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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
CYCLOPEDIA OF HORTICULTURE. 
As we go to press we receive advance sheets of the Cyclo¬ 
pedia of American Horticulture, which is to be published in 
1900 in four illustrated volumes. Professor L. H. Bailey, of 
Cornell University, is the editor, and Wilhelm Miller is his 
assistant. The first volume will be issued on January 1 st. 
This is to be the largest work of the kind in the English 
language. Time and space preclude an extended reference to 
the work now. The reputation of Professor Bailey is ample 
assurance that the work will be thoroughly reliable, up-to-date 
and complete. The advance sheets indicate that it will be 
admirably arranged in durable style, easy of reference, and 
invaluable, because it will cover the broad field of horticulture 
in all its classifications, and because, like Johnston’s Cyclo¬ 
pedia, the articles will be signed by the experts who prepared 
them. As we have already, announced, the services of Alfred 
Rehder, a noted expert, were secured for the articles on trees 
and shrubs. Among the contributors to the first volume are 
the following whose names are familiar to our readers : Oakes 
Ames, Cambridge, Mass.; S. A. Beach, Geneva, N. Y.; Professor 
F W. Card, Kingston, R. I.; Professor John Craig, Ames, la.; 
Professor B. E. Fernow, Ithaca, N. Y.; J. H. Hale, South 
Glastonbury, Conn.; Josiah Hoopes, Westchester, Pa.; Profes¬ 
sor F. H. King, Madison, Wis.; J. Horace McFarland, Harris¬ 
burg, Pa.; T. V. Munson, Denison, Tex.; Professor G. Harold 
Powell, Newark, Del.; Professor P. H. Rolfs, Lake City, Fla.; 
Professor C. S. Sargent, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Henry A. Sie- 
brecht, New York city; W. A. Taylor, assistant pomologist, 
Washington, D. C.; Dr. William Trelease, St. Louis; William 
Tricker, Riverton, N. J.; Professor H. E. Van Deman, Parks- 
ley, Va.; Professor F. A. Waugh, Burlington, Vt.; H. J. Web¬ 
ber, Washington, D. C. 
The illustrations are in half tone and line drawing, on plates 
and in the text. The type is clear, in two columns, on heavy 
paper, pages 7 x 11 inches. A more detailed reference will be 
made to this monumental work in the near future. 
FOREST TREES FROM SEED. 
The propagation of forest trees either for decorative plants, 
windbreaks or forests is a comparatively slow process, accord¬ 
ing to Bulletin 38 of the Virginia experiment station. The 
horticulturists of that station have been making extended tests 
along these lines and find that the seeds of such trees as the 
silver maple and other species which ripen seed early should 
be gathered and sown at once. They can be planted in the 
same manner and grow as rapidly as peas. Seeds which ripen 
late in the fall should be sown in autumn and then taken up 
and planted in spring. Nuts like walnuts can be planted sev¬ 
eral bushels in a heap and then taken up and planted in rows 
in spring with perfect success. It is usually practical to plant 
nut seeds where the trees are to stand if nothing interferes with 
their growth thereafter. On rich soil they grow with great 
rapidity. 
All forest tree seedlings should be grown on a mellow soil, 
so as to encourage the development of strong root systems. 
They should be transplanted into nursery rows at the end of 
the first or second year. Slow growing plants like oaks should 
remain two years in seedling beds, while the more rapid grow¬ 
ing varieties should be planted when only a year old. Most 
forest trees do best when set out from five to eight feet tall. 
The tulip poplar tree does very well if not permitted to stand 
in the nursery too long. At the end of the first year it should 
be transplanted to its permanent location. The following list 
of trees can be grown with comparative ease from seed: Black 
walnut, bur oak, hackberry, honey locust, box elder, green ash 
and pecan. 
OSAGE ORANGE HEDGE AND TIMBER. 
We have in this locality many miles of Osage hedge, planted 
2 5 t0 35 years ago, that is a most effective fence from a practi¬ 
cal standpoint, and adds much to the beauty of the landscape, 
writes E. Y. T., Green’s Fork, Ind , in Country Gentleman. 
The trimming is done in June, with sometimes a second clip¬ 
ping in late August. Professional trimmers charge one cent 
per rod for trimming. My neighbor, who has a string 100 
rods long, says he can easily trim it in a day. So the labor, 
even in a busy time, is not very great. 
Not one-half the Osage hedges planted in this country were 
ever properly cared for, and in consequence they became un¬ 
sightly nuisances, except those totally neglected, which have 
grown up 20 to 30 feet high, and now furnish most excellent 
fence posts for setting elsewhere. Osage timbei is one of the 
most durable of all our trees, rivaling the red cedar in that 
respect, and, being a rapid grower, may be profitably planted 
by the acre for posts and other uses. I believe an acre of fair 
farm land, planted in Osage, say 4 by 6 feet, will pay better in 
15 to 25 years than any ordinary farm crop, say $20 to $25 per 
year occupied, without any cultivated after the first year, and a 
little trimming each year or two to promote erect growth. 
3Long anb Short. 
If you can’t find it, try Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O. 
Special prices on apple seedlings by J. W. McNary, Dayton, O. 
Apple seedlings are a specialty of F. W. Watson A Co., Topeka, Kan. 
A first-class nursery hand is wanted at the Emporia, Va., Nurseries. 
An assistant gardener is wanted by George C. Roeding, Fresno, Cal. 
A special list for spring is announced by Albertson & Hobbs, Bridge¬ 
port, Ind. 
American arbor vitae and Irish juniper can be had of Phoenix Nursery 
Co., Bloomington, Ill. 
Field-grown own root roses, both tender and hardy, at the Howland 
Nursery Company’s, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Ellwanger & Barry’s Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y., have been declared 
the most complete on the American continent. 
Roses, clematis, evergreens and horticultural specialties from France 
are offered by Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J. 
California privet, apple and peach trees, roses and shrubs, are special¬ 
ties at the F. & F. Nurseries, Springfield, N. J. 
Peters & Skinner, North Topeka, Kans., can supply apple seedlings in 
large lots, fine grades; also apple, peach, pear and plum trees. 
Strawberry plants by the dozen or by the million can be procured 
from J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Ind. These plants are fresh dug. 
well rooted, well graded and well packed to reach any part of the 
United States. Peach, apple, plum and asparagus are also specialties. 
A special surplus list of desirable fruit and ornamental stock can be 
had of Jackson & Perkins* Co., Newark, N. Y. These well-known 
nurserymen are growers of choice specialties. Roses, clematis, orna¬ 
mentals, grape-vines and small fruit plants are specialties. They are 
importers of French grown fruit tree stocks and ornamentals, English 
grown Industry gooseberries and raffia. 
