Xhe National Nursery 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyright, 1893, by The National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
VOL. 1 . 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1893. 
ADDITIONAL REPORTS OF FALL SALES. 
Following are additional reports of fall sales ; 
Roselle, N. J., Nov. 15. — Flemer & Felmly report 
that business has been very good during the year and 
that the demand, particularly for hardy stock, has been 
quite up to that of preceding years. Increasing business 
has necessitated important improvements in their 
nursery. 
Bridgeport, Ind. , Nov. 4.— Albertson & Hobbs re¬ 
port : “ There are not many large nurseries in Indiana, 
but there are a great many small ones doing a small 
home business. So far as we have heard from them 
business has been good this season, and many of them 
report a larger packing than ever before. With us we 
think we are safe in saying that we have sent out from 
one-third to one-half more goods than in any one sea¬ 
son since we have been in business. Prices have been 
low, but we think the good business certainly indicates 
that the stock will be used up much cleaner than was 
anticipated earlier in the season, and that there is a 
good showing for an advance in prices in the near future. 
With the leading nurserymen in the state the plantings 
in the last two or three years have been rather larger 
than they were before, yet many of the smaller ones 
have gone out of business and have done less planting. 
Our business here with the railroad, in and out, this 
season, including material, stock, etc., has amounted to 
between twenty and thirty car-loads.” 
Dansville, Nov. 2. —C. F. McNair & Co. report : 
“ The trade in Dansville this season has been exception¬ 
ally favorable, though prices were in some respects 
not all that can be desired. Sales, as far as we are 
concerned, have been far ahead of any other fall’s trade 
in our business. We are also advised that the same is 
true with several other firms in town. With a few ex¬ 
ceptions, we think nearly all have held their own. The 
outlook is much more encouraging than a year ago. 
Plums, cherries and pears were in good demand, with a 
light surplus unsold. Our past spring’s planting was 
about as usual. Most of the plantings, however, were 
from 20 to 40 per cent, less than the previous year.” 
Louisiana, Mo., Nov. 15. — Stark Brothers report; 
“ Plant of spring’93 embraced 2,526,300 apple, whole 
root grafts ; 125,000 apple stocks ; 30,600 crab grafts ; 
63,600 pear grafts ; 421,000 pear stocks ; 69,800 quince 
grafts; 150,000 quince slocks; 70,500 shrubs, etc ; 
180,000 cherry stocks ; 488,000 plum stocks (Mariana); 
4,000,000 plum cuttings (Mariana); car-load peach pits ; 
considerable lots of ornamental trees, &c., including 
116,000 rose layers, 60,000 rose cuttings, 46,000 rose 
stocks (Mad. Plantier). The latter we shall use exclu¬ 
sively for all varieties of roses we bud, discarding the 
Manetti, which, as is well known, is undesirable in sev¬ 
eral respects, makes unwieldy roots, suckers badly, and 
H. P.’s budded thereon cease growing early and conse¬ 
quently flower very sparingly in autumn. None of these 
objections obtain against the Plantier stock ; a block of 
buds on Plantier were full of blossoms until severe frost 
this season, while those on Manetti alongside showed 
only a rose here and there ; and again, if the bud should 
die out the Plantier is a much more satisfactory rose 
than the Manetti. Fall trade has been and continues 
good, better than anticipated. In fact, retail sales of 
salesmen averaged right along week by week ahead of 
corresponding weeks of last year, with exception of few 
weeks towards the end of the season. The only mate¬ 
rial difference noted from last season is that the large 
orders from the far west are not materializing. A Cali¬ 
fornia nurseryman, G. C. RoediUg, who visited us last 
week, says prunes, as well as some other things, are a 
great over-stock there, and dull at four cents and the 
probabilities are that large quantities will be burned. 
Those of the eastern brethren who had thousands 
upon thousands of peach trees burned by the Cali¬ 
fornia inspectors because, forsooth, there were a few 
borers found in them, will, no doubt, extend condo¬ 
lences. Varieties propagated are largely of standard 
kinds, though several new sorts are grown largely. In 
apples. Akin, Babbitt, Early Colton, Kinnaird, Spring- 
dale, and especially Shackleford and Paragon (Mam. 
Blk. Twig)—the latter has made a record this ‘ year of 
the great apple failure ’ that is bound to tell. The fol¬ 
lowing letter was written us the past fall by Hon. W. 
G. Vincenheller, Arkansas State Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture ; ‘ Have made a tour of the state ' collecting 
apples for the World’s Fair. Crop short, quality poor, 
scabby, except M. B. Twig, best and most prolific of all; 
bearing perfect fruit in abundance when all others are 
nearly a failure.’ In pears budded large blocks of 
Koonce and Krull, the earliest and latest varieties, but 
very light of Bessimianka and Taihe (Japan Golden 
Russet). Both have fruited here several years ; the 
former is neither entirely seedless nor at all desirable 
quality where better sorts can be grown, but is doubtless 
of value far north. Taihe will bear pears, but the less 
