THE NATIONAL NURSERY.ArAN^ 
449 
TREE SEEDS 
Large assortment of Tree, Shrub and Fruit 
Seeds for ornamental and forestry pur¬ 
poses. Send for catalogue. 
CONYERS B. FLEU, Jr. 
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
IF YOU USE 
Apple or Pear Seedlings 
GET OUR PRICES 
We have the largest stock of both 
straight and branched root A]:)ple 
Seedlings in the United States. We 
also have 1,500,000 Pear stocks. We 
can furnish you good strong vigorous 
stocks of both Ap])le and Pear Seed¬ 
lings at i)rices that will be satisfactory 
to you. In writing for prices give us 
an idea of the grade and (|uantity 
wanted. 
F. W. WATSON & CO. 
TOPEKA - - KANSAS 
Apple and Pear Seedling Specialisls. 
By Arlh.ar A. Powell 
During the past snmtner season most ci’ops have suf- 
lered more or less from the drouth, and the seed of trees 
and shrubs art; no (‘xe(‘|)lion as many of tliem did not ma¬ 
ture. .lapanese hailxary is oidy altoiil half a crop and 
nurserymen should not fail to pick their own if there is 
any in the Jieighhorhood. Reports of acorns are good 
both as regards tpiantity and (juality also hickories. 
Some conifer seeds are being received but reports are 
not any too favorable. Collectors report a line eiop of 
Abies balsa,mea and Pinas sirubus with (juality good. Ite- 
ports from the west give a good crop of Pinas Banksiana. 
There was always a big demand for this pine from 
Europe, but presume the war will alfect the demand to 
some extent. The crop of Pinas resinosa is short and 
hard to get. 
Southern collectors report good crops of Loblolly and 
Yellow pine in excellent quality. 
Douglas Spruce seed crop is reported very nearly a 
lailure in the west, only small quantities being obtainable 
and Abies nobilis worse still. 
Reports from the Rocky Mountain region are a little 
more favorable, they are not all in yet. 
Owing to the war the supply of French crab and 
French pear is uncertain I have kept after the foreign 
houses for the latest reports on the prospects of shipping. 
The crops are good, it will he largely a (luestion of labor 
to clean and shij). They seem eonlideid they will be able 
to till all orders, but I would feel a little easier if 1 could 
see the R. L. show ing shipment. 
The falling otf of orders for tree and shrub seeds from 
European nurserymen is very noticeable and it looks as 
if American collectors were going to have considerable 
surplus left on their hands. 
This indicates there will be a shortage of seedlings in 
the next few- years and the fore sighted nurserymen w ill 
SOW" all he can and so be prepared for the shortage. 
The propellers of aeroplanes such as are used in the 
present European w ar may be made of selected ash, 
which is both strong and light and will not split under 
vibration or shock, or of built-up layers of spruce w ith 
mahogany centers. The framew ork of the machines, too, 
is generally made of w ood, spruce being much used on 
account of its straight grain and freedom from hidden de¬ 
fects. 
It is said that the (lerman invaders of Relgium, wTiat- 
('ver else they may have destroyed, have been careful not 
to injure ])ark trees. The cavalrymen, so a report goes, 
are forbidden to tie their horses to trees for fear that the 
animals w ill gnaw the bark, (lermany w as the first na- 
fion to apply forestry on a large scale, some of the crown 
forests having been under scientific management for over 
a hundred years. 
