THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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can hardly be grown as a timber-tree. The Species is too 
tender for Northern Nebraska and the Dakotas. 
A few Kentucky Coffee-trees at Hutchinson, Kansas, 
are doing well, and as this species is native throughout 
Eastern Kansas, there should be no difficulty in its cul¬ 
tivation, except in high localities. Its large decompound 
leaves make it an interesting tree for lawn planting. 
Very fine specimens of Sycamore were also seen at 
Hutchinson, but this tree is not successful on high ground 
and cannot stand northern winters. Strong two-year-old 
trees were killed to the ground at Brookings, South Dakota, 
after making a good summer growth. 
The Russian Poplars and Willows have been quite ex¬ 
tensively planted in South Dakota, but it is doubtful if 
they are acquisitions of special value. James Smith 
planted them extensively at Cresbard, Faulk County, 
South Dakota, in 1883 and 1884, and for several years 
they were very promising, but the attacks of the Cotton¬ 
wood-leaf beetle, Lina scripta, followed by the excessive 
drought of the past few years, have completely destroyed 
his plantation. Populus Certinensis was largely planted 
at Brookings, where it failed when grown side by side 
with Cottonwood, a good proportion of which survived. 
Salix fragilis, a Russian Willow, has produced a great 
mass of branches, and cannot be grown in tree form, 
though introduced as a forest-tree. 
The Laurel-leaved Willow, where protected from the 
beetle, is a beautiful small-sized tree that can be grown 
throughout the West. 
The Basswood, or Linn, is native along all the streams 
in the eastern part of the plains, and would, doubtless, be 
successful under cultivation in places not too dry. There 
are few farm uses to which the wood can be put, however, 
so that its principal value in western planting would be to 
add variety to lawn or grove. Few of our native trees 
have such large clean leaves, and the sweet fragrance of 
its flowers, combined with its luxuriant foliage and clean 
growth, should make it an acceptable lawn-tree. The 
Hawthorns grow well in eastern Nebraska and Kansas, 
but these can hardly have a place in artificial planting, as 
every purpose they could fill would be much better served 
by the plums. 
The plum is one of the native trees of the West, and 
every farmer should plant plum-pits in the margin of his 
shelter-belt, not only for the excellent fruit which he is 
likely to get if he plants selected seed, but because the 
plum, being a low bushy grower, brings the branches of 
his plantation down to the surface of the ground, and is, 
therefore, effective in keeping out winter winds. The 
Nebraska Choke Cherry, Prunus Besseyii, and even the 
Sand Cherry, can be grown in the same way, and the Sand 
Cherry, besides bringing the fine branches close to the soil, 
affords an bundant supply of food for birds. The tree is 
hardier than the Russian Mulberry, and it can, therefore, 
supplant that variety in the North. 
A. M. Leonard, Piqua, O.—“ I am well pleased with The National 
Nurseryman. It is a liigh-toned and readable paper.” 
AN OLD NURSERY. 
White’s (late Hayward’s) Nursery at Worcester is situ¬ 
ated at St. John’s, not far from Messrs. R. Smith & Co.’s 
nursery-grounds, and is one of the oldest in the kingdom. 
It was started in the year 1756 by John Boughton, who 
was a gentleman’s gardener, and purchased the ground 
for the establishment of a nursery; and at his death his 
son continued the business, and on his retirement from 
trade, about 1844, Mr. Hayward, who had been an ap¬ 
prentice to Mr. Boughton and remained in his service, 
succeeded to the management. At Mr. Hayward’s death 
in 1885, the business was left by his will to his cousin, 
Mr. J. H. White, the present proprietor, who had been 
associated with him for twenty-two years as an apprentice 
and assistant. 
This nursery is on the site of the famous battle of 
Worcester. The battle raged around this spot, and old 
relics have occasionally been met with in turning up the 
soil. A very interesting souvenir of the early history of 
the nursery is in the possession of Mr. White, and forms 
one of the many interesting objects to be seen in his 
house; a copy of this we give here :— 
was invented by Lawrence John Koster 
His hoary Frost. His Fleecy Snow, 
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Descend and cloath the Ground, 
The liquid Streams forbear to flow, 
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January 24, 1795. 
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Fruit trees are extensively grown here, and in good old 
nursery style, good training and pruning having proper 
attention, and the young trees are what they ought to 
be, and fruit was abundant when I visited the nursery 
in August last. The Black Pear of Worcester was in 
fruit, and is the best of stewing pears, but the Uvedale’s 
St. Germain is often sent for it. A large standard tree of 
Pitmaston Duchess was heavily cropped, and amongst 
plums Rivers’ Monarch, a large late purple, was bearing 
most freely. 
Damsons also are extensively grown here, and had good 
crops. Frogmore Prolific is an excellent flavoured early 
variety, and King of the Damsons is a great cropper and 
very sweet.' The Old Prune damson is a good old variety, 
and the Old Shropshire damson has large fruit, but as it 
is so late in ripening Mr. White is beheading them all and 
grafting with other varieties.—S. H. B., in Gardeners' 
Magazine, London. 
MUST HAVE IT. 
A. M. Smith, St. Catherines, Ont. —Enclosed find $1 for The 
National Nurseryman which I cannot well do without. 
MUCH pleased with IT. 
Dr. Isaac S. Cramer, Flemington, N. J.—“I am very much 
pleased with the paper and do not want to be without it.” 
