THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hrnong (Stowers anb IDealets. 
John Charlton offers this fall a fine lot of general nursery stock. 
Lewis Roesch, Fredonia, N. Y., visited Rochester nurserymen early 
last month. 
Eugene Willett & Son, North Collins, N. Y., have a large surplus of 
grapevines. 
T, C. Thurlow, West Newbury, Mass., has over 30,000 plants in 200 
varieties of herbaceous psconies. 
The Spaulding Nursery Co., Spaulding, Ill., offer special induce¬ 
ments to all who will write them. 
The proprietor of the Wholesale New Fruit Nurseries, New Fruit, 
Ivy., has revised his trade directory. 
It is estimated that the increase in commercial greenhouse building 
this year amounts to 750,000 square feet. 
Two million peach trees, one year from bud, are offered by Harrison’s, 
Berlin, Md. They have other large lots. 
Peters & Skinner are headquarters for apple, pear and orange 
seedlings and Bechtel’s double-flowering crab. 
W. S. Perrine, of T. H. Perrine & Sons, Centralia, Ill., recently 
married Miss Genevieve Frazier of the same place. 
Gooseberries and currants are the specialties which Ellwanger & 
Barry, Rochester, New York, are pushing just now. 
Seedlings, apple, Japan pear and French pear are guaranteed free 
from disease by A. L. Brooke, North Topeka, Kansas. 
The Hale Georgia Orchard Co., Fort Yalley, Ga., say they have 
more Mariana plum stocks than all others in America. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pennsylvania, are extensive 
dealers in fruit seeds and seedlings, native and imported. 
The Syracuse, N. Y., nurseries, Smiths & Powell, issue no trade 
price list, but prices are gladly given at all times upon request. 
J. E. Ilgenfritz’ Sons, Monroe, Mich., make a specialty of standard 
pear and apple trees. They have a full line of ornamental stock. 
The stock of Iloopes, Brother & Thomas, West Chester, Pa., is 
especially rich in ornamental trees and shrubs and high grade roses. 
A. E. Windson, Havana, Ill., the well known grower of Honey 
locust and Osage orange, was in Rochester the early part of August. 
The C. L. Yan Dusen Co., Geneva, N. Y., has been organized with a 
capital of $6,000, for the purpose of growing and selling nursery stock. 
S. M. Emery, well known to the nurserymen, as an ex-member of 
their fraternity, is making a great success of the Montana Experiment 
Station at Bozeman. 
The New Jersey nurserymen who carry full stocks of ornamentals 
will oblige by mailing catalogues to James MacPherson, landscape 
gardener, Trenton, N. J. 
Conservative estimates place the Niagara County (N. Y.) apple crop 
this year at 2,000,000 bushels. Orleans and Wayne are placed at 
1,000,000 each, and Monroe at 500,000. 
L. C. Bobbink, Rutherford, N. J., returned from Holland on August 
5, with a fine stock of imported plants, such as roses, clematis, hydran¬ 
geas, azaleas, rhododendrons, palms, etc. 
H. D. Simpson, of H. M. Simpson & Sons, of the Knox Nurseries, 
Vincennes, Ind., wholesale growers of apple and cherry, called upon 
Western New York nurserymen last month. 
Brewer & Stannard, Ottawa, Kansas, carry a superior line of apple, 
pear, cherry, plum, peach, apricot, gooseberries, forest seedlings, 
asparagus and pieplant and apple seedlings. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., are offering 1000 bushels of nat¬ 
ural Tennessee peach seed, guaranteed pure and free from any taint of 
disease. They will quote prices upon application. 
The Oregon Wholesale Nursery Co. is pushing the Lambert 
cherry. Among those who have seen the fruit and who expressed a 
desire to test the variety are S. B. Heiges and C. L. Watrous. 
F. W. Edwards, assignee of the Framingham Nursery Co., 53 State 
street, Boston, on July 27th announced that the creditors whose debts 
have been proved and allowed as not privileged, would be paid 21^, 
cents on a dollar. 
