THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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jforeton IRotes. 
Following are Paris exposition dates of interest: Permanent exhibi¬ 
tion of horticulture, from April 15 to November 5. Temporary 
exhibitions: May 9. June 13, June 27, July 18, August 8, August 22, 
September 12, September 26, October 10, October 21. International 
conferences as follows: Horticulture. May 25 and 26 ; sylviculture, 
June 4 to 7; roses, June 14 and 15 ; agricultural instruction, June 14 to 
16 ; Arboriculture and pomology, September 13 and 14 ; botany, Octo¬ 
ber 1 to 10; chrysanthemums, November 3 and 4. 
At a conference recently held in association with the University of 
Paris, M. Mangin stated that the number of trees in the plantations of 
Paris, exclusively of those in the parks and cemeteries, is 90,000. The 
principal kinds represented are: Planes, 26,287; elms, 15,596; chestnuts, 
17,167; maples, 6,050; ailant, 9,769; sycamores, 5,125; robinias, or 
false acacias, 4027 ; limes, 2,222 ; paulownias 1,034. Speaking of the 
losses from the unfavorable conditions to tree life which obtain in 
large cities, M. Mangin said the percentagesof death had been : Maples, 
117 ; 229; 2 29 ; ailants, 2 30 ; elms, 2 79 sycamores, 3'44; and robinias, 
3 62. The mortality of the limes was not stated, but having regard to 
the comparative purity of the atmosphere of Paris, the percentage of 
deaths has probably been very low. 
Referring to American plums an English writer states : Are your 
readers at all aware what a debt we owe to the United States for some 
of our best plums ? From Albany in New York State, we have had 
Denniston’s Superb, one of tbe finest plums known in the opinion of 
Messrs. Veitch ; Huling’s Superb, sometimes called Keyser’s Plum, 
raised by Mr. Keyser, of Pennsylvania. This is characterized by Dr. 
Hogg as a delicious plum. From the city of New York also comes 
Washington, one of the best of plums, if you will only wait for it. 
From Albany comes the famous Jefferson. Another from Albany is 
Blecker’s Yellow, a yellow Gage, sometimes called the German Gage,as 
the tree was raised from the stone of a prune which had been imported 
from Germany. From New Jersey State we have Cooper’s large 
American, described by Dr. Hogg, as a very valuable dessert plum 
When introduced into this country it was distributed under the name 
of La Delicieuse. corrupted in Kentish orchards to “Lady Lucy.” 
NECROLOGY. 
The anniversary of the American Association calls to mind 
some of the prominent nurserymen, florists, seedsmen and 
horticulturists who have died during the last decade : 
1890— Peter Henderson, seedsman, gardener and florist ; Charles 
Gibb, worker on Russian and other hardy fruits ; Patrick Barry, of the 
firm of Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y.. well known as a horti¬ 
culturist and horticultural writer; Dr. George Tliurber, editor Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist for twenty two years ; Peter Kieffer, originator of 
the Kieffer pear ; Shirley Hibbard, of England, editor of Gardeners’ 
Magazine for thirty years; Benjamin S. Williams, author of the 
Orchid Grower’s Manual ; W. II. Baxter, curator of Oxford Botanic 
Gardens; Henry Bennett, originator of the Mrs. John Laing, Her 
Majesty, and other roses. 
1891— Elisha Moody, nurseryman, Lockport,, N. Y.; Henry Manz, 
Sr., florist, Louisville, Ky.; James Hutchinson, California Nursery Co., 
Oakland, Cal.; William Barron, W. Alfred Dickson, Charles Pennell, 
England. 
1892— Thomas Hogg, well known horticulturist and botanist ; Sid¬ 
ney S. Jackson, charter member of the Ohio Horticultural Society and 
at the time of his death the oldest nurseryman in the United States ; 
Orange Judd, senior editor of the Orange Judd Farmer and American 
Agriculturist; D. D. T. Moore, founder of the Rural New Yorker and 
the Michigan Farmer; J. Austin Scott, one of the oldest fruit growers 
of the central states; Jacques Julien Margottin, tbe world-renowned 
rosarian. 
1893— Frederick L. Ames, orchid collector, of Boston ; William S. 
Little, nurseryman, Rochester, N. Y. 
1894— Thomas Kennedy, Dansville, N. Y.; Patrick H. Morris, 
Englewood, N. J.; George Pinney, Evergreen, Wis. 
1895— George Moulson, Rochester, N. Y.; S. W. Hoover, Dayton, 
O.; Israel E. Ilgenfritz, Monroe, Mich.; Charles E. Smith, Geneva, 
N. \ .; George W PefTer, Pewaukee, Wis.; D. B. Garvin, Wheeling, 
W. Va.; P. II. Foster, Babylon, N. Y.; II. T. Kelsey, St. Joseph, Mo.; 
franklin Davis. Waverly, Md.; Dr. Ephriam W. Bull, originator of 
the Concord grape, Concord, Mass.; David U. Reed, Malvern, la; 
Samuel Moulson, Rochester, N. Y.; Thomas Smith, Geneva, N. Y. 
