THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmong (Browers anb IDealers. 
James Bingham, Russell, Ky., died last month, aged 56 years. 
Germany has removed the embargo from American citrus 
fruits. 
William H. Dyer, aged 82 years, died last month at Olney- 
ville, R. I. 
It is reported that the Lawson carnation is retailing in Phila¬ 
delphia at $9 per dozen. 
Four entomologists directed the examination of 409 nur¬ 
series in New York state last year. 
H. S. Chase, of the Alabama Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala., 
recently visited Chicago and St. Louis. 
James Vick’s Sens, Rochester, N. Y., this year celebrate 
the fiftieth anniversary of their business. 
Professor Bailey is soon to publish a book on the apples and 
pears of America; Professor Waugh a book on plums. 
Newson & Co., Cumberland Nurseries, Nashville, Tenn. 
report a heavy spring trade in fruit trees and plants in the 
South. 
C. S. Harrison is president, E. F. Stephens, vice-president 
and A. J. Brown secretary of the Nebraska Park and Forest 
Association. 
Governor Gage of California has approved an appropriation 
of $7,500 to introduce parasites to prey upon insects injurious 
to orchards. 
J. Blaauw, Boskoop, Holland, sailed for the United States 
on March 16, to visit the trade. His address until May 10 
will be 45 William St., N. Y. 
“ Trade with us so far is very good, and we think there will 
be a pretty good cleaning up of stock this spring,” write 
Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind. 
Fire destroyed a barn at the Fruitland Nurseries, P. J. Berck- 
mans & Sons, Augusta, Ga, on February 27. Four horses and 
eight mules were burned. Loss, $3,000. 
Novelties endorsed by Professor Van Deman are: Japan 
plums, such as Burbank, Abundance, and Wickson; Campbell’s 
Early grape and Mersereau blackberry. 
S. H. Fulton, recently foreman for E. Smith & Sons, 
Geneva, N. Y.. has succeeded Hon. T. T. Lyon as director of 
the experiment station at South Haven, Mich. 
C. Ribsam & Son, Trenton, N. J., announce that a tax assess¬ 
ment of $r,8oo per acre has caused them to withdraw from the 
nursery business. They have 75 acres in stock. 
Professor M. V. Slingerland heartily endorses the comments 
of this journal in the March issue to the effect that there has 
been too much legislation on the San Jose scale. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., and Thomas Meehan 
& Sons, Philadelphia, have secured the contract for trees and 
shrubs at Schenley and Highland parks, Pittsburg. 
The Department of State of the United States has invited 
Professor L. H. Bailey to represent it at the International 
Horticultural Congress of Instruction in Belgium in June. 
The question of planting apple trees is becoming a lively 
one, says the Rural New Yorker. All over the Eastern states 
farmers are considering the plan of setting out orchards of red 
winter apples of good quality. 
Ex-President Irving Rouse of the American Association, 
William Pitkin, secretary of Chase Bros. Co., and W. H. Smith, 
formerly of Geneva, are members of the executive committee 
of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. 
J. Woodward Manning who has been associated with his 
father at the nurseries in Reading for many years, has discon¬ 
tinued his connection with that concern and has established 
himself as horticultural expert and purchasing agent, with 
office at Tremont Building, Boston. 
A bill just passed by the California legislature, takes from 
the State Board of Horticulture and gives to the governor the 
power of appointment of a state horticultural quarantine 
officer. Alexander Craw, who has held the position eight 
years, is endorsed for reappointment. 
Ex-President J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn., is 
quoted as saying of peach trees: “ Medium sized trees, three 
or four feet high, are best to plant, and they should be trees 
one year old. In fact, no nursery ever delivered a two-year- 
old tree, though it is claimed that they do.” 
M. J. Henry, the Mount Pleasant nurseryman, says the Van¬ 
couver, B. C., Province, has bought out the entire nursery 
stock of Henry & Lazenby, of Hatzic. Mr. Lazenby, of the 
above firm, will devote his attention to fruit growing. He has 
one of the finest orchards in the Fraser Valley. 
J. B. Mitchell, Cresco, la., writes under date of March 22 : 
“ Last year at this time there was some nursery stock dug 
here but now we are in the depths of winter, with four or five 
feet of frost in the ground. This has been another test winter 
and the Russian apples have scored several points ahead.” 
Regarding the Dayton Star Nurseries, Dayton, O., the re¬ 
ceiver, J. W. McNary, says: “Many customers and friends 
have kindly inquired concerning the future of this establish¬ 
ment. We take this occasion to say that the Dayton Star Nur¬ 
series will be continued. Under the receiver, and doubtless 
under the reorganization that will follow, the same manage¬ 
ment will prevail, likewise the same liberal and courteous 
treatment, strict grading and careful handling of stock that 
has always characterized this establishment and given so much 
satisfaction to the trade.” 
KEROSENE EMULSION IN SPRAYING. 
The value of kerosene as a material for spraying has been gener¬ 
ally appreciated by horticulturists and others for some time, but the 
difficulty and uncertainty of preparing and using the various emul¬ 
sions of kerosene has prevented its general use. The Deming Com¬ 
pany of Salem. O., experimented for a machine that would make its 
own emulsion while in the act of spraying. The result is the Weed 
knapsack kerosene sprayer, the Success bucket kerosene sprayer and the 
Peerless barrel kerosene sprayer. The great success of these several 
machines is due to the fact that the force applied in pumping injects 
just the amount of kerosene desired into the spray in such a manner 
as to make a perfect emulsion. The amount of kerosene is easily 
regulated by an indicator on the top of the kerosene tank which con¬ 
trols the percentage of oil. The Deming Company’s illustrated cata¬ 
logue, containing complete formulas for spraying in addition to their 
line of pumps and nozzles is sent on application: 
SPECIAL INFORMATION VALUABLE. 
Henry Wallis, Wellston, Mo., January 26 , 1899 .—“The 
special information in the National Nurseryman is worth many 
times the price of subscription. All readers should profit from it.” 
