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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
It is not possible to tell how many of these have been 
used, but as nearly as we can check up, and judging 
from previous experience, we should say at least one 
out of four. 
Big Baiters Now Using Articles 
One of the remarkable things about this year’s work 
has been the fact that the bigger the yager, the more 
generally lias it used the entire series of articles. Two 
or three years ago, the reverse of this was true. The 
important papers were rather afraid of using too much 
gardening material. 
Among the country’s leading papers which have been 
using the entire series are the Chicago Tribune, The 
Philadelphia Record, Cincinnati Enquirer, Springfield 
Union, Brooklyn Standard Union, Rochester Democrat 
& Chronicle, Arkansas Homestead, Milwaukee Journal, 
Albany Times Union, Lansing State Journal, Harrisburg 
Telegraph, New Orleans Item. 
The fact that more of the bigger papers are using 
the material is important because that helps increase 
very much the average circulation for each article that 
is printed. 
The circulation of the newspapers which have been 
using the articles runs from one thousand to many over 
twenty-five thousand and several over fifty thousand. 
A conservative average would be five thousand. In 
other words, assuming that only one article in four has 
been used, there has been a total circulation of some 
hundred and twenty-five million articles, urging people 
to plant. 
Plans For Next Year 
The cost of this year’s work will be considerably un¬ 
der the maximum amount allowed the Market Develop¬ 
ment Committee. 
Those in charge of the work this year feel that it 
should be continued along the same lines, with the fol¬ 
lowing additions. 
First: a series of small, cheap leaflets on such sub¬ 
jects as “How To Take Care of and Plant Your Nursery 
Stock When You Receive It”; “Pruning For More Fruit 
and Better Flowers”; “How to Protect Your Plants 
From Insects and Diseases, etc.” 
Second: The use of the Market Development ar¬ 
ticles, done up in binders, by Nurserymen and by 
agents, as largely as possible. 
Third: The encouragement of local campaigns, by 
staff' and sectional associations, wherever possible. The 
marked success of the Illinois State Association cam¬ 
paign this spring should prove to the most skeptical that 
drives of this kind, where local pride can be utilized to 
the fullest degree, are tremendously worth while. 
LATE FROSTS 
Last spring very large areas in the United States were 
visited by severe frosts which killed all the blossoms and 
much of the young growth, practically ruining the fruit 
crops in many localities. Lilacs, grapes, in fact all the 
early flowering plants and trees were damaged. 
Most of the plants in nursery rows received a check, 
but more or less recovered, although perhaps the sum 
total of the growth for the year was slightly affected as 
compared with normal years. 
At this writing, we are going through the same experi¬ 
ence again this year. While the frosts have not been 
quite so severe as last year, it looks as if considerable 
damage had already been done and the feel of the weath¬ 
er is anything but assuring. 
For more than twenty years the writer has been ob¬ 
serving periodical visits of late frosts, taking as a barome¬ 
ter a large Magnolia conspicua that grew nearby. This 
magnolia, one of the first to bloom, is slightly preceded by 
Magnolia stellata. About every third year a frost would 
come, ruining the display of bloom, but this was usually 
slightly in advance of the opening of the peach, cherry 
and pear, so that they invariably escaped. Tbe past two 
years have thrown calculations out of gear, and we shall 
have to ask tbe scientists what is throwing the seasons 
out of alignment or else ask them how long it will take 
the plants to adapt themselves to the new order of 
things? 
It is against the natural laws for plants to exist unless 
weather conditions permit them to function in a normal 
way. “How about a quarantine?” Late frosts sure 
cause more loss than any imported pest. 
LILACS 
Tbe lilac is one of the flowering shrubs of which 
there seems never to be a surplus in the nurser¬ 
ies, especially of the French named varieties. In fact, 
one can rarely get them in as large a grade as the con¬ 
sumer requires. Nurserymen would be safe in increas¬ 
ing their plantings or buddings. The following are 
some of the newer varieties seen in a collection and 
worthy of note. 
Deuil cl’Emile Galle, with pale pink double flowers; Waldeck 
Rousseau, with pink single flowers; L’Oncle Tom, with dark red- 
purple single flowers; Grand Due Constantin, with light lilac- 
colored flowers; Toussaint Louverture, with unusually long nar¬ 
row clusters of red-purple flowers. This is a tall growing plant 
with erect stems and of not particularly good habit, but the long 
narrow clusters of flowers are attractive. De Mirabel, with single 
very dark lilac-colored flowers in long narrow clusters; Edmund 
Bossier, with dark rose-purple single flowers in large broad clus¬ 
ters; Maurice de Vilmorin, with pale, lilac-colored double flow¬ 
ers; President Loubet, with deep lilac single flowers; Languis, 
with pale pink single flowers opening from dark rose-colored 
buds; and Reamur, with large, single, rose-colored flowers in 
broad clusters. 
Among the older varieties the following are good: Congo, with 
large, dark red-purple, single flowers; Macrostachya, with pale 
pink, single flowers in long narrow clusters. Like Toussaint 
Louverture, this variety has erect stems which do not make a 
handsome bush, and the flowers, too, begin to open before 
the leaves appear. The flowers, however, are so delicate in color 
that some persons consider this one of the handsomest garden 
lilacs. Marliensis pallida, with broad clusters of pale pink flow¬ 
ers; Furst Lichtenstein, with single pink flowers; Condorcet, with 
double pale blue flowers opening from dark rose-colored buds; 
Justi, with small pale blue flowers; Ludwig Spath, with dark red- 
purple single flowers. This last is very similar to Philemon and 
in these two plants are found probably the handsomest lilacs 
with dark red-purple flowers. Marie Legraye, with single white 
flowers, is the best of the single white-flowered lilacs. 
The firm of T. Sakata & Co., seed growers and mer¬ 
chants, Kanagawa, Yokohama, Japan, have opened up 
American headquarters at 20 East Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Ill., Robert C. Stubbins being in charge of the 
office. 
