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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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June 17, 1909. 



and fifty gallons of water. Mix the tar 

 and sulphur in ten gallons of water in a 

 barrel, add the lime, keep well stirred. 

 For curculio, spray with two pounds of 

 arsenate of lead added to fifty gallons of 

 Bordeaux. To guard against brown rot, 

 spray well with lime and sulphur, remove 

 all mummified fruit and when in full 

 bloom, prune out all twigs and blossoms 

 affected with rot. Later, spray with Bor- 

 deaux mixture. 



President Brown appointed the audit- 

 ing committee as follows: J. W. Hill, 

 Des Moines, la., chairman; Orlando Har- 

 rison, Berlin, Md., and W. H. Moon, Mor- 

 risville. Pa. The auditors later reported 

 the correctness of the financial state- 

 ments. 



C. J. Maloy, for the National Council 

 of Horticulture cgmmittee, reported that 

 no funds had been available for the work, 

 and nothing had been done. The subject 

 was passed without further action. 



J. M. Irvine, on behalf of the publicity 

 committee, spoke approvingly of the agri- 

 cultural and horticultural press of the 

 country in their readiness to publish news 

 concerning the coming meeting of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen, 

 giving space freely, even although some 

 of the subjects were somewhat out of 

 their line. 



Orlando Harrison, for the committee 

 for cooperation with entomologists, stated 

 that they had accomplished the results 

 sought by them, and, on their request, 

 were discharged. 



Officers Elected. 



The following officers were unanimously 



elected : 



President — F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 

 Vice-President— W. P. Starlj, Louisiana, Mo. 

 Secretary — Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Treasurer — C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Executive Committee — J. H. Dayton, E. M. 

 Sherman and H. B. Chase. 



The committee of vice-presidents rec- 

 ommended St. Louis as the next place of 

 meeting, and the recommendation was 

 adopted, but later the vote was reconsid- 

 ered, and the question is to be submitted 

 to a letter ballot as to whether St. Louis 

 or Denver shall be chosen. 



Following is the list of vice-presidents 



elected by the various states: 



Alabama W. F. Helices 



Colorado A. M. Ferguson 



Connecticut J. V. Barnes 



Florida G. L. Taber 



Georgia h. A. Berckmans 



Illinois Guy A. Bryant 



Iowa A. F. Lake 



Indiana J. K. Henby 



Kansas J. M. Skinner 



Kentucky L. E. Hillenmeyer 



Maryland Howard Davis 



Massachusetts Henry Dawson 



Michigan C. A. Ilgenfritz 



Minnesota E. W. Reed 



Montana W. E. McMurry 



Missouri Geo. S. Johnson 



Nebraska Goo. S. Marshall 



New Hampshire John C. Chase 



New Jersey S. E. Blair 



New York William Pitkin 



North Carolina J. Van Llndley 



Ohio J. H.. Dayton 



Oregon Mr. Miller 



Oklahoma J. A. Lopeman 



Pennsylvania William H. Moon 



South Dakota Geo. H. Whiting 



North Dakota Oscar H. Will 



Tennessee E. Chattin 



Texas J. R. Mayhew 



Virginia W. T. Hood 



Wisconsin T. J. Ferguson 



Misfiissippl S. W. Crowell 



I'tah B. A. Dlx 



Protective AMOciation. 



The annual meeting of the American 

 Nurserymen 's Protective Association was 

 held at Eochester, June 10. The reports 

 of officers showed the year to have been 

 one of increased activity and prosperity, 

 both for the association and its member.si. 

 Officers were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent. J. W. Hill. Des Moines, la.; vice- 

 president, W. F. Heikes, Huntsville, Ala, ; 



secretary, Thomas B, Meehan, Dresher, 

 Pa. ; treasurer, Peter Youngerg, Geneva, 

 Neb.; executive committee, J. W. Hill, 

 Des Moines, la.; section No. 1, Charles 

 J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; section No. 

 2, H. B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; sec- 

 tion No. 3, J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O. ; 

 section No. 4, D. S. Lsike, Shenandoah, 

 la. ; section No. 5, E. R. Taylor, Topeka, 

 Kan,; section No, 6, J. S. Kerr, Sher- 

 man, Tex. 



Retailers' Aisociation. 



The Retail Nurserymen's Association 

 held its annual meeting June 10. Officers 

 were elected as follows: President, 

 Charles J. Brown, Rochester; vice-presi- 

 dent, F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan.; 

 secretary and treasurer, Guy A. Bryant, 

 Princeton, 111 



Visit to Newark. 



The Jackson & Perkins Co. provided a 

 special train and invited everybody to 

 sample the Newark brand of hospitality 

 June 11. More than 200 accepted, and 

 had a most enjoyable trip. 



Vegetable Plants 



PARBLKT-ll 35 per 1000. 



CABBAOK— Field-growD, bU leading varie 

 tiei, $1.00 per 1000; 10,000 and over, 86c per 1000. 



