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The Florists^ Review 



Ap^il 10, 1018. 



A QUARREL between two Huntsville 

 Nursery employees, Huntsville, Ala., re- 

 sulted in the fatal stabbing of Charles 

 Jones by Peck Sanderson, the latter mak- 

 ing his escape. 



W. D. Gripfing, of Griffing Bros. Co., 

 the nursery firm of Port Arthur, Tex., 

 delivered an instructive address on shade 

 trees at a recent meeting of the Chamber 

 of Commerce of Beaumont, Tex. 



The nurseries in the vicinity of Boston 

 have had planting operations in full 

 swing for some days, frost having gone 

 out of the ground about March 17. There 

 are high hopes of a long season. Plenty 

 of business is in sight. 



The Galloway Bro8.-Bowman Co., of 

 Waterloo, la., have purchased the output 

 of several nurseries at Tippecanoe City, 

 O., which is in the flood zone, and being 

 unable to get any word from there they 

 are anxious about their supply. 



J. B. MxnR has established a nursery 

 at East Des Moines, la., and is carrying 

 a stock said to be valued at $50,000. Mr. 

 Muir is a large property owner in East 

 Des Moines and in the last four years he 

 has built upward of 100 residences there. 



C. L. Shell, of Georgetown, Tex., 

 will build another greenhouse this sum- 

 mer. He is both nurseryman and florist 

 and reports his Easter trade all he could 

 handle. In renewing his subscription to 

 The Eeview, Mr. Shell says: "I con- 

 sider this the best invested dollar I 

 ever spent." 



A. L. WiSKER, who has charge of the 

 orchards for Winchell & Blair at Grass 

 Valley, Cal., announces that he will estab- 

 lish a nursery in connection with the busi- 

 ness, and already 10,000 young trees have 

 been received for the purpose. It is esti- 

 mated that the nurseries of Nevada 

 county will set out 150,000 trees during 

 the year. 



HABASSMENTS. 



The federal quarantine law is prov- 

 ing in every way as cumbersome and 

 objectionable as the most pessimistic of 

 nurserymen had feared. Taking this in 

 addition to the multiplicity of state in- 

 spection laws, requirements for permits 

 and licenses, and the nurseryman doing 

 an interstate business feels that the 

 height of harassment has been reached 

 and that conditions must become less 

 burdensome than they now are. It has 

 become so bad that no nurseryman can 

 see a box or bale go into interstate 

 commerce with any assurance that some 

 one of the infinitude of details has not 

 been overlooked and will result in the 

 loss of the stock. The worst of it is 

 that the restrictions which now sur- 

 round the shipment of nursery products 

 are so complicated that the employees 

 of transportation companies, which also 

 are amenable to the laws, do not know 

 whether or not the exactions have been 

 met and are as likely as not to hold up 

 shipments on which every requirement 

 has been complied with. 



While the nurseryman is exercising 

 patience and hoping for the turn of^ the 



tide, he can console himself with the 

 thought that really it is not the nur- 

 series that spread plant disease, and 

 that, while the nursery trade suffers the 

 greatest inconvenience, the real cul- 

 prits are the 'property owners who sell 

 no trees but who neglect to keep their 

 places clean. 



E. H. WILSON'S NEW ACTIVITIES. 



Koswell H. Wilson, w|io conducted 

 for thirty-five years the Pioneer Nur- 

 sery jit Monrovia, Cal., selling the busi- 

 neas'^in 1910 to the Pioneer Nursery 

 Co., of which A. Foster is president, has 

 invested $50,000 in three tracts in the 

 San Luis Eey valley and in coast lands 

 at Carlsbad, in addition to land at 

 Oceanside, Cal. The valley lands will 

 be devoted to deciduous trees and the 

 Carlsbad holdings to citrus stock. 



Within a year Mr. Wilson expects to 

 have 100,000 nursery trees in the ground 

 in the Osborn tract. In the valley 

 lands he has 50,000 young apple and 

 pear trees, with 20,000 cherry and other 

 trees in the sheds ready for planting. 

