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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hntong ©rowers anb IDealers. 
R. G. Chase, of Geneva, will spend the winter in the South. 
Edward Wachendorff, Atlanta, Ga., was killed by cars on 
December ioth. 
E. C. Williams, Zantsfield, O., will exchange Rock maple 
for plum, peach or cherry. 
All who are seeking apple grafts should communicate with 
D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la. 
Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. Y., is president of a branch of 
the American Fruit Growers Union. 
Crab apple seed, fresh from French mills is offered by 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa. 
Evergreens and deciduous trees in large quantities are 
offered by the Evergreen Nursery Co., Evergreen, Wis. 
E. G. Mendenhall, Kinmundy, Ill., is secretary-treasurer of 
the Illinois branch of the American Fruit Growers’ Union. 
Berry plants to the number of 5,000,000 are offered by 
Charles Wright, Seaford, Del.; also 50,000 peach trees and 
peach seed. 
Small fruits at rock bottom prices is the announcement of 
W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, O. In another column he presents 
an attractive list. 
The Willowdale Nurseries, Rakestraw & Pyle, Willowdale, 
Pa., are at the front with a general assortment of carefully 
graded nursery stock. 
Miller’s Red raspberry at prices to suit the times can be 
obtained of the West Jersey Nursery Co., Bridgeton, N. J.; 
also general nursery stock. 
Charles J. Brown, of the firm of Brown Brothers Co., 
Rochester, N. Y., has just been elected president of the Roch¬ 
ester Chamber of Commerce. 
To keep varieties true to name is the special aim of Samuel 
Kinsey & Co., Kinsey, O. They have a surplus list in another 
column which may interest many. 
P. D. Berry, Dayton, O., has 2,000,000 strawberry plants, all 
from new beds, and 2,000,000 red and black raspberry, 
blackberry, gooseberry, currant, etc. 
Jay Wood, Knowlesville, N. Y., is still dealing in the high 
grade nursery stock for which he has long been noted. He 
will give special prices upon application. 
A large and especially fine assortment of peach, strawberry, 
asparagus and grape, is offered in the surplus list of W. M. 
Peters’ Sons, Wesley, Worcester county, Md. 
The large stock of Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., has not 
been inspected, yet he guarantees that it has not been infested 
with San Jose scale. He deals in labels of all kinds. 
George Peters & Co., Fairmount Nurseries, Troy, O, offer 
apples, Marimna plum, Mahaleb and French pear seedlings at 
special prices on carload lots ; quality strictly first-class. 
Special attention is called to the announcement in another 
column of the firm of C. H. Eldering & Sons, bulb growers 
and wholesale exporters, Helmstede, near Harlem, Holland. 
The old house of Ilgenfritz, Monroe, Mich., on January 1st 
will enter into its fiftieth year in the nursery business. They 
are offering bargains in standard pear and apple and orna¬ 
mental stock. 
Small fruits is the specialty of Allen L. Wood, Rochester, 
N. Y. He has all the standard varieties, and as novelties the 
strawberry-raspberry, raspberry-blackberry, Golden Mayberry 
and Logan berry. 
Every facility for growing and handling a full line of general 
nursery stock is possessed by W. T Hood & Co., the Old 
Dominion Nurseries, Richmond, Va. Peach, standard pear 
and apple are specialties ; also Japan pear seedlings. 
W. G Johnson, state entomologist of Maryland, writes as 
follows to W. T. Hood & Co., Old Dominion Nurseries, 
Richmond, Va.: “I am very glad to note that you have taken 
the extra precaution to treat your nursery stock with hydro¬ 
cyanic gas, before placing it upon the market.” 
At the Reading, Pa., exhibition, Thomas Meehan & Sons, 
Germantown, Pa., took four first premiums for carnations, out 
of the seven for which they entered. They were as follows : 
For 100 white, Lizzie McGowan ; for fifty crimson, Crimson 
Coronet; for fifty pink, William Scott, and for fifty white, 
Lizzie McGowan. 
First class nursery stock in general assortment is offered by 
the Sherman Nursery Co., Charles City, la. Their line in¬ 
cludes American white spruce and other evergreens in all sizes, 
hardy apple trees, grape vines, currants, raspberries, black¬ 
berries from root cuttings, strawberries, shade trees, forest 
tree seedlings, flowering shrubs and roses. 
The employes of George Bunyard of the Royal Nurseries, 
at Maidstone, England, in recognition of the centenary of the 
firm’s existence, on November 25th, presented Mr. Bunyard a 
handsomely illuminated address on vellum, comprising a sketch 
of the Maidstone offices and heraldic and other designs, the 
whole set in a massive carved oak frame. 
MISSOURI HORTICULTURISTS. 
The annual meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural 
Society was held at Marceline December 8-10. Much interest 
in the proceedings was taken by members and horticulturists 
generally who attended. The society provided good talent in 
each department. The papers read were intelligently discussed. 
The display of fruit and flowers was especially fine, and proved 
the resources of Missouri. 
CALIFORNIA FRUIT GROWERS. 
The committee appointed by the State Fruit Growers' 
Association to memorialize congress relative to tariff upon 
foreign fruits and fruit products has recommended a tariff of 
2 cents a pound on raisins, Zante currants and other grape 
products ; on olives, 20 cents a gallon ; olive oil, $1 a gallon ; 
almonds, 6 cents on unshelled and 10 cents on shelled ; prunes 
and plums, 2j^ cents ; figs, 2 cents a pound ; comfits, sweet¬ 
meats, preserved fruit, etc., 40 per cent, ad valorem ; oranges, 
lemons and figs, 20 cents per cubic foot in bulk or not less 
than $2.50 per 1,000. The report was adopted. 
President Cooper urged further importation of ladybugs 
from Australia to destroy insect pests. He said the annual 
loss by insect pests in the United States is over $3,000,000. 
