THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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word. It is well to know just what they offer. A suggestion will be 
found in another column. 
The Vick & Hill Seed Co., Greece, N. Y., has been incorporated 
with a capital of $15,000. The directors are John Hill, Edward II. 
Vick and Frederick \V. Vick. 
Apple seedlings, one-quarter inch branch, are offered by F. W. 
Watson & Co., Topeka, Kan.; also two-year Kieffer pear at quick sale 
prices ; cherry and apple too. 
Lewis Roesch, Fredonia, N. Y., makes the culture of grape vines a 
leader. He has pear trees in great surplus and would accept plum, 
cherry and peach in exchange. 
Warren H. Manning, son of the well-known nurseryman, Jacob W. 
Manning, Reading, Mass., has announced his entry upon the career of 
a professional landscape gardener. 
Nurserymen having Pin oaks, 8 to 12 feet, or White oaks, 8 to 10 
feet, can dispose of them to William Warner Harper, manager of the 
Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. 
C. II. Joosten, of 86 I)ey Street, New York, has been appointed to 
represent Van Namen Bros., seed growers, Holland, for the sale of their 
true Holland cabbage and other vegetable seeds. 
The West Jersey Nursery Co., Bridgeton. N. J., had a big stock thi s 
spring of quince, peach, apple and blackberry in leading varieties; 
also asparagus, strawberry plants, shade trees and evergreens. 
J. C. Ferris of Hampton, la., does not believe in the plan of agents, 
but under the existing circumstances in this age of sharp competition 
they are a necessity. Co-operation, he believes, would be better. 
Various treasures of the Rockies are found in finest form at the 
nurseries of C. S. Harrison, at Weeping Water, Neb., including spruce 
and pine, columbine and clematis and Rocky Mountain conifer seeds. 
C. S. Harrison, proprietor of Academy Nursery. Franklin, Neb., has 
sold his place there and has moved to Weeping Water, Neb. He will 
continue in the business of handling Rocky Mountain trees and shrubs. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa., believe with The 
National Nuksekyman that the best is not too good for the nursery¬ 
men. Therefore their catalogue for 1896 is handsomely embossed in 
colors. 
A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker who is offered five-year- 
old apple trees by a nurseryman as a gift, is advised by S. 1). Willard, 
T. T. Lyon, Prof. J. L. Budd and N. Ohmer to purchase, instead, one 
or two-year-old trees. 
The American Agriculturist publishes a cut and description of 
Luther Burbank’s experiment farm at Sebastopol, Cal.; also a likeness 
of Mr. Burbank who was introduced recently in these columns as the 
wizard of horticulture. 
Francis M. Edwards, 53 State Street, Boston, assignee of the Fram¬ 
ingham Nursery Co., Framingham, Mass., announces that he will hear 
the claims of creditors at the Court of Insolvency, Cambridge, Mass., 
at 9 a. m., March 12th. 
T. V. Munson, P. J. Berckmans and T. T. Lyon fa vor plum stock for 
grafting plums. J. W. Kerr, of Maryland, suggests the hard-shell 
almond tree as a stock for plums as it has not been known to have 
been attacked by borers. 
J. C. Hale, who has long been connected with the Southern Nursery 
Co., at Winchester. Tenn., has sold his entire interest in the business. 
The company is now composed of N. W. Hale, of Knoxville, and J. 
W. Shadow, of Winchester. 
The Door County Horticultural and Agricultural Society elected the 
following officers for the ensuing year : President, I). E. Bingham ; 
vice-president, Job Long ; secretary, I. L. Buchan ; treasurer, Joseph 
Zittle ; librarian, George Allen. 
The business of W. J. Watson, nurseryman and seedsman, of 
Newcastle-on-Tyue, England, who died on January 7th, will be carried 
on under the same management, and with the same title, in the inter¬ 
ests of the wife and children of the deceased. 
Mr. Morrill of Michigan, says : “ We should plant apples of higher 
"quality than Ben Davis. Thousands of acres of Ben Davis are being- 
set in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. They are selling in Chicago at 
$2.50 per barrel, while the Shiawassee bring $6.” 
