THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hinono (Browevs anb IDealers. 
A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan., offers a complete assortment of 
choice nursery stock. 
An opportunity to dispose of a force of retail agents is 
offered in another column. 
F. W. Watson & Co., Topeka, Kan., have 100,000 branched 
apple seedlings from 3-16 up. 
Virgil Popham, New Fruit, Ky., has revised his directory of 
nurserymen, florists, seedsmen and dealers. 
Peach trees grown on new ground and free from disease or 
scale are offered by W. P. Brinton, Christiana, Pa. 
Charles Wright, Seaford, Del., was the first nurseryman on 
the peninsula to offer a bill of health with his stock. 
A packing house owned by Chas. A. Green near Rochester, 
N. Y., was destroyed by fire March ist. Loss above insurance 
$3,500- 
George Achelis, West Chester, Pa., has a fine stock of peach 
and apple trees and a general line of fruit, deciduous and ever¬ 
green trees. 
A good assortment of the leading varities of peach trees, in¬ 
cluding Crosby, is offered by the West Jersey Nursery Co., 
Bridgeton, N. J. 
Charles and George F. Grosman, of the firm of Crosman 
Brothers, seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y., assigned on February 
24th to Henry B. Hathaway. Liabilities reported, $45,000 ; 
preferences $26,000. 
John A. Young, Greensboro, N. C., is the introducer of the 
Greensboro and Connet’s Southern Early peaches. He has 
trees and buds ready for delivery and has a certificate of free¬ 
dom from scale or disease. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., write : “We are now 
digging one hundred thousand strawberry plants per day and 
have a large stock yet for our northern customers, and a stock 
of June budded peach yet unsold, also one year trees.” 
In the February issue of the Minnesota Horticulturist is re¬ 
produced a picture and sketch of Dr. Phineas A. Jewell who 
with his brother-in-law, J. M. Underwood, established in April 
1869, the Lake Pepin Nurseries. Dr. Jewell died May 25, 1878, 
aged 49 years. 
Just forty-five years ago Thomas Meehan commenced the 
nursery business in Germantown, Pa., with but three acres of 
ground and no capital. He made a specialty or ornamental 
trees, shrubs and evergreens of every description, not only for 
large private places, but for parks and cemeteries. At that time 
there was little or no demand for ornamental trees outside of a 
few of the commoner sorts. Mr. Meehan’s foresight has been 
rewarded by a trade extending around the world. 
O. D. Shields of the Colorado nursery company at Loveland 
Larimer county, has been down in the Arkansas valley on a 
still hunt for a new location and will try fortunes at Fowler, 
Otero county, says the Denver Field and Farm. He will soon 
begin work on the land for the new establishment which is to 
be started this spring. In time the Colorado nursery will have 
its headquarters at Fowler but several years will be required 
to get the plant in full working order so as to do a general 
nursery business. 
Charles Wright, Seaford, Del., has 340 acres in fruits. It is 
claimed that he has the largest trial peach orchard in the 
world. Every scion, it is said, is cut from those trees which 
show the greatest vigor and productiveness combined with fruit 
of the largest size, highest color and finest quality. The 
Mamie Ross peach is described as twice as large as, and finer 
in every way than Rivers, with which it ripens. Connet Early 
is described as sister to the Elberta, ripening nearly a week be¬ 
fore Mountain Rose. Cannon Early is described as a free¬ 
stone, ripening with Hale’s Early. Strawberry plants are a 
specialty of this nursery. An illustration in Mr. Wright’s cat¬ 
alogue shows a hickory tree on the grounds, over which grows 
a grape-vine of unknown age, measuring 26 inches in diameter 
four feet from the ground. 
THE NURSERYMAN’S DUTY. 
President E. M. Sherman, of the Sherman Nursery Co., 
Charles City, la., read a paper on “The Duty of the Nursery¬ 
man to Horticulture ” at the recent meeting of the North¬ 
eastern Iowa Horticultural Society, in which he said : 
“I regard it as a nurseryman’s duty to horticulture to gather 
and preserve for future generations the native trees, shrubs and 
plants which are being so rapidly exterminated by the clearing 
of our forests and the breaking of our prairie lands. 
“ I also consider it his duty to gather as far as possible from 
every land the choice fruit, flowering and ornamental trees, 
shrubs and plants which may be able to withstand the climate 
where he is operating, to propagate these and distribute them 
in his trade. But in this work of the selection of new things 
the nurseryman should proceed with great caution and avoid, 
if possible, the introduction of varieties which do not possess 
real merit. 
“ The jobbing business, as carried on to-day, I believe 
has done and is doing more to degenerate the nursery business 
and injure the interests of horticulture than any other one 
thing and I consider it the duty of any nurseryman to refuse 
the use of his order blanks to men who may be purchasing the 
stock of him. If men wish to do a jobbing business, let their 
order blanks show the facts, so that purchasers may know from 
whom they are purchasing the stock. Then if they wish to buy, 
all well and good; but they should not be deceived into sup¬ 
posing that they are doing business with an old and well- 
established firm when the facts are they are doing business 
with some one who is buying stock of that firm. 
“ I think that the planter has a right to demand of the nur¬ 
seryman that his order be filled with first-class stock, free from 
disease and insect pests, and that the same shall be true to 
name. I also think that he has a right to expect that nursery 
catalogues will be truthful 
“I consider, however, that a nurseryman’s chief duty to 
horticulture is the propagation and distribution of choice trees, 
fruits, and flowers and I believe he has done this work most 
thoroughly, for go where you will from the forests of Maine to 
the sand hills of Florida and from-the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
even among the peaks of the old Rockies, you will find his 
agents have left the product of his toil. 
VALUAHLE FOK ASSOCIATION. 
.John S. Kekh, Sherman, Tex.— “ Iflease find .$2.00 for two years 
subscription to Nattonae Nurseryman. It is valuable for associa¬ 
tion among the leading spirits of the nursery interest.” 
