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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SkpteMbeu 1, 1910. 



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



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



64 Years GENEVA, N. Y. 800 Acres 



Mention The Kevii'W whi-n y<iu wnte. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERTHKN. 



Officers for I'JIO-U: Pn•^., w. P. stark l.ouiM- 

 ana, Mo.; Vice-pros.. K. .S. Welch, .Slifiian<li>ah. 

 la.; Secy, Joliii Hall, Ko<lic.-tcr, N. v.; Trcu';.. 

 C. L. Yate,s. Koclicstcr, N. V. Thirty-.sixtli an- 

 nual meeting, St. Loiii.-:, .Inn.. Hdl. 



Now for tlie digging and shipping of 

 peony roots. 



The deatli of AVm. B. Whittier, pro- 

 prietor of the Framingham Nursery, 

 Framingham, Mass., is recorded in this 

 week's obituary column. 



The growing season has not been all 

 that the majority of nurserymen could 

 ask, but in .some sections there has been 

 plenty of rain. 



Chas. J. Boyd, of the Brown Countv 

 Nursery Co., at Ainsworth, Neb., is build- 

 ing a Avarehouse, G4xG4 feet, two stories 

 high and solidly constructed of cement 

 blocks. 



The Hancook Nursery Co., of Angle- 

 ton, Tex., hassthe contract to plant fifty- 

 six acres of oranges and eight acres of 

 figs near that town, on land owned by 

 E. B. Keeling, of Dallas, Tex. 



Simpson & Sox.s, of Vinconnes. Tnd., 

 have received an order from Dr. George 

 Knapp, of that cit.v, for a shijjment of 

 several thousand trees, to be sent to Dr. 

 Knapp 's 700 acre ranch in Colorado. 



The Lilly Orchard Fruit Co. has been 

 incorporated at Blooniington, 111., with a 

 capital of .$30,000, for the purpose of 

 carrying on a general nursery business. 

 The incorporators are C. M. Noble, L. 

 B. Mcrwin, C. J. Northrup, L. M. Gra- 

 ham and C. C. Marquis. 



Nurserymen will be interested in tlie 

 anntAinccment of a new corporation willi 

 a capital of .$].''), OOO that was recently 

 organized nt Ontonagon, Midi., to grow 

 nursery stock. Tli" oflinrs ;irc: Fresi- 

 deut :iiid manager, <liarl('s F. Nelimer; 

 \ ice -president. Daniel .Xeliiner; .secretary 

 and treasiiici'. Ili'iirv D. XcluniT. 



A BLUE ROSE 



The Greatest 



Rose Novelty 



of the Century 



It flowered with us this sea- 



The New Rambler (Violet Blue), hailed 

 by the German rose growere as the 

 forerunner of a genuinely cornflower 

 blue rose, ie a seedling of Crimson 

 Rambler, very vigorous and hardy, and 

 free blooming. 



Send for description and price 



son and was greatly admired. 



ELLWANGER & BARRY 



Mount Hope Nurseries ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



-M. <'. Sii,\i:i; li;is ]iiuilias(>(l a honu' 

 and grounds in I'.rodhead, ^Vis., and is 

 establishing .a nursery Inisincss there. 



Tjie U. S. Department ot' Agriculture 

 is using this vear on the national forests 

 over ten tons of tree seed. Most of this 

 seed Ill's ;ilready been i)laiitc(i or sown. 



SOUTHERN NXTRSEEYTVIEN MEET. 



The Southern Nurserymen 's Associa- 

 tion held its twelfth annual convention 

 at Knoxville, T(>nn., August li4 to 2l). 

 with iin attendance of some half liuii 

 <lred mendiers. The sessions were held 

 at Morrill h;ill on the campus of the 

 Fnixcrsity _of Tennessee, where there 

 were excellent t'acilities for the meet 

 ing. It is char.aeteristie of this ass(j 

 ci;itio)i to have a long progr.'im of short 

 talks. l',y .assigning ;i topic to prac- 

 tically e\er\-otie ])resent ;i general jli- 

 tereh.'inye ol ide;is is ohliiiiied. 



During the <-oii\ cut inn a \isit of in- 

 spection was ]iaii| tu the I'etef niir 

 scry, where the jiliol 0^1:1 |i|i was made 

 for i-epro<liict ion for the acc()in|i;inving 

 ilhtst rat ion. 



EVILS OF THE REPLACE POLICY. 



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harii].-, ■[<\.. |...|,.i-r iIji' a n.-:in .\s>..ci;ii j,,|i 



.•f .\iirsei-y rmri :it tln' Heiivei- c-hum m i,,],^ ,.,,,|. 

 tiliiii'il fi'iitri 'the i;c\ie\\- i.r Aii'ju-i Is I 



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The United States Nursery Ca 



Roseacres, Coahoma Co., MISS. 



up the question of policy in replacing 

 ."^tock at less than full price, and its 

 effect nn the eiistonier. the salesman, 

 and also on deferred payments, Mr.' 

 -Mavhew eontinued: 



Mental Effect on the Nurseryman. 



I'inally, brethren, what influence has 

 the jiolicy on our own minds? Do we 

 not know, of a truth, that the cost per 

 tree is ;is much on replace orders, for 

 winch we get one half price or nothing, 

 :is on that class of or.lers for which -we 

 -et full j.iiee.' 1),, we not realize that 

 leijuisition f„r replace tr(>es and plants, 

 in a large majority of instances, comes 

 Irom a jialronage we could wisely re- 

 liise to ,|e:il with? Uuvo vou ever fi^- 



Southern Nurservmen's Association at Peter's Nursery, Knoxville, Tenn., August 25 1910 



