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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 20, 1913. 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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H. H, LiNviLLE, of Highland, Cal., is 

 clearing two acres additional leased 

 land for from 60,000 to 70,000 citrus 

 trees. 



L. C. EiCE & Son, nurserymen of 

 Tropico, Cal., recently purchased eighty 

 acres of ground and are preparing it for 

 use. They expect to plant 500,000 olive 

 trees. 



The publicity idea has reached the 

 nursery trade: some of the growers of 

 fruit trees want to see a united effort by 

 all the parties at interest to increase the 

 consumption of fruit. 



C. D. Oldershaw, of Bakersfield, Cal., 

 has secured the contract for the supplying 

 of $600 worth of nursery stock to be 

 planted in the parkways constructed on 

 Truxtun avenue, in that city. 



W. J. Palmer, florist at Lancaster, 

 N. Y., is successfully prosecuting a claim 

 against the State of New York because 

 an inspector destroyed 2,260 azaleas when 

 he found an egg mass of the gipsy moth 

 in one plant. 



Geo. H. Whiting, the nurseryman of 

 Yankton, S. D., recently purchased the 

 stock of the Volin Nursery Co., owned 

 by T. J. Douthit, and took a force of men 

 to Volin with the intention of getting 

 the stock ready for removal and closing 

 out the nursery. 



GEAPTINO QUINCES. 



Will you kindly tell us how to graft 

 the quince? We have good success with 

 apples and pears, but failed with 

 quinces last year, M. S. 



Portions of apple roots are best to 

 use when grafting quinces, splicing 

 them closely to the scion. These roots 

 materially aid the scion in becoming es- 

 tablished. Some growers remove them 

 after two or three years, when the trees 

 are of suflScient size to be set out in the 

 orchard. Quince stock can be used when 

 budding is done. C. W. 



THE STANDING OF MEMBERS. 



In all the trade organizations except 

 the American Seed Trade Association 

 the only requirement for membership 

 is the payment of the fee — hand the 

 money to the secretary and be at once 

 admitted to the full privileges. In 

 none except the seedsmen 's organization 

 has there been any investigation of the 

 applicant's standing or a vote on his 

 admission, except, perhaps, some of the 

 trade's credit and collection associa- 

 tions. The New England Nurserymen's 

 Association purposes to add to the value 

 of membership by passing on the qual- 

 ifications of those who would enter. At 

 the recent first annual convention at 

 Worcester the following was adopted 

 after much discussion and reconsidera- 

 tion : 



"The members of this association 

 shall be persons residing in, and en- 

 gaged in the growing or selling of 

 nursery stock in New England, and shall 



be approved by the . executive com- 

 mittee." 



A membership committee was ap- 

 pointed, one for each state, to present 

 names for the consideration of the ex- 

 ecutive committee, as follows: Chair- 

 man, Geo. C. Thurlow; Connecticut, C. 

 E. Burr, Manchester; Maine, Herbert 

 Jackson, Portland; New Hampshire, A. 

 P. Home, Manchester; Vermont, F. H. 

 Horsford, Charlotte; Ehode Island, D. 

 A. Clarke, Fiskeville; Massachusetts, 

 Charles E. Fish, Worcester. 



THE STABK FAMILY TBOUBLES. 



The announcement that W. P. Stark 

 had asked for a receiver for the Stark 

 Bros. Nurseries and Orchards Co., as a 

 reporter put it, came * ' like a thunder- 



bolt from a clear sky, ' ' to the people of 

 Louisiana, Mo. In regard to the suit, 

 E. W. Stark, president of the company, 

 says: 



"It is not true that exorbitant sal- 

 aries are being paid. As a matter of 

 fact, the three leading officials of the 

 company are being paid just one-half of 

 the salaries drawn by W. P. Stark, ex- 

 treasurer, his son and son-in-law in past 

 years. 



"In 1911 W. P. Stark made demands 

 for salaries that the company refused to 

 pay, and his resignation was filed vol- 

 untarily. After two months' absence 

 he returned and resumed his old rela- 

 tions at the invitation of the directors. 

 The day he returned and was reelected 

 treasurer he drew $1,000 back salary for 

 the two months he was absent, leaving 



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