Xhe National Nursery 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyright, 1893, by The National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
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VOL. I. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1893. 
No. 10. 
FALL SALES. 
US to work rain or shine we will soon be through with the 
Reports from Various Points Regarding 
the Season’s Trade. 
Sales in many cases nearly or quite up to the average— 
A PALLING OFF IN SOME INSTANCES—PRICES RULING LOW— 
A LIGHT SUPPLY AMONG SMALLER GROWERS—LAST SPRING’S 
PLANTING ABOUT AS USUAL—BRIGHTER PROSPECT FOR NEXT 
SEASON—Some figures and opinions. 
Interesting reports from the nursery centers of the coun¬ 
try upon the result of the fall sales, the planting of last 
spring and the outlook for next spi'ing are given below : 
Dayton, O., Oct. 28.—The wholesale trade in the 
Miami Valley opened up this fall rather sluggishly. Very 
little early business was ti'ansacted for immediate shipment, 
in consequence of which business became quite bi'isk during 
October. Oi'ders wei'e not lai'ge but numei'ous, indicating 
a light supply in the hands of the smaller growers through¬ 
out the country. The business has thei'efore aggregated 
very much moi'e than earlier conditions seemed to warrant, 
and leaves, with the possible exception of apples, a very 
much smaller genei'a! stock on hand for spring trade than 
in 1892. Dealers have generally been unusually careful in 
taking orders, wisely preferring a safe to a large business. 
Country deliveries are reported generally as good, while 
city and town discounts seem to be somewhat heavier than 
usual. Prospects for spring indicate a fair trade. If the 
financial conditions now prevailing should materially im¬ 
prove, the spring trade will undoubtedly be heavy. A 
shortage in peach and plum now prevails. A very light 
trade for spring will extend this shortage to cherry, pear 
and possibly apple. The planting for i 893 seems to have 
been up to the usual amount with the leading and estab¬ 
lished firms but a large number of smaller growers have 
discontinued. 
Baltimore, Oct. 28.—A member of the PY-anklin Davis 
Nursery Company said : “ Notwithstanding the ‘ hard 
times,’ our trade both wholesale and retail has been veiy 
nearly as good as usual. It will reach by the end of the 
season 150,000 but as a rule, orders taken by agents run 
smaller than last year. VVe are just in the midst of our 
fall packing, and to-day over $12,000 worth will be packed 
and shipped from our siding which runs into the packing 
grounds. With a force of 200 hands and sheds that enable 
heaviest part of the fall work. There seems to be a strong 
demand for peaches, and from a budding of 750,000 in 1892 
we have less than 200,000 to offer. We have gone into 
Japan pear seedling growing to stay, and this year will put 
several million on the market. We planted 550,000 apple 
grafts last .spring and 200,000 apple stocks for budding, 
also 125,000 pear .stocks and 50,000 to 75,000 cherry and 
plum. We make a .specialty of growing peaches for the 
trade; over 900,000 were budded in the summer of 1893. 
In addition to a general nursery business we collect peach 
pits in large quantities for the trade. Many carloads have 
been sold this season. We are advised that other nursery¬ 
men in the state have budded large numbers of peaches.” 
Monroe, Mich., Oct. 28.—This point continues the 
center of activ^e operations. During the fall trade just closed 
the usual number of dealers and agents have registered at 
our hotels, figured on the billing grounds, smoked the cigars 
of our genial nurserymen, told the yarns of their craft, ex¬ 
changed their good money for good stock and have gone 
away as good humored as they came. Each wanted to be 
first to pack and go, and with an ingenuity known only to 
nurserymen they were all accommodated. They all went 
away first and our quiet town is now as peacefub as a May- 
day dream. Our nurserymen have vigorously carried on 
their own retail work and report their sales as high as their 
usual standard. The strained money market and the low 
price of farm produce were difficulties in the way, but the 
stability of our banks and their own financial strength over¬ 
came the first, while the last was met with more determined 
work. The veteran firm of I. E. Ilgenfritz & Son is still 
doing business at the old stand and is as popular as ever. 
They have recently put up a large stone cold storage cellar 
which bespeaks the measure of their increasing trade. 
Greening Brothers have more than sustained the reputation 
they have earned. These Napoleons of the nursery busi¬ 
ness continue their conquering way and are striding forward 
like an ogre in seven league-boots. When hard times came 
and the agency system was depressed they increased their 
office force and are now doing a high class planters’ busi¬ 
ness through the mails. Every new issue of the commer- 
cial books gives them a higher rating, and the large num¬ 
ber of new residences, offices and cellars erected during the 
past year shows that their business flourishes like the rose. 
As to the proportion of stock planted as compared with 
other years there is no marked difference except in pears. 
Monroe nurserymen have discovered that they can grow 
the finest pears in the world and at lowest cost. The firm 
