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ThcWcckly Florists' Review* d.cemb.b 1. 1910. 



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



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



64 Years 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



800 Acres 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



▲MIUCAH ASSOCIATION OP NDBSEBTHEN. 



Offloen for 1910-11: Pres.. W. P. Stark, Loulsi- 

 KiiA, Mo.; Vlce-prea., E. 8. Welch, Shenandoah, 

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

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

 nual meeting. St. Louis, Tune, 1911. 



A RECENTLY published bulletin of the 

 Nebraska State Horticultural Society is 

 entitled, "Experiments With Phloxes," 

 and is by the society's president, C. S. 

 Harrison, of York. 



Nurserymen of the northwest predict 

 that the big crop of apples in the states 

 that ship in bushel boxes will not affect 

 the market prices for the fruit and that 

 the call for trees will go right on 

 increasing. 



Harvey C. Stiles, formerly of Eay- 

 mondville, Tex., but now located in the 

 State of Coahuila, Mexico, has been, en- 

 gaged by the Texas State Department of 

 Agriculture to inspect the nursery stock 

 of the Mexican nurserymen and florists 

 who desire to do business in Texas. 



A FEW years ago it was commonly said 

 that the time was not far distant when 

 nursery men would be burning their 

 peach trees through failure to find any 

 other disposition for them. To judge 

 by what is happening to prices this sea- 

 son, that day is indefinitely postponed. 



When a man gets rich quick it is 

 not to be expected that he can wait for 

 his trees to grow. Hence the unusually 

 large number of orders the big tree mov- 

 ers have on their books for the coming 

 winter. With a frozen ball hundred- 

 dollar specimens now are moved with as 

 much certainty of success as a seedling 

 is transplanted. 



Not long ago Wm. A. Peterson was 

 awarded $96,000 as damages against the 

 Chicago Sanitary Commission, which has 

 bisected Peterson Nursery with a drain- 

 age canal, but he has now contributed 

 $4,000 to a neighborhood fund for a 

 bridge across the big ditch. Mr. Peter- 

 son says the canal has improved the tilth 

 of his 500 acres. 



Nursery stock in France, Belgium, 

 Holland and England will be scarce this 

 season and higher in price for some years 

 to come, close observers figure. The 

 trouble is that the cost of land and labor 

 is increasing in those countries just as in 

 America. Other pursuits have presented 

 better opportunities for profit and the 

 production of the items largely exported 

 has not in general kept pace with the in- 

 crease in demand. 



BLUEBEBSY CULTUBE. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has found by experiment how blue- 

 berries differ from ordinary plants in 

 their methods of nutrition and in their 

 soil requirements, and by means of this 

 knowledge it has worked out a system 

 of pit culture under which these plants 

 attain a development beyond all pre- 



A BLUE ROSE 



The Greatest 



Rose Novelty 



of the Century 



It flowered with us this sea- 

 son and was greatly admired. 



ELLWANGER A BARRY 



Mount Hope Nurseries ROCHESTER, N. T. 



The New Bambler (Violet Blae), hailed 

 by the Qerman rose growers ai the 

 foremnner of a genninely cornflower 

 bine rose, is a seedling of Crimson 

 Bambler, very vigorous and hardy, and 

 free blooming. 



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DELPHINIUM FORMOSUM 



HARDY LILIES 



Tenulfolium, Wallacei, Hanson! , Henryi.etc. 



Iris Kaempferl, Daphne Cneorum and 



Syrlnga Japonlca 



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E. S. MILLER, Wading River, N. Y. 



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APPLE ^£ PEACH TREES 



Large stock. Prices reasonable. 

 Standard VarletleB. Fall OataloKue. 



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



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vious expectations. The failure here- 

 tofore of attempts to cultivate blue- 

 berries commercially as a market fruit, 

 appears to be due to a misunderstanding 

 of the soil requirements of the plants, 

 which, as these experiments show, are 

 radically different from those of our 

 common cultivated plants. 



The market would gladly pay a higher 

 price for cultivated blueberries of su- 

 perior quality. A marked distinction 

 should be made in market quotations be- 

 tween the large, plump blueberry (genus 

 vaccinium), the seeds of which are so 

 small as to be almost unnoticed when 

 they are being eaten, and the huckle- 

 berry (genus gaylussacia), in which the 

 seed is surrounded by a bony covering 

 like a minute peach pit, which crackles 

 between the teeth. The failure to make 

 this distinction in nomenclature, and 

 the unsightly condition in which care- 

 less handling often presents the berries 

 to the buyer, are the cause of much of 

 the failure in southern markets to ap- 

 preciate the blueberry at its real value. 

 As the blueberry withstands the rough 

 treatment incident to shipment so much 

 better than most other berries, with 

 proper handling it should always reach 

 the market in first-class condition, 

 whether shipped from North Carolina 

 to Boston in early June, or Nova Scotia 

 to Washington in late September, mak- 

 ing the blueberry season cover a period 

 of nearly four months. 



To those desiring to experiment with 

 field culture of the swamp blueberry, 

 whether with wild plants, seedlings, or 

 plants grown from cuttings, two 

 methods of treatment are suggested, 

 both deduced from the experiments 



The United States Nursery Ca 



Rosea^res, Coahoma Co., MISS. 



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$20.00 

 per lOO 



ROSES 



All leading varieties. Field-grown, well 

 branched, 2-year-old, extra quality. De- 

 livered in spring. Order nov7. 



Davis Nursery & Seed Co. 



UTICA, NEW YORK 



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PEONIES 



Now is the time to figure with us on PeoiiiM 

 for fall delivery. We have one of the finest stock! 

 anywhere in the country and should be very glad 

 to figure with you on your list of wants. 



PETERSON NURSERY, 



stock Exchange Bulldlne, CHICAGO 



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PEONIES 



To reduce stock we offer 20 good named varieties, 

 good roots, carefully labeled, our selection, packed. 

 $6.00 per 100, $40.00 per 1000. This assortment will 

 please. Cash with order. 



L Y TEAS & SON, Centerville, Ind. 



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LARGE TREES 



OAKS AMD MAPLES, PINIS 

 AND HEMLOCKS 



ANDORRA NURSERIES 



Wm. Warner Harper. Prop. 

 Ch««tnot Hill. Philadelphia, Pa. 



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