The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyright, 1893, by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
VoL. II. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY, 1895. No. 12. 
TRADE IN KANSAS. 
Lawrence, Kan., Dec. 15.—The trade in Kansas has 
been fully up to the standard of a year ago, in the num¬ 
ber of trees shipped and under order. The only unsatis¬ 
factory feature being the low price. This being applicable 
to apple trees mainly. A tendency to stiffen the price is 
noticeable on top grades. And a general cutting of the 
plant for the spring of 1895 is the talk in all sections of 
Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. We think that 
here lies the kernel of the better and more satisfactory 
solution of our business when the balance is cast at the 
end of the season. Stocks are cheap. It costs but little 
to make a graft or bud a seedling, but the two and three 
years of after culture, ground rent, labor at old-time 
schedule (will say nothing of capital invested,) big stocks 
everywhere and customers for car lots very scarce, con¬ 
tinue to be prominent features. No profits, or more likely 
business at a loss, is the result. With less acreage and 
better culture a greater percentage of first class stock will 
follow with better prices, pay rolls reduced and a feeling 
of thrift we all have known. A condition of things like 
the followincr would then not exist: A well-known 
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Missouri firm sending a private circular to farmers, offering 
trees at lowest wholesale rate, thus utterly demoralizing 
the trade for salesmen by offering “ a rare opportunity 
in order to dispose of their surplus stock, at a price less 
•than cost of production, to use their own language, of 
offering “ to one and all, a privilege rare.” This is cer¬ 
tainly a case of bad congestion : for such a case we think 
better to burn a few thousand trees than ruin a good 
market. Cases of this kind may be looked for, until 
growers adopt different tactics by reducing their plants, 
etc. 
A. C. Griesa has made various improvements during 
the year, the greatest being the connection of his nurseries 
with the city water works, laying nearly 2,000 feet of 
mostly two-inch pipe, below frost line, having hydrants 
at intervals, so that by laying surface pipes some twenty 
acres of land is brought into a condition in which it can 
be irrigated sufficiently to bridge over a dry spell. 
We have just had the pleasure of having for our guests 
the well-known veteran in horticulture, as well as a nursery¬ 
man, S. D. Willard and his good wife, who are enroute to 
California. They were greatly pleased with the looks of 
things here. And when sampling the Gano, Ben Davis 
and other apples frankly admitted that New York could 
not produce their equal. Mr. Willard was also much in¬ 
terested in the new peach, Bokara No. 3, which tested at 
28 degrees below zero, and a crop, is bound to enlist the 
attention of horticulturists who know a good thing when 
they see it. Silas Wilson of Atlantic, Iowa, says of it : 
“ We have fruited it for many years, and we get peaches 
three years out of five.” Here then with the Gano apple 
as the king of fruits, the Bokara peach, as the queen, and 
the Kansas raspberry sure to win its way to the front, of 
western origin, the West is all right. The gold out-put 
for 1894 for the United States was $43,000,000. The 
cattle product of Kansas alone, $42,000,000. 
The tenth semi-annual meeting of western wholesale 
nurserymen will convene at Kansas City the i8th inst. 
These meetings are of great worth to the western fra¬ 
ternity. 
WISCONSIN NEWS. 
Evergreen, Wis., Dec. 15.— Hatch & Goff have 
started a fruit tree nursery at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. They 
expect to have the largest plum orchard in the state. Mr. 
Goff is connected with the experiment station of Wiscon¬ 
sin. Sturgeon Bay is in Door county, in the north-eastern 
part of the state. This part of the country has not been 
advertised much as a fruit growing section until lately. 
Some fine orchards have been started and there are a few 
large ones that are in bearing. Some of the finest fruit 
grown in the state comes from this section. One grower 
received a medal from the World’s Fair for his apples. Our 
nurseries have been affected by statements of southern 
nurserymen who tell people that we have only wild stock 
because we are in Northern Wisconsin. There are only 
six varieties of evergreens growing wild here, and as we 
have about 200 varieties growing in the nursery, one can 
see we do not have much to do with wild trees. The 
Evergreen Nursery Co. reports that trade was very good 
last fall, in fact it was the best since the nursery has been 
running Their Christmas tree department had abetter trade 
than last year. Said I. L. Buchan to-day : “ The farmers 
of this county expect to plant many fruit trees next spring. 
We have a good many orders on our book now for spring. 
We are introducing a number of hardy varieties of apple. 
The seed was planted by my father, who is a professional 
gardener, some 18 or 20 years ago, and we got scions from 
the trees which are especially adapted to a cold country.’’ 
AT VINCENNES, IND. 
Vincennes, Ind., Dec. 15.—We wish to contribute a 
word, on behalf of our part of the country, in praise of 
The National Nurseryman. We look forward to its 
coming each month with pleasure. The season with us, 
