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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. 
PARIS EXPOSITION AWARDS. 
In the March issue of the National Nurseryman were 
given the values of the exports of nursery stock during the 
years 1894-1898. The countries listed as receiving such stock, 
in the order of the amounts exported, were: Canada, Great 
Britain, Germany, Mexico, British West Indies, Cuba, British 
Africa, Netherlands, France, Colombia and Belgium. 
The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a 
a bulletin, compiled by Frank Hitchcock, chief of the section 
of foreign markets, showing the imports of nursery stock to 
the United States from the countries named during the years 
1895-1899 : 
IMPORTS. 
1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 
Belgium.$ 94,099 $143,031 $124,646 $116,878 $130,864 
France. 119,025 178,565 202,187 100,375 122,739 
Germany. 60,465 77,68 3 76,680 59,368 63,229 
Italy. 2,535 3,477 4,980 4,845 11,421 
Netherlands.. 206,171 307,362 350,882 299,149 286,797 
Great Britain. 81,274 67,279 53,436 76,663 49,523 
Bermuda.... 7,720 104,852 78,528 50,988 38,424 
Canada. 28,841 24,486 22,615 7,402 1,678 
China (Hong 
Kong). 687 955 941 2,849 3,212 
Japan. 14,296 22,904 25,972 24,516 4L74 8 
For purposes of comparison, the table of exports of nursery 
stock from the United States during the five years, 1894 to 
1898 inclusive, showing to which countries the stock was sent, 
is reproduced: 
EXPORTS. 
1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 
Canada.$r 
1 5 ’ 59 ° 
$85,126 
$85,582 
I72,7 l8 
$36,862 
Great Britain . . 
4,605 
9,765 
12,7 12 
29,070 
19,712 
Germany. 
4,859 
22,251 
10,463 
8.219 
10,071 
Mexico. 
6,489 
5,267 
7,686 
5,866 
5 , 4 i 9 
Brit. W. Indies. 
2,834 
426 
1,148 
5,063 
5 , 4 i 9 
Cuba. 
U 7 I 7 
2,073 
45 ° 
250 
701 
British Africa. 
L 95 ° 
381 
407 
272 
396 
Belgium. 
220 
817 
211 
252 
1,25° 
France. 
20 
i 33 
220 
328 
1,168 
Netherlands. .. 
60 
83 
5 66 
1,069 
3 U 5 o 
Colombia. 
68 
26 
107 
28 
2 , 34 ° 
These figures show some interesting facts. It is generally 
known that there has been a heavy export nursery trade with 
Canada. Just how extensive this trade has been is here 
shown. While the five year period of exports is from 1894 
to 1898 and the five year period of imports is from 1895 to 
1899, they correspond sufficiently for purposes of comparison. 
In the periods mentioned, the exports of nursery stock from 
the United States to Canada amounted to $395,878 and the 
imports of nursery stock from Canada amounted to $85,022, a 
difference of $310,856 in favor of the United States. The 
average of exports to Canada was $79,175 per year ; the aver¬ 
age of imports $17,004. 
The heaviest imports are the nursery stocks from France 
and the Holland bulbs and ornamental plants from the Neth¬ 
erlands. Belgium, Bermuda and Japan also figure to a con¬ 
siderable degree as the result of the ornafnental stock trade. 
Aside from Canada, the exports to any considerable amount 
have been to Great Britain and Germany. 
News for nurserymen found nowhere else is in the National Nur¬ 
seryman. Read what others say. 
The following are the awards to American exhibitors in 
temporary competition in horticulture, September 26, 1900 at 
the Paris Exposition: 
FIRST PRIZES: 
Apples, Crops of 1899 - 1900 —Division of Pomology, United States 
Department of Agriculture, general collection; Illinois and Missouri 
State Horticultural Societies. 
Apples, Crop of 1900 —Kansas State Horticultural Society; E. F. Bab¬ 
cock, Waitsburg, Washington. 
Apples, Pears and Plums, Crop of 1900 —New York State Commission. 
Pears,Cropof 1900 ; llSvarieties—Ellwanger&Barry, Rochester,N.Y. 
Apples, Crop of 1900 ; 65 varieties—New York Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station. 
Plums, Crop of 1900 ; 55 varieties—-New York Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station. 
SECOND PRIZES: 
Oranges—Arlington Heights Fruit Company, Riverside, Cal. 
Apples, Crop of 1900 —Farmer’s Produce Association of Delaware; 
Fred Shaw, Summer Hill, Illinois; Delos Tenny, Hilton, New York. 
Apples, Pears and Plums, Crop of 1900 —Peninsula Horticultural 
Society. 
Peaches and Pears, Cropof 1900 —Charles Wright, Seaford, Delaware 
Acting Pomologist William A. Taylor of the U. S. Commis¬ 
sion to the Paris Exposition writes: 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Division of Pomology,Washington, D. C. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
October 10 , 1900 . 
You will find enclosed herewith, a list of the awards to American ex¬ 
hibitors in the Temporary Competition in Group VIII—Horticulture,at 
Paris Exposition, held September 26 , 1900 . 
The fruit of the crops of 1900 exhibited at that time was shipped from 
New York on the American Line Steamer St. Louis, Wednesday, Sep¬ 
tember 12 , and reached Paris via Southampton and Havre, Saturday, 
September 22 . The exhibits of apples from E. F. Babcock, Waitsburg, 
Washington, apples and plums from the New York Agricultural Station, 
Geneva, N. Y., are reported to have been specially fine. 
The total number of awards of the several grades, to American exhib¬ 
itors in the temporary competition in this group to October 1 , 1900 , is 
as follows: First prizes, 58 ; second prizes, 44 : third prizes, 14 ; honor¬ 
able mention, 10; total, 126 . 
Two temporary competitions are yet to be held, October 10 , and 24 
respectively. Exhibits for these went forward from New York Sep¬ 
tember 26 . 
Wm. A. Taylor, Acting Pomologist. 
THE REIGN OF THE KEIFFER. 
Writing to the Gardener’s Chronicle, London, England, 
Prof F. A. Waugh, of Vermont, says : 
The plantings of Keiffer, Garber, and Le Conte—especially of the 
first—have been excessive in the last three years. Areas beyond belief 
have been set with trees at almost any price. In fact, the nurserymen 
have been charging two or three times as much for trees of Keiffer as 
for Bardett, though the former is much easier to propagate. There is 
no doubt in the minds of most pomologists that this planting of the hy¬ 
brid pears has been greatly overdone, and that there soon must come a 
Si rious reaction. 
CHASE NURSERY CO. LOSS. 
The Los Angeles Times has the following under date of Oc-* 
tober 1st. 
The pumping plant of the Hermosa Orange Company, of Riverside, 
located a few miles northeast of Highgrove, was destroyed by fire 
about noon yesterday. The plant was installed about a year ago by the 
Chase Nursery Company, at a cost of $ 2500 , to pump water on the 
Hermosa rancho. It is not known what caused the fire. The machin¬ 
ery was not in operation, and no one connected with it was on the 
premises when the fire started. The plant was totally destroyed. 
There was no insurance. The Chases, with characteristic energy, have 
already ordered a new plant, and within a short time fifty or more 
inches of water will again be flowing on the Hermosa lands. 
