. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 440 The American Florist. Oct. 17, The Nursery TRaE)B. AM. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. N. W. Hale. Knoxville, Pres.; Frakk A. Wbbeb, St. Louis, Mo., Vioe-Pres.; George C. SsAeEB, Rochester, N. Y., Sec'y. Twenty-ninth annual convention, Atlanta, Ga., June, 1904. Leavenworth, Kas.—Dr. Joseph Stay- man, a noted horticulturist, originator of the Stayman apple and the Stayman strawberry, died October 5, at his home here, a?ed 86 years. In 1860 he took half a million fruit grafts to Kansas from Illinois. He was th
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 440 The American Florist. Oct. 17, The Nursery TRaE)B. AM. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. N. W. Hale. Knoxville, Pres.; Frakk A. Wbbeb, St. Louis, Mo., Vioe-Pres.; George C. SsAeEB, Rochester, N. Y., Sec'y. Twenty-ninth annual convention, Atlanta, Ga., June, 1904. Leavenworth, Kas.—Dr. Joseph Stay- man, a noted horticulturist, originator of the Stayman apple and the Stayman strawberry, died October 5, at his home here, a?ed 86 years. In 1860 he took half a million fruit grafts to Kansas from Illinois. He was the first man to start the apple industry in Kansas. Planting: Trees and Shrubs. PREPARATION OF THE GROUND. The preparation of ground for the planting of trees or shrubbery is as much a matter for consideration as the question of when to plant or what to plant. Due importance is frequently not given to this fact. Trees and shrubs are often crowded into holes that are not large enough to permit even their roots being extended. Such planting generally is accompanied by a lack of subsequent cultivation, and the result is failure. A proper preparation of the ground (when intended for mass planting) entails plowing and subsoil plowing, continued in cross directions until the ground is thoroughly broken up and reduced to a mellow condition. Should humus, or organic matter, be deficient in the soil, this should be corrected by a dressing of stable manure, peat or other organic matter. This treatment will insure a condition of the soil which will make it hold moisture and assimilate fertilizers. In dry, sandy or gravelly soils too much importance can not be given to the value of surface mulching, or constant cultiva- tion, after planting. For single specimen trees, or for widely spaced trees, holes for planting should be prepared of not less than fifteen feet square, and three and a half feet deep. If the soil is good a simple loosening up, with an admixture of stable manure or peat, w
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