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for fall delivery. In Eastern Kansas business is hard to 
get, but stock always delivers well. 
In Nebraska an'd Southern Missouri the tendency is 
to buy in orchard quantities. In Red Cloud, Neb., re¬ 
gion, one orchard center has nearly 200,000 trees. In 
Howell and other Missouri counties still larger plantings 
are taking place. Northern Missouri has a better spring 
than fall trade. 
Illinois business has been badly hurt by extensive 
strikes. Drouth also threatened in latter part of June, 
but copious rains about the 28th of that month gave 
assurance of the best crop that state has had in 20 years. 
Good sales can always be made in Illinois. 
In all these states nursery plantings, with few excep¬ 
tions, are less than previous years. The prices are stiffen¬ 
ing up and the demand is for better stock. Large nurseries 
which can show successful orchards of their planting are 
going to get more and more of the floating trade. 
Farmers are beginning to realize that while a tree is a 
tree, there are differences in fruit trees. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
Enclosed in a cover of exceptionally handsome design 
is the catalogue of the Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, Ga., 
of which P. J Berckmans is proprietor. These nurseries 
are foremost among those of the country, and the 
arrangement of the catalogue is excellent. 
“Northwestern Pomology,” by C. W. Gurney, pub¬ 
lished by the author at Concord, Neb., is one of the 
most valuable of the recent publications in the interest 
of horticulture. Its chief feature is that it treats of 
pomology in a certain section, and that section is the 
great Northwest, whose resources are but just being fully 
appreciated. Mr. Gurney has had 28 years’ experience 
as a nurseryman and orchardist, and, as he observes in 
his preface, in so long a period of hard work, study and 
observation, even a very ordinary person should have 
acquired much inforrriation. The subject of the book is 
treated in an able manner under the following heads : 
“ The Nursery,” “ Hardiness of the Tree,” “Making and 
Managing the Orchard,” “Pruning in General,” “Cross- 
pollenizing the Flowers,” “ Enemies of the Orchard and 
Fruit Garden,” “Propagation,” “ Landscape Gardening,” 
“Plums, Peaches, Apricots, Cherries, Small Fruits, 
Grapes, Apples, Pears, Evergreens,” “Humbugs.” The 
book treats of subjects in which all nurserymen are 
interested. 
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The issue of August i6th of the American Florist was 
the conyention number. In addition to matter concern¬ 
ing the convention that issue contained articles on 
progress in growing roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, 
cannas and geraniums. 
Recent publications of theU. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture include “Spraying Fruits for Insect Pests and 
Fungous Diseases,” “ The Effect of Spraying with Fungi¬ 
cides on the Growth of Nursery Stock,” “ The Army 
Worm,” “Important Insecticides,” “ Experiment Station 
Record, Vol. V,, No. ii,” “ Report of the Statistician.” 
The third biennial report of the Kansas State Horti¬ 
cultural Society for the years 1891-93, has been issued 
under the direction of the secretary, G. C. Brackett, 
Lawrence, Kan. It is an interesting volume of 232 
pages containing the proceedings of the meetings of the 
three years named. There is a list of officers and mem¬ 
bers and standing committees for 1894, a compilation 
of the state laws relating to horticulture, life sketches 
and notices of deceased members and an appendix giv¬ 
ing a manual of Kansas fruit, departments of fungi and 
entomology, county fruit reports, horticultural statistics, 
and a voted fruit list for Kansas. The standing com¬ 
mittee on novelties in the nursery trade is composed of 
E. J. Holman, Leavenworth ; A. C. Griesa, Lawrence, 
and U. B. Pearsall, Fort Scott. The report is a val¬ 
uable compendium of Kansas horticulture, and there is 
in addition much information of a general nature. The 
state may well be proud of this proof of the efficiency 
of its horticultural society. 
The catalogue of the Fancher Creek Nursery, near 
Fresno, Cal., deserves special mention, because of the 
intelligent manner in which it has been prepared. It 
indicates a complete assortment of a wide variety of 
nursery stock. It is handsomely illustrated. There is 
evidence that the nursery is producing one of the 
largest and best assorted stocks of fruit and ornamental 
trees on the Pacific coast. George C. Roeding is the 
manager. 
Horticulturists of Minnesota obtain the full benefit 
of the results shown at the state experiment stations 
through the summaries published in the Minnesota Hor¬ 
ticulturist. 
Part thirteen of “ The Book of the Fair” contains 
the concluding portion of an interesting description of 
the department of mines and mining and the opening of 
chapter seventeen on the fisheries of the world. There 
is an unusually large number of full page illustrations in 
the same excellent manner. Chicago : The Bancroft 
Company. 
FROM A FIRM ESTABLISHED IN 1800 
F. James, Ussy, France. —“Enclosed please find a post 
office order for $2.50, in order to receive The National Nur¬ 
seryman two years, beginning in June 1894 . Please forward 
the numbers of June, July and August not received this year as I 
forgot to send you the subscription. I forgot, indeed, for it is the 
most interesting newspaper I have ever seen in its specialty.” 
