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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Sefxbmber 9, 1909. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHBICIM ASSOCIATION OF NUBSSBTMSM. 



OffleerB for 1909-10: Pres.. P. H. Stannard, 

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

 Mo.; Sec'y., Geo. 0. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.: 

 Treas.. 0. L. Tates, Rochester, N. Y. Tbirty-fiftb 

 annual meeting, Denver, June, 1910. 



It is stated that the contract for plant- 

 ing the ground belonging to the Spring 

 Valley Water Co., in San Francisco and 

 district, has been given to the McEorie- 

 McLaren Co., of that city. Upwards of 

 5,000,000 trees will be required for this 

 work, which is expected to extend over a 

 number of years. 



Preparations for a second national 

 apple show, to be held in Spokane, Wash., 

 in December, are now being made. The 

 success of the 1908 exhibition has en- 

 couraged growers of the northwestern 

 fruit country, and it is planned, if pos- 

 sible, to make tlie api)le show an annual 

 event. At the 1908 exhibition there 

 were $35,000 in premiums awarded, and 

 more than 100,000 paid admissions to the 

 show. The best carload exhibit of apples 

 got a cash premium of $1,000 and was 

 sold to a firm in Liverpool. It was from 

 Wenatchee, Wash., and contained 630 

 boxes, or 50,000 apples. 



SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN MEET 



At the eleventh annual meeting of the 

 Southern Nurserymen 's Association, held 

 at Huntsviile, Ala., in August, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected : 



rrcsiilcut. R. C. Berckmaiis, AuRustn. Ga. 



Vice-president, W. A. Kusterly, Cleveland, 

 Toiin. 



Secretary-treasurer, A. L. Siiiltb, Knoxvllle. 

 Tenii. 



It was decided to meet next year at 

 Knoxville, Tenn. 



The sessions were held in Elk theater. 

 On the opening day the address of wel- 

 come was made by Congressman William 

 Richardson. The response was by Charles 

 T. Smith, of Concord, Ga. The program 

 was as follows : 



"Tlie Nurserymen's Part in Making this a 

 Better Country," Hon. N. W. Hale, of Knox- 

 vllle, Tenn.; "Nurserymen Pulling Together a 

 Little More," by J. H. Dayton, of Painesvllle, 

 0. ; this paper was read before the American 

 Association at Rochester in June. "The Vital 

 Importance of Spraying Orchards In the South." 

 K. L. Worsham, Atlanta, Ga.; "Stock liaising in 

 Connection with the Nursery Business," J. A. 

 Young, Greensboro, N. C; "Who la to Blame 

 for the Nurserymen's Troubles?" C. C. Mayhew, 

 of Sherman, Tex.; "The Importance of Educating 

 Our Agents on Varieties Best Adapted to the 

 Localities They are Working," Harry Nicholson, 

 Winchester, Tenn.; "Improved I'ecans," It. C. 

 Simpson, of Montlcello, Fla.; "The Satsuma 

 Orange," H. K. Miller, Montlcello, Fla.; "Our 

 Relation, One to Another," J. R. Mayhew, 

 Waxahachle, Tex.; "Civic Improvement in Re- 

 lation to the Nursery Business," O. J. Howard, 

 of Pomona, N. C. 



After dinner the opening day the 

 whole party left in carriages for the 

 Fraser Nursery, four miles north of the 

 city, and then back to the Alabama Di- 

 vision of the Chase Nursery, nearer the 

 city. 



At the conclusion of the business ses- 

 sions the nurserymen boarded a train for 

 Chase, where an old-fashioned barbecue 

 was given on the grounds of the Chase 

 Nursery Co. Spring mutton and spring 

 lamb were the principal offerings, and 

 the supply of both was bounteous. 



Discussions and reports showed that 

 there has been a notable decrease in the 

 prevalence of San Jose scale, which for 

 several years has been the bane of the 

 fruit nurserymen of this country. Scien- 

 tific spraying has done the work, and the 

 spraying is shown to be beneficial to the 

 young trees, so the fight against the scale 



. 



