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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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NURSERY MEWS. 



AMKBIGAM ARHQCIAriON OF NUBHBBTHVN. 



OfilcerB for 1909-10: Pres.. F U. Utannard, 

 Ottawa. Kan : Vice-Pref.. W. P. Stark. Louibiana, 

 Mo.; Sec'y.. <4eo. C. SeaRer. KocbeBter. N Y.: 

 rrea8..0L Yates. Rochester. N.Y. Tbirty-fllth 

 annaal meetioK, Denver. June. 1910. 



Thm Wadley Nurseries have been in- 

 corporated at Bound Brook, N. J,, with a 

 capital of $20,000. The incorporators 

 are 'William J. Eeid, E. Elinger and 

 others^ 



C. (J. Harrison, of York, Neb., al- 

 ready known as the author of treatises 

 on the phlox, the peony, etc., has now 

 prepared * ' The Iris Manual. ' ' The pub- 

 lisheiB are C. S. Harrison & S. H. King. 



ROTTING OF PLUMS. 



"We fcave a plum tree on which the fruit 

 all dry-rots just before it is ripe. The 

 tree is loaded with blossoms in the spring 

 and the fruit hangs on until almost ripe. 

 Then it dry-rots and drops off. There is 

 a spot OB the fruit as if it were stung 

 by aa insect, but there are never any 

 insect* seen on the tree. It is an old- 

 time blue plum, but no one seems to 

 know the name of it. Can you give us 

 a reiaedy for the trouble? 



H. O. B. 



The Totting spoken of is due to a 

 fungoB and is quite common. Some 

 varietioB are more susceptible to its at- 

 tacks than others. Old varieties, like 

 Lombard, Moore 's Arctic and Bradshaw, 

 seem to be affected the most. 



The 9est remedy is spraying the trees 

 with Bordeaux mixture just before the 

 flowers open, again after they have 

 fallen, asd later when the fruit is about 

 ODe-f*Brth grown. The Bordeaux mix- 

 ture Bkoald be somewhat weaker than if 

 used for pears or apples. It pays to thin 

 oat ike fruit where trees crop heavily, 

 as the rot spreads rapidly where the fruit 

 is crowded. 



The stinging referred to is no doubt 

 caused by the plum curculio. A remedy 

 for this is jarring the trees and laying 

 sheets below to catch the pests. If you 

 keep iK>nltry, let them run about your 

 treee and you will keep the last named 

 pes* iB ehock. W. N. C. 



THE CHAMPION PEACH. 



"^ A. Taylor says that among the 

 hardy peaches introduced during the last 

 twea^ years, perhaps none has more 

 steadily advanced in the estimation of 

 growers in the peach districts of the mid- 

 dle western states than the Champion. 

 This tariety was originated from seed 

 of Oldmixon Free (supposedly crossed 

 with Early York), by I. G. Hubbard, 

 Nokomis, 111., now of San Marcos, Tex., 

 in 1880. It was first budded for his own 

 planting about 1882, and was introduced 

 by him and the Dayton Star Nurseries 

 in 1890. While rather subject to fun- 

 gous injury of the fruit in wet seasons, its 

 blossom bnds, under ordinary conditions, 

 endure such low temperatures without 

 injury that it has become recognized as 

 poseesffing special merit for portions of 

 Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, 

 Iowa, Missouri, and other sections where 

 somewhat similar winter conditions pre- 

 vail. On the grounds of the originator 

 in IDinois it has borne a fair crop of 

 fruit after experiencing a winter tem- 

 peratore of 18 degrees bolow zero. 



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 sterling merit, which we will offer to our own trade 

 in 1910, and which would make splendid features 

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The Home of the Rose 



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Mt'ntiou L'he Kevtew wueu you wrivf 



In the early years of its dissemination 

 it was somewhat confused with an early, 

 semicling, serrate-glanded variety orig- 

 inated by Eugene Gibson, of New Rich- 

 mond, Mich., which was locally intro- 

 duced by him in western Michigan and 

 northern Ohio under the name Champion, 

 about 1887 or 1888. That variety was 

 subject to mildew of the foliage and its 

 fruit was of little value, but, having 

 been rather largely propagated and dis- 

 seminated, it caused much disappointment 

 among growers who fruited it, thus oper- 



Wanted! 



100 Amoelopaia Veitchii 



from 4-inr-h not*, must be finef t Krade; 

 alfeo 100 two-jear-old. fleld-nrown. 



8 10 to 300 California Privet 



four feet growth, mu»t be fine, busby 

 plants. 



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E. A. Butler A Son 



WbtletsIsS Retail Flirist.Niaprs Falls, N. Y. 



ating to the disadvantage of the Illinois 

 variety when it was introduced. 



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