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fall being about 25 per cent, larger than in the fall of 
1892. Prices about the same. This increase, however, 
is due to better organization rather than any general im¬ 
provement in trade. How collections will be in these 
times of general depression remains to be seem ; how¬ 
ever, the few returns received at this date are fully up 
to the average, and give no indication of cause for alarm 
in that respect. The demand for stock at wholesale has 
been very light this season and prices low. Prospects 
for retail sales for spring are good, providing there is no 
further depression, and fall collections are such as to 
warrant pushing spring business. My planting last spring 
was about my usual amount, 200,000 stocks, of which 
40,000 were apple, 25,000 pear, 25,000 plum, 15,000 
cherry, 15,000 quince, balance made up of peach, 
rose, ornamental, gooseberry, currant, &c.” 
NEW YORK’S HORTICULTURAL EXHIBIT. 
A press despatch from Chicago says : “ The horti¬ 
cultural exhibit for New York at the World’s Fair in ex¬ 
tent of variety and fine quality is acknowledged to lead 
all other states. Monroe county has contributed very 
valuable exhibits. Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry who 
have been liberal contributors, displayed in one day i 30 
varieties of pears, besides 100 varieties of grapes and a 
fine exhibit of quinces. Over sixty varieties of grapes 
were received from Chautauqua county the same day, 
and a fine display of apples, pears and quinces from the 
Orleans County Agricultural Society was shown at the 
Fair. The Californian exhibitors came around and with 
great surprise declared that New York was now unload¬ 
ing and it was of no use to try to show varieties against 
her longer. The finest twenty-ounce apples from any 
portion of the United States are shown by j. B. Collamer 
& Son of North Parma, Monroe County. They are not 
only as large in size as those shown by Idaho, Colorado 
and Oregon, grown by irrigation, but are more uniform 
in size, and far superior in beautiful color and in fine 
flavor. The season has been the most disastrous to the 
interests of horticulture in New York State in twenty 
years. The apple crop of Western New York has been 
a very general failure, the best fruit coming from the 
eastern portion of the state this year.” 
The annual meeting of the American Seedsmen’s 
Protective league was held at the Rochester Club house 
likst month. There were present ; W. Atlee Burpee, 
Wiliam Henry Maule, Henry Dreer, Robert Buist, Land- 
reth & Sons, all of Philadelphia ; Alexander Forbes, of 
Peter Henderson & Co., New York ; James Bergerhoff, 
of James Thorburn Co., New York ; N. B. Keeney, of 
Le Roy ; C. W. and George F. Crosman, of Crosman 
Bros., and James and Charles H. Vick, of James Vick’s 
Sons, of this city. 
Clmong (Brorucrs anb Dealers. 
Irving Rouse has gone to France upon his annual 
visit in the interest of importations for next spring. 
J. N. Holton, general western manager for the Le- 
Clare Nursery of Brighton, N. Y., started for the Pa¬ 
cific coast on October 15th. 
The barns of Irving Rouse valued at $6,000, were 
destroyed by fire on October 22d ; also ten horses valued 
at $200 each. There was partial insurance. 
William Vick who was for many years engaged with 
his brother James Vick in the seed business, narrowly 
escaped instant death while crossing an electric rail¬ 
way track before a car on October 26th. He was thrown 
some distance from the track and was severely bruised. 
Mr. Vick has the use of but one ear and one eye. 
Testimony in an action brought by the Union Bank 
of this city against May Brothers, was taken last week 
before John E. Durand as commissioner. About $10,- 
000 in judgments is involved and the depositions are to 
be used in the trial of the case which is to take place at 
St. Paul, Minn., where the main office of the company 
is located. In 1887 Lewis L. May, who was then en¬ 
gaged in the nursery business at St. Paul, came to Roch¬ 
ester for the purpose of establishing a branch office of 
which Frederick N. May, a younger brother, was to be 
the head. Mr. May brought excellent letters of intro¬ 
duction and proof of his financial standing and he found 
no difficulty in securing a line of credit. He placed sev¬ 
eral thousand dollars on deposit in the Union Bank as a 
commencement of the firm’s banking business in this 
city. The company did a good business for several 
years, but last spring F. N. May made a transfer of the 
bulk of his accounts and his equity in certain real estate 
in the city to Mrs. M. E. Stone, his landlady. The en¬ 
tire property was worth $30,000, and this action 
promptly brought a swarm of creditors about the of¬ 
fice. The Union Bank’s claim amounted to^ nearly 
$10,000. Judgments were secured and the papers in 
the action were served upon F. N. May as the local rep¬ 
resentative of May Brothers. L. L. May promptly 
came forward with a denial that he was a member of 
the company, and in order to make him a defendant in 
the case the present action was begun in the Minnesota 
court. The defendant’s claim, if proved, will render it 
very difficult for the Union Bank to recover. 
FULL OF BEST ADVICE TO ALL. 
Dr. H. Schroeder, Bloomington, III,, oldest Nursery¬ 
man, Horticulturist and Viticulturist in the West.— 
“ Here is my dollar for subscription for one year. Certainly every 
nurseryman should take pride in keeping up such a valuable and 
fine journal, full of best reports and advice to young and old nur¬ 
serymen. One feels himself in a picked social society of old and 
dear friends of the fraternity. ‘Keep it up, boys,’ is my pass¬ 
word.” 
