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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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Geo. J. FosTEE has sold his nursery 

 ^business at Normal, 111. 



W. G. SCHUCHT, of Chilton, Wis., con- 

 templates embarking in the nursery busi- 

 ness. 



The death of H. W. Blowers, of West- 

 field, N. Y., is recorded in this week's 

 ■obituary column. 



Sixty men are now employed in the 

 packing sheds of the nurseries of L. L. 

 May & Co., near Lakeland, Minn. 



Alabama nurserymen are planning to 

 hold a horticultural exhibition. L. H. 

 Bead, of Deer Park, manager of the 

 Dixie Cooperative Nurseries, is interested 

 in furthering the undertaking. 



The nursery trade has a representative 

 in Congress in the person of C. A. Ken- 

 nedy, of Iowa, who is a member of the 

 £rm of Kennedy Bros., operating the 

 Eagle Nurseries, at Montrose, la. 



One of the principal Holland nurseries 

 ventures the opinion that two-thirds and 

 possibly three-fourths of the nursery 

 ■stock exported from Boskoop, and prac- 

 tically all grown there is exported, finds 

 its way to America. 



This has been another spring season 

 to teach the expediency of pushing the 

 sales for fall delivery. Planting can 

 better be done in autumn than in such 

 springs as this has been in large sections 

 of the United States. 



A European nurseryman, now in this 

 •country, is telling his customers that the 

 <juarantine regulations will not prove so 

 burdensome as they appear at first read- 

 ing. They entail some little extra work, 

 but he believes the clean bill of health 

 the law gives the nurseries is well worth 

 the extra effort. 



Kentucky will have a state nursery 

 adjoining the fair grounds at Louisville. 

 The fair association has set apart twenty- 

 five acres for the purpose, and the fores- 

 try board of the state has appropriated 

 $1,500 with which to make a start. It 

 is proposed to supply citizens of the 

 state with trees at actual cost 



The Los Angeles Investment Co., which 

 is developing the Hill tract of land at 

 Los Angeles, Cal., will establish a nursery 

 •of its own to provide trees, shrubs and 

 plants. Twenty-five acres have been set 

 aside for the purpose and $10,000 has 

 been made available at once, Louis 

 Horner, who laid out and superintended 

 the grounds of the McCormick estate at 

 Banta Barbara, Cal., will have charge of 

 the new nursery. 



Geo. W. Johnson, proprietor of the 

 Highland Nursery, at Palouse, Wash., 

 has been appointed superintendent and 

 horticulturist in charge of the Eiveria 

 fruit lands, near Riparia, owned by 

 President E. A. Bryan, of the Washing- 

 ton State College, and others. The High- 

 land Nursery will be managed by C. C. 

 Johnson. A large part of the growing 

 stock has been sold to the Eiveria com- 

 pany for delivery next fall. Three hun- 

 dred acres additional will be set to fruit 

 in the fall. 



The Altaloma Citrus Nurseries Co., of 

 Cucamonga, Cal., has been organized. The 

 authorized capital is $25,000 and $9,000 

 has been subscribed. The directors are: 

 A. J. Worthington, H. G. Klusman, C. T. 

 Brown, W. A. Lucas and H. O. Ward. 



The planting season for the nursery- 

 men in the middle west is holding out bet- 

 ter than had been expected. It was late 

 in starting, which many thought would 

 mean an early finish, but spring has been 

 intermittent this year and work has not 

 yet been interrupted by the arrival of 

 summer. In the east, too, it has turned 

 out an unusually long season. They had 

 an early start there and still are at work. 



O. K. White, field agent of the Michi- 

 gan Horticultural College, will give a 

 series of free orchard demonstrations in 

 the vicinity of Kalamazoo, Mich., during 

 the spring and summer, on pruning, 

 spraying, thinning the fruit, grading and 

 packing. Mr. White will give a talk on 

 pruning May 3 before the Oakland 

 County Horticultural Society, which will 

 hold its next meeting then at the fruit 

 farm of E. J. VerDuyn, near Novi, Mich. 



The condition of S. H. MacKeen's 

 citrus stock at Terra Bella, Cal., fur- 

 nishes an illustration of the fact that 

 water will work wonders in freezing-cold 

 weather. He will not lose a single tree 

 as a result of the heavy and disastrous 

 frosts of January 6 and 7. The stock 

 is green and growing and coming out 

 fine. For seventy-two hours Mr. Mac- 

 Keen kept a stream of water flooding the 

 ground, and on the two severe mornings 

 be applied water liberally to the tops of 

 the trees. 



When the tariff bill was reported back 

 to Congress last week it was unchanged 

 in the paragraphs covering nursery stock. 

 All the ambiguities remain in the bill. 



Jean R. Trumpy, who is credited with 

 having introduced hydrangeas, rare ever- 

 greens and Japanese maples into Ameri- 

 can landscape gardening in 1864, frac- 

 tured his right thigh by slipping in a bath 

 tub at his home, and he is now under 

 treatment at a hospital in Flushing, N. 

 Y. He is 83 years old. A number of 

 years ago he was one of the most prom- 

 inent horticulturists in the country. His 

 first success in growing rare plants in 

 America followed the return from Japan 

 in 1864 of a Mr. Hogue, who brought 

 samples of Japanese maples in which he 

 interested the Parsons Nurseries at Flush- 

 ing, where Mr. Trumpy was employed. 

 The nursery managers gave them to Mr. 

 Trumpy to determine if they could be 

 grown in this country and under what 

 conditions. 



MAY HAVE SPECIAL TRAIN. 



M. B. Fox, who is attending to the 

 details of the Nurserymen's Special, 

 which will leave Rochester, N. Y., June 

 12, for the A. A. N. convention at 

 Portland, Ore., is hopeful of filling a 

 sufficient number of cars by the time 

 St. Paul, Minn., is reached to justify 

 a special train to the coast. 



Mr. Fox states that at least one car 

 will be filled from Rochester and he is 

 endeavoring to have two cars filled at 

 Chicago by nurserymen from the mid- 

 dle west and the south, who will join 

 the Rochester party here. At St. Paul, 



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12-18 In., 50c per 100 : 1 .25 per 1000 



BLACK LOCUST 12-18 in.. 50c per 100; 2.00 per 1000 



18-24 in.. 50c per 100: 250perL,000 



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