. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 74 The Florists' Review April 30, The death of J. M. Vandervort, of J. M. Vandervort & Son, proprietors of the New Antioch Nurseries, at New Antioch, O., is recorded in this week's obituary column. The county horticultural commissioner announces that 62,000 fruit trees, mostly Bartlett pears, have been planted in Nevada county, California, this spring. Large areas of timber land are being cleared and planted in expectation of making that section a commercial fruit region. BIG NUBSEBY SEASON. Eeports to the traffic officials of the Alton


. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 74 The Florists' Review April 30, The death of J. M. Vandervort, of J. M. Vandervort & Son, proprietors of the New Antioch Nurseries, at New Antioch, O., is recorded in this week's obituary column. The county horticultural commissioner announces that 62,000 fruit trees, mostly Bartlett pears, have been planted in Nevada county, California, this spring. Large areas of timber land are being cleared and planted in expectation of making that section a commercial fruit region. BIG NUBSEBY SEASON. Eeports to the traffic officials of the Alton lines indicate that the C. & A. E. E. has recently finished handling one of the biggest nursery season's business iu history. Bloomington and Normal, in Illinois, and Louisiana, in Missouri, arc all big shipping points for nursery products by the C. & A. and they have handled an enormous amount of these products this year. Power of Begulation. To prevent the spread of tree dis- eases, it has become an established principle of law in this country that the legislature of a state may adopt any reasonable regulation which has a legitimate tendency in that direction. For example, in upholding the validity We have always found The ReTiew a top notcher as to re- ?ulta receiTod from wholesale adTertisin^ of nnraery stock.— Atlantic Nnraery Co.« per D. W. Babcock, Hlgr., Berlin, Md.« January 16, 1914. CAN SOME BEADEB ANSWEB? After much searching, a friend of mine, who was formerly in the nursery business, found an old recipe for de- stroying vermin and parasites on fruit and shade trees. He claims that this recipe is especially recommended for borers in peach trees, also for coating horse-bitten trees and heavy wounds. He does not remember whether this formula was cooked, nor in what pro- portions, except the nicotine, the chem- icals were used. Can you give this in- formation f The ingredients are as follows: Twenty per cent of forty per cent nicotine. Arsenate of lead. Cop


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