THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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L. T. SANDERS. 
The subject of this sketch was born in Bertie County, N. C., 
May 15, 1845, and is of English and Scotch descent He 
moved with his parents to St. Francis County, Ark., (after¬ 
ward Woodruff Co.) in the winter of ’49. His father being a 
farmer, he was brought up that way. As the country was new, 
his education was limited. The civil war coming on while he 
was in his ’teens, he enlisted for one month, and re-enlisted 
before he was 17 years old, and served until the close of the 
war west of the Mississippi river, being discharged near 
Marshal, Tex., in May 1865. On returning home he found 
his father had died and the country being overrun by both 
armies, was about ruined. He set about to help build up the 
waste places. He attended school a part of the year, and then 
again went to the farm. In the fall of 1867 he went to South¬ 
west Arkansas, and in 1868 located in Bossier Parish, La., 
where he has resided continuously 
since. 
Mr. Sanders married Miss Frances 
A. Walker in January, 1869. He 
followed general farming until about 
1880, when he added the fruit and 
nursery business, and is making a 
success of both. Mr. Sanders is a 
member of the American Association 
of Nurserymen and the Texas Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, and was a mem¬ 
ber of the American Horticultural 
Association. He is the vice-presi¬ 
dent of the American Association of 
Nurserymen from Louisiana. He 
has recently associated with him in 
his business his son, Leon Sanders. 
Mr. Sanders has introduced several 
valuable new fruits, viz., Frances and 
Eureka peaches, Biery plum, and 
Yellow Forest and Louisiana apples. 
AN OREGON OPINION. 
The nursery business appears to 
be badly demoralized all over the 
United States. The business boomed 
too vigorously a few years ago and 
with a great over production of trees the price was forced 
down to figures at which it is impossible to put out good trees 
and make anything. In Oregan the business is now rapidly 
readjusting itself. Many nurseries have gone out of the busi¬ 
ness and others have consolidated. The greater part of the 
trees produced in Oregon nurseries are sold, however, in com¬ 
petition with eastern trees and the low prices have prevented 
even our most enterprising nurserymen from doing more than 
keep themselves from losing money even while doing a large 
business. 
Eastern nurserymen are, however, cutting down very largely 
their plantings and an advance in the price of trees is inevitable 
before long. This will be no real detriment to the fruit-grow¬ 
ing industry. A great number of people have bought fruit 
trees simply because they could get them for almost nothing 
who would now be better off if the trees were dug up and de¬ 
stroyed. Deterioration in quality is also an inevitable result 
of an excessive cheapness. Better prices and better trees will 
be no less beneficial to the fruit-growing industry than to the 
nurserymen —Oregon Agriculturist. 
ADVOCATES A PARK NURSERY. 
At the Minnea olis meeting of the American Park and Out¬ 
door Art Association, Fred Kanst, landscape gardeher for the 
South park system, Chicago, read a paper in which he said : 
“ In the majority of parks, and especially small ones, it is 
usual to obtain plants by collection from the surrounding 
country, or by purchase from nurseries. In larger parks, 
where thousands of plants are required, it is very essential in 
order to obtain the best results, as well as for economical 
reasons, that a park nursery be established where such trees as 
the elm, oak, ash, linden, negundo, birch, maple, etc , may be 
kept growing in a healthy condition until such lime as they 
may be needed. These trees when 
young can be purchased from nur¬ 
series very reasonably and when in 
nursery rows they can be had at any 
time they are wanted, thus saving 
delay, as the seasons of planting are 
usually short. Another advantage 
is that the trees will have become 
acclimated. But the principal object 
of a park nursery is to furnish quickly 
and in large quantities such varieties 
of trees, shrubs and plants as will be 
mostly used in the plantations, such 
as spiraeas, cornus, ligustrums, phila- 
delphus, ribes, symphoracarpus, loni 
cera, poplars and willows. These 
and many others may be readily in¬ 
creased from cuttings obtained from 
plants already about the park, by 
collection or by purchase. 
“The raising of their own plants 
has been practiced by the South 
Park commissioners for years past, 
and over 400,000 trees and shrubs, 
all grown in this way, are now in 
different parts of the park and all in 
fine condition. There are also 
150,000 cuttings, which were made last winter, growing in the 
nursery at the present time, which will be ready for next 
spring’s planting.’’ 
There will be presented to congress a bill to encourage the 
holding of a National Exposition of American products and 
manufactures, at Philadelphia in 1899. 
The Wabash and the Rock Island railroads are doing a 
very large share of the traffic east and west this summer. 
Their special train equipment is popular. 
Edward E. Uslar and Henry Ruehl of the California Nurs¬ 
ery Co., Niles, Cal, visited eastern nurserymen last month. 
Mr. Uslar went from Rochester with William E. Rossney to 
Bloomington, Ill., to enter the nursery business and eventually 
pushed on to the Pacific coast. His company is doing a large 
business in deciduous trees and shrubs ; it ships heavily to 
Australia and the Hawaiian Islands. 
