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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
KANSAS HORTICULTURE. 
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the Kansas State Board of 
Agriculture, presented the following statistics to the 
State Horticultural Society at its recent meeting: 
It is suggestive that the people a decade and half ago had fruit “on 
the brain,” by their having 7,533 acres in nurseries, while this year they 
report but 3,894 acres, and in some recent years considerable less. 
Of vineyards, there were, in 1881, 4,199 acres ; in 1895 (about), 7,200 
acres. 
TUBES HEARING. TREES NOT BEARING. 
1881. 
1895. 
1881. 
1895. 
Apple. 
2,754,545 
7.529.915 
4.058.917 
4,440,673 
Pear. 
68.072 
186.874 
167.716 
304,634 
Peach . 
3,790,692 
4,448.304 
1,183.510 
Plum. 
203,983 
883.874 
309,008 
333.686 
Cherry. 
658,948 
1,451,716 
661.920 
484,057 
9,173,828 
13,843,071 
9.645.865 
6,646,560 
Total trees in 1881. 
.. 18,819.693 
“ 4 * 
1895 . 
...20,489.631 
A OKI 
ES IN SMALL 
FRUITS. 
1881. 
1895. 
Raspberries 
. 3,123 
3,489 
Blackberries 
.3,136 
4,614 
Strawberries 
.1,477 
2,234 
Total. 
.7,736 
10,337 
BUD PEACHES LOW. 
J. H. Hale sdys: “ From the nurseryman’s point of 
view, it is preferable to bud peaches close to the ground, 
because the young stocks are larger there, and more 
easily -worked. It is also cooler and moister near the 
ground, and the buds ‘ take ’ better. From the orchardist’s 
point of view, I can see no possible advantage in high 
budding, for occasionally the entire top of the tree gets 
broken off, and new sprouts come out and form a new 
top. Even on trees five or more years old, if budded 
high, these sprouts would come from the seedling stock 
and be valueless. I know of no good argument to be 
advanced in favor of high budding of peaches.” 
Storrs & Harrison, William Jackson, Charles Wright, T. 
T. Lyon and Prof. H. E. Van Deman are of the same 
opinion. 
RESULT OF SUBSTITUTION. 
Prof. H. E. Van Deman answering a query as to the 
name of a peach, in the Rural New Yorker says: 
“ The peach is not Mountain Rose, but a very late and very poor 
little worthless variety, if the specimen received is a fair index of that 
borne by the trees. The grower says that he has 400 trees set three 
years, and from the same nursery, but does not say that all the 400 bear 
fruit like the sample sent, or that more than one tree bears such fruit. 
All such trees are a serious damage to him—how serious it is hard to 
tell. He has lost the first cost of the trees, their freight charges, cost 
of planting and caring for them for three years, the use of the land 
they occupy for as long a time as the whole orchard will stand, the net 
value of all the fruit that good trees would bear in all that time, and 
the worry and disappointment which money cannot fully repay. They 
must be dug up at once. If the mistake had been discovered the first 
or even the second year after planting, the loss would have been much 
less; but now it would be useless to replant, because young trees, 
would not succeed among others of bearing age. Taking for granted 
that the orchard is in a successful peach region, if all the 400 trees are 
bogus, the damage is not less than $1,000, because all that has been 
paid out and done up to date is lost, and a new start must be made. If 
there are but a few scattered trees of this character, the loss that has 
been and will be entailed is not less than $5 per tree. If the orchard 
consisted of more permanent species, such as the apple or pear, the loss 
of a few scattered trees would be fully $10 per tree - ” 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
No. 4 of Vol. YII of “Experiment Station Record” contains, as usual, 
a large amount of valuable matter. 
1 he Horticultural Gleaner is a monthly devoted to the horticultural 
interests of the South and Southwest. It is published by E. P. Stiles 
at Austin. Tex. 
The schedule of prizes offered by the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society for 1896 has been issued by the secretary, Robert Manning. 
The society offers cash prizes amounting to $8,050. The rules govern¬ 
ing the exhibits may well be taken as a standard. 
The minutes of the sixth semi-annual meeting of the Oregon Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen, at Salem October 2 and 3, 1895, have been issued 
in pamphlet form. It was an interesting and profitable meeting. Two 
of the most valuable papers read there were published in The Na¬ 
tional Nurseryman. 
The second volume of the Garden-craft series, entitled “Plant Breed¬ 
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originating new varieties. The heart of the book is in the third lecture, 
where specific rules for the guidance of the cultivator are laid down, 
none of which are to be found particularly set forth in this connection 
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