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POPULAR GARDENING. 



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nounccfi the Finest Garden the best of all with 

 them; the Sliiur aud mid Owisi liiinly. Mr. 

 Kellogs. iif Jauesville, Wis., looks upon the he 

 Snto as the best for Wisuonsiu, and BarntVa 

 A mcrican as one of the worst. 



Concerning the Kelsey and Si moHi Plum, Mr. 

 Chase of New York had had the former three 

 years in nursery with every appearance of its 

 being: as hardy as the Ftradshaw. Mr. Van Lind- 

 ley of North Carolina, said the Kelsen does well 

 in his State, and is the only new Plum of promise 

 for them. Mr. Lippincot^, of Alabama, considers 

 the Kelsey and Sii/io/ii both vuvy hardy aud flue 

 south of Tennessee. Prof. ItudU, itf Iowa, 

 pronounces Siiue)iii only as hai-dy as the 

 Wild fioose. It comes from extreme north- 

 western China, from a dr.v district where the air 

 and soil are dry; it is valuable for cooking and 

 for dessert. Stands heat but not cold; has more 

 of Peach and Apricot flavor than of Plum. One 

 delegate said that by top-working the Kelscy on 

 hardy varieties it will be adapted to cultivation 

 much farther north. 



The Gkape Industry in Missouri. G. E. 

 Meissner, of Missouri, in a short paper, spoke 

 warmly of the quality of the Grape products in 

 his State. The black rot had given Grape culture 

 a great check, many cultivators giving up their 

 l^oncord and Catawba plantations. Varieties 

 like Ives and Cynthia are changing the aspect of 

 the industry. Great hopes are entertained that 

 cultivators will soon have the better of black rot 

 and mildew by means of the copper remedy in- 

 troduced from France. 



Small Fruit Varieties. T. F. Longeuecker 

 of Dayton, Ohio, doubts if one-fourth of the 

 nurserymen yet know the possibilities of the 

 Cre^eeiit Strawberry. It is the almost universal 

 report of market growere that it returns more 

 money than any other variety. Bubach has 

 generally been found reliable. Our want is a re- 

 liable perfect flowering variety. Je^ie meets 

 this nearer than any other recent introduction. 

 Uaoerlaml a Crescent seedling like its parent does 

 well over a wide range. This and the preceeding 

 one promises better for profits than any other 

 new ones he knows of. Both take the impress of 

 varieties used for fertilization in a marked de- 

 gree. In Blackberries Ancient Briton, Agawam, 

 Taylirr, Snyder, have proved the most reliable in 

 his vicinity. Geo. Kellogg of Wis. finds Je^ie in 

 sandy soil does not bear with uniform freedom, 

 thinks it may do better on clay. Mr. Webster of 

 111. reported Buhaeh and Jessie quite poor this 

 j'ear on his clay soil. Had found the Warjield to 

 sell in Chicago for $1 a case more than any other 

 sent. It bears and propagates well and will ship 

 safely for^any distance. The Nemaha Raspberry 

 was said by Mr. Green to be much like Gregg 

 except hardier. 



Cause of Buttons in Strawberries. Prof. 

 Budd lays it to the conditions for perfect fertili- 

 zation being unfavorable. Downer's Prolific, is 

 the best fertilizer for Crescent. Too often there 

 are too few of the fertilizing varieties set ; there 

 may be an absence of bees, or showers may pre- 

 vent the carrying of polleli As a rule would ad- 

 vise one row of the perfect for every row of the 

 imperfect sorts. In some seasons the so-called 

 perfect varieties ma.v have so little pollen as not 

 to fruit perfectly. Mr. Weed of Ohio said that 

 in the Barnesville region Wakefield was regarded 

 superior to the Crescent. Spoke highly of plant- 

 ing Wilson and Crescent in mixture; under such 

 circumstances on clay soil the product has been 

 enormous and the quality very fine, and in size 

 almost equal to Sharpless. 



Commercial Fertilizers in the Nursery ; 

 Green Manures. Thomas Meehau's paper 

 " Should a Nurseryman use Chemical Fertilizers," 

 is given in full on another page. In the dis- 

 cussion which followed, Mr. Fox of Wis., said he 

 had used Pacific Guano on very steep land with 

 good results. Believed in using the best grades, 

 aud had confidence in the honesty of some 

 makers. In the Hammondsport Graiie region 

 commercial fertilizers were much used, and with 

 good results. Mr. Willard of N. Y. believed 

 that many fertilizers sold were not worth one- 

 fourth of what they cost. Mr. Hicks of Ala. had 

 found some good and some otherwise. Mr. Pal- 

 mer of Ohio, said that no reUance can be placed 

 on the exhibits of vegetables, etc., made at fairs 

 by fertilizer companies. They picked up select 

 products wherever they could for shcjwing. The 

 principal secret of growing premium Potatoes 

 was elbow grease and sharp steel. Mr. Mann, of 

 Illinois, spoke of its having been shown that 

 nitrogen can only be available as it is thrown 

 off by microbes and that these are not attracted 

 by fertilizers as they are by manure. 



