THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmong Growers anb Sealers. 
There is said to be a heavy planting of apple in the West 
Smith & Reed are successors to A. M. Smith, St. Catherines, Ont. 
J. Cole Doughty, manager of the Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, 
Minn., will spend a portion of the winter in New Mexico. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, New York, has secured the contract to supply 
4,000 shade trees to be set out in Highland avenue, Passaic, N. J. 
G. H. Miller & Son, Rome, Ga., write : “We never were so entirely 
sold out of stock as we are to day. Our trade has been exceptionally 
good for this season.” 
The Southern Trade Journal heartily commends, editorially, the 
Pomona Nurseries, Grifflng Brothers Co., Jacksonville, Fla., for com¬ 
plete lines of trees and shrubs for southern planting. 
The 83d birthday of George Ellwanger, of the firm of Ellwanger & 
Barry, Rochester, N. Y., was observed, as usual, at a dinner party at 
which there were thirty distinguished guests besides the venerable 
host. 
Joseph H. Black & Son, Higlitstown, N. J., have constructed a suit¬ 
able house for fumigating nursery stock with hydrocyanic gas. They 
are also making a determined effort to propagate everything they 
catalogue. 
Ex-President Irving Rouse, of the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men, returned late last month from a trip to France where he 
purchased pear seedlings. He says there is a scarcity of seedlings in 
France. The stock of Myrobolan is very short, due to frosts. 
The nurserymen in Angers, Orleans and Ussy, France, have been 
favored by the season for their ground work and business. Fruit 
stocks are in great demand and nearly exhausted in every place. Orna¬ 
mentals and forest stocks are still obtainable in quantities ; the season 
has been favorable for them. 
The co-partnership heretofore existing between William Flemer and 
0. H. Felmly has been dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Felmly retir¬ 
ing and Mr. Flemer becoming now sole owner of the Springfield 
property and business which will be continued under the name “ F. & 
F. Nurseries.” The agency department will henceforth be conducted 
under the name “North Jersey Nurseries,” by E. D. Panned, manager. 
DEVELOPMENT OF FRUIT BUDS. 
In most fruit states the autumn weather was very favorable 
to the proper ripening of new wood of fruit-bearing trees and 
the development of blossom buds for the fruit crop of 1900. 
Responses to our inquiries, says American Agriculturist, as to 
the condition of all kinds of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs 
show that where these were not severely injured by last 
season’s cold spell everything is in first-class condition. 
SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. 
If the number of applications warrant the undertaking, a 
short school of horticulture will be held at the R. I. College 
Kingston, R. I., beginning Feb. 26, 1900, and continuing two 
weeks. The plan will be to crowd all the clear-cut practical 
instruction possible into this brief space of time. To that end 
the aid of practical men who have made a success in different 
lines of horticulture will be elicited. Special effort will also 
be made to familiarize students with horticultural literature in 
order that they may know where to look for information when 
needed. The work will include a study of soils, fertilizers, 
plant life, fruits, vegetables, ornamental gardening, propaga¬ 
tion, spraying, etc. Especial attention will be given to bush- 
fruits. Expenses moderate. Information may be obtained of 
Fred W, Card, professor of horticulture, Kingston, R. I. 
THIRTY YEARS AGO. 
Henry Schroeder, Sigourney, la., well known to the trade- 
read a paper at the Southeastern Iowa Horticutural Society 
meeting at Mt. Pleasant, November 22d, in which he said : 
Thirty years ago I came through Mt. Pleasant, where we now meet, 
with $7.00 and a ticket to Fairfield. My father had borrowed it and 
charged the interest to me. But five years later when 22 years old I 
collected my labor, what I had saved, and bought eighty acres wild 
land for $800 and paid for half of it, ten miles north of Sigourney. 
But before I got any land broke tree agents got after me ; but to stop 
this trouble I made a contract with this clause written in, that if I did 
not get ready I would not have to pay and take the stock. Now after 
they swindled others their company broke up and the agent told me 
I would have no trouble, they only wanted my name to get others. 
After that, I went to the nearest home nursery without troubling the 
nurseryman any with his prices and stock by leaving good deal selec¬ 
tion to him. He treated me well. I got good varieties, planted them 
good, and they all grew, and after that I helped my good neighbors. 
jfrom IDartous points. 
The office of experiment stations points out the need of stations in 
the new possessions—Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines, adding 
that $15,000 could be wisely appropriated for Hawaii, $10,000 for the 
Philippines, and $5,000 for Porto Rico. 
The Mexican orange maggot, Trypeta ludens, was found in a ship¬ 
ment of oranges from Panama to San Francisco, November 19th. The 
oranges were destroyed promptly. California horticulturists now 
demand that oranges from Mexico be barred from the bunted States. 
The U. S. Division of Botany has established a testing garden where 
observation may be had of plants introduced from foreign countries, so 
as to avoid new plant diseases. The acquisition of tropical islands by 
the United States has brought many inquiries to this division regard¬ 
ing the cultivated plants of the tropics. 
Why are orchards unfruitful ? asks Professor L. H. Bailey in a recent 
bulletin of the Cornell University, and in answer to his question he 
states that the contributing causes are: (1) Lack of good tillage, partic¬ 
ularly in the first few years of the life of the plantation; (2) lack of 
humus and fertilizers; (3) uncongenial soils and sites; (4) lack of sys 
tematic and annual pruning; (5) lack of spraying and attention to 
borers and other pests; (6) bad selection of varieties; (7) trees propa¬ 
gated from unfruitful stock. 
During the year the U. S. Division of Pomology distributed 2,700 
lots of fruit-bearing trees, plants and vines to about 275 experimenters 
in various portions of the country. Experimentation under the direc¬ 
tion of the division is being conducted in North Carolina and Florida, 
with a view to the successful production of the finer table grapes of 
Europe. One hundred and nineteen varieties grafted on phylloxera 
resistant American stocks have been planted by the experimenters, as 
well as 43 varieties of “direct producers” and “resistant stocks.” 
The Broadway, New York city, florist, Fleischman, has brought out 
a carnation grown in competition with the $30,000 Lawson. The 
flower is pronounced by connoisseurs to be the most beautiful product 
of its kind in existence, far surpassing the Lawson carnation in color, 
delicacy of tints, formation and durability. Mr. Fleischman says it 
will retain its bloom for ten days at least. The flower averages about 
six inches in circumference, and its fundamental color is white, with a 
delicate tiut of pink and cerise spreading out from the veins of the 
petals. The stem of the flower is also thicker and stronger than the 
Lawson carnation, and the foliage much richer. Thomas W. Lawson 
offered a wager of $10,000 that the Lawson carnation could not be 
equaled in six months. 
Budd and Kenyon, Hector, N, Y., Dec. 12, 1899—“Please find en¬ 
closed a Post Office Money Order for one dollar for the National 
Nurseryman for the year of 1900. We are well pleased with it.” 
W. K. Wellborn, Tecumseii, Okla., Dec. 11, 1899—“Enclosed 
$1 renewing my subscription to your valuable journal for one year. 
Could not well get along without it,” 