1896 Benjamin M. Watson, Plymouth, Mass.; Adolf Ladenburg, 
Oasis Nursery Co., Westbury, L. I.; William Brown Smith, of Smiths 
& Powell Co., Syracuse, N. Y.; Charles W. Reed, California; Andrew' 
S. Fuller. Ridgway, N. J., grape culturist; Samuel M. Bayles St. 
Louis ; John Wragg, Waukee, la.; Baron Sir Ferdinand Von Mueller, 
botanist, Australia; Ernest G. Lodeman, of Cornell University ; 
Anthony Water, Knap Hill, England. 
1897— Wakefield M. Samuels, Clinton, Ky.; William L. Smith, John¬ 
ston. R. I.; John G. Bubach, strawberry grower, Illinois; John Stew¬ 
art, Benmiller, Ont.; II. M. Engle, Marietta, Pa.; Philip Smith, 
Pomona, Ga.; Philip Wickens, Rochester, N. Y.; Dr. Robert Hogg, 
London, England ; John Saul, Washington, D. C ; Hon. Josephs. Fay, 
Cambridge, Mass.; Robert Douglas, Waukegan, Ill.; William Mur¬ 
dock, Pittsburg, Pa ; M. Pierce, Chowen,‘Minn.; J. B. Spaulding, 
Spaulding, Ill ; J. L. Hopkins, South Haven, Mich.; Henry E. Board- 
man, Rochester, N. Y.; A. li. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill. 
1898— John C. Durkin, Geneva, N Y. ; Henry S. Rupp, Shiremans- 
town, Pa.; G. E. Meissner, Bushberg, Mo ; Edwin Davis, president 
Franklin Davis Nursery Co.. Baltimore ; William Parry, Parry, N. J ; 
William L. Gatewood, superintendent Stark Brothers Nurseries, 
Louisiana, Mo.; John O’Callaghan, foreman for 30 years at Ellwanger 
& Barry’s, Rochester, N. Y.; John Hannay, Santa Clara. Cal ; Samuel 
Edwards, Mendota, Ill.; Dr. Joseph A. Lintner, State Entomologist of 
New York, at Rome. Italy; Hon. J. F. C. Hyde, Newton, Mass.; 
Alpheus Truett, Franklin, Tenn.; Edward Tatnall, Wilmington, Del.; 
Cornelius S. Cole, Spencerport, N. Y.; William George Watson, busi¬ 
ness manager for Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; George W. 
Campbell, Delaware, O.; Isidor Bush, Bushberg, Mo.; Philip Pfeiffer, 
Sedalia, Mo.; J. W. Smith, Hooksburg, O.; John Tinker, Clinton. 
Wis.; B. F. Elliott, Red Oak, la.; O. O. Wirick, Mendota, Ill.; John 
M. Samuels, chief of horticulture at World’s Fair, Clinton, Ky.; 
William Cavers, Galt, Ont.; Robert B. Parsons, Flushing, N. Y. 
1899— James Bingham, Russell, Ky.; George Savage, in charge of 
Kimball orchids. Rochester, N. Y.; Charles Maudin, Autilles. France ; 
J. C. Plumb, Milton, Wis.; Edward S. Rogers, grape hybridizer, Pea¬ 
body, Mass.; Charles S. Curtice, Portland, N. Y.; Dr. A. W. Chapman, 
oldest of American botanists, Apalachicola, Fla.; Malcolm Dunn, 
Dalkeith, Scotland ; William Jennings, Thomasville, Ga.; James Ivel- 
way, Langport, Somerset, England ; Henri de Vilmorin. France; 
Philip H. Alburger. Philadelphia ; Alfred Henderson, Spring Like, 
N. J.; T. Francis Rivers. Sawbridgeworth, England; Jacob Wentz, 
Irondequoit, N. Y.; F. W. Loudon, Janesville, Wis.; J. V. Cotta, 
Freeport, III ; M. A. Thayer, Sparta, Wis.; Georges Warocque. Pekin, 
China; Peter M. Gideon, Excelsior, Minn., originator of the Wealthy 
apple ; William Henry Protheroe, London, England. 
1900— Edward A. Frost, Rochester, N. Y.; Lord Penzance, of sweet 
briars fame, England ; Hon. T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Mich.; Robert 
C. Brown, of Brown Brothers Co., Rochester, N. Y.; George B. 
Wallace, Salt Lake City, Utah ; John G. Glen, of Glen Brothers, 
Rochester, N Y.; Isaac Ilicks, Westbury, L. I.; William II. Nash, San 
Francisco ; Elbert S. Carman, editor Rural New Yorker, New T Vork 
city ; George A. Solley, Memphis, Tenn. 
©bituaiY. 
George A. Solley, formerly of Hartford, Conn., died at Memphis, 
Tenn., May 2d. He was horn in Ramsgate, England, in 1831. IIis 
youth was spent working in a nursery there. At the age of 19 he came 
to America and engaged with T. G. Yeomans, a nurseryman, of Wal¬ 
worth. N. Y. He was at one time a member of the Parce & Solley 
Nursery Company. 
