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NORSERY NEWS. 



AMEMCAN ASSOCMTION OF MJRSCRYMEN. 



Pres., B. Albertson, Bridgeport. Ind.; Vlee- 

 Pres., Orlando Harrison, Beriln, Md.; Sec'y, Geo. 

 C. Seager, Rochester; Treas., C. L. Yates, Roches- 

 ter. The Slst annual convention will be held at 

 Dallas, Texas, June, 1906. 



The American Association of Ceme- 

 tery Superintendents meets at Washing- 

 ton, D. C, next week. 



The Southern Kailway is endeavoring 

 to secure the establishment of a number 

 of additional nurseries in its territory. 



E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind,, presi- 

 dent of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen, is on a trip in the north- 

 west. He passed through Chicago Sep- 

 tember 7. 



On accoudt of the yellow fever the 

 National Nut Growers' Association has 

 postponed its second annual convention, 

 scheduled for Dallas, October 25 to 27. 

 A new date will be announced later. 

 The president is G. M. Bacon, DeWitt, 

 Ga., the secretary J, F. Wilson, Poulan, 

 C^a. 



A. WiLUS, Ottawa, Kan., is delegated 

 to represent the American Association 

 of Nurserymen at the American Pomo- 

 logical Society's biennial meeting at 

 Kansas City September 19 to 21. W. 

 C. Barry is down to respond to the 

 mayor's address of welcome and C. L. 

 Watrous has a place on the program. 

 Many other nurserymen will attend. 



C. A. McNabb, secretary of the Okla- 

 homa territorial board of agriculture, is 

 taking especial interest in the enforce- 

 ment of the law passed by the last leg- 

 islature for inspection of nursery stock 

 and the licensing of outside nurserymen. 

 All outside firms are required to submit 

 certificates from the state inspectors in 

 their own states, made out on forms fur- 

 nished by the Oklahoma board, and giv- 

 ing statistics from which an idea of the 

 firm's reliability is supposed to be 

 gained. 



WESTERN CXASSMCATION. 



E. Albertson, president of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Nurserymen, who is 

 winding up some of his work as chair- 

 man of the transportation committee, has 

 been notified of a number of concessions 

 by the Western Classification Committee. 

 The principal changes are as follows: 



Sawdust rates wiU henceforth apply on 

 waste excelsior. Mr. Albertson has one 

 instance where this change makes a dif- 

 ference of $69 a car to the consignee and 

 makes the trafSc possible. The former 

 car minimum of 20,000 pounds is suc- 

 ceeded by the following schedule: For 

 cars thirty-six feet six inches or less, 

 16,000 pounds; for cars thirty -six to 

 forty -five feet, 20,000 pounds; for cars 

 forty-five feet six inches and up, 24,000 

 pounds. 



Peach pits take fourth class on less 

 than car lots; minimum car of 24,000 

 pounds remains unchanged. It had been 

 hoped to get this reduced. Mr. Albert- 

 son has record of sixty car-load lots 

 which were moved last season. 



ery of nurswy stoek. We flmd ordiardft 



throughout thu county so much neglected 

 that the fruit is of little consequence. 

 It would be hard to find a wagon-load 

 of one good variety, to say nothing of a 

 car-load. So of course there is no mar- 

 ket for such apples as are produced. We 

 therefore believe that we will do the 

 community and ourselves a much greater 

 service by urging the planting of or- 

 chards of 100 or more trees of one good 

 commercial variety and giving them 

 proper care, and then when they come 

 into bearing the orchardist will not be 

 dependent on local markets. What va- 

 rieties would you recommend for nortn- 

 em Indiana t Any information bearing 

 on this subject will be thankfully re- 

 ceived. F. A. F. 



Nobody plants a commercial apple or- 

 chard in northern Indiana without in- 

 cluding Ben Davis; if it is a big orchard 

 it is pmrt Ben Davis; if a small orchard, 

 Ben Davis and nothing else. Northern 

 Indiana and southern Michigan are 

 Greening and Baldwin territories, but 

 I presume this inquiry is from too far 

 south to make the recommendation of the 

 Greening advisable. Jonathan is a fine 

 variety; if it does well in your neigh- 

 borhood there is nothing which will com- 

 mand a surer market. At Yincennes, in 

 the southern part of the state I saw 

 some fine crops of Jonathan a few days 

 ago, also good crops of Grime's Golden, 

 which root-rots with us at Bridgeport. 

 "V^inesap and Stark are also varieties 

 which are to be recommended. 



E. Albertson. 



APPLES IN INDIANA. 



The writer conducts a seed store in 



northern Indiana and as business has been 



rather quiet through the summer months, 



be has been arranging for a fall deliv- 



OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN. 



