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accomplished will be to push its sale vigorously in one 
or more good advertising mediums like The National 
Nurseryman, bearing in mind, that the fcxver 'words 
it requires to properly show the merits of his fruit, 
the better, as busy people appreciate briefness, and 
patronize the man who advertises by such a system as 
shows at a glance that he has the article needed. 
Ohioan. 
MARIANNA PLUM. 
To the Editor o/The National Nurseryman : 
The note of our friend, W. K. Heikes, of Huntsville, 
Ala., I think, misjudges the purport of my remarks. The 
object was simply to show that, as a general rule, where- 
ever it was possible, plants from seeds were more likely to 
be healthy than plants from cuttings, because, whatever 
special peculiarity a plant raised from a cutting might 
have, whether the roots were diseased by insects or 
through the work of fungi, is carried with the plant 
and spread to a degree that plants from seeds were not 
likely to. Certainly I had no idea of protesting against 
Marianna stocks from cuttings any more than any other 
nursery product raised in the same way. As a matter of 
fact, the knots on the roots were not the work of insects. 
The small pea-shaped galls, to which Mr. Heikes refers, I 
am familiar with, as certainly I am familiar also with the 
black knot on the plum, and I called attention to the fact 
of these knots existing on cherry roots as something novel 
and not within the knowledge of most nurserymen ; a 
fact I thought so new and interesting as to be worth 
placing on record. 
Thomas Meehan. 
Germantown, Phila. 
STECHER COMPANY’S EXHIBIT. 
The Stecher Lithographic Company will exhibit 
samples of its work in the line of nurserymen’s plates at 
the World’s Columbian Exposition in a handsome oak 
case 12x4 feet and 8^ feet in height, made by the 
Vetter Desk Company of this city. The case has four 
large panels in the back covered with glass for the 
plates. At one end of the case is a desk and at the 
other is a set of capacious drawers, the whole forming a 
complete and convenient exhibit. The Stecher Com¬ 
pany make a specialty of nurserymen’s plates, and it 
probably is the largest producer of this class of goods in 
this country. The Vetter Desk Company has a national 
reputation for the highest class of work. 
A WORK OF ART. 
Number two of that elegant new journal, The National 
Nurseryman, published at Rochester, N. Y., has reached us. 
Its typography and make-up constitute a work of art, and the 
matter is first-class. We do not often meet a new publication of 
any kind that strikes us so favorably as The National Nursery¬ 
man.— California Fruit Grower. 
IRVING ROUSE. 
The largest importer of foreign stocks in this country 
undoubtedly is Irving Rouse of this city. His importa¬ 
tions for a single year have exceeded eight million trees 
and plants Mr. Rouse came from Catskill, Green 
County, to Geneva, in 1871, and soon afterward became 
an agent for the nursery firm of Herendeen & Jones. 
He moved to Rochester in 1873, continuing in the nur¬ 
sery business, and in 1879, with H. T. Jones, he 
purchased the Lake View nurseries, at that time com¬ 
prising 75 acres. Additions to the land have been made 
until the nursery now comprises 350 acres in a solid 
block. It is a clay loam, on a gentle slope, two miles 
from the city limits, in the town of Greece. 
Mr. Rouse began the importing of stock because of 
failure to secure what he had ordered of European 
nurserymen, getting number one and number two stock, 
when extra stock was ordered. He decided to go to 
France and make his own selections. He succeeded so 
well that he rapidly enlarged this feature of the busi¬ 
ness. He has made eleven annual trips to Fjance. His 
own stock is grown there especially for him, and he is 
therefore independent of the market. His importations 
comprise mainly pear, quince, plum and cherry stocks, 
with comparatively few apples ; also ornamentals. He 
imported this year 750 cases of stocks. He has excellent 
facilities for storing stock. One of his cellars will 
accommodate 1,000,000 seedlings, and another is still 
larger. Mr. Rouse grows very heavily the leading 
varieties of standard and dwarf pears. 
