THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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OVER-PLANTING. 
Caution Urged by One Who Foresees Demoralization in Prices — 
Result of Tree Farming Instead of Nursery Business — 
Better a Shortage than Large Surplus—Apple, 
Peach and Plum at Low Prices this Fall. 
A note of warning is sounded in the following timely state¬ 
ment by John Charlton & Sons, Rochester N. Y : 
“ We are well satisfied at the amount of business we have 
done this season, as it much exceeds that of last and previous 
years’ sales. The season has been a remarkable one for the 
fine, even weather we have been favored with, causing no loss 
of time of any moment. 
We think the promise for next spring is most excellent, and 
much stock will then be wanted and a depletion in many lines 
will take place. We do not, however, think that, barring a 
few scarce articles, the nursery business is in much better 
condition than it has been of late. 
We hear of purchases from the West f. o. b. here Rochester, 
N. Y., spring of 1900 of apples, at a little more than one- 
half of what they fetched here this fall. Peaches also very 
low, and plums also. This is not cheering to contemplate and 
when the large crops of trees now underway comes into 
market, we think that another demoralization worse than we 
have experienced of late will take place, and all will suffer 
through it. 
“ Nurserymen had better not have quite enough stock for 
their sales, than to have large surplus to be thrown upon the 
market when ready. 
“Tree farming is responsible for this and not the legitimate 
nursery business. As long as trees are graded into 
inch and bargain lots of 2 feet etc. trees just so long will 
this incubus on a fair business last, and perhaps most all in the 
business are each little or much responsible for it.” 
AMERICAN APPLES IN ENGLAND. 
An English commission firm commenting on the American 
export trade says: 
If we depend on the home-grown apple, the poor man would never 
see one. It is true the English growers have improved early or “ fall ” 
apples, as we call them, but once the American gets on the market, the 
home apple ceases to sell. The Americans are just beginning to come 
in now. They pay more attention to fruit culture than we do. They 
grow more of one sort instead of dividing their energies, and pack them 
so that the buyer can confidently send them any distance. They com¬ 
bine for better rates of transit, and get concessions from the railroads 
and steamship companies that no individual can. Why, a barrel of 
apples could be sent from America four hundred miles over rail or river, 
three thousand miles by sea, and be put down in London or Liverpool 
for 4 s. The individual sending from London to Glasgow, a distance of 
four hundred miles, has to pay from 2 s. 6d. to 3 s. Americans do not 
send us inferior apples either, and inferior English apples will never sell 
at all this year. There are heavy crops in New England, New York 
New Jersey, moderate yields in the central, western, southern and 
south western States, and the heaviest crops on record in Canada and 
Nova Scotia. In 1896 , the year of our great yield at home, America 
still sent us 2,000,000 bairels, so you can guess what -will happen now. 
ROOT KILLING IN THE NURSERY. 
In the course of a paper on “ Protection Against Root- 
Killing,” read before the Southern Minnesota Horticultural 
Society, C. Wedge, Albert Lea, Minn., said : 
In the nursery a cover crop is the only practical protection that can 
be given, and buckwheat and oats are the two crops most commonly 
used. Neither is perfectly satisfactory ; buckwheat is not sufficiently 
leafy, and oats take too much moisture from the soil. We are thinking 
of trying a combination of the two, and have seriously in mind the 
trial of rape, sowed the latter part of July. This latter crop, if w r e had 
sufficient moisture to start the seed, would surely give a very w T arm 
leafy covering, but with plenty of snow it might live through the 
winter and be troublesome to get rid of in the spring. 
NURSERY STOCK FOR CANADA. 
A circular has been issued to collectors of customs in Canada noti¬ 
fying them that nursery stock from countries to which the San Jose 
Scale act applies may be imported and entered at the custom house at 
St. Johns, N. B.,St. John’s, P. Q., Niagara Falls, Windsor, Winnipeg, 
and Vancouver, between October, 15 , 1900 , and December, 15 , 1900 , 
upon a certificate of an authorized government official at one of the 
said ports that the nursery stock has been thoroughly fumigated with 
hydrocyanic acid gas, under his supervrsion. 
THE HUDSON PEACH. 
Wiley & Co., Cayuga, N. Y., sent us on October 6th samples 
of the fruit of the Hudson peach. The fruit is large but not 
highly colored. The flesh is ) ellow, juicy and of good flavor 
for so late a peach. It should be a valuable variety coming 
as it does after other peaches are out of the market. 
Peach pits may be had of John Peters & Co., Uriah, Pa. 
The Stuart pecan nursery, Ocean Springs, Miss., is for sale. 
Northern-grown apple seedlings are a specialty with W. H. Kauff- 
mann, Hawkeye Nurseries, Stratford, la. 
Strawberries, all the old and new varieties are offered by Myer & Sons, 
Bridgeville, Del; also raspberries and blackberries. 
James M. Kennedy, Dansville, N. Y., has a general line of nursery 
stock. He makes special prices on plum, pear and cherry. 
Contracts for growing all varieties of ornamental and flowering 
shrubs will be taken at low rates by the proprietors of the Titus Nur¬ 
sery, Nemaha, Neb. 
Regarding our announcement that Keiffer pears are being canned 
under their own name at Geneva, N. Y., the Country Gentleman says: 
“We hear that the Geneva Canning Co., Geneva, N. Y., is canning 
Kieffer pears under the name of Kieffer. This is refreshing news. 
Kieffers are almost always labelled Bartletts. But the Kieffer is a 
superior fruit when canned, as we have pointed out before, and is fit 
to be sold under its own name.” 
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