THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Many fruit growers, and even nurserymen, having heard 
so much about the yellows among the Delaware peaches, 
have a wrong idea, and believe that all eastern peach 
trees are diseased, and should be kept out. Steps should 
be taken to correct this erroneous report. While it is true 
that Delaware peaches have suffered terribly from the 
yellows, it should be understood that this state of affairs 
does not exist in Western New York, and never were 
healthier trees grown anywhere. Regarding nurserymen, 
the same may be said of them as in California. There 
are very few thorough, practical men, but scores of care¬ 
less, unreliable growers, who don’t even know how to 
bud. In fact, nearly all trees are grafted because it is 
easier, and most any one can do it. A minister, lawyer, 
doctor or farmer, is more successful with a graft than 
with a bud, hence that method is quite popular. It is a 
conundrum as to what these parties are going to do with 
their trees this year. Prunes and plums are offered as 
low as $33 per 1,000 now. Nearly every day we receive 
letters from such parties inviting us to come and buy them 
out. They are willing to close their business out at a 
bargain and forever hold their peace. 
I regret that I cannot give your readers a better 
general idea of the nursery trade at present, but perhaps 
may have an opportunity to do so when I am more fully 
posted. 
Robert C. Brown. 
Portland, Oregon, Feb. 14, 1893. 
NEBRASKA NURSERY INTERESTS. 
The apple and cherry crop of 1892 was very short 
owing to the unfavorable weather at blossoming time, 
but grapes and raspberries yielded very fair returns. 
Pears are not grown here to any extent on account of 
the occasional hard winters and the ravages of blight. 
The indications are that the time is coming when we 
shall grow very largely of grapes, not only for our own 
markets, but will ship freely to western and northwestern 
markets. We are favorably located and have the soil 
and climate to enable us to grow early varieties of grapes 
for market in great perfection and profit, and I hope to 
see the time come in the near future when they will be 
shipped in car lots. In favorable seasons we grow 
superior apples in great abundance, orchards of 
20, 40 and 80 acres being planted with promise of great 
profit to the planter. Our apples are of excellent qual¬ 
ity and brilliant in color and keep better than those of 
Kansas and Missouri. 
In the timber claim trade which has formed quite a 
large percentage of the business of the local nurserymen, 
there is just now a very sharp demand for forest seed¬ 
lings. With the repeal of the timber claim law, most 
nurseries greatly lessened and some entirely stopped 
their production of forest seedlings. There is a demand 
for wind-breaks and groves over these broad prairies and 
there is yet some demand for trees to plant on timber 
claims, which had been cheaply and unsuccessfully car¬ 
ried from year to year by planting seeds. The varieties 
of timber which are in greatest demand for timber claim 
purposes are Ash, Box Elder, Black Locust and for 
farm wind-breaks and groves. Ash, Soft Maple and Cat- 
alpa with more or less of other varieties. 
All the nurseries of the state report improved pros¬ 
pects for trade. E. F. Stephens. 
Crete, Neb. 
THE CRANDALL CURRANT. 
Nothing gives greater pleasure to myself and the trade 
in general than the introduction of a new variety of fruit, 
when properly introduced by responsible parties who are 
willing on their reputation to endorse it as being likely to 
prove of profit and value to the amateur and professional 
grower. A few years ago, parties in the West introduced 
a black currant called the Crandall. It was described as 
being a new ( }) variety of great merit, that was likely to 
become a valuable and profitable sort. I ask for practical 
information from those who have grown and fruited it, 
and not hearsay evidence only : What are its merits, or 
does it possess any ; and is there any value to it as being 
worthy to be recommended to the general public as a 
new and profitable variety ? I, myself, have grown and 
fruited it, giving it a fair trial, but do not recognize any 
value in it whatever, and would say in all candor that I 
do not think it possesses one redeeming feature to recom¬ 
mend it to the public as being worthy of its confidence. 
I know it has been catalogued, through the desire to offer 
new varieties, by several parties, who in most instances 
give hearsay recommendations only, and not the results 
of their own experience ; and I do not for a moment think 
that anyone with weight or authority would give it the 
least encouragement on its merits. I know of plants 
growing wild in our neighborhood which are its very 
counterpart in every particular, both being in my opinion 
worthless, and of no value. Let us learn to frown down 
such worthless introductions as being a fraud and imposi¬ 
tion on the public ; but give to new varieties of excellence 
and merit all the aid we can in their introduction and 
dissemination, as being of profit and worth to the com¬ 
munity at large. 
John Charlton. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
American Gardening says of the Pratt peach in 
Niagara County, N. Y. : “It ripens with Crawford 
Early, has here proved an abundant bearer and is superior 
in quality. Crawford runs somewhat larger in size, but 
Pratt is less injured by severe winters. The tree is a 
strong, healthy grower.” 
