THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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market on a carnation. Peter Fisher of Boston originated a 
variety which he named after the wife of T. W. Lawson. The 
carnation was boomed by Thomas F. Galvin and New York 
and Chicago people used every effort to procure the flower. 
According to the New York papers, Mr. Lawson offered 
$30,000 for the 8,000 plants Mr. Fisher has, and the control of 
the variety. New York florists, it is said, are endeavoring to 
procure a plant of the Lawson from which to propagate. 
Single flowers of the Lawson carnation are rated at 75 cents. 
The story was denied but late last month Mr. Fisher acknowl¬ 
edged the sale at the price named. 
The Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson carnation is a seedling of 
Daybreak and Van Leeuwen, originated four years ago. Last 
spring it won the silver medal of the Massachusetts Horticul¬ 
tural Society. It is registered with the American Carnation 
Society under the following description: “ Color, dark pink; 
flowers of great size borne on an exceedingly long and strong 
stem, with an excellent calyx; vigorous growth and a free and 
early bloomer.” 
The story of the Lawson carnation had scarcely been denied 
when the The New York Times, not to be outdone by its con¬ 
temporaries, announced that “for original business methods 
there live florists in Boston who can easily outdo New York 
tradesmen and throw those of Chicago into fits of envy.” It 
is related that upon the death of Fanny Davenport, the actress, 
a Boston florist cabled actors and playwrights in London and 
Paris suggesting that wreaths be placed on the grave. All re¬ 
plied in the affirmative. A few weeks ago Victorien Sardou 
received a bill for $110 and thereupon used some strong 
French words and refused to pay the bill. Other bills were : 
Olga Nethersole, $60 ; Charles Wyndham, $75 ; Henry Irving, 
$90 ; Beerbohm Tree, $100. Miss Nethersole is the only one 
who has paid for a wreath. High-priced nurserymen’s nov¬ 
elties now seem cheap. 
Professor William B. Alwood, entomologist of Virginia, has 
addressed a circular letter to horticulturists and entomologists 
embodying the information in the January issue of the Nat¬ 
ional Nurseryman regarding the federal scale bill. 
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. 
A conservative and authoritative estimate of the business 
outlook is that of the Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., who 
write as follows to the Florists’ Exchange : 
The volume of business transacted by us during the year 1898 was 
somewhat of an increase over that of last year, or in fact, any previous 
year, but as some of the leading items were lower in price the total re¬ 
ceived was but little more than in previous years. Remittances were 
more promptly made, we think, than during the three previous years. 
As to the outlook we are living in hope. From present indications 
we think there is reason to anticipate a more lively trade the coming 
spring, unless something turns up to knock it in the head as the war 
scare did last spring. There should be au increased demand for apple 
and peach trees next spring, as there appears to be much greater in¬ 
quiry for them than is usual at this season of the year. One thing that 
would benefit the trade would be the removing of the Canadian prohi- 
tion on importations of nursery stock; another, a decrease in plantings 
or production, one-half the quantity would bring the trade more profit 
than the whole does now. 
WINTERING NURSERY STOCK. 
There are many ways of wintering nursery stock in cellars, 
say Stephen’s Hoyt’s Sons, Connecticut, in answer to a query 
in the Rural New Yorker. Cellars for storing nursery stcck 
for winter are usually made one story, say four-foot posts, 
covering a suitable piece of ground for such purpose. By 
suitable we mean ground that is dry, so that no water will 
stand in the ground. It is our custom to heel in the trees, in 
this covered ground, as thickly as we can stand them and have 
the soil work in among the roots. We always heel in not in 
bunches, but with the roots spread so that the earth may 
readily work in among the roots. In many of the dirt cellars, 
the trees are tied in bunches and piled up, covering the roots 
in moss or shavings, or any damp material, so that no roots are 
exposed to the air. In this way, a dirt cellar may be packed 
to hold five or six times as many trees as when the trees are 
heeled in as we do it. We have never tried this plan from 
the fact that we never approved of the method ; yet trees may 
be kept all right when piled up as above stated. We have 
always found it a safe way to keep the trees, to heel in, and so 
have always followed this course. 
In moderate or thawy weather, we open the ventilators to 
change the air, and if the cellar gets too warm, leave them 
open on a cold night to cool the cellar down somewhat. The 
cellar should be kept cool, and if it freezes some, it does no 
harm where the trees are properly heeled in. A cellar 25 x 75 
feet will hold from 12,000 to 15,000 peach trees when heeled 
in, and about the same of pear. Trees thus wintered should 
be set out early in the spring, as they will start earlier than 
those left out through the winter. 
NEW GEORGIA RULES. 
The Georgia State Board of Entomology, composed of 
Chairman O. B. Stevens at Atlanta, P. J. Berckmans and J. 
Pope Brown, on January 18th, adopted the following rules 
regarding the shipment of nursery stock : 
Rule 5. Each and every box, bundle or package of trees, shrubs 
or other plants commonly known as nursery stock shipped in car-load 
lots, or less than car-load lots into the State of Georgia from any other 
state or county, shall be plainly labeled with a certificate of inspection 
furnished by the entomologist, fruit inspector or other duly authorized 
official in the state or county in which said stock was grown, and also 
with the official lag of the Georgia State Board of Entomology herein¬ 
after provided for, said certificate and tag to be valid for only twelve 
months from the date they bear, in accordance with sections 9 and 10 
of the act cited. Such shipments not so labeled shall be liable 
to confiscation upon the order of the inspector. 
Rule 6. Upon the filing of the proper certificate as above pre¬ 
scribed in accordance with section 13 of said act, and upon request of 
any person or persons residing in states or counties outside of the 
State of Georgia, dealing in or handling trees, shrubs, or other plants 
in this state, the certificates of the State Board of Entomology will be 
issued to the same without charge, and official tags bearing a fac simile 
copy of such certificate and the seal of the said board, will be fur¬ 
nished such applicants at cost, viz. : 69 cents for the first hundred 
or part thereof, and 25 cents for each additional hundred. 
The provisions of the new Georgia law were published in 
the last issue of this journal. 
FINDS IT VALUABLE. 
J. C. Grossman, Wolcottville,Ind., December2,1898—“Enclosed 
find $1 to renew my subscription to National Nurseryman. I find 
it worth considerable to me.” 
