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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong ©rowers anb Dealers. 
John Charlton, Rochester, started for England on July 14tli. 
Morris, Stone & Wellington, Toronto, offer Wickson plum buds. 
P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., has been on a New England trip. 
E. T. Dickinson, Chatenay, France, called upon Rochester friends 
last month. 
H. P. roses and climbers on own roots are offered by George Brothers, 
East Penlield, N. Y. 
Baltimore Belle. Queen of Prairies on own roots are offered by C. L. 
Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
William E. Rossney, Bloomington, Ill., visited relatives and friends 
in Rochester last month. 
The firm of G. Onderdonk & Co. has assumed the business of G. 
Onderdonk, Nursery, Texas. 
An opportunity is offered in this issue for a firm to sell its force of 
retail agents at a good price. 
Fay’s currants, one and two year, are offered in large quantity by 
F. H. Burdett, Clifton, N. Y. 
It is said that Charles A. Green, Rochester, paid Jacob Moore, the 
originator, $1,250 for the control of the Red Cross currant. 
S. B. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., claims to have grown three quarts of 
fruit to the bush from two-year plants of President Wilder currant. 
Leonard Coates, Napa, Cal., refers to Pruuus Simoni as the Simon 
plum, and very pertinently asks why the peach is not called Persica 
vulgaris. 
Among the callers upon Western New York nurserymen last month 
was Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la., president of the American Association 
of Nurserymen. 
Peach trees, June budded ; plum and apple trees, asparagus roots 
and strawberry plants in season are offered in large quantities at Harri¬ 
son’s, Berlin, Md. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, say that the Crimson Rambler rose 
has exceeded their expectations. The plants stood a test 15 degrees 
below zero last winter. 
The Old Colouy nurseries, Plymouth, Mass, are well to the front 
with a choice supply of ornamental stock. The proprietor, T. R. 
Watson, has an attractive list in another column. 
George Acheles, West Chester, Pa., makes a specialty of Silver 
maples, Norway maples, Carolina poplars, peach trees, and apple trees. 
He also has a general stock of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs. 
The name of Z. K. Jewett & Co., is indissolubly connected with 
small fruits, as the result of persistent advertising. Nurserymen in 
want of small fruits know that the Sparta nurseries can supply them. 
The vice-president of the American Association of Nurserymen from 
Wisconsin is George J. Kellogg, Janesville. Mr. Kellogg took an 
active part in the convention proceedings and helped to locate the next 
meeting. 
John A. Young, Greensboro, N. C., is the introducer of the Greens¬ 
boro peach, buds of which he is now offering. This is the June peach, 
earlier and larger than the Alexander. In another column he makes a 
statement of interest. 
A. L. Brooke, North Topeka, Kan., secretary of the national trans¬ 
portation committee, says that the Western Association of Wholesale 
Nurserymen has secured a return to the old freight rates, viz : class B 
for all carloads with a 20,000 minimum. This took effect on July 15th. 
John Charlton, Rochester, N. Y. is the special agent for the Colum¬ 
bian raspberry, the king of cap berries. Over 25,000 quarts were sold 
last year, netting 8| cents per quart. There are fourteen acres of 
transplants for fall sales. For next spring there will be ready 500,000 
tip plants. 
Samuel M. Bayles, the old and well known nurseryman of St. Louis, 
died in Texas July 1st. The body was taken to St. Louis for inter¬ 
ment. The funeral took place on July 3d from his late residence, 4,390 
Lindell Boulevard. A large number of florists and nurserymen were 
in attendance. 
Buds is the burden of the song of that well known horticulturist It. 
Morrill, Benton Harbor, Mich. Nurserymen and fruit growers gen¬ 
erally, long ago learned to listen attentively to any statement by Mr. 
Morrill. In another column he has something to say of interest to all 
nurserymen who need buds. 
