THE NATIOT^AL NURSERYMAN. 
95 
F. D. GREEN. 
F. D. Green, of Perry, Ohio, the subject of this sketch, 
is president of the L. Green & Son Co., one of the most 
active and progressive wholesale concerns in the United 
States. Mr. Green was born on the grounds that he now 
occupies, in 1863, and, while a young man, has been the 
chief factor in building up the now extensive business and 
good reputation which this company enjoys. For the 
past eight years Mr. Green has made pear growing his 
leading specialty, and the trees which the company pro¬ 
duces and furnishes to the trade are pronounced by their 
patrons to be beyond all competition. Mr. Green- is a 
thoroughly wide-awake business man in the fullest sense 
of the word, and is always in the lead with anything of 
value or interest to the trade, as well as in the section of 
the country in which he resides. 
He is one of the most prominent 
and influential Odd Fellows in 
Ohio, having held some of the 
most responsible and honorary 
positions in the order. Mr. 
Green is a jovial, social fellow, 
enjoys a good story and makes 
friends where ever he goes. 
A. H. Griesa, of Lawrence, 
Kan., writes to the Kansas Far¬ 
mer-. “There are trees and 
plants adapted to every locality, 
and such should be selected with 
care. In this selection experi¬ 
ment stations should direct at¬ 
tention, also discourage such 
trees and plants as are known to 
be unsuitable. Nurserymen 
could and should lend a hand, 
but often in their zeal trees and 
plants are recommended which 
they know are unfit. Among 
these is the Japanese wineberry. 
It is pictured and puffed to sell 
plants at a good price, while it cannot produce any¬ 
thing but leaves and disappointment to the planters. 
These plants I have had growing for six years and never 
enough berries, if sold at $i each, to pay the cost of 
plants. They are reported to give like results over a 
large area of country, and it is safe to let it alone. 
Another of similar lack of value is the tree blackberry. 
It is no more a tree than any other, no more fruitful 
and not larger than the Snyder. The trifoliate hardy 
orange is more hardy than the tropical fruitful orange, 
but not hardy enough to stand the Kansas climate. The 
Otahite orange for pot culture is not as was promised. 
They seldom bloom, and it is safe to not plant them un¬ 
less you enjoy disappointment.” 
P. H. Foster, of Babylon, N. Y., died July 21st, aged 
85 years. 
A WONDERFUL RASPBERRY. 
On July i6th, a party of Rochester nurserymen under 
the direction of John Charlton, visited the raspberry planta¬ 
tion of J. T. Thompson, at Oneida, N. Y., for the purpose 
of seeing the Columbian raspberry in the fruiting season. 
Mr. Thompson is the originator and propagator of this 
wonderful berry. The party was shown the original bush, 
which is feet in height. The bush is a seedling of 
Cuthbert planted ten years ago and hybridized by the 
Ohio. Mr. Thompson has 5 acres of six-year-old bushes, 
6 acres of two-year-old bushes, and 4 acres of young stock. 
Over ten acres are in full bearing. Picking was begun on 
July 9th; it will continue until August 15th. Nine thous¬ 
and quarts of berries had been picked from the fields since 
July 9th, and no impression seemed to have been made 
upon the full-fruited bushes. 
The bushes do not sucker. They 
are propagated from tips and 
are planted in hills. The fruit 
is nearly twice the size of the 
Cuthbert. It is of the color and 
flavor of the Shafler, but it is 
as firm as the Cuthbert. It is 
an excellent shipper. Mr. 
Thompson has 100,000 trans¬ 
plants. The berry has excited 
the admiration of all who have 
seen it. One Rochester nursery 
firm is selling 600 plants of the 
Columbian every week, and only 
one to each customer, it is said. 
The eleventh annual meeting 
and exhibition of the Society 
of American Florists will be 
held in Pittsburg,August 20-23. 
The programme will include a 
paper by Charles J. Dawson, 
Jamaica Plain, Mass., on “ Horti¬ 
cultural Education, Practical and 
Theoretical,” a discussion on 
“ Improved Chrysanthemums, Extant and Essential,” 
to be opened by E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind., and a paper 
by Professor J. F. Cowell, Buffalo, N. Y., on “The 
Society’s Influence in Popular Horticultural Advance¬ 
ment.” The Florists’ Hail Assembly of America, the 
Florists’ Protective Association, the Telegraph Delivery 
Association, the American Rose Society and the Chrysan¬ 
themum Society of America will meet during the dates 
named. 
In the Horticultural Advertiser of London, Eng., ap¬ 
pears the following: “If any nursery stock has at any 
time been injured by brickyard fumes, the nurseryman is 
particularly requested to communicate with Messrs. Pen¬ 
nell & Sons, of Lincoln, who are suing a brick company 
for injury to their stock.” 
GREEN. 
