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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
amono (Srowers anb IDealers. 
D. Baird & Son, Baird, N. J., has peach trees by the i,ooo 
or car load. 
There is a short crop of seeds all over the country except on 
the Pacific coast. 
Black walnut trees are offered by estate of August W. Cutler, 
Morristown, N. J, 
J. H. Hale, of Connecticut, is vice-president of the Farm¬ 
ers’ National Congress. 
Missouri claims to be the first state to open a school of hor¬ 
ticulture in its agriculture college. 
Samuel Miller, Bluffton, Mo., makes a strong plea for the 
revival of fruit growing in Missouri. 
Moore’s Early and Concord vines in large quantity are 
offered by John S. Barnhart, Denton, Md. 
The Greenville apple is ready at E. M. Buechly’s, Green¬ 
ville, Ohio. He has a fine stock of one, two and three year 
trees. 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., makes a strong plea for the 
growing of fruit in his state. He gives figures to prove his 
success. 
Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa., called upon Western 
New York nurserymen on his way back from a Canadian trip 
last month. 
William Warner Harper, who has for years been manager of 
the Andorra Nurseries at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, is now 
proprietor. 
Professor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, and Profes¬ 
sor Otto Lugger, entomologist of Minnesota, spent a portion 
the summer in Europe. 
Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J., representing J. Blaauw 
& Co., Boskoop, Holland, has French grown fruit and orna¬ 
mental seedlings. 
George Peters & Co., Troy, Ohio, have an exceptionally fine 
stock of fruit and ornamental trees. They are headquarters 
for apple seedlings. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., are at the front as 
usual with the largest and most complete collections of general 
nursery stock ever offered. 
Apple grafts are made to order by Youngers & Co., Geneva, 
Neb. All their stock is grown upon new land and is declared 
free from insects or disease. 
Fresh Mazzard cherry seed is offered by Thomas Meehan 
& Sons, Germantown, Pa. Stocks or seeds of many fruit and 
ornamental kinds in large quantities. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, on September 4th shipped 
125 varieties of pears to the horticultural exhibition at Ham¬ 
burg which opened on Septernber 24th. 
The Horticultural Company, Boskoop, Holland, at their 
branch in this country, situated at Rutherford, N. J., have 
planted out 6,000 standard H. P. roses. 
G. B. Brackett, of Iowa, is the new chief of the U. S. 
Division of Pomology. His predecessors were Professor H. 
E. VanDeman and Professor S. B. Heiges. 
P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., last month advertised 
15,000 camelias. Now he asks us to cut out that item. Ad¬ 
vertising in the National Nurseryman pays. 
The Society of American Florists, at its annual convention 
at Providence, R. I., in August, added to its title “ and Orna¬ 
mental Horticulturists,” for the purpose of including the gar¬ 
dener and the amateur. 
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin 
and Illinois will join in making a big fruit display at the 
Omaha exposition next year. A grand apple parade and car¬ 
nival will be held in October, 1898. 
“ The interest in fruit growing is on the increase, sure and 
safe, in all parts of Missouri more truly now than at any other 
time in her history,” says secretary L. A. Goodman of the 
Missouri State Horticultural Society. 
The largest orchard in Great Britain is at Toddington, in 
the county of Gloucester. It is five hundred miles in extent 
and in some seasons yields its owner. Lord Sudley, a profit of 
$50,000. The trees are chiefly apple and plum. 
The San Jose scale has not reached England, but the 
Gardener s Magazine suggests that British fruit growers be¬ 
come acquainted with its habits and the means for its exter¬ 
mination, as its importation is not an impossibility. 
Secretary L. A. Goodman, general manager of the Ozark 
Orchard Company, says that this company has now planted 
1,600 acres to apple trees and 500 acres will be set to trees 
next spring, which will make the Ozark Orchard the largest in 
Missouri. 
At the state fair at Newark, N. J., last month there were 
exhibited 1,600 varieties of grapes, pears and peaches. Among 
the exhibitors was Hiram T. Jones of Elizabeth. The Eliza¬ 
beth Nursery Co. took first prize for groups of hardy shrubs 
and conifers. 
E. H. Pratt, for the last ten years, secretary and general 
manager of the T. S. Hubbard Co., is now associated with 
George S. Josselyn, of Fredonia, N. Y. Mr. Pratt has had large 
experience in the nursery business and is a valuable accession 
to Mr. Josselyn’s business. 
The low market prices for fruit, garden, and field crops has 
greatly retarded tree planting in California and as a result the 
nursery business has been almost at a standstill, hence a num¬ 
ber of nurserymen have gone out of the business. The sale 
for economics has been light, but in the way of ornamentals, 
propagators of first-class stock have done fairly well. 
The liabilities of the Highlands Nursery, Kawana, North 
Carolina, having been satisfied in full, the entire property has 
been re-deeded to Harlan P. Kelsey, the proprietor, by his 
late assignee, Thomas F. Parker. Mr. Kelsey has opened an 
office at 1123 Tremont building, Boston. Stock will be 
shipped direct from Highlands Nursery, in Western North 
Carolina. 
E H. Ricker has resigned his position as superintendent of 
the Ricker National Nursery Company, at Elgin, Ill. A cor¬ 
poration has been formed under the name of the Elgin Nur¬ 
series, with a capital stock of $10,coo. Mr. Ricker is mana¬ 
ger of this company, which has purchased a large lot of the 
nursery stock in the Ricker National Nursery Company’s nur¬ 
series and has leased a portion of the ground on which the 
nurseries are located. The growing of evergreens from seed 
will be made a specialty. 
