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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AcGuas 10, 1911. 



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New Hydrangea Avalanche 



We offer for the first time plants of this new Hydrangea, which is a decided acqui* 

 Sition* Flower trusses larger than Otaksa and pure white (not green), held on strong 

 stems. Every florist should have it. 



Price, 25^-inch pots, each, 50c; per dozen, $3.50; per 100, $25.00. 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY, Geneva, N. Y. 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



AMSBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUB8EBTMEN. 



Officers for 1911-12: Pres.. J. H. Dayton, Palnee- 

 rlUe, O.; Vlce-pres., W. H. Wyman, North Ablngrton, 

 Mass.; Sec'y. John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; Treas., 

 C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. Thirty-seventh annual 

 meeting, Boston, June, 1912. 



The importations of plants, trees, etc., 

 in May, 1911, were valued at $122,942, 

 against $84,540 in May, 1910. 



Wm. a. Peterson, at the recent Sail 

 Francisco convention of the International 

 Sunday School Association, was elected 

 treasurer for a term of three years. 

 Mr. Peterson is proprietor of the Peter- 

 son Nursery, Chicago. 



SOUTHEBNEBS WELL MEET. 



The thirteenth annual session of the 

 Southern Nurserymen 's Association, em- 

 bracing the states south of the Mason 

 and Dixon line, will be held at Greens- 

 boro, N. C, Wednesday, Thursday and 

 Friday, August 23, 24 and 25. The open- 

 ing session invocation will be made by 

 Eev. E. K. McLarty, and addresses of 

 welcome will be delivered by Mayor 

 T. J. Murphy and President E. C. Hood 

 of the Chamber of Commerce. 



The association was organized thir- 

 teen years ago in Chattanooga, Tenn., 

 by a few energetic nurserymen and 

 since that time has held sessions an- 

 nually. It has met in several different 

 places. Two of the most prominent 

 members of the association are J. Van 

 Lindley, president of the Van Lindley 

 nurseries at Pomona, a suburb of 

 Greensboro, and John A. Young, pro- 

 prietor of the Greensboro nurseries. 

 Both have held the office of president 

 of the association. The present officers 

 are: W. A. Easterly, of Cleveland, 

 Tenn., president; Aubrey Fink, of "Win- 

 chester, Tenn., vice-president; A. L. 

 Smith, of Knoxville, secretary-treas- 

 urer. 



NUBSERYMAN AND ENTOMOLO- 

 GIST. 



[A paper by S. J. Hnnter, state entomologist. 

 University of Kansas, read at the convention of 

 the American Association of Nurserymen in St. 

 Loals, June 14 to 16, 1011.] 



In the fall of 1896 the Kansas nur- 

 serymen asked the entomologist of the 

 University of Kansas to assume re- 

 sponsibility for the inspection of Kan- 

 sas nurseries. For eleven years without 

 legal requirement these nurserymen, of 

 their own volition, asked for inspection 

 annually. And then they caused the 

 enactment of our present law. So what 

 I have to say might be classed under 

 "Fifteen Years Among Nurserymen." 



LARGE TREES 



OAKS AND MAPLES, PINKS 

 AND HEMLOCKS 



ANDORRA NURSERIES 



Wm. Warner Harper. Prop. 

 CH— tnot Hill, Phlladeltfila, Pa. 



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HARDY CHOICl^ 



ORNAMENTALS 



Ask for prices. 



Hiram T. Jones 



Daion County Nurseries, Bizabeth, N. J. 



The nurseryman and his business are 

 not always clearly understood. The in- 

 dividuals who travel about the country 

 buying stock where they may and sell- 

 ing where they can, regardless of con- 

 sequences, are not nurserymen. A 

 nurseryman in the proper sense of the 

 term is a biologist, a student of that 

 invisible stream of life which courses 

 through twig and leaf. To be success- 

 ful, therefore, he must have a high 

 and proper conception of his vocation 

 and its responsibilities. 



The Modem Nurseryman. 



In my annual visits among our Kan- 

 sas nurserymen I have been not only 

 interested but deeply impressed with 

 the spirit of experimentation mani- 

 fested in the earnest desire to improve 

 present varieties and to develop new 

 ones. As a result the nurseryman is 

 now a competent authority on varieties 

 adapted to given regions and the cul- 

 ture such require. In my own state, 

 the first planted orchards were in the 

 main non-productive. Their planters 

 had no opportunity to profit by the 

 experiences of the present-day nursery- 

 man. 



It was my good fortune once to be a 

 country school teacher and janitor ex- 

 officio. There is the place to deal with 

 the country life problems. If the 

 teacher places proper emphasis on the 

 marvelous possibilities of the farmer 

 and fruit grower, rather than idealiz- 

 ing those vocations which have their 

 centers in cities, then our young peo- 

 ple will look more toward rural life for 

 the realization of their ambitions. 



What Is an Entomolog^ist? 



And now it may properly be asked, 

 what is an entomologist? The public 

 frequently associates him with the but- 

 terfly net. In reality he has little or 

 nothing to do with the capture of in- 

 sects, but his time and energy are 

 largely devoted to those fundamental 



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ROSES 



A SPECIALTT 



TheDingee&ConardCo. 



West 



Grove, 



Pa. 



pn|T|i< APPLEand P£ACH. Large stock, 

 ■^*^*-'* * Fine Trees, commercial varieties. 



TREES 



Prices 

 Reasonable 



Fine Trees, commercial varieties. 



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questions which deal with the relation 

 of plants and insects and the develop- 

 ment of both. He, too, is a student 

 of biology and, as such, should be fel- 

 low investigator in a common interest 

 with the nurseryman. 



The nurseryman and the entomologist 

 are now likewise associated through 

 legal enactment, and it is this phase of 

 the subject that doubtless concerns this 

 association most. In this relation it 

 goes without saying that both should 

 be men of integrity. The entomologist 

 should be a man of good sense and pos- 

 sessed of a reasonable amount of fair 

 judgment. He should be a man to 

 whom you will always want to tell 

 your troubles. If he is not, there is 

 something wrong either with him or 

 with you. He should keep you advised 

 at all times regarding the nature and 

 condition of your stock and treat your 

 business as strictly confidential. 



Manner and Purpose of Inspection. 



It has been my uniform experience 

 that nurserymen wagt rigid inspection 

 and that they have little patience or 

 respect for things that do not mean 

 what they say. The certificate of in- 

 spection is not a commodity to facili- 

 tate business, but the outward expres- 

 sion of a standard which every true 

 nurseryman endeavors to maintain. If 

 this be not so, then it should be evi- 

 dent that each state in its own interest 



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