THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hntong (Browers ani> Dealers. 
Pacific coast nurseries report large demand for winter apple trees. 
J. H. Hale bas been re-elected president of tbe Connecticut Pomo- 
logical Society. 
O. A. E. Baldwin, Bridgeman, Mich., bas an immense stock of straw¬ 
berries this spring. 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., contributes an article on soil culture to 
tbe Nebraska and Kansan Farmer. 
S. E. Briggs. Toronto, is president, and A. L. Don, New York, secre¬ 
tary of the Ameiican Seed Association. 
Tbe Oregon Wholesale Nursery Co. is in tbe bands of a receiver. 
The assets are said to be $20,000; tbe liabilities $6,000. 
Silas Wilson, Atlantic, Iowa, is a delegate from tbe ninth district of 
Iowa to the Republican national convention at St. Louis. 
Harry L. Sunderbruch. Cincinnati, is president and Albert M. Herr, 
Lancaster, Pa., is secretary of tbe American Carnation Society. 
It is reported that Dr. Dargitz and J. B. Gill have grafted 200,000 
apple scions for planting in the neighborhood of Roswell, N. M. 
The Cash Nursery Co bas been incorporated at Des Moines, Iowa, 
by S. A., W. E. and C. E. Chaplin. Tbe capital stock is $20,000. 
T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y., was the first president of the Chau¬ 
tauqua Horticultural Society, which was established August 28, 1880. 
Stephen Iloyt’s Sons, New Canaan, Conn., have their usual large 
stock of apple trees, Green Mountain grape, currants and purple beech. 
A. V. Broonie, Willis N. Hamilton and others have formed the 
Broonie & Hamilton Co. at Stevens Point, Wis., with a capital stock 
of $700. 
Jacob W. Manning has been in the nursery business forty-seven 
years and for forty years he has been the proprietor of the Reading 
Nursery at Reading, Mass. 
Alexander & Hammon, owners of the Rio Bonito nursery at Biggs, 
Butte county, California, have four hundred acres in orchard and one 
thousand acres in nursery. 
In reply to a correspondent, the Rural New Yorker says; “J. J. H. 
Gregory of Marblehead, Mass., gives the strongest public guarantee (of 
seeds) we have seen in this year’s catalogues.” 
The Essex County Park Commission of New Jersey is preparing to 
include in an extensive system many fine boulevards. Frederick W. 
Kelsey of New' York city, is a prominent member of the commission. 
Storrs& Harrison Co.. Painesville, Ohio., Ellwanger & Barry, Roches¬ 
ter, and W. Su T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y. are enthusiastic in praise 
of the Crimson Rambler Rose. No rose is more prolific or more attrac¬ 
tive. 
AY. L. Moores, Cyruston, Term., says that the Paragon and Arkansas 
Mammoth BlackTwig are one and the same apple, and that the original 
Paragon tree yet standing within three miles of his place, is the pro¬ 
genitor. 
“ I think that it will be found this year that, in nearly all sections of 
the northern United States, the vast majority of peach buds are now 
dead, and there is little likelihood of any crop of commercial value,” 
says J. II. Hale. 
George Ruedy of Colfax, Wash., has secured seed from what is 
claimed to have been the largest Pawpaw tree in the United States, 
grown at Paint, Ohio, and lias taken pains to distribute the seed in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the State of Washington. 
“ The members of the Colorado Nursery Co. have bought the 
Sullivan farm, which consists of forty acres of fine land just north of 
Loveland, Larimer county, and will plant 150,000 fruit grafts, as they 
expect to go into the wholesale business. 
A sample of the Bismarck apple shown by John Charlton of Roches¬ 
ter, recently, bore out in many respec'ts the many favorable things said 
of this variety in unreserved descriptions. It is large, handsome and 
of unusually good flavor. As a dessert apple it ranks with the best. 
“ The mode in which a tree is propagated has nothing to do with its 
hardiness, whether by budding, root-grafting, top-grafting, layers or 
cuttings, for the truth of which I would respectfully refer you to any 
nurseryman or horticulturist in the United States,” says Irvin Ingels, 
Lafayette, Ill. 