Recognized as headquarters for apple seedlings, F. W. Watson & 
Co., Topeka, Kan., have always a steady .demand which keeps them 
busy in supplying. These may be obtained at Watson’s in any quant¬ 
ity and the grade is guaranteed high. As to prices they agree to make 
them as satisfactory as the goods. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., have purchased a small farm of 
65 acres, especially adapted to the growth peach trees, a red clay loam 
where peach have not been planted. They have now 200,000 peach, 
one year, principally extra grades, and 150,000 June-budded trees, and 
more than one million peach to bud for fall, grown from natural seed. 
Steadily and surely the Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., has 
attained a leading position among the nurserymen of the world. Then- 
large and complete assortment is drawn upon from all sections and 
satisfaction is universally expressed. Only words of praise can be 
spoken for the conscientious business principles which characterize this 
company’s dealings. 
A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan., one of the best known of Western nur¬ 
serymen, has an assortment of nursery stock which should meet any 
demand. Mr. Willis is active, enterprising and thoroughly reliable 
and his success is indeed merited. He has Houghton and Downing 
gooseberries, currants, Concord and Ives seedling grapes, apple stocks 
and a general nursery line. 
W. Atlee Burpee has secured from Luther Burbank two of the latter’s 
creations, a new poppy and a golden mayberry. The poppy resembles 
the Papaver ambrosum, but instead of having the lining of crimson 
with dark blotches near the base of the petals as has the common vari¬ 
ety, the new flower is lined with pure silver, the crimson and black 
showing faintly through. It will be named the “ Silver Lining.” 
The twentieth annual meeting of the Georgia Horticultural Society 
will be held in Griffin, Ga., August 5th, 6th and 7th. The past work 
of the society has caused a wonderful development of the fruitgrowing 
industry, which of late has given several sections of the state a most 
rapid increase in its land values. The officers are: P. J. Berckmans, 
president, and L. A. Berckmans, treasurer, both of Augusta, Ga.; G. 
H. Miller of Rome, Ga., secretary. 
A. M. Smith, St. Catherines, Ont., says of the prospects of the fruit 
crop in the Niagara district: Plums 75 per cent.; fruit buds of Japan 
and tender sorts hurt by winter frosts; pears, Bartlett and Kieffer 100 
per cent, a good many other varieties light, not more than 60 per cent, 
on the whole; peaches, excepting in the Grimsby section, very light, 
not more than 25 per cent.; grapes promise well where vines were not 
injured by last year’s frost, probably 80 per cent.; apples better than 
they have been for years, 100 per cent., except perhaps on Spys which 
are light in places. 
George J. Kellogg, Janesville, Wis., says: “Am very sorry we 
have lost all our Crimson Rambler for two winters, and the same is 
true of other growers in Wisconsin. We never got a bloom in the two 
years we planted a dozen strong plants and petted them all they 
deserved. Y{e have no trouble in wintering the H. P. roses and some 
of the more tender classes. We have 60 varieties of roses and should 
be glad to add the Rambler to our collection, but we have no faith in 
wintering them out of door with the best of protection. Our grounds 
were in nice condition for wintering and we lost hardly anything else 
in the rose department.” 
The advertisement of the Rochester Lithographing Co., Rochester, 
N. Y., in The National Nurseryman has produced such results as 
to warrant that company iu increasing the advertisement this month 
from a quarter to a full page. The Rochester Lithographing Co., has 
found it necessary to enlarge its accommodations to meet the demand for 
its work, which has increased in an unusual manner during the last 
few months. This company has earned a reputation for lithograph 
work of the highest class. At the Chicago convention nurserymen saw 
samples which convinced them of this fact and many orders were 
booked. It is due this firm to acknowledge the success of honest effort 
well directed. They justly claim to make the best fruit and flower 
plates and are constantly adding new varieties to their list. They 
make both hand painted and lithographed plates and supply plate 
books, nurserymen’s printing, catalogue covers and inserts. 
