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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
^rom Darious points. 
A new peach, “ Porterville Excelsior,” said to have 
originated at Porterville, Tulare county. Cal., is in the 
market. 
Frederick Law Olmsted who originated the plan of 
Central Park, New York, has been honored by Yale and 
Harvard colleges with the degree of Doctor of Laws. 
There will be a scanty crop of apples in Western 
New York, especially of the winter varieties, Baldwins 
in particular. The New England states report the same 
conditions. 
The peach crop promises to be greater than ever 
before. Delaware and Maryland will ship 4,000,000 
crates, California as many more, and New Jersey 
2,000,000 crates. 
Some 3,000 acres of peach lands in the Georgia 
peach belt were lately purchased by a syndicate of 
northern capitalists, and immense peach orchards will be 
planted next season. 
The Western New York Horticultural Society, 
through its secretary, John Hall, is preparing for the 
annual exhibition of fruits by the society at the West- ■ 
ern New York fair. The society won first prize two 
years ago and second prize last year. 
Sixty-six carloads of fruit were hauled over the sum¬ 
mit of the Sierra Nevadas yesterday on their way east, 
while the daily average for some weeks has been between 
fifty and sixty cars. Six 12-wheeled compound loco¬ 
motives are doing little else but hauling these fruit 
shipments, says the Sacramento Bee. 
Solano county, California, reports an acreage of 
2,858 in grape vines and fruit trees as follows : Peach, 
299,000; apricot, 227,000; pear, 186,000; French 
prune, 123,000; other prunes, 51,000; almond 91,000; 
cherry, 26,000; fig, 14,000; olive, 6,378; orange, 
4,452 ; walnut 4,300; apple, 2,248 ; lemon, 208; other 
kinds, 1 , 559 - Total, 1,039,382 trees. 
The American Chrysanthemum Society elected the . 
following officers at its annual meeting in St. Louis, 
August 9th : President, Elijah A. Wood, West Newton, 
Mass. ; vice-president, E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind. ; 
secretary, E. D. Smith, Adrian, Mich. ; treasurer, M. 
A. Hunt, Terre Haute, Ind. The next meeting will 
be held in Philadelphia during the second week in 
November. 
At the eleventh annual meeting of the American 
Seed Trade Association at the Leland hotel, Chicago, 
on August 14th, the following officers were elected : 
President, W. .Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia ; first vice- 
president, D. D. Bushnell, St. Louis ; second vice-presi¬ 
dent, S F. Leonard, Chicago ; secretary and treasurer, 
A. L. Don, New York. The association will meet next 
time in Toronto. 
An immense fruit farm among the hills of Jefferson 
county, West Virginia, is announced by the Post of 
Washington. In 1887 the Becker brothers planted 
33,000 peach trees, since which time tract after tract 
has been added, until the farm now comprises 2,400 
acres. The fruits planted are peaches, grapes, quinces, 
cherries, Japanese plums, apricots, persimmons, necta¬ 
rines, English walnuts, Italian chestnuts and paper-shell 
almonds. 
In an article on the canning industry in California, 
the San Francisco Chronicle of July 27th says that of 
about 25 canneries in that state possibly ten are in 
operation, and these at one-half or less than that pro¬ 
portion of their full capacity. Many of the packers are 
simply filling a few orders which they have received, and 
their operations are but nominal. Of about fifty fruit¬ 
drying establishments in the state, less than one-half are 
running, and these at far below their capacity. There 
is a large crop of the finest fruit in the world, but the 
general financial depression, which seems to effect the 
commercial world in periodical waves, has caused a 
stagnation which has included in its baneful influence 
the great fruit industry of California. 
The judges of award in horticulture at the World’s 
Fair have organized. That under pomology, which in¬ 
cludes manufactured products, methods and appliances, 
nursery stock, etc., embraces the following officers: 
W. A. Ragan, superintendent of awards ; Thomas 
Pugh, New South Wales, president ; I. Fromm, Ger¬ 
many, vice-president ; and C. W. Garfield, Michigan, 
secretary. The judges are Thomas Pugh, New South 
Wales ; I. Fromm, Germany ; C. W. Garfield, Michi¬ 
gan ; R. H. Warder, Ohio ; E. F. Babcock, Arkansas ; 
L. Woolverton, Ontario ; W. H. Manning, Massachus¬ 
etts ; B. Starratt, Nova Scotia ; Miss C. R. Stocker, 
Georgia ; G. I. Motz, Alabama ; E. S. Hubbard and 
A. B. Hawkins, Florida ; Prof. Wittmack, Germany; 
Peter Zanon, Italy. 
The Florists’ Hail Association met in St. Louis 
August loth. President J. M. Jordan presided. Secre¬ 
tary J G. Esler reported that in the five years preced¬ 
ing August I, 1892, the association paid losses amount¬ 
ing to $3,028.11. During the year, ended August i, 
1893, the amount paid was $5,856.83. The association 
has 496 members. There is insured 2,247,012 feet of 
single thick and 2,583,768 feet of double thick glass. 
The amount received during the year for insurance was 
$1,406.69, of which $575.47 is membership fee and 
$831.22 is assessment fee. The reserve fund amounts 
to $3,107.12. The percentage of loss during the year 
has been one square foot of single thick glass to 37.66 
square feet insured, and one of double thick to 93.28 
insured; 59,665 square feet of single thick and 27,712 
square feet of double thick glass has been paid 
