THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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jfvom IDarious points. 
The park board of Kansas City, Mo., has decided upon 
three new parks. 
Official reports state that there are 16,000 acres of olive 
trees in California. 
G. M. Kinner, Fredonia, N. Y., says: “Half a crop of 
grapes in the Chautauqua section is all that can be ex¬ 
pected this season.” 
The acreage of orchards in Great Britain is 214,000, an 
increase of 2,527 acres this year. The area of small fruits 
is extending, reaching 68,415 acres. 
Belgium stands first in the exportation of apples to 
Great Britain ; Canada is second, the United States third ; 
Holland fourth and Erance fifth. 
Horticulture will be one of the twenty-four divisions of 
^the Berlin Industrial Exposition to be held at the Ger¬ 
man capital May to October, 1896. 
A National Cactus Society has been formed in Eng¬ 
land. According to a circular published by the society, 
there are 210 collectors and growers of cacti in that 
country. 
The bonds for the Essex County, N. J., park system, 
which will cost $2,500,000, will be issued at 3.65 per cent, 
interest. It is thought the first issue of $750,000 can be 
floated for par at that rate. 
A. A. Miller of Mesa County, Col., estimates his fruit 
crop at 10,000 cases—apples, peaches, pears and prunes. 
He will probably be the largest individual shipper in the 
Grand Junction association. 
The white-marked tussock moth, Notolophus leuco- 
stigma, has been attacking apple orchards in New York 
State. One grower reports that 25 per cent, of his apple 
crop has been ruined by this insect. 
Last year one peach orchard in Berkshire county, Penn¬ 
sylvania, yielded 10,000 baskets of fruit. It is estimated 
that in Lehigh county over 20,000 peach trees have been 
planted during the past two years. 
There will be no department of horticulture at the Cot¬ 
ton States and International Exposition at Atlanta. The 
forestry building will have a handsome exhibit of all 
things pertaining to forestry, but there will be no special 
exhibit of horticulture. 
“ How the neighbors laughed when a farmer at the age 
of 60 years began to set out a large apple orchard,” says 
the Massachusetts Ploughman, “ He is now over eighty, 
and for some years he has sold a crop of tour or five 
hundred barrels of apples. That is better than life in¬ 
surance, he thinks.” 
G. L. Taber, the well-known nurseryman at Glen St. 
Mary, Florida, is reported as having no fear of pear blight. 
He treats the disease wholly by excision. He cuts off 
well below the affected places all twigs or limbs as soon 
as seen to be troubled by the disease, and burns the parts 
so removed. 
The Bitter Root Orchard Company, composed of Ore¬ 
gon and Butte capitalists, has purchased 300 acres of fine 
bench land about three and a half miles south of Hamil¬ 
ton, Oregon, and planted 10,000 apple trees upon the 
land. The company intends to plant 24,000 more apple 
trees this fall, which will make it the largest single apple 
orchard on the Pacific coast. 
The first consignment of California fruit for this year 
was sold at auction in Covent Garden Market, London, 
July 19th. It consisted of 245 boxes of Bartlett pears, 
311 boxes of plums and 206 half boxes of pears. Owing 
to the drought in England and France fruit is scarce. On 
the whole, the fruit was pronounced to be much better 
than any of the 1894 shipments, 
Samuel Miller, Bluffton, Mo., says: “The new M. K. 
& T. R. R. runs within fifty yards of one of my orchards 
and whenever there is a south wind, the smoke from the 
locomotives is wafted across the trees and vines, which I 
deem of no little value. I believe it drives out insects, 
and the sulphurous smoke may keep off injurious fungi¬ 
cides. I mention this, as it may be a hint to those who 
have land similarly situated to take advantage of it. I 
am satisfied that it helps to keep off grape rot.” 
At the annual meeting of the National Apple Shippers’ 
Association in Chicago on August ist, with dele¬ 
gates present representing all apple-growing states 
from Maine to Colorado, it was announced that the 
July report of the department of agriculture, indicating a 
short apple crop, is entirely misleading. Local informa¬ 
tion in their possession shows that in New England the 
crop is one of reasonable proportions, and in New York, 
while light in some districts, the aggregate exceeds last 
year, both in quality and quantity. West of the Alle¬ 
gheny mountains the crop is declared the largest grown 
in any recent year, the only exception being in limited 
districts in Ohio and Michigan and in Wisconsin and 
Minnesota. Those in attendance at the meeting unite in 
declaring the outlook to be for the largest aggregate crop 
of best quality in recent years. 
Massachusetts has gone far ahead of all her sister 
states in the solution of the problem of good roads, and 
she is now about to take the initiative in an important 
experiment upon a kindred question to that of highways. 
Her highway commission will soon begin a practical 
study of the planting of road shade trees. As the esti¬ 
mated expense has been placed at half a million dollars, 
the value which will accrue from this experiment to the 
benefit of other commonwealths may easily be appreciated. 
It is the custom in parts of Europe to plant the roadside 
with trees which yield profitable crops. For example, in 
France and Germany cherry trees abound along the way- 
sides. In those countries the yield of the trees belongs 
to the neighboring land-owners, and their product is well 
guarded by law. The adoption of such apian in America, 
even with a community ownership in roadside trees, would 
be, seemingly at least, out of the question. Nevertheless, 
some such innovation may yet arise out of the experiment 
of the old Bay State. 
