THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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ALL RUSSIAN FRUITS REJECTED. 
C. W. Burton, secretary of the Southeastern Horticul¬ 
tural Society, says of the recent meeting of that society: 
As regards Russian fruits all the reports, with one exception, were 
that they are not, as a rule successful, in Southeastern Iowa. Mr. 
Fultz of Muscatine, says: “Out of ten varieties of Russian pears, 
which had been struggling along for eleven years, only two during the 
past season gave their first crop of five or six pears, and I concluded 
that they are not worth the ground they occupy. Of Russian apples, 
the Longfield, Yellow Transparent and Tetofsky are the only varieties 
that are successful in my district. Russian cherries and plums are 
entirely a failure and are destined for the brush pile.” Mr. Langham 
of Cedar Rapids, says that so far as he has observed, the crop of Rus¬ 
sian apples was somewhat favorable. Mr. Miller, of Wapello, Mr. Blod¬ 
gett of Mt. Pleasant, and Mr. Branson of New Sharon, gave sub¬ 
stantially the same report, that nearly every variety of Russian fruit 
is not successfully grown in the twenty-four southeastern counties in 
Iowa. 
The committee appointed at the Sigourney meeting to report on new 
fruits worthy of cultivation, reported as follows: 
“The making of a rejected list is entirely too great to make in the 
limited time at our disposal, but in view of the uniformly disappoint¬ 
ing reports of this meeting, would recommend that the entire list 
of Russian fruits be rejected, unless, after further trial, some of them 
prove worthy. H. W. Lathrop, W. S. Fultz, Samuel Row, A. Bran- 
sou, Jonas Miller, Committee.” 
This resolution was adopted unanimously by the society. 
FRUITLESS BECAUSE FAITHLESS. 
J. 0. Barrett, Brown’s Valley, Minn., vice-president of the Minne¬ 
sota State Horticultural Society and secretary of the Minnesota State 
Forestry Association, concludes a report, as to horticultural conditions 
in the sixth congressional district, as follows : 
“ To a great extent I attribute our failures in profitable fruit raising 
to a lack of bees and other honey-eating insects. We make poor head¬ 
way raising the clovers, because we have not the bees to fertilize 
them, and we have a superabundance of field mice that destroy the 
combs and nests of the bees, and we have not old maids enough to raise 
cats enough to destroy the field mice, and we have so many fool farmers 
who struggle to farm it on the prairie without forests to break the 
winds, bees stay away from us because we build no tree homes for them 
to live in and get honey from. And so we plod along with ‘wheat on 
the brain’ and wild buffalo grass seed in the hair, pocketless, because 
beeless, and beeless because treeless and cloverless, and fruitless because 
faithless in diversified agriculture. Success in fruit raising lies in 
restoring the interlinks in the life chain of being, broken by deforesta¬ 
tion and burning over the country we are trying to domesticate. 
Darwin well says: ‘ So profound is our ignorance, and so high our 
presumption, that all marvel when we hear of the extinction of an 
organic being ; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms 
to desolate the world or invent laws on the duration of the forms 
of life.’ ” 
NEBRASKA HORTICULTURISTS. 
The summer meeting of the Nebraska Horticultural Society was held 
at York, Neb., July 22-23. It was the most successful meeting the 
society has had in the summer. The rooms were crowded. The 
addresses and papers were good and the interest was sustained until 
the close. The display of fruit was especially large and attractive. 
Among the nurserymen who exhibited fruit were : E. F. Stephens, 
Crete, president of the society; Marshall Brothers, Arlington ; J. M. 
Russell & Sons, Wymore ; Clyde Barnard, Table Rock ; J. P. Dunlap, 
Dwight; W. R. Harrison, Tecumseh ; Youngers & Co., Geneva. C. S. 
Harrison, of Weeping Water, discussed Rocky Mountain evergreens. 
The transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, part 1, 
for 1895 have been issued. The report contains the usual large amount 
of valuable information. 
IRecent publications. 
As an indication of the increased interest in gardening in England it 
is noted that the Gardener’s Chronicle, of London, that able journal of 
gardening and horticulture, recently published a record number, circu¬ 
lating in the ordinary manner a larger number of copies than evei 
before, during the fifty-five years the journal has existed. During the 
last few years the circulation has doubled. 
Recent publications by the horticultural division of the Cornell Uni¬ 
versity Agricultural Experiment Station are: “Fruit Brevities” by 
Professor L. H. Bailey; and “Dwarf Apples” by Professor E. G. 
Lodeman. The former discusses Packing Houses for Fruit; History of 
the Ohio Raspberry; The Mistletoe Disease of the Blackberry ; Root- 
galls ; Are Dewberries Worth Growing? The Goumi; Winter Injuries, 
and Crimson Clover for Orchards. Each bulletin is of special interest. 
“ Familiar Trees and Their Leaves,” by F. Schuyler Mathews, has 
been published by the Appletons. It is another evidence of the practi¬ 
cal result of this author’s research in the field and wood. The work 
is well arranged for the amateur and yet it is comprehensive. The 
author has furnished a ready means of identification of those trees that 
are most commonly met with, through a series of over 200 well executed 
drawings of their leaves, made from nature and the accompanying 
text. The plan followed has been to divide the various leaves into five 
general classes, which are again sub-divided and under this classifica¬ 
tion the leaves are arranged in botanical succession throughout the 
chapters. Two systems of nomenclature are adopted : First, that of 
Gray’s Field, Forest and Garden Botany, relative to the subjects taken 
from that work ; second, a system instituted by Professor C. S. Sar¬ 
gent. A handy alphabetical index of the names of the trees of the 
Eastern United States is appended, giving popular and botanical names, 
as well as those of the families to which the subjects mentioned 
belong. Pp. 320, $1.75. New York ; D. Appleton & Co. 
There has just been published “The Nut Culturist” by the late 
Andrew S. Fuller, author of “Grape Culturist,” “Small Fruit Cul¬ 
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ravages ; and all the important details in regard to the methods and 
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chapter is devoted to the description of the fruits which are known in 
commerce as nuts, and to foreign kinds of nuts which are not grown 
successfully in the United States. Over 100 original illustrations em¬ 
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in the frontispiece. This will no doubt be highly acceptable to the 
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him that has ever been published. It forms an appropriate accompani¬ 
ment to this work, which its author has always considered as the most 
valuable one he has ever written. Pp..289, $1.50. New York : 
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