. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. tgio. The American Florist. 995 A paper was read by H. W. Mar- shall, of Arlington, Neb., on "The Commercial Side of the Nursery Busi- ness," in which he maintained that while the prices of almost all other commodities had doubled in the last 10 years, the retail price of nursery stock has not been raised more than 25 to 30 per cent. This he attributed to the following causes: Mail order houses, "one-horse" dealers, and, wholesalers selling at practically wholesale prices to retail dealers. W.
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. tgio. The American Florist. 995 A paper was read by H. W. Mar- shall, of Arlington, Neb., on "The Commercial Side of the Nursery Busi- ness," in which he maintained that while the prices of almost all other commodities had doubled in the last 10 years, the retail price of nursery stock has not been raised more than 25 to 30 per cent. This he attributed to the following causes: Mail order houses, "one-horse" dealers, and, wholesalers selling at practically wholesale prices to retail dealers. W. L. Howard, of Columbia, Mo., read a paper urging a closer co-oper- ation between nurserymen and fruit growers, the former to strive for the raising of a higher grade of stock and furnishing same true to name, the latter to take better care of the stock after it is planted. Geo. H. Whiting, who has been a resident of Tankton, S. D., since 1879, read a paper on "The Effects of Tree Planting in the Middle ; He re- ferred back to the time when "one could travel from morning till night in almost any section of the state without seeing a tree as high as a man's ; The winds had full sweep, varying from the hot, scorching winds of sum- mer to the destructive blizzards of winter. The planting of trees has greatly softened the rigors of the climate, conserving the moisture and checking the velocity of the winds. "The Influence of California's Hor- ticultural Development on the Nursery Business," was the title of a paper read by Geo. C. Roeding, of Fresno, Calif., he being the first California man pres- ent at a national nurserymen's con- vention for a great many years. Cali- fornia, he said, grows every variety of fruit known in the temperate zone, and its dried fruits find not only a ready market throughout the United States, but shipments are being made in ever-increasing quantities to the European countries. The raising of such immense quantitie
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