T. C. Thurlow is proprietor of the Cherry Hill Nursery, West New¬ 
bury, Mass., and that is his only address. Many nurserymen, depend 
ing upon trade directories, are sending Mr. Thurlow three circulars or 
catalogues to as many addresses. 
The Oregon Wholesale Nursery Company’s business is out of the 
receiver’s hands and the company is doing business again at Salem, 
Oregon. M. McDonald, the former vice-president, is now president. 
A. McGill is secretary and treasurer. 
William Fell & Co., Hexham, England, in another column call 
attention to their varied assortment of high class nursery stock. No 
firm in Great Britain is better or more favorably known among Ameri¬ 
can nurserymen. Mr. Fell is a regular attendant upon the annual 
meetings of the American association. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Phila., are erecting a green¬ 
house which will be a model of its kind. It is 100 feet long by 55 feet 
6 inches wide. It is built on a side hill, sloping toward the southeast. 
It is eight feet high at the back and seven feet high in the front, and 
has no ridge pole. The ventilators are on the front and back and extend 
along the entire length of the house. The cost will be over $1,500. 
The greenhouse is to be used for propagating purposes. 
P. J. Berckmans, Fruitland, Ga., says : “ There is frequently a 
demand for orange blossoms at a season of the year when orange trees 
have long passed the blooming period, and no efforts seem to be made 
by florists to supply this deficiency. In the Murraya exotica a good 
substitute is found for material for bridal bouquets, and although this 
plant was introduced in Europe more than a century ago and 
cultivated in the United States by a few amateurs for at least fifty 
years, still it seems to be almost unknown in the florist trade, as well as 
its value ignored.” 
Youngers & Co., Geneva, Neb., are extensive fruit raisers and scien¬ 
tific horticulturists. They have fruited 107 varieties of apples and 
announce to the public that out of this number they find ten successful 
and but seven of these are standard. The Youngers firm has planted 
1,100 peach trees this year. They have planted 1,000 cherry trees and 
from careful personal observation for many years adopted the follow¬ 
ing list in the order named, which covers a ripening period from June 
5 to August 1 : Deyhouse, Early Richmond, Early Morello, Large 
Montmorency, Osthime, English Morello and Wragg. 
J. M. Russell, Wymore, Neb., the largest peach grower in the state 
and the largest in the Western country, has made Nebraska famous in 
peach culture. His orchard of 150 acres has a crop this year of 15,000 
bushels, which he commenced marketing on the 5tli of July, at the rate 
of 1,500 to 2,000 baskets per day. These baskets hold one-fifth of a 
bushel each and net Mr. Russell 25 cents, making at this rate a net 
income of $18,740 for his peach crop this year. The yield of this 
orchard for the last three years has been as follows : In 1893, 6,000 
bushels ; in 1894, 2,000 bushels ; in 1895, 5,000 bushels, and the present 
year, 15,000 bushels. 
G. H. Miller, Rome, Ga., says of the annual meeting of the Georgia 
State Horticultural Society : “It was one of the best and most inter¬ 
esting meetings that the society has ever held. We had a very good 
attendance. Professor L. H. Bailey, of Ithaca, N. Y., gave instructive 
talks which added much to the interest of the meeting. The import¬ 
ance of thorough work in all horticultural operations, such as spraying, 
cultivating, jarring trees for curculio, etc., was emphasized. The dis¬ 
play of fruit was very full in the department of grapes, the Experi¬ 
ment Station of Georgia making a large and interesting display. 
Owing to the fact that the peaches in Georgia were about all marketed 
the display of peaches was very limited. The next meeting of the 
society will be held at Savannah.” 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., president of the State Horticultural 
Society, is an extensive grower of apples, aside from his nursery inter¬ 
ests. He has an orchard of eighty acres. In 1891 his apple crop was 
13,000 bushels and his cherry crop 700 bushels. Some exceptionally 
fine yields he has kept a record of by trees. A Wine Sap tree, 13 years 
old, produced 24 bushels in one crop ; a Ben Davis tree, 20 bushels; an 
Utter’s Red, 17 bushels. In cherries he has had Early Richmond trees 
to yield as much as 3£ bushels each. He is growing twenty varieties 
