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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
of cherries, but recommends for a commercial orchard hut two, Early 
Richmond and English Morello. As to the Russian varieties he 
expresses the opinion that they have not yet been sufficiently produc¬ 
tive to displace the above kinds. 
A. I. Root, of Colorado, recently visited the great nursery firm of 
Storrs & Harrison at Painesville, Ohio, and among the many fine things 
seen there he describes the following : “I saw a beautiful nursery of 
what I call cottonwood trees. They told me they were sycamore. The 
trees were in straight rows, perhaps four feet apart. Each tree was 
remarkably like its neighbor—same height, same size, and all straight; 
and the growth was so vigorous that there was not a weed nor even a 
blade of grass—nothing but sycamore trees. They told me afterwards 
that these trees had no cultivation whatever, and at that time they 
needed none. As there seemed to be acres of them, I asked them where 
they were going to sell them all. They said they were sold already, 
and only a year ago they did not have enough to supply the demand.’, 
J. P. Dunlap, Dwight, Neb., is on» of the very first men to com¬ 
mence fruit growing in the state. He has given the subject careful 
and patient study, and for many years has enjoyed the reputation of 
being reliable authority on all matters of fruit and tree culture. In 
connection with his horticultural interests he has added a very valuable 
variety of apple to the list recently, which is known as the Dunlap. 
It is an every year bearer, in size and color resembles the Ben Davis, 
except a little deeper red, is a better all around apple, and has a great 
many admirers already among apple growers. Mr. Dunlap is largely 
interested in nursery matters, and has done much in encouraging the 
cultivation of evergreen trees and ornamental shrubbery. Mr. Dun¬ 
lap recommends to the beginner to select for winter varieties the Dun¬ 
lap, Ben Davis, Wine Sap and Jonathan. For summer and autumn, 
Duchess, Whitney, Wealthy, Utter’s Red and Haas. 
THE GRAPE CROP. 
Fruit’s reports of the grape crop in Central and Western New York 
and in Ohio are as follows : 
The Chautauqua grape crop which was all told 4,000 cars in 1894 
and 3,500 in 1895 will in 1896 probably keep up the average of those 
seasons. Concords are perfectly healthy, the foliage luxuriant and the 
fruit sound. Frost and wind damage of course were to some extent a 
loss, but the bearing shoots have an unusually large number of clusters 
each. The rains have had the effect to retard ripening so that ship¬ 
ments will begin little if any earlier than last season. 
It is generally believed that the crop of Concords in the Central New 
York region ; namely, on the shores of Keuka, Seneca and Canandaigua 
lakes is the largest ever known. The Catawba vines are also hanging 
very full, and the clusters are very large. Niagaras seem to be short 
in all localities, and the Delawares will not be a full crop. 
The grape crop in the Northern Ohio belt, never looked more promis. 
ing ; the tonnage per acre will be fully up to ’93, and may possibly 
exceed it. The quality will be exceptionally fine, large berry and very 
large and compact bunches. At Avon, Dover and Rocky River the 
yield never was so heavy. At Euclid, Noble, Wickliffe and 
Willoughby reports come daily of a heavy crop and thus far no 
damages. 
Average condition of grapes in New York, 80 ; Ohio, 97 ; Michigan, 
96 ; Missouri, 87; New Jersey, 89 ; Illinois, 100; Georgia, 87. 
In the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture for 1896 much 
of interest to the nurseryman and the horticulturist will be found. In 
the table of contents are the following topics : Humus in Relation to 
Soil Fertility; Irrigation for the Garden and Greenhouse; the Health 
of Plants in Greenhouses; Principles of Pruning and Care of Wounds 
in Woody Plants ; the Pineapple Industry in the United States ; Small 
Fruit Culture for Market; the Cause and Prevention of Pear Blight; 
Grass Gardens; Forage Conditions of the Prairie Region; Grasses of 
Salt Marshes; the Relations of Forests to Farms; Tree Planting on the 
Western Plains ; the Shade Tree Insect Problem in the Eastern United 
States; the Principal Insect Enemies of the Grape. Of the large edi¬ 
tion of 500,000 copies, 100,000 copies are allotted to the senators and 
360,000 to the members of the house of representatives—or over 1,000 
copies for each member of the two houses of congress. 
