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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Htnono Growers anb IDealers. 
Oakley Apgar, Califon, N. J., died on March 14th of 
pneumonia, at Paterson. 
P. J. Berckmans has charge of the planting of the 
grounds for the cotton exposition in Atlanta. 
Remer & Richmond, of Aulne, Kan., have dissolved 
partnership, J. R. Remer buying out the interest of J. G. 
Riclimond. 
J. Fred Lee, who has been superintendent of the 
Rochester Lithographing Co., has accepted a position 
with the Steelier Lithographing Co. 
The Chase Nursery Co., of Riverside, Cal., sold 6,000 
apricot trees to be planted on land owned by Mr. Williams 
at Banning. That section is favorable both for growing 
and drying deciduous fruits; hence planting is extensive. 
Peter Youngers says: “ By planting Dyehouse, Early 
Richmond, Early Morello, Large Montmorency, Ostheim, 
English Morello and Wragg, a constint succession of 
cherries may be obtained in Nebraska from June 5 to 
August 5—two full months of ripe cherries.” 
Of Frederick W. Kelsey of New York, the New York 
World says : “ One of the foremost advocates of the 
adoption of the Essex county park scheme is Frederick 
W. Kelsey, who is vice-president of the department and 
one of the most progressive and earnest of the commis¬ 
sioners. Mr. Kelsey lives in Orange, where he has made 
a record for himself as a sincere and intelligent advocate 
of necessary reforms and public improvements. He was 
the leading figure in the local fight for adequate remunera¬ 
tion for street railway franchises, and on other important 
questions has won admirers by his fearless and capable 
defense of popular interests. Asa park commissioner Mr. 
Kelsey has further distinguished himself by his energy 
and progressive ideas. He is an enthusiast on the park 
question. 
The Daily Tribune of P'ort Scott, Kan., says: “The 
Hart Pioneer Nursery company, of this city, has been re¬ 
organized and will henceforth be under the management 
of W. F. Schell, of Wichita, one of the original organizers 
of the company and a nurseryman of many years’ experi¬ 
ence, who has purchased an interest in the business. This 
institution is one of the largest nurseries in the West and 
its patronage has extended all over the United States. 
The original business was organized in 1865 and derives 
its name from the fact that it was the pioneer nursery of 
Kansas. It has experienced a gradual healthy growth 
until to-day under the reorganization it is one of the most 
substantial institutions of any kind in the state. The 
grounds of the plant contain 640 acres of fertile land, 
suitable for the growing of fruit trees, shrubbery, orna¬ 
mental trees, small fruits and everything usually carried 
in such large nursery stocks as they carry. The new 
manager, Mr. W. F. Schell, was the first vice-president of 
the company and is widely known throughout the state 
as a skilled nurseryman. He was born in Geneva, New 
York, which is known as “the home of nurseries,” where 
he served an apprenticeship and was engaged in the busi¬ 
ness ten years. He then came to Kansas and was fore¬ 
man of the Lawrence Commercial Nurseries for several 
years, later owned and operated a nursery in Wilson 
county, and then became identified with the Hart Pioneer 
company. He has been eminently successful, due to his 
thorough knowledge of every detail of the science of 
propagating nursery stock, and his ability as a financial 
manager.” 
EVERGREENS FROM SEED. 
Charles F. Gardner, of Iowa, writes as follows in the 
Michigan Farmer : “ I have often thought what means 
should be adopted to cause the greatest number of people 
to engage in planting forest trees, especially evergreens. 
There are comparatively few nursermen in the United 
States who make a success financially of growing conifers 
from the seed. There are a few, however, who have mas¬ 
tered the situation and grow them by the million. With 
but few exceptions, nurserymen who write on this subject, 
and nearly all horticultural writers, advise farmers not to 
attempt to grow them from the seed, but to buy plants of 
those who have made a success of the business. I know 
of farmers’ boys who at sixteen to eighteen years of age 
have grown these trees from the seed as successfully, in 
a small way, as any nurserymen on this continent. Young 
men, and in fact some young ladies, seem to grapple with 
this problem and to understand better the conditions that 
are necessary to observe in order to successfully solve it, 
than those who have passed the meridian of life. I am 
writing this article simply and solely in the interest of the 
people who own land in the country where such trees are 
to be desired. Suppose every farmer, who owns land 
should make a bed for growing evergreens in the spring 
of 1895, making the bed eight feet long and four feet wide, 
and that he shades it with two lath frames, each four feet 
square, lath one-half inch apart, and that he plants four 
feet of the bed with Scotch Pine seed and the other four 
feet with Norway Spruce, using one ounce to each kind 
of seed. The beds to be made and planted strictly ac¬ 
cording to the way described in my article ‘ Growing 
Evergreens from Seed,’ with the exception that he uses 
lath frames for shade, placed 12 inches high on the south 
side and eighteen inches high on the north side. Then 
get common white sheeting and cover the whole bed with 
it, over the lath and coming down to the ground where it 
is fastened all the way around. I leave this cloth on until 
a 1 the trees are up, and then in a damp spell of weather 
raise the cloth from the sides first, and then in a day or 
so remove it entirely. If directions are carried out fully 
and completely, at the end of the season each person will 
have at least two thousand trees of each kind mentioned. 
Let them remain in the seed beds two seasons and tran.s- 
plant the following spring. I will say, that if you feel as 
I do in regard to this subject, that independent of the 
nurserymen of this country, who at present seem to enjoy 
