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72 



The Florists^ Review 



May 8, 1913. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMESIOAN ASSOCIATION OF NtmSEBTXEN. 

 Officers for 1912-1913: Pres., Thomas B. 

 Meehan, Dresber, Pa.; Vlce-Pres., J. B. Pllking- 

 ton, Portland, Ore.; Sec'y, John Hall, Rochester, 

 N. Y.; Treas., C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Thirty-elgbth annual meeting, Portland, Ore,, 

 June 18 to 20, 1913. 



Nurserymen will be interested in the 

 article, ' ' More Trouble Brewing, ' ' on 

 page 22 of the current issue. 



The summer-like weather of the last 

 few days has brought the season rapidly 

 toward its close with a majority of those 

 in the nursery business. 



Mes. Maey S. Holman, aged 78 years, 

 widow of the late David S. Holman, of 

 Springfield, Mo., died April 25. She 

 went to Springfield many years ago with 

 her husband, who conducted a nursery 

 until his death. 



The Hankinson Nursery Co., of Hank- 

 inson, N. D., was given the contract to 

 lay out and plant a city park for Wahpe- 

 ton, N. D., and a force of nurserymen 

 under the direction of C. A. Chinberg 

 began operations last week. 



L. J. Wesely, formerly a salesman for 

 the Mitchell Nursery Co., at Owatonna, 

 Minn., has organized a business of his 

 own, to be conducted under the name of 

 the Owatonna Nursery Co. Two farms 

 near Owatonna have been secured and a 

 force of men is at work preparing the 

 ground for use. 



Nurserymen will be interested in the 

 amendments made in the pending tariff 

 bill by the House of Kepresentatives as 

 told on page 15 of this issue. No changes 

 are made in rates on nursery stock, the 

 amendments being to simplify adminis- 

 tration. The free list now reads "con- 

 iferous, evergreen seedlings, 4 years 

 old or less." 



The Fruit Growers' Nurseries, Inc., 

 with headquarters at Newark, N. Y., has 

 filed a certificate of incorporation in the 

 Wayne county clerk's office, Lyons, N. 

 Y., outlining its plan to engage in a 

 general nursery business. The three di- 

 rectors are C. W. Stewart, C. H. Stewart 

 and James M. Pitkin, all of Newark, 

 N. Y. The capital stock is $5,000, fully 

 paid up and non-assessable. 



"Some of our nursery friends," says 

 Frank B. White, "are wondering if the 

 business is really being overdone. The 

 advertisers are not complaining — it's the 

 men who depend on other means of sell- 

 ing who are worried. It is true that 

 the Pacific coast has a large stock for 

 which there seems to be little market. 

 The fruit business of the central states 

 is making steady progress and is pretty 

 sure to make our western big fellows sit 

 up and take notice." 



Pessimism rules as to the Georgia 

 peach crop for this year. Some weeks 

 since orchard conditions were good and 

 tree buds were so firm and fine that a 

 splendid crop was promised. But these 

 made great development in warm weather 

 and then came cold and frost that 

 worked comparative destruction to the 

 crop all over the state. Experienced 

 growers and expert dealers are of one 

 mind as to a disaster in the matter of 

 yield. The most pessimistic predict a 

 crop of only 1,500 cars, while the most 

 optimistic can see prospects for a maxi- 

 mum of 2,500 cars. Such a crop would 

 compare with 7,000 cars for 1912. 



'^r'^liy ., J VTi-. 



U.S. 



statistics 



■" I "^HE Census Bureau has issued a bulletin giving an agricultural abstract by 

 ^ states for 1909, as of the census of 1910," showing the nursery establishments, 

 nursery acreage and value of nursery products. Table 74 gives this information. 

 The statistics cover the growing of nursery products not only by establishments 

 which devote themselves exclusively to this branch and which employ only inten- 

 sive methods, but also on ordinary farms that derive a part of their income from 

 nursery products. The acreage in 1909 was 35.5 per cent greater than in 1899,. 

 while the value of products was more than twice as great as ten years earlier and 

 was equal to 0.4 per cent of the total value of all farm crops in the XJnited States. 



NURSERY ESTABLISHMENTS, ACREAGE AND VALUE OF PRODUCTS, 1909 AND 189& 



DIVISION OR STATE. 



Establishments 

 reporting. 



Acreage. 



Value of products. 



United States 



Oeographival Divisions — 



New England 



Middle Atlantic 



East North Central 



West North Central . . , 



South Atlantic 



East South Central.... 



West South Central . . . 



Mountain 



Pacific 



New England — 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



Middle Atlantic — 



New York 



New Jerse.v 



Pennsylvania 



East North Central — 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Michigan . . 



