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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
OFFICERS ELECTED. 
California State Horticultural Society—Honorary 
president, Professor E. W. Hilgard; president, B.. M. 
Lelong ; vice-president, Leonard Coates ; treasurer. Rev. 
A. T. Perkins; secretary. Professor E. J. Wickson. 
Board of directors ■ chosen : S. J. Stabler, Leonard 
Coates, C. H. Allen, Howard Overacker and J. L. Mosher. 
Kansas Horticultural Society—President, Judge F. 
Wellhouse, of Topeka; vice-president, J.W. Robinson of 
El Dorado; secretary. Senator Edwin Taylor, of Rose- 
dale ; treasurer. Major Frank Holsinger, of Rosedale. 
Grand River Valley, Michigan, Horticultural Society— 
J. A. Pearce, president ; H. O. Braman, vice-president ; 
Chase Phillips, treasurer ; T. L. Brown, secretary ; execu¬ 
tive committee : C. W. Garfield, E. Manley, A. W. Slay¬ 
ton, S. S. Bailey, H. H. Hoyse, Mrs. E. Arnold and Mrs. 
J. Graham. 
Southern Illinois Horticultural Society—President. R. 
T. Fry, Olney; secretary-treasurer, E. G. Mendenhall, 
Kinmundy; vice-presidents, J. Webster, Centralia ; J. W. 
Fuller, Anna; L. N. Beal, Mt. Vernon. 
Missouri Horticultural Society-—President, J. C. Evans, 
North Kansas City ; vice-presidents, N. F. Murray, Oregon; 
Samuel Miller, Bluffton; secretary, L. A. Goodman, West- 
port; treasurer. A, Nelson, Lebanon. 
Ohio Horticultural Society—President, E. H. Cushman, 
Euclid ; vice-president. Professor W. R. Lazenby, Colum¬ 
bus ; secretary, W. W. Farnsw'orth, Waterville ; treasurer, 
N. Ohmer, Dayton. 
Ontario Fruit Grower^’ Association—President, Murray 
Pettit, Winona, Ont.; vice-president, W. E. Wellington, 
Toronto; secretary, L. Woolverton, Grimsby. 
TRUE STOCK. 
I started in the nursery business sixteen years ago, 
then making a specialty of strawberry plants that were 
first-class and true to name. In connection with the nur¬ 
sery business, in 18S3 I commenced the seed business, 
making a specialty of true second crop seed potatoes, 
which have proved to be the best seed potatoes that were 
ever put on the market. My trade has increased rapidly. 
I have many orders for-spring, and the prospect is good 
for a large spring trade. We have a large stock to offer 
to our customers this spring that is first-class and true. 
There are a great many nurserymen in the business 
(especially in the strawberry plant trade) who send out 
many mixed plants. I have bought plants several times 
from nurserymen who said that their plants were true to 
name, and when I planted them, and they began to grow, 
I found that they were badly mixed. 
Now I do not believe that these nurserymen are 
dishonest, but do believe that there are some in the busi¬ 
ness that cannot tell one variety from another. Mixed 
plants are a great disappointment to the berry growers. 
J. W. Hall. 
Emono (Browers anb H)ealers. 
J. Austin Shaw, well-known as a nurseryman, has entered 
the stock exchange business in New York city. 
Fifty-two years ago E. H. Reynolds began the cultiva¬ 
tion of fruit and ornamental trees. In 1888 he estab¬ 
lished the Michigan Nursery Company. 
Mr. Pennock of Larimer county, Colo., has sold his 
general nursery stock, that he might have more time to 
devote to his adopted occupation of propagating and im¬ 
proving fruits, from the wild stock of the mountains. 
The Framingham Nursery Company, South Framing¬ 
ham, Mass., has recently erected a new packing house and 
a new greenhouse. Charles B. Merrill is president, H. B. 
Clewley treasurer and William B. Whittier general 
manager. 
The firm of Kirk, Wild & Kimber, Salem, Ore., has 
been dissolved. W. H. Wild and George W. Kimber 
have withdrawn and L. M. Kirk will continue the busi¬ 
ness under the old name of the Capital City Nursery 
Company. 
Irving Rouse returned last month from a trip to France. 
He was absent six weeks. He made the usual shipment 
of stock to this country, with the exception of pear seed¬ 
lings which he says are very scarce. During the last 
week in December he received twelve car loads of seedlings 
from France. 
The R. G. Chase company of Geneva, N. Y., has been 
incorporated with a capital stock of $76,000. The direct¬ 
ors are : Roscoe G. Chase, Orville G. Chase, John L. 
Bennett, of Geneva ; George Chase, of Malden, Mass., 
and Howard A. Chase, of Philadelphia. The new com¬ 
pany succeeds R. G. Chase & Co., established in i860. It 
has offices in Boston and Philadelphia The Geneva 
office is in the charge of John L. Bennett, who has been 
with the company for fifteen years. George R. Watson 
has recently been engaged to have charge of the agents’ 
correspondence from the Geneva office. 
Professor L. H. Bailey in his report to the New York 
State Commissioner of Agriculture on the condition of 
peach growing in Western New York, states that nine 
thousand acres in that section are devoted to peach grow¬ 
ing. He thinks that this industry more than any other 
pomological interest suffers from careless methods: 
First, lack of cultivation ; second, inattention to borers 
and yellows; third, neglect to thin fruit ; and fourth, care¬ 
lessness in marketing. 
Dewain Cook in an article in the Northivestern Agricul¬ 
turist, urging farmers to join their state horticultural 
society says : “ Join the society and thus get what is 
already in part your due. It will use you better than it 
promises. Don’t begrudge the dollar paid. The next 
tree agent who comes along is liable to beat you out of 
more than enough to pay for a life membership, provided 
he is a little bigger liar than the last one. Tree agents 
give members of horticultural societies a wide berth.” 
Marion Station, Md. 
