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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
blank tags be used, but Jones’ agents are about the nur¬ 
sery and see the order filled for Smith. The next spring 
they tell the people that Smith gets nearly all of his trees 
from Jones. Smith’s agents hear the report and tell 
Smith, and he declares he will let Jones burn his surplus 
trees before he will again help him to unload them. Then 
they are both beyond the point of exchanging trees. 
The next year Jones hears of Smith sending off for 
trees he ought to furnish him and Smith hears the same 
of Jones, and each tries to impress this fact on the other 
by sending wholesale lists to the neighbors of the other. 
All this came about by one not being satisfied when he 
got the other’s money for his trees, but wanted some of 
his reputation also. 
Now, I do not mean to say it really hurts a nursery¬ 
man’s standing to buy or exchange for trees from another 
reliable nursery. From the way some substitute and 
mislabel trees, I would consider it a recommendation to 
hear of them getting in some varieties, but when the fact 
is told in a tone that is disparaging, it has its influence 
with the public, and does not tend toward strengthing 
any fraternal feeling between the nurseries. 
I know some nurserymen who will not allow even an 
express sticker to be put on a wholesale shipment to 
indicate where it is from, and I have known a nursery¬ 
man, when some of his own agents were present to 
privately hand the tags of a shipment to the driver and 
tell him to put them on at the express office. There is 
no genuine and permanent building up based on the pull¬ 
ing down of others. When nurserymen stop to consider 
that not one-tenth of the inhabitants of the country eat 
one-fourth as much fruit as they would like to eat, and 
make it the unselfish and commendable aim of their lives 
to produce the seventy or eighty per cent, yet necessary, 
and feel entirely above taking from any honest nursery¬ 
man one iota of his hard-earned reputation, we shall 
enjoy that prosperity, confidence and fraternal feeling we 
all desire and to which we are entitled. F. T. RAMSEY. 
The Jamaica orange crop last season, according to the 
American Grocer, was the largest ever grown there and 
amounted to 83,140 boxes and a 192,173 barrels of fruit. 
The horticultural society of Essex Co., Mich., has 
petitioned the county council to appoint a county in¬ 
spector of fruit trees. Some of the townships have such 
officers, but what was wanted was an officer having ex¬ 
tensive powers to prevent the spread of disease among 
fruit trees by notifying owners what precautions to take 
and to have the diseased trees destroyed if necessary. 
George Klehm, in a paper read before the Chicago 
Florists’ club, said : “ Hybrid roses are no longer pro¬ 
fitable for florists ; the American Beauty and the Meteor 
have done away with the forcing of most all of the 
hybrids. We now grow but very few hybrids for flowers, 
only for nursery trade. The price ought to range from 
$1.50 to $4 per dozen to be profitable, but these prices 
are generally not to be had now. 
^foreign IRotes. 
Three English nurserymen, George Bunyard, W. Wells and Joseph 
Sheal have written hooks on fruit culture. 
An international horticultural exhibition will he held in Florence in 
May, 1897, under auspices of Royal Tuscan Horticultural Society. 
At the recent annual exhibition of the National Horticultural Society 
of France, in the Tuileries gardens. M. Laine received a silver medal 
for an exhibit of Canna Italia, bearing two or three fine flowers of a 
bright, fiery red color, with a broad border of golden yellow. 
Alfred E. Unger, Yokohama, Japan, who has been for some years 
past the active partner in the firm of L. Boehmer & Co., has now suc¬ 
ceeded to the entire control and proprietorship of the concern. He has 
purchased the interest of Mr. Boehmer, who was compelled by illness 
to leave Japan a year and a half ago. 
Five wild elephants prowling about the Ceylon Botanic Gardens 
caused considerable damage by tearing up water piping. A group of 
monkeys invaded the gardens and destroyed a Flame tree, Sterculia 
acerifolia. Sawbeer deer ate and broke down shrubs and it was neces¬ 
sary to rout the animals with packs of hounds. 
In view of the possibility of the British and other markets becoming 
largely supplied in the near future with fruit from Australia, the fruit¬ 
growing capabilities of New South Wales form a subject of some 
interest. According to Mr. Benson, of the Department of Agriculture 
in that colony, few parts of the world possess greater natural facilities 
for the production of fruit in greater variety than the colony of New 
South Wales. Owing to the extent of country, and the great differ¬ 
ences of climate, the colonists are enabled to grow every kind of fruit, 
from mangoes to gooseberries, or, leaving out a few tropical fruits, all 
the cultivated fruits of the world, and many of such quality and to such 
perfection that they cannot be excelled elsewhere. 
Only those of limited means know 7 of the difficulty that is experi¬ 
enced in obtaining fruit trees of good varieties, and many a cottage 
garden remains treeless from the sheer inability of the tenant to 
purchase worked trees, says Gardener’s Chronicle , London. Moreover, 
were the demand for fruit trees greatly increased, it could not be met 
by our present nurserymen, seeing that they now dispose of all they 
can raise. Why, therefore, should they not advertise the sale of buds 
on the shoots and scions for grafting in March and April ? These, if 
sold at a penny or twopence per shoot, according to rarity or the 
reverse, would be readily bought up in a season or two. Stocks of 
various kinds might also be sold in small numbers at an equally cheap 
rate, benefiting both nurserymen and cottagers. Once start the cottager 
in the business of fruit-growing in this cheap fashion, he would in a 
few years be able himself to become a purchaser of one, two, and three- 
year old trees and bushes from the nursery. 
ANOTHER TEXAS METHOD. 
A new method of budding trees and cutting during the winter, when 
the sap is dormant, has been reported upon by the Texas station. A 
slice of bark was cut down the stock and left attached at the lower end. 
Part of the top of the loose slip was cut off and the bud fitted over the 
cut place and bound firmly on with a piece of raffia. The stocks were 
kept in sphagnum moss till spring, when all but one of the fifty young- 
peach trees used in the experiment were found to be heavily “knit” 
and made strong shoots in the growing season. 
A WESTERN JOURNAL’S ADVICE. 
A western fruit journal gives the following advice regarding the 
purchase of eastern nursery stock : “I say, let us ranchers buy from 
neither a ‘New York insect and tree raiser,’ or a ‘ Washington bugand 
blackberry grower,’ or an ‘Idaho snail and strawberry planter,’ but, let 
us buy our fruit trees right at home in Montana. Let us band together 
to get state laws passed so that no one can sell these pestiferous, infec¬ 
tious things to suckers like myself who give them a dollar apiece for 
their dead and dying—travel-killed—bug coffins. We shall not any¬ 
how have to be paying freight on such monsters as the woolly aphis.’ 