 He also has 10,000 quince cuttings and 

 pits for 2,500 peach trees, as well as 

 30,000 grape cuttings and plums, per- 

 simmons and figs. 



Mr. Wilson is installing an irrigation 

 plant on the Osborn tract, where most 

 of the planting to date has been done. 

 Oceanside will be his headquarters and 

 shipping point. 



TIME TO TBIM FBIVET HEDGES. 



When is the proper time to trim a 

 privet hedge and plant the cuttings so 

 they wiU grow? The hedge is now 

 putting out green buds. I would thank 

 you for an early reply. E. W. P. 



Summer is the proper time to trim 

 privet hedges. The most compact 

 hedges should have two trimmings, one 

 about the end of June and the second 

 early in August. This will make a 

 dense hedge. If one shearing only is 

 given it should be about the middle of 

 July. If your hedge needs heading 

 back, however, you can do it now, be- 

 fore growth starts. 



Cuttings taken off now will not root 

 so well as those that are taken just be- 

 fore winter, cut in lengths of six to 

 eight inches, tied in bundles and buried 

 in the ground over winter. In spring 

 these can be taken up, set in nursery 

 rows four to eight inches apart and 

 well firmed. Leave sufficient space be- 

 tween the rows to permit cultivation. 

 Most of the wood of the cuttings should 

 be below ground. While short pieces 

 will grow and produce plants, cuttings 

 five to six inches long are a suitable 

 size to handle; I would prefer not to 

 have them over eight inches. Of 

 course, well ripened wood must be used. 

 Before burying the shoots, remove any 

 leaves that may be on them. C. W. 



PROPOSED CHANGE IN TABIFT. 



The new tariff jbill introduced in Con- 

 gress April 7 continues evergreen seed- 

 lings on the free list as heretofore, but 

 does not define them by putting on an 

 age limit, as was asked by the tariff 

 committee of the A. A. N. when it 

 visited Washington recently. The prin- 

 cipal change proposed is a reduction 

 of forty per cent in the duty on stocks, 

 cuttings and seedlings not specially 

 provided for in the act. The compari- 

 son of the present and proposed rates 

 is as follows: 



Article. New rate. Old rate. 



Stocks, cuttings or seedlings 



of Myrobolan plum, Mahaleb 



or Mazzard cherry, Manettl 



mnltlflora and briar rose, 



three years old or less $1 M 



Stocks, cuttings or seedlings 



of pear, apple, quince, and 



the Saint Julien plum, three 



years old or less |1 M 



Rose plants, budded, grafted 



or grown on their own roots 4c each 4c each 

 Stocks, cuttings and seedlings 



of all fruit and ornamental 



trees, deciduous and ever- 

 green shrubs and vines, and 



all trees, shrubs, plants and . _ 



vines commonly known as 



nursery or greenhouse stock, 



not specially provided for In 



this section • 15 pc ad 2Q pc ad 



$1 M 



$1M 



AN EZTEBIENCE MEETING. 



There were several items brought out 

 in the discussions at the recent meet- 

 ing of the Tennessee State Nursery- 



SURPLUS LIST OF 



THE LANCASTER COUNTY NURSERIES 



DAVID S. HERR, Prop. R. F. D. No. 7, LANCASTER, PA. 



PEACH (20 best varieties). 



4 to 5 feet at $f-.ooperlOO 3 to 4 feet at $4.00 per 100 



3-Y«ar-old California Privet (cut back, extra bushy). 



2 to 3 feet at $15.00 per 1000 3 to 4 feet at $17.50 per 1000 



2 year-old. 12 to 18 Inches at. . . . 10 00 per 1000 



• CATALPA 8PECIOSA 



6 to 8 feet at $15.00 per 100 



NORWAY MAPLE 



4 to 5-foot whips at $15.00 per 100 



DOROTHY PERKINS RAMBLERS 



3-year-old at : $0 12 each 



CAROLINA and LOMBARDY POPLARS 



6 to 8 feet at $6.00 per 100 10 to 12 feel at $10 00 per 100 



StolOfeetat SOOperlOO r2tol4feetat 12.00perl00 



Cash with order. Packing free of charge. 



