THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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diameter, in whose shades and open spaces grow the 
evergreen wild huckleberry, (generally black) often red 
and sometimes white ; salmon berries, red and yellow ; 
salal berries, red ; raspberries, red, black and rarely 
yellow ; wild strawberries, crabapples, Juneberries, dew¬ 
berries, hazel nuts and the golden-leaved chinquapin. 
A few miles further west—twenty-two miles from the 
point of view,—and about fifty miles from the Golden 
Gate, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, near the 
mouth of the Russian river, is Fort Ross, the old Rus¬ 
sian settlement and stronghold, where still may be seen 
the old Greek church, fort and dwellings, with orchards 
of pear and apple planted by the Russians and still 
thriving and bearing fruit. 
Along the evergreen shores of the Pacific, the princi¬ 
pal business is the production of butter, (which is nowhere 
surpassed) ,eggs and potatoes ; yet the soil and climate 
are well suited to the profitable production of long-keep¬ 
ing apples and pears, as well as olives and nuts. 
Santa Rosa is the home of Luther Burbank, the 
well known originator. His home and grounds are in 
the center of the picture and his Sebastopol branches 
are eight miles westward, also near the center of the 
picture. It is here that Mr. Burbank produtes his won¬ 
derful results with fruits and flowers. 
THE SEASON AT GENEVA. 
Genev.\, N, Y., Sept. 1 8.—The fall digging season is 
on us and for a week past many loads of trees moved in 
our streets—several car loads will be shipped this month. 
The dry summer has caused trees to mature early; rains 
have been frequent lately and the digging is easy, a great 
contrast to the usual method when dynamite and other 
powers were desired to get orders dug in season. It is 
evident that the usual number of trees will be shipped from 
this centre this fall. Though prices rule too low to satisfy 
the growers, yet the bottom is reached and it is a fact that 
on some items a better price could have been had. 
When will nurserymen learn to co-operate ? If it is 
not desirable to form combinations surely the capital, intel¬ 
ligence and necessities of the case point to the desirability 
of having a bureau of information, so they can know the 
amount of stock on the market. If such a plan can be 
carried out it would prevent one’s selling a short supply at 
too low a rate. Nurserymen, of all professions, have the 
unhappy faculty of finding a thing out too late. As retail¬ 
ers and growers all admit that wholesale prices are too low, 
it would seem reasonable to suppose that some concerted 
action might be arranged. 
Two-years-old standard pears block in New York are not 
as good as usual, and the question is raised if one cause of 
it may not be the use of the modern “branched rooted 
seedling.” Years ago the lands selected for growing stand¬ 
ard pears were heavy clay; in wet seasons straight-rooted 
seedlings were planted, but the stand was often imperfect. 
Later years branched roots have been almost wholly 
planted, and the point is that branched roots form a 
whole system of roots nearer the surface, and are more 
liable to injury in the winter from “ freezing dry.” Straight- 
rooted seedlings form their roots, as the tree grows, deeper 
in the soil and further away from the changes that occur in 
the surface soil. 
Has the introduction of the Kieffer pear killed the 
standard pear business ? 
No doubt it has had an important effect on it. 
Twenty years ago only a limited section of the country 
could grow pears at all, and now the Kieffer (a so-called pear) 
can be grown anywhere, and the large numbers grown and 
used, because of their free growth, probably has taken the 
place of hundreds of thousands of trees formerly grown by 
the “standard pear kings of New York.” 
Look out for the same result in the plum business, 
because of the growing demand and the remarkable char¬ 
acter of the Japanese varieties, in foliage and habit of 
growth. An enormous crop of plums has been marketed 
this month. Two express car loads a day, large shipments 
by freight and the canning factories have been the ways to 
market. Considering the large crop the returns have been 
satisfactory. 
Quinces will be a good crop. Some pears have borne 
well, a fair crop of peaches all together make the income 
from the orchard more than usual notwithstanding the short 
apple crop. 
MONROE MATTERS. 
Monroe, Mich., Sept. 28.—John Morey Jr., Uans- 
ville, J. \V. Gaines, of Hoover & Gaines Co., Dayton, 
Ohio, and E. H. Pratt of the T. S. Hubbard Co., Fre- 
donia, N. Y., were recent callers at this place. 
Greening Bros, have bought the entire stock and 
control of the Courath raspberry, and they will soon 
ask the trade to take hold of it and help sell it. 
Digging was commenced here on the 25th for filling 
early orders of pears and cherries'. 
There is an orchardist at Ironville, O., who has 80 
Baldwin apple trees that will average 12 bushels of fine 
fruit to the tree. The result is attributed to spraying. 
The New Prolific peach continues making friends. 
There were trees in full bearing this year and they made 
a very nice showing. Every fruit grower within “com¬ 
ing ” distance was invited to see the trees and they were 
pronounced superior to any other sort in cultivation. 
AkZena. 
