. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 104 The Florists' Review June 3, 1920 ac 3C ??' **• ac ac NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 3C ac ac ac ac ai Secretary John Watson estimates the annual business represented by the A. A. N. at over $30,000,000. A. H. FiNNEGAN, Oregon City, Ore., re- ports shipping out 410,000 strawberry plants since the middle of January, 1920, most of them going to California. Nick Ohmer and New Oregon were the favorite varieties with buyers. The death May 26 of Edward W. Reid, vice-president of Holm & Olson, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., was briefly recorded in last week's


. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 104 The Florists' Review June 3, 1920 ac 3C ??' **• ac ac NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 3C ac ac ac ac ai Secretary John Watson estimates the annual business represented by the A. A. N. at over $30,000,000. A. H. FiNNEGAN, Oregon City, Ore., re- ports shipping out 410,000 strawberry plants since the middle of January, 1920, most of them going to California. Nick Ohmer and New Oregon were the favorite varieties with buyers. The death May 26 of Edward W. Reid, vice-president of Holm & Olson, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., was briefly recorded in last week's obituary column of The Eeview and receives more extended notice in that column this week. He and his father con- ducted the Upland Nurseries in Bridge- port, O., about twenty-five years ago and in St. Paul it was under his management that Holm & Olson established the Park Nurseries. Of those who were with the California Nursery Co., Niles, Cal., until recently, J. H. O'Neal has joined the forces of Silva-Bergtholdt Co., at Marysville; A. A. Hunt is in charge of the Arthur Cann greenhouses, at San Jose, and H. H. Sherrer, who was manager, has gone to Oakland. S. E. Bergstrom is on the Sand- born place, near Niles, and W. E. Collins is at his home, in Niles. George C. Roed- ing, the new owner of the California Nursery Co., will open extensive sales- rooms and depots in Oakland. FEUIT GROWINa IN FRANCE. French Nurseries After the War. In comparing the French orchards with American orchards, we must realize first of all that there is no such thing in France as a big, commercial orchard in- dustry as we know it in America, but France does produce an enormous quan- tity of fine fruit, since practically the entire country is dotted with orchards and fruit gardens. The grape industry, on the contrary, is commercialized and organized on a gigantic scale, because of the fact that Frenchmen seldom drink water, using their light wine instead. There are sev- eral reasons for this, one


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