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felt want and has applied for a patent. For a tree lifter it cer¬ 
tainly is a ‘cracker-jack,’ and those who are not familiar 
with the large amount of work to be done in the shipping sea¬ 
son can form no idea of the necessity of quick work in order 
to keep up with the orders for carloads of nursery stock. 
“ Perry township has long been known as having one of the 
finest soils in the Union for the growing of fruit trees, and 
buyers consider themselves very fortunate when they are able 
to place their orders with our well known firms. The climate 
also is very advantageous for the growing of fruit trees, as no 
infectious diseases have ever been known in our nurseries, 
hence it is well known that the nursery interests of Perry 
township are second to none, and notwithstanding the fact that 
hundreds of acres are being utilized in this branch of industry 
new nurseries are being set out and cultivated, and the present 
demand proves that the idea of overproduction is a fallacy 
and that the stock gown in this section will always find a 
ready market.” 
A NURSERYMAN’S ENTERPRISE. 
• 
M. Butterfield of the Star Nurseries, Lee’s Summit, Mo., has 
set out about 80,000 trees on the contract plan within the last 
few years, principally in Western Missouri aud Kansas, and is 
now engaged in making some experiments in fruit raising in 
the southeastern part of the state. “ I have made arrange¬ 
ments to start an experimental farm near Farmington,” said 
he, “and some interesting results are anticipated. I will put 
out sixty varieties of apples, sixty varieties of peaches, straw¬ 
berries, and, in fact, all the leading varieties of small fruits for 
experimental purposes. The country looks like a fine fruit 
region, but there is not at present a single commercial orchard in 
that section, so far as I have been able to learn. The soil is supe¬ 
rior, and contains the exact quantity of iron which has been 
long recognized as giving the finest flavor and color. Horti¬ 
culturists know that a good wheat country will almost always 
produce fine fruit. They also recognize in certain native tim¬ 
ber growths the adaptibility for fruit growing. A soil which 
produces black walnut, sugar tree, wild cherry, paw-paw, red 
and white oak, hickory and elm is marked out by nature for 
fruit raising. Then, instead of having to haul iron filings miles 
and miles to put around their trees, as the orchardists of other 
sections have had to do, the fruit growers there will find the 
exact elements already existent in the soil. 
“I have been engaged for three weeks past in collecting 
specimens from the old orchards in that neighborhood, which 
I will display at the coming meeting of the State Horticultural 
Society at Princeton. I expect to open the eyes of some of 
the fruit men, too, for this region at the east end of the Ozark 
rise has been almost neglected by fruit growers. In my opinion 
it will produce almost any kind of fruit, but for pears and 
strawberries the conditions are almost ideal. They tell me 
that strawberries from that section have already a reputation 
on the St. Louis maket because of their fine color and flavor, 
but nobody has gone into the fruit raising business on an ex¬ 
tensive scale, for reasons that can hardly be comprehended by 
the experienced fruit grower.” 
A SAMPLE FROM THE MAIL. 
The Crete Nurseries, E. F. Stephens, Manager, Crete, Neb., 
Nov. 13 .—“ Enclosed please find $1 renewal of your excellent jour¬ 
nal.” 
.front IDavious points. 
The Country Gentleman says: “ They still have the nerve out in In¬ 
diana to issue a San Jose scale bulletin.” 
Professor Van Deman is advising the purchase of nursery stock in 
the fall and keeping it for spring planting. 
The Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen will hold its 
semi-annual meeting in Kansas City on December 2(Jth. 
Secretary Barnes of the Kansas Horticultural Society says there are 
7 , 533,358 apple trees in bearing in Kansas and 3 , 641,385 not in bearing. 
The annual meeting of the Fruit Growers’ Association of Ontario 
will be held at Whitby, December 5 and 6. L. Wolverton, Grimsby, 
is secretary. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs and vines amounted to $ 276 ,- 
552 in September, 1899 . There were imported the same month of last 
year $ 220 , 290 . 
H. C. Irish of St. Louis is quoted as saying that the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurserymen has done more for the everlasting benefit of 
fruit growers than has any other agency. 
Contrary to the usual practice, a Belgian horticulturist plants cut 
tings of hardy trees and shrubs in the fall. The percentage of loss, he 
insists, is smaller than when planted in the spring, and the results much 
more satisfactory. 
The executive committee of the American Rose Society has decided 
to hold the first rose exhibition in the Eden Musee, New York City, 
March 27 , next. Premiums to the extent of $ 1,000 are already guaran¬ 
teed, and there will be eight to ten silver cups. 
The Great Bourbon, as the oldest of the orange trees at Versailles is 
called, died last year at the age of 477 years, says a French contempo¬ 
rary. The seeds of a particularly flavorsome orange were sown in 1421 
by Leonara de Castille, Queen of Navarre and resulted in this. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs and vines amounted to 
138,075 in July, 1899 , against $ 24,835 worth in July, 1898 . The total 
imports for the seven months ending July 31 , 1899 , amounted to 
$ 236 , 392 , as compared with $ 24,835 worth imported during the first 
seven months of 1898 . 
The annual inspection of Illinois nurseries required by law of the 
state entomologist was done by assistants of Professor S. A. Forbes of 
the University of Illinois. The total number of nurseries found was 
274 . The average cost of inspection paid, under the law, by nursery¬ 
men, was $ 5.38 for each nursery. 
A recent decision of the Supreme court of Washington states that to 
be effectual the countermand of an order of purchase must be made 
before delivery of goods to carrier. That notice was deposited in the 
post office is not sufficient. The mail is here considered as the agent 
of the party sending the notice of countermand. 
A writer in the Journal of Horticulture estimates that in all England 
there are fully 1,100 acres covered with commercial greenhouses, which 
he apportions to various branches as follows: Three hundred and fifty 
acres for flowers, 350 acres for grapes; tomatoes, 250 acres; cucum¬ 
bers, 110 acres, and 50 acres to stone fruit, strawberries and other pro¬ 
duce. 
The grape belt of New York consists of about 30,000 acres, of w'hich 
25,000 are in nine townships on the border of Chautauqua Lake in New 
York, and 5 , 1)00 in two townships in Pennsylvania. An average yield 
is 7,000 carloads in a season. 3,000 baskets to a car, or 21 , 000.000 bask¬ 
ets. Of these nearly 95 per cent, are Concords, and the average price 
last year was seven cents a basket. It is estimated that there are 6,000 
pickers employed, aud as a rule there are eight to ten women to one 
man. 
Every horticulturist should be, to a considerable extent, an entomol¬ 
ogist, says an exchange. He should be able to recognize any common 
insect that invades his fruit plantation or his orchard. To accomplish 
this he should have a small collection of the insects that are most com 
mon. These collections are not readily obtainable at this time, but the 
demand for them will create a supply. In older countries this demand 
aud supply already exist. In England one entomologist makes a busi" 
ness of breeding insects for the purpose of supplying collections. 
