. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 130 The Florists'Rcvkw OCCOBU 19. 1»22. Thb demise of Oscar Park Becklej, president of the Berryhill Nursery Co., Harrisburg, Pa., is reported on the obitu- ary page of this issue. Ths census figures for 1919 show a dropping off in the acreage devoted to small fruits, from 272,460 in 1909 to 249,084. The decline was almost all in strawberries, which occupied 272,460 acres in 1909 and 119,396 in 1919. Geobob B. Bbioos, of Greenwood, S. C, intends to open a large nursery and landscape gardening service in the near future. He expects to grow fruit tre
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 130 The Florists'Rcvkw OCCOBU 19. 1»22. Thb demise of Oscar Park Becklej, president of the Berryhill Nursery Co., Harrisburg, Pa., is reported on the obitu- ary page of this issue. Ths census figures for 1919 show a dropping off in the acreage devoted to small fruits, from 272,460 in 1909 to 249,084. The decline was almost all in strawberries, which occupied 272,460 acres in 1909 and 119,396 in 1919. Geobob B. Bbioos, of Greenwood, S. C, intends to open a large nursery and landscape gardening service in the near future. He expects to grow fruit trees and various types of ornamental plants on a 40-acre tract near Green- wood. The state plant board of Arkansas recently issued an order that all cedar trees within a mile and one-half of an orchard must be cut down. This order was issued as a safeguard against cedar rust, which is a menace to the orchards. A test case soon followed. George G. Becker, chief inspector for the board at Bentonville; Ark., began proceedings against a property owner who refused to obey the order and who took his case to the Supreme court. The alleged vio- lator of the law lost his case, as the Supreme court upheld the ruling of the plant board of that state. SMALL FOBTUME FBOM PEONIES. Gilbert Wild's Olimb. '' When that dealer wrote that he had sold for $4 a crate of peonies which I had shipped to him on consignment, I was the most excited kid in Missouri," said Gilbert Wild, today one of the larg- est growers of peonies at Sarcoxie, Mo., referring to the time, thirty-nine years ago, when he first conceived the idea of growing peonies for commercial pur- poses. Since then Mr. Wild has made a small fortune, grown from the box of peony roots which were jfiven to his father by a friend. The sale of a crate of peonies has long since ceased to excite Gilbert Wild; His shipments this season averaged 200 crates per day, over a period of three weeks. A carload shipment is an ordi- nary incident in th
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