THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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MARYLAND NURSERIES. 
State Entomologist Johnson’s Special Report to the NATIONAL 
NURSERYMAN—Nearly 26,000,000 Trees and Plants In 
the 39 Nurseries—Improved Conditions. 
Professor W. G. Johnson, state entomologist of Maryland, 
has prepared the following statement for the National Nur¬ 
seryman : 
I have now completed my nursery inspection in the state 
for 1897, and have on hand some very interesting data that 
will perhaps be of value to the nursery trade in general. We 
have within this state thirty-nine nurseries, all of which 
haye stock for sale. We have also a number of smaller con¬ 
cerns which we have not included in our list. These nur¬ 
series have for their fall of ’97 and spring of ’98 trade 3,773,- 
845 fruit trees, and 1,221,750 ornamentals and miscellaneous 
material, and of small fruits, 20,478,075, making a total of 
25,888,670. This does not include asparagus roots, of which 
there are 1,003,000. 
Of peach there are in these nurseries 2,952,750 trees, and 
264,000 June buds ; apple, 759,300 ; pear, 94,100 ; plum, 
169,680 and 5,100 June buds ; cherry, 26,525 ; quince, 7,390 ; 
ornamentals, 331,750; miscellaneous stock, 890,000; straw¬ 
berries, 19,178,000; currants, 17,350; blackberries, 706,300; 
raspberries, 312,600 ; grapes, 197,900 ; gooseberries, 65,925. 
The Franklin-Davis Nursery Company, of Baltimore, are 
the largest individual growers of nursery stock within this 
state. They are also the largest apple growers, having the 
present season over 450,000. The total amount of their stock 
including apple, peach, pear, plum and cherry, is 997,000 trees. 
This does not include their ornamentals and a very large stock 
of general miscellaneous material, which aggregate 1,100,000 
plants ; making a total in their nurseries for this year’s trade of 
2,097,000. 
The largest peach growers in the state are J. G. Harrison & 
Sons, of Berlin. They have the present season over 1,000,000 
trees, and about 75,000 June buds. This does not include 
their other general nursery stock which they have in their 
nurseries, making a total of 1,125,000. 
These gentlemen are closely followed by William Peters’ 
Sons, of Wesley, who the present season have 900,000 peach 
trees, and 100,000 June buds. With their other nursery stock, 
they have 1,030,000 trees. 
The Franklin-Davis Nursery Company are also the largest 
pear and plum growers within the state. William Corse & 
Sons, of Baltimore, and R. G. Nicholson, of Chestertown, hold 
the second place as pear growers within the state. The latter 
is also one of the largest peach growers, having this year over 
250,000 trees. The largest number of plum varieties are grown 
by J. W. Kerr, of Denton, who is considered our best authority 
on this fruit J. A. Ramsburg, of Frederick, has the largest 
block of quince, and is also the second apple grower in the 
state. 
W. F. Allen, Jr., of Salisbury, is the largest strawberry and 
blackberry grower, having this season over 6,000,000 plants. 
Of raspberries, J. S. Linthicum, Wellhams, is the most exten¬ 
sive grower. William Corse & Sons are the largest growers of 
gooseberries, and John Barnhart, of Denton, leads the list in 
grapes. 
I have found the condition of the nurseries very much better 
than it was a year ago. I have been in a large number of nur¬ 
series, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and have 
never seen more thrifty stock growing than we have within the 
nurseries of this state. From the standpoint of my profes¬ 
sion I would say that the nursery trees grown within the State 
of Maryland will compare very highly with stock from any 
other equal area within the United States. Our nurserymen, 
on the whole, are exceedingly careful with their buds, and use 
better judgment about the selection of their land for planting 
stock than they did several years ago. 
W. G. Johnson, 
December 22, 1897. State Entomologist. 
AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
President C. L. Watrous and Secretary William A. Taylor 
of the American Pomological Society, have issued a circular 
under the authorization of the executive committee, calling 
attention to the fact that the membership fee has been reduced 
from $4 to $2 and urging horticulturists generally to join the 
society. A life membership may be obtained for $20. 
At the Columbus meeting a strong desire for annual meet¬ 
ings of the society was manifested, and a motion to hold a 
meeting in 1898, at some suitable and accessible point, was 
referred to the executive committee for decision. The com¬ 
mittee solicits an expression on this subject. This may be 
communicated to the president, the secretary or the chairman 
of the executive committee, P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
CUMBERLAND BLACK CAP. 
Regarding the subject of the frontispiece of this issue the 
Rural New Yorker oi December nth said: 
‘‘The Cumberland Blackcap plants were received from 
Jackson & Perkins Co., of Newark, N. Y., during the fall of 
1896. July I, 1897, we made the following notes: Berries 
large, black with scarcely any bloom, (drupelets small), quality 
excellent, about the size of Gregg; firm and of far better 
quality. We do not know of a black-cap of better quality. 
Among the earliest to ripen ; beautiful glossy black berries. 
Plants very prolific, from ten to fourteen berries in a cluster. 
Highly promising. The plants stood the winter without 
injury.” 
Jackson & Perkins Co., say : “Referring to what Mr. Car¬ 
men, editor of Rural New Yorker says as to the Cumberland’s 
being ‘ about the size of Gregg ’ it will be noted that the plants 
of Cumberland had been received at the R. N. Y. grounds 
only the fall preceding and it could hardly be expected that 
they would produce fruit of maximum size without having had 
a longer time in which to become established. In reality the 
Cumberland, when at its best, very greatly excels Gregg in the 
size of its fruit. This is substantiated both by our own experi¬ 
ence with it and by the reports of several others who have 
fruited it, notably that of J. W. Kerr, the well-known Mary¬ 
land fruit grower and nurseryman, who said ‘ I have grown 
Mammoth Cluster and Gregg that were very fine, but this 
Cumberland is really a marvel. Fifteen-sixteenths of an inch 
diameter was the measure of as large a berry as I saw, 
but they were all large. I let the plants carry all the fruit 
they set and they were very full.’ ” 
