. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 772 The American Florist. Nov. 2. American Association of Nurserymen. J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la., President; C. M Hobbs, Bridgeport. Ind., Vice-President; George O Seager, Rochester, N. Y., Seo'y. Thirty-third annnul convention to be held at Milwaukee, Wis., ,Iuue, 1908. '^ Plantations of peonies and herba- ceous phloxes alternately at three feet apart make a fine display over many weeks. James King, of the James King Nursery Co., of Elmhurst, 111., was in Chicago this week. He is just starting the work of planti
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 772 The American Florist. Nov. 2. American Association of Nurserymen. J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la., President; C. M Hobbs, Bridgeport. Ind., Vice-President; George O Seager, Rochester, N. Y., Seo'y. Thirty-third annnul convention to be held at Milwaukee, Wis., ,Iuue, 1908. '^ Plantations of peonies and herba- ceous phloxes alternately at three feet apart make a fine display over many weeks. James King, of the James King Nursery Co., of Elmhurst, 111., was in Chicago this week. He is just starting the work of planting feet of hedge. Prepare the stations for lilies with es- pecial care and have them ready to plant as soon as the bulbs arrive. Plant fairly deep or mulch heavily and on heavy soils place plenty of sand or gritty soiliabout the bulbs. The Texas state inspector of nursery stock is moving actively to see that ship- pers outside of the state conform to the law on this subject. Texas nurserymen are asked to co-operate with him to see that the provisions of the law are car- ried out. This would be a good time to cut out some of the "wiggles" in the shrub bor- ders at the parks and substitute true curves. We counted six distinct wobbles in a bed not 30 yeards long recently in one of the Chicago parks. What they are for would be impossible to say, but we know what a walk laid out on similar lines would look like. New York.—The Municipal Art So- ciety desires that in the proposed im- provement of Central park there shall be some permanent memorial of the men to whom the city is largely indebted for it—Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architects. Chas. R. Lamb, president of the Municipal Art Society, sent a letter to the mayor, Octo- ber 21, suggesting this. The Catalpa Question. The illustrations we publish herewith of various catalpa seeds and also the bark of C. speciosa and C. bignonioides will be helpful to those not thoroughly acquainted w
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