 

 a large mail order trade, which is increas- 

 ing rapidly. The past season's business 

 was the largest in the history of the con- 

 cern. The company is the introducer of 

 Delicious, King David, Senator, Cham- 

 pion, Black Ben, and other apples, the 

 names of which they registered as trade- 

 marks, as well as some fine peaches, 

 grapes, etc. 



If the association concludes to stick 

 by its first choice, and meet next year 

 at St. Louis, it will find Mr. Stark the 

 right man in the right place. 



THE ROCHESTER CONVENTION. 



ITlie oiH-ning of tlip convention was fully re- 

 ported in last week's Review.] 



Prof. Bailey's Address. 



Every member was in his seat on 

 Thursday morning to listen to an address 

 by Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, on ' ' The Science Outlook. ' ' 

 Prof. Bailey .said in part: 



' ' The nursery business has taken on a 

 wholly new character during the last 

 twenty years, consequent to the applica- 



tion of the results secured by investigat- 

 ors in soil fertility, entomology, plant 

 I)athology and a dozen other departments 

 of science. The old, haphazard methods 

 have largely disappeared and the mere 

 rule of thumb that is not founded on 

 reason is rapidly passing away. We are 

 beginning to think as individuals and not 

 as masses. You, as nurserymen, must go 

 to the bottom of things if you are to 

 found your business on enduring prin- 

 ciples. You have the right to call on ex- 

 periment stations and colleges of agricul- 

 ture to help you determine the real facts. 

 If there is San Jose scale, it is a fact 

 which cannot be minimized or alleviated 

 by any kind of explanation or by any 

 sort of certificate. It must be attacked. 

 If the nursery business freely avails it- 

 self of the science knowledge at its dis- 

 posal, it then has within itself the essen- 

 tial elements of self-purification and self- 

 development. We are inclined usually to 

 look on the forces of nature as in antago- 

 nism with us, rather than put ourselves 

 directly into line with nature and try to 

 work with her, rather than against her. 

 It is interesting to catch this note 

 through all the history of mankind and 

 in our literature. Forces of nature, as 

 the thunder, the lightning, the storm, the 

 wind, have been thought of as forces 

 which are by nature opposed to us and 

 with which we must necessarily contend. 

 This idea is expressed in our dogmas and 

 in our creeds. I should like to do some- 

 thing, if I can, to enable mankind to 

 overcome its theological fear of nature. 

 We must not shut our doors to nature, 

 but see that we have pure air to breathe. 



