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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Clmong (Sroir»er5 anb Dealers. 
A. M. Nicholson of Orlando, Fla., is no longer in nur¬ 
sery business. 
David Thatcher & Co., Oskaloosa, la., have gone 
out of business. 
A. S. Rollo, Caldwell, Idaho, reports an active nur¬ 
sery business in his county. 
W. D. Boynton, of Shiocton, Wis., has started a 
branch business at Claremont, Va. 
C. M. Stark of Stark Brothers Louisiana, Mo., is vis¬ 
iting their orchard interests in Colorado. 
The Utah Nursery Co. has set out 50 acres in ten- 
acre fruit tracts, each a complete orchard. 
William E. Rossney, president of the Bloomington 
Phoenix Nursery, visited relatives -in Rochester last 
month. 
Chas. W. Greene, Eddy, N. M., of Pecos Valley 
fame, visited Stark Brothers Nurseries & Orchard Co., in 
the latter part of June. 
E W. Wiesendanger, Comanche, Tex., informs us 
that a Missouri firm offers to deliver $25,000 worth of 
trees this fall on 10 years’ time. 
Mr. Berkhan, of the firm of Berkhan & Otgen, im¬ 
porters and exporters. New York, representing French 
nursery interests, is making his western tour. 
Among the exhibitors at the florists’ convention were 
Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, O.; Ellwanger & Barry, 
Rochester ; C. H. Joosten, New York City ; A Blanc, 
Philadelphia. 
Edmund Williams, a nurseryman for 30 years, died 
recently at his home in Montclair, N. J. He was the 
originator of the Montclair raspberry and an authority on 
grape culture. 
E. Albertson of Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, 
Ind., visited nurseries in Western New York last month. 
This was his second trip to the East this summer, the 
first being at the time of the convention. 
Ernest G. Lodeman, Prof. L. H. Bailey’s assistant 
in the horticultural department of Cornell University, 
is in Europe investigating the diseases of grapes in the 
vineyards of the Rhine. He will return about the middle 
of this month. 
The Herrick Seed Company of this city has recently 
been incorporated, with Rufus L. Herrick president ; 
Robert C. Brown, treasurer, and Charles J. Brown 
secretary. The company has seed farms in Rochester 
and at Ridgeville, Canada. Mr. Herrick has had 19 
years’experience as a nurseryman, and the Messrs. Brown 
are well-known nurserymen of enterprise and ability. 
NEW FRUITS. 
W. A. Holton, of Hamilton, Ont., sent us recently 
samples of a seedling plum which ripened in Canada on 
August 1st. He has had this plum in bearing five years. 
It much resembles the Reine Claude de Bavay. Its 
early ripening quality should make it a decided acquisi¬ 
tion. It is very juicy and of excellent flavor. 
A new aspirant for favor in the raspberry line is the 
Miller red Samples received from Myer & Son, Bridge- 
ville, Del., show it to be a firm berry, well adapted to 
market purposes. The first picking was on June iith, 
the last on August 3d. 
John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex., sends a sample of a 
Texas seedling pear, which he has named Alamo. The 
sample is from a tree which bloomed late, with the apple, 
and is full of fruit, the fourth consecutive crop from an 
eight-year-old tree. This pear is believed to be of great 
promise for the South and West, because it does not 
start growth and bloom until after danger from frosts is 
past. Nearly all other pears in the South bloom too 
early. The sample is of the color, shape and flavor of 
the Bartlett. The tree is said to be hardy, free from 
disease and prolific. 
Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal., sends us samples 
of the new cross-bred Japan plum, Wickson, and a seed¬ 
ling Japan plum, “J.” Each shows the remarkable 
results which Mr. Burbank is producing. The WicksoiT is 
the result of crossing the Japanese Satsuma and the 
Kelsey. The fruit is the shape of a pear, the stem being 
where the eye of the pear is found. The smaller end is 
much like that of an apricot or peach in form. The new 
plum is of a rich claret color when ripe. The flesh is 
juicy and of delicious flavor ; the pit small. The “J” is 
smaller than the other, of a greenish hue. The flavor is 
pleasant. The Japan plums are certainly the coming fruit. 
Professor Troup writes that the Russian varieties of 
orchard fruits which have been tried during the last ten years 
in Indiana have proved successful in point of hardiness. 
The trees are nearly all good growers, and many of them 
are uncommonly good producers and they begin to yield 
while very young. The apples, however, are nearly all 
summer and autumn varieties, none of them having proved 
late-winter keepers. Those which are described as “late- 
winter” in Iowa ripen in Indiana in August. When crossed 
with our native varieties, however, they may prove of value. 
The Pear-trees seem very healthy, and none of them show 
a tendency to blight, but they have not been in bearing long 
enough to warrant positive judgment upon them. The 
variety known as Sapieganka produces small but very hand¬ 
some pears, which, if picked at the proper time and ripened 
up, are of very good quality. The Russian cherries so far 
tested have not proved.an any way superior to the old kinds 
in cultivation .—Gvrden and Forest. 
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