. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 116 The Florists' Review DacauBiB 29, 1921. L. C. Stark, of Stark Bros. Nursery & Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., was in Chicago for Christmas. Although the price of Manetti stocks still is nearly three times what they cost in the old days, the demand has been sufficient to cause prompt clearances of this season's arrivals from England and France. The program has just been issued for the thirty-second annual meeting of the Western Association of Nurserymen, which will be held at the Hotel Balti- more, Kansas City, Mo., January 25 and 26. A meetin
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 116 The Florists' Review DacauBiB 29, 1921. L. C. Stark, of Stark Bros. Nursery & Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., was in Chicago for Christmas. Although the price of Manetti stocks still is nearly three times what they cost in the old days, the demand has been sufficient to cause prompt clearances of this season's arrivals from England and France. The program has just been issued for the thirty-second annual meeting of the Western Association of Nurserymen, which will be held at the Hotel Balti- more, Kansas City, Mo., January 25 and 26. A meeting of retail nurserymen will be held at 2 p. m. January 24. The official roster of the Weller Nurs- eries Co., Holland, Mich, is: President and nursery manager, B. H. Weller; sec- retary and general manager, P. Weller; assistant secretary, A. Weller; sales man- ager, N. I. W. Kriek; manager shipping department, J. J. WeEer; propagator. Jacob Weller. SMALL STORM LOSS IN EAST. The "ice storm," as it is called, which raged in Massachusetts at the opening of December, did not do great damage to the nurseries there, although a number of large ones were in its course. The heaviest damage was done to the old trees, on private estates, in parks and along highways, whose stiff branches would not bend beneath the load of ice, which measured three inches on some. Those on high ground suf- fered most. Many large deciduous and fruit trees were ruined. The evergreens soon became a mass of ice, the branches supporting one another, and did not suf- fer so badly. The young stock in the nurseries fared better than the older, because their pliable branches bent be- neath the weight, and were able to be straightened later. The Framingham Nurseries, at Fram- ingham, Mass., were in the midst of the storm and probably suffered as much as any other nursery. But Kichard M. Wyman, the proprietor, states that "losses from the recent ice storm will be comparatively slight. Few sorts of trees
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