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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
jfrom IDavious points. 
French nurseries and market gardens give employment 
to 232,220 persons, of whom 94,338 are masters, 7,147 
skilled workmen, and 130,735 laborers. 
A series of tests made at the New York Experiment 
Station showed that the Pomona, Cuthbert and Royal 
Church late red raspberries were most productive. 
The Rhode Island Horticultural Society has elected 
these ofificers : Vice-presidents, Levi W. Russell, Thomas 
K. Parker; secretary and treasurer, Charles W. Smith. 
George T. Powell, of Ghent, N. Y., writing from Milford, 
Del., says : “ I have been discussing horticultural work 
in Delaware for two weeks. Peach culture is ruined to a 
great extent here by the yellows.” 
The apple that commands the highest price in both 
home and foreign markets is the Newtown Pippin, says 
E. G. Fowler. When Baldwins and other choice varieties 
sell at $3 per bbl. at Liverpool, the Newtown Pippin sells 
at $9, and the same proportion holds true in our domestic 
market. The fruit often retails as high as $2 or $15 
per bbl. 
Statistics recently issued by the Treasury Department 
at Washington show that during the last fiscal year the 
exports of plants and nursery stock were valued at $140,- 
415, and of cut flowers $1,588, going principally to the 
Dominion of Canada. The imports of plants and nursery 
stock were valued at $124,143, principally from France, 
England, Holland and Canada. 
The horticultural commissioners of San Bernardino 
county allege that Oregon and Washington nursery stock, 
especially apple trees, have been attacked by a new fungoid 
disease, hence recommend that trees from that part of the 
country be not planted in California. The commissioners 
also announce that all nursery stock coming to that county 
which was grown outside of California will be quarantined. 
There was a tempting display of California fruits and 
plants at the meeting of the Farmers’ club of the Ameri¬ 
can Institute in New York City on March 20th. Dr. F. 
M. Hexamer, one of the vice-presidents of the American 
Pomological Society, is president of this club. Regard¬ 
ing the shipment of California dried and green fruits east¬ 
ward during the last five years it was stated that there 
were nearly 30,000 carloads shipped in 1894, against only 
16,000 in 1890. The weight of the shipments of dried 
fruit was estimated at about 140,000,000 pounds. Despite 
the wonderful increase of the orange crop, estimated at 
2,000,000 boxes this year, the orange industry is secondary 
to that of dried fruit, which is regarded as yet in its in¬ 
fancy, notwithstanding its present vastness. 
The glib tree agent is out on his annual rounds and is 
telling larger tales than ever. Over on the western slope 
an agent is working and his specialty is the old Weaver 
plum, a Wild Goose sort as common as sin, but still he 
insists that it is worth $2 a tree and is getting that price 
for it. It has been selling for years at from twenty-five 
to thirty-five cents at retail and $2 is simply highway 
robbery. This trick is about equal to that of a Missouri 
nursery firm which a few years ago was putting out that 
measly old Mariana plum at $1.50 each. Thousands of 
trees were sold at this outlandish price and it took the 
buyers several years to discover the fraud. The only use 
to which the Mariana is put is for root stock on which to 
graft better sorts. There ought to be a law against the 
imposition of such frauds on an unsuspecting people.— 
Denver Field and Farm. 
Regarding importsof fruit for February, the Gardeners 
Magazine of London, England, says: “Apples show a 
remarkable increase both in quantity and value, for we 
imported 311,062 bushels, of the value of ^84,566, against 
186,332 bushels, of the value of ii'5[,oi8, in February, 
1894. Plums, although—as might be expected—im¬ 
ported in small quantities, showed a much larger relative 
increase, for 85 bushels were imported in February, as 
compared with four bushels in the corresponding month 
of 1894, and two bushels in that of 1893. Liberal consign¬ 
ments of pears were received, the total imports being 2,- 
529 bushels, of the value of 1,385, as compared with 2,- 
609 bushels, of the value of 1,334, in February, 1894. 
Grapes show a drop of about 25 per cent., the actual 
quantities received being 383 bushels, of the value of 
^525, against 499 bushels, of the value of ^^^503, in the 
corresponding month of last year. The imports of un¬ 
enumerated fruits amounted to 27,589 bushels, of the 
value of ^[5,622, or an increase in quantity of 6,247 
bushels, and in value of ^1^2,899 ” 
Professor L. H. Bailey, in recommending the fall plant¬ 
ing of fruit trees, says: “ In fall planting, however, it is 
important to insist that the trees shall be thoroughly 
well matured. In order to move stock quickly, it is the 
practice of some nurserymen to “ strip ” the trees before 
the growth is completed ; that is, the leaves are stripped 
off, the growth stopped, and the trees are put upon the 
market for September deliveries. This process weakens 
the trees, and I am satisfied that many failures which I 
have seen in young plantations in the state, are attributa¬ 
ble to this cause. Such trees may die outright, especially 
if set in the fall, and a hard winter follows ; or they may 
live to make a dwindling growth for the first few years. 
Like early-weaned calves, they lack vitality and push. If 
I were setting an orchard in the fall, I should place my 
order for trees in August or September, if possible, with 
the express stipulation that the trees should stand in the 
nursery rows until the leaves begin to die and fall. It 
should be said that there seems to be a tendency amongst 
nurserymen, to urge fall planting in order to push sales; 
and there are many good planters who consider fall plant¬ 
ing hazardous. It is true that unless the conditions are 
right, spring planting is the safer course ; and farmers 
who have many fall crops to harvest, will also find more 
time for tree setting in the spring. 
GIVES A GOOD MANY POINTS. 
T. C. Kevitt, Athenia, N. J —“The National Nurseryman is 
just what I like. It is a trade journal. It gives a good many points.” 
