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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong Growers anb Dealers. 
J. B. Morey, Dansville, N. Y., made a western trip last 
month. 
Professor L. H. Bailey has returned from a vacation in 
Europe. 
Russian mulberries are wanted by the Rosedale Nursery, 
Brenham, Texas. 
H. A. Chase, of Philadelphia, was in Geneva, N. Y., during 
the packing season. 
Harry L. Boyd, Chestertown, Md., called on Western New 
York nurserymen last month. 
Standard apples will be sold cheap by Pierson Brothers, 
Waterloo, N. Y., to clear ground. 
President Stanley, of the Wichita Nursery Association, is 
the republican candidate for governor of Kansas. 
Oscar Lamar has purchased the McQuigg farm near Waco, 
Tenn., for the purpose of establishing a large nursery. 
J. G. Patterson & Sons, Stewartstown, Pa., offer trees of the 
Klondike peach highly recommended as a late white peach. 
The Worden Seckel pear is offered by Smiths & Powell 
Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Also a full assortment of general stock. 
The government seed contract for 1899 has been awarded 
to the New York Market Gardeners’ Association for $70,980, 
Youngers & Co., Geneva, Neb., call attention to their apple 
seedlings and add that San Jose scale has never been found in 
Nebraska. 
F. W. Watson & Co., Topeka, Kan., have just completed a 
grafting house. They are prepared to meet a large demand 
for good grafts. 
Fall shipment and spring payment on small fruit plants of 
all kinds in large assortment is the offer of W. N. Scarff, New 
Carlisle, O., to responsible firms. 
The New York Park Board has contracted for the planting 
of 30,000 trees and shrubs in Riverside Park, between 
Seventy-ninth and Eighty-sixth streets at an estimated cost of 
$18,000. 
Julius Roehrs, Rutherford, N. J., is propagating for distri¬ 
bution in the United States the Acalypha Sanderi, the most 
novel flowering plant introduced in many years. It is an in¬ 
troduction of F. Sander & Co., England. 
Own root roses.and clematis are specialties with Jackson & 
Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y. 1 hey are the largest growers of 
clematis in this country. They are also agents for Charles 
Detriche, Sr., Angers, France, exporter of fruit tree stocks. 
L. A. Goodman and Colonel Evans, of Missouri, say that 
one crop of peaches and pears will pay for the land on which 
they grow, pay for the trees planted and pay for the labor, 
and still leave a dividend as interest on the money invested. 
Professor B. E. Fernowhas resigned the position of chief 
of the division of forestry in the United States Department of 
Agriculture, and has been succeeded by Gifford Pinchot 
Professor Fernow has charge of the new school of forestry at 
Cornell University. 
French fruit tree and nursery stocks, apple, pear, plum 
cherry and quince and forest tree seedlings and ornamentals 
are offered in fine assortment by C. H. Joosten, New York 
city, agent for Lenault Huet, Ussy, France, and for the 
Boskoop, Holland, Nursery Association. 
Judge Samuel Miller, Bluffton, Mo., says of quinces : “ For 
thirty years I have been trying to grow this fruit, but never 
raised half a dozen. But to-day, September 18th, I discov¬ 
ered twenty on one tree. The tree is large enough to bear 
three bushels, and never yielded fruit before.” 
A branch of the American Association for the Advance¬ 
ment of Science, to be known as the Horticultural Society, 
has been formed with these officers : Professor B. M. Wat¬ 
son, Harvard, president ; Professor F. A. Waugh, Vermont, 
vice-president ; Professor W. M. Munson, Maine, secretary. 
C. H. Perkins, of Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., 
has just purchased a farm of 338 acres located about two 
miles southeast of the village of Lyons, N. Y., consideration 
$13,000. The place is known as the Moses Mirick farm, 
and was once sold for as high as $25,000. It was at one time 
mortgaged for $20,000, the loan having been made on a basis 
of 50 per cent, valuation. 
HOW TO IMPROVE OUR APPLES. 
Cross our best varieties and plant seeds from these, says J. 
A. Burton. Discard all but the best" of these seedlings. 
Establish thoroughbred varieties, that is, those kinds which 
will reproduce themselves from seed. This will take a long 
time, but much may be accomplished in the way of improve¬ 
ment of our present varieties. 
IRecent publications. 
The proceedings of the Columbus, Ohio, Horticultural Society, July 
number, have been issued by the secretary, John F. Cunningham. 
The division of forestry at Washington has issued bulletins by 
Charles A. Keffer on “Experimental Tree Planting in the Plains,” and 
by John M. Simpson on “ Osier Culture.” 
We have received from State Entomologist W. M. Scott, of Georgia, 
the printed procedings of the State Department of Agriculture for 
1898, including an extended report by the State Entomolgist regarding 
the treatment for San Jose scale in each county where discovered. The 
scale is mostly in the southern part of Georgia. 
The American Florist Company’s directory of florists, nurserymen 
and seedsmen of the United States and Canada, issued annually, is of 
great service in the offices of the trade. The lists are arranged both 
by states and postoffices and alphabetically. Much special information 
in addition to the lists is given. Pp. 350 ; $ 2 . Chicago: American 
Florist Company. 
Number 12, completing volume IX of the experiment station record 
has been issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. 
The abstracts in this volume occupy 770 pages, and required, in their 
preparation, 56,569 pages in the original publications. In volumes 
VIII and IX 292 articles upon horticulture, 155 on botany, 27 on for¬ 
estry, 186 on diseases of plants and 378 on entomology were published 
besides 195 Statistical articles. With other subjects the total number 
of articles in the two volumes is 3,375. The department hopes to 
secure funds sufficient to make brief abstracts of all subjects recorded. 
Catalogues Received. —Storrs & Harrison Company, Painesville, 
O., roses and other ornamental stock and general line of fruits, 65 
pages, with price list; Glen St. Mary (Fla.) Nurseries, G. L. Taber, 
citrus, nut-bearing and general fruit trees and southern ornamental 
stock, 57 pages and price list ; J. W. Kerr, Denton, Md., specialty 
native plums, full descriptive list, illustrated ; Colombe Brothers, 
Ussy, France, forest trees, thorns, fruit tree stocks, coniferae, etc.; 
Association Flora, Boskoop, Holland, P. Ouwerkerk, Jersey City, 
N. J., roses, clematis, shrubs, azaleas, palms, etc. 
