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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Ctmong (Sron)cr5 anb Dealers. 
George A. Sweet of Dansville, N. Y., has returned 
from California. 
Z. K. Jewett is vice-president of the Horticultural So¬ 
ciety at Sparta, Wis. 
Virgil Popham, New Fruit, Ky., is revising his directory 
of nurserymen, florists and seedsmen. 
George S. Josselyn says that while grapes were cheap 
last year, they paid better than farming. 
J. C. Vorce, recently of Trinidad, Col., has started a 
large nursery near Whitewater, Mesa county. Col. 
P. M. Roster of the Hollandia Nurseries, Boskoop, 
Holland, will visit this country in April and May. 
Dali DeWeese of Canon City, Colo., will put lOO acres 
of new land into orchard and nursery stock this spring. 
D. M. Ketchum, Erie, Pa., is prepai'ing a directory and 
reference book for the use of gi'owers and dealers in nui'sery 
stock in the United States and Canada. 
Justin A. Goodhue of the Utah Nursery Co. will plant 
with Herman Baer in Delta county, Col., this year, i6o 
acr'es to large fruit and 32,000 vines and plants. 
W. R. Gibson, nurseryman, of Empoi'ia, Kan., will plant 
an eighty acre orchard and nursery near Catlin, Col., this 
spring. The nur'seiy stock will be planted between the 
rows of apple trees. 
S. W. Morris and F. M. Widner have opened a nursery 
business at Corning, la. D. O’Mar'a is in the nursery busi¬ 
ness at Hackensack, N. J. H. Merkel has severed his con¬ 
nection with the Sprang Lake Nui'sery Co., at Sprang Lake, 
N.J. 
An application for the appointment of a I'eceiver to wind 
up the affairs of the Alliance Nursery company of Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., was made in the supreme court last month, 
arising out of a disputed title. The company was formed 
last September by John B. Ireland, Dorr M. Ketchum and 
Hendrick V. Hobbie. 
G. J. Carpenter & Co., nurserymen, of Fairbury, Neb., 
will this season plant eighty acr'es near Palisade and foi'ty 
acres near P'ruita, Mesa county, s-Ays, Field a?idFarm. This 
will increase their orchard ground in Colorado to 350 acres. 
In course of time they expect to have one of the largest 
commercial plantations in the state. 
A. S. Wills wi'ites fi'om Phoenix, Col., to the Field and 
Farm: “The business of the nur'seryman is in a most 
prosper'ous condition, and more acreage is being planted up 
to date this spi'ing than any one season in the history of the 
Salt River valley. The Rio Bonita nursery company dis¬ 
posed of over 100,000 assoi'ted trees covering 1,100 acr'es. 
The record of this firm alone shows that eighty farmers 
have planted the Thompson seedless grapes in patches of 
from one to three acres each.” 
5rom Partous points. 
There is invested ,^800,000 in the culture of the prune 
in Idaho. 
A. C. English and F. S. Coolidge have planted 2,400 
apple, peach and pear trees on the Olio mesa near Far'ming- 
ton. New Mexico. 
It is thought that forests and shelter belts will make 
Southern Minnesota and South Dakota adapted to lar'ge 
and profitable or'chards. 
The Minnesota State Horticultural Society has recom¬ 
mended for trial the following seedlmg apples : Patten’s 
Greening, Okabena, Hotchkiss, Peerless. 
The seedsmen of the country have been asked to sign a 
petition asking Congress not to transfer to the free list gar¬ 
den seeds which are now on the 20 per cent. list. 
Recent exhaustive experiments show that on the whole 
the Bordeaux mixture remains the best fungicide, and Paris 
green and London purple the best general insecticides. 
Crimson Galande, Royal George, Dagmar, Dymond, 
Golden Eagle and Bellegarde are named as the six best 
peaches by S. T. Wright in The Gardeners' Magazine of 
London, England. 
J. D. Hazen of Leona, Brown county, Kansas, has 
10.300 apple trees planted. Seven thousand of the number 
are Ben Davis, 2,000 are Winesap and 1,000 Genet. West¬ 
ern Kansas people are beginning to believe that some day 
they may grow some fruit .—Field and Farm. 
It is reported that General G. Andrade of San Francisco 
and parties representing French and Scotch capitalists have 
been visiting the mouth of the Colorado river for the pur¬ 
pose of selecting a place where they can locate a colony of 
French grape growers and wine-makers of 1,000 families. 
One of the largest orchards in California is to be 
planted in the Yakima Valley this year, at which time 
107,000 trees will be set out. The orchard will cover 
1.300 acres and will be planted principally with apples 
and prunes, although 100 acres will be set to pears and 
peaches and 200 acres to grapes. 
The American Carnation Society at its annual meeting 
in Indianapolis elected: President, Eugene Dailledouze, 
Flatbush, N. Y.; vice-president, E. G. Gillett, Cincinnati; 
secretary, C. J. Pennock, Kennett Square, Pa.; treasurer, 
C. H. Allen, Floral Park, N. Y. The society has 144 
members. The fourth annual meeting will be held in 
Boston. 
After a three months investigation of the prospects for 
fruit growing in Colorado, A. S. Temple, an experienced 
horticulturist of New Jersey, says he believes that a com¬ 
paratively few years will see Grand valley from Glenwood 
Springs down to Fruita lined with orchards and fruit gar¬ 
dens, which, with proper care and cultivation, will yield at 
least ^200 an acre net profit. 
