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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
jfrom IDarious IPoints. 
VV. H. Green & Son, Byron, N. Y., will plant i,8oo 
dwarf pear trees on their farm in the spring. They say 
tliere is more money in pears at $r per bushel than in 
apples at $2. 
Professor Bailey is out with a new bulletin on peach 
pruning, in which he favors what he terms the natural 
method. In this, the tree is allowed to spread its top at 
will with no heading in. 
The Chautauqua and North East Grape Union has 
been disbanded, and a committee has been appointed to 
report March 5th upon plans for a reorganization. The 
Union has received $419,725 and disbursed $406,122. 
We have had some letters from a firm in Kentucky 
called, “The Ream Co., Fruit Growers and Nurserymen,” 
says the Rural New Yorker. We knew there were four 
members of this firm, but did not know more about them 
until this note came from the secretary : “ I am a boy of 
21 and have been studying apple culture for five or six 
years. The company consists of the family, father, 
mother, brother and myself. We have but a small nursery 
from which to raise our own trees and get the experience 
to be had in that way.” 
At the recent meeting of the Ohio Horticultural Society 
William Miller, of Gypsum ; Hon. N. H. Albaugh, Prof. 
Taft and others thought that while it was all right in 
theory to plant pits where the trees were intended to 
grow, it was hardly practicable, and an uneven orchard 
resulted. Some of the pits might fail to grow, the buds 
might not take, and the trees might fail to make a good 
growth, besides requiring the use of the land and care for 
two years, which could be much easier and better given in 
the nursery. In practice, the trees make no better growth, 
and seem no hardier than when nursery trees are trans¬ 
planted. 
Charles Wright of Seaford, Del., refers, in American 
Gardening, to an account of the Hoyt .Nurseries, New 
Canaan, Conn., the average daily budding of peaches being 
2,500 per man, and says they do better in Delaware, an 
average day’s work being 3,000 to 4,000 buds. Last 
August a 16 year-old boy put in 4,014 buds in one day, 
and a few days later, 4,385. This was only his second 
season at the work. Mr. W. has had men who put in 
4,900 buds in a day, and one man budded 5 000 in ten 
hours. The total budding of peaches in 1893 was 540,000 
trees; this year only 273,000, owing to scarcity of pits — 
Country Geyitleman. 
A despatch from Albany, N. Y., says: “The New 
York State Agricultural Station at Geneva, obtained an 
appropriation last year of $5,000 for the extermination of 
insect pests on the farms of the produce gardeners of 
Long Island, and will investigate the scale on Long 
Island. If the fruit raisers of the state neglect to inter- 
fere with the pest, as in the case at present, the legislature 
will be asked to pass a law allowing state employees free 
access to nurseries of the state to spray infested trees 
with whaleoil soap, which is fatal to the scale. Prof. 
Lintner will soon issue a cautionary circular on the scale 
to the fruit growers of the state.” 
The new Otero County Nursery at Catlin, Colo., will this 
spring set out 100,000 apple grafts besides a large amount 
of seed, cuttings and seedlings. The Otero County Nur¬ 
sery now has a test orchard of eighty acres, and a number 
of acres devoted to young nursery stock set out last spring. 
Several Colorado Springs men have decided on planting 
orchards in Delta county, and have already ordered their 
trees. Among these are F. J. Steinmetz, C. R. Brewer, 
A. W. Maxwell and another gentleman who have bought 
5,000 trees from Youngers & Co., and are going to plant 
them on Garnet mesa.— Denver Field a?id Farm. 
J. M. Rice, of Oklahoma, says in the Agricultural 
Epitomist: “ A correspondent in Kansas asks whether to 
get his trees from the North, South or Central. For the 
dryer West I should get ^-he thriftiest and most vigorous 
growth trees that I could find. We need trees with large, 
coarse roots, the same as to branches with large leaves, 
and I should buy of a nursery which had soil and climate 
to produce such. A stunted tree is like a stunted calf. 
Of course this applies largely as to variety. In the lati¬ 
tude of Southern Kansas I do not think there would be 
any question but that a southern grown tree would do 
well, if well ripened when received. I have them from 
both North, South and Central, and I think it is more a 
question of the special nursery than anything else.” 
The past season on Lake Keuka, New York, has, on 
the whole, been a little more satisfactory to the grape 
growers than the season of 1893. The average prices 
were from 15 per cent, to 25 per cent, better and the crop, 
which was supposed to be some 40 per cent, below the 
yield of 1893, proved to be not over 25 per cent, less than 
1893. As the 1893 crop was the largest ever known, and 
at least 25 per cent, greater than [892, it leaves the 1894 
crop equal to an average with the past five years. The 
lowest estimate so far obtained, is 12,000 tons shipped ; 
the highest, 20,000. Why such a diversity of opinions 
exists, it is difficult to determine. The latter figure, was 
undoubtedly reached by the actual production, which 
would include waste, home consumption, etc. 
Successful peach-growing in Belgium needs an amount 
of painstaking and persistent attention that can hardly be 
credited in England. The stock most in use is the red 
plum, and this has been proved the most satisfactory after 
a long series of experiments. The necessary addition of 
lime to the various soils has been exhaustively dealt with, 
and its application is almost a fine art. To protect the 
budding trees from severe weather, enormous quantities 
of mosquito netting are used, and later, when the fruits 
are swelling, shields of rye straw are placed over them to 
protect and assist development. These and many other 
details are unremittingly attended to, and the result is 
that those market gardeners who make a specialty of 
peach-growing, supply the home markets and export ripe 
fruit to the value of some ;^f6o,ooo annually.— Gardener s 
Magazine. 
