THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
ular trade that can fairly be relied upon is the only trade 
worth having in the nursery business, then the element of 
risk is largely removed, nurserymen know what they are 
doing, can take a hopeful view, grow what they can sell, 
sell it. When dull times come, cover more territory, work 
all the harder. 
“ Some have found much of the worry and bother of the 
nursery business is selling stock before buying it; like the 
Iowa man they find themselves in hot water, customers 
howling ‘Why don’t you ship my trees,’ etc. Western 
nurserymen who depend on getting supplies from the East 
in spring get left; stock comes in when season is about 
closed. It is not satisfactory to them nor can it be to the 
eastern nurserymen, and this one thing alone is a chief cause 
of the increase in size of western nurseries. The wise nur¬ 
serymen, if he sells stock he does not grow, stocks up in 
the fall, fills his packing house full and avoids a good many 
sleepless nights on account of having shipments delayed. 
In fact much of the worry and bother can be removed by 
nurserymen simply running their business right; Packing 
houses indispensable, then never behind in shipping, no dry¬ 
ing winds, no mud, no lost days, no keeping correspondent 
busy writing ‘owing to the storm,’ etc., like the Colorado 
nurserymen who sold ‘ only Colorado-grown trees ’ and 
when the great blizzard in the East a few years ago delayed 
his stock, found it necessary to send out second notices to 
cu.stomers reading ‘ owing to the storm East delivery post¬ 
poned.’ The query suggests itself: What have storms 
to do with Colorado-grown trees? Again, one'nurserymen 
alone, and doubtless there were others in the same fix, had 
his entire deliveries packed and about ready to ship, dates 
set; storm came and he and his force and all of his friends 
found it no small job hauling straw for two days to save 
his trees from ruin. Then new dates to set and a thousand 
and one excuses given customers for change of mind, &c. 
Plnough lost right here to have paid for a good packing 
house that would last for years. To say nothing of the 
economy and convenience resulting, the good of the stock 
should be considered, for how often is fine stock ruined by 
handlig in drying winds, sun, etc.” 
Ctmong (Sroirers anb Dealers. 
P. M. Koster of Boskoop, Holland, visited the princi¬ 
pal nursery centers of this country during May. He sailed 
for Holland on May 19th. 
L. Green & Son Co., Western Reserve Nurseries, Perry, 
O., report a good trade for the spring, an increase over the 
same season a year ago. They are planting the usual 
amount of stock. 
Brown Brothers Company have purchased the Cor¬ 
win farm in the town of Brighton, N. Y., consisting of 
70 acres at a cost of $20, 500 and are preparing to make 
it their packing grounds in the future. They will con¬ 
struct extensive cellars there. 
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George A. Sweet of Dansville, N. Y., went to Wash¬ 
ington last month and secured a hearing before the tar¬ 
iff committee on the nursery stock clause. Mr. Sweet 
and other leading nurserymen are in favor of placing 
nursery stock on the free list. 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, of New Canaan, Conn., report 
a very busy season in nursery stock. The packing 
grounds of this firm cover ten acres ; they employ 50 
men packing orders during the rush of trade. One of 
their individual orders was for 40,000 apple trees, re¬ 
quiring 200 cases. 
Judge Wellhouse, of Topeka, who owns 1,700 acres in 
orchard in Kansas, this spring planted 270 acres in Leaven¬ 
worth county to apples. The trees were from his own nur¬ 
series, and consisted of three varieties. There were 170 
acres of Gano, 75 acres of Ben Davis and 25 acres of Jon¬ 
athan. The 25,000 trees were set in three days by thirty 
men, and the time between the taking the tree from the 
nursery and its establishment in its new quarters was only 
ten minutes. 
John Hall, the well-known secretary of the Western 
New York Horticultural society, is now associated with 
Brown Brothers Company in the nursery business. Mr. 
Hall’s long experience with James Vick and his six year’s 
service in the life insurance business with one of the 
oldest companies, have fitted him especially for his new 
position. Mr. Hall is one of the most genial men in the 
trade and he has a wide knowle'dge of horticultural mat¬ 
ters, especially in-so-far as they relate to the fertile ter¬ 
ritory of Western New York. 
Isaac C. Rogers, manag^er of the Rogers Nursery 
Company, Moorestown, N. J., says : “Trade has been 
very good here this year ; just about double that of last 
year, reaching between $11,000 and $12,000. Things 
are coming up all right for us now. We have received 
very satisfactory prices and a satisfactory trade in gen¬ 
eral. Trade has been particularly heavy in the line of 
small fruits, and we got away with a little over a million 
strawberry plants, mostly in retail orders. The demand 
for Japan plums was also heavy. 
The members of the American Association of Nur¬ 
serymen have been invited to visit the nurseries of 
Brown Brothers Company near Ridgeville, Ont., imme¬ 
diately after the adjournment of the convention at 
Niagara Falls. Carriages will convey the party through 
the Niagara fruit belt, a delightful drive of 12 miles. 
The nurseries comprise 230 acres on which are grown a 
full assortment of nursery stock, fruit and ornamentals. 
There are nine greenhouses on the grounds. This is the 
company’s fourth season there. The nurseries are under 
the charge of Superintendent Charles Fisher who was 
with the Hooker company some time. 
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