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their hybrids afford the most promising ground work. Pro¬ 
fessor Bailey plainly advises us to try this line. I have a pure 
native or hybrid as large and twice as heavy as an average 
Ben Davis, and there are several others of like parentage. 
The quality is lacking, but the trees are adapted to our soil 
and climate and the fruits are all keepers. 
This work need not and should not interfere with any other 
promising line of advance. The same need and the same 
promising basis exist in our grape and gooseberry lists. Our 
plums are already civilized and Professor Bailey advises that 
a certain western cherry, “ Prunus Besseyi,” be brought in 
upon the reservation and taught civilized ways. We need and 
shall surely have new cherries. We now have the great advan¬ 
tage of scientific and willing assistance at our Central Experi¬ 
ment Station. I trust a suitable committee may be appointed 
to consult with him and present a plan to join our efforts and 
our funds with his and that the work may, under his en¬ 
lightened guidance, make rapid strides. It was fitly said two 
thousand years ago, and it is as true to-day, “ Concerning the 
departed it is meet to hold silence if we can speak no good.” 
Xong anb Short. 
A new blackberry, the Mersereau, is offered by Wiley & Co., 
Cayuga, N. Y. 
Kieffer pear trees are wanted at Patterson’s Nurseries, 
Stewartstown, Pa. 
Apple root grafts and apple seedlings can be obtained of 
J. A. Gage, Fairbury, Neb. 
F. H. Bruning, Kent, Iowa., has one million Platte Valley 
Red Cedar grown from seed. 
Raspberry tips and other small fruit plants maybe had of 
J. W. Cogdall, Springfield, Ill. 
Everything in small fruit plants can be obtained from 
W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, O. 
A foreman and two first-class nurserymen are wanted by 
Stanley H. Watson, Brenham, Tex. 
Joseph Hampton Dodge, Rochester, N. Y., would like to 
handle a retail branch for a grower. 
Any old name will be printed on wood labels by Benjamin 
Chase, Derry, N. H. Also any new names. 
A general line of fruit stock is offered by H. M. Simpson 
& Sons, Vincennes, Ind. They solicit a list of wants. 
A surplus stock of standard and dwarf pears, plums, sweet, 
cherries and currants, is held by Lewis Roesch, Fredonia, N.Y. 
Glove pruned trees, smooth bodies, heads and grade right, 
is the offer of the Spaulding Nursery and Orchard Co., 
Spaulding, Ill. 
Well-rooted, hardy shrubs, trees, vines, evergreens and 
perennials, grown in sandy soil, are offered by T. R. Watson, 
Plymouth, Mass. 
Three kinds of sprayers are made by the Deming Co., Salem, 
O., the bucket, knapsack and barrel sprayers. Each of them 
makes an emulsion of kerosene while pumping. 
The Sherman Nursery Co., Charles City, Iowa, has a sur¬ 
plus of apple trees, evergreen seedlings, strawberry, raspberry 
and blackberry plants from root cuttings ; also roses on own 
roots. 
Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., have a large stock 
of ornamental trees and shrubs in addition to their fruit list. 
They make a specialty of Yellow Rambler roses and Cumber¬ 
land and Iceberg blackberries. 
When all others fail to supply the want, try the Storrs & 
Harrison Co., Painesville, O., who grow as healthy, hardy and 
complete a list of nursery stock as can be found between the 
oceans. They have reserved a larger amount than usual of 
the leading items. See their attractive announcement. 
IRecent iPublicattons. 
An interesting bulletin just issued by the Division of Forestry, U. 
S. Department of Agriculture, treats of the measuring of forest crops. 
“ The Pecan Tree and How to Grow It” is the subject of a little 
book dedicated to Colonel W. R. Stuart, Ocean Springs, Miss., who is 
styled the father of pecan culture. 
The proceedings of the Georgia State Horticultural Society at its 
August meeting at Americus have been issued by the secretary, G. H. 
Miller, Rome, Ga. They form a pamphlet of 127 pages in which many 
topics of general interest are ably discussed. P. J. Berckmans, 
Augusta, is president ; Louis D. Berckmans, treasurer. 
Professor S. B. Green of the University of Minnesota has prepared a 
timely book on the forestry of his state. It is for classes in forestry in 
the university. The work is divided into two parts, treating of ele¬ 
mentary foresty and the trees of Minnesota. The trees and tree growth, 
forest influences, tree planting, forest management and rate of increase 
on trees, durability and fuel value of wood, propagation, nursery work 
and injuries to tree growth are subjects of chapters. There is a glos¬ 
sary and index, It is the first American book on foresty adapted to the 
use of schools as well as to the amateur in tree growing. Ten thousand 
copies have been printed. 25 cents. Pp. 312, Minneapolis: Minnesota 
Forestry Association. 
Dr. A. C. True, director of the office of Experiment Stations, in 
his report to the Secretary of Agriculture of the operations of that office 
during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, states that the agricultural 
experiment stations are, as a rule, working more thoroughly and 
efficiently for the benefit of American agriculture than ever before. 
The appropriation of $720,000 by congress for the support of the stations 
was supplemented by over $400,000 state funds. 
While the number and importance of institutions organized for 
scientific researches on behalf of agriculture are constantly increasing 
in all parts of the world, nowhere has so comprehensive and efficient 
a system of experiment stations been established as in the United 
States. 
Another of the Rural Science Series of books edited by Professor L. 
H. Bailey, “Fertilizers,” by Edward B. Voorhees, A M., director of 
New Jersey Experiment Stations and professor of agriculture in 
Rutgers college has been issued by the Macmillan company. The work 
treats of the source, character and composition of natural, home made 
and manufactured fertilizers and gives suggestions as to their use for 
different crops and conditions. Nurserymen will be especially inter¬ 
ested in the chapter relating to the use of fertilizers and with orchard 
fruits and berries. “Progressive fruit culture,” says Professor Voor¬ 
hees, “demands that quite as much attention shall be given to the 
matter of providing proper plant food as is now known tobe desirable for 
other and more common crops of the farm grown for profit.”. Fruit 
crops differ from general farm crops and special fertilizing methods are 
required. Although the subject is large and the author appreciates 
his limitations, he has produced a very instructive work. Pp. 335 
Cloth, $1.00. New York : The Macmillian Company. 
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