THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Smono (Browers ant> Dealers. 
C. M. Stark, of Stark Brothers Co., Lousiana, Mo., is in Europe. 
A. C. Tuttle. Baraboo, Wis., is reported to have made an assignment. 
Irving Rouse and family are at the Thousand Islands for the summer. 
Charles J. Brown, of Brown Brothers Co., Rochester, was in Chicago, 
the week after the convention. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, Ivawana, N. C., was in Rochester last month on 
his way from Chicago to the South. 
Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., offers to send to any address a bun¬ 
dle of wired printed labels as samples. 
The Steelier Lithographic Co., Rochester, has a new list of plates 
heretofore only to be procured hand painted. 
Alexander Pullen, Milford, Del., invites personal inspection of his 
stock of peach and plum trees and asparagus roots. 
Americana plums are a specialty of J. Wragg A Sons Co., Waukee, 
la. Their new hybrid raspberry will be ready in the fall. 
Josiah A. Roberts, Malvern, Pa., says : “ I have the finest lot of 
peach tiees that I ever raised. They grew on new land from natural 
seed.” 
N. A. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill., has convinced many that the 
improved Western tree digger is unexcelled for handling nursery stock 
easily. 
The Evergreen Nursery Co., Evergreen, Wis., are headquarters for 
evergreens. They will exchange for small fruits, hardy shrubs and 
clematis. 
J. A. DeVeer, 15 Whitehall street, New York City, sole agent for 
F. James, Ussy, France, called upon Rochester nurserymen on his way 
East from Chicago. 
A useful list of new lithographed plates is published by the Roches¬ 
ter Lithographing Co., which supplies both hand painted and litho¬ 
graphed plates. 
Charles W. Shriver, manager of the West Michigan Nurseries, Ben¬ 
ton Harbor., Mich., visited Rochester and Geneva nurserymen during 
the closing days of June. 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., president of the Nebraska State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, has issued the programme of the summer meeting of 
the society at York, July 22-23. 
Youngers A Co., Geneva, Neb., declare that their apple seedlings, 
grown on new land, are absolutely free from aphis. They have a gen¬ 
eral line of fruit and ornamental stock. 
Andre L. Causse, the well-known importer, of New York city, pro¬ 
cures his large and selected stock of raffia from Tamatav, Madagascar. 
Madagascar is now under French control. 
No firm in the U. S. better deserves the confidence it receives than 
does the Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, 0. They offer a general 
nursery stock graded to the highest standard. 
C. H. Joosten, 193 Greenwich st., New York city, has just received 
from the World’s Columbian Exposition commission a bronze medal 
and diploma for Fostite and Joosten’s magazine bellows. 
The Baltimore and Richmond Nurseries, Franklin Davis A Co.. are 
of 50 years standing. They comprise 1000 acres, furnishing a complete 
stock of fruit and ornamental trees, seedlings, peach pits and general 
supplies. 
A superior stock of apples, pears, cherries, plums, peaches, quinces, 
small fruits and ornamental stock is offered by Sears, Henry A Co., 
Geneva, N. Y., at most reasonable rates. This firm has a fresh stock 
of raffia. 
Allen L. Wood, Rochester, visited the nurseries of J. Wragg A Sons 
Co., Waukee, la., last month. He inspected the Indian reservation and 
left suddenly. It is supposed he was afraid the Indians would take to 
the war path. 
H. C. Graves & Sons, Lee’s Summit, Mo., say they have not made an 
assignment as was reported. Through the purchase of additional land 
they became temporarily embarrassed. They say they will meet all 
their obligations. 
P. Sebire & Sons, Ussy, France, offer through their agents for the 
United States and Canada, C. C. Abel A Co., New York city, a general 
stock of fruit tree stocks at low prices. They claim to have a large 
and superior stock. 
This is the thirty-ninth year of L. G. Bragg A Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Their stock this year promises to be unusually fine. The Common 
Sense tree-digger is a valuable tool. Bragg pays the return freight if 
the digger if not satisfactory. 
Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. Y., returned last month from a three 
weeks’ trip through the South and West. He opposed the proposition 
to provide a protective tariff on nursery stock a few years ago, but 
now he is enthusiastically in favor of if. 
Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa., and Herman Berkhan, New 
'i ork city, stopped over in Rochester on their way east from the 
Chicago convention. They visited several western firms before start¬ 
ing eastward. Flower City nurserymen took them in hand and showed 
them some attractive .things. 
M. J, Wragg, Waukee, la., is superintendent of the fruit and flower 
department of the Iowa State Agricultural Society which will conduct 
its forty-third annual fair at Des Moines, September 4th to 11th. Mr. 
Wragg was at the Chicago convention and renewed many old acquaint¬ 
ances. Plums, cherries and raspberries are his specialties. 
Among gooseberries the new white Chautauqua promises to attract 
much attention this season. It is claimed that it equals the finest and 
largest varieties in size, beauty and quality and that it excels all in 
vigor and yield. Sample branches certainly indicate that it will merit 
careful consideration. It is being introduced by J. Frank Norris, 
Brighton, N. Y. 
The famous nursery and fruit farm business, conducted in South 
Glastonbury, Conn., by G. H. A J. H. Hale, has been assumed by J. LI. 
Hale and the firm is dissolved. Mr. Hale retains most of the old farm 
and nursery grounds, and by the addition of a large adjoining farm 
will greatly increase and develop the business, which has been under 
his active management several years. 
H. J. Weber A Son, Nursery P. O., St. Louis Co.. Mo., write: “We 
are having magnificent growing weather and stock is looking very 
fine. Our spring trade was very good. We cleaned up all saleable 
stock, but prices were anything but encouraging, and in addition, col¬ 
lections are not what they should be. Planters in general are slower 
in paying this season than we have found them in a number of years. 
We hope for the better the coming fall.” 
George S. Josselyn, of Fredonia, the propagator, and George W. 
Campbell, of Delaware, O., the originator of Campbell’s Early grape, 
expect most satisfactory results from this new grape which Mr. 
Josselyn will be ready to introduce in the fall. Mr. Josselyn said he 
had tried not to be carried away with the results which Mr. Campbell 
has produced in this grape, but in vain. “It has all the good qualities 
of the Concord,” said he, “and none of its faults. It is a wonderful 
grape.” 
Probably the largest and finest block of young pear trees in this 
country is that of Irving Rouse in his nursery just beyond the city 
limits of Rochester. The block comprises 500,000 pear trees in first 
class condition. They stand upon a long gently rising knoll of clay 
soil, an ideal location for the purpose. The tops are as even as if they 
had been clipped for a hedge and the trees themselves are straight as 
arrows and of uniform size. In the block are 75 varieties. Visiting 
nurserymen'are enthusiastic when shown this remarkable collection. 
The Fort Valley, Ga., Leader says : “ Out at the great Hale orchard 
things are just humming in preparation for handling the great peach 
crop now in sight. An additional packing shed equal in size to the 
new one last year, has been erected and is now filled with finished 
crates and baskets already labled for the fruit. A hotel with accommo¬ 
dations for 150 guests is nearing completion and has been christened 
‘ The Red Label ’ in honor of the red label that goes out on every 
basket and crate of the Hale peaches. A force of about 100 hands is 
uowontheplaceandover400willberequiredin the heiglitof the season.” 
A. C. Griesa A Bro., Mount Hope Nurseries and Orchards, Law¬ 
rence, Ivan., write : “ We see by the June issue that you say that the 
firm of A. C. Griesa A Bro., has become the Lawrence Nursery Co. 
We do not see how such an error could have been made. The old firm 
of A. C. Griesa A Bro., Propr. of the Mt. Hope Nurseries, exists as 
before, with increased facilities for handling its wholesale trade, in 
the way of a new office and increased help, and a stock coming on 
larger, and of as fine growth as we ever grew. The Lawrence Nursery 
Co., is a branch office for handling agency work only. All communi¬ 
cations will be addressed to the old firm.” 
