. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 82 The Florists' Review Fbbbdabz 18, The obituary column this week con- tains a notice of the death of William Smith, for fifty-five years in the nursery business at Pittsburgh. From; Vacaville, Cal., it is reported that C. J. Uhl and C. R. McBride have formed a partnership for the purpose of carrying on a nursery business. J. S. Kerr, of Sherman, heads a com- mittee of Texas nurserymen that is assisting the state commission in main- taining a horticultural exhibit at the San Francisco exposition. Nurserymen are hoping,for an early pad prolo
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 82 The Florists' Review Fbbbdabz 18, The obituary column this week con- tains a notice of the death of William Smith, for fifty-five years in the nursery business at Pittsburgh. From; Vacaville, Cal., it is reported that C. J. Uhl and C. R. McBride have formed a partnership for the purpose of carrying on a nursery business. J. S. Kerr, of Sherman, heads a com- mittee of Texas nurserymen that is assisting the state commission in main- taining a horticultural exhibit at the San Francisco exposition. Nurserymen are hoping,for an early pad prolonged season. As a rule the nurabier of orders on hand is not so great as usual, but there will be a good show- ing if the season is not too short. In a circular letter to creditors the executrix of the Hiram T. Jones estate, Elizabeth, N. J., states that it is hoped enitentually to pay fifty per cent or more on the claims. Creditors are offered the immediate opportunity to take one-fourth their claims in nursery stock. The Vermilion Parish Nursery & Or- chard Co., capitalized at $25,000, has been organized at Abbeville, La. R. J. Montagne is the president of the com- pany, John Nugier, Jr., treasurer, and J. Camille Broussard, secretary. The company has purchased 100 acres and will plant 20,000 Satsuma orange trees and thirty acres as a nursery. Mark Aukeman has resigned his posi- tion as foreman of Schneider's Green- houses, at Springfield, O., and is starting in the landscape gardening business, with a temporary office and salesgrounds at the comer of Pleasant and Limestone streets. He is a native of Holland, 24 years old, and has been in the landscape gardening business since he was 12, in Holland -and Germany. He came tb the United States in 1912. That seventy-five nurserymen and growers have signified their intention of complying with a more rigid inspection of nursery stock, and that from 2,000 to 120,000 trees are being inspected daily, are two important features of
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