THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmono (Browers anb Beaters. 
V. A Vanicek, Newport. R. I., reports a large fall trade. 
The Eastern Nurserymen’s Association will meet in Rochester, N.Y., 
on January 16 th. 
The Cumberland Nurseries, capital stock $ 100 , 000 , have been incor¬ 
porated at Jersey City, N. J. 
The great Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo opens May 1 , 1901 , 
an l will continue for six months. 
Prof. L. H. Bailey will lecture on horticulture at the next summer 
s.ssion of the University of California. 
Any fruit grower may join the winter reading course at Cornell Uni¬ 
versity, under the direction of Prof. John Craig. 
W. L. Taylor, Litchfield, Minn., has purchased the old Cutt’s Nur¬ 
sery at Howard Lake. He will conduct a branch office at Litchfield. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs and vines amounted to 
$ 318,118 in September, 1900 , against $ 276,852 in the same month of 
last year. 
A. M. Augustine, Normal, Ill., will discuss “Modern Methods of 
Peach Growing ” at the convention of the Illinois Horticultural So¬ 
ciety this month. 
Over 40 , 000,000 people live within 500 miles of the Pan-American 
Exposition grounds, at Buffalo, and can get there in from fifteen min¬ 
utes to fifteen hours. 
H. M. Stringfellow, Lampasas, Tex., declares that of all men he is 
the nurseryman’s best friend, and that his principles are going like a 
house afire in the West. 
It is reported that the Alabama Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala., dur¬ 
ing the fall shipping season sent out an average of one carload of trees 
daily, valued at $ 3 , 000 . 
The annual Shaw banquet for nurserymen, florists and gardeners 
was held at the Mercantile Club rooms in St. Louis on November 3 d. 
There were 110 in attendance. 
It is expected that Assistant U. S. Pomologist W. A. Taylor and 
Prof. H. E. Van Deman will attend the annual convention of the 
Missouri Horticultural Society this month. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, of New York City, and Joseph Meehan,of Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa., are of the opinion that Scotch heather can be grown in 
the northern and middle sections of this country. 
Colonel E. F. Babcock, proprietor of the Columbian nursery 
Waitsburg, Washington, received a gold medal and diploma for his 
exhibit of 55 varieties of apples at the Paris Exposition. 
In Baltimore it has been the custom to charge 25 cents for the privi¬ 
lege of planting a tree before one’s own home. Now the city author), 
ties will grow trees in a park nursery and will furnish them free to 
property owners. 
H. S. Taylor & Co., Rochester, N. Y., have brought suit against 
Robert S. Ruger, of Ulster county to recover $ 100 , the value of nursery 
stock shipped to Ruger who refused to pay the bill on the ground that 
the stock was impaired. 
G. T. Tippin, Nichols, Mo., will discuss the growth of choice nur¬ 
sery trees, at the Missouri Horticultural Society at Farmington, Mo., 
December 4 - 6 . R. G. Bagby, New Haven, Mo., will speak of cold 
storage for nursery stock. 
“ Try larger orchards and less corn and wheat” is the adyice of E. F 
Stephens, Crete, Neb., to western farmers. “Single trees in our 
orchard yield 16 bushels of apples, selling for $ 12 . Have grown $400 
worth of fruit on single acres.” 
At the 45 th annual convention of the Illinois Horticultural Society, 
at Champaign, Ill., December 11 - 13 , Prof. S. A. Forbes, state ento¬ 
mologist, will report on nursery inspection and will read a paper on 
“ Crown Gall as a Nursery Pest.” 
The Cumberland Nurseries have been incorporated at Jersey Citjq 
N. J., with a capital stock of $ 100 , 000 . The incorporators are : J. I. 
Newson, A. W. Newson, W. F. Davis, all of Nashville, Tenn.; J. W. 
Avery, of New York ; H. G. C. Thornton, of Cranford. 
Veitch & Sons, Exeter, England, recently introduced the Mahdi, a 
new raspberry blackberry hybrid. The Gardener’s Chronicle thinks 
that in the Mahdi at least one good thing has been secured out of the 
frequently repeated attempts to cross the raspberry and blackberry. 
