THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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POOR BELGIUM 
One of our correpsondents from Belgium writes:— 
“How long 0 Lord is (his situation going to last here? 
Our lower class people are suffering awfully, the weather 
is very cold, no heat because coal is too scarce and dear. 
The authorities of the city (because our government does¬ 
n't exist now) collect money from others to give them 
soup and some coal, but only just enough to prevent star¬ 
vation. Everything is so dear. Very little news about the 
war, newspapers are mostly supressed and those which 
come out say only what the Germans like, but once I 
bought “The Times” in Holland, it is very risky though, 
so we get very little news. Here on the North Sea the Ger¬ 
mans say themselves they are going to their grave. If 
this situation continues two months more and no food is 
coming in, we must all die from hunger. We commence 
to see now that the war will last for a long time. 
WANT 
ADVERTISEMENTS 
Earle, for seven terms president of the American Horti¬ 
cultural Society and associated with Dr. Rudolph Schiff*' 
man, is developing a thousand acre tract at Mentone, 
above Red Lands, California. As a start they are plant¬ 
ing 14,000 June budded J. H. Hale, and 6,000 Alton. 
Champion and Early Elberta. 
Mr. Hale is pretty generally recognized as the greatest 
authority on peaches and from all accounts the variety 
bearing his name is a wonderful fruit. He received a 
great ovation on the occasion of the convention of fruit 
growers in Los Angeles when some twelve hundred of 
them listened to what he said about fruit growing in the 
United States. 
Mr. Hale has grown peaches for forty-seven years and 
counts his acreage in this fruit by the hundreds. On the 
occasion of his address before the fruit growers he spoke 
of the beginning of this industry when as a young man 
he planted a rough hillside at his home in Connecticut 
arid proved that the peaches could be grown in other than 
a few special localities and gave a very interesting ac¬ 
count of the gradual overcoming of difficulties in connec¬ 
tion with packing, shipping and marketing. 
Mr. Hale’s life is an example of what can la; done when 
brains and persistent and well directed effort are devoted 
to one object. 
The Delaware County Orchard and Nursery 
co., Delaware, O.. capital stock $10,000, was 
organized last April. Composed of 100 Delaware county 
citizens including bankers, merchants, lawyers, business 
men and farmers. The company planted 7 V 2 acres con¬ 
sisting of general nursery stock last spring, and has just 
purchased 20 acres adjoining the corporation of the city 
of Delaware. Greenhouses will be erected in the near fu¬ 
ture. J. C. Yergon is president and C. O. Allen, secretary 
of the company. 
In letter recently received from Union Nurseries, 
Oudenbosch, Holland, they say they are stabling 65 horses 
of the Holland cavalry in their packing sheds, also 10 
large Red Cross cars. While Holland remains neutral. 
Oudenbosch is close to the Belgian frontier which is 
strongly guarded against invasion. Our Holland friends 
expect to have their packing sheds free for the spring 
season, when their export shipments are large. 
The conservation commission of New York has planted 
on state land 1.000.000 trees from state nurseries; has 
given to state institutions for planting nearly 1.000.000; 
and has furnished to private owners for reforestation, 
more than 2,500.000. There are now in the state nur¬ 
series nearly 33.000.000 trees, of which 10.000.000 are 
available for 1915 planting. 
The Wills Valley Nursery Company. Jefferson county, 
Ala., has increased its capital stock $110,000. 
