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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
ly that they were not salable. Ours went through in first-class 
shape. Our only trouble was we had not enough of them. 
“ Our plant for this season, which was budded last August, 
represents more than one million and at present time buds are 
showing no effects of the winter. It looks as though they were 
going to start with very small percentage of loss. We have 
every reason to believe that we shall have the largest stock of 
peach to put on the market this fall and next spring to be 
found anywhere. If any one doubts it we are ready to pay ex¬ 
penses of coming and seeing the stock. Our planting apples 
last spring and this spring represents 200,000; other stock in 
smaller quantities. Strawberry plants about 30 acres, aspara¬ 
gus probably six to eight acres. 
“ Our opinion of the future prospects for the nurseryman is 
much more encouraging than it has been for several years 
back, and hope to see prices advance generally. We have been 
in correspondence with many prominent fruit growers in differ¬ 
ent states, and the general impression is that many peach 
orchards have been so badly injured that they will have to 
come out and be replaced with young trees. And it does not 
seem to be confined entirely to peach; but plum, cherry and 
pear. Apples seem to have stood the winter blasts better than 
anything else so far as we have been informed. In our county 
orchards have not been injured, but there are so few that it 
does not cut much of a figure. When the fruit comes off we 
are going to have some peaches, apples and pears, a full crop, 
if late frosts do not catch them in bloom.” 
Baltimore, April 20.—Franklin Davis Nursery Co.: “We 
have had a very heavy trade this spring and are still very busy. 
The season has been backward and on this account many of 
our customers have delayed sending in their orders to the last 
minute. Prices are better on many items than for years and 
naturally we feel very much encouraged. Our plantings this 
spring will be about as usual.” 
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., April 12.—Thomas 
Meehan & Sons: “ It is too early to determine what may be 
the results of the present spring’s business. We are in the midst 
of our shipping season, and we expect numerous large orders 
before the season closes. Our spring opened up fairly well 
and early, and we have had quite good weather up to the 
present time. Nights have been cool with more or less frost, 
retarding the growth of the plants, and we do not think at this 
date stock has advanced as much as is usual at this time of 
the year. We should have at least two good weeks of shipping. 
“ Prices on ornamental stock are quite low, in fact they are 
too low, and in our estimation they are much lower than the 
occasion requires. We are selling large quantities of stock at 
fair prices, and though we find our prices cut under to a more 
or less extent, we have no difficulty in selling our goods at our 
present rates. By the time the season is over we think many 
nurserymen who are selling at such low rates now will be very 
short on some items, and will possibly have to buy at higher 
rates to fill their orders.” 
I redonia, N. Y., April 25.—George S. Josselyn: “We are 
now about finishing the largest year’s business we have ever 
done. Almost everything in salable stock of all grades is sold 
and our cellars are almost empty. Prices have not been what 
they used to be but very much better than for two or three 
years past. Most late buyers have not been able to procure 
the class of stock desired and have been obliged to take what 
grades they could get.” 
Emono ©rowers anb ^Dealers. 
The Colorado Nursery Co. has constructed a storage cellar 
26x40 at Loveland, Col. 
S. M. Emery, Bozeman, is one of the members of the Mon¬ 
tana Board of Horticulture. 
The Minnesota Horticulturist announces that the Minnesota 
scale bill was killed in the House. 
Emil A. Holter has purchased the interest of J. W. Feldman 
in the Gate City Nursery, Canton, S. D. 
One of the buildings at Peirson Brothers’ Nurseries, Water¬ 
loo, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on April r8. 
M. H. Cremer is president and W. W. Lilley manager of the 
Zumbro Valley Nursery Co., Mazeppa, Minn. 
The office of Selover & Atwood, Geneva, N. Y., was de¬ 
stroyed by fire on April 6th. Insurance $[,000. 
Fire caused damage to the amount of $7,000 at the nurseries 
of Nichols & Lorton, Davenport, la., on March 31st. 
Hoopes, Brother & Thomas and George Achilles, West 
Chester, Pa., have increased employees’ wages 10 per cent. 
The Rocky Mountain Nursery, Canon City. Col, at one 
time owned by Dal Deweese, has been sold to S. H. Atwater. 
State Inspector Trine has inspected 240 nurseries in Michi¬ 
gan. He found San Jose scale in 22; in 18 of these the pest 
is believed to have been exterminated. 
Henry Wallis, Wellston, Mo., is president of the St. Louis 
County Horticultural Society just formed. H. C. Irish, of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, is secretary. 
P. J. A. Berckmans, Jr., of the Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, 
Ga., on April 12 at Freehold, N. J., married Miss Bedle, a 
niece of ex-Governor Bedle of that state. 
The House of Representatives of Pennsylvania has passed a 
bill ‘‘to prevent the spread of contagious diseases known as yel¬ 
lows, black knot, peach rosette and pear blight among orchard 
and nursery trees.” 
Professor F. A. Waugh of the Vermont Experiment station 
at Burlington, calls attention to the apple-tree canker affecting 
trunks and branches, especially in old orchards. He advises 
pruning and spraying with Bordeaux mixture. 
Dr. S. A. Knapp, who was sent by the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture to visit China and Japan, to procure de¬ 
sirable trees and seeds, has returned. He procured a variety 
of Japanese pear said to be blight proof; also varieties of 
plum, persimmon and camphor tree. 
F. W. Watson, 1 opeka, Kas , writes : “ Collections so far 
have been good. Planting is rather late. We think there 
will be about the usual plant here of apple grafts and apple 
seed. A little short on cherry. There is no surplus stock to 
speak of in any line. The prospect was never brighter for the 
nurserymen of the West.” 
On March 19th the Wabash Railroad Company added to its 
alieady excellent service out of Buffalo a new fast mail train, 
leaving Buffalo at 8.30 p. m. arriving at St. Louis at 2 p. m., 
Kansas City 9.45 p. m.; also Chicago at 10.55 a - m - the next 
day. This gives the patrons of the road three daily vestibuled 
trains from Buffalo to St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. 