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The Wichita Nursery Association. Wichita, Kan., having outgrown 
its quarters, has moved into a new building 40 x 120 feet, which 
includes offices, tool room, grafting, packing and shipping rooms and 
a cellar where 40,000 trees may be stored. W. F. Schell is the manager. 
r I he grape union, or the Chautauqua and Erie Grape Company, the 
leading growers’ organization at Westfield, N. Y., shipped 2,027 cars 
this year against 1,950 in 1899 . Notwithstanding the remarkably good 
weather this fall, there were many acres unpicked when the snow 
storm came. 
The greatest care has been exercised by Frederick W. Taylor, the 
Pan-American Exposition’s director of concessions, to secure only the 
best and most novel and attractive entertainments from the hundreds 
submitted for his approval. lie even made a special trip to the Paris 
Exposition to see what it had to offer in that line. 
Augustine & Co., Normal, Ill., control the stock of the Sudduth 
pear. At their invitation a number of prominent horticulturist recently 
visited the parent tree near Williamsville, Sangamon county, Ill. The 
tree is 60 feet in height and 10 feet in circumference and is said to be 
80 years old, It has borne heavily for more than 40 years. 
Among those who successfully combine fruit growing with the nur¬ 
sery business is Samuel De Cou, of Burlington Co., N. J., says the 
American Agriculturist. He has a commercial orchard of twenty 
acres set with Keiffer pears, also several acres of various kinds of 
apples. The strawberry field, used largely for production of plants for 
setting, is one of the largest in this section. 
“ The Department of Entomology burned 30,000 trees from a Nash¬ 
ville nursery yesterday, which, it is alleged, were infected with San 
Jose scale,” said the New York Times of November 10 th. “State En¬ 
tomologist Scott left this morning for Woodbury to destroy 20,000 
more trees which he had collected there. The trees, it is said, have 
been shipped into the state without the proper certificate.” 
At the recent meeting of the Maine State Pomological Society last 
week, says the Rural New Yorker, the writer found the finest exhibi¬ 
tion of apples he has ever seen in New England. Possibly the Western 
New York Horticultural Society makes a finer display, but it is doubt¬ 
ful. We had no idea that such beautiful and high-flavored fruit could 
be produced in this cold northeastern part of our country. 
Peters & Skinner, North Topeka, Ivan., write: “The sales for this 
fall delivery are less than last season; but the sales for late fall or early 
spring shipment are considerably above those of last year. The pros¬ 
pect for spring trade is good. The demand for apple trees is brisk, 
the stock in the West is not large and we think the supply will soon 
be exhausted. The demand for apple seedlings is good and the grow¬ 
ers are rapidly closing out their stock.” 
Four divisions of the U. S. Department of Agriculture have been af- 
fi iated under the name of Office of Plant Industry, with B. T. Gallo¬ 
way, Superintendent of Gardens and Grounds ; Albert F. Woods, Chief 
of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology ; F. Lamson Scribner, Chief 
of Agrostology ; and G. B. Brackett, Chief of Pomology. H. E. Van 
Deman will visit the state horticultural societies this winter in the 
interests of the fruit exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition. 
Business in the line of hardy ornamentals seems to be booming. 
By a recent purchase the nursery and landscape engineering firm of 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Philadelphia, acquired two 
very large properties near their Dreshertown nurseries. These will be 
immediately planted with the better class of hardy ornamentals. Evi¬ 
dently Messrs. Meehan believe in the expansion policy. They report 
an excellent fall business. Though the Dreshertown nursery is an 
entirely distinct firm, it is really an auxiliary of the Germantown one, 
which of itself consists of seventy-five acres. The additional land now 
acquired by the sons practically gives the firm of Thomas Meehan & 
Sons the control of 260 acres for nursery purposes. 
SATED HIM SEVERAL DOLLARS. 
F. B. Orton, proprietor of the Orton Nursery, Kiowa. Ivan., writes 
under date of November 23 , 1900 : 
“The sample copy of the National Nurseryman you sent me has 
saved me several dollars already. I enclose you postoffice order for $1 
for one year’s subscription. I got the October number, so send me 
November number. I do not want to miss a copy.” 
