THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hinono (Browers anb ©eaters. 
Peter Youngers, jr., of Nebraska, has returned from a 
trip to Washington and Oregon. 
C. H. Schechter and S. F. McLane have begun the 
nursery business at Owatonna, Minn. 
Sneed Brothers of Alabama have bought land near 
Roswell, New Mexico, and are going to set out a nursery. 
Gilbert Costich, of Rochester, long and favorably known 
in the wholesale trade, has opened a retail office in this 
city. 
The warehouse of C. W. Gurney & Son, Yankton, S. 
D., was destroyed by fire last month. Loss $5,000; in¬ 
surance $r,ooo. 
The Central Washington Nursery consists of about 35 
acres of good, substantial nursery trees. Mr. Simpson, 
with his brother, located at North Yakima in 1889. 
The Cleveland Nursery, Rio Vista, Va., managed during 
the last twelve years by M. T. Thompson, Sr., has changed 
hands, Mr. Thompson’s sons continuing the business. 
President J. H. Hale, of the American Association of 
Nurserymen, estimates that in the last five years nursery¬ 
men have planted orchards of their own, aggregating 
5,000,000 trees. 
Manager Isaac C Rogers of the Rogers Nursery Co., 
Moorestown, N. J., says : “ We have a heavy increase in 
our trade this year. Cash sales are $3 to $i compared to 
this date a year ago, and the season is two weeks behind 
time. The demand for trees is heavier than we ever heard 
of before, beyond our highest expectations.” 
L Green & Son Co., Perry, O.: “ We notice in your 
March issue an article about a day’s work in budding and 
think that we can go it one better. We have in ouf 
employ a man who budded in 10 hours 6,040 peach seed¬ 
lings and has on numerous occasions set from 5,500 to 
6,000 buds in the same length of time, a correct count 
being made by one of our firm.” 
Dali DeWeese, of Canon City, Fremont county, writes 
to Denver Field and Farm : “Two years ago I built a cold 
storage house which now contains 300 barrels of first class 
winter apples that are keeping finely. I have been offered 
$4.50 a barrel for these apples but am holding them for 
$5. We have never had a better winter for fruit buds. 
They all matured last fall and we have had no warm 
winter weather to start them. A big crop is a sure thing 
this year.” 
THE ABSENCE OF HEDGEROWS. 
That well-known authority on horticultural topics, 
George H. Ellwanger, of Rochester, says in reply to a 
query in American Gardening'. “ Though the hedgerow 
does not occur nearly as frequently as it should, and the 
double hedgerow of the English lanes is almost unknown 
with us, one may still see splendid and numerous 
examples of California privet and Osage orange hedges 
enclosing fine private domains in and about Long Branch, 
New Jersey. The California privet, however, owing 
to its comparatively low growth, is more suitable for an 
ornamental hedge than as a hedge for protection. There 
can be no doubt that the hedge should be more frequently 
employed than is the case in America ; not only for its 
grace and sightliness in the landscape, but for the protec¬ 
tion it affords to man against the winds, and the shelter 
and harbor it offers equally for birds and game. 
“ With regard to the material for hedges, it may be said 
that the beech, both the American and European varie¬ 
ties, as well as the hornbeam, form an excellent means for 
protection, in proper soil. But it should be remembered 
that these are of slow growth ; a fine beech hedge belongs 
to posterity. Like the beech and hornbeam, the Ameri¬ 
can hawthorn, buckthorn, honey locust and Osage orange 
are among the best subjects that may be employed for 
purposes of protection ; though the two latter scarcely 
possess that refinement which belongs either to the beech, 
the hornbeam or the hawthorn. Still in favored soil and 
where the pruning-knife has not been spared, the Osage 
orange and the honey locust form most pleasing hedges. 
In the case of nearly all hedges, pruning should be begun 
at the planting, and continued from year to year. A good 
hedge, moreover, should be trained so that it is wider at 
the bottom than at the top, in order to receive the full 
benefit of rain and sun. The American Hawthorn, notably 
the cockspur, is preferable to its English namesake for 
hedge purposes with us, the latter being less robust and 
less capable of withstanding our severe summer heats. 
The buckthorn grows rapidly and luxuriantly, forming a 
thick screen. The honey locust and Osage orange are 
also of rapid growth, flourishing in almost any soil. For 
an ornamental deciduous hedge, there can be nothing 
finer than the Japan quince, in the flowering season. 
“Among evergreens, the Norway spruce and the Amer¬ 
ican and Siberian arbor vitae offer the best materials for 
hedge purposes. The evergreen hedge is, of course, an 
advantage in winter, both on account of its green and its 
excellent protection. But it needs to be judiciously 
employed, as too many evergreens, especially where used 
in the quantities an extended hedgerow demands, tend 
to impart a certain monotony and sombreness to the 
landscape. It is, perhaps, needless to observe that the 
English Yew is not adapted for hedges in this country. 
I do not consider the blackberry, elder and honeysuckle 
suitable for hedges. The honeysuckle and elder where 
they exist usually occur as occasional examples in the 
English hedgerow, or rather more frequently amid the 
tangle of the double hedgerow of the lanes. A cockspur 
hedge intermixed with the honeysuckle, elder, dog-rose, 
sweet briar, wild clematis, nightshade and other flower¬ 
ing climbers, would be most picturesque, and would pre¬ 
sent a most pleasing change from the formal line of the 
close-clipped hedgerow. But good hedges, as a general 
rule, require annual, and sometimes semi-annual pruning; 
and well-trimmed hedgerows in the right place, com¬ 
posed of suitable material, add largely to the variety, 
comfort and charm of one’s surroundings.” 
