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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong (Srowevs anb Dealers. 
F. H. Burdett, Clifton, N. Y., offers Fay’s currants at 
low rates. 
E. J. Hull, Olyphant, Pa , offers 2,or 0,000 strawberry 
plants in 100 varieties. 
Arthur J. Collins, Moorestown, N. J., is making a 
specialty of the Koonce pear, which is said to be frost 
proof. 
Five million strawberry plants is the stock with which 
F. W. Dixon, Holton, Kan., attacks the spring trade. He 
has others. 
C. L. Whitney, Warren, Ohio, who has millions of ever¬ 
greens, is offering a choice lot of Colorado spruces and 
chestnut seedlings. 
Benjamin Buckman, Farmingdale, Ill., has the largest 
experimental orchard of apples in the world. It contains 
550 named varieties. 
White birch, American chestnut, Norway spruce and 
maple and American"arbor vitae are offered by Josiah A. 
Roberts, Malvern, Penn. 
J. A. Cox & Son, Canby, Ore., have one price for all. 
For the success of this plan they depend upon the judg- 
ment of the nurserymen. 
A general assortment of nursery stock is offered by C. 
F. McNair & Co., Dansville, N. Y. Apple seedlings are 
offered at reasonable rates. 
M. B. Hillyard, Shreveport, La., says that Northwest 
Louisiana is one of the best regions of the United States 
for the successful growth of the pear. 
F. W. Watson & Co., that standard firm of Topeka, are 
offering apple root grafts, which they declare will grow. 
They seek quality rather than quantity. 
William H. Harrison & Sons, Lebanon Springs, N. Y., 
make a specialty of large orders. They have a fine as¬ 
sortment for nurserymen and flower lovers. 
The Knox Nurseries, Vincennes, Ind., have a fine as¬ 
sortment of apple, cherry and blackberry. Messrs. H. M. 
Simpson and Sons say they will not be undersold. 
A branch of the Horticultural Co., Boskoop, Holland, 
is located at Rutherford, N. J. L. C. Bobbink is the 
manager. Clematis, rhododendrons and roses are his 
specialties. 
The Steelier Lithographic Co., Rochester, N. Y., have 
been adding new varieties to their list of plates; also plate 
books for the northeastern, central, northern, western and 
and southern states. 
W. E. McElderry, Boonville. Ind., writes : “ I would 
like to ask the American Nurserymen’s Association to 
change my post office address in badge book, opposite 
No. 43, to Boonville.” 
The old and reliable house of Smiths & Powell Co , 
Syracuse, offer rare bargains in fruit and ornamental trees, 
shrubs, vines, roses and hedge plants. They have extra- 
sized shrubs and vines and strong budded roses. 
Hoopes, Brother & Thomas, West Chester, Pa., were 
established in 1853. They have special facilities for grow¬ 
ing peaches. They have invited special attention this 
season to that department; also to their line of ornamental 
shrubs and vines. 
The Fonthill Nurseries, of which E. Morris, Fonthill, 
and W. E. Wellington, Toronto, are proprietors, have, as 
usual, a good selection of general nursery stock. They 
know what that means, for they have 700 acres under 
cultivation, and have been long in the business. 
M. E Hinkley, Marcus, la., has offered his place and 
business for sale, as his family is obliged to live in a milder 
climate. He has an orchard of 1,200 assorted fruit trees 
and much small fruit. There are buildings, packing sheds 
and graft cellar, and young stock valued at $5,000. 
J. . O. Kelly & Sons, Jeff. Ala., sent a sample of 
the Lincoln coreless pear. It was very large and was 
evidently a fine sample of this variety. But it had been 
kept for exhibition so long that upon its arrival in 
Rochester it was beyond examination as to its interior. 
John Wragg & Sons Co., Waukee, la., write : “ Not¬ 
withstanding the unsatisfactory condition of the times, 
our sales are coming in very satisfactorily, and indications 
point to a good spring business. Stoddard plum is be¬ 
ginning to be appreciated. The demand bids fair to ex¬ 
ceed the supply.” 
I. L. Buchan, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., says : “ We have had 
warm weather in midwinter and about Christmas time I 
did some tree digging. What Mr. White says in The 
National Nurseryman about pears and blight makes 
me think how we saved some Red Astrachan apple trees 
which were dying. We drove a rusty nail into the roots 
and last year the trees had a good crop.” 
Glen Brothers, Rochester, N. Y., write : “ We beg to 
announce that E. S. Mayo, who has been connected with 
us for several years, is now admitted as a partner. The 
firm will continue under the old name of Glen Brothers. 
We take this opportunity to acknowledge the uniform 
courtesy that has been extended to us by our fellow’ 
nurserymen as well as by others with whom we have had 
business relations, and to express the hope that we may so 
act towards all with whom we have dealings, that we shall 
deserve in future, as in the past, their hearty good will.” 
The general catalogue, for 1896, of the Mt. Hope Nur¬ 
series, of Rochester, N. Y. has been issued. It is a useful 
handbook and manual and is a standard in its line. It is 
simpL and systematically arranged and contains a sum¬ 
mary of the contents of Ellwanger & Barry’s well known 
nurseries, one of the largest commercial enterprises of the 
country. A prominent feature of this establishment is 
the experimental orchard which was commenced early in 
the history of the nurseries. No similar attempt on so 
broad a scale has been made in this countiy either by in¬ 
dividuals or by the government. By the tests in this 
orchard the firm has been enabled to determine the fruits 
best adapted to this country. The collections of orna¬ 
mental trees and shrubs have always been well cared for, 
correctly labeled and open to the inspection of the public. 
