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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong Growers anb Dealers. 
The Cotta Nursery and Orchard Co., is now at Rockford, Ill. 
G. A. Gamble has changed his address to Oklahoma City, Okla. 
George Ruedy, Colfax, Washington, makes a specialty of nut trees. 
Stephen Bull, Racine, Wis., has presented to that city 53 acres for a 
puplic park. 
W. T. Hood, Richmond,. Va., is vice-president of the Virginia Horti¬ 
cultural Society. 
William Martin and R. E. Carruth have begun the nursery business 
at Comanche, Tex. 
James M. Kennedy, Dansville, N. Y., called upon Rochester nursery, 
men early last month. 
N. II. Albaugh is vice-president of the Montgomery County, Ohio, 
Horticultural Society. 
Fred S. Phoenix, Bloomington, Ill., is secretary of the Central Illi¬ 
nois Horticultural Society. 
The capital stock of the Great Northern Nursery Co , Baraboo, Wis., 
has been increased to $50,000. 
Cleveland, O., is to have a new cemetery, comprising 442 acres of 
land in Warrensville township. 
The exports of nursery stock during October, 1902, were valued at 
$10,158, against $7,895, in October, 1901. 
Nursery trees formed a part of the exhibit at the recent annual 
meeting of the Maryland Horticultural Society. 
Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md., is county vice-president of the Mary¬ 
land Horticultural Society, for Worcester county, Mo. 
The city of Chicago has authorized a $1,000,000 bond issue for 
acquiring and developing small parks for the south side of Chicago. 
W. S. Peterson, Chicago, has sold to the Bohemian National Ceme¬ 
tery Association sixty acres of land at $1,000 per acre, for a cemetery. 
Henry Augustine is to furnish trees and plants for a park to be 
established at Normal, Ill., by the Illinois Central Railroad Company. 
The seventeenth annual meeting of the American Association of 
Cemetery Superintendents will be held at Rochester, N. Y., this year. 
O. E. Pyther has purchased the Norwich Nurseries, Norwich, Conn., 
formerly owned by Stephen Crane. Mr. Crane died in July at an ad¬ 
vanced age. 
Col. E. F. Babcock, of the Columbia Nursery, Waitsburg, Wash., is 
contemplating removing to Proser, Wash., where he will continue 
growing trees. 
The dutible imports during October, 1902, of plants, trees, shrubs 
and vines, amounted to $206,407, as compared with $196,077 during 
October, 1901. 
The firm of Thomas F. Galvin, Incorporated, has filed articles of in¬ 
corporation to do a nursery business in Jersey City, N. J., with a capi¬ 
tal of $250,000. 
Harlan P. Kelsey and Miss Florence Low were married on November 
25th. Mr. Kelsey is the well known nurseryman of Boston and of 
Kawana, N. C. 
The Idaho State Horticultural Society will hold its eighth annual 
meeting at Boise, Idaho, January 13, 14 and 15, 1903. Robert Milligan 
is the secretary. 
Irving E. Spaulding, of the Spaulding Nursery and Orchard Co., 
Spaulding, Ill., on December 24th, married Miss Myrtle Sattley at 
Springfield, 111. 
Prof. John T. Stinson, of Mountain Grove, Mo., has been appointed 
superintendent of Pomology in the department of horticulture at the 
St. Louis Exposition. 
The Oregon Nursery Company has nurseries at Salem, Oregon, and 
at North Yakima, Washington. Its offices are at Salem, Oregon, and 
at Missoula, Montana. 
A. W. McMurray, proprietor of the Lakeside Nursery, Olympia, has 
disposed of his 2 and 3-year old trees of the Olympia apple, but has yet 
some yearlings to offer. 
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The school of practical horticulture of Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., was 
moved to Poughkeepsie, Jan. 1. A farm of more than 400 acres has 
been purchased near the city. 
J. H. Dayton and Robert George of the Storrs & Harrison Co., 
Painesville, O., and James McIIutchinson, of McIIutchinson & Co., 
New York, were in Chicago last month. 
