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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Sei'tember 8, 1910. 



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



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



64 Years GENEVA, N. Y. 800 Acres 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



AHniCAK ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTHEN. 



Officers for 1910-11: Pres., W. P. Stark. Louisi- 

 ana, Mo.; Vice-pres., E. 8. Welch, Shenandoah, 

 la.; Sec'y, John Hall, Rochester, N. V.; Treas., 

 C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. Thirty-sixth an- 

 nual meeting. St. Louis. June 1911. 



The nursery of Augustine & Co., 

 Bloomington, III., was established in 1867. 

 The Sudduth pear is its specialty. 



The death of Edward Morrison, a 

 nurseryman of Dansville, N. Y., is re- 

 ported in this week's obituary column. 



The Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Co., 

 Glen Saint Mary, Fla., publishes a cata- 

 logue in Spanish for its trade in Central 

 and South America. 



The residence of Jas. M. Wickizer, the 

 nurseryman of Plymouth, Ind., was re- 

 cently destroyed by fire. About two 

 years ago his former home, with its con- 

 tents, was burned to the ground, while 

 the family was away. 



Pkof. E. S. Mackintosh, formerly pro- 

 fessor of horticulture in Alabama, has 

 accepted a position in the horticultural 

 department of the Pennsylvania State Col- 

 lege. His special work will be an investi- 

 gation of the peach industry of that 

 state. The horticultural work in Penn- 

 sylvania is developing rapidly. At the 

 present time there are ten professors and 

 assistants in the department. 



A STATE charter has been granted to 

 the Muskogee Wholesale Nursery Co., 

 of Muskogee, Okla., the organization 

 now conducting the business which 

 was formerly known as the Hyde Park 

 Nursery, but which was disposed of at 

 receiver's sale last July. The new com- 

 pany is capitalized at $25,000, and its 

 officers are as follows: President, E. H. 

 Fleming; vice president, H. P. Schowal- 

 ter; secretary, C. H. Holland; treasurer, 

 L. E. Bennett. The company has under 

 lease sixty acres of land near Hyde Park. 

 C. L. Stoner, founder of the Hyde Park 

 Nursery, and identified with the nursery 

 business for thirty years, is associated 

 with the present .company. 



CEMENT FOE TUBES. 



Can you tell me how to prepare 

 cement for trees? C. A. D. 



I have generally used equal parts of 

 sand and Portland cement, but you can, 

 if you so desire, use rather more sand 

 than cement. Equal parts of each will, 

 however, prove the more satisfactory. 

 Any holes or cracks to be filled should 

 first have a thorough scraping out, to 

 remove any decaying matter. In larger 

 holes a quantity of stones can be used. 

 If at the base of the trees, I would first 

 clear away all dead and decaying wood, 

 then give the cleansed part a coating 

 of '•oal tar, after which you can pack 

 the stones in, cementing among them as 

 you build, and finishing off the front 



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 Qerman rose growers as the 

 forerunner of a genuinely cornflower 

 bine rose, ia a seedling of Crimson 

 Rambler, very vigorous and hardy, and 

 free blooming. 



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ELLWANGER & BARRY 



Mount Hope Nuraeriea ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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last. When dry, give the whole a dress- 

 ing of coal tar. 



It is important to thoroughly clean 

 out the dead and decaying wood, and 

 if any cracks show in the cement at 

 any time, rub well with tar to keep out 

 the water. C. 



SEFOBM! BEFOBM. 



A card with the above heading has 

 been mailed to all members by the 

 secretary of the American Association 

 of Nurserymen. The text of the card 

 is in part the resolutions of the asso- 

 ciation published last June in The Re- 

 view and is as follows: 



"At the thirty-fifth annual meeting 

 of this association, held in Denver, 

 Colo., June 8 to 10, 1910, J. H. Dayton, 

 Painesville, O., reported for a commit- 

 tee appointed at the 1909 meeting to 

 consider suggestions contained in a pa- 

 per read by Mr. Dayton. This commit- 

 tee, composed of Messrs. Dayton, Irving 

 Rouse and Wm. Pitkin, recommended 

 as follows: 



That our lowest prices of trade lists should be 

 mailed only to nurserymen or dealers with estab- 

 lished headquarters, who are known to be 

 actively engaged in the trade. 



That some effort should be made to have our 

 price lists and quotations to orchardists and 

 retail buyers nearer a uniform basis for same 

 grades and varieties of stock. 



That as the practice of cutting prices as the 

 season advances is one of the great demoralizers 

 of both the wholesale and retail trade, estab- 

 lished rates should be adhered to throughout 

 the season. 



That parks, cemeteries, and other public insti- 

 tutions are not in the trade and are not entitled 

 to trade rates. 



That stock shipped on orders of landscape 

 architects and Invoiced direct to their customers 

 should be billed at same retail rates as if the 

 order came direct from the planter. 



"The report was unanimously 

 adopted. 



"Chairman Hill said: These recom- 

 mendations are not simply so much hot 

 air. I regard every one of them as 

 very important, and the observance of 

 them will mean money in your pocket 

 in the end. Post them on your desk 

 as a reminder that you voted for their 

 adoption. 



"John Hall, Sec'y." 



NO APPLE STANDARDIZATION. 



The committee on agriculture in the 

 lower house of Congress has determined 

 to lay on the table the so-called Lafean 

 bill, providing for the standardization of 



The United States Nursery Co. 



Roseacres, Coahoma Co., MISS. 



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APPLE ^ PEACH TREES 



Large stock. Prices reasonable. 

 Standard Varlettes. Fall Catalogue. 



W. T. MITCHELL & SON., Beverly, Ohio 



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apples and of the packages, boxes or 

 barrels in which they are put up. The 

 bill has been discussed quite thoroughly 

 and has been vigorously urged at elab- 

 orate hearings for the committee. It 

 has been feared by the committee, how- 

 ever, that the effect of pushing it to a 

 passage, should that prove possible, would 

 be to embarrass the producers. Inas- 

 much as there is no misrepresentation 

 at the present time, but merely a lack 

 of uniformity, it is not deemed wise to 

 interfere, 



EFFECT OF OAS ON PEIVET. 



Would you kindly let me know what 

 effect gas would have on California 

 privet, when escaping from the pipes 

 about eighteen inches under the surface 

 of the ground and five feet away from 

 the roots of the hedge? J. R. L. 



Illuminating gas is extremely injuri- 

 our to all forms of plant life, and if 

 it is escaping as near your privet plants 

 as five feet away it cannot fail to 

 damage them seriously. Large quanti- 

 ties of these in our cities are annually 

 being slowly killed by escaping sewer 

 and illuminating gas. C. W. 



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