THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmong (Browers anb Dealers. 
John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex., has been elected presi¬ 
dent of the Texas State Horticultural Soclet'\. 
E. A. Wood, South Denver, Colo., has been re-elected 
president of the Chrysanthemum Society of America. 
C. H. Joosten, New York city, visited Western New 
York nurseries last month in the interest of the Spineless 
gooseberry. 
Ethan Chase of Riverside, Cal., while on an eastern 
trip last month called upon Western New York friends 
and relatives. 
H. C. Kerman, Grimsby, Ont., and E. Albertson, 
Bridgeport, Ind., were recent callers upon Western New 
York nurserymen. 
Dr. Herman Schroeder, Bloomington, Ill., this year 
gathered large crops from his 3,000 pear and 500 plum 
trees. He is 76 years of age. 
Ellwanger & Barry took several prizes for fruits at the 
seventy-fifth annual fair of the Rhode Island State Fair 
Association at Narragansett Park. 
George Leslie & Son, Leslie, Ont., proprietors of the 
Toronto Nursery, one of the oldest in Canada, have made 
an assignment. The liabilities are stated to be $65,000. 
The Albaugh Nursery Co.. Dayton, O., exhibited at 
the Ohio State Fair a bushel of Murdy plums, said to be 
three weeks later than the Pond’s seedling and very much 
like it. 
R. M. Kellogg, Ionia, Mich., thinks the peach orchard 
of President Roland Morrill, of the Michigan Horticul¬ 
tural Society, in the Benton Harbor district, is the finest 
in the world. 
The Sedgwick Nursery Co. has been incorporated at 
Wichita, Kan., with a capital of $ro,ooo by Chauncey A. 
Seaman, Charles Schafer, S. B. Shirk and Messrs. Schermer- 
horn and Bartley. 
Remer Brothers, Aulne, Kan., write: “Four weeks 
ago we had promise of a big winter apple crop, 
but the fruit has fallen so that the crop is ruined. 
All the fruit is wormy.” 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, Conn., have 
brought suit in Philadelphia against the J. T, Lovett Co., 
Little Silver, N, J., for alleged infringement upon the 
trade mark “ Green Mountain ” grape. 
H. V. Hobbie and M. L. Culver of the firm of Hobbie 
& Culver, of this city, last month confessed judgment in 
a small amount. The, affairs of the concern were placed 
in the hands of Marsden B. Fox, secretary and treasurer 
of the Rochester Lithographing Co., as receiver. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, New York, says : “ There would 
appear to have been already sufficient experience to dem¬ 
onstrate the fact, which many have heretofore considered 
a theory, that drought during the summer has as much, 
or more, to do with the lo^s of rhododendrons and other 
evergreen plants as the cold in winter.” 
Harlan P. Kelsey, Kawana, N. C., on August 17th, 
made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Thomas 
F. Parker is assignee. Mr. Kelsey says he hopes the diffi¬ 
culty is but temporary. He has been retained by the 
assignee to assist in the management of the business. 
Orders received will have his personal supervision. 
The W. S. Little Co., of this city, recently incorporated 
with a capital stock of $15,000, marks the establishment 
of a retail department in connection with the wholesale 
business of William S Little & Co. The incorporators 
of the retail company are Hiram W. Smith, Charles 
Little, Samuel C. McKown and John W. Smith, all of 
this city. 
Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. Y., entertained members of 
the Patrons of Husbandry at his nurseries on August 23d. 
Among those present were Professors Roberts and Bailey 
of Cornell University. The latter in an address said that 
he thought one reason for non-bearing fruit trees is that 
nurserymen do not use buds from trees which are regular 
and constant bearers. 
Referring to the sale of Essex County, N. J., park 
bonds, Frederick W. Kelsey, New York, says; “Instead 
of $750,000 at par, as mentioned in September NURSERY¬ 
MAN the bids aggregated over six millions, and one million 
was awarded to Vermilye & Co., New York, at 100.77 or 
$7,700 net premium for the million. This is the highest 
price I think any county bond has ever sold for in this 
country.” 
C. F. McNair, of Dansville, N. Y., has accepted the 
management of the Rogers Nursery Co., Moorestown, N. 
J., in place of Isaac C. Rogers, resigned. Mr. McNair 
has had active experience in the nursery business for 17 
years and is thoroughly competent to attend to every 
department. Mr. McNair’s own business in Dansville 
will be conducted under the care of his partner for the 
present. 
Judging from samples of the fruit of the new Tatgi 
plum sent by the Silas Wilson Co., Atlantic, la., this 
promises to be one of the best of the Japanese varieties. 
The fruit is small this year and it lacks the dark purple 
bloom which characterizes it usually. This is said to be 
caused by the hard frosts of last May, but the quality 
appears to have remained uninjured. The flesh is firm, 
wine-colored, very juicy and of a delicate and most agree¬ 
able flavor. Mr. Wilson thinks it better than the Lom¬ 
bard. 
John Wragg, Waukee, Ill., writes: “We send you 
sample of our new native plum, the Stoddart. The fruit 
is not full size owing to the severe drought. We think 
this plum will prove the finest native ever brought to 
notice. We are fruiting forty-eight varieties and this is 
the finest of all. We have just had a fine rain, the 
heaviest for years. The indications are for a fair trade 
this fail and next spring ” The Stoddart plum is indeed 
an excellent fruit. It is of fine appearance. The flesh 
is firm and very juicy, and the flavor is remarkably fine. 
