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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong Growers anb IDealers. IRecent Ipmblications. 
Louis Berckmans, Augusta, Ga , is recovering from a long illness. 
Isaac Hicks, Westbury, L I., “the quaker nurseryman,” is 90 years 
of age. 
Francis G. Butler, of Hartford, Conn., a traveling salesman for a 
Syracuse nursery firm, died Dec. 27. 
G. B. Spitler, W. B Hunter and E. li. Hulbert will establish a 
nursery at Mt. Sion, Ill., near Decgjtur. 
W. E. Wellington, Toronto, president of the Ontario Fruit Growers 
Association, has been making a tour of Great Britain. 
A Miller & Son, proprietors of the Milton Nurseries, Milton Oregon, 
are supplying Spokane dealers with large quantities of trees. 
The Newport Nursery Co., Newport, R. I., it is reported, made an 
assignment, Dec. 29, 1899. The assignee is D. F. Easterbrooke. 
E. Albertson, Bridgeport. Ind., and J. B Morey and E. D. Morrison, 
Dansville, N. Y., called upon Rochester nurserj men last month. 
The Smith Nursery Co. has been sold to P. P. Smith and Dr. C. R- 
Wade, of Mountain Grove. All the movable stock will be taken to 
the latter place. 
McLean County Nurseries, Normal, Ill.: “ Trade with us is nearly 
double that of a year ago. Prices are higher. We cannot remember 
when nursery stock was as scarce as at present.” 
C. T. Lansing, proprietor of the Quaker Nursery, Salem, Oregon, 
shipped two carloads of nursery stock to Idaho last fall. He reports 
business good and a fair demand for fruit trees in Southwestern Idaho- 
P. S. Peterson & Son, Chicago, report that last fall’s business at 
their nurseries was a record breaker. They are puttiug in a system of 
water works for irrigating purposes at a cost of about $10,000, at 
Rose Hill. 
Samuel Miller, of Bluffton, Mo., says : “ There are records in print 
where years ago I stated that the time would come w r hen the Keiffer 
pear would hold the place that the Ben Davis does among the apples. 
That time is here now.” 
The Seaboard Air Line has located a station in the center of the 
Fruitland Nurseries, P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga., greatly in 
creasing the shipping facilities. This firm recently shipped a large 
order of nursery stock to Natal. South Africa. 
“There will be a tendency toward higher prices for the next tw-o 
years,” says the proprietor of the Sedgwick Nurseries. Sedgwick, Kan. 
The statement is endorsed by T. R. Watson, Plymouth, Mass., Nichols 
& Lorton, Davenport, la.. Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind., and 
others. 
Pierce Bechtle, Le Mars, la , writes : “ Business with us last fall 
was better than for a number of years. Prospects for heavy spring 
business are good and in most lines at an advance in prices. When we 
get hardy stock on which to propagate, successful apple growing in 
this northwest country will be largely solved, and within two or three 
years I think w r e will have it.” 
Judge Miller, of Missouri, the well-known horticultural writer, 
visited Bagley & Son’s Nurseries, at New Haven, Mo., last summer 
and became enthusiastic over a fine block of 200,000 Elberta peach 
trees for next spring’s trade and the clean cultivation of the nurseries. 
“ Here,” says he, “ I witnessed budding that surprised me. The claim 
had been made that some could bud 3,000 in a day ; in my most active 
days I could only bud 1,000 trees and tie them, but in this troop were 
men who can put in 4,000 buds in ten hours.” 
MAGNITUDE OB' THE WEST. 
It is well known that in the West they never do things by 
halves. A matter of a cipher or two in a figure before which 
is the dollar sign is of little matter. So when the Denver 
Republican reported the Colorado Horticultural Society meet¬ 
ing, and C. S. Harrison, of York, Neb., spoke of a Picea 
pungens selling for $ 15 . 00 , the decimal was ignored and a 
cipher was added and out of the West came the tale of the 
sale of a tree for $ 15,000 ! The growth of the figure exceeded 
even the remarkable growth of vegetation in the West. Mr. 
