THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Rosa rugosa, Rubus crataegifoHus and Button-bush made 
good growth at the experiment station. 
Among those which made a fair growth during the sea¬ 
son the following may be mentioned: The Russian Oak, 
Lonicera media, L. Germanica, L. splendens, Acer Tar- 
taricum, var. Ginnala, Caragana arborescens, Russian 
Philadelphus, the Tree Cranberry, Purple Fringe, Purple 
Wistaria, Berberis Amurensis, Pyrus Toringo, Russian 
Hop-tree, Rubus laciniatus. Viburnum Lentago, V. den- 
tatum, V. cassinoides, Double-flowered Deutzia, Dcutzia 
gracilis, American Evonymus. 
Tliose which have died or made a poor growth are : 
Potentilla fruticosa, Ampelosis Veitchii, Pawpaw, Chinese 
Barberry, Berberis Fisheri, B. laxiflora. Viburnum aceri- 
folium, V. nudum, V. lantanoides. Clematis Jackmanni, 
the Beech Plum and Rubus spc ctabilis. 
FALL TRADE IN MARYLAND. 
Berlin, Md., Nov. 20.—-J. G. Harrison & Sons : “Trade 
has been good in wholesale and prices have ruled well on 
peach, which is our principal specialty in the fall. We 
are now planting over 500 bushels of natural peach seed 
in the drill by hand, placing each one straight and put¬ 
ting them one inch apart. We expect to get a fine lot of 
seedlings. We are also planting 50,000 plum stocks and 
20,000 apple seedlings. Since the late fall rains we find 
our field of twenty-five acres of strawberry plants has 
made considerable growth ; also our ten acres of asparagus 
plants.” 
Hugo Lilienthal has had great success in grafting 
Japanese Maple varieties on the common Acer japoni- 
cum, in the open air, which he tried at the Shady Hill 
Nursery in Bedford, Mass., during the summer season of 
1895- _ 
With the setting in of winter there comes time to con¬ 
sider methods for extending and improving business 
operations. An exchange of ideas in this direction can 
be made with profit through the columns of The NA¬ 
TIONAL Nurseryman. We shall be pleased to publish 
articles from nurserymen on subjects of interest to the 
trade. 
The Perkin system of carrying fruit is described as fol¬ 
lows: Attached to the locomotive is an air compressor, 
in which the pressure of air reaches over eighty pounds 
per square inch. Air compressed to this extent becomes 
heated to such a degree that the germinal life it contains 
is destroyed. The sterilized air is passed into a receiver, 
where it is cooled, and then forced into an air-tight car 
into which the fruit is placed. The germ-laden air is in 
turn forced out of the car, and the fruit is carried to its 
destination in perfectly pure air. With but little loss of 
power to the engine, this process is kept up during the 
entire journey. Where only pure air reaches the fruit, the 
process of decomposition is arrested for a long time. 
There is also a great saving effiected by dispensing with 
the ice in the car, thus saving its cost and allowing more 
room for fruit 
®bituar'2. 
David Underwood Reed, mirseryman and fruit grower and secretary 
of the Nebraska Horticultural Society, was killed by an engine near his 
home at ^lalvern, la., on September 28th. He was 35 years old. 
Samuel 3Ioulson died at his home in Rochester on November 25th, 
aged 85 years. He had been prominent as a soap manufacturer, nur¬ 
seryman and real estate dealer. In 1836 Reynolds & Bateham established 
in Rochester a small nursery, which two years later i\Ir. .Moulson pur¬ 
chased and named The Old Rochester Nursery, which he continued to 
extend from year to year until he had over 500 acres of land covered 
^vith nursery .stock, and for many years made extensive sales through¬ 
out the United Stab-s and (Canada, with branch offices for some years 
in Uanada, ^Missouri and Wisconsin. ]\Ir. Moulson’s brother, George, 
also a nurseryman, of Rochester, died recently. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
One of the most reliable and comprehensive of publications ff)r 
the gardener is the Chronicle, of London, England. It is 
54 years old. It covers a wide field and is ably edited. 
Thousands of horticulturists in the coast region of the South Atlantic 
and Gulf States have come to look upon the annual catalogue of the 
Glen St. Mary Nurseries as a year-book of i)rogress and manual of ref¬ 
erence, and no effort has been s])ared to make the descriptions accurate 
and intelligible, the cultural information recent and full, and the illus¬ 
trations true to the objects represented. It describes over 300 fruits 
and ornamentals offered for Florida, Texas and the Lower South. It 
has 60 pages and 50 engravings. 
MUST have it to be ECONOMICAL. 
Linton, Oren &Co., Alarceline, Mo.—“We can’t do without The 
National Nuksebyman and be economical.” 
ArPLE 
ROOT 
CRAPTS 
\\J K will put up this winter a few 
* ’ hundred thousand high 
grade Root Grafts. . 
CRAFTS 
THAT WILL CROW, 
TE can accept only a limited 
* ^ number of orders, as our 
aim is for quality not quantity. 
EARLY ORDERS SOLICITED. PRICES UPON APPLICATION. 
F. VC. WATSON & CO., 
TOPEKA, KANSAS. 
