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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
^rom Parious points. 
Clmong tt]e (Exct^angcs. 
Judge Miller, of Missouri, sa3’s that the fruit crop gen¬ 
erally is a failure. He thinks California will reap a rich 
harvest this year. 
It is reported that the famous Le Conte pear, so ex¬ 
tensively propagated in the South because of its supposed 
freedom from blight, is blighting badly this year. 
S. D. Willard recommends the following new fruits: 
Sutton’s Beauty apple, Martha crab, Longfield apple, 
Horton Rivers peach, Haines Surprise peach. Field 
plum and Harris’ apricot. 
Shipments of nursery trees from Pomona, California, 
have reached the following figures for the season, says the 
Progress: Oranges, 116,357; lemons, 4,376; prunes, 
16,204; peach, 10,018; apricots, 5,960; plums, 633; 
apples, 232; olives, 615,642. Total, 769,422. 
Some large peach orchards are found in Georgia, even 
outside of the well known “peach belt” about Fort 
Valley. Mrs. J. D. Cunningham, of Atlanta, is reported 
to have a 200-acre peach orchard near Marietta, among 
the Kennesaw mountains, comprising 30,000 trees from 
which she expects a yield this year of 70,000 bushels 
of fruit. 
At the great rose shows in England last month, much 
interest was taken by all the leading growers. Of the 
National Rose Society’s exhibits at the Crystal Palace, 
The Gardener's Magazine says: “For the challenge 
class, open only to nurserymen, stands of seventy-two 
distinct single trusses were staged by four competitors, 
Messrs. Harkness & Sons, The Grange Nurseries, Bedale, 
York, being easily first with a superb collection, almost 
all the blooms being perfect examples, and the finest of 
these, if we may venture to select, were Dr. Andry, 
Gustave Piganeau, Ulrich Brunner, Innocente Pirola, 
Margaret Dickson, Victor Hugo, Etoile de Lyon, Boule 
d’Or, Horace Vernet, a lovely bloom of beautiful color 
and form, which won the silver medal as the best H. P. 
shown by a nurseryman, Mons. E. Y. Teas, Earl of 
Dufferin, Dupuy Jamain, Victor Verdier, Catharine 
Mermet and Ernest Metz. Mr. Ben Cant won the sec¬ 
ond prize, showing fine flowers of Pride of Reigate, Paul 
Neyron, Ernest Metz, Comte Raimbaud, Ethel Brownlow, 
Madame Cusin, Madame Verdier, Madame Hoste, and the 
Bride, the latter bloom gaining for Mr. B Cant the sil¬ 
ver medal offered for the best tea rose shown by a 
nurseryman. Mr. Frank Cant third, his best blooms 
being Ethel Brownslow, John Stewart Mill and Auguste 
Rigotard. In the class for forty-eight trebles, Messrs. 
Harkness & Sons were again first, showing handsome 
and large blooms against which the southern growers this 
year could not stand.” 
Pitcher & Manda have sent out as usual their comprehensive 
catalogue of bulhs and seeds for fall planting. 
A Case of Substitution. —Some two years ago, the Park 
Nursery Company of Pasadena sold to J. C. Sherer some 250 peach 
trees, said to be of the yellow-fleshed varieties. After the same 
had been planted in orchard form and come into bearing they 
turned out to be of the white, free stone varieties, the fruit of 
which is not in general demand, and consequently has no commer¬ 
cial value. Mr. Sherer sued the nursery company for damage, 
including the loss of two years’ time, cost of cultivation, interest 
of capital invested and first cost of the trees, and got judgment for 
$350. In rendering a decision the judge ruled : “■ That the sale of 
nursery stock, billed as of any particular variety, is a practical 
guarantee that the stock is to be as represented; and further, 
that the measure of damages now, two years after the setting of 
the orchard, is the difference in value of the trees now on the 
land and that of trees of the varieties the nursery company repre¬ 
sented the stock sold to the plaintiff to be.” In other words, the 
somewhat hackneyed guarantee that plants “ are true to name ” 
must be lived up to. The decision generally meets with favor 
alike among nurserymen, dealers and planters .—The FlorisVs 
Exchange. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
The report of the commissioners of Lincoln Park, Chicago, 
from December 1, 1886, to January 1, 1893, is a handsomely pre¬ 
pared volume descriptive of the famous park of the western me¬ 
tropolis. The book, like the park itself, is a credit to the super¬ 
intendent, J. A. Pettigrew. It contains an interesting history of 
the park and a resume of the work of the commission. It is hand¬ 
somely illustrated with photo-engravings of prominent features of 
the park. Chicago: George E. Marshall & Co. 
The fourth annual report of the Missouri Botanical Garden of 
St. Louis is in line with the previous similar excellent productions 
of this institution. The report prepared under the supervision of 
the director. Prof. William Trelease, shows that with all the 
expenses paid there was on January 1st a balance on hand of 
$23,561.59. There are 11,455 books and pamphlets in the library 
and 203,000 sheets of specimens in the herbarium. The stock 
account aggregates $1,467,131.53. There have been received to 
increase the number of species in cultivation 1,475 packets of seeds 
and 100 living plants. About 3,025 packets of seeds have been 
distributed by the garden to other gardens. The average number 
of gardeners employed has been 42. The garden has the most 
complete and valuable American collection of pre-Linnaean 
botanical hooks. It was presented by Dr. Sturtevant of St. Louis. 
Features of the report are a list of plants collected in the Bahamas 
by Albert S. Hitchcock and an article on “ Further Studies of 
Yuccas and Their Pollination,” by Professor William Trelease. 
Both are of great value and interest to the botanist. The article 
on Yuccas is profusely illustrated by handsome photo-engravings. 
“ The Garden Oracle” is one of the standard English publica¬ 
tions for horticulturists and florists. It is in the thirty-fifth j ear 
of publication, and each year it has retained all its old features 
which have proved of great value and has added new ones. It is 
compiled by the editor of The Gardeners’ Magazine, one of the fore¬ 
most floral and horticultural periodicals of England, and this fact 
is sufficient to guarantee its excellence. The present issue con¬ 
tains a complete code of garden work which may be considered a 
safe rule of procedure in all cases ; a list of new plants of 1892 and 
another of new fruits of 1892 with illustrations ; appropriate selec¬ 
tions of plants and flowers; lists of horticultural and botanical 
societies and the public parks in the United Kingdom, botanical 
gardens at home and abroad, gardening inventions, garden foes, 
garden recipes and much miscellaneous information. London : 
The Gardeners’ Magazine office, 4 Ave. Maria Lane, Paternoster 
Row,.E. C. 
Ellwanger & Barry have issued a very handsome catalogue of 
strawberries, Holland bulbs and specialties for the summer and 
autumn trade. . 
