THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmoitg (Buowevs anb Sealers. 
George A. Sweet, of Dansville, was in Canada last month. 
James Waters, Watsonville, Cal., is propagating the Loganberry. 
W. E. Wellington, Toronto, was a director of the Toronto Exposition. 
F. II. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan., called upon Rochester nurserymen 
last month. 
J. F. Le Clare, Brighton, was registered at the U. S. pavilion, Paris 
Exposition on Sept. 3d. 
The Ellwanger & Barry Nursery Company won fifty six first prizes 
for fruit at the New York State Fair in August. 
There are four nurseries at Ft. Atkinson, Wis., which claims to be 
the Rochester of Wisconsin, says the Fruitman. 
The Briarcliff School of Horticulture, New York, was formally 
opened on Sept. 12. Nine students are enrolled. 
President W. W. Pendergast of the Minnesota Horticultural 
Society has gone to the Pacific coast for three months. 
Professor S. B. Green, of Minnesota, has returned from Europe 
where he has been investigating horticultural conditions. 
John S. Kerr of the Sherman Commercial Nursery, Sherman, Texas, 
was in St. Louis early last month arranging for freight rates. 
The Crete Nurseries, Crete, Neb., control the largest commercial 
orchard interests in the state. Skill and careful culture tells. 
Professor Bailey believes that the box will succeed the barrel as a 
package for apples. The better the fruit the smaller the package. 
John Charlton & Sons, Rochester, N. Y., are satisfied after careful 
comparison, that Columbus and Triumph gooseberry are the same. 
The showing at the Iowa State Fair of over 100 varieties of fine 
apples by actual growers in North Iowa, was a surprise to most visi¬ 
tors, 
W. A. Renn has sold his interest in the Gem Nursery, at Wellington, 
Kan., to Charles Worden, of the Worden Nursery Co., at the same 
place. 
Theodore Bechtel, Ocean Springs, Miss., who sold out his business 
at Staunton, Ill., to his brother A. R. Bechtel, has entered the pecan 
business. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New York Botanical Garden, the 
U. S. delegate to the International Botanical Congress, in Paris, sailed 
for Europe Sept. 22nd. 
A new climbing rose, Debutante, for which Baroness Rothschild 
gave the pollen and Rosa Wichuriana was the seed bearer, has been 
added to the rambler roses. 
F. A. Weber, Nursery, P. O., St. Louis Co., Mo., writes: “ We are 
having a fine trade this fall and from present indications there will be 
little surplus left by spring.” 
Alvin Fruit and Nursery Co., Alvin, Texas, has filed a charter of 
incorporation. The capital stock is $ 15,000, and the incorporators are 
R. B. Halley, V. H. Pace, W. L. Moore and others. 
Thomas Edmund Mabee, Secretary of the Des Moines. Ia., Nursery 
Co., and Miss Mary Frances Staver were married September 5th, at 
Waukee, la., by Rev. C. C. Mabee, father of the groom. 
Joseph M. Charlton, a member of the nursery firm, John Charlton 
& Sons, Rochester, N. Y., and president of the Charlton Nursery Co., 
on Sept. 12th, married Miss Della C. MacLean, in Rochester. 
Charles A. Maxson, secretary and treasurer of the Central Michigan 
Nurseiy Co., Kalamazoo, visited Western New York nurserymen dur¬ 
ing the latter part of September. Mr. Maxson was a New Yorker. 
John Fields, Stillwater, Oklahoma, writes : “ The planting of shade 
trees in the towns and of fruit trees on the farms is continuing, and 
nuiserymen report promise of excellent business for the coming season.” 
Among those who sent specimens of fruit grown this season for 
exhibit at the Paris Exposition were : E. Smith & Sons, Geneva, N. 
Y.; Ellwanger & Barry Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y.; George T 
Powell, Ghent, N. Y. 
