110 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Nov. I, '99 2424 Benj. Mitchelson, Polk, Ashland Co., Ohio. 



2401 Joseph Kamer, Reed's Landing, Minn. Too poor for use. 



Mar. 16, '99 2472 Mrs. M. Runkel, Klossner, Minn. Rec'd autumn. 



Dec. 2, '99 2431 Edwin Woodward, Wilna, O. (Wilna Beauty) none grw. 



Mar. 3, '99 Mrs. E. L Austin, Dundas, Rice Co, Minn. 



Jan. 30, '00 Miss C. G. Doughty, Carversville, Bucks Co., Penn. 



Mar. 25, '99 Mathias Siebenaler, New Trier, Dakota Co., Minn. 



Alexander Thompson, Uxbridge, Ont., Canada. 



Mar. I, '99 Mrs. Anna Billings, High Forest, Minn. 



Mar. 31, '99 Hans A. Clausen, Evans, Minn. 



Nov. 15, '99 Mrs. Daisy S. Haycroft, Madelia, Minn. 



Feb. 12, '00 J. E. Hickernell, Saegertown, Penn. 



W. N. Norwood. Rhea, Ark. 



Nov. 21, '99 Eaton T. Donnell, Donnellson, Ills. 



Jan. 16, '00 T. A. Church, Stony Fork, N. C. 



Oct. 8, '99 2377 R. Derby, Jr., Florence, Erie Co,, O. (Derby A.) 



Dec. 25, '99 A. H. Gaston, Harvey, Ills. 



HANDLING AND CARE OF NURSERY STOCK RECEIVED 

 FROM THE NURSERY, FALL AND SPRING. 



W. S. HIGBIE, WASHBURN. 



I have no doubt that prospective buyers of nursery stock are less 

 concerned over the question of how to properly care for their stock 

 after they receive it than they are over the question of vv^here to buy 

 so as to get it in a condition that would warrant bestowing the neces- 

 sary care upon it. When trees and plants are received in the condi- 

 tion that the writer has sometimes gotten them, the instructions of 

 how to care for them are very simple, viz. : choose a bare piece of 

 ground a safe distance from everything you do not wish to destroy, 

 pile the stock in a heap, throwing what dry straw was used as pack- 

 ing over the whole and set on fire. This method will save work and 

 anxiety. 



Now, I may be called to account for casting reflections upon the 

 "honest and much abused nurserymen," but who can help but feel 

 disgusted, to say the least, after reading in catalogues the emphatic 

 claims of excellency of stock, of superior packing facilities, etc., and 

 after carefully selecting what is wanted and sending hard-earned 

 cash, to receive, perhaps, passably good stock, but in the above 

 noted condition? 



But to the text. I will first consider fall care. As a rule, I 

 would advise planters to have their stock delivered in the spring, for 

 all well equipped nurseries have storing cellars where trees and 

 shrubs can be kept in perfect condition through the winter. But if 

 the nursery patronized is at a considerable distance, with the proba- 

 bility of getting the stock very late in the spring, it would be desir- 

 able to order for fall delivery, with the exception of strawberries. 