CKLKRT- White Plume, Golden Self Blanch 

 inK and Giant Pascal, $1.00 per 1000, 



XGO PLANT-N. Y, Improved and Black 

 Beauty, $8.00 per 1000. 



LKTTDCX— Big BoBton, Boston Market, Ten 

 nis Ball and Grand Rapids, $1.00 per 1000. 



PSPPXRS-Ruby King. Bull Nose, Sweet 

 Mountain and Neapolitan, $2 00 per 1000 

 Chinese Giant and Cayenne, 50c per 100. 



Cash with order. 



R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co ,^"**.?r''' 



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GROWER AND THE RETAILER. 



[A paper by E. S. Osborne, Rochester, N. Y., 

 read at the thirty-fourth annual convention of 

 the American Association of Nurserymen, at 

 Rochester, June 9 to 11, 1909.] 



The subject which has been assigned 

 to me by your committee on program 

 is of sufficient range to permit one to 

 talk on indefinitely. I shall not, how- 

 ever, take up a great deal of your time, 

 as I know you are anxious to hear the 

 reports of your committees, attend the 

 other meetings that are scheduled for 

 this afternoon, and also to get in train- 

 ing for the smoker which is to be ^eld 

 this evening. 



It has been my pleasure to attend a 

 number of conventions of your associa- 

 tion, but in all the papers which have 

 been read and addresses made, little at- 

 tention has been paid to the retail end 

 of the nursery business. Yet we count 

 among our membership a great many 

 firms the bulk of whose business is re- 

 tail, the wholesale department being used 

 more to dispose of the surplus stock 

 which any firm doing any growing at all 

 is bound to have. 



With all due respect to our wholesale 

 brethren, I believe the time has come 

 when something of interest to the retail 

 nurseryman should come up at all of 

 our meetings, and I hope that in the 

 future the committee on program will 

 arrange for papers that will treat on the 

 I Continued on page 54 . ] 



Vegetable Forcing. 



GREENHOUSE VEGETABLES. 



Boston. June 14. — Cucumbers, $2 to $4 l)o.\ ; 

 tomatoes, 20i.' to 25c lb. 



New York. June 14. — Cucumbers. |2 to $:! 

 box: mushrooms. 50c to $1 lb.; tomatoes, 10c 

 to 1.JC lb. 



Chicago, June 15. — Cucumbers, 35c to 7.">c 

 (loz. ; lettuce, loc to 12% 1»ox; mushrooms, DOc 

 to 60c lb. 



FORCING STRAWBERRIES. 



Please give brief directions for forcing 

 strawberries, as to soil, temperature, best 

 varieties, etc., and state whether the 

 plants as they are supplied by dealers in 

 the early fall can be made to bear during 

 the following winter. E. C. R. 



The soil for strawberries should not be 

 too heavy or too sandy — just a medium 



1 



THE cost of labor saved 

 in six months will buy 

 and install a Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Greenhouse Irri- 

 gation. 



Tho Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, O. 



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black loam, containing a little sand and 

 some well-rotted manure. It should be 

 clean, new soil that has not been lying 

 around the houses. If from a pile of 

 compost that has been stacked for a 

 year or so, all the better. 



It is usually better to purchase the 

 plants from a dealer early in August 

 than to try to start only a few yourself, 

 but this is the most important part of 

 the business. You want some 2 1/^ -inch 

 pot plants, not runners, and they must 

 be of the right kinds. The pot plants are 

 started from runners from the plants in 

 the field, and are grown in the green- 

 houses in 214-inch pots until ready to 

 shift or to set out. For forcing, they 

 should be potted into 6-inch pots, if they 

 are well established when received. 

 Plunge these pots in soil, shavings or 

 ashes, in a deep, cold frame, where they 

 will be protected from drying out too 

 fast. "Watch them closely and attend to, 

 the wateiing carefully. You must get 

 them well established before fall, or they 

 will not force well. Do not use any 

 sashes or shading over them at all. They 

 should have a good potful of roots and a 

 good crown before cold weather. 



After freezing weather, cover them 

 with leaves or straw to keep them from 

 thawing and freezing. Take them int" 

 the greenhouse about eight or nine weeks 

 before the time when they are wanted 

 ripe. Hold them cool for a month — 

 about 45 degrees at night and 55 degrees 

 in the daytime. Then raise the temper- 

 ature 10 degrees until they commence to 

 turn color; then raise it another 10 do 

 grees. The process is similar to forcing 

 bulbs or dormant shrubs. 



Few varieties of strawberries are suit- 

 able for forcing. The earliest and latest 

 varieties, also the largest and smallest 

 fruited ones, are to be discarded. Bi 

 sexual or perfect flowered sorts are to 

 be preferred to the pistillate ones, al- 

 though The President is a pistillate va- 

 riety and quite good. Brandy wine is 

 hard to beat, IT, G. 