©bituaiY. 
The Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen has adopted the 
following upon the death of S. M. Bayles : 
“Upon the undersigned devolves the sad duty of announcing the 
death of S. M. Bayles, one of the original members of the Western 
Association of Wholesale Nurserymen. Mr. Bayles died at his home in 
St. Louis, July 1st, 1896, surrounded by his family and friends. He 
was buried July 3d at Belle Fountaine cemetery in that city. The 
deceased was born at Adrian, Michigan, in 1839. He began his busi¬ 
ness career in Missouri. He established the South St. Louis Nurseries 
in 1859, and by his ability and industry made the business very success¬ 
ful. His high reputation for honorable business dealings are well 
known to all nurserymen with whom he was acquainted. As a mem¬ 
ber of our association he was an active participant and a safe counsellor 
in all our meetings. 
“ He had been in very poor health for several years, and, despairing 
of recovery, he sold his nursery to Messrs. Schuette & Czarnowski in 
1894, since which time he has done all that was possible to alleviate 
his sufferings and prolong his life, generally spending his winters in 
the South and abstaining from all exertion and exposure. 
“ His death has been expected to occur at any time for many months, 
still at this late hour it shocks us none the less, for we now realize that 
one of the brightest and best exponents of our avocation has passed 
away. “On behalf of the Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen 
we tender our sincere sympathies to the family and relatives of the 
deceased, realizing that by his death they have met with an irrepara¬ 
ble loss. 
“ Resolved, That a copy of this obituary be forwarded to the family 
of the deceased, and a copy be furnished to the National Nursery¬ 
man for publication, and that a copy of same be spread upon the 
records of our association. 
W. F. Heikes, F. II. Stannard, 
Peter Youngers, Jr. J. H. Skinner, 
J. W. Schuette, W. P. Stark, 
DELAWARE PEACHES. 
Advices from Milford, Del., state that the-Peninsula will market the 
greatest peach crop since 1875. It is likely to exceed 7,000,000 baskets, 
and may approach 9,000,000. Such a crop coming 15 years after the 
doom of peach culture on the Peninsula had been pronounced, proves 
that little trust can be placed in prophets. The “peach belt” has 
shifted southward about two miles yearly for the last 25 years, but 
there are as many trees in bearing in the section as ever. The belt 
runs from 30 miles below Wilmington to Cape Charles, and hasjshifted 
westward into the Chesapeake counties, and two Virginia counties will 
ship a million baskets. The new home of the peach, between the 
Atlantic ocean and Chesapeake Bay, is as favorable as any part of the 
world, except perhaps parts of Persia. Fortunes are likely to be made 
out of peaches in the future, as in the past. The largest growers of 30 
years ago sometimes received $15,000 or $20,000 for a single crop. 
They added farm to farm and orchard to orchard, built large houses, 
when the currency was inflated and land high, only to be ruined by 
repeated crop failures, over-production or poor markets. Conditions 
are now different. Men have bought land more carefully, markets 
have been widened, and the new belt is more protected from frost by 
bodies of salt water. There are many single owners of 100,000 trees, 
and owners of from 2,000 to 10,000 acres of land, nearly all of whom 
have peach orchards. 
Something new in American agriculture is the summer class now 
being conducted on the farm of George T. Powell, in Columbia County, 
N. Y., says the Rural New Yorker. The students are young men from 
the cities who have capital, and who desire to invest that capital in 
farming or fruit growing. They spend three summer months on the 
farm in orchard and field, doing such work as spraying, pruning, ship¬ 
ping fruit and cultivating—learning all they can of the necessary work 
on a well-ordered fruit farm. In the fall, they will go to Cornell and 
take a scientific course—in the meantime, selecting farms of their own 
and planning to lay them out while studying. 
