The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyright, 1898, by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
"Aye, be plantin’ a tree, Sandy, ma man ; it ’ll be growin’ when ye ’re deepin’.” 
VOL. VI. ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER, [898. No. 11. 
TREES IIS CITY STREETS. 
Plans of the New York Tree Planting Association—Well-Directed 
Efforts Have Overcome Obstacles—Need of Legislative 
Authority—What Other States Have Done—In European 
Capitals—Prominent Nurserymen Interested. 
The publication in the November issue of the National 
Nurseryman of an advertisement of the Tree Planting Asso¬ 
ciation of New York attracted the attention of a subscriber 
who asks further information on the subject. 
The association was incorporated in 1897 for the purpose of 
securing the planting of shade trees in the sunburned streets 
of the metropolis, with particular reference to the residence 
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portion of upper New York. Ex-Mayor William L. Strong is 
president of the association ; Cornelius B. Mitchell, vice- 
president ; Charles R. Henderson, treasurer, and John Y. 
Culyer, secretary. In October there were 166 members. 
Among them are : W. Bayard Cutting, W. Bourke Cockran, 
R. G. Dun, Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Franklin Harper, Nathaniel 
T. Kidder, John B. Leavitt, J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. John 
W. Minturn, Captain A. T. Mahan, Samuel Parsons, Jr., Rt. 
Rev. Henry C. Potter, Lispenard Stewart, Charles Scribner, 
Frank Tilford, William C. Whitney. The annual dues are $5. 
Applicants for information are informed, in accordance 
with the advertisement produced in the last issue of this jour¬ 
nal, that H. A. Siebrecht & Son, 409 Fifth avenue ; Frederick 
W. Kelsey, 150 Broadway ; Edgar W. Gifford, 702 Boulevard, 
New York city ; Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J.; R. Pritch¬ 
ard & Sons, Long Island city, and Edward C. Dorrbecher, 
West Hoboken, N. J., will furnish one or more trees, cut flag 
stone and plant with one cubic yard of loam over porous 
material and furnish iron tree protector, guaranteeing the trees 
for from one to two years at certain prices named. The trees 
are to be from 12 to 15 feet in height, 2 to 3 inches in diame¬ 
ter and the prices for the entire work run from $5 to $20 for 
each tree. Where blasting is required the cost will be increas¬ 
ed. If trees are ordered by the dozen or 100 they can be 
obtained from the large wholesale nursery firms of the country, 
a list of 15 of which is given the applicant. 
Separate prices on iron tree guards and places where they 
may be procured are given. The association adds : “It will 
be advisable to form clubs of twelve or more residents of the 
block on which you reside, or of your friends, whether mem¬ 
bers of the association or not, to select from the enclosed list 
the kind of trees you may decide on, and to order early.” 
The enclosed list is as follows : 
The following trees are recommended by experienced nurserymen as 
being the most suitable to select from, for growth in New York city : 
Norway Maple, Sugar Maple, Silver Maple, American White Elm, 
Scotch Elm, Pin Oak, Red Oak, American White Ash, American Sweet 
Chestnut, Common Horse Chestnut, Hardy Catalpa (Catalpa Speciosa), 
Tulip Tree or Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron Tulipifera), Balsam Poplar, 
Lombardy Poplar, Carolina Poplar or Cottonwood, American Linden 
(or Basswood), Lime (or European Linden), Nettle Tree (Hackberry), 
Oriental Plane Tree, Sweet Gum (or Liquidamber), American Plane 
Tree (Button Ball or Sycamore). If the Ailanthus is used for planting, 
use only pistillate trees. (No smell). 
RUSSIAN PLUMS. 
Professor J. L. Budd, of the Iowa Agricultural College says : 
“ Professor Cranefield consigns the Russian plum to a name¬ 
less grave and suggests a burial epitaph. Our critics have 
specially endorsed this opinion. They have not proved as 
hardy or fruitful at the North as we had reason to expect but 
the amateur reports we are now receiving by the hundred show 
that a number of the varieties have come to stay.” Professor 
Budd reproduces fourteen letters highly praising the Russians. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
State horticultural society meetings have been called as 
follows : Kansas, at Topeka, Dec. 27-29 ; Ohio, at Euclid, 
Dec. 7-9 ; Missouri, at Columbia, Dec. 6-8 ; Iowa, at Des 
Moines, Dec. 13-16 ; Minnesota, at Minneapolis, Dec. 6-9 ; 
Ontario, at St. Catharines, Dec. 1-2 ; California Fruit Grow¬ 
ers, at Fresno, Nov. 29-Dec. 2 ; Maryland, at Baltimore, Dec. 
14-15 ; Southern Illinois, at Vandalia, Nov. 29-Dec. 1; Michi¬ 
gan, at Michigan University, Dec. 6-8. 
“LITTLE PEACHES” IN MICHIGAN. 
It is reported that the large peach orchards of Southwestern 
Michigan are being destroyed by a disease known as “little 
peaches,” the fruit being stunted when about the size of hazel¬ 
nuts. Professor Erwin Smith pathologist of the United States 
Division of Pomology visited the section and afterward stated 
that he had been unable to discover the cause. He also stated 
that he believed it to be highly contagious, and recommended 
that the diseased trees be promptly cut down and destroyed by 
fire. This is the treatment prescribed by law for the yellows. 
MUST GROW BETTER FRUIT. 
A Ghent, N. Y., writer says : The fruit growers of the East 
might as well face the fact, and the sooner the better, that the 
western men are going to force them out of their own markets, 
the best in the world, at their own doors, unless they change 
their methods and grow better fruit. The trees that are being 
planted at present and the orchards now standing on eastern 
soil might better be rooted out and burned on a brush pile 
than to stand and under neglect be allowed to produce so 
much inferior fruit that does not pay the grower or the sales¬ 
man to handle, and which consumers are now fortunately posi¬ 
tively rejecting and refusing to buy. 
