August 10, 1907 



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DEMAND FOR NURSERY STOCK IN 

 CHINA. 



Vine-Consul Ernest Vollmer. writing 

 from Tsingtau, gives the following ac- 

 count of the newly created demand in 

 that part of China for fruit trees which 

 he thinks, American nurserymen 

 should supply: 



"The German forestry department for 

 the Kiaochow territory, with head- 

 quarters at Tsingtau, has within the 

 last few years planted a large acreage 

 in forests, using mainly acacias, but 

 also oaks and many varieties of pine. 

 Aside from this purely forest work a 

 large experiment station is located at 

 Tsingtau. 



At this station extensive investiga- 

 tions have been conducted with pear, 

 apple and plum trees from Germany 

 and California; cherries from Cali- 

 fornia, and native peaches and apri- 

 cots, besides berries of all sorts. The 

 success with this imported stock has 

 been so satisfactory that the fruit busi- 

 ness will be entered into on a large 

 scale and it is hoped to make Shantung 

 one of the greatest fruit-exporting 

 countries in the world. 



In order to expedite matters and 

 create an interest among the native 

 farmers, 66,000 grafted and budded 

 young trees were distributed free 

 among the Chinese last year, and even 

 then the demand was not nearly filled. 



It would thus seem that the Cali- 

 fornia fruit trees and their merits are 

 known to the German officials, but the 

 native simply knows that he can get 

 a few trees free from the forestry de- 

 partment. Seeing the higher price the 

 fruits from foreign trees bring, the 

 Chinese are naturally anxious to get 

 as many trees as possible, and this 

 cause.s a shortage With the German 

 Government fostering the fruit indus- 

 trv and every possibility of its high 

 development in this district, a great 

 field should soon be opened to the 

 American nurserymen. California 

 fees have proved successful here, and, 

 with a rapidly growing demand, it 

 would pay Americans to go after the 

 business." 



We are in receipt of a vei-y pl'eas- 

 ant letter from Mr. A. Leuthy. of Ros- 

 lindale. Maw., written from Hotel de 

 la Poste, Ghent, in which he give^ us 

 the following information: — 



"The stock of azaleas in Gand is 

 far behind that of other years on ac- 

 count of the cold weather. The buds 

 are not set yet but with warm weather 

 they will be all right in two or three 

 •weeks. Palms are very high in price; 

 on some of the places they do not 

 know how much to ask for them and 

 in many places they are forced so 

 hard they would not stand shipping. 

 Tuberous begonias are also far behind 

 the growth of other years. The hy- 

 brid roses are just in full bloom at 

 present; also, the bedding plants in 

 the parks and gardens never looked 

 better than this year. 



"I am trying to get back to N'ew 

 York on the 17th of August and vn\l 

 attend the convention in Philadelphia 

 if possible. 



"The weather here is very pleasant 

 as well as the surroundings. There 

 are several American florists at this 

 hotel, some from New York, others 

 from Philadelphia, and still more 

 coming." 



A RECORD PRICE FOR A CHRYS- 

 ANTHEMUM BLOOM. 



Those of your readers who are old 

 enough to remember the sale of Mrs. 

 Alpheus Hardy, a hairy Japanese 

 chrysanthemum of some repute eigh- 

 teen years ago, will be interested to 

 learn that big prices are not wholly 

 confined to your side. A short time 

 since there appeared in a London 

 illustrated newspaper called "Sketch" 

 a portrait of the Princess Von Hohen- 

 berg and an illustration of a bloom of 

 the chrysanthemum called Sada Yacco 

 a variety raised by Nonin of Paris. 



The following interesting note ac- 

 companies the portrait and picture of 

 the flower. A music exhibition held 

 at Trieste, under the presidency of the 

 Archduchess Friedrich. was a failure 

 and to pay off all the debts incurred a 

 number of Austrian ladies organized a 

 Flower Show. Among the visitors was 

 Sophie, Princess von Hohenberg, wife 

 of the heir to the Austrian throne, 

 who, after asking how much money 

 was still wanted, and learning that 

 £8000 (or about $40,000 in American 

 money) would set matters right, paid 

 that sum for the single bloom shown. 

 Apart from the charitable intent this 

 may be taken as a record of first 

 magnitude. C. H. P. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The New York Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station has issued a popular edi- 

 tion of bulletin 281 on Miscible Oil 

 Sprays, summarized by F. H. Hall. The 

 conclusions intimate that the proprie- 

 tary scale remedies of the miscible oil 

 class are too expensive for general use 

 by orchardists and that, in order to be 

 effective, they must be used in consid- 

 erably greater strength than recom- 

 mended by the manufacturers. 



