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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
among (Browers anb IDealers. IRecent publications. 
E. Morden, Niagara Falls, Ont., is secretary of the Niagara Falls 
Horticultural Society. 
Charles E. Langdon has started a nursery at Lake Whitney, Conn. 
W. B. Conway is superintendent. 
The Western Michigan Nursery Co., has been organized at Benton 
Harbor, Mich., w 7 ith a capital stock of $50,000. 
Janies Mott, Orlando, Fla., it is reported, is a stockholder in an asso¬ 
ciation with a capital stock of $50,000 for the growth of the pomelo. 
W. C. Hoyt of Kalamazoo who has been L. G. Bragg’s partner for 
ten years has retired from the firm ; Mr. Bragg will continue at the 
old stand. 
The Central Michigan Nursery Co., recently purchased a very choice 
farm well adapted to fruit growing near Kalamazoo. They report 
having a large force of agents with good prospects for a large fall sale. 
A. II. Griesa, Lawrence, Ivans., has for years been growing new 
fruits, when offered by a good firm, side by side with standard kinds 
for the purpose of testing their value. In his catalogue he presents 
the results. He believes that this plan will dispose of frauds effectively. 
Jacob W. Manning, Reading, Mass., has not failed to attend every 
convention of the American Bornological Society since 1860, when the 
seventh convention of that organization was held in Philadelphia. At 
that meeting w r ere Barry, Wilder, Downing, Warder, Elliott, Meehan 
and others. 
J. H. Ilornbeck, Sonoma county, California, has grafted more Bart- 
letts to apples this season. Those grafted heretofore have proved 
satisfactory, and from the fine showing of fruit spurs on last year’s 
wood, it is evident that some thinning out will have to be done. The 
Arkansas Black is his favorite. 
One of the pioneer nurserymen and orchardists of California, 
Charles W. Reed, passed away at his home in Yolo county recently. 
Mr. Reed was widely known in connection with the fruit industry in 
California, having been among the first to ship fruit in carload lots 
overland to the eastern markets. 
The Minnesota Horticulturist publishes a cut and sketch of Amasa 
Stewart, one of the older nurserymen of the country. Mr. Stewart 
engaged in farming and the nursery business in La Salle county, 
Illinois, in 1855, when he moved to Le Sueur county, Minnesota, 
where he established a large nursery. He remained there until 1865 
when his stock w 7 as destroyed by grasshoppers. He moved to Minne¬ 
apolis and continued the nursery business, furnishing trees which to¬ 
day adorn many beautiful grounds in that city. In 1882 lie went South 
on account of his health, and to-day is at Lamarque, Texas, in the 
business of growing fruit. He is 68 years old. 
At the recent meeting of the Ohio Horticultural Society, L. B. Pierce 
of Tallmadge, O., said it was easy to get the Magnolia acuminata. All 
one had to do, was to give a tree agent an order for a high-priced 
magnolia, and ten to one he would deliver a cucumber under its 
botanical name. He did not consider the cucumber a handsome tree, 
as it grew straight and narrow with no particular grace of outline. 
The best use one could make of it was to cut it back to the ground 
when it got a start of a dozen years and let it throw up a bundle of 
sprouts. These would make a nice clump of tropical looking growth, 
the leaves sometimes under the strong sap supply attaining a length of 
eighteen inches and a breadth of eight. 
WELL PLEASED WITH THE ADVERTISEMENT. 
Gardner & Son, Osage Nurseries, Osage, Ia., April 25.—“We 
are nearly sold out of stock. We are very much pleased with the re¬ 
turn we have received from our advertisement in The National 
Nurseryman, You will hear from us again when we have a surplus 
on hand.” 
indispensable with thts firm. 
Linton, Oren & Co., East Hill Nurseries, Marceline, Mo., 
April 27. —Enclosed please find P. O. order for two dollars for The 
National Nurseryman, which is indispensable with us. Of all the 
papers that come to our office there is none more appreciated or read 
more closely. 
