THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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W. N. SC A REF. 
W. N. ScarfT was born in 1863 at New Carlisle, O., 
where he is now actively engaged in the nursery business. 
His special line is the growing of small fruit plants, the 
annual output of which is enormous. To his already 
large acreage was added in 1892 a valuable tract of 80 
acres near Dayton, O., which was known to be especially 
adapted to the growing of strawberry and sucker varieties 
of red raspberry plants. At the home place are grown 
gooseberries, currants, blackberries, black-cap raspberries, 
etc. 
In November, 1895, the nursery and farm of W. H. H. 
Scarff & Sons was purchased and here will be made a 
heavy plant the coming spring. This tract contains 144 
acres of valuable nursery land. The three farms are 
within a radius of four miles, and 
here can be found all the leading 
new and old varieties of plants 
in the line mentioned. 
Mr. Scarff, is the introducer of 
the Eureka raspberry which is now 
claiming so much attention among 
growers. 
Western New York leads the 
world in the production of dried 
raspberries. Something like 1,500 
tons of the evaporated product 
are marketed each year. Of this, 
about 1,000 tons are produced in 
Wayne county in which the towns 
of Williamson and Sodus, which 
produce nearly or quite half the 
amount, are the most important 
centers. 
It will often happen that for 
some unknown reason newly 
planted trees will not start grow¬ 
ing at the proper time, and if not 
helped along will die. According 
F. Sibrel’s experience for five years hot water is a sure to G. 
remedy. In 1890 some of his plum and cherry trees 
began drooping and loosing their leaves, which had turned 
yellow. Thinking that by warming the soil the sap would 
be started flowing he used about one and a half gallons of 
hot water for each tree, pouring it into holes about four 
inches deep, six inches away from the tree and covering 
immediately. In two days the trees began to show new 
life, bringing buds and fruit up to this date. After ap¬ 
plying the hot water the tree must be watered until rain 
sets, and then this simple remedy will never fail. 
The Arnold Arboretum now has an area of 222 acres, 
recent additions having been made. Only the Royal 
Gardens at Kew, England, with an area of 251 acres, 
exceed the Arnold Arboretum in size. 
AS SEEN BY BRITISH EYES. 
Floricultural establishments in the United States num¬ 
ber 4,659, with nearly forty million square feet of glass, 
and yet in 1876 there were not more than 1,000 in that 
country. In a lecture on “ The Progress of Horticulture 
in the United States,’’ given before the Devon and 
Exeter Gardeners’ Society, Mr. A. Outram stated that 
the value of the present nursery and other horticultural 
establishments in the United States of America is ^8,000,- 
000,.while that of the plant sales during [890 amounted 
to ^"2,500,000, and that of cut flowers to nearly ^3,000,- 
000. New York leads in the number of nurseries, then 
follows California, Illinois and Pennsylvania. California 
and Colorado fruit, Florida oranges, orchid culture in the 
states, hard-wooded plants and plants of American intro¬ 
duction were all dealt with. The 
essayist stated that in 1863 Colo¬ 
rado did not possess a single mile 
of railroad, and in that year Wil¬ 
liam Lee, an Englishman from 
near Croydon, carted the first 
fruit trees — apple — from Zoma 
City, over 700 miles across the 
plains, and planted them a few 
miles west of Denver. To-day 
Colorado has 5,000 miles of rail¬ 
way and 30,000 acres planted with 
fruit. The growth and demand 
for fruit and flowers in the chief 
cities of the states were questions 
interestingly discussed by Mr. 
Outram. Mr. Hope commenting 
on the lecture, said it was interest¬ 
ing to know that** while horti¬ 
culture in America had advanced 
by leaps and bounds, a very large 
number of the leaders of the pro¬ 
fession there were Englishmen, or, 
at least, British. The two great 
firms of Peter Henderson & Co. and 
Thorburn & Co., known all over the 
states, were founded by Scotsmen—emigrants. Though 
many undoubtedly good things had come from horticul¬ 
tural America, a rather large grain of salt had to be taken 
with descriptions of their introductions.— Gardeners' 
Magazine. 
Joseph H. Pemberton has prepared for a magazine 
published in London, a list of exhibition roses, compiled 
from twenty stands of single blooms staged in the chief 
amateur classes at fourteen of the leading English rose 
shows of the year, commencing on June 20th and con¬ 
cluding with August 6th. He finds that the rose Mrs. 
John Laing was staged every time, Alfred K. Williams 
19 times, Ulrich Brunner 18, Caroline Testout 15, Beauty 
of Waltham 14, Marshall P. Wilder 8, Pride of Waltham 
7, La France 6, General Jacqueminot 3. 
W. N. SCARFF. 
