THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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TARIFF RESULTS. 
Several nurser3^men have in response to inquiries 
from The Florists Exchange, voiced the sentiments 
regarding the tariff which were expressed at the recent 
convention of the American Association of Nurserymen. 
The Franklin Davis Nursery Co., N. H. Albaugh, S. D. 
Willard, Jacob W. Manning, Storrs and Harrison and 
Howard A. Chase believe the new tariff will have a 
demoralixing effect upon a certain class of nursery stock. 
P. J. Berckmans said: “ I do not think that plac¬ 
ing plants, trees, and shrubs commonly known as nur¬ 
sery stock, on the free list will have any material effect 
upon the trade, because from what I can learn the 
importations of such classes of stock have not been less 
during the time when the McKinley bill was in operation, 
than they were at the time when the old tariff was in 
effect, and such stock was imported free of duty. Indi¬ 
vidually I would have preferred a duty of 20 per cent, 
on all horticultural products, whether nurserymen’s or 
florists’ stock, as I think it would have benefited Amer¬ 
ican horticulture, because under the free list too much 
cheap stock is imported into the United States, and this 
seldom brings the financial results expected. 
Samuel C. Moon said: “I expect the effect of the 
new tariff legislation will be a slight reduction in the 
price of some of the smaller sizes of stocks which are 
imported and sold on their arrival in this country without 
being transplanted here, but stock which is grown in 
American soil will not, in my opinion, be affected much 
by this change in the tariff. Large sizes of trees and 
shrubs will not be imported in sufficient quantities to 
materially effect American prices, because of the bulk 
and weight of such stock. The expense and risk of 
importing will serve as a considerable protection for 
American nurseries. I think that fruit tree nurseries 
have nothing to fear from foreign competition, as the 
varieties grown here are so different from those grown 
abroad that planters will have a decided preference for 
home-grown trees. In the preparation of my autumn 
price list I have not taken any account whatever of the 
change of tariff in arranging prices, and do not antic¬ 
ipate that the recent legislation will have any appreci¬ 
able effect upon my fall trade which is chiefly in the line 
of ornamental trees and shrubs with nurserymen and 
wholesale dealers as well as with retail buyers and 
planters.” 
Thomas Meehan said : “It seems to me that the 
whole question resolves itself into this—whether it is 
better for nurserymen to have more customers and 
cheaper trees, or cheaper trees and fewer customers. 
For my own part my thought is that the great trouble 
with nurserymen is, rather the absence of customers 
than the cost of his products, and I do not believe that 
cheapening products by free trade will tend to increase 
customers, which is'' the nurseryman’s great want, but 
rather the reverse.” 
Clmong (Broruers anb DcaUvs, ' 
Ex-Secretary Charles A. Green of-the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurserymen, is traveling in Europe. 
John Charlton, of Rochester, was superintendent of 
the floricultural department of the New York State 
Fair at Syracuse, last month. 
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H. W. Foster, of the nursery firm of Foster & Co , 
Geneva, N. Y., has been appointed assistant superin¬ 
tendent of the public schools of Ithaca. 
DeWeese & Dye of the Rocky Mountain Nurseries at 
Canon City, Colo., said recently, “We are pleased to 
report a fine season in this section for growing nursery 
stock, and we challenge the world to show a finer line 
of apples, pears, plums and cherries.” 
The Auburn, N. Y., Bulletin of September r3th, 
says: “The numerous friends of Supervisor H. S. 
Anderson of Union Springs will sympathize with him in 
his sad affliction, the death of his wife, which occurred 
at the family residence at Union Springs, at an early 
hour Monday morning. 
Frederick W. Kelsey of the Essex County, N. J., 
Park Commission, sends us an attractive pamphlet 
entitled “ Park Benefits,” published by the commission 
It will do much to extend the demand for ornamental 
nursery stock. Boston has 1,200 acres in public parks ; 
Chicago, 1,600 and 20 miles of parkways; St. Louis, 
2,100 acres; Philadelphia, 2,740 ; New York has Cen¬ 
tral park and Bronx River park, containing over 2,000 
acres. 
R. G. Chase, of Geneva, N. Y., arrived in New York 
on September 7th after a three month’s trip in Europe. 
Mr. Chase went abroad for the benefit of his health which 
had become impaired by too close application to business. 
While the trip has not benefited him as he had hoped it 
might, he and his relatives feel greatly encouraged as to 
his future. From New York he went direct to the Adi- 
rondacks where he will probably remain until winter. We 
wish him an early and complete recovery. 
Parker Earle, president of the American Pomologi- 
cal Society, has visited the Pecos Valley of New Mexico, 
and has returned full of enthusiasm over its prospects 
as an apple growing section. With Stark Brothers of 
Louisiana, Mo., he has formed the Pecos Valley Orchard 
Co., the purpose of which is to establish ultimately the 
largest apple orchard in the world. It is proposed to 
plant 2,000 acres into apple trees at once and to 
increase the planting until 10,000 acres shall be occupied. 
