THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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important factors which will affect nursery interests during 
1897, and plans for adjustment to new conditions must be 
made. 
THE TARIFF SCHEDULE. 
Following is the tariff schedule asked by the nurserymen of 
of the country : 
First —Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of Myrobolan plum, 
Mahaleb and Mazzard cherry, 3 years old or less, $1.00 per 
thousand plants. 
Second —Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of pear, apple, quince, 
and St. Julien plum, 3 years old or less, $2.00 per thousand 
plants. 
Third —Rose plants, budded, grafted, or grown on their own 
roots, 3 cents each. 
Fourth —Stocks, cuttings and seedlings of all fruit and or¬ 
namental trees, deciduous and evergreen shrubs and vines, 
Manetti, Multiflora and Briar rose, and all trees, shrubs, plants 
and vines, commonly known as nursery stock, unless other¬ 
wise specified, 30 per cent, ad valorem. 
Now is the time for the nurserymen to assert themselves in 
a matter upon which they are entitled to receive attention be- 
before congress. As suggested in the last issue of this journal, 
every nurseryman may help by urging the congressman from 
his district to present the claims of the trade to the schedule 
as stated above. 
The views of an importer and those of a grower of nursery 
stock can hardly be called identical. The case of the importer 
was stated in the last issue of The National Nurseryman 
by Frederick W. Kelsey of New York city. But Mr. Kelsey 
evidently was not familiar with the schedule asked by the nur¬ 
serymen. He said a specific rate of $2.00 per 1,000 had been 
suggested for fruit stocks, seedlings, etc., which is, he said, 
equivalent to about 200 per cent, on the average price. But 
reference to the above schedule shows that the rate asked is 
$1.00 per 1,000 stocks, while the average cost price he names, 
$1.00 per 1,000, as the value of the goods in Europe is less 
than half the average price of the articles named in para¬ 
graph I and less than one fourth the average price of the 
articles named in paragraph II of the schedule. 
Mr. Kelsey asserts that the tariff on roses would cover 
Manette and Multiflora stocks, a specific duty of 3 cents per 
plant, while as a matter of fact, it does not apply to these items 
at all. They are included under paragraph IV at an ad valorem 
duty of 30 per cent. It is out of the question to talk of 500 
or 600 per cent, when the schedule provides for a rate not to 
exceed 30 percent., taking the average price for the last ten 
years of all the goods named. A duty of 10 per cent, is no 
protection. It is simply a tax and growers of nursery stock in 
the United States would prefer to see goods come in free un¬ 
less there is a duty high enough to protect them. 
HIGHLY pleased. 
GriffingBrothers Co., Macclenny, Fla. —We are highly pleased 
with the effect of our advertisement in The National Nurseryman 
INCREASES IN VALUE. 
Henry Schroeder, Sigourney Nursery, Sigourney, Iowa.— 
“Enclosed find $1 again for the journal for another year. Last year 
while most everything got lower. The National Nurseryman got 
higher—not in price, but in value. The discussions among those in 
the trade, on the low price question, were worth the dollar alone.” 
SUCCESSFUL GROWERS. 
The frontispiece of this issue presents photo-engravings of 
of the Spaulding Nursery and Orchard Co.’s blocks of apple, 
cherry and pear. Their blocks of growing stock have received 
high praise from visiting nurserymen. 
J. B. Spaulding is at the head of this company, and has a 
national reputation as a successful grower, and a successful 
nurseryman, this being his fortieth year in the business, which 
has been carried on near Springfield, Ill. Mr. Spaulding is of 
New England stock, and lived until 18 years of age on a farm 
among the Berkshire Hills. Interested with him are his sons, 
Frank E. Spaulding, manager of the sales department, and 
Irving Spaulding, secretary and treasurer; and his son by mar¬ 
riage, Frank R. Fisher, vice-president, all well known among 
nurserymen and business men. They carry on an extensive 
nursery business, having 600 acres, 30 miles of tile, and en¬ 
vironments favorable to the development of vigorous trees. 
They are located near the river, and adjoining the prairie, 
where they own and rent a variety of soils, such as are adapted 
to growing apple, pear, cherry, plum, small fruits, etc. Their an¬ 
nual planting is approximately, 200.000 apple ; 150,000 standard 
pear; 60,000 dwarf pear; 150,000 cherry; 100,000 plum; 
200,000 peach and other stock in proportion. They grow 
largely for the wholesale trade. They also do a good retail 
business, having now about 300 local agencies. Their packing 
grounds and cellars have all the conveniences. They are 
located on two railroads, and near Springfield, a city that 
boasts of excellent shipping facilities, a city situated in the 
centre of the greatest railroad state in the United States. 
They are not surpassed in their new illustrated, descriptive 
catalogue, containing 120 illustrations compiled from leading 
horticultural works, which are duly accredited on the outside 
cover of their catalogue. 
J. B. Spaulding wishes us cordially to invite brother nursery¬ 
men to visit them, and says they would rather be visited by 
brother nurserymen than be ‘‘on paper.” 
©bituar^. 
John G. Bubach, of Illinois, died January 8th. He was born 
in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1818. He was in the nursery and fruit 
growing business for forty-five years. He made strawberry 
culture a specialty and was the originator of the Bubach No. 5. 
John Stewart, Benmiller, Ont., died January 12th, of 
pneumonia, aged 61 years. He was born in Gleninnis, Banff¬ 
shire, Scotland and went to Canada forty years ago. He was 
a director of the Fruit Growers Association of Ontario. He 
leaves thirteen children. 
H. M. Engle, Marietta, Pa., died of pneumonia last month 
at the age of 78 years. Mr. Engle was well known. He was 
devoted to the intelligent investigation of horticultural sub¬ 
jects and contributed much to general knowledge on the im¬ 
provement and grafting of chestnuts. 
Philip Smith, of Pomona, Ga., died of asthma on February 
ist, aged 67 years. He was one of the pioneer nurserymen 
and fruit growers of Georgia. He entered the business over 
twenty years ago at Morrows, Ga., and in 1881 moved to 
Pomona, where he continued in the business until his death. 
H is sons, J. H. Smith and Charles T. Smith, are proprietors 
of the Concord Nurseries, at Concord, Ga. 
