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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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DCCBMBEB 9, 1909. 



New York State Grown Roses for Forcing 



GENERAL VARIETY Of NURSERY STOCK 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



63 Years GENEVA, N. Y. 7O0 Acre* 



NURSERf NEWS. 



AMBBICAir IKSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTMEN. 

 Officers for 1809-10: Pres., F. H. SUniuird, 

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

 ana, Mo.; Sec'y, John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; 

 Treas., O. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. Thlrty- 

 flfth annual meeting, Denver, June, 1810. 



PACKING NURSERY STOCK. 



Large European nursery centers, such 

 as Orleans, Boskoop, Naarden and Gand, 

 each has its own regular system of pack- 

 ing. A consignment of parcels from any 

 of these places will show its origin at a 

 glance to the experienced eye, and one 

 cannot do better, when the opportunity 

 arises, than to carefully unpack such par- 

 cels and examine them; they are often 

 worth copying. 



Many growers are little good at pack- 

 ing; on the other hand, some of them 

 pick it up quickly. It is a knack, nothing 

 else. There is a good deal of waste going 

 on in packing sheds, judging from what 

 one sees. * ' We have had parcels come in, 

 and been surprised at the yards of string 

 used," says a writer in the Horticultural 

 Advertiser, "or, on the other hand, the 

 scanty packing was insufficient to do any 

 good. Straw, of course, is largely used; 

 but it requires experience to make neat- 

 looking parcels with straw as packing. 

 The finished work has a much neater ap- 

 pearance if the straw is passed and 

 cleaned through a rake tied on a ladder. 

 A good handful is taken at a time. The 

 coarse straw can be used between the 

 stems and roots, or ordinary parcels can 

 be done entirely with this short stuff. 

 The long straw also comes in handy for 

 making bands around evergreens; long 

 lengths can be tied together for big trees. 

 The French are extremely skillful in mak- 

 ing use of straw. 



"Hay, be it ever so rough or coarse, 

 makes splendid packing material. It can- 

 not come up in finish to straw, but it 

 looks what it is, and certainly has not the 

 amateur look about it that a badly packed 

 straw parcel has. In one of the largest 

 nurseries near Paris, a kind of coarse, 

 flat grafs is used, having the appearance 

 of growing in marshy places. There was 

 a huge stack of it tied up in bundles, and 

 thousands of parcels were wrapped up in 

 it; in fact, straw was very rarely used 

 for this purpose. They were without 

 doubt excellent examples of packing, the 

 best I ever saw; they were not the work 

 of a few men alone, but all hands aided 

 in packing at night after dark, and 

 started again in the morning at 6 a. m. 

 for a few hours. The orders were all put 

 into bundles beforehand, by an experi- 

 enced hand, and all the men had to do 

 was to finish them off. 



"Boxes and crates are handy for all 

 kinds of seedlings, dwarf roses, etc., and 

 are largely used in Orleans for dispatch- 

 ing young nursery stock abroad. Eound 

 baskets are largely used for special or- 



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EVERGREENS 



Large stock, botb seedlings and transplants, of Spruce, Pines, Firs, 

 Cedars, Arbor- Vitsea, Hemlocks, Junipers, Yews. Millions of seed- 

 lings, also fine stock of specimens in larger sizes. 



FOREST TREE SEEDLINGS 



Immense stock of Catalpa Speciosa, Black Locnst, Maples, Oaks, 



Lindens, Beech, Chestnut, Ash, Walnut, Elm, Bbx Elder, Birch, 



European Larch. 



Advance Price List now ready. 



De HILL, Evergreen Specialist, Dundee, 111. 



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Grape Vines 



▲U old and new varieties. Large stock. 



Warranted true. Can furnish a special 



beavy two-year srrade with large roots 



andjrood tops for florists' retail trade. 



Write for catalogue and price list. 



T. S. HUBBARD CO., Fredonia, N. Y. 



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■year 



50,000 Catalpa Speciosa 'J^:Z7S^l 



CyCpOpCCIiQ Specimens for August 



California Privet ^2' 



Ask for prices. 



HIRAM T. JONES, 



OrinCMrtylwsflrin BUZABXTH. H. J. 



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Rhubarb Roots Wanted 



5000 rhubarb roots wanted at once for forcing. 

 Warren Shinn, Woodstown, N. J. 



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ders, but particularly for plants with 

 balls. In Gand, practically nothing else 

 but baskets is used, and it is really sur- 

 prising how many plants they manage to 

 pack inside one of these ; and no doubt it 

 is as much to their skillful packing as to 

 their high-class stuff, that Gand is such a 

 center of horticulture. 



"Mats are largely used here and in 

 Holland for packing around the root end 

 of bundles; they are, however, an ex- 

 pensive item. Now, in some nurseries in 

 France, no mats are used for any of the 

 parcels; big or small, the roots are cov- 

 ered in the same way as the rest of 

 the parcel, which does just as well; in 

 fact, is better and cheaper. Mats alone 

 without plenty of packing is little protec- 

 tion for the roots; in fact, you are 

 obliged to cover up the roots well to make 

 the mats fit on evenly. All the mats do 

 is to keep the packing in place. It will 

 pay to get the men to pack without mats. 

 All small plants can be packed torpedo- 

 shape fashion, saving much time and 

 labor. Only when the roots of big trees 

 have to be covered, must a butt end be 



Wholesale Trade List 



Anraoarla ezoelsa, fine plants, 3 tiers, 5-in. 

 pots, 60c each. 



Asparaarus Flumosus, 3-in. pots, fine 

 plants, $3.00 per 100. 



Aaparaanis Sprenarerl, 2i«-in. pots, 12.00 per 

 100. 



Cyoas Palms, fine shaped plants, 3-10 leaves, 

 10c per leaf. 



Clematis panloulata, 3-in. pots, 95.00 per 100. 



Clematis paniculata, strong plants from 

 open ground. SIO.OO per 100. 



Carnations, started In pots. Elbon, scarlet: 

 Bostou Market, white, 95.00 per 100. 



Daisies, yellow and white, from 2^-in. pots. 

 tS.OO per ICO. 



Ferns for dishes, asst. varieties, 2is-ln. pots, 

 18.00 per 100. 



Dracaena Indivisa, fine plants, 5-ln. pots, 

 16.00 per doz. 



Smllaz, from 3-in. pots, 94.00 per 100. 



rems, Boston and Scottil, 4>s-in. pots, 92.00 

 par doi. 



Oaah with order, please. 



• ClJCLCy Sts.. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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made; but even then, by overlapping the 

 roots it can be made less bulky at the end. 



"When I was in Naarden, the willows 

 were twisted around and a loop formed 

 on the end, but I have since learned a 

 far better way. The thick end of the 

 willow is held with the left hand, the 

 other end looped on and twisted around a 

 few turns. The advantages are quicker 

 work, the saving of a nice thin end of 

 the willow, which comes in for all kinds 

 of tying, and much stronger work. There 

 is no getting away from this, no matter 

 what your men may tell you, and they 

 only talk because they can 't do it in any 

 other than their own way. Using willows 

 for packing is not learned in a day, and 

 without skill in this a packer cannot earn 

 his salt, so to speak. 



" I noticed a query about packing with 

 machines. They are handy for large 

 quantities of forest plants, stuff which 

 is not hurt by being pressed tightly to- 

 gether, where thousands have to be han- 

 dled, but for ordinary nursery stock they 

 would be little good." 



