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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Among (Stowers anb ^Dealers. 
G. A. Gamble, Harrison, Neb., intends to change his location. 
John Charlton, Rochester, N. Y., has returned from his European 
trip. 
Theodore S. Hubbard, Geneva, N. Y., visited Rochester nurserymen 
last month. 
M. H. Reed, Blue Springs, Neb., writes : “ Our sales this year are 
about the same as last fall. I think the prospect for next spring is as 
good as that of this year, if not better.” 
Walling & Jarrisch, Oswego, Oregon, report: ‘‘Trees have made 
very good growth and all are clean and free from pests. Have now 
fifty acres in fruit and ornamental trees.” 
J. E. Ilgenfritz & Sons, Monroe, Mich., wiite that their advertise¬ 
ment in the National Nurseryman for September is entirely satis¬ 
factory, and order it continued during October and November. 
Tangent, Oregon, is the seat of the Tangent Nursery, H. W. Settle- 
mire. manager; the Tangent Prune Nursery, M. L. Poster, manager; 
the Pacific Nursery Co. All are in active operation, supplying many 
trees throughout the Northwest. 
Newark, N. J., newspapers speak in high terms of praise of the 
work of the Essex County Park Commission, of which Frederick W. 
Ivelsey, of New York city, is a member. The park system comprises 
3,000 acres and ranks with the largest in the world. 
Last month George W. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y., sent to the annual 
fruit show at Brocton, N. Y.. some samples of Campbell’s Early grape. 
The judges gave this exhibit 96 points out of a possible 100 . No other 
grape at the fair came anywhere near this in number of points. 
D. M. Moore, Ogden, Utah: “The demand for nursery stock has 
been a little slow this fall. I attribute this to the damage done our 
fruit crop by late spring frosts. Such things make the planters shy. 
All the Utah nurserymen planted quite heavily last spring and are 
hoping for better times.” 
The Grifling Brothers Co., Macclenny, Fla., has been incorporated 
with a capital stock of $ 25 , 000 . The officers are : President, W. D. 
Griffing ; vice-president and general manager, W. C. Griffing ; secretary 
and treasurer, C. M. Griffing ; superintendent of propagation, A. M. 
Griffing. The business was started by W. D. Griffing in 1888 . 
Herman Scliroeder, Bloomington, Ill., writes: ‘ The outlook for 
farm produce is bad. All kinds of fruit are low in price and grapes 
are selling at one cent per pound. It makes me cry when I think that 
30 and 35 years ago I sold tons of grapes for 25 cents per pound. Even 
ten years ago I sold them at 10 and 15 cents per pound and I thought 
then that the bottom had fallen out.” 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., write: “We wish to correct 
the error that we have 2 , 000,000 peach trees for immediate sale. We 
have 200 , 000 . We have over 1 , 000,000 peach budded this season, and 
we are not yet through budding, (September 23 d); also 50,000 plum on 
plum, 35,000 plum on peach, 30 acres in strawberry plants and 500,000 
asparagus roots ready for our wholesale dealers. ” 
The Hexham (England) “Courant” of August 29 th says; “It is 
with regret that we have to record the death of Mrs. Fell, wife of Mr. 
W. Fell (of the firm of Messrs. Fell & Co., nurserymen and seedsmen), 
which took place suddenly from apoplexy on Wednesday last. The 
deceased lady, who was 49 years of age, leaves a family of six sons. 
She was kind and generous to all with whom she came in contact, and 
much sympathy is felt with Mr. Fell and family in their sad and sudden 
bereavement.” 
At the trade exhibition at the convention in Cleveland, of the Society 
of American Florists, the Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio, 
showed a fine stock of assorted hardy cut phloxes, as well as good 
blooms of cannas Italia and Austria. C. II. Joosten. New York city, 
staged a line of hyacinths, Roman and Dutch ; good Lilium Ilarrisii 
and candidum, freesias, etc.; also small palms, araucarias and florists’" 
supplies, and received honorable mention for a display of bulbs. 
Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., had a large display of labels. 
Irving Rouse, Rochester, sent a sample of a seedling peach which 
appears to have sufficient merit to be worth propagation. The fruit 
sent was not large, owing, it was stated, to the fact that the tree was 
overloaded, many of the branches breaking under the weight. But it 
was of good color, juicy and of excellent flavor. The tree has borne 
three heavy annual crops, and in view of the fact that it withstood the 
exposures of last winter and really overbore while whole orchards sur¬ 
rounding it were killed root and branch, there seems to be sufficient 
reason for giving it further trial in other situations. 
Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la., sent samples of the McPike grape. This 
variety attracts attention at once by reason of the generous proportions 
of all the parts of the vine. Leaves and fruit are of extraordinary 
size. For so large a grape the flavor is good. Tbe fruit is firm yet 
juicy. It is the result of experiments by II. G. McPike, of Alton, Ill., 
who has been endeavoring as have others to produce a better grape than 
the Concord. The McPike is a seedling of the Worden, which is a 
seedling of the Concord. It is declared to be hardy and to ripen earlier 
than the Concord. It should stand in the front rank of very large 
grapes. 
Nurserymen should all have specimen orchards, if only of one or two 
trees of a variety, says Leonard Coates, of California. This for their 
own convenience, as well as for the satisfaction of their customers. 
One great evil in California is the periodic springing up of a host of 
so-called “nurserymen,” who, whenever prices begin to advance, plant 
sacks of peach pits and bud a lot of stone fruits. The trees they thus 
raise are thrown on the market in two years’ time, and their main 
object is to undersell the nurseryman of established reputation, and 
they demoralize the market by quoting prices below cost of production. 
They have made nothing themselves, but have injured those who 
depend upon the business for their living. 
George Husmann, the well-known viticulturist advises as follows : 
“If our friends from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas can furnish 
grapes for the world’s market as early as May and June, our aim should 
be to furnish the latest keepers. Whether it is already acknowledged 
or not, California can boast of greater success with her later fruits than 
her early ones. The time will come when California winter apples, 
pears and grapes, will spread her fame all over the world. When her 
Bartlett pears and other summer fruits, now so largely cultivated, will 
have clogged the markets and her apples, quinces, pears, late plums, 
and late grapes will bring more money and fame to the grower, than 
any of the early fruits, which will decay on the hands of the dealers. 
Look to our late fruits for money.” 
NOMENCLATURE. 
It was, if memory be correct, Prof. Bailey, of Cornell, who some¬ 
time since expressed an opinion to the effect that he might perhaps 
agree to the wholesale changes of names proposed, speaking as a bot¬ 
anist; but he could not from the horticultural standpoint, says Meehan’s 
Monthly. It really does look more and more clearly that the botanist 
and the horticulturist will have to part company. It is found impossi¬ 
ble for the nurseryman to change names in his catalogue that have 
become the current property of his customers and of the world. This 
will have to be conceded further in the case of marked varieties that 
the botanist insists are but forms of one species. For instance, the two 
forms of Silphium which have the stems run through the leaves, so 
that half a pint of rain water will be held as in a cup, were named 
Silphium connatum and Silphium perfoliatum. Botanists now refer 
the former name as but a mere synonym of the other. But, assuredly, 
if any nurserymen were to send the hispid round-stemmed one to a 
customer who had already the smooth square-stemmed one, there 
would be a sharp correspondence thereafter. In like manner, if a 
customer required the maples Acer Ginnala and Acer nigrum, and the 
nurseryman responded with the tartaricum and the common Sugar, 
there would be a storm. And yet in Index Kewensis, Acer Ginnala is 
given as the same thing as Acer tataricum, and Acer nigrum as the 
same with Acer saccharinum. It is probably right, from a botanical 
point of view, that these names should be regarded as mere synonyms; 
but the horticulturist cannot afford to follow. The trouble will be how 
to distinguish the botanical from the horticultural department of 
nomenclature. 