Important to Catalogue Men 



By reason of the recent purchase of the catalogue business and 

 entire plant stock of Heller Bros., New Castle, Ind., and owing 

 to our increased operations at West Grove, Pa., and Charlotte, 

 N. C, we have come into possession of a number of magnificent 

 new Roses and other new plants of sterling merit, which we 

 will offer to our own trade in 1910, and which would make 

 splendid features for anyone issuing a catalogue. We will fur- 

 nish fall particulars and favorable contract terms on applica- 

 tion to anyone interested. 



The Dingee & Conard Co. 



The Home of the Rose 



West Grove, Pa. 



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PEONIES 



Guaranteed true to name. In 

 four Bizee, strong diviBiona, three 

 to five eyes, and one, two and 

 three year plants. 



We also offer a superb line of Iris, Phlox and other Perennials 



Catalogue free 



S. G. HARRIS, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



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Peonies a Specialty 



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 PETERSON NURSERY, 



stock BxohanBe Bulldlns. CHICAGO. 



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has resulted in profit to the nurserymen. 

 Reports on peach yellows in the south 

 showed that this disease is not spread- 

 ing. In the general discussion the prac- 

 tice of mailing quotations on postal cards 

 was decried. 



NAMES OF CONIFERS. 



We are mailing you today, under sepa- 

 rate cover, several varieties of evergreens, 

 which we kindly ask you to name. 



L. S. C. 



-Juniperus Sinensis argenteo varie- 



2. — Eetinospora, uncertain as to va- 



-Juniperus Sinensis aurea. 

 -Taxus cuspidata. 

 -Abies Nordmanniana. 

 -Juniperus communis aurea. 

 -Retinospora squarrosa Veitchii. 



-A dense form of Retinospora fili- 



W. C. 



1 

 gata. 



2 



riety. 

 3.- 

 4.- 

 5.- 

 fi.- 



8.- 

 fera. 



THE BENNETT APPLE. 



The Yearbook of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has for a number 

 of years carried an article by W. A. 

 Taylor on "Promising New Fruits." 

 They are none the less interesting that 

 ' ' little known ' ' would be more accurately 

 descriptive than * ' new. ' ' In the Year- 

 book for 1909 there is a beautiful illus- 

 tration of the Bennett apple and the fol- 

 lowing comment: 



' ' This promising new member of the 

 well-known Winesap group of apples 

 originated as a seedling in an old fence 



1800 8-year-old 



Peony Plants 



Good varieties of white, pink 



and red, a bargain, for $150.00. 



Must have the ground. 



N. C. MOORE A CO. 



MORTON GROVE, ILL. 



Mftitiop The Review when vou \yrltft 



row on the premises of S. L. Bennett, 

 Medford, Ore., about 1883. Mr. Ben- 

 nett cut scions from the seedling about 

 1893, which he top-grafted into bearing 

 trees on his place. Fruit of it was ex- 

 hibited at the Charleston exposition in 

 1902, where it was awarded a gold medal, 

 and at the St. Louis exposition in 1904, 

 where it received a silver medal award. 

 It was first commercially propagated 

 about 1903 by J. S. Barnett, Central 

 Point, Ore., and was commercially intro- 

 duced by him. It has been considerably 

 planted in the Rogue river valley of 

 Oregon during the last five years, but so 

 far as known has not yet been fruited 

 outside of that section. /''^x 



' ' The fruit is roundish conical, often 

 unequal; size large to very large; cavity 

 regular, large, deep, russeted; stem short 

 to medium ; basin regular, of medium 

 size, furrowed and downy; calyx seg- 

 ments long, narrow, converging, slightly 

 reflexed at tips; eye medium, closed; sur- 

 face smooth, gently undulating; color 

 deep yellow, washed with mixed red and 

 brokenly striped with crimson ; dots 

 small, yellow, many indented; skin me- 

 dium thick, tenacious; core of medium 

 size, broad, conical, clasping, closed ; 

 seeds small, plump, brown, numerous; 



