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THE xNATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Qinong (Broifcrs anb Dealers. 
Henry Augustine, of Normal, 111 ., has just been elected 
President of the Illinois State Horticultural Society. 
Guy lh'3'ant, junior member of the firm of A. Biyant 
N Sons, Princeton, Ill., passed a portion of the winter in 
I'lorida. 
T. C. Maxwell and wife, of Geneva, will leave in a 
short time for the South. Mr. Maxwell has an extensive 
orange grove near St. Augustine, Fla., wEich he \vill 
visit. He will combine business with pleasure. 
The firm of Charles H. Hawks & Co., 419 Ellwanger 
& Barry Building, this city, has been dissolved by 
mutual consent, and a reorganization under the name 
of the Hawks Nursery Company, has been effected. 
Lewis Chase, president of Chase Brothers Company, 
is spending the winter in the South on a pleasure trip to 
prominent points cf interest. He visited recently well- 
known nurserymen in the Southern States. He is now 
in Cuba. He will return March ist. 
\\hlliam Smith, president of the W. & T. Smith 
Company, Geneva, has just returned from an extended 
trip through the West. He visited some of the large 
nurseries in different parts, and reports that the large 
stock of apples out there will be sold at extremely low 
prices. 
Nelson Bogne, of Batavia, has just been appointed a 
trustee of the State Institution for the Blind, at Batavia. 
He was connected with the same institution several years 
ago. Mr. Bogue says the outlook for the season on all 
kinds of stock is good. Many of the large growers have 
made heavy sales already. 
Hon. Seth Fenner, of East Aurora, N. Y., one of the 
largest fruit growers of Erie county, says that there is a 
prospect for a good crop of fruit in his section this year. 
The steady cold weather of the winter he believes has 
kept a normal condition of things, and is much better 
than alternate cold and warm spells. Last season he got 
but I 5 bushels of apples, including worm-eaten and dried- 
up specimens from an orchard of 55 acres. There was 
less than an eighth of a crop of pears. 
The W. T. Smith Co., of Geneva, has just com¬ 
pleted the construction of a handsome factory building 
on the corner of Nursery avenue and Lyceum street for 
the.use of the Geneva Optical Co., of which Thomas 
Smith is president. This corporation is engaged in the 
manufacture of various kinds of optical goods. It will 
employ about 400 people, and by its removal to the 
locality named, has created a market for a large amount 
of old nursery land in the western suburbs, which is being- 
disposed of very rapidly for building lots. 
R. C. Brown, of Brown Brothers Company, this 
city, has been traveling on the Pacihe coast six weeks. 
and has visited the principal nurseries in that section of 
the country. He called upon Mr. Chase, at Riverside, 
Cal., where he saw the largest planting of young orange 
trees in the country. Chinese labor is employed almost 
exclusively there, and it was a strange sight compared 
with scenes in the East to see 200 Chinamen busily at 
work at the nursery. Mr. Brown has located a branch 
office of his company at Portland, Oregon, and will 
remain there a year. 
Local growers were interested in the announcement 
that Irving Rouse, one of the largest, perhaps the 
largest importer of seedlings in the United States, pur¬ 
chased last month the handsome residence built by 
William Allen, on Lake avenue, in this citv. The resi- 
dence is-one of the finest in the city, and is in a most 
desirable location. It cost the builder a few years ago 
$84,500. Mr. Rouse secured it at a cash price of 
$25,000. This is considered one of the greatest bar¬ 
gains in real estate known in Rochester. Mr. Rouse 
and his family will move into his new residence next 
fall. 
CORDIAL ENDORSEMENTS. 
Below are given a few of the cordial endorsements 
of the project of The National Nurseryman that have 
come to us voluntarily during the last few weeks: 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Phjla. —“We are 
very much pleased to receive your circular letter of December 24th, 
and we shall welcome the new publication, as we believe it will be 
a most successful work. We have for several years thought that 
such a medium would not only be desirable, but would be a very 
profitable undertaking, and we believe thatyou will receive a great 
deal of encouragement from it.” 
S. C. Wood, Knowlesville, N. Y.—“ I am glad such a jour¬ 
nal is to be printed, and I will give it my support.” 
H. M. Whiting, Boston, Mass.—“A m very glad to know 
that the nurserymen are so fortunate as to have a trade paper, and 
think it will prove a very valuable source of information.” 
H. C. Graves & Son, Lee’s Summit, Mo.— “ We have no 
doubt that if the right people are interested it will be a good thing. 
We wish you success.” 
The Storrs & Harrison Company, Painesville, O.—“We 
wish you success.” 
The Hooker Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y.—“We should 
think there was a good field for just such a publication as you pix)- 
pose to issue, and if properly conducted it will be very useful to 
the nurserymen, as well as profitable to its publishers.” 
T. S. Hubbard Company, Predonia, N. Y.—“We wish you 
success in the undertaking and believe such a journal is needed.” 
Samuel C. Moon, Morrisville, Pa.—“ I have for a long 
time thought there should be such a journal as you have outlined, 
and wondered very much that some enterprising person did not 
arise and supply this conspicuous vacancy in the line of jour¬ 
nalism.” 
Phcenix Nursery Company, Bloomington, III.—“ We are 
of the opinion that a journal of this kind is much needed in the 
trade, provided it is circulated among what might properly be 
termed nurserymen, or in other words, growers and dealers, and 
not planters.” 
Chase Brothers Company, Rochester, N. Y.—“Referring 
to your circular letter relative to a publication which you propose 
to issue within a short time, we must say that we think that a 
