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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hinono (Browers anb Bealers. 
Paraffine paper is offered by R. M. Myers & Co., Rochester, 
N. Y. 
A. H. Herendeen is the first mayor, and S. D. Willard is the 
first postmaster of the city of Geneva, N. Y. 
Columbian, Conrath and Cuthbert raspberry plants are 
offered by T. G. Ashmead, Williamson, N. Y. 
Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., is prepared to supply the 
nurserymen of the entire country with labels. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., shipped 125 varieties 
of pears to the exhibition in Hamburg and received six valu¬ 
able medals. 
Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y., reports a marked improve¬ 
ment in his business. Between November ist and 15th he 
shipped twelve carloads of stock. 
Berberry, Gardner strawberry. Silver maple, Picea pungens, 
Ponderosa pine and Mountain ash in large quantities may be 
procured of Gardner & Son, Osage, la. 
M. J. Graham, Adel, la., suffered severe loss to some of his 
stock by a hail storm. He has a few hundred one-year Hunt 
plum trees and more in prospect. 
Sir Wilfried Laurier, premier of Canada, favors a reciprocity 
treaty with the United States, believing that Canada would be 
greatly benefited by seeking the nearest and most profitable 
market. 
Letellier, Son. & Co., Caen (Calvados) France, are making a 
specialty of Araucaria imbricata seed. C. H. Joosten, Green¬ 
wich street. New York city, is the agent for the United States 
and Canada. 
Apple root grafts that will grow are a specialty with F. W. 
Watson & Co., Topeka, Kan. They put up either whole or 
piece root grafts for wholesale trade and offer special prices 
on large early orders. 
It is reported that the family of Edwin Hoyt, of Stephen 
Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, Conn., was poisoned through the 
action of a crazy servant on November nth. All the mem¬ 
bers recovered after serious illness. 
E. O. Orpet of South Lancaster, Mass., a well known and 
acknowledged authority on hardy plants, and E. W. Breed, a 
nurseryman of Clinton, Mass., recently made a tour about the 
country examining the parks of different cities. 
O. W. Blacknall is president and general manager of the 
Continental Plant Co., at Kittrell, N. C., which offers 20,000,000 
to 30,000,000 strawberry plants at extremely low prices so 
packed as to carry long distances, for delivery by freight up to 
March ist. 
C. E. Howland, formerly with L. L. May & Co., St. Paul, 
Minn., as manager of their retail nursery department, has re¬ 
moved to Los Angeles, Cal., and engaged in business there 
under the firm name of Howland Nursery Co., dealer in fancy 
ornamental stock. 
Silas Wilson, of Atlantic, la., says : “The Pearl gooseberry 
is a great sight. There could be no more berries on the stem 
without crowding off the leaves. It is wonderfully productive, 
and I am pleased to find the quality so good. The best 
gooseberry I ever saw ; nearly sweet. There is no question 
about its future.’’ 
R. J. Coryell, superintendent of parks of the city of Detroit, 
while on an extensive trip among the principal cities of the 
East recently for the purpose of buying stock for the Detroit 
parks, expressed the opinion that because of its favorable lati¬ 
tude there is no city in the United States better situated for 
gardening and nursery business than Rochester. 
George J. Kellogg, from Fulton, N. Y., landing where Ken¬ 
osha, Wis., now stands August 2, 1835 established the Belle 
Cottage nurseries in 1854. He has had two years roughing it 
in Wisconsin pinery, three years in California and doesn’t 
need to go to Klondike. He is a rabid prohibitionist and 
does not want any whiskey party man to come to his funeral ; 
will sell you anything you want in the nursery line, and lots of 
things you don’t want if you order them. 
BETTER THAN COMMISSIONS. 
Regarding the articles by Professor John B. Smith which we 
have reprinted, the American A^riculiurisi says: 
“Certain enomologists are up in arms against Professor John 
B. Smith’s articles in our issues of Oct. 30, and Nov. 6, on the 
San Jose scale. They still maintain that it is the most fright¬ 
ful of all pests, that state commissions to guard against it are 
more thari necessary, and that the kerosene spray will kill most 
of the younger and more tender plants to which it is applied 
even in winter. We would magnify the necessity of teaching 
the public that this and other insect and fungous pests, must 
largely be dealt with by each individual farmer. 
“A whole kingdom of commissions can’t do for every farmer 
and fruit grower what he must do for himself in fighting pests. 
The tendency in a ‘scare’ is to overdo officialism and underdo 
individual effort.’’ 
HAMBURG EXHIBITION. 
Regarding the recent Hamburg Horticultural Exhibition 
Garden and Forest says .• 
“ The greater number of exhibitors have been Germans, but 
there has been conspicuous co-operation on the part of 
Belgians, English, Italians, French and other nationalities. 
America has been represented by but few displays, the most 
prominent being a very large and fine exhibit of evaporated 
and prepared fruits from California, and displays of various 
florist’s stock by W. A. Manda. The Americans have certainly 
lost a distinct opportunity to push their fruit and inventions 
into European markets. We are looking to Europe to con¬ 
sume our apples and evaporated and canned fruits; and cran¬ 
berries and other fruits must eventually find an outlet there. 
The authorities of the exhibition urged the Americans to ex¬ 
hibit, and certain Americans endeavored to second their 
efforts. 
“ The influx of American apples into Germany last year has 
thoroughly aroused the people there, and the pomological dis¬ 
play at Hamburg represented the abundance and excellence of 
the fruits of Germany and the Tyrol. The effort was made 
largely for the purpose of showing that the pomological re¬ 
sources of the Old World are competent to meet the advances 
of the New World. A thousand barrels of American apples 
and twenty-five barrels of American cranberries should have 
been placed in storage in Hamburg in 1896, and the entire 
course of the exposition should have seen these products on 
exhibition, and every public function should have seen them 
supplied to the tables. It would be inexcusable if such another 
great European exhibition should be so completely ignored by 
the American public.’’ 
