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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong Growers anb ^Dealers. 
Samuel C. Moon, Morrisville, Pa., offers Berberis Thunbergii 
at low prices. 
The firm of Alexander & Hammon, Biggs, Cal., has dis¬ 
solved partnership. 
The New York scale bill has been passed by the senate. It 
will undoubtedly become a law. 
Kieffer pears in carload lots can be had of Spaulding Nurs¬ 
ery & Orchard Co., Spaulding, Ill. 
Apple trees and Abundance and Willard plums are specialties 
with F. W. Watson & Co., Topeka, Kans. 
The Clierokee Nursery Co., Waycross’, Ga., has been dis¬ 
solved. H. D. Reed is winding up the affairs of the concern. 
Stark Brothers have secured for a nursery farm a tract of 
500 acres just south of Louisiana, Mo., overlooking the 
Mississippi river. 
“We are selling all we can furnish. Never had such brisk 
trade before, and prices are good,” write F. W. Watson & Co., 
Topeka, Kan. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., claim to have shipped 
more peach trees than any other firm in the United States. 
They are shipping daily now. 
The scale bill passed by the New Jersery legislature was 
discovered by the governor to be defective. A new bill is on 
its way through the legislature. 
Evergreen trees are a specialty with Charles B. Hornor & 
Son, Mt. Holly, N. J., who also have 40,000 Norway maples, 
low or high branched, and other ornamental stock. 
The Canadian Horticultural Society was formed in Toronto 
on February 10th. William Gammage, of London, Ont., is 
president; Hugh McLean, of St. Thomas, secretary. 
The rotary neostyle is proving a labor saving device in 
nursery offices. A cut of this apparatus in another column 
illustrates how 2000 copies from the original writing or type¬ 
writing may be made. 
William A. Peterson, who has the active management of the 
large business of P. S. Peterson & Son, Rose Hill Nursery, 
Chicago, has devoted his entire time to the business during 
the last thirteen years. 
The California Fruit Grower, figuring conservatively, places 
the value of California’s fruit yield for I897, embracing fresh, 
canned and cured deciduous fruits, citrus fruits, raisins, prunes 
and grapes for wine, at $27,550,000. 
Ernest Walker, for twenty years a member of the firm of 
F. Walker & Co., nurserymen and florists, Louisville, Ky., has 
accepted the position of entomologist and assistant horticul¬ 
turist at the Clemson College station, S. C. 
Peter Barr, the originator of the firm of Barr & Sons, nurs¬ 
erymen and seedsmen, of Covent Garden, London, has 
resigned the conduct of his business to his sons and will travel 
in the United States, Australia and China. 
I he original Burbank plum tree on the grounds of Luther 
Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal., though mutilated to the fullest 
extent each season to obtain buds and grafts, has not failed to 
produce a full crop every year. It is fourteen years old. 
The San Jose scale is another “ blessing in disguise ” to fruit 
growers; all these troubles force us to give better care and 
attention to our nursery stock as well as to our bearing trees 
and plants, said J. H. Hale to the Connecticut Pomological 
Society. ft 
Congressman Charles A. Barlow, of California, who intro¬ 
duced the federal scale bill, says: “I think it is the most 
important bill that will come before either branch of congress 
this session so far as fruit is concerned.” He is sure it will 
become a law. 
President C. L. Watrous, of the American Pomological 
Society, and U. S. Pomologist G. B. Brackett have appointed 
W. H. Ragan, ex-secretary of the Indiana Horticultural 
Society, chairman of the pomological society’s catalogue re¬ 
vision committee. 
Governor Black, of New York, desires to make a beginning 
in practical forestry by devoting 25,000 acres of the forest 
preserve to tree culture under the direction of the experiment 
officials at the Cornell University station. A legislative bill 
appropriates $5,000. 
T. C. Thurlow, West Newbury, Mass., who went to North 
Carolina a year ago for his health, is much improved. “Al¬ 
though very busy,” he writes, “I have found time to read 
carefully the National Nurseryman, which improves in 
interest and usefulness.” 
Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the U. S. Division of Entomol¬ 
ogy, believes that the principal places of entry to be guarded 
from introduction of insects and plant diseases are: Boston, 
New York, Baltimore, St. Augustine, Charleston, Key West ? 
Tampa and New Orleans. 
The articles of incorporation of the Nebo, Utah, Nursery 
Company have been filed for record. The nursery will be 
located on the land lately brought into cultivation by the con¬ 
struction of the Nebo canal. Forty thousand young trees 
have been purchased by the company and will be replanted as 
soon as the weather permits. 
Replying to a correspondent who asks how to cultivate 
nursery stock, Edwin Hoyt, New Canaan, Conn., says : T. J. 
is not posted in raising young trees, my advice to him is to let 
it alone. He can buy trees cheaper than they can be raised, 
and with the strong competition there is now in the nursery 
business, One not being well posted in the business may be¬ 
come stranded before he is aware of it.” 
The Manitoba Horticultural Society was formed at Winni¬ 
peg on February 18th, “for the purpose of advancing the 
interests of horticulture in the departments of flower growing, 
fruit growing, and tree growing throughout the region between 
Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains. It aims at discov¬ 
ering the kinds of plants, and methods of cultivation most 
suited to the soil, the climate, and the peculiar circumstances 
of this country.” 
The division of pomology of the United States Department 
of Agriculture will investigate the fruit producing districts of 
Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Idaho, 
will indicate the boundaries thereof as clearly as may be found 
practicable, and will note the pomological influence of lati¬ 
tude, slopes, soils, exposures and moisture conditions, as shown 
by the experience of fruit growers within the division of 
country included in this inquiry. 
