THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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So long as the people are able and willing to pay for this 
kind of education they will find instructors ready and willing 
to take their money. 
The local tree grower who expects to harvest dollars, must 
enter the field with the foreign tree dealer and compete with 
him along his own lines, show as fine pictures, have as high 
sounding names, tell as large stories, charge as high prices ; 
but furnish better stock. 
Experience demonstrates the fact that the average man or 
woman who needs education in small fruit culture, prefers to 
pay one to two dollars per dozen for Golden Wonder straw¬ 
berries rather than one dollar per hundred for Crescent, War- 
field or Wilson. 
A canvasser making a house to house canvass who should 
truthfully describe the good qualities and beauty of Linden 
Americana, offering them only one to a customer at $2 each, 
would do a thriving business, where he would find few cus¬ 
tomers for Basswoods at 25 cents each. 
The foreign tree dealer is a great educator. He comes 
high; but the people want him and as long as they are willing 
to pay the price they will get him in those things that are good 
and useful; we may imitate him, we cannot suppress him so 
long as he finds profit in the business. A tree dealer, like a 
prophet, needs to go away from home for either honor or 
wealth. 
;jfrom Uarious points. 
Harrisons, Berlin, Md., have an attractive announcement in 
another column, as usual. 
Professor Van Deman thinks York Imperial and Sutton 
Beauty are the best apples for New York state planting and 
that Burbank and Red June are the best Japan plums for 
market. 
All shipments of fruit showing scale, codlin moth or other 
disease, are dumped overboard as soon as discovered at Puget 
Sound points. The same rule is enforced at Portland, Oregon, 
and at British Columbia points. 
1 A maple tree eighteen feet in height is growing from the 
crevice between two limestone blocks laid with hydraulic 
cement in the roof of the Decatur county court house tower at 
Greensburg, Ind. Another victory for the Stringfellow root 
theory ! 
The Douglas Nursery Co., Waukegan, Ill., has closed a three 
years’ contract with the United States government to furnish 
evergreen trees in large quantities. The government will 
plant young trees in the arid regions of the South, in Okla¬ 
homa, Texas, Arizona and elsewhere. 
Ames & Munro, who succeeded Leonard Coates in the pro¬ 
prietorship of the Napa Valley Nurseries have more than 
doubled the amount of stock during the last six months. The 
firm has on hand orders from seven states, including New 
Jersey. It ships stock to New Zealand. 
W. G. Whitney, proprietor of the Payette, Idaho, nurseries, 
was arrested recently in Butte, Montana, whither he had driven 
with a load of fruit from his orchards. He was acquitted of 
the charge of selling fruit without a license upon proving that 
he had placed his product in the hands of a Montana dealer. 
FOR SALE 
One of the oldest, best paying Nurseries in the South. Over 
1,000,000 trees In best of condition. Large commercial and 
experiment orchard. Will sell for price of land alone. Owner 
desires to travel abroad. 
Address, SOUTH, 
Care NATIONAL NURSERYHAN. 
J. M Samuels, Clinton, Kentucky, has for sale, 
500,000 apple, any age ; 300,000 peach, 100,000 pear, 
50,000 plum Other Nursery Stock in proportion. No 
San Jose scale or other insect pest. Write me for 
pnces ' J. M. SAHUELS, 
Clinton, Ky. 
WANTED 
TO SELL interest in one of the best es¬ 
tablished and best equipped nurseries in 
the South, to a first-class, practical young nurseryman with some 
money to invest. The reason for wanting to sell is on account of 
too much work for owner, who has spent 30 years of his time in the 
business. 
ADDRESS “T,” CARE OF NATIONAL NURSERYMAN, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
CHOICE STRAWBERRIES. 
Nick Ohmer, Margaret. Seaford, Ruby, Carrie, etc. 400.000 Clyde, 
130,000 Glen Mary, 400,000 Marshall. Write for estimate on large 
lots. 100 varieties. Catalogue sent free. 
C. N. FLANSBURGH, Leslie, Michigan. 
An experienced nurseryman and 
bookkeeper who wants to come 
to Colorado for throat and lung 
trouble. Will have to do inside and outside work, and must not be 
an invalid; must be temperate. 
THE GREELEY NURSERIES, GREELEY, COLO. 
WANTED 
HUT MS FRUIT TRESS 
Of all Desirable Varieties. 
IMMENSE STOCK. 300 ACRES. 60 YEARS. 
Book on Nut Culture, 157 pages, 60 illustrations, telling how 
to propagate, market and cook them. Pricb $1.00, or free 
with an order of Nut Trees for $5. Catalogue Free. 
PARRY’S POMONA NURSERIES, PARRY, N. J. 
PEAGH TREES. 
rnrrrr 
And the Following Specialties 
APPLE and CHESTNUT TREES, LILACS, NORWAY and 
SILVER MAPLES, WILLOWS, EVERGREENS, 2 Years. 
OSAGE ORANGE, ASPARAGUS, JAPAN SNOWBALL, 
MAGNOLIA ACUMINATA and TRIPETELA. , . . 
^ag-GEORGE ACHELIS, West Chester, Pa. 
FOR SALE CHEAP! 
from bearing- bushes. Address — 
Large Stock, Fine 2 year 
Orange Quince. Grafted 
OTWELL’S NURSERY, Carlinville, Illinois. 
Berry Plants of all Kinds. 
Best Plants. Bottom Prices. Catalogue Free. 
Lucretia Dewberry, at Specially Low Prices 
to the Trade. 
SLAYMAKER & SON, DOVER, DEL. 
