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Hinono Growers anb IDealers. 
The Elgin Ill., Nursery, Seed and Bulb Company has 
been incorporated. Capital $io,ooD. Incorporators: 
David Hill, George Souster and Frank Harvey. 
A. Blanc & Co., Philadelphia, have purchased the entire 
stock of the Logan berry from James Waters, of Watson¬ 
ville, Cal., and has secured exclusive right to sell in 
territory east of the Mississippi. 
Leonard Coates has sold the Napa Valley, Cal , nur¬ 
series to Messrs. Armstrong, Parker & Co., of Mountain 
View. Mr. Armstrong was for several years superinten¬ 
dent of Timothy Hopkin’s Sherwood Hall nurseries at 
Menlo Park. 
During a recent visit to the greenhouses of Ellwanger & 
Barry, a representative of Tme NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
saw some beautiful specimens of the new rose from 
Japan, the Crimson Rambler. It has been referred to 
before and has been illustrated in this journal. The 
plants at Ellwanger & Barry’s are vigorous, and exhibit 
well the prolific flowering qualities of this promising 
climber. 
Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, of Rochester, England, the 
father of rose culture in England, said upon his recent 
visit to Rochester, N. Y.: I have long been devoted to 
the culture of roses and to the extension of horticultural 
interests. My book on the rose has reached the twentieth 
edition. I have found time on this trip to visit a number 
of the largest rose growing establishments in America. I 
have been much interested in the new method of forcing 
roses under glass in use here. Your climate is not favor¬ 
able to the growth out of doors of many of the best kinds 
of roses and therefore their culture under glass on an 
extensive scale in America is necessary. In England we 
have not adopted these new methods because our climate 
admits of the culture of the same kinds out of doors. I 
have visited several large nurseries here also. Mr. Barry 
of the firm of Ellwanger & Barry, showed me a portion 
of the extensive Mt. Hope nurseries, of which I had heard 
a great deal. The reputation of this firm is world wide. 
Wherever I have been on this trip I have been warmly 
welcomed by the florists and there has not been an hour 
since my arrival in America when I have not been sup¬ 
plied with the choicest flowers.” 
S. D. Willard, of Geneva, N. Y., during a recent trip in 
the West, made an especial study of the problems and 
the possibilities of irrigation, and being interviewed by a 
reporter at Denver was quoted at length as to the result 
of his observations while in Rochester a few weeks ago. 
Mr. Willard said ; “ I do not know that it is worth 
speaking of, but I am a little sensitive when I am repre¬ 
sented as saying that the time will come when the peo¬ 
ple of the state of New York will be compelled to resort 
to irrigation when I said something so radically different. 
In the course of my talk with the Denver man I spoke 
with the greatest enthusiasm of the possibilities of iriiga- 
tion. I told him that the two elements whicn make all 
culture of the soil possible are heat and moisture. I said 
that, in the East and even in the state of New York, the 
time would come when it would be necessary to econo¬ 
mize water, to store it and use it as needed, but that it 
would be impossible in New York to adopt a system of 
irrigation, for the reason that the conformation of the 
country presents insuperable obstacles. It was by saying 
this that I earned the credit of asserting that the time 
will come when this state will be compelled to resort to 
irrigation.” 
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DESTRUCTION OF FLORIDA CROPS. 
A despatch to the New York Herald from Jacksonville, 
dated February 9, 1895, says: The temperature in Jack¬ 
sonville at six o’clock this morning was 19, the lowest for 
the twenty-four hours; in Tampa, 24; Titusville, 22; 
Jupiter, 26; Key West, 28. Over the extreme southern 
portion of the Florida peninsula the temperature fell from 
two to ten degrees lower than Friday morning. 
This continuation of freezing weather for nearly forty 
hours has undoubtedly completed the ruin begun by the 
cold wave of December 29, which destroyed nearly two 
million five hundred thousand boxes of oranges, killed 
many of the younger orange and lemon trees, and cut 
down to the root nearly every crop of vegetables then 
growing in the state, besides injuring pine apple plants 
to such an extent that only about a third or a quarter of 
a crop is expected this year. 
The damage to the vegetable crop, pine apples, straw¬ 
berries and to orange and lemon trees is inestimable. 
By some the loss is set as high as $15,000,000, this com¬ 
putation, of course, including the loss of prospective crops 
of oranges fram trees killed outright, for every tree in 
good bearing condition at six years of age has heretofore 
been considered good for twenty-five or thirty crops of 
fruit. It is said by experts that these orange trees that 
are not killed outright are more hurt than in December, 
on account of the sap having in the southern parts of the 
state started to run freely. Thousands of acres of vege¬ 
tables, such as egg plants, water melons, tomatoes, peas, 
&c , will have to be replanted. There was a larger crop 
of vegetables just coming out of the ground than at, any 
time in the history of the state, as almost every orange 
o-rower had resorted to this means to recoup. On the 
east coast, along the entire Indian river, the pine apple 
growers are severely hurt, some saying that two-thirds of 
the plants themselves are killed. On the west coast and 
in the lake regions tomatoes, which were almost the ex¬ 
clusive crop, were killed outright. Even strawberries are 
set back and in many places killed. 
James A. Harris, of Ocala, who is the best informed 
oranf^e grower in Florida, estimates the orange crop of 
1895-96 at only too,ooo boxes. The average crop for the 
past three years has been 5,000,000 boxes, and the esti¬ 
mate for next season was 6,500,000. It will be practically 
impossible to immediately replace the trees killed, as the 
nursery stock is all destroyed. 
