THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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come to the horticulturist since the establishment of our 
agricultural colleges and experiment stations.” 
Jackson & Perkins Co., of Newark, N. Y., have arranged 
with David Miller of Camp Hill, Pa., for propagating and in¬ 
troducing his new black raspberry, the Cumberland, which 
was described in the August issue of this journal. Messrs. 
Jackson & Perkins expect to have a large stock of the plants 
ready for market by one year from the coming spring. 
S. H. Linton, Marceline, Mo., writes : “ The retail trade 
with us this season amounted to next to nothing, and the price 
at which stock was offered throughout this part of the state 
was generally less than good stock could be handled for. 
Therefore we were content to let our stock stand in the nursery 
with better prospects for spring trade. The past season was all 
that could be asked for to make a good growth.” 
George L. Taber, the well-known nurseryman, of Glen St. 
Mary, Fla., and A. H. Manville, also well-known through his 
work for a quarter of a century, as nurseryman and fruit 
grower, as well as author, editor and secretary of the Florida 
State Horticultural Society, have formed the Glen St. Mary 
Nursery Co., of which Mr. Taber is president and Mr. Man¬ 
ville, secretary. Their post office address is Glen St. Mary ; 
their telegraphic address, Macclenny, Fla. 
IRecent publications. 
Right up to date in the matter of catalogues is the new firm, the 
Glen St. Mary Nursery Co., Glen St. Mary, Fla. George L. Taber, 
president, and A. H. Manville, secretary, have reason to be proud of 
the catalogue sent out for 1896-7. Brimming over with illustrations 
and descriptions of the choicest fruits of the entire southern region, it 
attracts attention and then holds it. The catalogue contains 64 pages 
and is handsomely printed and hound in tinted enameled paper with 
half-tone reproductions of the Triumph peach and Japanese mammoth 
chestnut. It is conveniently arranged in four parts, describing varie¬ 
ties, suggesting methods of culture and management of fruit trees, 
giving points on ornamentals, the stock offered, .prices, terms, 
conditions, rates of freight, etc. As the proprietors truly remark : 
“In a region where fruit growing is new and formative, as is the case 
now in the Lower South, it falls to the nurseryman to lead the way in 
experiments and to make the record of progress. His annual summary 
must he guide and handbook as well as catalogue.” 
The culture of the quince has been quite thoroughly treated in a new 
illustrated handbook.by W. W. Meech. Before the appearance of the 
first edition of this work, some eight years ago, no separate book on 
quince culture had ever been published, although various articles relat¬ 
ing to the quince were dispersed through many books and periodicals. 
The author, who has made the cultivation of this fruit an important 
part of his life work, was imbued with the necessity for a work which 
should serve as a manual for the novice, as well as a book of reference 
for those of more experieuce. In the new and enlarged edition is 
embodied the latest knowledge on the subject. A number of insect 
enemies have been investigated, and several species not before suspected 
have proved injurious to the quince. Especially important are the 
discoveries of fungi injurious to the quince and their preventives and 
remedies, which are fully described in this new edition. A condensed 
description of all the varieties of recent introduction has also been 
added, as well as a chapter on the chemical analysis of the ash of the 
quince in health and disease. This brings the work up in every detail 
to the requirements of the present date. Separate chapters are devoted 
to the history of the quince, structure of the quince trees, varieties, 
soils, manures, location, cultivation, laying out of orchards, transplant¬ 
ing, propagation, pruning, promoting fruitfulness, flowers and fruits, 
thinning, gathering and marketing, profits of quince culture, diseases, 
winter killiug, insects and other enemies, fungi injurious to the quince, 
recent varieties and chemical analysis. 180 pp., cloth $1. New York : 
Orange Judd Co. 
SOUTHERN TREES IN THE NORTH. 
For some years I have been annually bringing thousands of 
peach trees from Georgia, not only for my own planting in 
Connecticut, but also to supply a portion of my nursery trade 
throughout the northern states, writes J. H. Hale from Con¬ 
necticut to the Rural New Yorker. I have done this to insure 
establishing an orchard free from the yellows, and so far, while 
escaping the yellows I have never noted any lack of vigor or 
healthfulness in the trees in any other particular. My own 
opinion, based on a good many years of tree planting, is that, 
so far as well-known tested varieties are concerned, it matters 
little with their vigor of hardiness where they are originally 
propagated. A Baldwin apple tree, or an Oldmixon peach 
propagated in Canada, New York, Virginia, or Georgia, if 
propagated under like conditions will do just as well in Con¬ 
necticut as a tree originally propagated here, and as we are 
pretty sure to start free from the yellows by using southern- 
grown peach trees, I think that we are safe in advising their 
planting in preference to any others. 
Upon this subject, J. S. Harris, La Crescent, Minn., says in 
the same publication : My experience with planting peach and 
other fruit trees, also forest trees is that such trees, nursery- 
grown in more southern latitudes, are not nearly as safe for 
planting at any considerable distance further north than where 
grown, or where the winter’s cold is more intense, or where 
soil and climatic conditions are materially different. They 
are more frequently severely injured or killed outright in the 
first or second winter after being planted than the same 
varieties nursery-grown near by in similar soil and climate. 
Even though the first winter or two after they are planted be 
mild and favorable, they seldom become so thrifty and healthy. 
I have seen trees of Oldenburg apple, which is about the 
hardiest variety I know, that were brought from Central 
Illinois and set in Southern Minnesota, that were killed to the 
snow line the first winter after planting, when home-grown 
trees of the same age and variety, did not show any injury. 
The peach, being scarcely hardy in New York, I think, could 
be safely advanced but a short distance further north at any 
one time, and trees produced in states further south would be 
very much more likely to have their health seriously impaired 
by such a change. 
The only correct principle for acclimating trees or plants to 
a colder region is to produce them from seeds matured in the 
most northern limits where they succeed, and advance them 
very slowly through selection of seed from the hardiest and 
best adapted. It is true that black walnut, catalpa and some 
fruit trees procured from southern nurseries, if they are not 
too severely injured in the first and second winter after plant¬ 
ing, do appear to get more hardy, and endure the climate 
better in after years. To procure trees for orchard planting 
that have been propagated and raised near home is always a 
safe rule, and if always followed we would have healthier and 
better orchards at a great saving of cost in money. 
T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Mich., says : Although I have 
received and have had growing upon the experiment station 
premises here during the last eight or ten years peach trees 
from Missouri, Georgia, Texas and other southern states, alter¬ 
nating with others received from various eastern, western and 
northern localities, I have been unable, so far, to discover any 
differences among them in vigor, health or productiveness in 