Please state the best way to proceed 

 to have a satisfactory bed next season of 

 campanula, foxglove and sweet william, 

 when to prepare bed, when to plant and 

 to secure blooming plants for next sea- 

 son, in Maryland. J. B. B. 



To secure strong blooming plants of 

 foxgloves, sweet williams and campanu- 

 las (we presume you refer to C. media, 

 better known as Canterbury bell) seed 

 should be sown not later than June 1, 

 in a frame. Cover the seeds lightly, ven- 

 tilate moderately only and keep sashes 

 well shaded until the seedlings appear. 

 Do not allow them to become dry at any 

 time. Gradually inure to sunlight and 

 remove the sashes. Choose a moist, show- 

 ery day to transfer them to nursery 

 rows. Allow the foxgloves and campan- 

 ulas a foot apart in the rows. Half 

 that distance will suffice for the sweet 

 Williams. Keep the plants well culti- 

 vated and clean of weeds during the 

 growing season. 



In Massachusetts we plant out about 

 the middle of October, in beds well ma- 

 nured. A month later should be suffi- 

 ciently early in Maryland. In this lati- 

 tude campanulas and foxgloves are of 

 doubtful hardiness, even when covered 

 with a thin coating of leaves, after se- 

 vere weather sets in, and we find it ad- 

 visable to carry a good number of 

 frames, where we pack them over with 

 perfectly dry leaves after the ground 

 about them is hard frozen and place 

 sashes on. If a bed is needed this season 

 it would be necessary to secure plants 

 from some nurseryman or florist, but as 

 all these varieties are of easy culture the 

 best results will be obtained by saving 

 seeds in May or June next year and 

 treating as advised. A winter coating 

 of leaves would be advisable even in 



MaiTiand. The sweet williams flower 

 better the second year, but foxgloves and 

 campaaulas should be raised fT«8h each 

 season. W. N. C. 



GRAPES NOT SEMI-TROPICAL. 



The following is a decision of the U. 

 S. General Appraisers made public Sep- 

 tember 7: 



Grape Plants. — Protest of de L. Vil- 

 lamil & Co. against the assessment of 

 duty by the collector of customs at the 

 port of San Juan. The importers con- 

 tended that small grapevine plants im- 

 ported from Spain, which were classi- 

 fied under the provision in paragraph 

 252, tariff act of 1897, for "plants and 

 vines, commonly known as nursery or 

 greenhouse stock, ' ' should have ; been 

 classified as free of duty under para- 

 graph 560, relating to "fruit plants, 

 tropical or semi-tropical," etc Protest 

 overruled. 



In his decision General Appraiser 

 Waite said: 



The word "semi-tropical," aa nsed In para- 

 graph 560, undoubtedly baa tbe aame meaning 

 as "subtropical," which la defined in the Cen- 

 tury Dictionary as follows: 



Of a climate or other pbyalcal character be- 

 tween tropical and temperate; approaching the 

 tropical or torrid zone in temperature; noting 

 a region on the confines of either tropic, or Its 

 plants, animals, and other natural prodactlona; 

 as, sabtropical America; a subtropical fauna or 

 fiora. 



In the opinion of the Board, 'paragraph 660 

 la intended to extend only to fruit plants which 

 may be classed among tropical or subtropical 

 flora, and would not extend to plants IndigenouB 

 to temperate countries, imported fur cultivation 

 or propagation, in tropical or subtropical regions 

 within or under the Jurisdiction of the United 

 States. 



According to the Encyclopedia Britannlca and 

 other authorities, the Vitis Tlnifera, or Euro- 

 pean grape, is the best-known and longest-cultl- 

 vated species of the genus ritis. whl<-b is said 

 to comprise more than 200 species of grapea. 

 The same authority says that many apeciea of 

 the genus yitls are of tropical or subtropical 

 origin, and it would seem that the native coun- 

 try of the European vine itself is considered 

 to be the tropical or subtropical countries aonth 

 of the Caspian. ("Vine," Encyclopedia Britan- 

 nlca.) However this may be, we- are of 

 opinion that the varieties of Vitis vinlfera wtalcb 

 have been cultivated for many hundreds of 

 years in Europe, flourlsbing, as Is well known. 

 In such countries as Italy, France, Spain and 

 Germany, have lost the character of tropical 

 or subtropical plants, whatever may have been 

 their origin. In re Henderson, G. A. 749 

 (T. D. 11574); T. D. 18438, It may fairly be 

 presumed that the plants in controversy are 

 varieties of the European grape, perhaps culti- 

 vated at or near Vigo, Spain, which has ap- 

 proximately the same latitude as New York. 

 There was no evidence introduced in the case, 

 the importers having failed to respond in any 

 way to the Board's notice of hearing. 



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With 5 to 6 flowering crowns 9 per 100 



With 4 flowering crowna .7 per 100 



JAFOVXOA BOSBA (n«w and fine), one- 

 half additional to above prices. 



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