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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mat 19. 191*. 



General Variety of Nursery Stock. Plorbts' Wants a Specialty. 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



64 Years 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



800 Acres 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



AHEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTHEN. 



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

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

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

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

 flfth annual meeting. Denver, June 8 to 10. 1910. 



fispoBTs are practically unanimous as 

 to the specially heavy call for apple and 

 feaeh this spring. 



Thi Hollanders cannot grow box- 

 woods nearly so fast as Americans con- 

 sume them; therefore the sharp rise in 

 prices, especially for the larger sizes. 



The C. S. Harrison Nursery Co. has 

 been incorporated in York, Neb. The 

 members of the company are C. S. Har- 

 risoB, H. S. King and Fred G. Yule. Mr. 

 Harrison is familiarly known as Father 

 Harrison. He has also been called the 

 Burbank of Nebraska and is well known 

 as a writer on horticultural subjects. 



The Sherman Nursery Co , of Charles 

 City, la., has had an unusually prosperous 

 season. The demand for stock, it is said, 

 has been far in excess of the supply on 

 hand, and many orders have necessarily 

 been rejected. "Within the last few 

 months 320 acres of land have been 

 added by purchase to the company's 

 holdings, and large tracts of the new 

 ground are being prepared for use. 



COMMERCE IN NURSERY STOCK. 



According to the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture the value of the nursery stock 

 imported in the last five years reaches 

 the quite respectable sum of $8,935,014. 

 The figures by years are as follows: 



1W9 $1,946,907 



1908 2,005,885 



1007 1,862,534 



1»0« 1,617,622 



1905 1,512,066 ' 



How poorly our exports compare is 

 shown by the total for the same period, 

 which reaches only $1,252,289. The fig- 

 ures by years are as f ollow.s : 



1909 1317,827 



1908 247,844 



1907 225,339 



1906 242,056 



1906 219,223 



IN THE SOUTHWEST. 



•onceming nurserv conditions through 

 eastern Texas, following an eighteen 

 months' drougnt during 1908-9, we start- 

 ed into the year under unfavorable con- 

 ditions: our stand of grafts and buds, 

 in the main, poor; cuttings and seeds of 

 every description probably twenty-five per 

 cent of an average for 1909. During the 

 late winter months rain fell sufficient to 

 germinate seeds and cuttings, and there 

 was a good season for plantings. Our 

 prospects for 1910 are satisfactory, while, 

 as before stated, we go into the year with 

 depleted stock. The cost of imported 

 stock being high the past season, we fig- 

 ure a reduction of fifty per cent on all 

 imported stocks for 1910, which, coupled 

 with the drought of 1909, means high 



A BLUE ROSE 



The Greatest 



Rose Novelty 



of the Century 



It flowered with us this sea- 

 son and was greatly admired. 



The New Rambler (Violet Bine), hailed 

 by the German rose growers as the 

 foremnner of a genninely cornflower 

 bine rose, is a seedling of Crimson 

 Rambler, very vigoroae and hardy, and 

 free blooming. 



Send for description and price 



ELLWANGER A BARRY 



Mount Hope Nurseries ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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priced trees', wholesale, and especially is 

 this true of the apple. High grade nur- 

 sery stock, especially in peach and apple, 

 is scarce over the entire southwest and 

 will command high prices during the sea- 

 son of 1910-11. J, R. Mayhevst. 



REAPPRAISEMENTS. 



The Board of General Appraisers has 



made the following reappraisements of 



interest to the trade: 



NUltSEKY STOCK.— From Jacs Smits & Co., 

 N'aarden, exported February 26 and April 1, 

 1910; entered at New York. File Nos. 54223 

 and 545t)2. Invoice Nos. 19742 and 12271. Find- 

 ings of Hay, G. A.: Blue spruces, 2-yearB, 

 6 to 8 Indies; entered at $8 per hundred. Rho- 

 dodendrons, H4 to 2 feet; entered at |12 per 

 hundred. Advanced by addition to packing 

 charges. Japan maples, 1-year, field grown; 

 entered at $10, advanced to $15 per hundred. 

 Rhododendrons, 2 to 3 feet; entered at $20, ad- 

 vanced to $28 per hundred. Further advanced 

 by addition to packing charges. 



THESPIRAEAa 



In the whole realm of deciduous flow- 

 ering shrubs no single genus gives so 

 long a succession of bloom as the spiraeas. 

 By planting a number of varieties, flow- 

 ers may be had from April until Octo- 

 ber; in fact, this year S. Thunbergii was 

 well open the last of March in a shel- 

 tered location, even in cold New Eng- 

 land, and it is quite common with tMs 

 same variety to find flowers on it in No- 

 vember, if we get a few days of average 

 Indian summer warmth. 



S. Thunbergii is a slender, graceful 

 grower. During severe winters it kills 

 back a good deal in exposed locations. 

 This year the plants all flowered beauti- 

 fully and were well open by the middle 

 of April. Branches of this spiraea, cut 

 and placed in water in a warm green- 

 house, will open out finely in February 

 and March in the same way as the for- 

 sythias and prunus. This spiraea should 

 be planted with tall, coarse growing 

 shrubs. It looks best in a bed or colony 

 by itself.' 



S. Beevesiana fl. pi. is a taU and grace- 

 ful grower. It has the advantage over 

 some other kinds of holding its foliage 

 well along into the fall. The leaves are 

 bright and btuiSh green in color, and the 

 double white flowers are produced in May 

 and June. 



S. opulifolia is a vigorous growing 

 spiraea and suitable for screening pur- 

 poses. It does not make a good single 



Xow is the time to figure with us on PEONIES 

 for fall delivery. We have one of the finest stocks 

 anywhere in the country and should be very glad 

 to figure with you on your list of wants. 



PETERSON NIRSERY, 



stock Xzobanae Bulldlnc CHICAGO. 



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50.000 Catalpa Speciosa 5^:In^l 



pyrpApppyQ Specimeni for August 



California Privet— 2-year 



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HIRAM T. JONES 



ItaiM CiMrty lUirsirin ELIZABETH, Jt. J 



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specimen and is better massed. The flat 

 heads of pure white flowers open in 

 southern New England early in June. 

 There is also a golden-leaved form of S. 

 opulifolia which is admired by some 

 growers. 



S. Van Houttei is undoubtedly the best 

 of all the spiraeas and is known to almost 

 everyone. It is a popular shrub for sup- 

 plying cut sprays for Memorial day in 

 many sections and the pruning back it 

 receives each year only seems to make 

 the plants take on new vigor. As a sin 

 gle specimen this is undoubtedly the best 

 of all spiraeas, the pendulous, graceful 

 branches being a veritable mass of sno^y 

 whiteness. We have heard objections to 

 the effect that the plants carry too much 

 flower in proportion to the small foliage, 

 and there is some truth in this, but for 

 an easily grown, ironclad spiraea people 

 are likely to plant S. Van Houttei more 

 than any other sort. 



S. arguta, of which there are several 

 forms, is in our estimation the most 

 beautiful of the dwarf early blooming 

 spiraeas. It was this season in full 

 flower in the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, 

 as early as April 20. The flowers are 

 pure white; the branches lack the grace- 

 ful charticter of S. Thunbergii, but the 

 flowers individually are larger and purer 

 and the plant appears to be much hardier 

 and in nearly every way more desirable 

 than S. Thunbergii. 



S. Bumalda Anthony Waterer caused 



