THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Ctmong (Browers anb Dealers. 
The Tipton Nursery Co., Little Rock, Ark., is closing up 
its business. 
Vice-President Albaugh writes ; “ Am well pleased with 
your full and accurate account of the proceedings of the 
the nurserymen’s convention at Niagara P'alls.” 
J. Austin Shaw, of New York city, has secured the 
agency for America of the Royal Nurseries of l^elgium, 
Louis Van Houtte, proprietor. He will continue his retail 
florist business. 
The barn and contents, including twelve mules, of the 
Alabama Nursery Company, at Huntsville, Ala., were 
burned recently. The company is composed of the Chase 
brothers who went there from Rochester several years ago. 
The spring plant of the Oklahoma City Nursery Co., 
Oklahoma, included 275,000 apple grafts, 20,000 cherries, 
40,000 peach, 12,000 plum, 150,000 grape cuttings, six 
acres of apple seedlings and five acres of small fruits and 
miscellaneous stock. 
The Delta, Colo., Orchard Company has been incorpo¬ 
rated with secretaiy of state. The company is composed of 
Herman O. Baer, A. C. Butler and Justine Goodhue and 
the capital stock is 5^5,000 which is calculated to plant a 
good-sized orchard. Mr. Goodhue is a nurseryman of Utah 
and is quite taken with the fruit possibilities of Delta county. 
On June 15th Schuette & Czarnowski succeeded S. M. 
Bayles of the South St. Louis Nurseries. Mr. Bayles retires 
after having been in the business thirty-five years. The 
senior member of the new' firm has been with Mr. Bayles 
thirteen years, ten years of w'hich time he w'as in the office. 
The junior member has been Mr. Bayles’ foreman fifteen 
years. 
Gartenflora, one of the leading horticultural publications 
of Germany says of the exhibit of Fred. \\ . Kelsey, of New' 
York, at the World’s IMir : Mr. Kelsey exhibited a' mag¬ 
nificent set of conifers and rhododendrons ; an exhibit w'hich 
had the admiration of all spectators. The plants w'ere 
placed under a tent on “Wooded Island” and 
surpassed all that has ever been seen in this line in the 
United States. There w'ere about one hundred different 
kinds. 
Frederick W. Kelsey of New York City, is chairman of 
the public park committee of the Orange, N. J., Board of 
Trade, and a member of the public park commission recent¬ 
ly appointed by Judge Depue of New Jersey. Mr. Kelsey 
is an enthusiastic promoter of public park systems. The 
Newark Daily Advertiser says: “Frederick W. Kelsey, 
the father of this later movement for public parks in Essex 
County, is a successful business man of liberal ideas and 
public .spirit, thoroughly posted on the public park question 
and a good organizer, w'ith a faculty of arousing enthusiasm 
in others.” 
F. S. Stannard, Ottaw'a, Kans., has been adjusting busi¬ 
ness affairs in Nebraska. 
W. P. Stark, Louisiana, Mo., met a number of capital¬ 
ists and fruit buyers in Chicago early in July. 
Edward W. Sheahan, for 15 years foreman of Ell- 
wanger & Barry’s nurseries, died on June 17th, aged 41 
years. 
W. P". Heikes, Huntsville, Ala., visited the Louisiana, 
Mo., and Rockport, Ill., nurseries of Stark Bros, last 
month. 
A. Willis, of Ottaw'a, Kans., called upon nurserymen in 
Rochester, Dansville and other Western New York points 
last month. 
Nelson Bogue of Batavia, N. Y., is a member of the 
legislative committee of the New York State Associa¬ 
tion of Agricultural Societies. 
Edward C. Morris, secretary of Brow'n Brothers Com¬ 
pany, who has charge of the Portland, Ore., office of that 
company, visited Rochester last month. 
Parker Piarle, president of the American Horticultural 
Association, Chicago, is making a tour through Michigan 
and other states with a view' to purchase orchard crops. 
The Madison Nursery Co., at Madison, Wis., has been 
incorporated with a capital stock of ^10,000. The incor- 
parators are Chas. Nelson, J. A. Tormey and IF M. Bruce. 
William J. Johnson, of Colorado Springs, has pur¬ 
chased Coburn’s nursery plant in Montrose county, 
Colorado, and expects to do quite a tree business on the 
western slope. 
The exhibit of the Greenville strawberry at the Niagara 
Falls convention was by Iv. W. Bucchley of Greenville, O., 
instead of The Farmers’ Nursery Co., as stated in our la.st 
issue. Mr. Buechley is at the home of the famous straw'- 
berry. 
Ex-President U. B. Pearsall, of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen, w'rites: “ We think the com'ention 
number of The Nation.vl Nurseryman reflects great credit 
upon its publishers. We assure you of our hearty best 
wishes in the future as in the past.” 
Charles E. Hart of Rochester, N. Y., who intro¬ 
duced eastern fruit trees in California taking his nursery 
stock from Rochester, died at his home in this city on 
June 17th, aged 77 years. He was a forty-niner in 
California, and afterward was a large oil operator in 
Pennsylvania. 
Wm. Cutter & Son, of Junction City, Kans., have in¬ 
creased their nursery plant by 80,000 apple root grafts, 
10,000 each of plum, peach, cherry and pear, and 30,000 
each of seedlings for fall budding. They have 75,000 one- 
year-old apple trees for fall and spring trade, and 50,000 
each of plum, pear and cherry, with 20,000 grape cuttings. 
