THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
65 
Hrnong (Browers anb IDealers. 
Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., comes to the front as usual 
with a varied assortment of tree labels. 
1 he Osage Nurseries have started an experiment station on 
the farm of J. A. Kelley at Dell Rapids, S. D. 
On May 14 employees of Dreer’s Nurseries, Philadelphia, 
unfurled a large flag with appropriate exercises. 
W. H. Ragan, Green Castle, Indiana, is chairman of the 
American Pomological Society’s catalogue revision committee. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., want lowest cash prices 
quoted on carload of guaranteed natural peach seed from the 
South. 
Horticultural Commissioner J. E. Baker, Tacoma, reports 
that there are 35 licensed nurserymen in the state of Wash¬ 
ington. 
C. J. Hartel, who has been in charge of the Oak Grove 
Nurseries, at Alhambra, Cal., has resigned and gone to San 
Francisco. 
Bismarck apple, Hale plum, snowball, altheas and dogwood 
of his own growing are offered by Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, 
New Jersey. 
W. D. Beattie, Atlanta, Qa., has leading varieties of peach 
trees well matured to tips, with good roots, carefully graded, 
at low prices. 
J. Blaauw and P. M. Koster, Boskoop, Holland, sailed for 
home last month after a visit to florists and nurserymen of the 
United States. 
H. S. Anderson, representing Hiram T. Jones, Union 
County Nurseries, Elizabeth, N. J., called on Rochester 
nurserymen, last month. 
J G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., give their full budded 
list of peach, over 1,000,000 trees, on outside cover of this 
issue. They also offer buds. 
The new post office of the Alabama Nursery Co. is Chase, 
near Huntsville, Madison County, Ala. E. A. Chase is presi¬ 
dent, H. S. Chase treasurer, H. B. Chase secretary. 
Andre L. Causse of New York, the well-known importer, 
who is usually seen at the conventions of the American Asso¬ 
ciation, finds it impossible to be at Omaha this year. 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, Conn., are pushing a 
new Burbank plum, the October Purple, said to be the wizard’s 
■ best production. It is described in another column. 
The sixteenth annual meeting of the American Seed Trade 
Association will be held at Old Point Comfort, Va., June 
14—16. J. B. Rice, Cambridge, N. Y., is president. 
A general assortment of fruit tree stocks at low prices is 
offered by C. C. Abel & Co., Box 920 New York city, repre¬ 
sentatives of P. Sebire & Sons, Ussy, Calvados, France. 
Fruit, forest and ornamental stock, French grown, is handled 
in large quantities by August Rhotert, 56 Barclay Street, New 
York, sole agent for Louis Leroy’s Nurseries, Angers, France. 
The Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective Association and the 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association will hold meet¬ 
ings at the Millard hotel, in Omaha, on Wednesday evening, 
June 8, at 8 o’clock. 
W. T. Hood of the well known firm of W. T. Hood & Co., 
Old Dominion Nurseries, Richmond, Va., is going out of 
business on account of his age. He offers to sell his interest. 
I he firm has a full stock for fall trade of 1898 and spring of 
1899. 
C. W. Murphy, for some time senior manager of the Cana¬ 
dian business at St. Thomas, Ont., under the name of Maple 
Grove Nurseries, is now located at Lawrence, Kan., where 
he is the manager of the Western Nursery Co. He would 
like growers’ price lists. 
August Rhotert, of New York city, representing Louis 
Leroy’s Nurseries, Angers, France, and M. Koster & Sons, 
Boskoop, Holland, was in Rochester last month on his way 
westward. At the Omaha convention he will be joined by his 
salesman, J. McHutchinson. 
T. V. Munson, Denison, Tex., has been elected correspond¬ 
ing member of the National Society of Agriculture of France. 
In 1889 Mr. Munson was accorded the decoration of the 
Legion of Honor for his success in supplying grafting stock 
with which to restore worn out vineyards in France. 
An inspection fee has been imposed by the Horticultural 
Board of British Columbia, on all nursery stock ; on consign¬ 
ments of 100 trees the fee is $2.50 ; 100 to 250 trees, $3.50 ; 
250 to 500 trees, $4.50. If found infected, a charge of 50 per 
cent, is added for disinfection. On fruit the minimum fee is 
$1.00 on any sum up to $33.00, and 3 per cent, on any sum 
over $33 00 in value. 
Some of the members of the American Association are 
wondering who will tell the after dinner stories at the conven¬ 
tion, in the absence of Herman Berkhan of New York, whose 
custom it has been to visit the Bowery to procure the latest 
bon mots just before starting for the convention. The arrival 
of his fifth daughter, three weeks old on May 26th, is said to 
be the cause of Mr. Berkhan’s detention in New York. He 
will be on hand next year. 
The Mt. Desert Nurseries, Bar Harbor, Me., which have 
been for the past three years conducted as a private enterprise 
by George B Dorr, of Boston, with William Miller as manager, 
have been incorporated by Mr. Dorr with a capital stock of 
$50,000, of which $300 has been paid in. The officers of 
this new corporation are George B. Dorr, of Bar Harbor, 
president ; M. G. Dorr, treasurer. The certificate of incor¬ 
poration was approved May 4, 1898. 
NO SCALE IN AMERICAN FRUIT. 
The German government admits in official correspondence 
that no San Jose scale has been found among the American 
fruit refuse examined. It was on the allegation that the scale 
did exist that the German government some time ago issued 
its prohibitory orders against American fruit and fruit ref¬ 
use, &c. 
TOO VALUABLE TO GIVE UP. 
Lake View Nursery Co., Sheridan, N. Y., May 23. —“Enclosed 
please find $1.00 to pay for subscription to National Nurseryman 
for one year. -It is too valuable to give up.” 
FULL FILE OF THE JOURNAL. 
Albert Brownell, Albany, Ore., May 18 .—“Find enclosed P. O. 
money order for $ 1.00 for subscription to National Nurseryman. 
Can not afford to be without it. Have all the numbers from first issue 
on file in our office.” 
