THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
52 
TRADE US MISSOURI . 
Reviewed by S. H. Linton of Marceline — Demand for Stock During 
Spring Almost Unlimited—Wholesale Orders Refused— Heavy 
Fruit Crop Promised In Missouri—A Plea for Revision of 
Names of Fruits—The Gano and Ben Davis. 
S. H. Linton, Marceline, Mo., writes as follows to the 
National Nurseryman: 
“ Closing several weeks of a very busy season, I am again in 
position to give a short account of the past, present and future. 
Through we are located in latitude between, the two great 
extremes of heat and cold, still we feel the effect of the loss in 
stock from the severe cold of the winter of ’g8-’gg. 
“ And with the low prices of nursery stock the past six years, 
we realize the fact of hard times, and appreciate the change at 
present for better prices. 
“ The demand for stock this spring, especially peach, cherry, 
plum and grapes, was almost unlimited. With us, however, 
trade was cut short because of limited amount of stock. In 
some lines of stock we were forced to refuse many wholesale 
orders, so that we might be able to supply our retail trade. 
u With the present prospects the fruit crop of this part of 
the state, apples, peaches, plums, cherries and grapes will be 
the largest for years. The early spring was cold and rather 
dry. This had the tendency to hold back the fruit bloom for 
ten days or two weeks, but when the bloom opened up it met 
a favorable season of clear dry weather with gentle breezes 
and no hard wind, thereby giving full and complete benefit of 
the pollen. This season being favorable to tree and vegetable 
growth, demonstrates the fact that insects and disease do not 
have the same effect upon a healthy, vigorous tree or plant as 
when the growth and condition of the tree is poor. Herein 
lies the success of orcharding. Keep the trees vigorously 
growing and there will be little cause for dread of the borers 
and other insects. 
“ There will be more trees planted in the north half of Mis¬ 
souri this fall than have ever been planted in one fall since 
Missouri has been a state. Though here in Missouri the an¬ 
nual average sunshine is two hundred and fifty days, yet it is 
not all sunshine, pleasure and profit with the nurseryman. We 
have unforeseen causes here, as elsewhere, that are at times 
quite discouraging and expensive. 
“ The time has come, with the vast knowledge, experience 
and science in pomology that we now have in the United 
States, when there should be a decisive movement in the 
nomenclature of fruits. The American Association of Nur¬ 
serymen at the coming convention should have a committee 
appointed to see that through a thorough investigation of the 
misnamed fruits the proper names should be permanently 
fixed and recorded. There are a great many varieties of fruit 
that are being sent out under new names causing dissatisfac¬ 
tion and confusion, not only with fruit growers, but with 
nurserymen and propagators. The time will come, if no 
restraints are imposed, when the catalogues of names will be 
wholly unreliable. For instance, the Gano apple is identical 
with the Ben Davis. The Gano will always be in confusion 
with the Ben Davis. This is true with other apples and other 
varieties of fruit. And there is no better time or place to 
develop this matter than the convention of the Association 
of American Nurserymen, in June, 1900. 
GEORGE G. ATWOOD IN CHARGE. 
A special San Jose scale department has been established in 
connection with the New York Department of Agriculture, 
and George G. Atwood of Geneva, has been placed in charge. 
Charles N. Darrow, Geneva ; Percy L. Huested, Blauvelt, and 
H. C. Peck, Brighton, have been appointed inspectors, and 
Louis Brown, Cobleskill ; Jay Thompson, Seward, and T. F. 
Niles, Spencertown, assistants. 
TEXAS NURSERYMAN MARRIED. 
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At Lone Oak, near Independence, Texas, at high noon on 
April 25th, Stanley H. Watson and Miss Alice Clay were 
united in marriage by Rev. James Noble, rector St. Peter’s 
Episcopal church. Only members of the two families and half 
a dozen most intimate friends were present to witness the 
ceremony. The bride is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Clay and a member of one of the first families in this, the 
oldest section of Texas. The groom is proprietor of the 
Rosedale nurseries, Brenham, Tex., an enterprise established 
nearly forty years ago by his father, and which is being suc¬ 
cessfully carried on by the son. The bride and groom will 
make their home at Rosedale.—Brenham, Texas, Banner. 
A VETERAN NURSERYMAN. 
J. S. Harris, La Crescent, Minn., writes: “ I am at present 
only a local nurseryman in a small way, propagating principally 
for testing new varieties and experimental purposes, and shall 
soon have to give it up entirely on account of the infirmities 
of age. 
“ It is now about 62 years since I put in my first little nur¬ 
sery of root grafts and the first effort was a great success. I took 
it up from hearing my father read about the way they had 
begun to propagate trees at some nursery at Rochester, N. Y. 
“I have always been a great lover of trees and fruits, but 
have never followed the nursery business for the money that 
could be made at it. I think that I am about the oldest root 
grafter in the West. I began in Ohio, and still put up a few 
grafts every winter.” 
SHIPMENT TO SOUTH AMERICA. 
On February 10th by fast freight and in refrigerator car to 
New York, Nelson Bogue sent a consignment of nursery stock 
to Senor Doctor Don Martin Garcia Merou, Minister of Agri¬ 
culture, Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South America. 
This shipment included nearly every desirable variety of 
pears, plums, peaches, cherries, quinces, apricots and small 
fruits that are successfully grown in Western New York. The 
order also called for a thousand apples and an extensive list 
of roses. 
This stock, on reaching Buenos Ayres, was divided and sent 
to various parts of the republic, while the larger portion was 
planted in government experimental grounds, with a view of 
thoroughly testing and ascertaining what fruits can be success¬ 
fully grown in the republic. 
These trees were inspected and fumigated by a representa¬ 
tive of the Department of Agriculture at Albany. 
