THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmong (Browers anb Dealers. 
William Rosso will start a nursery at Johnson, Neb. 
Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa., visited Rochester 
nurserymen last month. # 
L. C. Bobbink, Rutherford, N. J., representing foreign ex¬ 
porters, visited Rochester nurserymen recently. 
Nelson Smith, of E. Smith & Sons, Geneva, N. Y., was in 
Rochester during the horticultural society meeting 
The post office address of the Evergreen Nursery Company 
has been changed from Evergreen, Wis., to Sturgeon Bay, Wis. 
George T. Powell, Ghent, N. Y., advocates the formation 
of a horticultural bureau by the New York Department of 
Agriculture. 
Henry Schroeder reviewed the record of horticulture during 
the last decade* in Keokuk county, before the Southeastern 
Iowa Society. 
Pierce Bechtle, Le Mars, la., says there are a number of 
varieties of apples in the northwestern part of Iowa that are 
giving large crops of fine fruit. 
California horticulturists propose the adoption of a new law 
in that state governing the quarantining of fruits and trees 
affected with insects or disease. 
A bill pending before the Illinois legislature proposes to 
place $5,000 in the hands of the state entomologist for the 
work of combating San Jose scale. 
Gilbert Costich, Rochester, N Y., purchased the nurseyr 
stock and implements of William S. Little last month for $200. 
The office furniture was sold for $9.75. 
The American Newspaper Publishers’ Association has pre¬ 
sented to the United States-Canadian Joint High Commission 
a brief arguing for the preservation of the forests. 
Ground for the horticultural building in the new botanical 
garden in Bronx park, New York, was broken on January 3d. 
The building will be ready for occupancy in October. 
J. M. Hutchinson, representing August Rhotert, New York 
city, American agent for French, German, Holland and Bel¬ 
gium growers, called on Western New York nurserymen last 
month. 
Joseph M. Neil & Co., La Porte, Ind., write: “ Trade is 
opening beautifully down this way. The indications for a 
profitable season are most encouraging and will certainly be 
appreciated.” 
Kinsey’s Fruit Farm and Nurseries, Kinsey, O, will here¬ 
after be conducted under the name of William N. Kinsey, who 
has been the proprietor since the death of his father Samuel 
Kinsey, in 1883. 
The Osborn Stoddard Nursery Co., Madison, N. J., has 
been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The in¬ 
corporators are : William O. Stoddard, Jr., William D. Green, 
James H. Baker, Edmund K. Brown and Isaac K. Van De- 
water. 
Professor J. L. Budd who recently resigned the position of 
the head of the department of horticulture and forestry in the 
Iowa State Agricultural College, has begun a revision of Pro¬ 
fessor Charles Downing’s apple book. To Professor Budd 
was willed the library of Charles and A. J. Downing. 
Secretary A. J. Phillips of the Wisconsin Horticultural 
Society calls attention to the fact that while Montana exhibited 
at Omaha exposition a Wolf River apple said to weigh 32 
ounces, Wisconsin showed four of this variety weighing to¬ 
gether seven pounds and two ounces. The Wisconsin and 
Missouri apple exhibits were especially fine. 
“ W. E. Houghton, of Ohio, likes to use a glass label for fruit 
trees,” says Rural New Yorker. ‘‘He writes the name of the 
fruit and the name of the fruit agent on a slip of paper, 
and rolls it around a small, round stick. This is then 
put into a small homeopathic pill bottle, which is corked up 
and wired to a tree. It is a first rate plan to put the agent’s 
name wiih the name of the tree. This information may come 
handy when the tree gets into bearing.” 
The stockholders of the West Michigan Nurseries have 
elected the following directors : John W. Bedford, Cushing : 
Arthur J. Dean, Eau Claire ; H. A Rackliffe, O. E. Fifield, 
C. W. Schriver, Benton Harbor ; Frank M. Kelley, Benton 
Harbor ; Milton Preston, Eau Claire ; W. B. Moshier, Eau 
Claire ; H. L. Bird, Benton Harbor. The directors have chosen 
these officers : President, John W. Bedford ; vice-president, 
Frank M. Keller ; secretary and treasurer, H. L. Bird ; gen¬ 
eral manager, Charles W. Schriver ; superintendent of farm, 
W. B. Moshier There are 913 acres in the nurseries at Ben¬ 
ton Harbor. 
NEW ZEALAND SCALE LAW. 
The governor of New Zealand has issued a proclamation 
stating that whereas it has appeared to his satisfaction that 
fruit trees and plants infested with various species of scale 
insects have been and still are imported into New Zealand to 
the danger and detriment of the fruit plantations of the 
country, the importation is absolutely prohibited of any trees 
or plants, including cuttings, buds, etc., infected with scale 
insects. To enable thorough control of the inspection neces¬ 
sary the ports of Auckland and Wellington are designated as 
the only two ports for such importations. 
IOWA PLUM CULTURE. 
Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la., is trying an extensive experiment 
in plum culture. The plum stands a good chance to take part 
of the prestige of the apple in Iowa. Mr. Wilson presented at 
Iowa Horticultural Society meeting a paper on the Domestica 
plum, whose culture has been neglected in Iowa for the Amer¬ 
icana, Chickasaw and Japan. The south half of Iowa, said 
Mr. Wilson, is well adapted for the culture of the Domestica 
plum. He now has 3,000 Domestica trees under cultivation 
and about 500 of Americana and Chickasaw. The culture 
has been discouraged on account of the stock. Professor 
Budd suggested the sand cherry as a stock. Mr. Wilson said 
about his Domestica : “ I expect to market in the near future 
as many bushels of plums from my Domestica trees as my 
friends who are giving all their attention to the native varieties, 
and I expect also to receive double the price for the same 
amount of plums that they do for theirs.” 
C. G. Patten, of Charles City, who has been appointed the 
Iowa delegate to the American Pomological Society conven¬ 
tion, with Eugene Secor, of Forest City, as alternate, said there 
would be a warning note sounded about the Domestica, be¬ 
cause, he said, the cold winters which occasionally sweep over 
even Southern Iowa will kill it out. 
