THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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jfrom Darious Points. 
A great reduction in the price of the McPike grape vines is an¬ 
nounced by Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la. 
Y II. Lowe, Geneva, N. Y., requests specimens of the San Jose 
scale and other scale insects for purposes of study. 
Two thousand roses will be exhibited by the Ellwanger & Barry 
Nursery Co., Rochester, at the Pan-American Exposition, in Buffalo, 
next year. 
There will be a joint meeting of the Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas 
Horticultural Societies at the lexas Agricultural college station, July 
3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. 
William Pitkin, secretary of the Chase Brothers Nursery Co., 
Rochester, has been appointed by the mayor of Rochester, a delegate 
to the Syracuse, N. Y., convention of Boards of Trade, June 6th. 
The Stores & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., will have completed, 
before the fall trade opens, a switch from the main line of the Lake 
Shore and Michigan Southern railroad direct to their cellars and 
packing house. 
Fifty crates of peaches were forwarded by express from Tifton, Ga., 
on May 2tst, the first of the season. Fort Valley, Ga., made a ship¬ 
ment on May 22d. Tifton will probably send 75 carloads. Returns 
so far have netted $6 per crate. 
Owatonna, Minn., is doing a smashing business, says E. PI. S. Dartt. 
One nurseryman packed two big carloads of trees yesterday, about 
the same amount the day before, and will repeat to-day. Two other 
nursery firms are doing a similar amount of business. If you beat 
Owatonna in serving the Lord or serving the devil you must hustle 
early and late. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs and vines during March, 
amount to $54,655, against $58,843 in the same month of last year. 
The free imports of seeds amounted in March, 1000, to $180,325, 
against $136,843, the value of these imports of March. 1899. The 
dutiable imports of seeds amounted to $39,404 in March, 1900, against 
$40,008 in March of the previous year. 
A Minnesota law authorizes park boards in cities to plant trees 
when petitioned by property owners concerned, and to assess the cost, 
not exceeding twelve and a half cents a front foot on the property im¬ 
proved, and this to include the expense of maintaining the trees for 
three years and replacing any that may die. The system has been 
tested in Minneapolis for fifteen years, and 15,000 vigorous, well-pro¬ 
tected trees along the streets prove its success. The outlay has been 
remarkably small. 
HORTICULTURE AT PAN-AMERICAN. 
Horticulture has made wonderful strides within a very few 
years and many of the floral specimens which will be seen at 
the Pan-American Exposition were not in existence at the time 
of the World’s Fair in Chicago. The displays of the new pop¬ 
ular canna will surpass anything yet seen either in America or 
Europe. One may, therefore, confidently expect this exposi¬ 
tion to be, from the view point of the horticulturist, the most 
brilliant ever held. 
There are nearly 350 acres in the exposition site, about one- 
third of which are the improved lands of Buffalo’s Delaware 
Park. Upon the park lands many thousands of dollars have 
been expended from year to year in the past in maintaining 
and improving the variety and display of rare shrubs and 
trees. 
Lying directly north of the park lands and upon a higher 
elevation is the remainder of the exposition plot. Included in 
the plan of the arrangement of the buildings is a magnificent 
court, 3,000 feet long, with a transverse court, 1,700 feet from 
east to west, besides subordinate courts. All of these open 
spaces are to be beautified with palms and other tropical plants 
in tubs and vases placed near the surrounding buildings and 
beside the fountains and pools. To these will be added sunken 
gardens of elaborate arrangement, and formal flower beds wher¬ 
ever their presence will enhance the beauty of the courts. 
The entire outer walk of the exposition grounds is to be a 
bank of solid foliage. Many thousands of trees, shrubs and 
cuttings have already been planted in preparation for the elab¬ 
orate horticultural features. Large trees, which fortunately 
were already on the exposition site, have been preserved by 
transference to places where their stately shafts of green would 
heighten the color effect in contrast with the brighter hues of 
the buildings. 
The building to be devoted to the Department of Horticul- 
culture, of which F. W. Taylor is chief, is 220 feet square. 
It is expected that the State of New York will spend at least 
$10,000 in aiding the horticultural societies of the state to ex¬ 
tend and replenish their exhibits during the season of the 
exposition. 
PROTECTION FOR BUDS IN MONTANA. 
A correspondent at Holt, Montana, asks the following 
questions which will be in the question box at the convention : 
Which is the best method of winter protection for buds? In this 
locality buds killed badly last winter. One cause of killing might have 
been that last summer was more wet than usual and that the stocks 
grew too late after the buds were inserted. Would billing the dirt up 
around the stocks to about two inches above the buds protect them ? 
Would hilling up injure the buds ? 
SOUND ADVICE. 
It is not an uncommon practice with a certain class of 
persons to go to the woods for trees to plant, says the Country 
Gentlemen, and to imagine that this is a great economy. 
Some even imagine that better trees are secured in the woods 
There they have been exposed to the rigors of drouth and 
cold, and of course they ought to be superior to the forced 
and coddled trees in the nursury rows ; so think those deluded 
persons aforesaid. Nothing could be more mistaken. The 
nursery trees always have the best roots ; and nearly always 
have the best tops. The roots of trees in the woods run long 
distances for food and moisture, and cannot be reached by the 
transplanter ; whereas the planter can get nearly all the roots 
on a nursery tree. This is especially true of a tree which has 
been frequently “transplanted” in the nursery. Such trees 
are always best and command the highest prices in the market 
whereas trees collected from the woods are quoted by dealers 
at the lowest figures. 
The L. Green & Son Co., Perry, O., May 24, 1900—“Enclosed 
please find $1 currency. Do not want to be without the Nurseryman. 
Howard E. Merret.l, Geneva, N. Y , May 24, 1900.—“Enclosed 
$1 in renewal of my subscription to the National Nurseryman 
until May 1, 1901. We consider your journal valuable in every way.” 
