THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Xong anb Short. 
Brown Brothers Co.. Rochester, N. Y., want a foreman, 
Peirson Bros., Waterloo, N. Y,, offer a line of general nursery stock. 
Eight thousand apple trees represent the surplus of W. D. Beattie, 
Atlanta, Ga. 
American elm and Lombardy poplar are wanted by Fred. W. Kelsey, 
150 Broadway, New York. 
Half a million apple root grafts are offered in another columu by 
F. W. Watson & Co., Topeka, Kan. 
Nebraska grown apple seedlings for immediate shipment can be had 
of I). S. Lake, Shenandoah, Pa. 
Hardy herbaceous plants and bulbs in great variety are offered by 
Vick & Hill Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., have a most attractive 
announcement of general nursery stock. 
Spanish, Cuban, Kanaka or Malay names will be printed on wired 
tree labels, if desired, by Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H. 
Special attention is called by George Achelis, West Chester, Pa., to 
a fine stock of Norway and sugar maples and other ornamental stock. 
All trees offered by J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., are of the 
very best. They are also headquarters for peaches, strawberries, and 
asparagus roots. 
Peach experts have pronounced the Klondike peach very desirable 
for many reasons. J. G. Patterson & Sons, Stewartstown, Pa., have a 
few' more trees to offer. 
Hardwood Canada unleached ashes containing elements which make 
worn-out soil rich and fertile, will be shipped in perfectly dry condi¬ 
tion by George Stevens, Peterboro, Ont. 
D. Hill, Dundee, Ill., has purchased the entire stock of the Elgin 
Nurseries, at Elgin, Ill. An unusual opportunity to stock up from 
the 3 , 000,000 evergreens is here presented. 
Henry Wallis, Wellston, Mo., says: “The Hicks grape took the 
silver medal at the Omaha exposition in 1898 . Hon. Samuel Miller 
said in 1897 : ‘ In Campbell’s Early, McPike and Hicks we have three 
grand new grapes hard to excel.’ ” 
Hn ButseiY IRows. 
Leaf Spot on Nursery Stock— The Experiment Station Record 
summarizes a Cornell station bulletin by B. M. Duggar, describing 
the leaf spot due to Septoria piricola, which he says is widely dis¬ 
tributed, and although the fungus is one of the most important from 
an economic standpoint, it seems to have been almost wholly overlooked 
or neglected. It is usually confused with the ordinary leaf blight. 
The leaf spot, as it appears on the green leaves, is usually larger, more 
sharply defined, and somewhat angular, being roughly limited by the 
subdivisions of the venation. The center of the spots is grayish white, 
dotted with minute pycnidia. Surrounding this is a brown zone, 
which frequently shades off into a purplish color. The author reports 
the disease as probably occurring all over the State of New York 
wherever pears are raised, and also in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir¬ 
ginia, Alabama, and elsewhere. His investigations seem to indicate 
that different varieties are subject to the disease in varying degree. 
Anjou, Seckel, Bose, Summer Doyenne, and Bartlett are quite subject; 
Louise Bonne, Clairgeau, Clapp Favorite, Flemish Beauty, and others 
to a less extent ; Duchess very slightly, and Ivieffer and Winter Nellis 
are apparently free from it. An experiment was conducted in w r hicli 
Bordeaux mixture, ammoniacal copper carbonate, and potassium sul¬ 
phide solution were sprayed on Bartlett and Seckel trees for the pre¬ 
vention of leaf spots. Three sprayings of Bordeaux mixture gave 
almost complete protection against the disease. The occurence of leaf 
spot on nursery stock has also been investigated, and some attempts 
have been made to prevent injury. In this case, as in the trial in the 
orchard, Bordeaux mixture gave the best results. 
