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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong ©towers anb ^Dealers. 
P. S. Peterson, of Chicago, is at a sanitarium. 
Freight rates from Southern French ports have advanced io£. 
George Brothers, Penfield, N. Y., has two-year roses on own 
roots. 
Joseph D. Sweet, Norwich, Conn., has entered the nursery 
business. 
W. E. Garrat, it is reported, will enter the nursery business 
at Eagle Grove, la. 
J. E. Heine Nursery Co., Orwigsburg, Pa., want experienced 
peach budders for fall. 
Grape vines are the articles for which T. S. Hubbard, 
Fredonia, N. Y., is noted. 
Gardner & Son, Osage, la., presents a list of stock for fall 
of 1898 and spring of 1899. 
William Fell, Hexham, England, says he has a striking 
novelty in the Comet red currant. 
Raffia and Mazzard cherry seed are specialties with Thomas 
Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa. 
August Rhotert, of New York, sailed for Europe on June 
20th. He will return in September. 
Pears, standard and dwarf, and plums can be had at low 
prices of D. H. Patty, Geneva, N. Y. 
John C. Chase, Derry, N. H., called on New York state 
nurserymen on his return from Omaha. 
General John C. Graves has succeeded William McMillan 
as superintendent of parks of Buffalo, N. Y. 
Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., calls attention in an attrac¬ 
tive manner in this issue to his wood labels. 
Thomas Edwards, New Brighton, Pa., has retired from the 
nursery business. He is succeeded by his son. 
The Phoenix Nursery Co., Bloomington, Ill., established in 
1852 offer a large and choice collection of roses. 
President Brooke of the American Association has added 
thirty-five acres to his nursery at North Topeka, Kan. 
The Spaulding Nursery Co., Spaulding, Ill., have a July 
sale of Kieffer, Garber and other pears, besides general stock. 
J. Rice & Sons, Geneva, N. Y., are wholesale growers of 
apple, pear, peach, cherry, plum and quince trees ; also orna¬ 
mentals. 
Professor M. V. Slingerland is strongly endorsed for New 
York state entomologist to succeed the late Professor J. A. 
Lintner. 
W. F. Heikes, Huntsville, Ala., has started a nursery at 
Benton Harbor, Mich., for the propagation of rose, peach and 
plum trees. 
Yellow Rambler roses, Cumberland and Iceberg blackberries 
are chief features of the trade of Jackson & Perkins Co., 
Newark, N. Y. 
Peters & Skinner, North Topeka, Kansas, have presented 
the fire department fifty rose plants which have been set out 
about the fire station. 
Owing to the recent death of Mr. Watson, the firm of 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., was not represented at 
the Omaha convention. 
J. E. Killen, representing C. H. Joosten, the New York im¬ 
porter, sent a telegram from Rockford, Ill., stating his inability 
to get to the convention. 
The number of directors of the Allen Nursery Co., Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y., has been decreased and the capital stock has been 
increased from $6,000 to $10,000. 
Twenty-two years ago the business conducted by Allen L. 
Wood, Rochester, N. Y., was established. He has small fruit 
plants practically without number. 
L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., is treasurer of the Georgia 
Horticultural Society which will hold its twenty-second annual 
meeting at Americus, Ga., August 3—5. 
The Dayton Fruit Tree Label Co., Dayton, O., packs 2^/2 
inch printed and wired labels in cartoons of 1,000 each, the 
outside of the cartoon showing the cartoon. 
The Furness Nursery Company, Indianapolis, Ind , has been 
incorporated with a capital of $ro,ooo. The company will 
cultivate and sell fruit and shade trees and other nursery stock. 
French nursery stocks, fruit tree seedlings and ornamentals 
in complete assortment are offered by E. T. Dickinson, 
Chatenay, France, who has an office at 1 Broadway, New 
York city. 
L. G. Bragg, Kalamazoo, Mich., enjoyed renewing acquaint¬ 
ances at the convention. He said he learned to ride a bicycle 
early in 1897 and therefore could no.t attend the St. Louis 
convention. 
As announced on another page, Storrs & Harrison Co., 
Painesville, O., grow as healthy and hardy nursery stock as can 
be found in this country. Their stock is standard as to quality 
in all branches. 
There is pending in congress a bill to authorize and encour¬ 
age the holding of a National Exposition of American Pro¬ 
ducts and Manufactures, especially suited for export, at Phila¬ 
delphia in 1899. 
William Krueger, of Oxford, la., has purchased the half in¬ 
terest of W. Owens in the Gould Nursery at Rolling Prairie, 
la., which has been planted to 19,000 new trees and will be 
run in connection with the Krueger Nursery. 
A woman 48 years old and her daughter aged 17, went to 
the botanical garden in Bronx park, New York, and cut ferns 
to the value of $200. They told the police sergeant that they 
wanted the ferns for the young woman’s birthday party. 
W. T. Hood, Baltimore, Md., does not wish to sell more 
than one-half interest in the nursery business he has estab¬ 
lished and does not expect to give up the business if he does 
not sell. The Old Dominion Nursery is owned and conducted 
by W. T. Hood. 
J. G. Harrison Sons, Berlin, Md., are making a specialty of 
peach buds for 60 days. Waddell, Casman, Emma, Bokara, 
Connecticut, Greensboro, Eureka, Mclntoch, Fitzgerald and 
Lorentz are among the new ones. A full list, regular varieties 
at a fair price. See outside cover page. 
Charles J. Brown, of Brown Brothers, Rochester, N. Y., has 
received new honors. He had been out of the office of presi¬ 
dent of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce but a short time 
when he was chosen chairman of the Monroe County republi¬ 
can committee, an important position in Western New York 
politics. 