Prof. Budd related an instance of where Corn 

 gr()wn on lanil where Rye had been plowed under 

 had reached a height of four or five feet, where 

 on the same laud and under similar circinn- 

 stances, except that a fertilizer was useil instead 

 of Rye, the growth was but three or f ou r feet at 

 the same time. Even dry straw or Cum stalks 

 creates a vegetable mould for bacteria to act 

 upon. Tho French say that enough nitric acid 

 falls in the summer showers to answer for any 

 crop, provided there is vegetable moulii in the 

 soil to have it act ui)on. You must have this 

 element. In the West if he was going to S()w a 

 fertilizer it should be salt or ashes. Mr. Watson, 

 of Illinois, stati'd that Mr. Phtenix (tf his State 

 had great faith in the worth of salt. He started 

 with five bushels to the acre aud increased to 10 

 or 1.5 bushels. An Ohio delegate believed that Kye 

 brought to head and plowed under when in bud 

 gives the best results. Mr. Caywood, of New 

 York, had rapidly brought up poor land by sow- 

 ing Rye in the fall, plowing it under in the spring 

 following immediately with Corn, which in turn 

 was plowed under. After such a course could 

 raise any crop. Mr. Webster, of Illinois, placed 

 Clover first for plowing down, and Southern Cow 

 Pea next, plowing this under when it is as high 

 as the chin. Mr. Rowe, of Wisconsin, referred to 

 the fact that in the Orange district of California, 

 commercial fertilizers were used with success. 

 Mr, Kellogg, of Wisconsin, had used fertilizers 

 manufactured to his order on alternate rows of 

 Strawberries, and could see no perceptible effects. 

 {To he cwitinued.) 



BY-NOTES FROM THE CONVENTION. 



But two New Englanders were present. Is the 

 East tired of going West V New York next year. 



President Sweet's address made no great im- 

 pression. It was not read. 



The vote of thanks to Commissioner Colman 

 an e.x-president of the association, for the inter- 

 est he has taken in introducing the copper reme- 

 dies for Grape rot was as unanimous as it cer- 

 tainly was a graceful act. 



Soon every nurseryman will be the architect 

 of his own tree digger. 



Mention names, Mr. Willard! Our genial 

 neighbor hardly did himself credit to hold to 

 himself certain exclusive information regarding 

 the evil doings of commercial fertilizer makers, 

 and not benefit his craft by naming names. 



Who calls friend Kellogg the "Sarcastic 

 Badger?" 



The Quiet Men on Hand. Mr. Geo. Josselyn 

 is one of the quiet men. He says nothing, but 

 keeps on sawing wood.— Chicago Daily. 



George W^ashinoton Albaugh will be rec- 

 ognized !is the gentleman previously known by 

 the initials N.H., but G. W. will in aU probability 

 stick to him now since he was rechristeued by 

 Mr. Morey. Mr. Albaugh comes from the little 

 town of Tadmor, Ohio, and was known in the 

 convention as the silver-tongued orator. He was 

 also speaker pro tem. of the Ohio Legislature. 

 He is so devoted to the nursery business that he 

 has drawn up a codicil to his last will and testa- 

 ment providing for the final disposition of his 

 body in a grave to be dug bj- the Lightning tree 

 digger, the body to be embalmed in fire-proof 

 burial) and moss.— Daily Herald. 



Nothing green about Secretary Green's plans 

 for holding conventions. That one of having the 

 sessions and the exhibits under the same roof 

 that sheltered the delegates during their stay 

 was a stroke that elicited much praise. It no 

 doubt added much to the general interest. A 

 good plan to be repeated. 



The earlier date did itself credit for cool 

 weather. 



Those New York Fellows. We believe Mr. 

 Sweet, of this State, is the first president that 

 was ever re-electeil. The Secretaryship again 

 comes to this State, while we retain a place in the 

 executive board. 



What an unquenchable hungering and 

 thirsting for information about new varieties. 



If the nurserymen heard nothing more than 

 this by ex-president Albaugh, the going to 

 Chicago was not in vain: "Handle your trees 

 while out of ground as things of life." 



Why not, Mr. Watrous? The paper on pro- 

 tecting originatoi-s of new varieties for which 

 you were down was not heard from. 



Forestry. Vice President Carpenter, the en- 

 terprising Nebraska nurseryman exploded some 



of the current statements of the press regarding 

 the relative position of forestry in this country 

 and abroad. More on this subject in later issues. 



Nurserymen are certainly behind the times in 

 the matter of an improved nomenclature for 

 fruits, many years, in fact, to the rear of the 

 pomologists. Notwithstanding the stirring speech 

 of Pomologist Van Deman, of the Agricultural 

 Department, ami ably followed by others, tli"? 

