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years. In this way a remunerative crop may be gathered in 
three of four years after the planting. Experiments have 
been confined mostly to apples, pears and plums but should 
be extended to all other fruit trees. 
State Tree Station, E. H. S. Dartt. 
Owatonna, Minn. Oct. 15, 1898. President. 
ANNUAL INSPECTIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
In the last issue of the National Nurseryman I have 
noted, with much interest, your brief resume of the laws of 
the states regarding San Jose scale. 
Under the North Carolina law you state that the certificate 
of inspection must be dated within six months of shipment. 
Formerly this was so, but this fall there has been in effect a 
new and very wise provision or ruling which fixes the dates of 
inspection twelve months apart, instead of six months as 
formerly, as you will see by my own certificate which I en¬ 
close herewith. 
Boston, Oct. 7th. Harlan P. Kelsey. 
IDEAL IDAHO. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
This is not a small country as many in the East believe it 
to be. Nursery business in this country will do from $100,000 
to $300,000 per year at very good prices. The demand for 
Idaho fruits is becoming something enormous and our freight 
rates to New York are only about $10 higher than from 
Georgia per car. Our country grows the finest big red apples 
of the West. Prunes, plums, peaches, pears, cherries, apricots, 
nectarines, quinces, filberts, soft shell almonds, English 
walnuts, chestnuts, etc. Altitude 1,500 to 2,500 feet; winters 
seldom below zero and summers beautiful, the snowy moun¬ 
tains in the distance always giving a cool refreshing breeze. 
Truly this state has been properly named “Gem of the Moun¬ 
tains.” We never lack for water, we never have too much 
rain and never have any drouths, therefore never are known 
to have a failure. We irrigate and can have it rain any time 
we want ; can have it hard or light as the land requires. 
From our rivers the water carries a certain amount of sedi¬ 
ment and mineral which is the best fertilizer known, and we 
have no poor lands as known in some places in the East, which 
have to be replenished by commercial fertilizers. This 
country is rapidly settling up with the best class of eastern 
people and is to-day the country for the young as well as the 
old energetic people who wish to make money. 
Payette, Idaho, Oct. 22. W. G. Whitney. 
Campbell’s Early grapes retailed for 30 cents per nine-pound 
basket in Buffalo this fall. The fruit was mistaken for Black 
Hamburg. 
T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Mich., is about to retire from the 
superintendency of the South Haven fruit-testing station after 
a continuous service of ten years. He is 85 years of age. 
Stone & Wellington, Toronto, Ont., last month sent us a 
sample of their Dempsey pear to which we have before called 
attention. It is a large, rich appearing fruit, and when cut 
bears out its promise. The flesh is white, fine-grained, sweet 
and juicy. It is a fine dessert pear for fall and early winter. 
MICHIGAN PEACHES. 
The peach orchards at Benton Harbor are now the central 
attractions, and when orders come from points in New York, 
Ohio and Minnesota for entire car loads, the fact becomes evi¬ 
dent that Michigan peach growers have a market for their 
produce, says J. N. Reed in the Michigan Farmer. The prices 
for peaches here are some better than for the past two years, but 
the fact that every peach orchard has well developed fruit 
accounts for the constant shipment from this section by rail 
and boat, and the handsome returns to the owner. 
The fruit belt is not limited to a distance of five and six 
miles from the lake this year, but runs far out into the country, 
which will encourage many new fruit farms. The basket 
factories, notwithstanding the owners were preparing for the 
rush all last winter, are overrun with orders. Double force of 
men, with night and day runs, find the companies compelled 
to ship by the car load from southern factories. 
From the North the West Michigan brings in every night 
for the boat twenty-five to thirty carloads. On the same road 
daily two heavy trains of twenty-eight to thirty cars run 
through here direct for Chicago. This is equally true of the 
Vandalia. However, the Big Four & Vandalia line carry out 
every night by the Armour refrigerators from forty to eighty 
cars, headed for Peoria, Toledo, Buffalo, Minneapolis and 
local Indiana points. 
The Hyland farm, lying ten miles from the lake, owned by 
M. A. Jennings, last year was outside the fruit limit, this year 
from twenty acres the owner will net $4,000. Mr. Jennings 
is shipping wholly by car to Indianapolis and lake points. 
The Morrill farm of 100 acres is loaded, and were it not that 
the Elberta peach was unfortunately damaged, the returns for 
the season would be $15,000. The L. T. Burridge farm of 90 
acres, for which the owner has frequently refused $27,000, 
has a prize forty acre peach orchard, from which fruit found 
ready market in Chicago at $2 there, and in many cases $4 
per bushel. From the Hicks farm a three-acre lot netted the 
owner $2,050. Other fruit orchards are netting generally 
$300 to $400 per acre. 
©bituai\\ 
B. F. Elliott, Red Oak, la., died recently aged 62 years. 
O. O. Wirick, Mendota, Ill., died recently at Adrian, Mich., 
aged 36 years. 
John M. Samuels died at his home in Clinton, Ky , Septem¬ 
ber 29th, aged 50 years. He early engaged in horticultural 
pursuits. At different times he had nurseries, vineyards and 
berry farms in Tennessee, Florida, California, Louisiana and 
Kentucky. He was chief of the horticultural department of 
the World’s Fair at Chicago and was offered responsible posi¬ 
tions in the horticultural departments of the Trans-Missis¬ 
sippi Exposition in Omaha, and at the coming International 
Exposition in Paris. When his father died a few years ago he 
went to Clinton, Ky., and bought the Mississippi Valley Nur¬ 
series. His brother, W. B. Samuels, is in the nursery business 
at Ardmore, I. T. 
The Jewell Nursery Company, Lake City, Minn., had a 
large display of apples at the county fair at Grundy Center, la., 
also at the Minnesota state fair. 