Secretary John S. Kerr of the Texas Nurserymen’s Association, 
says : “I believe that the increase in Texas orchards this season will 
be at least 200 per cent, over that of a year ago.” 
The Pacific Nursery Co., of Tangent, Oregon, report a very busy 
season, having filled more mail orders than usual. They still have a 
good supply of young trees for the spring trade. 
The Carlisle Nursery Company has completed a range of five green¬ 
houses. John Lindner is president of the company. H. E. Seitz, form¬ 
erly with Storrs & Harrison Company, is manager. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N.Y., are introducing the Gans pear, 
of Ohio origin. It is declared to be a valuable addition to the list of 
early pears, in season between the Tyson and Bartlett. 
The right to propagate the Monarch mulberry was recently sold to 
a Missouri nursery company. More than two thousand trees have 
been budded and many more will be propagated next spring. 
L. H. Garretson and R. B. Moore of Ellerboro, Richie Co., W. 
have formed a partnership for the purpose of carrying on the nursery 
business at that place. The firm name will be Garretson & Moore. 
Nursery stock to the value of $500, awaiting delivery, was stolen 
from a vacant tract at Watonga, O. T., on Nov. 28. Stark Brothers, 
Louisiana, Mo., and the Star Nursery, Ottawa, Kan., were among the 
losers. 
E. G. Mendenhall, Kinmundy, Ill., is secretary treasurer of the 
Horticultural Society of Southern Illinois. At the recent annual meet¬ 
ing he was elected for the thirteenth time. J. W. Stanton, Richview, 
Ill., is the president. 
The park board of Memphis, Tenn., is to make make extensive 
improvements in the park lands of that city. Chairman Robert 
Galloway estimates that an expenditure of $50,000 per year for ten 
years will be necessary. 
It is reported that in the spring of 1902 the sales by the Elizabeth 
Nursery Company, Elizabeth, N J., amounted to $45,000, an increase 
of $7,000 over the sales of the previous spring. E. Runyan is the 
manager, J. A. Dunlap is vice-president and A. S. Wooley, secretary. 
The American Nurserymen’s Protective Association has increased its 
executive committee from three to seven members. TWT^new 
appointees are : D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la.; A. L. Brooke, North 
Topeka, Kan.; H. B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala., and John S. Kerr, 
Sherman, Tex. 
The United States Department of Agriculture, through its pomologi- 
cal division, is carrying on investigations of the underlying principles 
which govern the keeping of fruits in cold storage. The work is in 
the immediate charge of G Harold Powell, the assistant pomologist of 
the department. 
The New York State Fruit Growers’ Association will hold its annual 
meeting at Buffalo, January 7-8. It is expected the attendance will 
be 1,200. There will be a large exhibition. The president of the asso¬ 
ciation is Lucien T. Yeomans, of Walworth, and the secretary F. C. 
Dawley, of Fayetteville. 
The Stark Brothers Nursery and Orchard Company, of Louisiana, 
Mo., has purchased the Orville T. Hartman nursery farm of 130 acres, 
located just outside of Dansville N. Y. The F. E. Williams Nursery 
Company and the Kelley Bros. Nursery Company of Dansville, will be 
associated with the Stark Brothers Company. 
The Andre Leroy Nurseries in Angers the oldest establishment of 
that kind in France, have recently been appointed “ Roses and Fruit 
Growers at Angers, to His Majesty the King of England,” as an 
acknowledgment of the superiority of the plants which they have 
delivered to the Royal Estates for a number of years. 
A recent issue of the California Fruit Grower says : “ Fumigators 
in Los Angeles county are using at present 918 tents every night, 
weather permitting, and a sufficient force of men to do excellent work. 
Never in the history of Los Angeles county have orange growers made 
such a clean sweep to free their citrus trees from scale insect pest. 
Over 30,000 orange trees which were sprayed last year are now 
fumigated. 
