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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



OCTOBEI! U, 



»!H)«. 



NURSERY MEWS. 



AIBUCAII 18IWCIATI0N OF NUBSKBTMIN. 



Sffioeri for 1909-10: Pres., F H. Stannard, 

 ftawa. Kan.; Vice-Pre*.. W. P. Stark, Louifiiana, 

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

 Treai.. O.L. Yates. Rochester. N.Y. Thirty-flfth 

 annaal meetlns. Denver, June, 1910. 



There is a fine call for phloxes this 

 fall, but what the trade wants is the 

 best named varieties, not mixed sorts. 



The Bay State Nurseries, of North 

 Abington, Mass., have recently placed 

 several acres of additional area under 

 cultivation. Land that was formerly 

 swampy or waste has been transformed 

 into valuable nursery grounds. 



The will of the late Edward O, Gra- 

 ham, head of the Graham Nursery Co., 

 of Eochester, N. Y., was filed in probate 

 court September 30. The estate, said to 

 be valued at $10,000, is left to his wife. 

 There are three daughters, all minors, 

 none of whoin is mentioned in the will. 



J. H. Prost, city forester at Chicago, 

 is doing good work. In the few months 

 since the oflSce was created he has done 

 much to awaken public interest in trees, 

 issuing several bulletins written with 

 special reference to the conditions on city 

 streets. Pamphlet No. 4, just out, is en- 

 titled "Trees; What, When and How 

 to Plant," and gives full details with 

 pictures. 



The H. L. Frost & Bartlett Co., Stam- 

 ford, Conn., which recently was incorpo- 

 rated, states that its business is not that 

 of a general nursery, although that was 

 one of the items which were covered in the 

 incorporation papers. "We are princi- 

 pally incorporated for the carrying on of 

 landscape work and commercial entomol- 

 ogy; that is, for the care of trees. At 

 the present we have no nursery, and prob- 

 ably will not have one for several years, 

 and possibly not at all." 



John Watson, of the Jackson & Per- 

 kins Co., Newark, N. Y., thinks that Ar- 

 bor-vitse Rosedale, which has been de- 



DOROTHY PERKINS 



Several thoasand strong plants, 6 to 8 branches, 5 to 8 feet, fine for f©j«i 

 at $10.00 per 100; also a few hundred WM. G. EGAN, at $12.00 per 100. "^ 



Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas Company, West Chester, p^ 



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PEONIES 



1600 10-YEAR-OLD PLANTS 



Large, strons; clumps of white,, red and pink 

 varieties. Must be sold to raalie room. 

 Write for prices. 



Estate of David Fistier. Montva'e, Mass. 



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Peonies a Speciaity 



Write us for latest price list 

 PETERSON NURSERY, 



stock BzoliaiiKe BnlldlnK. CHICAGO. 



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' ' which were produced and put in com- 

 merce by my father, the late William 

 Watson, at Brenham, Tex., about twenty 

 years ago. I remember well the original 

 plants and know the parentage of 

 them. ' ' 



PICEA NIGRA PUMILA. 



Picea nigra pumila is an effective, low 

 growing evergreen. The one illustrated 

 measures twenty-seven feet in circum- 

 ference and is three feet in height. It 

 was planted twenty years ago on the 

 grounds of Arthur Whitin, Whitinsville, 

 Mass., where Thomas Howden is manager. 

 It was transplanted in August, 1903, as 

 it was getting too large for the space 

 allotted to it originally. 



Mr. Howden considers August an ex- 

 cellent month for moving evergreens and 

 has always had great success with plant- 

 ing done at that time, never having lost a 

 plant, although many moved have been 



Picea Nigra PamUa. 



scribed in the trade as a cross between 

 red cedar and golden arbor-vitse, is really 

 a cross between Biota orientaJis aurea 

 and Eetinospora squarrosa. ' ' It was one 

 out of a lot of many hybrids," he says. 



very large. In digging around them, 

 care is taken to lay wet sacks or bur- 

 lap over exposed roots until they are in 

 place. When planting, the poil is rammed 

 thoroughly and care taken to spread the 



Vlftesii Acres Devoted Bzclasi7«iy b 



PEONIES 



Our 16th Year Prices f^^ 



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GILBERT H. WILD, Saitoxie, Mo. 



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1000 Peonies 

 500 Japan Iris 



Must be sold to make room for 

 Greenhouse extension. 



J. MURRAY BASSEH, J^SSotSa. 



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PEONIIS, IRIS, PERENNMU 



Evergreens, Ornamental Trees iii 

 Shrubs, Rhubarb, Asparagus 



WILD BROS. NURSERY CO. 



Established 1875. SARCOXIE, MO. 



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roots out well. To enrich the soil, some 

 manure from a spent mushroom bed is 

 used. After planting they get a thor 

 ough soaking of water, followed by h 

 mulching of half decayed leaves. If dry 

 weather ensues, the trees are .sprayed 

 overhead three times a day until they 

 get a good start. W. N. C. 



BURR'S MANCHESTER NURSERIES 



C. R. Burr, Manchester, Conn., is put 

 ting up a concrete storage buildintj for 

 nursery stock. The construction "i the 

 building is going on under the ;=uper- 

 vision of an expert in this particul;r linCr 

 from Rochester. The house will 1 50x 

 100 feet and will stand fourteen feet 

 high. It will, of course, contain r side 

 windows, but will be covered with .i low 

 pitched roof containing skylights and 

 ventilators. The walls will be m:i''e of 

 solid concrete a foot thick. 



Mr. Burr has been in the nursery busi- 

 ness for ten years, starting first is a 

 sales agent. In the decade he ban '^U"' 

 up a large business and is now ope ting 

 three nurseries. The Oakland streei nur 

 sery covers about fifty acres of una. 

 The one in Buckland contains neai ^ 

 many acres, and there is another in ^^ur 

 ham of about forty acres. At the prsent 

 time he is employing about forty '^'S"- 

 and these are being kept busy prc[ '-i^ 

 stock for shipment. In one patch «■ ^"^ 

 Oakland street place he has 15,000 '.['V}^ 

 trees which must be shipped this fal!. " 

 has a bigger demand for apple than can 

 be filled. Recently he had 130,000 r'ach 

 trees budded. Besides fruit trees, M^- 

 Burr grows many varieties of ''^''rj^ 

 shrubs, roses and flowering plants, 

 has also under cultivation a large anKniTi 

 of ornamental stock, trees and shrub^ 



FORESTRY AT BILTMORE. 



In point of variety and scope t^® J' 

 est work done on the BUtmore estai"- 



