THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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of Marianna and Myrobolan), 30,000 cherry, 20,000 
apple and several acres additional devoted to evergreens 
and ornamental shrubbery. No nurserymen ever come 
to our valley but carry away with them a pleasant re- 
memberance of. their visit at his home. The most 
prominent growers of berry plants are Wm. Deetrick 
and H. W. Ereeman, of Tadmor ; Joseph Davis, of 
Brandt ; and W. N. Scarff, of New Carlisle. At this 
writing the last named parties are doing the larger busi¬ 
ness. Mr. Deetrick is intending to increase his plant, 
and H. W. Ereeman, whose specialty is strawberries, is 
intending to plant about five acres to them for plant 
purposes, over half of which will be of the “Green¬ 
ville.” This point is prominent in growing peach and 
berries. Owing to poor burst of pits last season the 
plant of peach was far below the average. A conserva¬ 
tive estimate would place the aggregate of the retail 
trade at $125,000 for fall. This is about the usual 
amount for fall The general trend at Tadmor indi¬ 
cates that apple will not be planted in large quantities 
in the future and that additional ground will be devoted 
to peach and berries. 
Kinsey, O., Oct. 25.—Trade has not thus far been 
as good as last fall. The falling off has been on nearly 
all lines of stock. Amount of sales will scarcely reach 
$i 5,000 here and vicinity. The planting last spring was 
about as large as usual, except, possibly, on apples, 
in which case there was a slight falling off. An estimate 
is: 150,000 apple; 75,000 cherry; 100,000 peach; 
25,000 plum ; 20,000 quince ; 10,000 shade and orna¬ 
mental trees ; 10,000 evergreens ; 5,000 to 10,000 
shrubs; 150,000 asparagus; 50,000 strawberry plants, 
mostly for fruiting; 35,000 currants, cuttings and 
gooseberries; 75,000 grape cuttings; besides roses, 
climbing plants and many other items. The apple, 
peach and cherry above mentioned include several 
small plantings in and about Little York. The other 
items are all at Kinsey. 
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Des Moines, Ia., Oct. 25.—Fall sales have been cut 
short from one-third to one-half, but spring sales promise 
much better. The amount of planting last spring was 
about as usual and stock has made good growth. 
Batavia, N. Y., Oct. 24.—Nelson Bogue said to¬ 
day: “Our sales were as heavy as last fall, if not 
heavier. In September they fell off somewhat. Our 
retail trade for spring is much larger than it was last 
year at this time. I think importations will be much 
lighter than usual and not nearly as much stock will be 
planted next spring as has been the rule. This will 
strengthen wholesale prices for the spring trade. 
Geneva, N. Y , Oct. 24.—A prominent grower of 
this place said to-day : “Trade in a wholesale way is 
less in amount both in prices and quantity of stock 
handled than last season. We hqve had some large 
orders from sources from which we did not expect a call, 
for particular lines of stock. We find orchardists dis¬ 
posed to plant about as usual, but there is a falling off 
in the trade of small dealers — the trade pushed up by 
them of a multitude of little orders is not as large now 
as a year ago. This is particularly the case in manu¬ 
facturing towns where people are out of work that have 
been employed by the producers, who have shut down 
fearing tariff tinkering by the party in power. Demo¬ 
crats are scarce this year among this class of dealers. 
Retailers who secure most of their orders before August 
1st had increased business up to that time, as compared 
with the preceding year. Many kinds of stock are 
running low — some scarce and some not to be had. 
Our ornamental trade has been very satisfactory, indeed. 
As to plantings here, prices that ‘ outside growers ’ 
get will mostly discourage them, but those who can af¬ 
ford it will plant the usual quantity. All look for a re¬ 
action, and if the quantity and quality in sight for future 
digging, fall of ’94 and ’95, are considered, the advance 
in prices will come, possibly sooner than we expect.” 
Toronto, Oct. 31.—Stone & Wellington said to-day: 
“ The outlook seems good for next spring and from present 
indications our sales will exceed anything in the history of 
our firm. We have done considerable wholesaling also ; 
sent considerable stock to the United States. Owing to the 
dry weather, nursery stock of some kinds did not do as well 
as hoped for, but taking it generally, we never had a finer 
stock. Probably peach trees were affected most of all. 
Most of last spring’s planting, with us, was very successful, 
having been planted on land that was not affected by the 
drought. Stock is ripening up well and should come 
through the winter in good shape and that being the case 
we shall have an enormous out-put from our nursery next 
season, and the finest stock we ever grew.” 
Local nurserymen report as follows : 
PTlwanger & Barry —” Our sales have been about 
the same as last fall. We are busy shipping and shall be 
until Christmas.” 
Irving Rouse —“Fall trade has been good, but 
prices rule very low, lower than the supply warrants. 
Standard pears were never so cheap, yet if sales are 
normal through the winter. No. i standard pears will be 
actually scarce and we anticipate better prices. Person¬ 
ally I have not sold so clean in five years.” 
William S. Little & Co. — “Our sales this fall were 
unsatisfactory both as to prices and quantity of stock sold. 
Think the outlook for spring is better. Last spring we 
made our usual planting, neither more nor less, but the 
stand, owing to early rains and late dry weather was 
poor. Next spring we expect to plant about the same 
amount as last spring.” 
James F. LeClare, Brighton, N. Y. — “ Retail sales 
compare favorably with those of year, the amount this 
