Review, ftote Comment. 
Accept our C()in{)liiueiils for the August issue of the 
“Nurseryiuaii;” liev. Mr. Harrison’s article must he an 
inspiration to every true nurseryman. 
From present indications next season will he good in 
this valley. Money has been very light and the local 
nurserymen are having a hard time eollecting for stock 
sold the past season. 
Vouis very truly, 
Edward J. Helsley & Co. 
The Hydrangea arborescens yratidiflora is winning its 
way into the front ranks ot popularity and will soon he 
grown and sold in as large quantities as Hydrangea pan- 
iculata grandiflora. It is undoubtedly a good thing. 
It is now possible to have Hydrangeas in flower all the 
summer. beginning with //. Japonica and varieties in 
the spring these are followed by the subject of this note 
and the well known Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora 
takes care of the fall until frost. 
It is a little cojifusing to try and explain to custonu'rs 
about the different kinds and for this reason the popular 
name “Hills of Snow” for //. arborescens grandiflora is 
a good one and should he adhered to. 
Professor L. H. Bailey’s new Standard Cyclopedia of 
Horticulture says “The time of year for moving (ever¬ 
green) trees is of minor importance. It is over em¬ 
phasized by purchaser, landscape architects, and nur¬ 
serymen and results in heavy financial loss to nursery¬ 
men in congesting sales and their own planting in the 
short spring season. It greatly lessens the total amount 
of planting needed for forest, shelter belt, landscape, 
fruit, and other economic purposes. A nurseryman 
may plant all the year. Evergreens may be taken up 
with a ball of earth even in May and June. The new 
growth may curve down. After June 20th the Spruces 
and after July 10, the pines are firm enough not to wilt. 
August and September sales are just as successful as 
April. The ground is warm and the roots grow rapidly; 
the ground can be made moist. Weather in September 
is less dry than in May and June.” 
Bvsiness Movements. 
1 lie E. Maudlin \ursery (k)., formerly of Biidg(‘man, 
Mich., are now located in South Bend, Ind. 
Ci. A. Miles, of Laceyville, Pa., has started in the nur¬ 
sery business. Planted 40,000 ai)plc trees last spring. 
Ed^^ ard J. H(dsley, one of the l>est kno\\ n of the 
younger nurserymen of the Southwest, has purchased 
the nursery stock and (Mjuipment of the ()rang(*wood Nur- 
S(*ry Co., at Phoenix, Arizona. The nurseries art* the I 
est in Arizona; in tlu^ ])ast citiais trees liav'c been 
principal output, hut Mr. Helsley jilans to engage 
general nursery business. In the future the business 
arg- 
the 
in a 
will 
he conducted under the name of Edward J. Helsley 6: 
Co. Addiess Box 1175, Pluxuiix, Ai izona. 
SOCK 
MANUAL OF FRUIT INSECTS 
The MacMillan (k)mpaiiy, 66 Fifth avenue, Aew York, 
are publishers of a work by Slingerland and C.rosby, 
edited by L. H. Bailey, under the above title. 
With such a book available there 
fruit grower’s oi' orchardist’s crop 
is no need for the 
failing on account of 
insects. 
It is fully illustrated and arranged in such a way that 
anyone who can read should be able to identify tin* pests, 
learn their life history and how to combat with them. 
Simplicity and thoroughness has evidently Ikmmi the 
key note of the authors. 
It is a book of 503 pages, the j)rice being .'j^2.()0. 
A similar work dealing with fungus and other diseases 
of fruits would leave the fi'uit growers nothing to l)e de¬ 
sired in the way of fruit pest literature. 
“THE MONTHLY SUMMARY OF COMMERCE AND FINANCE” FOR JUNE, 1914, GIVES THE FOLLOWING REPORT OF 
IMPORTS OF PLANTS, TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES. 
JUNE- 
ARTICLES 
1913 
1914 
Quantity 
\ Value 
Quantity 
Value 
Plants, trees, shrubs and vines : 
Bulbs, bulbous roots, or corms, cul¬ 
tivated for their flowers or foliage 
.{ dut.... 
Total. 
109 
54 
19,860 j 
67 
. 
997 
2,273 
31,629 
20,023 1 
. 
34,899 
TWELVE MONTHS ENDING JUNE— 
1912 
i 1913 
1914 
Quantity 
Value 
Quantity 
Value 
Quantity 
Value 
216,159 
1,718,839 
24,825 
1,251,365 
288,646 
1,823,307 
5,847 
1,377,430 
216,138 
2,092,139 
16.966 
1,487,903 
2,995,029. 
3,206,584 
3,597,008 
