THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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yet, as there is about as much stock to come again on the 
market for next fall and following spring. 
“ The large surplus of stock, especially of the light 
grade ^4, offered in such vast quantities, has a great 
effect in keeping down prices, making it difficult for the 
retailer to sell as formerly, and make a fair profit for his 
labor and capital invested. I look for a good trade next 
fall.” 
Allen L. Wood, Woodlawn Nursery:. “This season 
was a hustler. We dropped out of winter and came into 
summer without any spring. My sales were very large 
this season, fully double what I ever had before. Owing 
to the season I had to keep all my packers working four¬ 
teen hours a day. That was the only way I could keep 
even. I have been in this business eighteen years, and 
this season was the worst I ever went through. 
“ Blackberries, red raspberries, currants and goose¬ 
berries were in good demand. The Pearl gooseberries 
had a great run for the first year; 2 years No. i were all 
sold last December; 2 years No. 2 are all sold except a 
few hundred at this date. I had 65,000 of them last fall, 
of 2 years, and they have all been sold. 
“The Columbian raspberries had a large run this 
spring. I supplied over two hundred nurserymen with 
them this season. I am very busy packing yet. Orders 
keep coming in. 
“I have just commenced to plant, this past week. I 
planted last fall one block of 600,000 currants, and 
300,000 gooseberries. They are looking extra fine at this 
date. Among the new things I am going to propagate 
this season are the Conrath, Eureka, and Mohler black 
raspberries; Miller and Loudon red raspberries; Golden 
Mayberry, strawberry-raspberry, and the raspberry-black¬ 
berry, (Logan).” 
IN THE MIAMI VALLEY. 
Dayton, O., April 27.— The season just closing was 
one peculiar in many respects. Prices were at “ rock 
bottom ” to start with, but the languid condition of the 
business and unusual delay on the part of purchasers, 
excited the apprehension of most holders who straight¬ 
way began to “ get under ” one another as best they 
could, disregarding the cost of production, value, and 
everything else, in their heartless scramble for orders. 
This, however, proved to be an unwarranted proceeding, 
as the demand was equal to the supply of stock in this 
valley with the exception of cherry. Orders have been 
small, very small, but unusually numerous, equal in num¬ 
ber to those of any of the palmy years gone by. We re¬ 
fer to the wholesale trade only. Dealers and agency 
business generally reported light. 
The light business transacted by the dealers and small¬ 
er nurserymen throughout the country has consumed the 
stock with the exception above named, which corroborates 
the conclusion drawn from other reliable evidences, that 
the stock throughout the country is scarce enough to be 
consumed by a light general trade. When outside busi¬ 
ness conditions recover, and there is an ordinary demand 
for stock in a wholesale way, it will be found inadequate. 
When we will reach that point is the only debatable 
question. 
DUE TO TIIE SALESMAN. 
MARCELINE, Mo., April 27. —S. II. Linton said to-day: 
“Our packing season has just closed. Our trade was 
much better than we expected, though we found many 
of our best customers short with cash. The first of 
March gave poor prospects for trade, but as the planting 
season came on the farmers became more interested in 
planting until we were badly crowded in filling local 
orders, besides the orders sold by canvassers and the 
wholesale trade. We made quite a number of deliveries 
in various parts with good success, not having a single 
order left on our hands and our stock gave universal satis¬ 
faction. 
“This I consider due to the salesman, who worked on 
his own merits; nothing sold nothing made. Every place 
we delivered we found deliveries made by other parties 
with large amounts of the stock to be sold for just A\hat 
it would bring. This I consider due to poor salesmen in 
part, and the advance of the commission the other part. 
Missouri is fast coming to the front as a fruit country 
“The prospects are good this season for a heavy crop of 
fruit, though the tendency is strong to over blooming. 
Small fruits, including grapes and cherries, are very 
promising. The season is already two weeks in advance 
of last year.” 
AT GENEVA, N. Y. 
Geneva. N. Y., April 28. —W. & T. Smith Company, 
The Geneva Nursery: “ This spring has been one of the 
busiest we have ever experienced. The season opened 
so late that it crowded our shipping season into a very 
short time, and we think we had more than the usual 
amount of stock to handle besides. We find ourselves 
sold out pretty well on near!) all lines of stock. Apples 
were expected to be quite a drug, but we find they are, 
as a rule, pretty well cleaned out in this market. Cherries, 
quinces, plums and peaches were very scarce during the 
latter part of the season. There are practically none in 
this market.” 
During last month apples which had any claim to 
quality, sold well in the New York market. These prices 
were realized: Winesap, $5 to $6 per barrel; Rome 
Beauty, $4; Ben Davis, Baldwins, Willow Twig, $3.50; 
Seek-No-Further, Russets, $3. 
“ It may be interesting to know that many shrubs and 
plants that are entirely hardy in the eastern states, much 
further north than this, do not thrive here, viz : rhododen¬ 
drons, kalmias, Trifoliate oranges, Japan chestnuts, 
English walnuts, Turkey’s beard, etc., says T. C Wells, 
Manhattan, Kansas, in American Gardening. Perhaps 
our limestone soil is not suited to some of them, but 
probably our dry fall anu winter is the greatest difficulty. 
It is no colder here than in places where the same trees 
grow in the east.” 
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