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of Greening Brothers alone will set out next spring 200,000 
French stocks. And so the good work goes on. 
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 26.—P. J. Berckmans, when asked 
concerning the fall trade and outlook for spring, said: “ Re¬ 
ferring to our order book we are safe in saying that the de¬ 
mand for nursery stock will be fully 25 per cent, larger than 
last year at this time. The main demand is as follorvs: 
Peaclies, mainly varieties suitable for shipping to northern and 
western markets. Pear trees, greatest demand is for Kieffer 
and LeConte. Apple trees, largely winter-ripening kinds. 
Plums, heavy demand for Japanese varieties. In grapes the 
demand is unusually large, principally for Concord, Ives, 
Delaware, Niagara, Brighton and Moore’s Diamond. Small 
fruits are in heavy demand. In the ornamental line the de¬ 
mand for open-ground roses is fully double that of last year; 
these are largely ordered by the northern and western 
dealers. We also find a very large increase in the sale of 
Camellias, Azaleas and other hardy broad-leaved evergreens. 
Conifers, principally of the Asiatic and sub-tropical classes 
meet with increased sales. The demand for palms is un¬ 
usually large, and in order to supply our orders we have 
just erected two palm houses 140x20 feet each; this, 
in addition to our former area of glass, allows us to carry 
an immense stock. We have now 300 acres closely planted 
in nursery stock, 25 acres of which consist of roses. From 
correspondence with various southern nurserymen and the 
size of our orders we feel safe in saying that the demand for 
all classes of nursery stock is vastly on the increase. The 
shipping season here lasts without intermission from October 
15th to early spring, hence we have not what you may call 
a spring trade, except in greenhouse and budding plants. 
The demand for these products is also much larger than 
that of last year.” 
Bloomington, III., Oct. 25.—William E. Rossney said : 
“ The trade in this locality this season, from what I can 
learn, is unusually light, and with some nurserymen, I un¬ 
derstand their trade is lighter than they anticipated earlier in 
the season. On the whole, it is much lighter than for a 
great many years. The prospects for spring business, from 
present indications, are not very favorable. Very few ap¬ 
plications for agencies are coming in, and applications from 
dealers who wish to contract for next season’s packing are 
few. The planting in this locality last spring was about as 
usual, but the continued dry weather during the summer 
months cut it short some, but the stand on the entire plant¬ 
ing here will probably average up with other seasons.” 
Fort Scott, Kan., Oct 27.—Secretary U. B. Pearsall, 
of the Hart Pioneer Nurseries, said to-day: “Our trade is 
substantially the same, if not a little larger than last year. 
It is too soon, however, to know how collections will be, as 
we are just shipping out. Growth of nursery stock trans- 
Mississippi varies widely, by reason of the rains being local 
instead of general. We think, however, that the general 
average is fully better than in 1892. In our case, all of last 
.spring’s planting is much better. The general demand for 
nursery stock is about the same as last year, and if trade 
keeps on at about the same ratio, there will probably be but 
little surplus stock left. Prices, however, are generally 
lower than heretofore. We are in the midst of our pack¬ 
ing.” 
Tadmor, O , Oct. 25.—Situated on the D. & M. R. 
R., ten miles north of Dayton, O., is the little station 
of Tadmor, unpretentious in itself, but doing more mail 
and freight service than most towns having 5,000 to 
10,000 inhabitants. This is owing to the great nursery 
interests, of which it is the center, as within a radius of 
ten miles a score of nurseries are located. Going east 
one mile one sees the sign, A. & O. Co. This is one of 
the largest establishments in the valley, their sales are 
mostly made by salesmen on a salary, and for fall, ’93, 
are some larger than the previous fall. Their specialty 
is peach, with “Diamond” (copyrighted) a leader.’’ 
Their plantings recently have been done mostly through 
Porter Albaugh, James White and Byron Weldy, grow¬ 
ers, of West Charleston, and several others between 
Vandalia and Dayton. For spring, ’93, it was about 
the average, excepting with peach, of which they did 
not obtain a good burst ; in round numbers, 400,000 
peach, 200,000 apple, 100,000 cherry, 50,000 Marianna 
plum and some Norway maple. Not only do they handle 
all of this stock, but may carloads of other trees are re¬ 
quired to run their rapidly increasing trade. A mile 
farther east is the office of The Farmers Nursery Co. 
This company comprises the old and well-known firms 
of Mrs. A. D. Freeman & Son and S. R. Fergus. They 
are coming to the front as growers and introducers of 
the most valuable and best-selling fruits of the present 
time, and were among the first to recognize The Na¬ 
tional Nurseryman as the best advertising medium for 
the trade. They advocate the planting of fewer and 
better varieties, and recommend only such as have been 
endorsed by the experimental stations and the leading 
horticulturists of the country. Their combined plant¬ 
ing for last spring was in neighborhood of 75,000 peach, 
50,000 cherry,.-40,000 plum and an acre or so to small 
fruits and ornamentals. Their main trade is on peach 
and strawberry, of which the Crosby and Greenville are 
their chief varieties. Their retail trade for fall, ’93, 
was not up to the average, but this was, no doubt, due 
to their putting more attention to their wholesale trade, 
which is double that of any previous season. Peter 
Bohlender is proprietor of “ Spring Hill Nurseries ” Mr. 
Bohlender has the lead in this vicinity as a grower of 
ornamentals. He supplies prominent nurserymen and 
dealers, his trade being mostly wholesale to nurserymen 
and dealers. He reports sales as about the same as 
last fall and outlook for spring trade better than last 
year at this time. His planting for the spring of ’93 
consisted mostly of 60,000 peach, 5,000 plum (half each 
