THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Under the Wilson bill immense quantities of roses have 
been brought into New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other 
large cities and sold at auction, for what they would bring. 
This stock while greatly inferior in quality, has of course hurt 
the legitimate nursery trade extremely. The large dry-goods 
houses of Wanamaker of Philadelphia Marshall Field of 
Chicago, and others have bought the stock, practically giving 
it as a premium on purchases. These plants are worth 4 cents 
to 6 cents in France when purchased there, but the surplus 
stock sent over to be sold at auction frequently nets much 
less than this amount. 
It is absolutely necessary that we have a specific duty on 
the first three paragraphs. 
OCEAN CITY STRAWBERRY. 
This variety originated in Worcester county, Md. It was 
first discovered in a patch of Sharpless and Wilson, ten years 
ago, and shows parentage of both varieties. The plant is 
vigorous ; large broad green leaf, fruit as large as Bubach, 
and ripens all over at once ; berries have been kept one week 
and then found in good eating condition. For five years the 
fruit has sold in Boston and New York for from 2 to 8 cents 
per quart more than many others shipped from this county. 
Special care has been taken to look after the fruit and account 
of sales, and these can be produced.. 
It is a good yielder and is adapted to stiff rich soil for best 
results. It is highly recommended by commission men. J. 
G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., are the introducers. 
Lord & Spicer, commission merchants, Boston, writing to 
J. G. Harrison & Sons under date of Nov. 13, 1896, say ; 
“We have handled the Ocean City strawberry which you 
speak of in your letter of the 6th inst, for several years and 
consider it a very fine shipping berry. We remember that 
two years ago it sold here from 4 to 6 cents per quart above 
the average of other varieties, but this lest year the weather 
conditions were very unfavorable all through the shipping 
season, and consequently they did not do so well.” 
Isaac Locke & Co., Boston, under date of Nov. ii, 1896, 
say : Answering your inquiry in regard to the Ocean City 
strawberry for the past few years we have to say that it has 
been one of the most satisfactory berries we handle from 
Maryland. It seems to be larger than most of the berries 
grown in that section, is firm so that it has the best carrying 
qualities, and its size and evenness are also very much in its 
favor. As it has been sent to us we consider it one of the 
most satisfactory berries we know of, and should be glad to 
see them grown more largely by the farmers of Eastern 
Maryland. 
J. W. Melick & Co., New York, under date of Nov. r3, 
1896, say ; “In answer to your favor we will say, we have 
handled the berry now called Ocean City for some three or 
four years and it has sold better with us than most other 
varieties, at considerably better prices, carries better than 
nearly all other varieties, is sought by buyers both for city 
trade and shipping trade, yields well and continues to yield to 
a later period in the season ” 
Can you afford to be without The National Nursery¬ 
man, the only journal in which you obtain nursery news 
exclusively, when it is only per year ? 
HOW TO RUN A NURSERY. 
The following paper, appearing in the “ Minnesota Horti¬ 
culturist,” was read by J. Cole Doughty, secretary of the 
Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, Minn., at the recent meeting 
of the Minnesota Horticultural Society: 
Take a fool’s advice and don’t do it. You will never even 
make a fourth rate nurseryman unless you are content to get 
up at 4 A. M., put in sixteen hours hard work, and after supper 
just run down to the office and put in five or six hours, and 
then, if you have not forgotten anything or can’t find any other 
little job, take a nap and be ready for breakfast. 
As to what to grow, that is the easiest part of the business. 
Don’t trouble yourself about that. Just look over the State 
Horticultural Society reports and plant what is recommended 
there. I don’t think you can name many varieties that stand 
a ghost of a show of living in this climate that don’t find a 
friend in the society—some one to say a good word for them. 
This, of course, only goes to show that jolly good feeling that 
animates those horticultural fellows. When they meet up there 
in Minneapolis and get to swapping stories, they have a mel¬ 
low spot in their hearts for everybody unless it is the guileless 
“tree peddler.” For him they always have the marble heart 
and the stony glare of the eye that means a shot gun and bull 
dog reception. 
But to return to the subject of planting. By all means keep 
“up to date.” If John Smith discovers a new strawberry that 
is not a runner, but grows upright, just like a bush, get the 
exclusive control of it. It may be a grand good thing and you 
would hate awfully to have some other nurseryman walk off 
with a bonanza. Keep your eye open for all the new things. 
Hop onto every new seedling apple you see. It may be an¬ 
other Wealthy—the grandest apple of the last decade—waiting 
for some one to “ bring it out.” It is true, there are some 
failures and disappointments in “ fathering ” new things. It is 
wonderful, the infant mortality of seedling apples. Like the 
“ships that pass in the night,” they gently fade away, and 
“the places that knew them know them no more.” 
But “there are others”—the Tree Blackberry, the Everlast¬ 
ing, Everbearing Raspberry, the Japan Wineberry etc., etc. 
Until you have something to do with all of these, your educa¬ 
tion as a nurseryman is incomplete. It is much like the measles; 
if you follow the business you have got to have them some 
time ; hence, I would recommend that you take them in allo¬ 
pathic doses and, better still, if you can take them all at once. 
If you survive and the above does not spoil a right good fel¬ 
low, it is liable to make a fairly decent nurseryman of you. 
Above all, you must be public spirited. To do this, you 
may beg, borrow (but never steal) all the money you can get 
and pay it out for labor, freights, printing, etc., and thus build 
up your town. True, your fellow townsmen may not buy trees 
or plants enough to enable you to pay your taxes, and they 
generally don’t, but that doesn’t count. Before you get through 
you will command their sympathy if you don’t see their dollars. 
By all means, you must entertain. When the “advanced 
horticulturist ” visits you, give him the best there is in the 
larder. He deserves it for several reasons. He is something 
of a martyr himself, working for glory, just like you, and as 
such he does not live any too high at home. Of course, you 
do not expect to sell him anything, nor do you expect him to 
give you any great big puff in the newspapers. In fact, you 
