THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Xono anb Short. 
TREES OF GREAT AGE. 
Natural peacli seed a specialty at J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Mil 
For apple seedlings, new land grown, address A. E. Windsor 
Havana, Ill. 
Extra fine seedling peach pits may be had of George C. Itoeding. 
Fresno, Cal. 
A competent foreman is wanted by Stanley H. Watson at the Rose- 
dale Nurseries, Brenham, Tex. 
A complete stock of fruit and ornamental stock at Storrs & Harri¬ 
son Company’s, Painesville, O. 
Myrobolan seed and natural peach seed can be obtained of Thomas 
Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa. 
Apple seedlings, equal to any on the market, in three sizes, are 
offered by F. S. Phoenix, Bloomington, Ill. 
A list of special surplus stock of wide variety is offered in another 
column by Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y. 
Genuine mountain natural peach pits, crop of 1899, may be obtained 
of the J. Van Lindley Nursery Co , Pomona, N. C. 
The Ellwanger & Barry Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y., established 
fifty years ago, are under the original management. 
L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, N. Y., is the introducer of a new strawberry 
of great promise. It is a seedling resulting from the growing of seeds 
of Eureka, Lady Rusk, Gandy, and Bubach. The berry is large, dark 
red, and very firm. The fruit sold at 12 to 20 cents per quart in New 
York and Boston this year. It is a week later than other varieties. 
On account of its superior carrying qualities it has been named the 
“ Rough Rider.” _ 
NEW JERSEY FRUIT GROWING. 
About one-tenth of New Jersey’s 34,000 farmers are act¬ 
ively engaged in commercial horticulture. They have over 
41,000 acres in large and small fruits. Returns from 3,058 
growers, who each had an average of over 12 acres in fruits, 
include peaches 18,750, apples 6,104, pears 3,707, cherries 64, 
quinces 15, plums 12, a total of 28,652 fruit trees, besides 
which 8,772 acres of small fruits were reported, making an 
aggregate of 37,423 acres, to which about one tenth was 
added to cover areas not specifically reported. The small 
fruits include strawberries 3,927 acres, blackberries 2,848, 
raspberries 1,052, grapes 839, currants 85, gooseberries 20. It 
will be observed that the peach industry slightly exceeds all 
the others put together. The apple is the next most impor¬ 
tant fruit, although hardly one-third the acreage of peaches. 
The others in order of importance are strawberries, pears, 
blackberries, raspberries, grapes, currants, cherries, goose¬ 
berries, quinces and plums. 
The fruit industry is general throughout the state, the 
northern counties being second in peaches, strawberries, 
cherries, quinces, plums, gooseberries and currants. The 
central section leads in acreage of apples and peaches, is sec¬ 
ond in pears, grapes, blackberries and raspberries, while the 
southern section leads in acreage of pears, grapes and small 
fruits. 
Gericke, the great German forester, writes that the greatest 
ages to which trees in Germany are positively known to have 
lived are from 500 to 570 years. For instance, the pine in 
Bohemia and the pine in Norway and Sweden have lived to 
the latter age. Next comes the silver fir, which in the Bohemia 
forests has stood and thrived for upward of 400 years. In 
Bavaria the larch has reached the age of 275 years. Of foli¬ 
age trees the oak appears to have survived the longest. The 
best example is the evergeen oak at Aschaffenburg, which 
reached the age of 410 years. Other oaks in Germany have 
lived to be from 315 to 320 years old. At Aschaffenburg the 
red beech has lived to the age of 245 years. Of other trees 
the highest known are ash, 170 years ; birch, 160 to 200 
years ; aspen, 220 years ; mountain maple, 225 years ; elm, 
130 years, and red alder, 145 years. 
NEW STRAWBERRY—“ROUGH RIDER.” 
" I "HE firmest, latest, best 
* keeping strawberry 
1 ever produced. Enor¬ 
mously productive and 
large. Brought 12 to 20c. 
per quart wholesale in New 
York and Boston, season of 
1899. We are the in trod u c- 
ers and supply plants to 
the trade. Nurserymen are 
invited to catalogue it. For 
prices, cuts, and all infor¬ 
mation address 
L.J.FARMER 
Nurseryman, 
PULASKI, IN, Y . 
P S. We have 13 acres of strawberries, 5 acres of raspberries, 4 acres 
of blackberries, &c., &c. We can quote rock bottom prices on red 
raspberries and blackberry plants. Correspondence solicited. 
250,000 Miller Red Raspberry Plants. 
300,000 Early Harvest Blackberry Plants. 
150,000 Lucretia Dewberry Plants. 
125,000 Strawberry Plants, from best leading sorts 
100,000 Peach Trees, one year from bud and June budded in sur 
plus. 
20,000 Japan Plums, one year from bud, also in surplus. 
WRITE TOR PRICES. 
MILFORD NURSERIES, 
Alex. Pullen, Prop. Milford, Delaware. 
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Nurseries dt USSY end ORLEANS^ Frence. 
Growers of the Most Complete Line Z ^ ^ ^ 
HERMAN J3ERKMAN, Sole Agent, 
_ , „ . 39 AND 41 CORTLANDT STREET. NEW YORK. 
Sole Agent for United States and Canada. 
