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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hn Burseiv IRows. foreign IRotes. 
Bordeaux Mixture. —To be effective this must be mixed shortly 
before being applied. As it is ineffective when kept even for a few 
weeks nothing is gained by the supposed economy of keeping it from 
one season to another. 
Sutton Beauty. —J. H. Hale: “ You have gone all over the coun¬ 
try to find new varieties, you people of New England and have 
neglected for forty or fifty years the best kind of them all, originated 
in the state of Massachusetts, the Sutton Beauty. I quite indorse what 
Mr. Powell says of it. One reason why it has not been widely dissem¬ 
inated, is because it is a slow grower in the nursery, while Baldwins 
are much more profitable to the nurseryman.” 
The Yellow Wood. — During many years the late Andrew S. 
Fuller lauded the Yellow Wood, Cladrastis tinctoria, as the king tree of 
the lawn. The editor of Rural New Yorker has followed as an advo¬ 
cate of this noble lawn tree. But now Mr. Carman reports that his 
tree is dying when twenty-seven years old, and that Mr. Fuller’s finest 
tree has died. Professor J. L. Budd has agreed that the tree in Iowa 
seemed to be an ironclad. At Ames trees over twenty years old are 
still perfect, and he speaks of one tree in Des Moines forty years old 
still perfect and very beautiful. As yet his opinion is that the Yellow 
Wood and Cut-Leaved Birch are our finest and hardiest lawn trees. 
Long Apple Scions —Making apple root grafts with long scions is 
entirely practicable, judging by my own experience, says Professor 
Van Deman in Rural New Yorker. I am now thinking of putting up 
a few thousand for my own use, and if I do so, I expect to cut scions 
about one foot long, with well developed terminal buds. Only good 
strong one or two-year-old apple seedlings should be used, and these 
may be made into two good cuts. 1 was talking at the Omaha Exposi¬ 
tion with F. Wellhouse, of Kansas, and J. C. Evans, of Missouri, on 
this very subject. As they are among the very largest and most ex¬ 
perienced orchardists in the world, and grow their own trees for plant¬ 
ing, what they say is the very safest to follow in this matter. They 
both agreed, and said in plain terms that they now practice using 
longer scions than formerly, and not over three-inch pieces of first 
class apple seedlings. These long scions are a little more bother to 
handle than the old six inch cuts, but they are more easily cultivated 
when small, and make better trees. 
The Silver Spruce.— M. E. Hickley, Marcus, la., says of this king 
of evergreens : “ The lovely Colorado spruce will never be common 
until it is grown from cuttings or by grafting. It will not surely repro¬ 
duce from seed.” As grown from seed, says Professor Budd, not more 
than one in a hundred of the trees will take on the beautiful silvery 
blue expression of the specimen trees we see in Denver or Nebraska 
cities, and in now and then a yard over the whole Northwest. But in 
dividual specimens of the rarest shades can be reproduced exactly by 
growing from cuttings of the young wood and by grafting. Fortu. 
nately for the perpetuity and general planting of these finest speci¬ 
mens, it grows more easily and uniformly from cuttings than any ever 
green except the Arbor Vitae and Juniper. Hoopes Brother and 
Thomas, and other eastern propagators, grow them from cuttings with 
about as much certainty as the rose. Over the prairie states, where the 
tree is such a success, its growth should be taken up by those who 
understand propagation under glass. 
Waxed Cloth for Budding. —Answering an inquiry as to how 
waxed cloth for budding is made, II. E. Van Deman, in the Rural 
New Yorker, says : “ The way I make waxed cloth for budding or 
grafting is to heat ordinary grafting wax in a kettle until it is as liquid 
as water. Prepare tender muslin or calico cloth in strips about six 
inches wide and of an} r convenient length, say one or two feet. Cut 
small sticks the size of a lead pencil into lengths two inches longer 
than the cotton is wide. Roll the cloth on them, one piece after 
another until about two inches in diameter. Drop these into the hot 
wax, and let them thoroughly soak. Dip them out with a big fork, 
and as soon as the projecting ends of the sticks are cool enough to hold 
in the fingers, let one person take a roll by these ends and another start 
the cloth to unrolling. Hold it over a bush, and let the waxed cloth 
lie on the branches to cool. Keep on until all are so spread out. 
When cool, they may be laid together in a cool place and used as 
needed. Tear them into such strips as may be needed to cover the 
wounds on the grafted or budded trees.” 
John Waterer & Sons, Limited, Bagshot, England, advertise theirs 
as an American nursery. 
Sir W. T. Thistleton Dyer, director of the Royal gardens, Kew, 
England, has been promoted by Queen Victoria to be a knight com¬ 
mander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. 
An Englishman has patented a new method of propagating plants 
and trees, consisting of grafting a piece of root from one plant into the 
branch of another, the offshoots partaking of the nature of the grafted 
root. 
During December, 1898, there were imported into England 281,324 
bushels of apples more than during December, 1897; 11,671 bushels 
more of grapes, 7,059 bushels more of pears and 266 bushels less of 
plums. 
On Jan. 9th, the employees of Messrs. Palmer & Co., Annan, Scotland, 
struck for an advance in wages. The men were being paid 15 shillings 
per week, working ten hours per day in the summer and eight in the 
winter. They demanded 4 pence per hour. An increase of one shilling 
per week was offered and refused and an offer of two shillings per week 
increase was accepted pending a meeting of the directors. 
At the last meeting of the Berlin Horticultural Society, Professor 
Frank detailed results of his investigation of samples of the San Jose 
scale sent to him from America. He finds it entirely distinct from the 
Aspidiotus conchseformis which is widely dispersed in Europe. Amer- 
can writers have said that the San Jose scale has three generations 
yearly and that each female breeds 600 scales. Professor Frank says 
the San Jose scale has but one generation yearly and that there are 
but thirty ovules containing young, 
BROWN BROTHERS’ OFFICE. 
Brown Brothers Company, Rochester, N. Y., will change their 
post office to Brighton, N. Y., in the spring. In connection 
with the change a member of the firm said : 
We have about 90 acres of land at Brighton, and on this are located 
our cellars and packing yards. We have in course of construction, a 
new office building, which will be sufficiently large to accommodate 
the various branches of our establishment. Our idea in building is to 
afford a permanent headquarters, and to simplify our work. It is 
necessary that our cellars and packing yards be watched constantly, as 
they contain much valuable property that needs constant attention. In 
summer when the stock is growing, it is especially necessary that there 
be competent people about. It is on our Brighton plot that we exper¬ 
iment with various fruits, a branch of the business that requires un¬ 
diminished attention. 
Our new office building, is in colonial style, to be finished inside with 
white Georgia pine. The entire interior is to be snow white. We 
expect this effect, when ornamented with flowers and fruits will be 
of unusual beauty. It will be unique in the way of office buildings. 
We will be slightly inconvenienced in that Brighton is but a small 
post office, and the mail deliveries will not be so frequent as in Roches¬ 
ter. We do not believe this will make any great amount of difference 
to us. The building is now in course of construction, and we expect to 
take possession late in March. 
IRecent publications. 
Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal., has distributed among nursery¬ 
men his 1899 supplement to his “ New Creations,” in which several 
new plums, a new quince and two new roses are described. 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture has issued bulletins on these 
subjects: “ Thirty Poisonous Plants of the United States “Miscel¬ 
laneous Results of the Work of the Division of Entomology Experi¬ 
ment Station Record, Vol. N. No, 4. 
