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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Clmong (Broipcrs anb Dealers. 
Irving Rouse was in Indiana a portion of last month. 
George A. Sweet, of Dansville, has been in Kansas a 
few weeks. 
J. I. Newson, has sold a fourth interest in the Com¬ 
mercial Nurseries, Nashville, Tenn., to his son, A. W. 
Newson. 
D. N. Graves, of the firm of H. C. Graves & Son, 
Council Bluffs, la., has been in the South a portion of 
the winter on business. 
The Amityville Nursery and Greenhouse Company 
has been formed at Amityville, Suffolk County, N. Y., 
with a capital stock of $25,000. P. H. Foster is presi¬ 
dent, and G. P. Williams secretary. They are importers 
and growers, and make landscape gardening a specialty. 
Mr. Foster is a well-known nurseryman of Babylon, N. Y. 
George C. Brackett, of Lawrence, Kansas, secretary 
of the Kansas Horticultural Societ}^, has been appointed 
by the Royal Society of Agriculture and of Botany one 
of the jurors to serve at the Thirteenth International 
Exposition, in England, opening April 16, but on account 
of ill health he will not attend. He may go to the Pacific 
coast instead. 
Manager E. K. Jennings, of the Blue Mound Nur¬ 
series, Kansas, offers for sale a nursery of national 
reputation, known as the Cook & Irwin nursery, estab¬ 
lished in 1868. The nursery is said to be in first-class 
condition. It offers an opportunity for an enterprising 
nurseryman to take advantage of the progressive business 
of the West. 
We had the pleasure, lately, of calling upon Col. W. 
R. Stuart, of Ocean Springs, Miss., the “Father of 
Pecan Culture.” The Colonel is a typical Southern 
gentleman ; courteous, hospitable, and as enthusiastic in 
his work as a young man, although he is now over 73 
years old. We found him in his young pecan orchard 
superintending the work of planting some grafted sorts 
which originated on his grounds. The Stuart, named for 
him by Mr. Van Deman, we think the ideal sort, and we 
paid a handsome price for a few trees to propagate from. 
Judging from what we saw there, pecans bear transplant¬ 
ing from the nursery to the orchard with much better 
success than we supposed, very few having died from 
those transplanted last year .—Practical Nurseryman. 
Qne of the best known importers in this country is C. 
H. Joosten, the representative of the Boskoop, Holland, 
Nursery Association. He is enthusiastic over the value 
of Fostite, a copper sulphated soap stone powder which 
has been found efficacious in dealing with all cryptogamic 
diseases of plants and fruit trees. Aside from the fact 
that the importation of this substance is a source of con¬ 
siderable revenue, it should be a matter of congratulation 
to all that what has been proved to be a valuable remedy 
for mildew, black rot and blight, in European countries, 
has been introduced to a large extent in this country with 
increasing favor. Too much encouragement cannot be 
given to efforts to prevent and cure the diseases and 
effects of insects, which destroy or decrease to an alarm¬ 
ing extent the profits of the nurseryman, horticulturist 
and florist. 
A RARE OPPORTUNITY. 
Just at this season of the year when nurserymen are 
looking about for means of disposing of surplus stock, a 
rare opportunity is offered them in the advertising 
columns of The National Nurseryman. This journal 
circulates among the growers and dealers of the country, 
going directly to the men it is desired to reach, and at 
rates below the cost of circulars and postage, to say 
nothing of time required. Several have spoken of the 
great advantage the journal offers for the publication of 
lists of surplus stock. 
Here is an opportunity, too, to present in the most 
attractive manner the claims of specialties, novelties, 
new varieties, as they appear, by illustration and descrip¬ 
tion. Few, if any trades, have as handsome a journal 
representing them. The nursery business offers oppor¬ 
tunities in this direction unsurpassed. The demand for 
advertising space in the April number is already 
encroaching upon our limits. If you would be in it we 
should hear from you within a few days. 
The Hooker Nursery Company say : 
“ We have had in answer to our advertisement in your journal 
inquiries from nurserymen of high standing whom we had never 
heard from before.” 
A. L. Wood says : 
“ I have through my advertisement in The National Nur¬ 
seryman sold all my stock of certain kinds, and I am looking for 
more stock to fill orders which are coming in as they never have 
before. Your journal is a wonderful advertising medium. Its 
attractive appearance is a credit to every advertiser.” 
John Charlton : 
“I have received in answer to my advertisement in your 
journal inquiries from many nurserymen whom I never dealt with 
before.” 
The opportunity to fill shortages on stock is one that 
cannot be overlooked by all live nurserymen. The 
Hooker Nursery Company say they have been obliged 
to replace the want list in their advertisement with 
other matter, because they have secured through its 
first appearance all the stock asked for. Brown Bros. 
Company say the advertising columns of this journal 
will be a great help to the nurserymen who desire to fill 
on “longs and shorts” and do away with the sending 
of circulars and the attendant expense ; that they prefer 
to advertise their lists in The National Nurseryman, 
rather than use the old custom of circulars, which has 
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