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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Februakt 4, 1904. 



N URSERY NE WS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCUTION Of NURSERYMEN. 



ii.^A^^^'^K^- ^,'^H- Knoxvllle.Teiin.: Vlce-Pres., 

 P. A. Weber St. Louis; Sec'y. Geo. C. Seag-er 

 Rochester N. Y.; Treas., C. L. Yates. Eoehester 

 „\,7,L J^V? '"■enty-eletth annual convention 

 win be held at Atlanta. Ga.. June. liKM. 



A KEPOKT shows that there are 90,000 

 acres of orchards in Colorado, with 780,- 

 000 acres suitable ami available for or- 

 chards and small fruits. 



The Hopedale Nurseries, Monticello, 

 III., recently shipped twelve bushels of 

 acorns to an eastern nursery and 300 

 pounds of tree seeds to other parties. 



C. W. Stuakt, of Newark, N. Y., 

 says that in planting an apple orchard 

 his company commonly seeds the tract 

 to alfalfa after the trees are well 

 started. 



The West Michigan Nurseries Co., 

 Benton Harbor, Mich., has re-elected as 

 president, J. W. Bedford; vice-president. 

 P. M. Kelley; secretary and treasurer. 

 H. L. Bird; other directors. Milton 

 Preston, W. B. Moshier. A. C. Bird and 

 John E. Bell. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company 

 has lately completed the work of plant- 

 ing 50,000 young locust trees on land 

 which the railroad purchased a few 

 years ago west of Conewago Station, Pa. 

 An official of the company says that it 

 is the purpose of the company to plant 

 1,000,000 trees in the next four years. 

 The timber is to be used for railroad 

 ties. 



ALABAMA HORTICULTURISTS. 



The year-old Alabama State Horti- 

 cultural Society met in convention in 

 Mobile January 26 and 27, with Presi- 

 dent Heikes, of the Huntsville Nurseries, 

 in the chair. Professor Mackintosh, 

 the state horticulturist, is secretary. 

 Some very interesting papers were read 

 and discussed, mostly pertaining to 

 fruit and truck farming, spraving and 

 fertilizers. Chas. Pabst, of Ocean 

 Springs, Miss., in his fine treatment on 

 pecan culture, disclosed some heavy 

 frauds in the selling of what are sup- 

 posed to be grafted and budded pecan 

 trees and put every member on the look- 

 out for such. Professor McKay, Missis- 

 sippi state horticulturist, gave some 

 most interesting facts about what he 

 got out of a six-acre peach orchard, 

 utilizing the space between the trees for 

 vegetables, which every member, until 

 they heard how he did it, would have 

 considered an impossibility. The meet- 

 ing on the whole was in every way suc- 

 cessful and pleasant. The society is 

 still in its infancy, but bids fair to be- 

 come a mighty factor in the fruit and 

 vegetable industry of Alabama. It has 

 already succeeded in getting a state law 

 protecting fruit and truck farmers by 

 excluding crop pests of all kinds, and 

 furthermore got an annual appropria- 

 tion of $1,500 for defraying the ex- 

 penses incurred through this act. Pro- 

 fessor Mackintosh assured us that he 

 will leave no stone unturned to eradicate 

 what pests there are in the state antl 

 keep out what we have not yet con- 

 tracted, and we believe he is the man 

 to do it. H. P. L. 



THE MARKET FOR COAL. 



The leading coal trade journal, the 

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 Detroit has occupied a somewhat better 

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 prices on some Ohio coals in that mar- 

 ket resulted in more or leas cutting of 

 prices on the part of other producers. 

 At Cleveland the principal oversupply of 

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 have been in excess of actual demand. 



In the Chicago market all grades of bi- 

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 lower. ' ' Free ' ' coal from western 

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 cents lower than it was the first of the 

 year. At St. Louis prices have shaded 

 nif 15 to 25 cents and there is a plenti- 

 ful supply of coal on the east side of 

 the river. Kansas City shippers have 

 managed to maintain prices fairly well, 

 but there is an accumulation of coal on 

 track. 



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