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The Florists^ Review 



April 3, 1918. 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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Wm. a. Peterson was one of the lec- 

 turers at the Chicago spring flower show 

 this week. His subject was "How to 

 Care for Trees." 



Although the autumn planting season 

 is steadily increasing in importance, there 

 still is plenty of business for all the 

 days of the spring. 



Oscar F. Marvin, of Holton, Mich., 

 addressed a recent meeting of the Mus- 

 kegon County Horticultural Society on 

 the best methods of spraying fruit trees. 



P. A. Drx, of the Davis County Nurs- 

 eries, at Boy, Utah, read an able paper 

 on "Rational Nursery Legislation" at 

 the annual convention of the Utah State 

 Horticultural Society. 



Lacking two years of rounding out a 

 century, Mrs. Achsa Ursula Williams, 

 mother of H. W. Williams, proprietor of 

 the Peoria Home Nursery, Peoria, 111., 

 died last month at Galesburg, 111. 



The Kentucky Normal and Industrial 

 Institute plans the location of a nursery 

 on its farm near here. State Forester 

 Barton declares that the farm has all 

 varieties of slopes required for forest 

 trees and excellent soil. 



E. F. COE, of the Elm City Nursery 

 Co., New Haven, Conn., is in demand up 

 and down New England for his illus- 

 ' trated lecture on ' ' Japan, Its Cities, Peo- 

 ple and Gardens." He obtained the ma- 

 terial on a trip in 1912. 



Our friend, E. W. Kirkpatrick, ex- 

 president of the A. A. N., and Ed. E. 

 Krone, commissioner of the Texas De- 

 partment of Agriculture, are indulging in 

 an acrimonious discussion in the Houston 

 newspapers as to the usefulness of the 

 department. Mr. Kirkpatrick favors its 

 abolishment. 



Guy a. Bryant, of Princeton, 111., 

 and Geo. J. Foster of Normal, 111., two 

 prominent nurservmen, were among those 

 who read papers at the annual convention 

 of the Illinois State Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Mr. Bryant's subject was "The 

 Salomel Apple," and Mr. Foster dis- 

 cussed "Bush Fruits." 



The Forest Nursery & Seed Co., with 

 greenhouses at McMinnville and Irving 

 CoUege, Tenn., has been incorporated in 

 Warren county with a capital of $5,000. 

 J. H. H. Boyd, the former proprietor, 

 is the first incorporator named and the 

 other incorporators are G. F. Wagner, 

 F.,C. Boyd, P. W. Moffitt, I. H. Hillis, 

 Er R. Martin and A. P. Hill. 



The first outfit of its kind ever sent 

 out on wheels in Iowa, a liberaLpprtion 



|>or th« httrticultutil departmenlMif the 

 state college, will leave Ames, la., in the 

 next few days on a special car of the 

 Burlington railway for the benefit of the 



' fruit growers in the southern part of 

 the state, who cannot conveniently go to 

 the college. Prof. E. S. Herrick, horti- 

 cultural expert of the extension depart- 

 ment, will have charge of the car, which 

 will make Ford as its first town April 

 5, and Leon as its last, April 11. 



O. L. Harmon has purchased twenty 

 acres adjoining Fairmead, Cal., as a nur- 

 sery site. 



R. L. Beagles, superintendent of the 

 United States plant introduction gardens, 

 near Chico, Cal., is experimenting ex- 

 tensively in the propagating and growing 

 of the cactus, in the hope of making the 

 former weed of the desert a profitable 

 product. At an expense of many thou- 

 sands of dollars, the national government 

 has erected greenhouses ana provided 

 other facilities for carrying on the ex- 

 periments. 



ILLINOIS inJSSEBIES. 



Certificates of inspection were issued 

 to 145 Illinois nurserymen for the sea- 

 son of 1912-13. Of that number three 

 were special certificates. The nurseries 

 proper cover 2,581 acres and the small 

 fruit plantations about 275 acres. 

 Thirty-eight dealers in nursery stock 

 and eighty-three agents of nurseries 

 outside of Illinois were registered for 

 the season. 



Thirty-two foreign shipments origi- 

 nating in Belgium and France were in- 

 spected by state officials. They con- 

 sisted of 132 bales, aggregating 849,000 

 plants, all in good condition. Ship- 

 ments of nursery stock numbering 283, 

 originating in Germany, Holland, Eng- 

 land and Japan, were reported but not 

 inspected, either for lack of funds or 

 because regarded as safe. There were 

 also reported 177 shipments from for- 

 eign countries, consisting of 8,940 cases 

 of bulbs and other greenhouse stock, 

 none of which was inspected. 



MANETTI STOCKS OVERSTOCKED. 



Growers of Manetti stocks in Eng- 

 land have overstayed their market, 

 according to the Horticultural Adver- 

 tiser: "When an article appears some- 

 what scarce, there is always a danger 

 of overestimating the scarcity and 



outstanding the market. A good illus- 

 tration of this is seen in the case of 

 Manetti stocks this season. In the 

 autumn some American buyers were ad- 

 vertising for Manettis in the Horti- 

 cultural Advertiser, and had the great- 

 est difficulty in securing their require- 

 ments, holders apparently declining to 

 quote and preferring to see how mat- 

 ters developed later on. The result is 

 that quite a number of growers are 

 left with stock in hand at the end of 

 the season which ought to have been 

 turned into cash several months ago." 



CHANGES IN QUARANTINE RULES 



The following changes of plant quar- 

 antine rules are announced: 



Regulation 6 of the Rules and Regu- 

 lations for carrying out the Plant Quar- 

 antine Act is amended by the addition 

 in the first paragraph of a proviso read- 

 ing as follows: 



ProTlded, howeTer, That nursery stock which 

 can be cleaned by disinfection or treatment may 

 be delivered to the Importer, consignee, or agent 

 tor the proper care and treatment thereof, upon 

 the filing of a voluntary bond, with approved 

 sureties, double to the Invoice value of the 

 property (the amount of the bond in no case 

 to be less than $20 or less than $1 per plant in 

 case of date palms and date-palm offshoots), con- 

 ditioned upon the delivery thereof to the col- 

 lector of customs 40 days from the date of 

 arrival, and provided that the same shall not be 

 removed from the port of entry until a written 

 notice is given to the collector of customs by the 

 inspector of the Department of Agriculture that 

 the nursery stock In question has been properly 

 treated. 



Regulation 6, as amended, shall be- 

 come and be effective on and after 

 April 1, 1913, and the regulation in full 

 shall read as follows: 



On and after July 1, 1913, entry of nursery 

 stock will not be allowed unless the invoice is 

 accompanied by the original certificate and unless 

 each container bears a copy certificate, issued by 

 a duly authorized official of the country from 

 which It is shipped, stating that th^ nursery stock 

 covered by these certificates has been thoroughly 

 inspected by him or under his direction and wa's 

 found, or believed to be, free from injurious 

 plant diseases and insect pests: Provided, That 

 for stock to be shipped between October 1 and 

 May 31 such inspection shall be made on or after 

 the 1st of October and for stock shipped during 



a«*tf^ in a Drkcf'i'lrkn to quote prices on specimen Evergreens 

 arc 111 a l-USI ilUll ^^^^^ ^j^ ^^ decidedly attractive to any- 

 one who is BUYINQ TO SELL AQAIN. If you are in the market for anything 

 from Norway Spruce to the finer yarieties of Everin'eens, send in your Usts and we 

 will ffive you a fl£ure that will make you money. 



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