An elaborate catalogue is issued by the Japan Saitama Nursery Co., 
Kita-Adachi, Saitama-Ken, Japan. Special attention is paid to 
Japanese lilies, twenty-five varieties of which are illustrated by litho¬ 
graphs. Iris, maples, pteonies, persimmons and many shrubs are cata¬ 
logued. 
Those who contemplate the purchase of a dictionary or an encyclo¬ 
pedia, or are solicited for the purchase of either, should weigh well the 
offers which are made. No valuable encyclopedia can be sold at a 
ridiculously small sum. A word to the wise is sufficient. The Standard 
Dictionary, for instance, is beyond question in the front rank of modern 
dictionaries, and its price is both moderate and reasonable. 
One of the most valuable bulletins issued by the New York Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station is No. 96, December 1895, presenting a 
report of analyses of commercial fertilizers collected during the fall of 
1895. It has been prepared under the direction of L. L. Van Slyke. 
It contains just what the consumer wants to know upon the subject of 
fertilizers. The general summaries with which this station prefaces 
its bulletins are a valuable feature. 
Among the catalogues deserving of special mention because of their 
conformity to modern ideas of the printer’s art is that of Samuel C. 
Moon, Morrisville, Pa. It is an attractive book of 48 pages, the text 
and half-tone illustrations being printed upon enameled paper of 
generous weight. Its very appearance commands its perusal and 
preservation and the subject matter maintains the standard of these 
well-known nurseries established by Mahlon Moon in 1849. 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture is vying with the nurserymen 
in the presentation of arguments for tree planting, in attractive form. 
The department has just issued a bulletin on “Arbor Day : Its History 
and Observance,” by N. H. Egleston. In it one may learn all about 
Arbor Day from the time of its first observance in Nebraska, Secretary 
Morton’s state, on April 10, 1872. This is one of many publications to 
which attention has been called recently as benefiting the nurseryman 
directly in creating a demand for his stock. In addition to arguments 
in favor of Arbor Day observance, the bulletin contains opinions of 
representative men and suggestions for programmes. 
The popularity of “The Horticulturalist’s Rule-Book,” by Professor 
L. II. Bailey, is attested by the fact that although the third edition was 
given to the public only last May, a fourth edition is now called for by 
the publishers. Professor Bailey has made various corrections and ex¬ 
planations in the text and has added paragraphs upon yields of leading 
seed-crops, the customs regulations, methods of preserving posts in 
vineyards and other places, figures of grape packing, a statement of 
the pollination of grapes, and a scheme for the classification of horti¬ 
cultural industries, and the index has been extended until it now com¬ 
prises about two thousand entries. It is a valuable manual for the 
nurseryman and horticulturalist. New York and London : Macmil¬ 
lan & Co. 
“The Florida State Horticultural Society’s Annual for 1895,” re¬ 
cently received from the printer, is an invaluable horticultural hand¬ 
book for that region, containing, as it does, a full report of the hist 
annual meeting; a tabular list of the fruits of Florida, showing the 
relative adaptability of the different varieties to the several sections of 
the state, with full description and account of each, including over 100 
varieties of citrus fruits, over 100 varieties of deciduous fruits, and 
over 50 varieties of tropical fruits; and a history of Florida freezes and 
their effects for a century and a half, down to and including 1895. It 
is a compendium of latest practice and best methods for practical 
growers and information for prospective planters, as well as readable 
outline of horticultural progress. It will be sent free to any one 
remitting $1, as membership fee for 1895, to A. II. Manville, secretary, 
Glen St. Mary, Fla. 
The Chiysantliemum is attaining a high place in French horticulture. 
But this result is recent. There has just been established “La Societe 
des Chrysantliemistes du Nord de la France,” which has attracted not 
a little attention in England and America among growers of “la grande 
fleur.” This is the outgrowth of the rapid advance made during the 
past decade in chrysanthemum culture in France. A timely publica¬ 
tion is “Le Chrysantheme,” by Anatole Cordonnier, secretary of the new 
