THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Texas is coming to the front rapidly as a fruit produc¬ 
ing region. As will be seen by reports from the Southern 
portion of the State, published in another column, grow¬ 
ers are having much success where earlier efforts failed. 
It is probable that the tendency among planters there will 
be toward the use of nursery stock grown in that region, 
but there is opportunity for nurserymen of other sections 
to demi)nstrate the value of special lines of stock grown 
elsewhere for use in the Southern States. That it will be 
necessary to do this is shown by the large increase each 
year in the planting South and West. 
Western New York fruit growers fear that the frost 
on the night of May i8th, following a three days rain, 
did considerable damage to the cherry, peach and plum 
crop. Apples were not advanced enough to receive 
serious injury. Bartlett pear blossoms were not open 
and consequently little or no damage was done them. 
The frost extended along the New York Lake shore and 
in Eastern Michigan. In Northern Illinois climatic 
changes in April seriously injured the fruit crop. In 
other sections of the country there are prospects of an 
abundant crop. 
All eyes are on Chicago. There will be much to 
interest all. The indications are that the nursery ex¬ 
hibit will not be as extensive as it might have been, but 
the nurserymen will find much instruction in the ex¬ 
hibits in horticultural hall, on the lagoon and on wooded 
island. While many nurserymen will make an effort to 
attend the meeting of the American Association, there 
are a considerable number who find it inconvenient to 
leave their business at this time, and they will therefore 
visit Chicago at a later date. 
Shrubs of Daphne Mezereum and Rhododendron 
maximum have been discovered growing wild in the 
vicinity of Rochester, recently, and the incident has been 
of considerable interest to local botanists. But something 
of the novelty was dispelled by the statement of Robert 
J. Fleming, soon after the discovery was made, that 
he saw Daphne Mezereum growing wild in the town of 
Greece, near Rochester, in 1880, and that he believes 
the specimens are not native but were developed from 
seed carried by birds from a neighboring nursery. 
The spring season has been prolonged by cool 
weather, so that while it has aided nurserymen in trans¬ 
planting their own stock it has at the same time en¬ 
couraged others to plant. Late sales therefore have 
been more frequent than usual. This has benefited 
those growers who deal directly with planters. Those 
having an'agents’ trade have not been so much bene¬ 
fited because most agents close their canvassing for 
spring orders about the middle of March. 
It is proposed that the Horticultural building at 
the World’s Columbian Exposition remain a perman¬ 
ent structure and that the contents be purchased as far 
as possible, to form a nucleus of a botanical garden for 
Chicago. This seems to be a commendable proposition, 
and one that should receive encouragement from all 
who reside in or near Chicago. It is a rare opportunity. 
In the May number of The National Nurseryman 
G. L. Tabor is quoted as saying that Le Conte and Keiffer 
pears have been heavily planted in Southern Kansas. 
It should have read. Southern Texas. 
Qmong (Brouwers anb Dealers. 
Olmsted, Olmsted & Elliott, the well known land¬ 
scape gardeners of Brookline, Mass., have prepared plans 
for the improvement of Washington park, this city. 
George S. Josselyn of Fredonia, N. Y. who was so 
successful in disseminating the Fay current, is now push¬ 
ing the Red Jacket gooseberry, the Esther grape and the 
Rockwood grape. 
Professor B. E. Fernow of the division of forestry, 
Department of Agriculture, is in Europe. He is on the 
programme for the Chicago meeting of the American 
Association of Nurserymen, but he will not return, prob¬ 
ably, in time. 
The Ohio Lemon & Citrus Nursery Co., of Cleveland, 
capital $20,000, has been incorporated by F. A. Kendall, 
A. P. Baldwin, Charles Hanford, J. S. Van Epps, S. S. 
Safford and W. . H. Cleminshaw. The company will raise 
tropical fruits on 100 acres of land in Tulare county. Cal. 
Charles E. Greening of the firm of Greening Broth¬ 
ers, Monroe, Mich., has designed an account book es¬ 
pecially for nurserymen doing a retail trade. It has an 
ingenious method of grouping and co-relation of accounts 
which enables the proprietor to refer at once to any 
feature of a transaction. 
S. M. Emery of Lake City, Minn., will assume the 
duties of his new position as director of the Montana 
Experiment Station on July ist. He has assured his 
many friends that his work in that direction will not 
cause him to lose interest in the progress of the nur¬ 
sery business. Mr. Emery will preside during a portion 
at least of the session of the World’s Horticultural Con¬ 
gress at the Columbian Exposition in August. 
Mr. Koster, of Koster & Co., proprietors of the 
Hollandia Nurseries, at Boskoop, Holland, has been 
visiting nurserymen in this country during the last few 
weeks. He passed through Rochester recently on his 
way from Chicago to New York. He leports a light 
demand for choice stock. Koster & Co., produce a high 
grade of stock and secure a high price for it. The firm 
made a fine exhibit at Ghent this year. 