Harrison says; “How figures will lie, if you don’t watch,” 
United States Department of Agriculture publications: Annual 
Reports of the Secretary ; Experiment Station Record, Vol. X, No. 12, 
Vol. XL No. 4 ; Report of the Editor. 
Those who are especially interested in hybrid varieties of plums 
should endeavor to secure the report of Prof. F. A. Waugh, state hor¬ 
ticulturist of Vermont and note particularly the varieties described on 
pages 218—230. Space does not permit an extended reference to this 
subject at this time. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., announce in their catalogue for 
1900 lhat they are the largest growers of peach nursery stock in the 
United States. J. G Harrison make a specialty of pears, the Keiffer 
as leader ; Orlando Harrison makes a specialty of peaches, the Victor 
as leader ; G. A. Harrison makes a specialty of strawberries, tbe Hero 
as leader. 
The catalogue of J. Wragg A Sons Co., Waukee, la., just received 
gives evidence of having been the subject of much care in arrange¬ 
ment. It has plain attractive descriptions accompanied by photo, 
engravings not only of the stock offered, but of scenes on the nursery 
grounds which gives it a distinctiveness that adds to its value. Special 
attention is paid to the wants of the Iowa fruit grower as well as the 
prairie farmer. There are honest uncolored descriptions of fruits, 
flowers and shrubs. 
In his annual report Gifford Pinchot, forester of the United States 
says : “In spite of the increase in its resources made by the last Con¬ 
gress, the division finds itself wholly unable to cover the field of neces¬ 
sary work which lies before it. Public demands upon it for work of 
the first importance to the preservation and right use of forests in llie 
United States remain unanswered for lack of means. It is earnestly 
hoped that the division may be enabled adequately to take and use 
during the next fiscal year the unprecedented opportunities created by 
the rapid awakening of the public mind to the meaning and value of 
practical forestry. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., are out with a handsome 
catalogue of 168 pages for the spring of 1900. The cover is of white 
enameled paper upon the front of which is a rose and leaf in colors 
embellished with gold scroll and the name of the company in gold, the 
whole embossed. On the back of the cover is an embossed lithograph 
of Acalyphia Sanderii, the chenille plant. This company has home 
farms covering over 1,000 acres of the best land in Northern Ohio. Of 
this, about 600 acres are devoted to fruit trees and small fruits, 200 
acres to ornamental trees and shrubs and 50 acres to hardy roses. They 
have 44 large and well-equipped greenhouses and large cold storage 
cellars. 
The second report of State Inspector William B. Alwood, of Vir¬ 
ginia, regarding the San Jose scale in that state has been issued. He 
finds the scale quite generally distributed in the state. “ It has not 
been possible,” he says, “for us to exercise any direct control over 
infested nurseries without the state; but those within the state have 
been brought under such control that we have not a single case against 
state nurseries since the spring of 1897. As a measure of indirect con¬ 
trol, we have warned nurseries outside the state that they would be 
published if they did not cease to ship infested plants into this state.’’ 
Prof. Atwood suggests that the Virginia authorities follow the action 
of sister states and provide a complete system of crop pest inspection 
with powers of quarantine. 
Burpee’s Farm Annual for 1900 is more attractive than ever, in 
a particularly dainty cover. Nasturtiums, new sweet peas and the 
famous “ Rocky Ford,” or Burpee’s Netted Gem Melons are shown in 
colors, painted from nature, while the book is full of life-like illustra¬ 
tions from photographs. Of particular interest is the new feature for 
1900 of giving “plain talks” as to the relative value for different pur¬ 
poses of all varieties of vegetables. Another interesting feature is the 
remarkable x - ecord of prizes won by the products of Burpee’s seeds at 
leading state fairs in 1899. “New Creations” of intrinsic merit are 
offered in both vegetables and flowers. Altogether the catalogue 
show’s most painstaking care in the effort to “tell the plain truth about 
seeds” as proved at Fordhook farms,—the largest trial grounds in 
America. It will be mailed free to any who mention this paper, when 
writing to the publishers, W. Atlee Burpee A Co,, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa, 
