THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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“ A very great impetus was given to this feeling by the pas¬ 
sage of the timber culture act. The attractive condition of 
non-residence, freedom from taxation for a period of 8 to 13 
years, coupled with the requirement of ten acres of trees to be 
planted and cultivated, to acquire 160 acres, made this method 
a favorite with those who desired land of their own. Perhaps 
it would be of interest to mention that in the North Platte 
land district alone more than 11,000 tree claims were filed, and 
that reports from nine of the eleven districts in the state show 
that 28,474 timber claims were filed. Figuring that all of the 
timber claims have been planted once in the effort to secure 
trees,—and some of them have been replanted—on the legal 
basis of 27,000 trees per claim, we have the number of 568,- 
898,000 trees planted. Doubtless during the years 1885 — 90 
in which the largest number of trees were planted, there were 
single seasons when as many as 100,000,000 trees were planted. 
One nursery firm sold upwards of thirty million trees in one 
season and all nurseries had a large trade. One of the weak 
points of the timber culture law was in granting 160 acres 
of land simply for planting and cultivating the trees for a brief 
period of time. 
“ Plant strong yearling trees of suitable varieties the first 
spring after breaking. The land having been thoroughly pul¬ 
verized by the use of discs, pulverizers and harrows, or all 
together, mark each way 4'x 4 as in ordinary marking for corn. 
With a little practice an expert workman attains dexterity and 
skill enough to plant 2700 trees, or one acre, in a day of ten 
hours. To a force of ten men there should be a boy to keep 
the plants wet and distribute them to each planter. 
“Apparently successful groves should be cultivated until 
the spreading branches shut out all weed growth and conserve 
all the moisture for the direct use of the trees and the grove. 
When the trees get too large to stand at the distance of 4x4 
judicious thinning is necessary. It has not, however, been 
found wise to trim off the lower branches of the trees and 
allow all the trees to remain. The lower branches are espe¬ 
cially useful in shading down weed growth, in protecting the 
trunks of the trees, and in guarding against the conditions 
which favor borers. 
“ In the central counties of Nebraska the catalpa does well, 
grows rapidly, and makes valuable groves. The Russian mul¬ 
berry also does well in the same counties. The writer cut a 
mulberry tree in Hamilton County that had made a diameter 
of ten inches in twelve years and was of a height of 25 feet. 
Because of its ability to withstand drouth, large numbers of 
mulberry have been planted as windbreaks and groves. I 
regret to state, however, that the mulberry and catalpa have 
not been as successful as we expected in the extreme western 
counties of the state and in Eastern Colorado. Perhaps the 
elevation has something to do with it, but apparently each tree 
grows too late in the fall and is caught with unripe wood and 
suffers from winter’s cold. The ash proved to be the tree 
which could withstand the greatest amount of drouth and 
cold, and was most uniformly successful in securing a stand. 
In one contract of 750,000 trees we secured a stand of 98^8 
per cent, of the ash. The growth of the ash, however, is slow, 
and cultivation is required for a greater number of years than 
with a leafy tree like the box elder or catalpa. The black 
locust did fairly well as far out as Kimball County. 
“ In the planting of evergreens in the central counties of the 
state in a contract of 45,000 trees 80 per cent, were saved.’’ 
Hmong (Browers anb IDealers. 
Aaron Miller, Milton, Oregon, has taken his son into part¬ 
nership. 
H. G. Bryant, of Princeton, Ill., spent a portion of the sum¬ 
mer in South Dakota. 
Myer & Son, Bridgeville, Del., have a large stock of trees 
and plants free from scale. 
August Rhotert and wife returned on September 2d, from 
a ten weeks’ trip in Europe. 
William C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y., spent a portion of the 
summer in the Adirondacks. 
H. S. Chase, treasurer of the Alabama Nursery Co., Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala., was in Rochester last month. 
C. W. Grammage, London, Ont., is president of the Canadian 
Horticultural Association, recently formed. 
R. M. David, Fort Lee, N. J , has secured the nursery stock 
of the Spring Lake Nursery, Englewood, N. J. 
J. E. Killen, representing C. H. Joosten, New York city, 
called on Western New York nurserymen last month. 
Those who fear the market is short on apple, cherry and 
apricots should try Brewer & Stannard, Ottawa, Kansas. 
Parry’s Pomona Nurseries, Parry, N. J , contain 10,000 each 
of Bismarck apples, grafted chestnuts and Japan walnuts. 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Green, Rochester, N. Y , celebrated 
the twenty-fifth anniversary.of their marriage last month. 
Special mention was made at the New York State Fair of 
the fruit exhibits of Ellwanger & Barry and S. D. Willard. 
International horticultural exhibitions will be held in St. 
Petersburg next May and in Geneva, Switzerland, next Jnne. 
The oldest established nursery in Colorado is for sale on 
very liberal terms, according to announcement in another 
column. 
Professor Mark V. Slingerland, of Cornell University, is 
State Entomologist of New York, in place of Dr. J. A. Lintner, 
deceased. 
Professor John Craig, of Ottawa, Ont., later of Cornell 
University, has succeeded Professor J. L. Budd, at the Iowa 
Agricultural College, Ames, la. 
J. H. Gage, Fairbury, Neb., offers all grades of apple seed¬ 
lings, both straight and branched roots, forest tree seedlings 
of several kinds. They make root grafts to order in any style 
wanted. 
Charles J. Brown, of Brown Brothers Co., Rochester, N. Y., 
visited Nova Scotia, Canada and Illinois during August and 
September. A post office has been established at Brown’s 
Nurseries, Ont. 
The Storrs & Harrison Company, Painesville, O., has added 
a range of twelve greenhouses, each 22x100 feet, at a cost of 
about $10,000. The houses will be devoted mostly to the 
growing of young H. P. roses. 
Barbier & Co., is the style of the firm which succeeded to 
Transon Brothers Nurseries, Orleans, France. They have 
nursery stocks of all kinds. Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne, New 
York city, are the American agents. 
The United States crop report for September shows a per¬ 
centage over 100 for apples in Wisconsin, Minnesota and 
Idaho. In Michigan the percentage is 58, Ohio 20, New York 
33, Indiana 18, Illinois 27, Missouri 25. 
