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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Biltong (Browers anfc IDealers. 
Slaymaker & Son, Dover, Del., have berry plants of all 
kinds. 
G. W. Henry, Hatzie, B. C., has retired from the nursery 
business. 
C. E. Whitten, Bridgman, Mich, makes a specialty of straw¬ 
berry plants. 
C. L. Whitney, Warren, Ohio, makes a specialty of small 
evergreens. • 
C. N. Flansburgh, Leslie, Mich., has ioo varieties of choice 
strawberries. 
High grade trees are sold by Hoopes, Brother & Thomas, 
West Chester, Pa. 
Orange quince stock can be obtained from Otwell’s Nur¬ 
sery, Carlinville, Ill. 
All kinds of evergreens are handled by the Evergreen Nur¬ 
sery Co., Evergreen, Wis. 
A carload of peach trees is ready for the first comers at 
Charles Wright’s, Seaford, Del. 
President Wilder currant and Dikeman cherry are offered 
by S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y. 
Nut and fruit trees of all desirable varieties can be had at 
Party’s Pomona Nurseries, Parry, N. J. 
Apple, standard pear, cherry, peach, etc., fine stock, are 
offered by I. E. Ilgenfritz’ Sons, Monroe, Mich. 
The Munger raspberry and other small fruits in great variety 
are offered by W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, Ohio. 
J. E. Curtiss, Barr Center, N. Y., manufactures green elm 
cleats and corners, tar-pointed rose tree stakes, etc. 
C. F. McNair & Co., Dansville, N. Y., have cut prices on 
standard dwarf pear; also on apple, plum and cherry. 
A report of the annual meeting of the Western New York 
Horticultural Society will appear in a forthcoming issue. 
T. J. Dwyer of the Orange County Nurseries, Cornwall, N. 
Y., has taken into partnership his oldest son, M. J. Dwyer. 
William C. Barry and family of Ellwanger & Barry, Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y., have been passing the winter at Lakewood, N. J. 
An heir arrived at the home of Thomas B. Meehan, German¬ 
town, Pa., last month. All Tom could say was: “It’s a boy!” 
Charles S. Pratt, Reading, Mass., regards the Clyde, Glen 
Mary and Sample as three varieties of strawberries that rank 
first. 
Thomas W. Bowman & Son, Rochester, N. Y., make prices 
low on a large and fine assortment of fruit and ornamental 
stock. 
Peach trees and choice ornamental stock, including chest¬ 
nut, maple, willow, Magnolia, are offered by George Achelis, 
West Chester, Pa. 
Special prices are offered by H. M. Simpson & Sons, Vin¬ 
cennes, Ind., on leading commercial varieties of apple, peach, 
cherry and pear trees. 
Lewis Chase and wife, Rochester, N. Y., and Nelson Bogue, 
Batavia, N. Y., started on January 30th for a two months visit 
to the Bahama Islands. 
W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y., offer bargains in high 
grade stock, both fruit and ornamental. Dealers’ complete 
ists receive special attention. 
Everbearing peach is offered by G. H. Miller & Son, Rome, 
Ga., who regard it as a taking specialty for nurserymen who 
run agents for the fall of 1898. 
W. R. Harris and T. H. Perry, Tecumseh, Neb., have gone 
out of the nursery business. Mr. Harris has removed to 
Florida where he will grow fruit. 
Josiah A. Roberts, Malvern, Chester county, Pa., offers 
peach trees, California privet, Norway Spruce, American Arbor 
vitse, Osage orange, etc , fresh dug as ordered. 
The following stock must be sold to clear land at W. M, 
Peters Sons, Wesley Md. : Peaches, Japan plums, grape vines, 
asparagus roots and 3,000,000 strawberry plants. 
Apple, pear, standard and dwarf cherries, plums, apricots, 
peaches, Houghton and Downing gooseberries, grapes and 
blackberries are offered by A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan. 
The Griffing Brothers Co., Macclenny, Fla., as usual are 
making arrangements to distribute a large amount of nursery 
stock from Philadelphia during March and April. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., have customers 
in every state and territory in the Union. They have had 43 
years’ experience and grow fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, 
roses and plants by the carload. 
The Missouri State University at Columbia offers a short 
winter course in horticulture divided into orcharding and 
small fruit culture, floriculture and vegetable gardening. 
Special lectures are given by leading horticulturists. 
Following are the officers of the Ricker National Nursery 
Co., elected January 4th: President, E. G. Minnick; vice-presi¬ 
dent, John C. Wiltsie; secretary and treasurer, A. R. Straw. 
The officers and sons of Messrs. Minnick and Wiltsie are the 
directors. 
C. E. Howland, formerly manager of the nursery depart¬ 
ment of L. L. May & Co., St. Louis, has removed to Los 
Angeles, Cal., and engaged in business there under the firm 
name of The Howland Nursery Co., handling an ornamental 
line exclusively. 
Professor David Trine, Springport, Mich , formerly of the 
experiment station at Oiono, Me., later of Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., and still later of Oregon, has been appointed 
inspector of nurseries and orchards in Michigan, in place of 
U. P. Hedrick, resigned. 
Henry Schroeder, Sigourney, Iowa, notes less mailing of 
wholesale prices on postal cards than formerly. He thinks 
nurserymen should agree upon a limit of time for the replac¬ 
ing of stock to customers. He wants more Wagner apple trees 
grown. Henry succeeds with the Kieffer pear. 
N. A. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill., treasurer of the Ameri¬ 
can Association of Nurserymen since 1890, succeeding his 
father, the late A. R. Whitney, has resigned that position. 
President Irving Rouse has authorized Secretary George C. 
Seager, Rochester, N. Y., to act as treasurer until the next 
annual convention, in June. 
The West Michigan Nursery Co. on January 3d elected the 
following board of directors: J. W. Bedford, Juan Hess, O. E. 
Fifield, W. B. Mosher, A. J. Dean, Frank Kelley, H. L. Bird, 
and C. O. Shriver. The board elected the following officers: 
President, J. W. Bedford, vice-president, Frank Kelley; secre¬ 
tary, O. E. Fifield; treasurer, Harry L. Bird; general manager, 
C. W. Shriver; superintendent of the farm, W. B. Mosher. 
