THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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jector and the commissioner of agriculture a written decision. 
If the decision be against the objector the sheriff shall execute 
the order of the commissioner with all costs, including $1 for 
each arbitrator, or the objector, otherwise the county pays the 
costs. Refusal to comply with these provisions shall consti¬ 
tute a misdemeanor. 
The salary of the entomologist is $1,500, the expenses of 
the new department $1,000. 
HIGHER PRICES IN SIGHT. 
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Editor National Nurseryman : 
Enclosed draft for $1.00 to pay for National Nursery¬ 
man 1898. It is an up-to-date trade paper, we think. Have 
had an open winter here—but little snow and no zero weather 
no frost in ground at this date. Spring trade promises to be 
good and higher prices will no doubt prevail later in the season 
all along the line. Commercial varieties apple and peach will 
be practically off the market when the usual shipping season 
begins, we think. 
New Haven, Mo., Feb. 19. R. J. Bagby. 
NEW TENNESSEE NURSERY. 
One of the most promising of recently established co-opera¬ 
tive communities is that at Ruskin, Dickson county, Tenn., 
50 miles west of Nashville. There has developed the nucleus 
of a possibly valuable tree and plant nursery. A peach and 
plum block has just been planted, consisting of over 1,000 trees 
in 208 varieties. 
This will be, by far, the most interesting and extensive test 
ever attempted in Tennessee. In grapes, apples, pears and 
small fruits, the trials will be fully as extensive, and much 
attention will be paid to producing improved varieties, 
wherever practicable. From 6,000 to 10,000 trees will be pro¬ 
pagated and planted annually, until the land is occupied, 
selecting, as time goes on, from the varieties found best adapted 
to the locality. 
NO SCALE IN KANSAS. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
We wish through your valuable journal to correct a false 
statement made in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of January 7, 
1898, to the effect that Kansas and Illinois were badly infested 
with the San Jose scale. A similar statement was made in 
Colmaris Rural World. 
So far as Kansas is concerned, not a single case of the scale 
has yet been discovered within the border of the state. This 
statement is not made at random nor because we are at all 
careless concerning this pest. Two competent men, Professor 
Edward Popenoe, entomologist of the State Horticultural 
Society, and Professor Hunter of the State Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, have both inspected in different parts of the state, and 
are constantly on the lookout; but have not discovered any 
infested stock or orchards, to this date. 
By proper precaution, which is being taken, it is to be hoped 
we shall remain clear. 
A. L. Brooke. 
N. Topeka, February 2, 1898. 
Hmong (Svowers anb Bealers. 
R. W. Allen, Hudson, N. Y., is out of the nursery business. 
Small fruit plants are a specialty with P. D. Berry, Dayton, O. 
James Vick’s Sons are introducers of the Rathbun black¬ 
berry. 
J. L. Pettigrew, Morrison, Ill., is no longer in the nursery 
business. 
Fitzgerald peach trees can be had of A. D. Pratt, Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. 
The Deming Co., Salem, O., is pushing spraying outfits 
with success. 
Two million strawberry plants are offered by E. J. Hull, 
Oliphant, Pa. 
J. E. Bever has succeeded to the business of Bever & Son, 
Keithsburg, Ill. 
Rocky mountain dwarf cherry can be had of Whiting Nur¬ 
sery Co., Boston. 
Fay’s currants at reduced rates are offered by F. H. Bur- 
dett, Clifton, N. Y. 
Tree roses at a bargain are offered by Thomas Meehan & 
Sons, Germantown, Pa. 
It is reported that California nurseries have no Bellflower or 
Newtown pippin stock on hand. 
The value of a peach tree six years old has been estimated, 
by peach growers, at from 25 cents to $2. 
William Nicholson is the new president of the American 
Carnation Society. Albert M. Herr is secretary. 
George J. Kellogg & Son, Janesville, Wis., are strawberry 
specialists and growers of hardy trees for the Northwest. 
Roses on own roots of their own growing and Keiffer pears 
are offered by the Pheonix Nursery Company., Bloomington, 
Ill. 
J. M. Samuels, Clinton, Ky., claims the largest nursery in 
Kentucky and the largest experiment orchard in the United 
States. 
Fine colored Colorado spruces and over r,000,000 ever¬ 
green seedlings are offered by D. Hill, the evergreen specialist, 
Dundee, Ill. 
State Entomologist S. A. Forbes of Illinois, reports that San 
Jose scale has been found in nineteen places in fifteen coun¬ 
ties of that state. 
It is reported that Professor L. H. Bailey has started an 
orchard to be grafted from trees in different parts of the coun¬ 
try which are famous for producing fine fruit. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., have in special 
surplus a large variety of desirable ornamental stock, also 
pear, plum, cherry and peach, at bottom prices. 
G. C. Butz, of Pennsylvania Experiment Station estimates 
the total peach area of the state at 11,000 acres largely con¬ 
centrated in three or four counties in the southeastern part of 
the state. 
Fertilizers for nurserymen are a specialty with George F. 
Taylor’s Sons, 80 Pine street, New York city. They have the 
plant food needed for nursery lands which have been ex¬ 
hausted by repeated nursery use. Their line includes many 
kinds of fertilizer chemicals and materials. 
