. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. no The Florists^ Review Apkii. 7, 1921. Early poonios in Toiinesspo arc ro- jiortcMl an heavily ilaniajred V)y tiic frosts a week ago. (;. II. I'ERKINK ir, of Jackson & Per- kins ("o., Newark, N. Y., called on the trade at ('liicafi;o last week. He made a trip to Minneapolis April 1, returning the following day to Chicago. TiiK spring season in southwest Iowa has been excejitionally mild and stock was planted earlier than usual. There have recently been showers through the section, although a general rain is needed. In its second year of b
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. no The Florists^ Review Apkii. 7, 1921. Early poonios in Toiinesspo arc ro- jiortcMl an heavily ilaniajred V)y tiic frosts a week ago. (;. II. I'ERKINK ir, of Jackson & Per- kins ("o., Newark, N. Y., called on the trade at ('liicafi;o last week. He made a trip to Minneapolis April 1, returning the following day to Chicago. TiiK spring season in southwest Iowa has been excejitionally mild and stock was planted earlier than usual. There have recently been showers through the section, although a general rain is needed. In its second year of business the May Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, la., reports a satisfactory increase over last year. A 15-acre tract of land has been l)urchased for experimental and trial ground purposes. Nurserymen regard the cold spell last week as a godsend. "Stock can now be held sufficiently long to clean u]i, from present indications of the season's de- mands," said William A. Peterson, of Peterson Nursery, Chicago. Edgar Stark, of the Stark Bros. Nurs- eries & Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., has been visiting southern California, putting in part of his time with an old friend, J. D. Meriwcather, of the Arm- strong Nurseries, Ontario, Cal. Two bulletins of interest to nursery- men recently published by the College of Agriculture of the University of Mis- souri are No. 176, "Nursery and Orchard Insect Pests," and No. 177, "Dipping and Fumigation of Nursery ; Many lines of ornamentals were sold out by April 1, report the Mount Arbor Nurseries, Shenandoah, la. They have shipped practically the same number of cars as at this time a year ago. A few lines arc rei)orted as slow, but. taken as a whole, demand has been good. The most striking exhibit at the "Own Yoiir Own Home" show at the Coliseum, Chicago, last week was the jdanting by Swain Nelson & Sons Co. for small home grounds. Brick walks divided a lawn, made of moss, into plots that
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