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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong (Browers anb IDealers. 
M. J. Wragg, of Waukee, la., will reside in Des Moines. 
D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la., has built a cellar, 56 x 1x0 feet 
for the storage of nursery stock. 
J. W. Cogdall, Springfield, Ill., has 100,000 raspberry tips 
and other small fruit plants for spring planting. 
Detroit park commissioners propose to devote considerable 
attention to the planting of trees and shrubs next year. 
President J. M. Underwood of the Jewell Nursery Co., Lake 
City, Minn., especially advocates the planting of plums. 
The largest apple at the Trans-Mississippi exposition was of 
the Wolf River variety. It weighed a pound and a half. 
Minnesota nurserymen complain of the Canadian exclusion 
act. They have nursery stock that is wanted in Manitoba. 
Joseph H. Dodge, of the firm of George Moulson & Co., 
Rochester, N. Y., on November 15th iparried Miss Elizabeth 
McGuire. 
United States Pomologist Brackett is co-operating with the 
American Pomological Society in a revision of the fruit lists of 
the country. 
The park commissioners of Chattanooga, Tenn., planted 
3,000 silver maple and 1,000 Carolina poplar trees on public 
streets this fall. 
Walnut growers in California are preparing to crack the nuts 
and can the kernels, to be shipped east, where they will be 
used in making candies. 
D. W. Leib & Son, Anna, Ill., write: “Our business is 
improving somewhat over last season. We find collections 
easier to make than last fall.” 
The Stuart Pecan Co., Ocean Springs, Miss., offers induce¬ 
ments to a man who can graft pecan trees at the crown during 
January, February and March. 
Los Angeles County, California, is sending George Compere 
to Hawaii in search of a parasite which will destroy purple 
scale in nurseries and orchards. 
Applications for scholarships for garden pupils of the Mis¬ 
souri Botanical Garden, should be sent to the director, Dr. 
William Trelease, St. Louis, Mo. 
George Morton Chase, son of George H. Chase, of the 
Chase Nursery Co., Malden, Mass., on November 2d married 
Miss Anna B. MacKeown, of Boston. 
The Southern Nursery Co., of Winchester, Tenn., has pur¬ 
chased the Price Luner farm of 265 acres at Adairsville, Ga., 
which they will set to peaches, apples, quinces and plums. 
C. H. Joosten, wife and sister, New York city, returned 
from Europe October 31st, after an absence of two mQnths. 
They visited many places in Holland, Belgium and England. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., exhibited 36 varieties 
of pears at the Morristown, N. J., show last month. This firm 
in November shipped 102,000 Downing gooseberries in one 
order to Iowa. 
A writer in the Florists’ Exchange suggests that the annual 
meeting in 1900 of the Society of American Florists be held in 
Paris or on a steamer en route to the international exposition 
at the French capital. 
S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., considers Cox’s Orange Pip¬ 
pin apple the finest dessert apple grown in this country, grown 
in the fall. It is highly prized in England and it is suggested 
that it would be profitable to grow this variety extensively. 
Alvin H. Dewey, prominent for years as a republican official 
of Rochester, N. Y., has accepted a responsible position with 
Brown Brothers Company. Mr. Dewey has served several 
terms as member and president of the Rochester Common 
Council. 
The partnership between John R. Parry and William Parry, 
of Parry, N. J., has been terminated by the death of William 
Parry. Outstanding accounts will be settled by John R. 
Parry who has sold his interest in the nursery business to C. 
H. Parry. 
Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Chase 
Nursery Company, Riverside, Cal., with a capital stock of 
$50,000, taken in full by E. A. Chase, H. B. Chase, M. A. 
Chase, Augusta Chase and Mary Chase, who form the board 
of directors. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, importer, of New York city was struck 
by an electric car in that city, November 7th. His left arm 
was broken in two places, the ligaments and muscles of his 
right wrist were lacerated and one knee was cut. No internal 
injuries developed. 
George G. Gleason, superintendent of Irving Rouse’s exten¬ 
sive nurseries, at Rochester, N. Y., sailed for Europe on 
November nth in the interests of Mr. Rouse. He will spend 
most of his time abroad in France and, England. Superinten¬ 
dent Gleason has made four similar trips. 
The State of Kansas has 7,272,324 apple and 3,941,217 
peach trees. Reckoning fifty trees to the acre, this means 
224,270 acres devoted to these two varieties of fruit alone. 
Secretary Barnes, of the State Horticultural Society, estimates 
the present producing capacity of Kansas apple orchards at 
5,000,000 bushels. 
W. N. Scott, the state entomologist of Georgia, says that 
San Jose scale exists in 24 counties in the state, involving 134 
separate premises, and that over 100,000 trees have been dug 
up this year on account of the scale. Of the remedies sug¬ 
gested, he considers the kerosene treatment best. Pure kero¬ 
sene is highly injurious to plants. It must be diluted with 
water. 
THE BISMARCK APPLE. 
Professor N. E. Hansen, Brookings, S. D., says of the Bis¬ 
marck apple : “While in Europe in 1894 I saw the Bismarck 
in bearing on one year trees on the grounds of the introducer 
J. G. Schmidt, Erfurt, Germany. This apple was introduced 
from Australia and the planting of apple seed in a strange land 
in this case resulted in changing materially the resulting seed¬ 
ling. Nearly every tree in a block of several thousand one 
year old trees in nursery bore an apple and many bore several. 
Some I measured were twelve inches in circumference. It 
was too early in the fall to judge of the quality. Some of the 
trees had already been ordered for fall delivery by an Ameri¬ 
can nurseryman. One year trees imported direct from Germany 
survived the past mild winter at Brookings and I hope will be 
ready for experiment in crossing, and other experiments next 
year. 
