THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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NOT SANCTIONED BY THE TRADE. 
The Rural New Yorker cites the following case: 
For several years past the R. N.-Y., has warned its readers against a 
firm of Ohio nurserymen who were operating in Western New York on 
a peculiar plan. Their agents tried to sell several new varieties of 
peaches, for which they claimed most remarkable properties. They 
were frost-proof, yellows proof, and for all we know, thief-proof. 
Their pedigree dated back to the early history of this country, and if 
there is any good quality which a peach can possibly possess, which 
these agents did not claim, for these varieties, it was either because 
they ran out of breath, or had not heard of it. The best fruit growers 
and horticulturists of this country knew nothing about these famous 
varieties. They were not catalogued by the American Pomological 
Society, and the crowning bluff of these agents was the claim that they 
possessed a patent or some paper from the Department of Agriculture 
which prohibited all other agents or nurserymen from propagating or 
selling these varieties. In spite of repeated warnings by the R. N.-Y., 
Mr. Yan Deman, aud hundreds of other reputable men. large quanti¬ 
ties of these peaches were sold right under the noses of responsible 
nurserymen and honorable fruit growers. In some eases the trees w ere 
sent, and w T ere planted, only to prove a disappointment when they 
came in fruit. In one case, one of these highly-praised trees produced 
a miserable seedling peach. On another bundle labels marked Elberta 
were found, the inference being that the trees were Elberta sent out in 
place of these so-called novelties. 
The thing came to a head with us this spring, when one of our read¬ 
ers wrote us that the agents had prevailed upon him to buy a good- 
sized order of these trees. They talked so plausibly, and their stories 
were so eloquent, that this man bit at the bait. He afterwards heard 
the other side, and asked our advice as to what he should do. We 
advised him to cancel the order at once, aud to state that the best fruit 
growers and horticulturists had never heard of these varieties, and did 
not recommend him to plant them. lie did this, promptly canceling 
the order, and refusing to accept the trees. In spite of this, his $90- 
order of trees was shipped to him, and he was finally informed that it 
awaited delivery at his railroad station. Then he wrote us again, ask¬ 
ing what he should do, Under the circumstances, the It. N.-Y". advis¬ 
ed him to refuse to accept the trees, and promised to defend him at 
our own expense if suit were brought against him. lie had canceled 
the order in a perfectly legal w r ay, stating his reasons for doing so. 
The cost of the trees was undoubtedly excessive, and under all the 
circumstances we felt justified in telling him that he was under no 
obligations, moral or legal, to take the trees. 
The agent and the nursery company of course put up a strong bluff, 
and informed him that he would have to take the trees and pay for 
them. His answer w 7 as that he was satisfied that the trees were not as 
represented. He told them that if they would produce such fruit as 
the agent told him they would, he would take not only $90, but $900 
worth. He was satisfied, however, that the trees would do nothing of 
the soit. The agent told him that he would have to pay the money, 
and went off in a huff, but nothing came of it. Our friend afterwards 
learned that the agent went to the depot and shipped the trees else¬ 
where, and this ended the last act of a would-be fraud. 
THE RETAIL NURSERYMEN. 
The American Retail Nurserymen’s Association, at the 
annual meeting in Chicago last month, elected the following 
officers : President, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; vice- 
president, F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan,; secretary and treas¬ 
urer, E. M. Sherman, Charles City, la. 
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