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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
^rom Darious points. 
The California Midwinter Fair closed on July 4th. 
The Nursery and Seed Trade Association, limited, of 
London, Ifngland, is officered as follows : President, N. N. 
Sherwood, of Hurst & Son ; secretary, G. Worrell, 30 
Wood street, Cheapside Ph C. It is a mutual protective 
association. 
A Utah nurseryman has sold to Stewart & Eaton of 
Grand Junction, Colo., for next spring delivery, 13,700 
prune trees. This firm proposes to set 120 acres with 
prunes. This will be the largest orchard of a single variety 
in Colorado. 
The Gardeners Magazine of London, Ivngland, says of 
the Antwerp exhibition : “ The exhibition grounds are ex¬ 
tensive, but somewhat over-planted. A large number of 
continental nurserymen have planted roses, conifers, flow¬ 
ering trees and shrubs, especially rhododendrons and 
azaleas, in various shaped beds. The conifers were far too 
closely placed either for effect or advantageous inspection, 
while the rose beds, with stout white-painted stakes sup¬ 
porting the standards, and huge white labels and black 
lettering against all the specimens were an eyesore, and 
altogether unworthy of our profession. The roses displayed 
the gardeners’ art, but the stakes possibly were an adver¬ 
tisement for a dealer in timber, and the labels a triumph of 
some smith’s work.” 
A correspondent of the New York Fruit Trade Journal, 
writing about the extensive orchard planting lately in South¬ 
ern Missouri, says ; “ To convey a correct idea of the im¬ 
mensity of the fruit interest of this country, which, in a few 
years, will be one vast orchard, it is only neces.sary to state 
that it is estimated that 3,000,000 fruit trees were planted 
in 1892 on the south slope, and also a vast number on the 
north slope of the Ozark Mountains. Notwithstanding the 
heavy and constant immigration, principally from the North¬ 
west, and the rapid development of the country, there are 
still thousands of acres of fine fruit land to be bought at 
from ^3 to ;^io per acre, according to distance from railroad 
stations.” 
Some very curious processes for propagation are prac¬ 
ticed at the public gardens in Washington. One consists in 
cutting Avith a knife a ring around a branch of a plant. One 
might imagine that the intention was to kill the branch, but 
such is by no means the object in view. The cut having 
been made, a piece of Avet moss is Avrapped and tied 
around the branch at that point. Beneath this protection 
the sap exudes from the wound and little rootlets are devel¬ 
oped. After a few days the branch is cut aAA^ay from the 
parent stem, being then itself a complete plant, Avith roots 
all ready to put in a pot. The plan is adopted Avith plants 
of sloAV groAvth, because one plant may thus be split into 
half a dozen or more of good size, instead of Avaiting for a 
seedling or little slip to dcA^elop.— Field and Farm. 
Counting the bearing and non-bearing orange trees in 
Florida, there are estimated to be 10,000,000 trees. Cali¬ 
fornia is credited with having 6,000,000 and Arizona about 
1,000,000.—Juno, Cal., Sun. 
One of the most important laAvs enacted by the NeAv 
York legislature is the Nixon law, which appropriates $8,000 
for fostering and promoting horticultural investigation. It 
takes the initiative in establishing among fruit groAvers 
a movement which corresponds to college extension. Pro¬ 
fessor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell university has taken active 
steps toward executing the provisions of the law. 
The local orchard inspector of Mesa county opened 
a mare’s nest the other day when he examined a ship¬ 
ment of 3,000 trees received from an eastern nursery. 
Two-thirds of the lot contained borers of various kinds 
and some apple trees were filled with the woolly aphis. 
If the inspector allowed these trees to be planted he 
failed to do his duty.— Field and Farm. 
John F. Pfeiffer of Mesa county received lately a ship¬ 
ment of 225 fruit trees from the nursery of Croux et Fils, 
near Paris, France, says Field and Farm. This number 
includes about fifty varieties. Mr. Pfeiffer has set them all 
out on his orchard mesa place and they started to groAV the 
second day of their acquaintance Avith Grand valley soil. 
Among those planted are about tAventy varieties of the most 
famous foreign sweet cherries. 
The New York legislature of i893-’94 added amend¬ 
ments to an act incorporating the New York Botanical 
Garden, which will enable the promoters to push the 
project. The garden is to occupy grounds not exceed¬ 
ing 250 acres, either in Bronx park or in such other of 
the public parks north of the Harlem river as may be 
agreed upon by the park board of the city and the board 
of managers of the botanical garden. 
Professor Meehan notes in Meehans Monthly for 
April, the fact that peach trees shipped from certain 
eastern nurseries to the South for the past hundred 
years, have never shown symptoms of yellows, while 
trees from the same nurseries, and of the same stock, 
shipped to Michigan and other states soon show the dis¬ 
ease. This is certainly a remarkable fact, and naturally 
leads Professor Meehan to infer that there must be some¬ 
thing in the environment that produces the disease in 
the North while affording exemption in more southern 
climes. For this reason. Prof. Meehan believes that it 
is extremely unlikely that the yellows will ever be seen in 
California or Florida, 
A. C. Glidden, of Van Buren county, Mich., writes 
to The Country Gentleman: “I have dug out the old 
orchard of over 100 trees on my farm, and am setting 
young trees of peach, pear, cherry and a few apple. 
The orchard had been set about 50 years, trees largely 
seedlings, top-grafted, with some of the old varieties as 
