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vice-president of the Albaugh Nursery and Orchard Co., 
which has large orchards in Ohio, Kentucky and Georgia. 
He is president of the Ohio Fruit Land Co., Fort Valley, Ga., 
and is largely interested in other enterprises. He is prominent 
in the Masonic, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and commer¬ 
cial travelers circles. 
TREE CASE IN COURT. 
A tree agent in Baltimore sold a bill of goods to a party for 
$77. After the goods had been received and paid for by 
check the party discovered that he had been humbugged and 
stopped payment of the check. The tree agent brought suit 
to recover. In the testimony it was proven that a crape myrtle 
was sold and a ground myrtle sent, at the cost of $1.50. The 
stock otherwise was said to be overcharged and misrepresented. 
Expert testimony was heard for both sides, but the jury 
brought in a verdict a few days ago granting the plaintiff $30, 
he paying the costs. This amount had been offered by the 
purchaser before the case went to trial, but was refused. 
MISSOURI HORTICULTURISTS. 
The Missouri Horticultural Society met at Springfield on 
June 8, 9 and 10. Professor J. M. Stedman of the state 
university gave an interesting and valuable lecture on woolly 
aphis and San Jose scale. The speaker stated that the scale 
now exists in three counties in the state and urged the immedi¬ 
ate extermination of this most destructive enemy of fruit trees. 
Professor George H. Van Houten of Lenox, la., delivered 
an address on Oriental horticulture. He confined his remarks 
to the industry in Japan and Northern Asia. 
Judge Samuel Miller of Bluffton read a paper on grapes. 
A peach growers’ association was organized among the mem¬ 
bers of the horticultural meeting. The society adjourned to 
hold the winter meeting at Moberly December 7 to 9. 
YELLOW RAMBLERS AND SWEET BRIARS. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
We are sending you by mail to-day a small spray of flowers 
of the Yellow Rambler, which we thought you possibly might 
be interested in seeing. It is characteristic of this variety that 
it does not bloom with full freedom until having been estab¬ 
lished two years and as these flowers were cut from one year 
old plants it does not fairly show the size and magnificence of 
a cluster of the flowers. We are convinced, however, that 
after plants have been established a reasonable length of time 
and attain fair size and strength, they will present fully as 
magnificent an appearance when in blossom as does the Crim¬ 
son Rambler. The flowers are borne after the same manner 
of those of the Crimson Rambler, namely, in splendid large 
trusses, but you will notice from the spray we have sent you, 
they are also very fragrant, which is a point in which the 
variety is superior to the Crimson Rambler, the latter having 
no fragrance whatever. 
Wish you could also see the plants of the Lord Penzance 
Hybrid Sweet Briars, which we have in bloom. They are 
truly magnificent. They were propagated from cuttings three 
years ago this spring and now stand eight to ten feet high 
covered with bloom from top to bottom. We have nine varie¬ 
ties of these now in blossom and the colors range from blush 
white to very dark crimson, with one of a distinct copper color 
and another of a most peculiar salmon shade. Their single 
flowers are a very pleasing change from the double roses 
almost everywhere sought after and the freedom with which 
they are produced makes the plants most magnificent in 
appearance. They are very strong, upright growers and form 
large shapely bush, that is in itself very ornamental. They 
are, therefore, most aptly adapted for planting singly and in 
groups as one would plant decorative shrubs of any kind. 
We also have two or three seedling roses of our raising that 
look very promising, being distinct in color and appearance 
over other varieties. Shall give them the most careful testing 
for a year or two more and possibly may find them worthy of 
introduction. 
Jackson & Perkins Co. 
Newark, N. Y., June 23. 
©bituav^. 
Hon. Joseph S. Fay, the well-known horticulturist and 
philanthropist, of Wood’s Holl, died at Cambridge, Mass., 
June 14th, aged 84 years. 
Robert Douglas, one of the best known nurserymen in the 
country, died at his home in Waukegan, Ill., on June ist, aged 
84 years. Mr. Douglas was widely known as an evergreen 
specialist. He was an authority on arboriculture and forestry 
and was often consulted by park authorities. He was born in 
England but had lived in Waukegan since 1844. Mr. Douglas 
was an active and valued member of the American Association 
of Nurserymen. He attended the convention of that associa¬ 
tion in Chicago last year. Many thousands of acres of timber 
planted under his direction remain a monument to his love of 
nature. 
Mr. Douglas was known as the father of forest planting in 
America. After the Catalpa speciosa became noted he grew 
millions of this tree. Many western states now have forests 
of this and other trees, which were all planted by this enter¬ 
prising man. Another of his noted introductions to cultiva¬ 
tion is the Blue spruce, some magnificent specimens of which 
may still be seen on his grounds in Waukegan. He was the first 
man to grow forest-tree seedlings by the million, and for nearly 
half a century he devoted his time and skill to raising conifer 
and other tree seedlings. He. planted large forests in many 
western states, and the most successful plantations of Catalpa 
speciosa in the United States were made by him near Farling- 
ton, in Kansas. His counsel has always been in demand 
wherever forest problems were studied in this country, as, 
for example, at the Leland Stanford University, in California, 
and George W. Vanderbilt’s estate at Biltmore, North Caro¬ 
lina. He was one of the valued assistants of Professor Sargent 
in gathering data for his forest report of the tenth census, 
and many of the specimens in the Jesup collection of woods 
in the Museum of Natural History, in New York, were collected 
by him. No one in his time has devoted himself to the study 
of trees with greater intelligence or success, and no one has 
done more to increase the love for them or to encourage the 
planting of them in the United States. 