John Charlton, Rochester, N. Y., is one of the oldest growers in the 
trade. Besides handling a general line of nursery stock. In- is the 
special agent for Mr. Thompson’s Columbian raspberry, deservedly 
designated the greatest raspberry introduced in years. 
Robert C. Brown, of Brown Brothers Co., Rochester, has a baby and 
a kodak. The little time he is able to devote to other than the duties 
of the large and increasing business of the company is spent in devel¬ 
oping photographs of the baby in almost innumerable attitudes. 
Professor Van Deman says: “ Don’t plant the Ben Davis in New 
York. Plant the York Imperial. This is only second in value to Ben 
Davis. It does well in Missouri, also in New York. The Stark is of 
poor color and does not sell. The market demands a bright red apple.” 
M. E. Callahan, treasurer and manager of the Pioneer Nurseries. Salt 
Lake City, Utah, was in Rochester last month. On February lfitli Mr. 
Callahan and Miss Jennie W. Donnelly, of Mumford, N. Y., were mar¬ 
ried. Mr. and Mrs. Callahan started at once for their home in the 
West. 
I). W. Leib & Son of The People’s Nursery, Anna, Ill., write: 
“Excuse delay in renewing subscription. We must have The 
National Nuksekyman. Enclosed find $1.00 for 1896. Business is 
looking up a little with us, though not good as farmers have no 
money.” 
.1, E. Spaulding, secretary and treasurer of the Spaulding Nursery 
and Orchard Co., Spaulding, Ill., was in Rochester last month on his 
way to Boston, where the company has apples in storage. The old 
firm of J. B. Spaulding & Sons was established in 1837. The company 
has 600 acres. 
J. II. Hale says the consumption of apples is rapidly outgrowing 
the orchards in the eastern states. The coming most successful horti¬ 
culturist will be the one who puts the most beautiful fruit upon the 
market, lie considers the SuttonM Beauty the most desirable winter 
apple to plant. 
The export trade of P. J. Berckmans, Augusta. Ga., is increasing 
rapidly. Among recent shipments was a large consignment to Natal. 
In the nursery are 16,000 young camelias in two sash houses, 100,000 
tea roses in frames, and 18.000 Marechal Neil roses budded on Manetti 
stock out of doors. 
The Franklin Davis Nursery Co., Baltimore, Md., referring to the 
silver question recently said : “ We are well satisfied to accept gold, 
silver, or even paper in exchange for high grade, young thrifty nursery 
stock.” They have an immense stock of almost everything to be found 
in a first-class nursery. 
W. A. Watson & Co., Normal, 111., offer a full assortment of fruit 
and ornamental stock. They are making low prices on apple, pear, 
plum, and cherry trees, raspberries, grape vines and evergreens. This 
firm is prepared to bud to order for delivery in fall of 1896 or spring of 
1897, pear, plum, peach and cherry. 
The second annual report of the Montana Agricultural Experiment 
Station, at Bozeman, Mont., of which S. M. Emery, at one time con 
nected with the Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, Minn., is director and 
horticulturist, has been issued. In the list of publications on file at 
the station is The National Nuksekyman. 
Irving Rouse, of Rochester, thinks that subsoiling is a damage ; that 
its benefits are only brief, ending with the first heavy rain ; that what¬ 
ever natural air passages have been made by worms, burrowing insects 
or decaying roots are destroyed by subsoiliug ; that the disturbed soil 
runs together, and the last condition is greatly worse than the first. 
I). Hill, Dundee, Ill., has what is conceded to be the largest ever¬ 
green nursery in the world. His stock comprises nearly 100,000,000 
.trees, valued at $200,000. He employs sixty-five men. The nursery 
was established in 1852. Mr. Hill’s exhibit at the world’s fair repre¬ 
sented a value of $1,000. It consisted of 6,000 hardy evergreens in fifty 
varieties. 
Herman Berkhan, one of the shining lights of the annual conventions 
of the American Association, is about the busiest man in New 5 ork 
city among the importers, yet he has time always to greet a caller with 
a smile which belies the many cares upon his mind. Mr. Berkhan is 
the sole agent in America for the big firm of Levavasseur & Sons, Ussy 
and Orleans, France. 
Killian A Rice, of El Monte, Cal., will plant fifty acres more to 
