THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
ized by the presence of a large body of water. The 
chief merit attributed to the Russian apricot is its 
hardiness, but my own experience, extending over 
about eight years, shows that in Central Michigan and 
in New York the Russian stock is as likely to be injured 
by climate as the common and better varieties. Early 
varieties grown in the Smith orchard, Seneca lake, are 
Harris, Smith’s Early, Early Moorpark and Early Gol¬ 
den. These had all been harvested, with the exception 
of a few of the Early Moorpark. One tree, which was 
simply called the Russian, still bore a few small, deep- 
yellow fruits, very poor in quality. The proprietors 
report that the other Russians tried by them are of no 
greater value. The Harris and Smith’s Early are favor¬ 
ites for the early market. In marketing apricots, the 
matter of variety is ignored. Fruit is graded according 
to size, fairness and form. The crates are marked 
“choice” for the first grade, and the second go in as 
plain apricots, for canning, preserving, etc. The Cali¬ 
fornia package is the one used for shipping. It consists 
of one layer of four boxes, the standard size used for 
choice fruits. Mr. Smith’s markets are chiefly Roches¬ 
ter and Philadelphia. No fruit is shipped to New York. 
— Garden and Forest. 
PRUNES PUMILA AS A STOCK. 
“ J. L. B.” says in the lozva State Register, con¬ 
cerning the dwarf or sand cherry (Prunus PumilaJ. This 
year we have budded about 5,000 i-year-old sand cherry 
seedlings with a dozen or more varieties of the sweet and 
sour cherries. The work was done in July, fully a 
month in advance of our budding the plum. This early 
budding resulted from the fact that, in a small way, our 
prior budding done later was a total failure on this stock. 
This season our buds have taken uniformly and perfectly. 
But farther we do not know. I do not know of a single 
tree of the cherry on this stock that is more than two 
years old from the bud. So far these look well. As a 
stock for the cherry it is in the experimental stage. 
With the plum we have a longer experience. Trees six 
years old on this stock have made a perfect union, are 
dwarfed in size, and bear more freely than when worked 
on native plum stocks.” 
The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Western New 
Horticultural Society will be held in this city on January 
24th. Secretary Hall is making a special effort to 
increase the membership to 500. The number is now 
nearly 400. The State of New York made an admirable 
showing in the horticultural department at the World’s 
Fair and the work of the members of the Western New 
York Society was prominent in that exhibit. 
The Stecher Lithographic Company has increased its 
capital stock from $120,000 to ^180,000. 
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GRAPE GROWING IN IHE UNITED STATES. 
In the United States the total area of the grape 
growing district is 401,271 acres, of which 307, 575 acres 
are in bearing, divided among the following states : 
Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Georgia, North Caro¬ 
lina, Tennessee, Virginia, New York, California, and 
Arizona. Of the above California has 155,272 acres; 
Ohio, 28,087 acres; New York, 43,350 acres, includ¬ 
ing 1,000 in Erie county, Pennsylvania, in Chautauqua 
district. The total product in the United States in 1889 
was 572,139 tons of grapes. The value of the plant 
in the State of New York in grape and vine culture is 
$20,400,000, and 25,000 persons are employed in con¬ 
nection with that industry. The acreage of bearing 
vines in New York State is divided in districts as follows; 
Keuka, 12,325 ; Canandaigua, 2,720; Ontario and 
Wayne, 1,020; Seneca, 4,250; Chautauqua, including a 
small portion of Erie county. Pa., 2,180 acres; Hudson 
River district, 11,050, and other counties, 2,805 acres. 
The market value of grapes per ton, sold in New York 
State exceeds that of any other State in the Union, ex¬ 
cepting Georgia, which has only 1,938 acres, and Ten¬ 
nessee, which has 1,500 acres. New Mexico, New 
Jersey and other states and territories have 45,000 
acres devoted to grape culture. Four-fifths of the 
grapes used for table purposes comprise the following 
varietes : Concord, Catawba, Delaware, Moore’s Early, 
Niagara, Diana, Worden, Isabella, Wyoming and 
Brighton. 
George C. Snow, Superintendent of the New York 
Bureau of Viticulture at the World’s Columbian Expo¬ 
sition, says : 
“It is within the recollection of many, as yet far 
from old, when grapes began to take any prominent 
position among the fruits of the State of New York, or 
even the United States. It is not intended at present 
to trench upon the magnificent industry as developed in 
the great State of California, where the Mission Grape, 
grown as it was, under the ban of illegality as soon as 
it began to make itself felt as an important competitor 
with Spain in its wine products, led the van, but more 
especially with reference to its rapid strides as a dressed 
fruit which our grapes have taken. One can still almost 
hear the lament of Nicholas Longworth over the whole¬ 
sale destruction of his vineyards in the Ohio valley by 
the deadly black rot. It is yet common talk among our 
vineyardists, of Mr. Smith, of the firm of E. Smith cS: 
Sons, Geneva, N. Y., shipping a few grapes to New 
York city, via Erie canal, on a venture ; how Mr. J. 
W. Prentiss, of Pultney, N. Y., shipped half a ton to 
New York, via express, packed in half-barrels with saw¬ 
dust, the second shipment breaking the market past 
redemption. Both occurred in or about 1852. Mr. 
Prentiss was impelled to go to New York where, becom- 
