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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong (Browers anb ^Dealers. 
E. A. Riehl, Alton, Ill., is distributing his seedling straw¬ 
berry, Ruby. 
The firm of Sweet & Shackelford, Mountain Lake Park, 
Md., has been dissolved. 
A heavy surplus of apple and cherry trees is offered by C. 
V. Heikes & Co., Troy, O., in car lots. 
Ornamental stock at low prices is offered by T. R. Watson, 
Old Colony Nurseries, Plymouth, Mass. 
The Griffing Brothers Co., Macclenny, Fla., have in storage 
in Philadelphia twelve carloads of plums and spring budded 
peach trees. 
E. H. Adams, Bonham, Tex., reports a dull season during 
1896, owing to dry weather and short crops. Better trade is 
expected in 1897. 
R. Douglas & Sons, Waukegan, Ill., claim the largest stock 
of evergreens in this country, all nursery grown, including 
Blue Spruce, Douglas Spruce and Abies concolor. 
The Harrington Nurseries, Harrington, Del., E. C. Reese, 
proprietor, were established in 1875. Mr. Reese has a national 
reputation for accuracy in varieties and grading to the highest 
standard. His specialty is peaches. 
The personal estate of Anthony Waterer, Knaphill nursery, 
Surrey, England, who died on November 16, 1896, at the age 
of 74 years, was valued at $643,680. All the estate, real and 
personal was left to the son, Anthony Waterer. 
C. M. Hooker, Rochester, N. Y., lets standard pear trees 
grow rather freely, heading say three or four feet high, thus 
making them half standards every year. During the winter 
very strong growth is cut back about one-half. 
W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, O., makes a specialty of small 
fruits. He prepares the soil specially for such fruits, and the 
plants used in propagating are procured by special selection. 
Great pains is taken to secure the fullest vitality. 
W. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y., is in favor of rather severe 
pruning. Fruit spurs are often too numerous. Winter Nellis 
pear, for instance, is inclined to overbear and produce small 
fruit. Large specimens can be obtained by proper pruning. 
For the past three years Thomas W. Bowman’s son, Claude 
V. Bowman, has been devoting his entire time to nursery work 
with his father, and now the business is being conducted under 
the name of Thomas W. Bowman & Son, Rochester, N. Y. 
S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y , says more money has been 
made per barrel from Kieffer pears than from any other 
variety. He thinks that now, however, the stock of Kieffers 
bids fair to exceed the demand. He never heard of San Jose 
scale on the Kieffer pear. 
A. H. Griesa, Lawrence, Kan., has the largest and oldest 
experimental ground in the West under private ownership. 
On this he tests many varieties and he is thus enabled to 
advise his customers confidently. His wholesale list for 1897 
gives results of his investigations. 
The Fainesville Nurseries, Storrs and Harrison Co., Paines- 
ville, O., have one of the most complete assortments in the 
world, including fruit and ornamental trees, grape vines, small 
fruits, roses, shrubs, etc. They have an immense stock in 
storage cellars ready for immediate shipment. 
E. M. Buechly has rechristened the apple, Downing’s Win¬ 
ter Maiden Blush. The new name is the Greenville. It was 
conceded that the old name was too long. The apple is a 
result of the propagation by Mr. Buechly of a seedling of 
Downing’s Fall Maiden Blush. The new name was suggested 
last year by H. E. Van Deman. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; Hoopes Brother & 
Thomas, West Chester, Pa ; Andorra Nurseries, Philadelphia ; 
Frederick W. Kelsey, New York; Thomas Meehan & Sons, 
Germantown, Pa.; B. A. Elliott, Pittsburg and Parson & Sons 
Co., Flushing, L. L, were bidders for furnishing 60,000 trees 
for Schenley park, Pittsburg. The contracts will be divided. 
STATE ENTOMOLOGISTS CONFER. 
At the recent conference of state entomologists and horti- 
cultrists in Chicago, says the Orange Judd Farmer of Feb¬ 
ruary 13th, the general situation was fully discussed and de¬ 
veloped the fact that every one present considered the danger 
from San Jose scale* very serious, calling for prompt and active 
measures. It also showed that the only prospect for efficient 
control must come through state legislation probably to be 
supported by national enactment where interstate commerce 
was affected. 
The proposed Illinois and Michigan laws were taken as a 
basis for a very extended and rigid examination of the kind of 
enactments that might be effective. Bearing in mind the dif¬ 
ferent conditions in the various states, and measures that were 
of general application, the members of the conference came to 
a definite agreement as the specific measures which they would 
recommend to the legislatures of their respective states. These 
measures look particularly to such a control of the nursery 
business that while responsible dealers and nurserymen shall 
be fully protected the indiscriminate distribution from this 
source of the San Jose scale may be promptly stopped ; that 
stock shipped into one state from another shall be made sub¬ 
ject to such inspection or record that this means of introduc¬ 
tion may be guarded and that any centers of infection already 
established may be located and the stock destroyed or the pest 
exterminated. The resolution adopted which it was hoped 
might be of service in putting the general public of the states 
represented on guard at once is as follows : 
“ Resolved, That we recommend to the people of our respec¬ 
tive states that in purchasing stock from other than home nur¬ 
series they require a certificate of inspection from such nursery 
specifying that such stock has been inspected by an official in¬ 
spector and specifying the result of such inspection.” 
A MEDAL FOR PROFESSOR BAILEY. 
The Veitch memorial trustees of England have decided to 
present a large silver medal this year to a number of gentle¬ 
men for distinguished service to horticulture. Among the 
gentlemen thus honored is Professor L. H. Bailey of Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N. Y. The medal is presented to him “in 
recognition of his efforts, by means of his lectures and writ¬ 
ings, to place the cultivation of plants on a scientific basis ; to 
promote the extension of horticultural education, and, by 
numerous trials and experiments, to improve and render more 
productive, plants grown for economic purposes.” 
