THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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upon which nursery stock has been grown. The trees 
have been analyzed and their chemical constituents deter¬ 
mined. An endeavor will be made to determine what is 
needed to supply necessary plant food. Professor Bailey’s 
talk upon this subject at the convention was one of the 
most valuable and interesting features of the proceedings. 
THE PALMER RASPBERRY. 
The frontice-piece of this number represents a photo¬ 
graph of a small trial planting of the Palmer raspberry 
furnished us by Irvin Ingels, LaFayette, Ill., who is 
propagating this variety extensively for the wholesale 
trade. This variety is entirely free from anthracnose or 
any leaf trouble and as can be seen by the photograph, is 
a beautiful grower. It is probably the earliest of the 
black caps to ripen and of remarkably short season. It 
originated several years ago in Western Ohio, where it 
has been planted extensively ever since. In the report 
of the Illinois Horticultural Society of 1892, the Palmer 
raspberry is given as having been tested at six of the 
leading experiment stations of the state and pronounced 
by all to be the earliest, most prolific and hardiest of all 
the black cap varieties, entirely free from anthracnose 
and leaf-blight. The berry is of the same size as the 
Gregg, with a glossy black color and very little bloom : 
seeds small. 
A large number of raspberry growers who have been 
growing such varieties as Gregg, Mammoth Cluster, Early 
Ohio, etc., have greatly reduced their plantings or have 
stopped growing cap varieties altogether on account of 
the fungi of different kinds so prevalent on these varie¬ 
ties. In Northern Illinois the Gregg planted alongside 
of the Palmer was injured so by the severe cold of last 
winter that it only leaved out half way up the canes while 
the Palmer was uninjured. 
Mr. Ingels is a very enthusiastic nurseryman and fruit 
culturist and has tested many varieties of small fruits and 
especially raspberries. His grounds are situated in one 
of the richest prarie regions of Illinois, in Stark county, 
midway between the cities of Peoria and Rock Island, 
near the lines of the R. 1 . and P. and C. B. and Q. R. R. 
The soil produces the finest rooted plants perhaps of any 
place in the United States. He is also an extensive 
grower of blackberry and strawberry plants of the leading 
varieties and does a general retail nursery business, enjoy¬ 
ing the reputation of honest and square dealing and of 
furnishing everything true to label and of a No. i grade, 
with up to date methods of handling and packing. 
At the thirteenth annual meeting of the American Seed 
Trade Association in Detroit on June iith, these officers 
were elected : President, S. E, Briggs ; first vice-president, 
T. W. Wood ; second vice-president, Alex. Rogers ; secre¬ 
tary and treasurer, A. L. Don ; executive committee, D. 
1 . Bushnell, W. P. Stokes, S. D. Crosby, Irwin B. Clarke, 
S, F. Leonard. 
Hinono (Browers anb IDealers. 
Philip Smith of Pomona, Ga., has retired from the 
nursery business there. 
President Silas Wilson of Atlantic, la., and F. D. Green, 
of the L. Green & Son Co., Perry, O., visited Rochester, 
Geneva and Dansville nurseries last month. 
F. G. Withoft, Dayton, O.: “We will have at least 100 
to I 50 carloads of peaches this year on our young trees in 
Georgia. The oldest trees are four years.” 
The capital stock of the Utah Nursery Co., Salt Lake 
City, has been increased from $50,000 to $125,000. The 
place of business has been removed to Sugar House. 
Robert Williamson, Sacramento, Cal., and J. M. Ogle, 
formerly of the Puyallup Nurseries at North Yakima, 
Wash., and now of Grant’s Pass, Ore., are out of the nur¬ 
sery business. 
M. A. Thayer, Sparta, Wis.. saved one hundred acres 
of strawberries from destruction by frost on May 14th 
when the thermometer registered 24, by covering the 
plants with hay from stacks nearby. 
A. R. Pennell, Honeoye, N. Y., says: “ Our spring sales 
never hung on so long as they did this year, nor did we 
ever before clear every tree from the trenches. But prices 
are too low. We have done our usual planting.” 
Charles E. Smith, a member of the firm of Edward 
Smith & Sons, of Geneva, N. Y., which owns nearly 
1,000 acres of fruit lands in Western New York, died at 
Southampton, England, May 26th, aged 35 years. 
John Hall, Rochester, N, Y., secretary of the Western 
New York Horticultural Society, who has been connected 
with Brown Brothers Co., has severed his connection with 
that firm and is now the resident manager of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. 
Dr, A, E. Ford of this city, has gone to Phoenix, 
Arizona, to engage in the nursery business with a view to 
producing the trifoliatum stock for orange groves. He 
has put out 400,000 scions of this plant. The trifoliate 
orange makes hardy stock upon which to bud the orange 
of commerce and Arizona culturists have found that they 
must depend entirely upon the trifoliatum stock if they 
would have their young trees come through the winter all 
right and produce fruit .—Denver Field cmd Fnrm. 
GRAPE GROWERS’ UNION. 
Penn Y^AN, June 10. —A new grape marketing com¬ 
pany has been organized in this section to succeed the 
defunct Western New York Grape Growers’ Union, all of 
the prominent members having been connected with the 
latter organization. The members are Hon. Everett 
Brown and James A. Thayer of this place, Trevor Moore 
of Hammondsport, and Charles C. Wilcox' of Canan¬ 
daigua. Grapes grown in the section including Canan¬ 
daigua, Seneca, Keuka lakes will be handled by the com¬ 
pany. 
