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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
season in the nurseries comes twice a year, spring and 
fall. They have got to get lots of extra help. Some 
day after you miss some of these spring and fall young 
men from the streets just visit a nursery. You will have 
to look close to recognize them, for they have laid aside 
the patent-leather shoe, the Knox hat and the blazing 
red or sky-blue four-in-hand. The work lasts just long 
enough to suit these fellows. They buckle down to busi¬ 
ness while it lasts, go home when their work is done 
for the day, and remain there-until it is time to start for 
the nurseries the next day. They don’t appear on the 
streets because they are ashamed to work and in the 
next place they wish to give the impression to their 
friends that they are out of the city on a vacation. 
When the season is at an end they have saved up about 
$50 each. As soon as they get the money they steer 
for ‘ their tailors,’ get measured for a $40 suit of clothes, 
make for the hat store, pay $4 for a hat, hang a shoe 
store up for a pair of patent-leather shoes, visit a fur¬ 
nishing goods store and lay in a supply of neckwear.” 
WORLD’S FAIR AWARDS. 
The department of pomology at the World’s Columbian 
Exposition made the following awards in the sub-depart¬ 
ment of nurseries and nursery trade : 
Alabama—Huntsville wholesale nurseries, Huntsville system 
of grading and marking nursery stock. 
Fruit Trees and methods of raising and grafting—Nebraska— 
Stevenson & Thomas, North Bend, Neb. 
California—State of California, Sacramento, trees in orchard. 
Illinois—E. A. Bechtels & Sons, Staunton, double-flowering 
apple. 
Ornamental trees and shrubs, method of growing, transplant¬ 
ing, etc.,—New York—Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, deciduous 
trees and shrubs; Parsons Sons & Co., Flushing, collection of 
trees. 
Illinois—P. S. Peterson, Chicago, large trees transplanted; 
E. H. Ricker & Co., Elgin, display of evergreens and deciduous 
plants ; D. Hill, Dundee, collection hardy conifers. 
Wisconsin—State Horticultural Society, Janesville, cranberry 
marsh. 
Netherlands—Boskoop Nursery Association, collection mag¬ 
nolias; Jacob Jurrissen & Son, Naarden, display of trees and 
shrubs. 
England—Anthony Waterer, Knapp Hill, coniferous ever¬ 
greens. 
Seeds, seed-raising, testing and distribution—New York— 
Peter. Henderson, New York City, collection garden seeds. 
New Jersey—Pitcher & Manda, Short Hills, collection of 
seeds. 
Michigan—Michigan Seed Company, South Haven, flower and 
vegetable seeds. 
Pennsylvania—H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, collection of seeds. 
Illinois—J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, collection of seeds. 
Germany—S. C. Schmidt, Erfurt, seeds in glass ; O. Knopf & 
Co., Erfurt, flower and garden seeds. 
Tree and shrub seeds used for condiments and medicines— 
Wisconsin—Geo. Pinney, Evergreen, collection seeds and cones. 
Germany—Bottscher & Volker, Gross Tabarzcollection seeds; 
Helms, Sch., Gross Tabarz shrubs and conifer seeds. 
Brazil—Estado Ceara, Ceara, tree and shrub seeds. 
Ctmong (Sroircrs anb Dealers. 
The Rogers Nursery Company has been incorporated 
at Moorestown, N. J., with a capital stock of $25,000. 
It will conduct the Fairview Nurseries. 
Gilbert Costich, of Rochester, reports steady sales 
throughout November. He thinks there is prospect of 
rapid improvement in the nursery business. 
George Gleason, representing Irving Rouse, and rep¬ 
resentatives of H. C. Graves & Son, of Lee’s Summit, 
Mo , and of Stone & Wellington, Toronto, are in France. 
Ellwanger & Barry are potting a general assortment 
of hardy roses for stock plants. They have received 
notice that the medal won by them at the World’s Fair 
will be sent soon. 
Prominent among specimens of chrysanthemums 
exhibited in Rochester recently was the George S. Con¬ 
over grown from a seedling by Vick & Hill. The flower 
is a beautiful yellow, full and strong. 
The plants exhibited by the Boskoop (Holland) 
Nursery Association at the World’s Columbian Expo¬ 
sition, in competion with many exhibits from Holland, 
received the highest award for their superiority of quality, 
hardiness, strength, beauty of form and color. 
Charles J. Brown, of Brown Brothers Company 
started for the Pacific Coast on November 28th, accom¬ 
panied by his wife. He will pass most of the time during 
the next three months in California. He will visit the 
Portland office of the cornpany. The Rochester office 
will be in the charge of Robert Brown during his 
brother’s absence. 
FRUIT CROP OF 1893. 
The report of the statistician of United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture shows that the grape product 
of the season as compared with an average crop was : 
For Maine, loi; New Hampshire, lor; New York, 
99; New Jersey, 102; Delaware, 100; Florida, 100; 
Massachusetts, 91; Rhode Island, 92; Michigan, loi; 
Iowa, loi; Nevada, 100; California, 100; Pennsyl¬ 
vania, 94; Ohio, 91; Illinois, 86; Missouri, 77; Ne¬ 
braska 73. The apple crop for Maine, 35; New York, 
41; Michigan, 35; Ohio, 9; Indiana, 9; Illinois, 10; 
Iowa, 18; Kansas, 19; California, 96; Maryland, 77; 
Virginia, 79; Idaho, 97; Wisconsin, 48. The pear crop 
averaged from 60 to 80 ; in Kansas it was but 26. The 
statistician says : “The season just ended has been a 
bad one for the production of large fruits, with the one 
exception of grapes, which have yielded abundantly. 
Frost, wet, drouth, and high winds have successively in¬ 
terfered with proper bloom, set, growth, and maturity, 
and at the time of harvest a greater part of the orchards 
of the country were bare or nearly so.” 