As showing something of the amount 

 of work the State Experiment Stations 

 are called upon to perform it is in- 

 teresting to learn from the report of 

 the director of the New York Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station that in one 

 department alone, that of fertilizer in- 

 spection, the station annually receives 

 for analysis from the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture' from twelve to fifteen 

 hundred samples of fertilizers and feed- 

 ing stuffs, requiring upwards of eight 

 thousand single chemical determina- 

 tions. Some of these determinations 

 are rendered more time-consuming by 

 the fact that occasionally they must 

 serve as testimony in court. These 

 samples are known to the station auth- 

 orities only by number. As these ana- 

 lyses are the basis for determining 

 whether fertilizer manufacturers are 

 violating the law as to the quality of 

 their goods, it is necessary to surround 

 this part of the work with all needed 

 pr-rcautions as to accuracy. The sta- 

 tion's part in fertilizer inspection is 

 one of the most laborious and expen- 

 sive duties that it has to perform. 



VICTIMS OF HAIL STORMS. 



The luess Garden Co. and the 

 Schaefr-r Co.. Newburgh. N. Y.. lost 

 heavily recently, without insurance, 



T. G. Yale. Wellington. O., on Julv 

 25. H. F. Drury, Galesburg, 111.. July 

 24; heavy losers. 



C. J Btirdell, Bowling Green. Ky . 

 between three and four hundred lighfs 

 destroyed. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. C. J. Inloes. mother of Mis. C. 

 E. Critchell, Cincinnati, C, died on 

 July 29. 



Mrs. Harriet S.. widow of Orange 

 Judd. for many years editor of the 

 American Agriculturist, died at Spring- 

 field, Mass., on Ai'gust 2, aged 64. 



James Young, Hartford, Ct., died of 

 tetanus on July 26. He came to this 

 country from England in 1892 and for 

 eleven years has conducted a florist 

 business in Hartford. Mr. Young was 

 about 40 years old, was a member of 

 several fraternal organizations and 

 highly esteemed in the community. A 

 widow and five children survive him. 



Frederick L. LaFrance, of the La- 

 France Carnation Co., Elniira, N. Y., 

 died suddenly on July 28 at his sum- 

 mer residence at Port Bay, Lake On- 

 tario. Mr. LaFrance has been a life- 

 long resident of Elmira, and about 

 nine years ago started iii the florist 

 business. He was forty-five years of 

 ago. A widow and two daughters sur- 

 vive him. 



William H. Traendly, who has con- 

 ducted a retail flower business on West 

 17th street and at the Cafe Martin, New 

 York City, for a number of years, died 

 at New York Hospital on August 2, 

 aged 45 years. Mr. Traendly had been 

 ill but a week with a rheumatic 

 trouble which affected his heart and 

 caused his death. The interment took 

 place on Sunday. He leaves a wife and 

 two children. He was a brother of the 

 well-known wholesale florist Frank H. 

 Traendly. 



RUMORED DROWNING OF ED- 

 WARD HEACOCK. 



At this writing (August 7th) the 

 Hcacock family at Wyncote, Pa., are 

 in a state of keen suspense over the 

 news received yesterday from British 

 Columbia. The details so far are 

 meagre. All that is known positively 

 is that the canoe upset; that Edward 

 clung to the overturned craft and that 

 his companion swam ashore. Later 

 the canoe was recovered but all the 

 rest blank. Edward Heacock is the 

 s'econd son of Joseph Heacock the 

 well known palm and rose grower. He 

 went on a pleasure trip to British 

 Columbia some time ago. This trag- 

 edy — as there is only too much reason 

 to think it will' turn out to be a trag- 

 'edy — has cast a gloom over the entire 

 community here. We earnestly hope 

 that some trace of the missing man 

 may be heard of soon. The sympa- 

 thies of everyone w'ill go out to the 

 stricken household in their great 

 sorrow. 



ELIOT. ME.. Aug. 7. — Ttere w.is a head- 

 on collision hetweon two open electric cars 

 on the .\tliintic Coast line at Kennard's 

 Corner here tonight, when three persons 

 were seriously injured and several others 

 thrown from their seats and bruised. 



Mrs. 'William H. ElMoft. of Brighton. 

 Mass.. and Madbury. N. H.. her summer 

 home, was thrown from her seat to the 

 ground, receiving injuries to both hips and 

 n sealp wound. — Boston TVst. 



We sincerely trust the above ac- 

 .ount is exaggerated and that Mrs. 

 Elliott has sustained no serious in- 

 jury. 



