THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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^rom Darious points. 
Western horticulturists say that next fall will witness 
the largest planting of fruit trees ever set out on the 
Pacific coast, especially the Northwest Pacific coast. 
A party of twenty-eight prominent fruit growers of 
Southern Ohio will start, the first week in February, on 
a tour through California, visiting the cities and other 
orchards en route to the Midwinter Fair. 
Apple trees are becoming very cheap, and there is no 
excuse for holding back from planting on account of 
prices. Some nurserymen in the central states are offer¬ 
ing stock as low as $20 a thousand .—Field and Farm, 
Denver. 
G. C. Brackett, Lawrence, Kansas, secretary of the 
American Pomological Society, states that the society 
will accept the invitation of the Board of Horticulture to 
hold an adjourned session at Tacoma, when on the 
Pacific coast in the winter of 1894-5, if it can be made 
practicable. 
These annual reports of Rochester, N. Y. nurseries 
have been filed : Germania Nursery Co., capital stock 
$10,000. debts $250, assets $ 10 800 ; Standard Nursery 
Co., capital stock $10,000, debts $600, assets $11,100; 
United States Nursery Co., capital stock $10,000, debts 
$3,500, assets $ I 3,000. 
The committee on new fruits for 1894, consists of 
Messrs. A. McU. Allen, Leslie ; D. W. Beadle, 450 
Markham street, Toronto ; and Mr. John Craig, Horti¬ 
culturist of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 
These gentlemen are all experts, and are not easily puz¬ 
zled in identifying varieties. It will not be easy for any 
nurserymen to impose old fruits on them as new kinds. 
— Canadian Horticnltnrist. 
The returns made to the California Fruit Union, a 
co-operative association of fruit-growers shipping prod¬ 
ucts to the East, show that, while the increase in ship¬ 
ments was large, the receipts were not so large as in the 
previous year. To show the enormous cost of handling 
fruit, these figures are given : Sales, $2,046,404 ; freight 
and refrigerator sevice, $972,284 ; cartage and commis¬ 
sion, $155,213 ; net returns to the shippers, $918,606. 
ILLINOIS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Illinois State Horticultural Society at its annual 
meeting at Springfield elected these officers : president, 
Henry Augustine, Normal; vice-president, T. E. Goodrich, 
Cobden; secretary, Harry M. Dunlap, Savoy; treasurer, 
Arthur Bryant. Resolutions urging farmers to plant fruit 
trees along public highways and asking the legislature to 
enact laws for the protection of such trees, were adopted. 
The report on the World’s Fair exhibits stated that Illinois 
cannot compete with California in plums and cherries. New 
York made the best show in pecans and grapes. New 
Jersey came next. New Jersey showed Japanese chestnuts, 
also pecans of great size. In Texas the pecan is success¬ 
fully grafted. If this is true many otherwise worthless 
hickories in the middle sections of the West may grow the 
finest of the nut tribe. The next meeting will be held at 
Dixon. 
PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURISTS. 
At the annual meeting of the Horticultural Association 
of Penn.sylvania in Harrisburg, January 17th, the following 
officers were elected : President, W. H. Moon, Morrisville; 
vice-presidents, H. M. Engle, Marietta; H. A. Chase, Phil¬ 
adelphia, J. PL Jamison, Swales ; recording secretary, E. B. 
Engle, Waynesboro ; corresponding secretary, W. P. Brin- 
ton, Christiana ; treasurer, J. Hibbard Bartram, Millville ; 
librarian, Thomas J. Edge, Harrisburg. The following 
committee on fruit exhibitions was appointed : J. C. 
Hepler, Reading ; George C. Butz, State College ; 
D. D. Herr, Lancaster. Papers were read by M. B. 
Waite, of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
D. C., Calvin Cooper, C. W. Good, H. W. Comfort and 
others. 
R EN T l‘U BI4CA T ION R. 
The high character of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society is 
shown in the recently published proceedings of the meetings of last 
year. These have been neatly prepared in volume XXIII by the Sec¬ 
retary, B. S. Hoxie. The book is filled with practical information for 
the horticulturist and nurseryman and is one of the most valuable of 
the recent additions to horticultural literature. The "VVdsconsin State 
Society is doing excellent work. Its methods may well be an example 
for the emulation of others. 
I’arts 4 and 5 of “The Book of the Fair” lead the reader into fairy 
land. In Part 4 the exhaustive description of the goveniment and 
administration departments is continued with the superb illustrations 
which de])ict with u'onderful detail the progress of the nation. Beau¬ 
tiful groups of statuary and sections of elaborately frescoed ceilings 
are shoum. Many grand general views of exteriors and their sui-- 
roundings are included. Chapter eight inti'oduces the reader to the 
manufactures building with its labyrinth of wonders. There are 
views from the roof, and beneath its vast expanse from every (juarter, 
depicting every detail, including the search lights on to]) and the skel¬ 
eton elevator wells which seemed like a spider’s web connecting roof 
and floor. But it is in the representation of the choice exhibits of the 
products of the liberal arts from all nations that “The Book of the 
Fair” fairly outdoes itself. The photo-engravings of rare vases, trays 
and dinner sets in silver, gold and cut glass are examples of the high¬ 
est art. Between the pleasure of seeing the originals and these repro¬ 
ductions little is left to be desired. The pictures are beyond compari¬ 
son. Chaj)ter nine describes and illustrates the foreign manufactures. 
Examples in Doulton, Royal Worcester, porcelain, bronze and fire gilt 
are beautifully arranged. The (jerman section is introduced with a 
full i)age illustration of that magnificent exhibit which attracted so 
much attention. Chicago: Thk Bancroft CoAfPANV. 
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