Nursery Apple Trees— William Henry Smith, Grassland, Tenn., 
s^ys: “ All grafted trees are grow'n on piece roots. Those who cut 
their seedlings 8 to 10 inches long, call it whole root grafting; those 
who cut the seedlings 2 to 6 inches long call it piece root grafting. Not 
only so, but the whole root men have the short-branched seedlings 
picked out for them, and the piece root men have the long smooth 
seedlings as free from branches as possible selected for their especial 
use. Apple seedlings grown under the best conditions are usually 10 
to 18 inches long. This depends entirely upon the soil in which the 
seeds are planted. I have seen them 30 inches long. On very shallow, 
poor soil, G to 10 inches is the usual length. Budded tipple trees grown 
on the entire seedling roots usually have the tap roots cut off more or 
less when taken up and reset. There is only one way uniformly to get 
good whole root trees—plant the seed where you want the trees to be 
and bud or graft them as they stand. If we must take choice between 
a good tap-rooted tree without tlie surface root on the scion and a piece 
root tree with plenty of surface roots of its own, we prefer the latter, 
because reason and experience go to prove it is the better tree. This is 
all the piece root men contend for. When but few trees were raised 
and but few w r ere needed, it was the custom to grow a few good seed, 
lings and early in the spring they cut them off one or two inches below 
the surface of the ground, split and inserted a wedge shaped scion, 
pulled up the dirt and gently pressed around the scion. This was called 
stock grafting. After growing them one season they were carefully 
taken up and reset because the tap root was then considered the all 
important thing. This is just right to get good surface roots, which 
experience teaches me to be more important than the long tap root.” 
IRecent Ipublicattons. 
Bulletins of the Kansas Experiment Station show that Professor E. 
E. Faville is doing good work in the department of horticulture and 
entomology. 
No. 5 of Vol. X of the Experiment Station Record contains besides 
information referred to elsewhere in this issue several pages of matter 
of much interest on the codlin moth. 
Among the most attractive of the season’s catalogues that have come 
to our desk are the following: Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. 
novelties in fruits and ornamental stock ; W. A. Manda, South Orange, 
N. J., new, rare and beautiful plants, seeds and bulbs. 
In the Macmillan Company’s “ Book Reviews ” for February is a 
sketch, by Professor L. H. Bailey, of American texts designed to aid 
the teaching of agriculture in the common schools. The chronological 
biography shows 25 such books. To this list must be added Professor 
Bailey’s “ The Principles of Agriculture,” published by the Macmillan 
Co., New York. 
If there is anything about the Kansas apple that has escaped the 
notice of William H. Barnes, secretary of the Kansas State Horticul. 
tural Society, it must be insignificant indeed. Mr. Barnes has compiled 
a book of 230 pages on the apple. He tells what it is, how to grow it, 
its commercial and economic importance, and bow to utilize it. He 
gives laws pertaining to apple orchardists of his state and articles on 
the chemistry of the apple, the apple business and a short account of 
the famous Wellhouse orchards. He cites the 13 states which pro¬ 
duced in 1889 more apples than did Kansas. There are lists showing 
shipments abroad from each port per week during 1897 and 1898 and a 
comparison of seasons since 1881 . There are revised lists of apples 
recommended for growth in Kansas and descriptions and opinions on 
each of the t -4 varieties named in the book. Under the head of “The 
State by Districts,” are the detailed experiences of 281 of the most 
prominent apple growers in the state, men who have been orcharding 
in Kansas from twenty to forty years. This is the most valuable fea. 
ture of a really remarkable compilation. The lessons to be learned 
from the experiences of these men as here set down are almost without 
number, and they are of value not only to Kansas growers, but to all 
who grow' the apple. One hundred and forty-four pages of the book 
are devoted to these personal reports. A summary of the points 
brought out follow's the reports Then there are miscellaneous articles 
devoted to the treatment of orchards, cold storage, evaporators and in¬ 
sect enemies, with illustrations. Finally there is an index affording 
ready access to this mine of information regarding apple growing in a 
single state. Mr. Barnes was born in New York city, served in the 
artillery in the Civil war and has resided in Kansas 29 years. 
