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ripening at Cornell this year about August 10. It is excellent for can¬ 
ning. The Ogon is generally regarded as a shy bearer, but our little 
trees were loaded this year. The fruit often cracks badly on the tree. 
Red June —Surely an excellent plum, maintaining the high char¬ 
acter—for earliness, beauty and productiveness—which we gave it two 
years ago. The quality is not so good as that of the Burbank or 
Chabot. At Cornell this year, trees upon hard clay land ripened their 
fruits twelve days later than trees upon gravelly loam. 
Satsuma —One of the best marked of all Japanese plums; the fruit 
being dark dull red and the flesh blood-red. It is late, ripening from 
the middle to the last of September this year. The color of the fruit is 
against it for a general market plum, but its keeping qualities, and 
excellence for culinary uses, make it worth a place in the orchard. The 
quality is austere until fully ripe, when the fruit becomes fairly sweet- 
Tree a vigorous spreading-upright grower. Fairly productive with 
us, but reported as unproductive by others. 
WiCKSON —Although we have this plum growing, it has not borne ; 
but since we have tested fruit of it grown by E. Smith & Sons, on 
Seneca Lake, we give it place in this report. They write as follows : 
“ Our experience with this plum is limited, but we are more than 
pleased with its habits and characteristic points. We find it a good 
grower, also very hardy, and the size of fruit superior to any of the 
Japanese plums. The quality we find a little under the average, but 
good enough to warrant us in planting. We have 100 trees of them, 
planted out one year ago in orchard form, and will set at least 500 
more.” I am impressed with the AVickson and expect to find it an 
acquisition to New York. 
AVillard —AVe have no new report to make upon this variety. Its 
only merit is earliness. The quality is very poor. It is a very strong, 
tall grower, but shed its leaves early with us this year. 
In conclusion Professor Bailey says : “ Correspondents are 
asking what varieties of Japanese plums I recommend. In 
reply I will say that I never recommend varieties of any fruit 
for anyone to plant. For myself, I should still adhere to my 
list of four varieties of two years ago—Red June, Abundance, 
Burbank, Chabot. I should place as second choice Douglas, 
Berckmans, Satsuma, Hale and Wickson and should expect 
that the last two would rise, upon further acquaintance, to a 
place in the first rank. If I wanted a yellow plum, I should 
take Georgeson, with Ogon for early. If I wanted the earliest 
varieties, without respect to size or quality, I should choose 
Berger, Engre, Earliest of All and Willard.” 
©bituari^. 
J. L. Hopkins, South Haven, Mich., died of apoplexy on 
December 13th. 
Henry E. Boardman, a retired nurseryman, died in Rochester, 
N. Y., December 14th, aged 57 years. 
A. R. Whitney, one of the most prominent members of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, died at his home at 
Franklin Grove, Ill., on December 15th, aged 73 years. He 
was born February 22, 1824, at Albion, N. Y., and had lived 
at Franklin Grove since 1838. Bringing apple seeds with 
him from Ohio, he began the raising of apples that afterwards 
made him famous. He started the first nursery in Northern 
Illinois in 1843, but he devoted most of his attention for a 
time to the production .of cider and vinegar. He was very 
successful in the production of Whitney’s No. 20 crab. 
Mr. Whitney was one of the organizers of the American 
Association of Nurserymen and was its treasurer for fifteen 
years, from 1876 to 1890. 
Subscribe for the National Nurseryman —a business investment. 
Hmong (Stowers anb H)ealets. 
1 he Deming Co., Sctlem, O., have the Bordeaux nozzle. 
S. C. Moon, Morrisville, Pa., offers a large stock of orna¬ 
mentals. 
Coniferae are a specialty with R. Douglas Sz: Sons, Wauke¬ 
gan, Ill. 
Raffia can be had of Thomas Meehan & Sons, German¬ 
town, Pa. 
D, Baird & Son, Baird, N. J., have peach trees by the 1,000 
or carload. 
Small fruits of all kinds can be had from A. L. Wood, Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. 
G. L. Taber, Glen St. Mary, Fla., has a splendid stock of 
Japan plums. 
Jackson & Perkins, Newark, N. Y., offer choice specialties 
for nurserymen. 
Japan plums are a specialty with the Griffing Brothers Co., 
Macclenny, Fla. 
Roses on own roots are offered by Phoenix Nursery Co., 
Bloomington, Ill. 
Apple seedlings are wanted in exchange by W. T. Hood & 
Co., Richmond, Va. 
Samuel Kinsey & Co., Kinsey, O., are long on peach, quince, 
currants, gooseberries, arborvitse. 
Peach trees is the subject of an interesting statement on 
another page by Harrisons, Berlin, Md. 
L. C. Bobbink, Boskoop, Holland, has H. P. roses, tree 
roses, hardy azaleas, rhododendrons, etc. 
The Spaulding Nursery Co., Spaulding, Ill., offer fruit stock 
of all kinds and nurserymen’s supplies. 
P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., on December 13th was 
elected a director of the Florists’ Fire Association. 
The seventh annual meeting of the American Carnation 
Society will be held in Chicago, February 17th and i8th. 
J. C. Grossman, Wolcottville, Ind., says: “Trade is 75 
per cent, better in retail sales here than a year ago. Largely 
apple.” 
Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J., returned from Europe last 
month. He has several carloads of imported stock just re¬ 
ceived from across the water. 
The Iowa legislature has appropriated $10,000 for a fruit 
exhibit of the state at the Omaha exhibition, and this exhibit 
will be in the charge of A. F. Coleman, a nurseryman of 
Corning, la. 
M. E. Hinkley, Marcus, is the vice-president of the North¬ 
western Iowa Horticultural Society, which held its annual 
meeting at Sac City December 7-9. C. F. Gardner, of Osage, 
was present. 
Professor U. P. Hedrick of the Michigan Agricultural 
college, state inspector of orchards and nurseries, has been 
appointed professor of horticulture in Utah’s agricultural 
college. He entered upon his duties Jan. i. 
Judge Gaynor, of Sioux City, la., has decreed that Jonathan 
W. Brown, receiver of the Sioux National Bank, has no right 
to use the name “ The Sioux City Nursery and Seed Com¬ 
pany ” in conducting the business formerly operated under 
that name. 
