THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Nurserymen, as well as in other ways will doubtless lead 
him to prepare a bulletin soon on the horticultural possi¬ 
bilities of Montana. 
Several large firms in the West have during the last 
two years disposed of large blocks of apple trees, which 
they could not sell as nursery .‘■tock, by placing them 
among farmers who planted them under contract to re¬ 
ceive a share in the fruit crops, the farmers to have the 
option of buying the trees at any time. Large orchards 
have thus been established in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska 
and Colorado. It is a question whether a demand for 
nursery stock at cash prices was not thus cut off. On the 
other hand it may prove that the attention of farmers 
has been called in this way to the advisability of planting 
more trees. 
In the matter of securing a uniform tariff on nursery 
stock, the recommendation sent by Secretary Carlisle to 
the senate finance committee February 26th, advising a 
change in clause No. 234^^ to remove the ambiguity of 
that clause, with other recommendations in the Secre¬ 
tary’s letter, appear to be the direct outcome of the pre¬ 
sentment made by the committee of the New York 
Florists club to the board of general appraisers and 
Appraiser Bunn of New York. 
Congressman VanVoorhis of Rochester, N. Y., has 
found that nothing can be done at Washington to effect 
a change in the Canadian tariff with regard to nursery 
stock. A communication from Stone & Wellington the 
largest nurserymen of Canada, in another column, de¬ 
scribes the situation across the border. 
ADVANCING TO SALESMEN. 
Editor of The National Nurseryman : 
I come, not as a kicker, (for I detest kickers in any 
branch of business,) but to ask our neighbors, nurserymen, 
why we pay salesmen an advance on orders. This ad¬ 
vance business has almost invariably given men dissatis¬ 
faction in some way when I come to make our deliveries. 
I can safely say that fifty per cent, of our salesmen on 
advance commission has given poor satisfaction at the 
deliveries, either from forged orders, or by making orders 
with irresponsible parties. In almost all such cases the 
salesman is either out and gone, or out of reach in some 
way. Then, too, the Cheap-John planters of the country 
soon learn that the nurserymen will have large quantities 
of trees left—“laft,” as they call it. These customers are 
like buzzards, lingering around the place of delivery until 
they think the nurseryman is very anxious to close out 
his stock and get away as soon as possible ; then they 
may be seen drawing closer and until finally they swope 
down with a deceitful expression, pretending to be greatly 
in sympathy with the nurseryman and at the wind-up the 
customer will say, “ Well, I will give you three dollars 
for that bill there that is marked at ten dollars; that will 
help you out considerably.” It would be far better to 
pile and burn stock in the presence of such people. And 
we say, before we advance any more to agents we will 
quit the agent business. 
Marceline, Mo. Linton, Oren & Co. 
DEATH OF GEORGE MOULSON. 
George Moulson died of Bright’s disease at his home in 
Rochester on February i6th. He was the senior member 
of the firm of George & Thomas Moulson, proprietors of 
the Union Nurseries. George Moulson was born at 
Broadham, Nottinghamshire, E gTand, December 2, 1S17, 
and came with his parents to Rochester in 1824. In 
1835, at the age of 17, he engaged in business with his 
brothers and continued with them until his majority; he 
then went to Cincinnati and spent a year in Lane’s semi¬ 
nary. He returned to Rochester and engaged for four 
years in the soap and candle manufacture with his brother, 
Samuel, They purchased the extensive Pearl Ash and 
Saleratus works of Dr. Church and Walter S. Griffith. 
After conducting that business for a few years the manu¬ 
facturing of white lead was added, and a large business 
was built up, which was continued until i86r, when, 
owing to the large consumption of lead by the govern¬ 
ment, the manufacturing of pure white lead became un¬ 
profitable, and he preferred to discontinue the business 
rather than to make an adulterated article. 
In 1864 Mr. Moulson purchased the Union Nurseries of 
his brother, Charles Moulson. In 1867 his son, Thomas 
G. Moulson, was admitted into partnership, the business 
was very much increased, and a branch office was opened 
jn Wisconsin. The office and packing grounds, and the 
residences of George and Thomas G. Moulson, are on the 
grounds where the nursery was first established, fifty years 
ago. In 1875 they purchased the Woodland plantation 
near Charleston, S. C., of about 900 acres, also the Oak¬ 
ville and part of the Walnut Hill tracts in Colleton county 
of over 1,000 acres. George Adoulson spent the winters 
of 1877 and 1878 there in forming a land association 
comprised of colored people, to whom he successfully 
sold the Oakville and Walnut Hill tracts. The dividing 
up of large tracts of land among colored people was an 
innovation in that section at that time. One son, Thos. 
G. Moulson, his partner in the nursery business, a brother, 
Samuel, and four grand children, George D. Moulson, 
Laura A. Moulson, Mary E. Moulson and Charles E. 
Moulson, survive. 
RECIPROCAL TARIFF! 
Editor of The National Nurseryman: 
Americans are a remarkably amusing, funny people ! 
Do they expect Canadians or any other level headed folks 
to shunt tlieir legislative enactments back and forth like 
a shuttle as they are wont to do? What assurance can 
Canadians have that the next congress won’t do the 
McKinley act ? 
Trenton, N. J. 
James MacPherson. 
