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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900. 
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AHER1CAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Theodore J. Smith, Geneva, N. Y.; vice president, N. W. 
Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; C. L. Watrous, Des 
Moines, la.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind. 
Committee on Transportation—Theodore J. Smith, ex-officio, chairman ; A. L. 
Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, 
Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Phoneton, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N.Y. 
Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Annual convention for 1901—At Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 12-13. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., October, 1900. 
THE PEAR TRADE. 
It is a fact that in the nurseries of the country to-day are 
grown fewer dwarf pear trees than could have been had of any 
one of several growers a decade ago. One can.count on his 
fingers all the varieties that are desirable as dwarfs, says 
George G. Atwood, and for strictly profitable ones the 
Angouleme is the only one to plant largely of. A high whole¬ 
sale price of standard pears helped the sale of dwarfs. The 
latter could be maintained for two-fifths the cost. It was the 
price and not the real value of dwarfs that created the demand 
for them for commercial orchards. 
Mr. Atwood calls attention to conditions of pear growing, 
in Western New York for instance, at the present time. Before 
the war of 1861 this was a profitable industry. The soil now 
as then is adapted to the production of the best hard-wooded 
healthy trees, but the question of profit has changed materially. 
Good pear trees are retailed at a lower price to-day than they 
were wholesaled at a few years ago. 
Budding was unusually successful in Western New York. 
In other parts of the country, from 1850 to 1870 , seedlings 
from France planted under various conditions failed. Buyers 
of pears, therefore, had to come to New York state and a sale 
of many carloads to a single purchaser resulted. Bordeaux 
mixture it was said helped growers in other states and finally 
the introduction of Japan ..seedlings, whose thick foliage 
resisted the attacks of fungus,- resulted in the raising of good 
pear trees in all the states where the fruit can be grown. The 
introduction of the Kieffer pear affected Western New York 
growers more than anything else. Many nurserymen all over 
the country produced large numbers of the Kieffer. The 
demand for this variety led the growers of Western New York 
to reduce their plantings of Bartletts and plant almost entirely 
the Kieffer for a time. 
It was not long before nurserymen found that not all the 
places in the country where pear stocks could be grown had 
been tried, and now these stocks are grown in various 
sections. Nurserymen still go to New York for certain kinds 
however. 
We have referred frequently to the discussion of the Kieffer 
by nurserymen and horticulturists. Some of the large 
orchardists are continuing to plant the varieties of high 
quality in the belief that they will be able to sell the fruit at 
■good prices when the Kieffer demand wanes. These growers 
are pinning their faith to Bartlett, Seckel, Anjou, Lawrence 
and Clairgeau. There is no doubt that the Kieffer will long 
prove popular with the proprietors of canning factories who 
find that the Kieffer will hold its form for two years when 
canned, while the Bartlett will go to pieces in a few months. 
The demand for French stocks is heavy. Irving Rouse, 
Rochester, N. Y., has sold out closely this season and has 
made a heavier importation than usual. There are compara¬ 
tively few Japanese stocks in use in this country now. 
The Geneva, N. Y., Canning Co., which we believe is the 
only company canning Kieffers under the name of the Kieffer, 
was awarded a medal at the Paris Exposition for its display of 
these goods. 
CANADIAN EXCLUSION. 
As the fall packing season approached the Canadian authori¬ 
ties proposed to let down the bars excluding nursery stock 
from the States, so that such stock could be shipped across 
the border, subject to inspection and fumigation, between the 
dates October 10 th and November 10 th. 
Secretary Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y., of the Eastern 
Nurserymen’s Association, wrote to the Canadian authorities 
asking that the date for shipping nursery stock be left open 
until January 1 st. This will accommodate all nurserymen of 
the United States. Some of the western growers of apple 
stocks desire a date for shipment later than that for trees 
generally. 
Upon this subject the Country Gentleman recently said : 
The Canadian Minister of Agriculture has promised another period of 
suspension for the act excluding United States nursery stock from 
Canada. The date for this suspension had not been fixed at latest 
advices, nor had full regulations been promulgated. It is probable, 
however, that stock will be required to enter through certain specified 
ports and to undergo there some kind of fumigation. - It is extremely 
difficult to see what the Dominion is gaining from the exclusion act ; 
and we have personal knowledge that Canadian fruit growers are far 
from unanimous in their support of this policy. 
