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jfrom IDarious points. 
The mid-summer meeting of the Oregon Horticultural 
Society will be held at Salem, June 9-10. 
The annual meeting of the American Seed Trade Associa¬ 
tion will be held at the St. Clair Hotel, Cincinnati, June 
13— 1 5 - 
Apple growers of East Tennessee are planting early apples, 
such varieties as Early Harvest, Red Astrachan. etc., for the 
early northern market. 
Belgium has placed restrictions upon the importation of 
fresh fruit, living plants, and parts of living plants from the 
United States on account of the San Jose scale. 
From present indications it is entirely probable that much 
of the ntounta n land within a radius of 200 miles of Chatta¬ 
nooga will hereafter be turned to valuable account in the pro¬ 
duction of fruits. 
The American Society of Landscape Architects has been or¬ 
ganized with J. C. Olmsted of Boston as president; Samuel 
Parsons, Jr., vice-president; Daniel W. Langton of New York, 
secretary, and C. W. Laurier, treasurer. 
F. W. Taylor, who was superintendent of agriculture and 
horticulture at the Omaha Exposition, has just been named 
as director of exhibits and concessions of the Pan-American 
Exposition to be held at Buffalo in 1901. He assumed his 
duties June 1st. 
M. B. White, inspector at Stockton, Cal., reports that during 
April he admitted one hundred and fifty-five trees to that city 
and that most of these had been affected with San Jose scale, 
but they had been dipped and the scale killed before the trees 
reached Stockton. 
' Besides exhausting nearly all the nursery stock produced in 
in the Pacific Northwest, Mr. McGill of the Oregon Whole¬ 
sale Nursery Co., states in the Oregonian that eight car loads, 
including 100,000 apple trees were shipped from the eastern 
states. However this was distributed nearly all over the coast 
and as far east as Montana. 
The U. S. treasury department has decided that Christmas 
trees, which certain collectors have been admitting free of 
duty, under paragraph 700 of the act of July 1897, as “other 
woods not specially provided for,” are dutiable at 10 per cent, 
ad valorem as “ unenumerated, unmanufactured articles under 
the provisions of section 6 of the tariff act.” 
President W. C. Barry of the American Rose Society is 
enthusiastic over the arrangements in prospect for the two 
shows that the society will hold in 1900. At the executive 
committee meeting in New York, in April, the preponderance 
of opinion was for two shows next year, the first to be held in 
the middle of the lenten season for roses grown under glass ; 
the second in June for roses grown out-of-docrs. For both 
shows Mr. Barry will appoint committees of experts. 
During the two years State Horticulturist J. E. Baker, of 
Washington, has been in office 600,000 fruit trees, nearly one- 
quarter of the total number in the state, have been set out. 
His report shows that there are 2,414,626 fruit trees in the 
state, and of that number 1,410,194 are in the counties east of 
the Cascade Range and 1,004,432 in the counties west of the 
Cascades. Mr. Baker’s estimate of the value of the fruit crop 
of the state is between $750,000 and $1,000,000 annually. 
“I believe there is a better opening to-day for young men, 
here in New England, than anywhere else in the United 
States,” says A. A. Halladay of Bellows Falls, Vt. “There 
are plenty of these so-called abandoned farms which can be 
bought for almost nothing, that if planted to winter apples and 
properly cared for, would, in ten years, more than pay for the 
farm and all other expenses of trees, cultivating, etc. Good 
winter apples always bring a good price, and can be sold on 
the trees to buyers who furnish barrels and do their own gath¬ 
ering.” 
A California fruit grower tells, in the Redlands Citrograph, 
how he came to use nails in budding his trees. His ball of 
budding twine ran very small just as he finished some small 
trees and began on some large ones. It occurred to him to 
nail the twig [he seems to have used 3-bud scions instead of 
single buds] at the point where the scion was sloped to fit the 
T-shaped incision in the bark. He used a slender wire nail 
and then applied grafting wax to the cut and the tip of the 
twig. The results of this method are yet to be seen, but ex¬ 
pert budders think it should be successful.—Country Gentle 
man 
Professor Van Deman says of the navel orange : During 
the Civil war, a woman who had been sojourning in Brazil, told 
William Saunders, Washington, D. C., that she knew of an 
orange at Bahia, Brazil, that exceded any other variety she 
had ever tasted or heard of. He sent there and had twelve 
trees propagated by budding, and sent to him in 1870. They 
all grew, and some of them are yet bearing fruit in the orange 
house at Washington. None of the original trees was sent out 
to the public, but all were kept there and used as stock from 
'which to propagate by budding. Many young trees were 
budded from them, and sent to Florida and California. 
Through the purchase of the Oteri and Macheca Fruit Im¬ 
porting Companies, of New Orleans, on April 19, the recently 
organized fruit trust has secured almost a complete mon¬ 
opoly of the tropical fruit business of the United States. 
With t: e exception of a few scattering concerns still on the 
outside, the new corporation controls the fruit imported into 
the United States from the Republics of Belize, Guatemala, 
Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Colombia; also the 
fruit business of San Domingo and Jamaica, while Cuban in¬ 
terests, as yet undeveloped, are also controled. By this latest 
deal the trust adds numerous banana plantations and ware¬ 
houses and a fleet of ten steamers to its interests. 
AN APPLE THAT DOESN’T DECAY. 
A communication from Vandalia, Mo., to Colman’s Rural 
World says : 
R. A. Barnes, who lives near Middletown, Mo , has on his 
farm an apple tree the fruit of which has become a study to 
those interested in fruit and fruit-growing. Mr. Barnes had 
on exhibition in Vandalia an apple which he picked from the 
tree during the fall of 1897, and which still retains a remarka¬ 
ble degree of preservation without artificial means. The apple 
is de.cribed as similar to a russet in size and color, and yet 
with distinguishing characteristics which show it to be of an 
entirely new variety. 
The tree came, unnamed, from an Illinois nursery. Mr. 
Barnes thinks his discovery will net him a fortune. He has 
consulted prominent fruit men at Louisville, Mo., and all pro¬ 
fessed ignorance as to the apple’s variety. The next meeting of 
the Missouri Fruit Growers’ Association will be asked to 
inquire into the peculiarities of the apple. 