 Society took an indifferent stand on the subject. 

 We hope the friends of the association will per- 

 mit Secretary Green on his own responsibility to 

 embody the improved lists prepared by the 

 American Pomological Society in the forthcom- 

 ing report. The nurserymen should by all means 

 take an advanced stand in working an improve- 

 ment here. 



The Nurserymens' Proteitive Society 

 held its session on the evening of June 5, and 

 elected officei*s for the ensuing year as follows: 

 For President, G. W. Camjibell, Delaware, Ohio 

 for Secretary, Thos. B. Meehan, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 This association which was referred to as a wheel' 

 within a wheel by one soured correspondent a 

 year ago, is entirely distinct from the American 

 Association, being purely a commercial organiza- 

 tion looking to the pi-otection of the craft from 

 unreliable buyers, and the meetings are occupied 

 solely with revising the commercial rating of 

 purchasers of nursery stock. It is an older 

 society by fourteen years than the American 

 Association. 



Articles That Were on Exhibition. The 

 LigMnlng Tree DioU'r works from one side of 

 trees.'requiring a round trip to dig a row; its ad- 

 vantages, light draft, low [irice; N. H. Albaugh 

 & Son, Tadmor, Ohio. ... A handsome ex- 

 hibit of Raffln, the tying material derived from 

 the Madagascar Palm Haffla Ruffla, by H. S. An- 

 derson, Dnion Sjirings, N. Y. . . . Eureka 

 Laud Marker. A three-wheeled device for mark- 

 ing nursery or other rows, iron throughout; by 

 W. H. Briggs, Covington, Ohio. . . . Tree 

 Dlyger, by L. G. Bragg & Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. 

 . . . Common Sejtse Cultit^atttr. . . . Nursery 

 Hoe, with long narrow blade and spring steel 

 Dibble for nursery use, by P. B. Fisher, Tadmor, 

 Ohio. . . Fruiting canes of the Crandall 



Cun-ant, the promising new black-fruited Cur- 

 rent, by Frank Ford & Sons, Ravenna, Ohio. 

 . . . Rhus Cotinus Wood, showing its beauty 

 when worked and poUshed. Engraving of flower 

 framed in wood of same . This is said to be the 

 Shitten wood of scripture. Eraser & Lippincott, 

 Hunts\"ille, Alabama. The same firm also ex- 

 hibited of their southern grown Pear seedlings, 

 June budded Peach trees four and five feet high, 

 one year from the pit. . . . Evergreen seed- 

 lings in fine assortment and of splendid growth, 

 from three inches to three feet high, the Blue 

 Spruce and Dwarf Mountain Pine included, by 

 D. HUl, Evergreen specialist, Dundee, Di. . . . 

 Grape innes, from T. S. Hubbard Co., Fredonia, 

 N. Y., showing the adaptability of the soil in 

 this locality for Grape vine culture. . . . 

 Southern grown Nursery stock, retarded by ice 

 process. Huntsville Wholesale Nursery, Ala- 

 bama. . . . Plant in pot of itfiamiSfraicbcrry, 

 a variety for which great lateness is claimed; by 

 J. D. Kruschke Piqua, O. . , . Palmer Rasit- 

 bet ry showing a-single strong cane, bearing a re- 

 markable crop of fruit. F. R. Palmer & Son, 

 Mansfield, Ohio. . . . yicMaster's Box Straps 

 for strengthening shipping cases. Quincy Staple 

 Manufacturing Co., Quincy, III. . . . Biie?'- 

 green seedlings and photographs of the methods 

 employed in raising seedlings of Norway Spruce 

 windbreaks, 70 feet high, etc. The E. H. Ricker 

 Co., Elgin, 111. . . . Fruit plates by the Koch- 

 ester Lithographing and Printing Co. . . . 

 New seedling Strawberries. . . . Havcrland 

 Strawbeii-y by M. T. Thompson, Lakewood, Ohio 

 . . . Western Union StrawbetTy . . . Wast- 

 ern Tree Diyger, showing recent improvements, 

 including disc coulters. N. A. Whitney, Frank- 

 lin Grove, 111. . . . Retarded Trees, by new 

 storage process without ice, iu good condition 

 for planting. Mahalel) slocks. Evergreen seed- 

 lings, branch of Marianna Plum, etc. J. B. Wild 

 & Bro., Saxooxie, Mo. 



1,2.57. Trimming Currants. The old wood 

 should be cut out each spring before the leaves 

 push out, pains being taken to keep the centre 

 open or of a spreading rather than a compact 

 habit of growth. Pure hellebore and a good 

 bellows used with thoroughness will conquer the 

 ciH-rant worm every time whether the growtli 

 he heavy or lighL— M. B. F. 



