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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National N urseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
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should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
BSpDrafts on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are 
requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., November, 1896. 
THE SEASON’S TRADE. 
Our reports from all quarters indicate the sale of the usual 
amount of stock by wholesalers, and in a number of instances 
an increase of 25 per cent, over sales last fall. As before 
prices are low. But this was as expected in view of the 
generally unsettled conditions affecting trade. And this general 
summary of the season’s trade must be accepted as encourag¬ 
ing, for at the opening there was a cry of falling prices and the 
effect of cut-throat rates, and now that the sales are made, the 
aggregates show the usual amount of business, with a majority 
of reports showing a natural increase. The result is due to 
redoubled efforts. 
There is general confidence in an improvement in conditions 
in the spring. The complaint of great surplus stock is not 
heard, and the disposition to extend commercial planting is a 
most favorable indication that with business confidence re¬ 
stored, a return to a period of activity in the nursery business 
is probable. The prediction is even made that in some staple 
lines there will be a shortage in stock. 
FOR NURSERYMEN ESPECIALLY. 
The debt of gratitude the nurserymen owe Professor Liberty 
H. Bailey, of Ithaca, N. Y., can never be paid. What a store 
of knowledge he has placed at their disposal. What a wealth 
of valuable results his original investigations have produced. 
One marvels at the development of the capabilities of this 
indefatigable student, earnest advocate and prolific writer. 
Scarcely have the presses stopped running on the fourth edition 
of his latest work when they are called upon to start the pub¬ 
lication of another of his productions. In rapid succession 
have appeared his “ Annals of Horticulture for 1889, 1890, 
i89i and 1892” ; “The Horticulturist’s Rule Book,” several 
times reissued ; “The Nursery Book ” ; “ Cross-Breeding and 
Hybridizing”; “American Grape Training”; “Field Notes 
on Apple Culture”; “Talks Afield,” etc. The majority of 
the timely bulletins of the Cornell University Experiment 
Station, piled high upon our desk, are from his pen directly 
and all have been issued under his supervision. At the state 
horticultural meetings in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere, he has appeared repeatedly and 
delivered addresses on topics horticultural and agricultural, 
which have been voted as among the most valuable on the 
programme. And the members of the American Association 
of Nurserymen know with what pleasure the announcement 
that he will address their annual convention is received. With 
his corps of able assistants, including Professor E. C. Lode- 
man, he is doing grand work for the horticulturist, the farmer 
and the nurseryman, in imparting instruction under the spec¬ 
ial appropriation of the New York legislature. Among his 
latest achievements is the establishment of a “ Garden Craft 
Series ” of handy volumes which now include “ The Horticul¬ 
turist’s Rule-Book,” fourth edition; “Plant Breeding” and 
“The Nursery Book,” third edition ; also the “Rural Science 
Series,” including “ The Soil ” and the “ Spraying of Plants.” 
In each of these series several other volumes are in prepara¬ 
tion. 
And when it is remembered that Professor Bailey’s time is 
further taken up by instruction at Cornell, the contribution of 
numerous articles to current publications and the care of a 
very large correspondence, it will be seen that he is a very 
busy man. He is but 38 years of age. He is a botanist of 
high rank, having had exceptional facilities for study as the 
assistant of the late Asa Gray. 
When, therefore, a writer of such experience produces such 
a work as “ The Nursery Book : A Complete Guide to the 
multiplication of Plants,” it is worth the while of everyone in 
the nursery business to give it attention. This is the third 
edition (The Macmillan Co., New York) of a manual which 
has become very popular. The author in his preface says 
that it has seemed best to give a somewhat full discussion of 
the too-prevalent assumption that graftage is necessarily a 
devitalizing process, and to analyze the unclassified knowledge 
respecting the mutual influences of stock and scion, and the 
respective peculiarities of root-grafted and budded fruit trees. 
Something has also been said respecting the so-called exhaus¬ 
tion of nursery land, and of various other nursery matters upon 
which there seems to be much misunderstanding. The nur¬ 
sery list now comprises the notes and suggestions of many cor¬ 
respondents and the results of the experiences and experiment 
of five additional years (since the first edition). 
This statement by the author concisely covers the main fea¬ 
tures of the new edition. It is a volume of 365 pages replete 
with all that a hand-book for the nurseryman should contain. 
The book bears the imprint of the Mt. Pleasant Printery, J. 
Horace McFarland Co., Harrisburg, Pa., which is a guarantee 
that the Macmillan Co. has presented it with their usual typo¬ 
graphical perfection. 
For the week ended September 26th, there were shipped 
out from the port of Boston 43,925 barrels of apples. Of this 
amount 27,022 barrels went to Liverpool, 9,777 to Glasgow, 
and 7,126 to London. None went direct to the continent. 
