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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 5, 1909. 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



AUBICAN A8R0CI1TI0N OF NUB8EBY1IEN. 



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

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

 Mo.; Sec'y., Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; 

 Treas., 0. L. Tates, Rochester, N. Y. 



J. H. Dayton and T. B. Meehan are 

 on a trip to the Pacific northwest. 



Nurserymen will be interested in a 

 portrait and sketch of John Charlton, on 

 page 9 of this issue. 



The completed tariff bill, in so far 

 as it specially affects trade interests, will 

 be found on page 40. 



W. M. SiMANTON, formerly a nursery- 

 man in Albany, N. Y., is now in Knox- 

 ville, Tenn., with the intention of enter- 

 ing into the nursery business there. 



INSECTS ON ASH LEAVES. 



I enclose some ash leaves which are 

 covered with some insect or disease and 

 which we are afraid will be injurious to 

 the trees. Will you kindly inform me 

 what it is, also the best remedy for it? 



K.L. 



The peculiar, warted-like appearance of 

 the under surface of the leaves is due 

 to an insect. The same trouble is com- 

 mon on some of the viburnums and is 

 found on other trees and shrubs. It is 

 not anything, however, of a serious na- 

 ture. You may have none of it at all 

 next year, but to make sure that your 

 trees are clean I would recommend spray- 

 ing them with a solution of arsenate of 

 lead as soon as the leaves are unfolded, 

 at the rate of four pounds to fifty gal- 

 lons of water. Use a fine spray nozzle 

 and wet the lower surface of the leaves 

 thoroughly. This poison will not injure 

 the foliage, is adhesive and will also 

 protect the leaves from the attacks of 

 any other pests, although leaf-eating in- 

 sects do not seem to be partial to ash 

 foliage. W. N. C. 



TREE AND SHRUB JOTTINGS. 



Watering Recently Planted Stock* 



The summer has been deficient in mois- 

 ture over a considerable portion of the 

 country, more particularly along the At- 

 lantic seaboard, and while there were 

 abundant rains during the planting sea- 

 son, many trees and shrubs are now suf- 

 fering severely from drought. In the 

 case of deciduous shrubs, if these were 

 well pruned back at planting time, they 

 will now have made good growths, which 

 will be getting fairly well ripened, and 

 dry root conditions now are less serious 

 than would have been the case in June. 

 When, however, leaves are wilting and 

 even browning, it is poor policy to aUow 

 them to suffer from lack of water, as it 

 simply means a reduced floral display 

 next season and the weakening of the 

 shrubs to such an extent as to make them 

 more liable to winter-kill. 



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LARGE TREES 



OAKS AND MAPLES. PINES 

 AND HEBIIjOGKS 



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When watering, never play the hose on 

 the surface. It only bakes the soil and 

 rarely soaks the roots. Use a draw hoe 

 and draw away the earth from the stems 

 so as to form a large saucer. FilJ this 

 up with water once or twice. After it 

 soaks away, push back the dry soil and 

 the plants will show almost immediate 

 benefit. 



Transplanting Evergreens. 



Next to April and May, the middle to 

 the end of August is the best time to 

 transplant evergreens. It is unwise to 

 attempt it if the soil is dry, but after a 

 generous rainfall and particularly dur- 

 ing cloudy days, with a light rain falling 

 at intervals, most evergreens will move 

 with perfect safety. The percentage of 

 loss, so far as my experience goes, is 

 no greatei; in August than in May, if 

 due care is used in the work of removal. 

 It is not a safe time of the year to have 

 evergreens lifted, balled and shipped any 

 considerable distance from nurseries, but 

 where they can be lifted and planted the 

 same day, well soaked with water, the 

 soil thoroughly firmed about them and a 

 mulch of strawy manure or partially de- 

 composed leaves spread over the surface, 

 few plants will fail to grow. 



It is sometimes argued that August 

 planting is inadvisable in the coldest 

 states, as the trees or shrubs do not make 

 sufficient root-hold before winter, and 

 that the consequent mortality is greater. 

 The reason so many evergreens die in 

 winter is not because they have been re- 

 cently removed, but because the roots are 

 too dry. This is just as true of estab- 

 lished as recently moved stock. 



Even in the most severe winter the 

 scorching of the foliage of evergreens 

 and the heavy spring death roll can usu- 

 ally be traced to aridity of the soil. It 

 pays to soak evergreens before freezing- 

 up weather if the late fall is unusually 

 dry, and if a good mulch were always 

 kept on broad leaved evergreens, such as 



Grafted Roses 



strong, thiifty plants, in 3^-in. pots. 



Bride, Brldesmeld, Kalaerln, Rloluuond, 

 Cbstenay 



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Rhea Reld and lira. Jardlne 



120.00 per 100. 



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Viburnum Pllcatum 



Spiraea Prunifolia, Deutsia Le- 

 moinei, Berberis Thunberg^ii, Al- 

 theas and other shrubB. Send for list. 



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rhododendrons, kalmias, andromedas, etc., 

 we would hear much less of winter kill- 

 ing. All the last named evergreen flow- 

 ering shrubs can be transplanted in Au- 

 gust. I have had just as good success 

 with this work then as in spring, always 

 provided the planting is done with care, 

 water furnished the roots and a mulch 

 added. 



Pavia Macrostachya. 



The dwarf horse chestnut, as Pavia 

 macrostachya is popularly named, is one 

 of the finest of shrubs in late July. It 

 comes in season when there is little in 

 flower in the shrubbery, outside of a few 

 rose species and Hydrangea arborescens 

 and paniculata. A long belt of this in 

 the Boston parkway system made a fine 

 showing recently, being at its best 

 July 22. 



This pavia is often included under 

 sesculus, with other chestnuts. The 

 genus is named in honor of Peter Paiv, 

 a Dutch botanist at Leyden in the seven- 

 teenth century. The flowers, which are 

 white, are carried on long, erect racemes. 

 Planted in large clumps on the lawn or 

 near the edges of woodland, this pavia 

 is handsome. It attains a height of ten 

 to twelve feet, but grows rather slowly 

 for a year or two after planting. There 

 are red and rose colored forms, but they 



