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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Decembeb 15, 1910. 



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



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



64 Years 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



800 Acres 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



AMHICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTBSN. 



Offloen for 1910.11: Pres.. W. P. Starli, Louisi- 

 ana, Mo.; Vice-pres., 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, June, 1911. 



This week's obituary column records 

 the death of A. Koster, of Boskoop, in" 

 whose nursery was discovered Picea 

 pungens glauca Kosteriana. 



The thirty-second biennial session of 

 the American Pomological Society will 

 be held at Tampa, Fla., February 10 and 

 11. John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y., is secre- 

 tary. 



Saddler Bros., the nurserymen of 

 Bloomington, 111., have prepared for an 

 extension of their business by purchasing 

 440 acres of land in Starke Co., Ind. 

 The new tract is said to be finely adapted 

 for the purpose. 



The "Western Association of Nursery- 

 men will hold its annual meeting at Kan- 

 sas City December 20 and 21. E. P. 

 Bernardin, of Parsons, Kan., is presi- 

 dent, and E. J. Holman, of Leavenworth, 

 Kan., secretary. 



Tvv^o nurserymen had places on the 

 program for the meeting of the Colorado 

 State Horticultural Society, at Rifle, De- 

 cember 12 and 13: M. E. Kilburn, presi- 

 dent of the Northern Colorado Nursery 

 Co., Loveland, read a paper on "Small 

 Fruits;" and James E. Hogg, nursery 

 superintendent for the Northern Nur- 

 series, Denver, discussed "Preparation 

 of the Soil and Choice of Stock in Plant- 

 ing a New Orchard." 



T. C. Thurlow's Sons, of West New- 

 bury, Mass., have recently bought an 

 additional farm of eighty-three acres, 

 thirty acres of which is available for 

 nursery and the rest will eventually be 

 planted to orchards, which they are tak- 

 ing up as a side line. Their total acre- 

 age is now about iJOO acres. Their sale 

 on peonies this year has been the largest, 



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 growera aa the 

 forertmner of a genninely cornflower 

 bine roae, ia a aeedling of Orimaon 

 Bambler, very yigoroua and hardy, and 

 free blooming. 



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ELLWANGER St BARRY 



Mount Hope Nurseries ROCHESTER, N. T. 



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DELPHINIUM FORMOSUM 



HARDY LILIES 



Tenulfolium, Wallacei, Hansoni, Henryl.etc. 



Iris Kaempferi, Daphne Cneorum and 

 Syrlnga Japonica 



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



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both wholesale and retail, for a number 

 of years. Other lines have also sold well, 

 the business having nearly doubled in the 

 last two years. 



JEWELIi'S PACKING HOUSE. 



The Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, 

 Mann., is the big industry in that 

 town. Founded in 1868, by Dr. P. A. 

 Jewell and J. M. Underwood, the lat- 

 ter, after more than forty years, is 

 president of the corporation formed in 

 1884 and active in the management of 

 the 1,500 acres of nursery. E. A. 

 Smith is vice-president, A. B. Under- 

 wood treasurer and E. D. Underwood 

 secretary. 



Almost an acre of cellars are used 

 for the storage of stock, and a large 

 packing house has just been completed. 

 Some of the facts in regard to its 

 capacity and construction will be of 

 interest. The ground floor is approxi- 

 mately 200x200 feet. It is forty feet 



The United States Nursery Ca 



Roseacres, Coahoma Co., MISS. 



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high. The roof, including lantern, meas- 

 ures 45,700 square feet and is covered 

 with asbestos. The foundation and 

 walls are of stone and cement blocks. 

 The blocks were made by nursery em- 

 ployees on their own grounds, the stone 

 being taken from their quarries. Over 

 three tons of nails were used to put up 

 the roof and 5,000 cement blocks were 

 used in the walls. Two hundred and 

 ten windows give ample light, with an 

 auxiliary electric equipment for night 

 work. The cost somewhat exceeded 

 $10,000. This building is one of the 

 latest built by the nursery trade and is 

 especially well arranged. It has stalls 



New Packing House of the Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, Minn. 



