THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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IIn Common Council. 
DECIDED IMPROVEMENT. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
We certainly think there will be a decided improvement for 
spring trade, and hope there will be for fall. There is no 
question that some of the leading kinds of stock are scarce 
and will bring more money. We believe that stock will be 
cleaned out closer before spring trade is over than it has been 
for a good many years. 
Painesville, O. The Storrs & Harrison Co. 
AT GREELEY, COLO. 
Editor National Nurseryman • 
From what I can judge, and the number of orders that we 
are getting in, there is every prospect of a good fall trade, and 
we find that prices are better than last year and seem to be 
upward in tendency. The farmers have promise of a good 
crop of wheat and potatoes through this country, which is the 
staple product here. In a general way business outlooks are 
good and seem to be improving. 
A. Riley for Geo. S. Spear. 
Greeley, Colo. 
CURTAILED STOCKS; BETTER PRICES. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
The outlook for fall and spring trade at this point shows a 
marked improvement compared with this time last year. Not 
only is the demand good, even strong, but prices are decidedly 
better. 
We believe that stocks will be entirely used up in some lines 
before wants are filled. 
The future supply of stocks is decidedly curtailed owing to 
light plantings. Providing unforeseen factors do not enter, 
we can see no reason why prices will not improve. 
Dansville, N. Y. C. F. MacNair. 
LARGE SHORTAGE IN APPLE AND CHERRY. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
The outlook for the nursery trade in the West is far beyond 
the normal. The surplus stock was all used up last spring 
and that in the face of increasing prices. Our statistics show 
a shortage in apple 1,000,000 and also a large shortage in 
cherry with peach a little below the normal and a good de¬ 
mand. 
Buyers of stock do not seem to appreciate the true condi¬ 
tion of the trade and somebody is going to be greatly fooled 
before spring of ’99 comes around. 
North Topeka. Kan. A. L. Brooke. 
AT GENEVA. N. Y. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
The outlook for the nursery business is a little more en¬ 
couraging than the past two seasons. Light plantings have 
been made the past season and this will tend to increase the 
price of stock on hand. 
Apples are short, and are commanding better prices. This 
might also be said of* sour cherries. Standard pears seem to 
be rather slow to move at low prices. We look for better 
prices before spring packing. A terrific hail storm visited 
the southern part of this place on August 17th, doing much 
damage to orchards, nurseries, and farm products, in the 
line of the storm. Maxwell Bros.’ extensive quince and 
plum orchards, located one mile south of the village were 
nearly ruined by the storm. Entire blocks of young nursery 
stock were injured badly by the hail. 
Geneva, N. Y. E. Smith & Sons. 
SHARP DEMAND IN SOME LINES. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
The amount of stock sold by us thus far at wholesale is just 
about the same as we had placed at this time last year, but we 
are following a little different po’icy this season, which hardly 
makes the comparison a fair one and which, if taken into con¬ 
sideration, would show a rather better trade for this season 
than last. Heretofore, we have always gotten out our price 
list quite early in the summer, about the middle of July in 
fact, but we made up our minds that it was not advisable to 
try to force sales so early in the season as that, as it seemed 
almost impossible, while stock is so plentiful, to get any large 
quantity of orders placed until well along toward shipping 
season. This year, we are sending out our price list the last 
of this month and, of course, that makes quite a little differ¬ 
ence in sales. 
We are of the opinion that the general outlook is very much 
better than it has been for several years past. Without excep¬ 
tion, all the retailers with whom we have talked report sales 
very greatly increased over last year and this cannot but make 
a better wholesale demand. In some of our lines, we already 
find quite a sharp demand for stock and upon some articles 
we are already cleaned out quite closely. 
Newark, N. Y. Jackson & Perkins Co. 
GOOD CLEAN-UP NEXT SPRING. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
Regarding the outlook for the fall nursery business, we think 
it is decidedly better than it has been for some years. Some 
lines of stock will certainly be much scarcer, and probably 
shorter than the demand. Of course it is a little early yet to 
judge very much regarding this only from agents’ sales, which 
so far have been very good, and we believe will show up better 
for the rest of the season than they have done for the past 
four or five years. And we hope to see the improvement con¬ 
tinue, and confidently look for a better clean-up next spring 
than the nurserymen have had for many years. 
Apple will be especially scarce in the West, and the surplus 
of cherry will not be near what it has been. Pears and plums 
are reasonably abundant, but we believe these will also be used 
up pretty closely with the spring packing. 
Our season has been very favorable, only two or three weeks 
of very dry weather. We are now having an abundance of 
rain and stock generally is making a good growth. Farm 
crops have been exceptionally good, and prices ranging con¬ 
siderably higher than for the past few years certainly indicates 
a far better tone of business generally than we have had here¬ 
tofore. 
Bridgeport, Ind. Albertson & Hobbs. 
