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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmono (Browers anb ^Dealers. 
Charles Greening, Monroe, Mich., was in New York city last month. 
It is reported that Macklin Brothers will establish a nursery near 
Marshfield, Wis. 
W. L. Brockman of South Dakota, will engage in the nursery busi¬ 
ness at Rockwell, la. 
The address of Suzuki & Iida, importers, has been changed to 11 
Barclay street, New York city. 
Ziegler Brothers, Forest City, la , have leased 20 acres near What 
Cheer, la., for nursery purposes. 
Hawkins Brothers, Minneapolis, Minn., have dissolved partnership. 
The firm is succeeded by John Hawkins. 
Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la., ex-president of the American Association, 
visited Rochester nurserymen last month. 
Griffing Brothers will establish a nursery at Little River, Fla.; they 
have also secured 200 acres at another point. 
The Western New York Nursery Company, Rochester, N. Y., has 
been incorporated, with J. F. Dale as president 
Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., have 20 acres under cultiva¬ 
tion for nuisery stock. Evergreens are a specialty. 
Henry Scliroeder, Sigourney, la., reports a heavy trade during the 
season just closed. He favors a revision of nomenclature. 
J. A. Whiteside has bought P. J. Leitzell’s interest in the Girard 
Nursery Co., Girard, Kan., and assumed the management. 
Irwin C. Darling, nurseryman, of Cleveland, O., has filed a petition 
in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $4,800 and no assets. 
It is expected that the Canadian government will suspend the 
operation of the San Jose scale law in the fall as it did last spring. 
The firm of Samuel Kinsey & Co., Kinsey, O., is no longer in 
existence. William N. Kinsey is in the nursery business at Kinsey. 
A carload of six-foot specimens of the Colorado blue spruce was 
shipped on May 12th by P. S. Peterson & Son, Chicago, to estates in 
Northern New Jersey. 
P. S. Peterson, senior proprietor of the Rose Hill Nurseries, Chicago, 
returned last month from a months’ trip to Mexico. He sailed soon 
afterward for Europe. 
A. II. Gaston, Harvey, Ill., invites the nurserymen at the convention 
to visit him. His nursery is but a short distance from Chicago. He 
has the mulberry fruiting. 
Clawson Brothers, Windsor, Ill., have purchased a farm near Neoga. 
Ill., where they will establish a branch nursery and where their nur¬ 
sery business will be conducted. 
The P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga., has sold about five car 
loads of nursery stock in the Transvaal and Natal, but, on account of 
the war, the orders were canceled. 
J. Roehrs, Rutherford, N. J., last month imported 500 Bay trees 
from Belgium,. It is said that 5000 Bay trees are imported to America 
annually from Belgium. Bobbink & Atkins are importers. 
H. M. Simpson & Sons, Vincennes, Ind . write: “ Our spring sales 
were much better than we expected and the outlook for fall trade is 
flattering. Prospects for all kinds of fruit never were better.” 
L. S. May & Co., have purchased a farm of 240 acres fourteen miles 
from St. Paul and have planted 60 acres to nursery stock and smal] 
fruits. J. E. Carruthers, of Sedgwick, Ivan., is superintendent. 
Burglars blew open the safe in Declare & Manning’s nursery office. 
Brighton, N. Y., on May 16th, but secured nothing of value. A large 
amount of money had been removed the previous night by the firm. 
On April 9, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Tuttle, of Baraboo, Wis., celebrated 
their sixty-second wedding anniversary. Mr. Tuttle started in the 
nursery business in 1848, and is still actively engaged in it. He is 85 
and his wife 83 years of age. 
Homer D. Brown, Hamilton, Ill., writes: “The retail trade here was 
good, everything was cleaned up, no peach, pear, apple or cherry left. 
It was almost impossible to raise the retail price, so the margin above 
wholesale was very small. Farmers were very short in this localily. 
The prospect for fruit is fine; peach, pear and apple being well set. 
and I am now spraying for codling moth, etc.” 
AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 
The annual meeting of the American Seed Trade Associa¬ 
tion will be held at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, June 
12-14. The question box will be a feature of the convention. 
W. Atlee Burpee, S. F. Leonard, S. E. Briggs and others will 
discuss mail orders, the rate of commission on box seeds, 
prices, the cost of catalogues and the question of employing 
commercial travelers; Charles N. Page, catalogues and adver¬ 
tising. 
DELAWARE PEACH CROP. 
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A despatch from Bridgeville, Del., under date of May 2d, 
says : 
The critical period of the peach can truthfully be said to have 
passed, and a burden of anxiety has been lifted from growers’ minds. 
Growers are now of the opinion that little fear need be entertained for 
their damage by frost. They do not believe that the “June drop” will 
prove large this season, as the orchards are in a very healthy state. 
The most prominent growers state that “ June drops” are large only 
when orchards have been neglected, thus causing much premature 
fruit. During the past few seasons orchards have been extensively 
cultivated. 
It is impossible this early in the season to give a conservative 
estimate of the yield. That of this peninsula has been estimated at 
2,000,000 baskets, but conservative growers of this section believe that 
the yield will exceed that figure. 
Xong anb Short. 
Apple seedlings at F. W. Watson & Co.’s, Topeka, Kan. 
Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., has a souvenir booklet on labels. 
New raffia can be had of Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa. 
Standard pears, Kilmarnock willows at D. II. Patty’s, Geneva, N. Y. 
E. H. Bissell, Richmond, Va., wishes to contract to manage agents. 
P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga., announce an attractive list in 
another column. 
Labels of superior quality are made by the Dayton Fruit Tree 
Label Co., Dayton, O. 
Youngers & Co., Geneva, Neb., have apple seedlings, hedge plants 
and forest seedlings. 
Buds and grafts of Burbank plums and others are offered by J. T. 
Bogue, Marysville, Cal. 
Shenandoah Nuiseries, D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la., have a general 
line of stock for the fall trade. 
C. II. Joosten, 85 Dey st., New York, is one of the best known im¬ 
porters in the country. Any want supplied. 
Norway maples, Norway spruce, Lombardy poplars, Carolina 
poplars, etc., at Josiah H Roberts’, Malvern, Pa. 
C. C. Abel & Co , P. O. Box 920, New York, offer at low prices a 
general list of importations from P. Sebire & Sons, Ussy, France. 
E T. Dickinson, Chatenay, France, has French stocks, Dutch bulos, 
fruit tree seedlings and ornamentals. New York office, 1 Broadway. 
Buds of many varieties of peaches, plums, apples and Keiffer pears 
are offered by J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md. A list appears on 
another page. 
August Rhotert, 26 Barclay street, New York, is sole agent for 
Louis Leroy, France; M. Koster & Sons, Holland, and Thomas Mathe- 
son, England. He makes a specialty of raffia as well as all imported 
stock. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co , Painesville, O., offer for the coming 
season their usual stock of everything for the nurseryman and florist, 
including fruit and ornamental trees, grape vines, small fruits, shrubs, 
roses, bulb^, hardy and greenhouse plants. 