James W. Tufts, Boston, and Otto Katzenstein, managers of the 
Piuehurst, N. C., Nurseries, have had a botanical collecting expedition 
traversing the high mountains of Utah and Arizona for seeds and 
plants during the summer. 
L. R. Bryant, Princeton, Ill., Secretary of the Illinois State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, announces that the society will make an exhibit of 
fruits at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, continuously from 
May 1st until Nov, 1, 1901. 
The charge of the gardens and grounds, United States Department 
of Agriculture, is now in the hands of Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of 
the division of Vegetable Pathology and Plant Physiology, vice 
William Saunders, deceased. 
There was a large and excellent display of fruit at the Toronto 
Exposition. L. Woolverton showed peaches, pears and apples, each 
fruit wrapped in tissue paper and packed in separate compartments of 
a crate for shipment to England. 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., won 45 first premiums on fruit at the 
Nebraska State Fair, as well as best and largest collection, 137 varieties; 
also best and largest collection of grapes. Peter Youngers, Geneva, 
Neb., was also a winner in the fruit display. 
A. Emerich, who will visit this country this year in the interest of 
Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co., of Paris, sailed on Sept. 22d from Havre, 
per S. S. “ L’Aquitaine ” and arrived in New York on Oct. 1st.' 
His address will be care of Aug. Rhotert, 26 Barclay St., New York. 
The dutiable imports of plants, trees, shrubs and vines amounted to 
$37,812 in July, 1900, against $38,075 in the same month of last year. 
During the seven months ending with July, 1900, these imports were 
valued at $298,761, as compared with $236,392 of importations in a 
corresponding term of 1899. 
Willis R. Vandermark has been appointed receiver of the nursery 
firm of Ernest J. Bowden & Company, Brighton. Thomas P. McCar- 
rick was named as referee. The motion was made upon the petition of 
Thomas C. Wilson, of Geneva, the silent partner of the firm, who 
demands a partition of profits. 
Four carloads of cedar excelsior stacked in an angle formed by two 
of the largest packing houses at Brown Brothers’ nursery, Brighton, 
N. Y., was destroyed by fire Sept. 13th. The buildings were badly 
scorched. The Rochester fire department aided that of Brighton, and 
the Brown Brothers Company sent the firemen cigars and a check for 
$ 100 . 
Among the multitude of peaches that have proved their value this 
year there are few of the white fleshed free-stones that have equaled 
the Mountain Rareripe, says H. E. Van Deman. It is comparatively 
a new peach and ripens in mid season, just before and lapping onto 
Stump and Oldmixon Free, which are of the same character ; hence it 
has close competition. 
Twenty Bartlett pear trees were planted in February, 1896, on poor, 
gravelly soil at the Alabama Station. All were from the same nur¬ 
sery and have received the same treatment. Ten of the trees were on 
Japanese seedling roots, and ten on the usual French seedlings. From 
the first the trees on Japanese roots have been the most vigorous, and 
now they average over twice the size of those on French roots. 
Prof. H. E. Van Deman speaks a good word for the Crothers peach 
which he found years ago growing as a seedling on the farm of Mr.’ 
Crothers, Neosho Falls, Kansas. It meets the want of a late red and 
white freestone of high quality, entirely superseding Ward Late, 
which has long been the only peach of that character, says Prof. Van 
Deman. It is mentioned by Prof. T. V. Munson in his catalogue of 
rarely good peaches. 
Prof. J. L. Budd speaks as follows of a well-known nurseryman of 
Iowa: “ The fitting up and decorating of Horticultural Hall on the 
fair grounds reflects great credit on Superintendent Wragg and his able 
assistants. He also deserves special credit for his labors in bringing 
out and arranging a grand display of fruits and flowers during the 
year following so much orchard injury. The success attending his 
efforts shows the need of a practical horticulturist as manager of this 
important interest. We truly hope that a skilled horticulturist will 
continue to manage the horticultural exhibits of the state fair.” 