Wisconsin 



West North Central — 



Minnesota 



Iowa 



Missouri 



North Dakota 



South Dakota 



Nebraska 



Kansas 



South Atlantic — 



Delaware 



Maryland 



District of Columbia . . 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



North Carolina 



South Carolina 



Georgia 



Florida 



East South Central — 



Kentucky 



Tennessee 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



West South Central — 



Arkansas 



Louisiana 



Oklahoma 



Texas 



Mountain — 



Montana 



Idaho 



Wyoming 



Colorado 



New Mexico 



Arizona 



Utah 



Nevada 



Pacific — 



Washington 



Oregon 



California 



I 1909. I 1899. I 1909. | 



5,582 j 4,991 I 80,tfl8 



241 

 888 

 1,1.59 

 008 

 5«5 

 318 

 516 

 194 

 793 



17 



9 



9 



119 



27 



60 



608 

 105 

 175 



272 

 164 

 258 

 313 

 152 



191 



242 



186 



49 



30 



90 



120 



19 

 71 

 1 

 69 

 71 



125 

 22 

 54 



133 



77 



145 



62 



34 



133 

 60 

 90 



233 



28 

 26 



8 

 61 

 17 

 11 

 38 



5 



115 

 112 

 566 



330 

 007 

 1,079 

 888 

 450 

 332 

 509 

 141 

 355 



39 

 17 

 18 

 169 

 24 

 63 



485 

 142 

 280 



317 



198 

 288 

 159 

 117 



85 



238 



259 



8 



34 



83 



181 



21 

 52 

 1 

 89 

 48 

 71 

 34 

 66 

 68 



65 



l.'>9 



55 



53 



153 



43 



«90 



223 



13 

 16 



3 

 41 

 11 



8 

 47 



2 



36 



74 



245 



2,647 



13,675 



13,811 



16,614 



9,963 



8,130 



5,734 



1,731 



8,313 



57 



24 



37 



1,547 



212 



770 



8,680 

 2,167 

 2,828 



4,718 

 1,850 

 3,454 

 3,034 

 755 



3,854 

 3,430 

 2,459 

 472 

 399 

 1,997 

 4,003 



182 

 4,240 



569 



464 



754 



21 



1,502 



2,231 



542 

 3,976 

 3,079 



533 



528 



502 



857 



3,847 



341 

 530 



'*24i 



24 



18 



577 



1,342 

 2,168 

 4,803 



1899. 

 59,492 



1,800 



13,221 



12,063 



12.377 



6,050 



4,894 



4,041 



963 



4,083 



107 

 34 

 74 



894 

 86 



605 



8,238 

 1,782 

 3,201 



4,699 

 1,646 

 3,142 

 1,840 

 736 



1,127 

 2,905 

 2,971 

 131 

 200 

 1,594 

 3,449 



174 



1,275 



1 



1,200 



547 



1,149 



84 



957 



663 



837 

 2,838 

 1,038 



181 



868 



276 



•804 



2,093 



62 



115 



2 



497 



82 



14 



236 



5 



155 

 1,014 

 2,914 



1909. 



121,050,822 



989,080 

 4,355,340 

 3,037,823 

 3,841,690 

 1,851,351 

 1,147,669 

 1,711,284 



594,096 

 3,522,489 



23,244 

 11,897 

 11,014 



605,875 

 75,544 



261,506 



2,750,957 

 681,814 

 922,569 



860,351 

 411,387 

 822,284 

 642,774 

 301,027 



863,014 

 845,912 

 529,394 

 30,997 

 70,827 

 553,053 

 948,493 



39,057 



456,900 



150 



159,992 



79,268 



266,968 



4,409 



366,433 



478,174 



115,963 



697,708 



259,067 



74,946 



198,579 



87,643 



171,952 



1,263,110 



174,427 



143,234 



1,680 



72,090 



9,182 



4,535 



188,466 



493 



626,681 



783,020 



2.212,788 



1899. 

 $10,123,873 



547,563 



2,523,065 



1,794,842 



2,052,847 



851,511 



751,319 



612,413 



251,787 



738,526 



46,207 

 7,012 



49,625 

 260,069 



42,295 

 142,355 



1,642,107 

 339,926 

 541,032 



538,012 

 254,893 

 578,306 

 338,644 

 85,087 



383,105 

 619,092 

 349,449 

 7,249 

 12,866 

 234,033 

 447,068 



17,241 



123,474 



826 



214,998 



61,700 



136,084 



4,416 



172,143 



122,140 



114,749 



474,133 



131,182 



31,306 



131,045 



63,593 



•103,264 



314,611 



17,826 



38,431 



216 



65,936 



5,763 



2,914 



120,648 



66 



28,699 

 151,498 

 658.829 



1 Less than 1 acre. 



2 Includes Indian Territory. 



' Reported In small fractions. 



The death of Chas. P. Baender, of 

 Fruitvale, Cal., is recorded in this 

 week's obituary column. 



SAGINAW AND BAY CITY. 



The Market. 



Business has been good with the trade 

 in Saginaw and Bay City, Mich., with 



plenty of funeral work and now and 

 then a good wedding to brighten up 

 things. Last week we had real sum- 

 mer weather, and everybody got the 

 fever to plant geraniums in their beds 

 and cemetery lots, but at the present 

 writing it is quite different. Over- 

 coats are all the vogue, after a heavy 

 downpour of rain Monday night. Car- 



