Cfecretary's (^ori^er. 



More Care in Propagation— These are the woids of large experience: 

 "I am sure there is a generation of planters growing up who will gladly pay 

 any extra cost of propagation to the nurseryman who will propagate from 

 fruiting stock only." — J. H. Hale. 



A Profitable Orchard. — Speaking of the orchard of the Jewell Nursery 

 Co., the Jewell Bulletin says: "You ought to see our fruit trees. They are 

 loaded to the muzzle. Some of them have their limbs propped to keep from 

 breaking, and some have already broken, We have been picking windfall 

 apples and shipping them to the city at $3.50 per barrel." 



A Cold Storage for Apple Treks. — The Western N. Y. Nursery Co. is 

 trying an interesting experiment this summer in carrying over in cold storage, 

 at a temperature of 32 degrees, 70,000 apple trees. It is an unsolved ques- 

 tion as to how the trees will behave after passing through what amounts to 

 three consecutive winters without an intervening summer. The outcome of 

 this experiment will be looked for wiih interest. 



The Owatonna Experiment Station.— Mr. Thos. E. Cashman, the 

 well known nurseryman of Owatonna, has been appointed superintendent of 

 the experiment station which since its establishment had been continuously 

 under the care of the late E. H. S. Dartt. We understand the seedling trees 

 being tested there are fruiting rather sparsely this year. The report from Mr. 

 Cashman to be made at the winter meeting will be looked forward to with 

 interest. 



Visit the State Fair.— This number may reach its readers too late for 

 them to receive this invitation intended for them to visit the fair this year, 

 but it comes in ample season to make good resolutions for another year. If you 

 are interested in fruit growing it will be a great advantage to you to examine 

 the large display of fruit on exhibition in Horticultural Hall and talk with 

 the fruit growers, many of them spend the week there. The exhibition in 

 this department is an object lesson of great value to all who avail themselves 

 of the opportunity. 



The Principles of Plant Breeding Applied to Orchard Planting. 

 Prof. L. H. Bailey in a late address says, "I have an orchard of Crawford 

 peaches all purchased from one of the best and most reliable members of this 

 association, but I have at least twenty kinds of Crawford peaches, some of 

 them practically worthless. If I should plant another Crawford orchard I 

 should want to know what tree the buds were taken from. I believe the time 

 has come when the nurseryman must cease to propagate indiscriminately frcm 

 stock merely because it belongs to a given variety. He should propagate 

 only from trees which he knows have the direct merit for efficiency." 



Virginia is Licensing Nursery Agents.— The state of Virginia is 

 about to test a new law requiring dealers and growers of nursery stock to take 

 out a license, at an expense of $10, in each county in which they have agents 

 at work. The list of such agents must be filed with the clerk of the county 

 court. Each agent must carry a certificate from his employer, and if caught 

 delivering nursery stock supplied by any other person than the one for whom 

 he purports to be selling he may be heavily fined or shut up in the county jail 

 for a year or both. Will this law make nursery agents more cautious in their 

 methods or the farmer more careful in his purchases?. 