The Bismarck apple is a revelation to all who see it A sample of 
the fruit, and which came from Germany in a shipment of stock, 
indicates that this variety has many good qualities. The tree is a 
hardy dwarf and bears fruit the second year. A full description is 
given in the catalogue of Arthur J. Collins, Pleasant Valley Nurseries, 
Moorestown, N. J. 
At the recent meeting of the Connecticut Pomological Society Edwin 
Hoyt, of New Canaan, said that New England, and especially Connec' 
ticut, is well adapted for giving the best quality apples, and there is 
more money in this fruit than all others. There are thousands of acres 
of land, now practically abandoned, that could be made to grow apples 
at a good profit. Incidentally, it was stated that whole-root trees are 
no better than those grown from piece roots. 
Professor I. L. Budd, of Iowa, says : “The time has come when we 
should make a combined movement in the direction of a more extended 
and general propagation of our best native evergreens. We have not 
been noted as gatherers of the seeds of our native trees. European 
tree seeds can be bought in any quantity at moderate prices, but Amer¬ 
ican tree seeds are scarce and high priced. Perhaps this is the main 
reason why our best American evergreens have been scarce in our 
nurseries. ” 
C. D. Otis, proprietor of the Lake Charles Nursery, has changed his 
place of business from Shell Beach, La., to Lake Charles, La. He says: 
“Ishall plant largely of pears, Japan plums and Citrus trifoliotastocks 
on which to bud Satsuma oranges. Considerable of the seed ever¬ 
greens and other ornamental trees and plants will enter quite largely 
into my trade in the future. The fruit prospects in Southwestern 
La. were never better, excepting oranges which were so badly frozen 
last winter that we will have no crop for one or two years to come.” 
A. J. Perkins, secretary Flower City Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y., 
says: “ The largest sales of nursery stock this spring have been in 
peaches, showing that this fruit will be extensively planted this year. 
We know of one Western N. Y. grower whose crop last fall consisted 
entirely of Crawford peaches, which were sold entire on the trees at a 
good figure to a cannery here. The Elberta peach is meeting with 
much favor aud its sales have been heavy. Japanese plums are much 
in demand on account of attractive appearance and excellent quality 
of fruit.” 
A. C.,Griesa & Bro., of Lawrence, Kan., one of the leading firms of 
the state, are this spring increasing their phyitings largely. They are 
also making extensive improvements at the home grounds, including 
the erection of new and commodious offices, and will largely increase 
their office force. They intend making a specialty ot the retail trade 
and have secured C. W. Carman to take charge of that branch of the 
business. Mr. Carman was at one time with Chase Brothers Company, 
of Rochester, but for the last four years has been managing the agency 
department of I. E. Ilgenfritz & Sons, Monroe, Mich. 
The city of Galva, Ill., is fixing up her park and new cemetery 
grounds this spring. The park will be planted with over forty varieties 
of shade and ornamental trees, among which are cultivated weeping 
birch, American elm, Norway maple and Black Hills spruce; twenty 
varieties of the most popular flowering shrubs. Irvin Ingels of La 
Fayette, Ills., has the contract to furnish and plant the trees. He will 
also have full charge of the culture and care of them for three years. 
Galva will have one of the finest parks of any city of its size in Illinois. 
The [lark committee showed good judgment in letting the contract for 
the entire work to a practical landscape gardener. 
C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la., says : “ Horticulturists are making 
more extensive plantings of plums for market purposes than of any 
other one fruijt, and the varieties are almost entirely of our later intro¬ 
ductions, from races of plums native to the upper Mississippi valley. 
Of these the three sorts that are most sought after and command the 
highest prices are, first, Milton, the earliest market plum ; second, the 
Charles Downing, one of the most fruitful, of best quality and the 
most beautiful market plum; third, the Hammer, a beautiful tree, fruit 
of fine quality, and hardier in the extreme North than either of the 
others. I cannot learn of any new departure that farmeis and market 
gardeners are making for this year,”* 
