THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
67 
Htnono (Browers anb Dealers. 
P. H. Foster, Babylon, L. I., 83 years of age, is in failing 
health. 
A. Blanc, Philadelphia, writes extensively to the Horti¬ 
cultural Trade Journal in support of the forage plant, 
Sacaline. 
Articles of incorporation of the Smith’s Villa Green¬ 
house and Nursery Co., Sioux City, la., were filed May 
8th. The capital stock is $5,000 with $2,000 paid up. 
The incorporators are William Smith, H. A. Smith and 
E. J. Stason. 
J. O. Kelly & Sons, Jeff, Ala., send samples of a new 
early cherry which is considerably earlier than the Early 
Richmond. It is of dark red color and mild flavor. The 
tree is a prolific bearer. The new cherry promises to be a 
valuable addition to the southern list, which is not ex¬ 
tensive. 
A. C. Griesa & Bro., Lawrence, Kan., are pushing the 
Bokara No. 3 peach vigorously. This promises to prove 
one of the staple varieties for trying situations. It is 
claimed by J. Wragg & Son, Waukee, la., that the Bokara 
stood 20 degrees below zero and furnished a crop. The 
fruit has a yellow flesh and a free stone. 
The many friends of J. Fred Lee, whose face has be¬ 
come so familiar to all the nurserymen who attend the 
conventions or horticultural meetings, will be glad to 
learn that he has taken charge of the plate department of 
the Stecher Lithographic Co., where he will be pleased 
to receive any correspondence relative to plates or nursery¬ 
men’s supplies of any description. As this is a decided 
advancement for Mr. Lee, his friends wish him every suc¬ 
cess in his new position. 
C. F. McNair & Co., Dansville, write: “Our spring 
sales were about the same as a year ago. The demand 
for stock kept up until very late. This was especially 
noticeable with apples, which have heretofore been so dull. 
Prices on all stock have been very low; in fact, in many 
cases less than the cost of production. The season was 
an unusually short one, with a great deal of bad weather 
and much frost to contend with. Owing to a much less 
amount of planting in the past two seasons, we are in 
hopes of realizing better prices in the future.” 
Linton, Oren & Co., Marceline, Mo , say: “ We have 
just closed one of the most successful spring trades that 
we have had for years. We consider our success this 
spring due wholly to our management in selling. We 
employed none but honest respectable salesmen. We 
honored none but responsible orders, we sold at fair 
prices, and offered nothing but first-class stock, handled 
with great care, securely packed and protected in such 
manner, that there was no reason for complaint or objec¬ 
tions, We were compelled to dig everything that was 
ready for the trade, and could have sold more, if we had 
had it. Good prospects for fall and spring.” 
Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea, Iowa, writes to the Iowa 
State Register: “We have tried both budding and col¬ 
lar grafting our standard northern varieties of plum on 
both the native plum and the sand cherry. We find bud¬ 
ding much the most satisfactory, and think we shall pre¬ 
fer the sand cherry to the native plum. The bud takes 
as readily, starts as easily, makes a stronger growth, and 
is much less likely to split from the stock. The use of 
the Mariana, Myrobolan or other foreign stocks for north¬ 
ern planting, should be stopped immediately, as it is in¬ 
juring the reputation of our grand varieties. Our nur¬ 
series will serve their customers and their own reputation 
far better by selling no plums at all, than by sending out 
such a worthless and disappointing article,” 
The Rogers Nursery Co., Moorestown, N. J., writes to 
the Rural Neiv Yorker : “ We have a letter from a fruit 
grower in Madison County, N. Y., saying that his Japan 
plums have come through all right, both Abundance and 
Burbank. It seems strange that some people say they 
have winter-killed, while others write to us that theirs 
have come through all right, with a temperature of 24 
below zero last winter. Could it be that those that have 
died are on peach roots? We know that it is the impres¬ 
sion among many nurserymen, and I think Professor 
Bailey states that they are equally valuable on peach 
roots ; however, most of our customers do not want any 
plums on peach roots. There must be some local cause 
for the Japan plums not living in some sections, while 
they are thriving in other sections that are more 
unfavorable.” 
Israel E. Ilgenfritz, well known to the older nurserymen 
of Western New York and ma .y others in the country, 
died at his home in Monroe, Mich., April gth. The Mon¬ 
roe Commercial of recent date says: “Two hundred years 
ago a sturdy German felt within himself the possibilities 
of betterment of his fortunes in the new world, and be¬ 
came an emigrant. He was virile and energetic, and 
founded a line of descendants who were all active and in¬ 
fluential factors in their circles. Of these Israel E. was 
born in Little York, Pa., August 24, 1824. He was one 
of a family of nine, only two of whom, Mrs. Ressler of 
Chicago, and William Ilgenfritz of New Carlisle, Penn., 
survive him. Like his ancestor he followed the westward 
star, and after his marriage to Miss Mary P'ishburn, which 
occurred December 24, 1846, he left the rocky hills of the 
Keystone State and came overland to the fair level lands 
of Michigan. Monroe was at that time a busy, bustling 
mart, the terminus of several lines of steamboats, the cen¬ 
ter of a large tributary territory, and here he set his stakes 
and started to build up a fortune. He was a nurseryman 
by natural instinct, and the first money he had made in 
his boyhood was by raising and selling some mulberry 
trees; and when he came to Michigan the wagon in which 
he brought his earthly possessions had as part of its little 
freight a box of young trees. At first he had no money 
with which to buy land, and for a makeshift started a 
meat market with his father-in-law and his brother-in-law, 
P, W. Fishburn. He soon left this and began his life’s 
