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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Biltong (Browers anb ^Dealers. 
J. II. Hale of Georgia says there is overplanting of peach orchards. 
Idaho has 25,000 acres in apples; 22 carloads were shipped out in 1902. 
A vineyard company at St. Joseph, Mich., will plant 700 acres to 
grapes. 
Pierce Bechtle, LeMars, Iowa, has increased his nursery from 75 to 
200 acres. 
It is reported that early frosts killed thousands of Crimson Rambler 
rose plants in Holland. 
James N. Kennedy of Dansville, N. Y., called upon Rochester 
nurserymen last month. 
F. A. Waugh, Amherst, Mass., wants any number of Sand Cherry 
stocks from 100 to 5,000. 
H. G. Hinkley, florist, Rockford, Ill., has purchased the nursery 
business of R. B. Van Yalkenburg. 
T. C. Thurlow, West Newbury, Mass., who has been in poor health, 
is spending the winter in the South. 
The firm of W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J., has been incorpo¬ 
rated with a capital stock of $150,000. 
J. H. M. Edwards, nurserymon, at Logan, Iowa, is president of the 
Southwestern Iowa Horticultural Society. 
Fred L. Harris, for forty years gardener at the famous Hunnewell 
estate at Wellesly, Mass., died January 11th aged SO years. 
Considerable work was done last season in the crossing of Ben Davis 
and Mercer Crab at C. L. Watrous’ nursery, Des Moines, Iowa. 
William Ilgenfritz, of I. E. Ilgenfritz’ Sons, Monroe, Mich., called 
upon Western New York nurserymen during the latter part of January. 
Prune and apricot trees have been selling at $12 to $15 per hundred 
in Southern California. For Napoleon Bigarreau cherry $25 has been 
offered. 
Some damage to peach buds, it is believed, followed severe cold in 
December and January in New York, Connecticut and perhaps some 
other states. 
Prof. F. A. Waugh regards the Windsor Chief as a desirable com¬ 
mercial apple for northern latitudes. It has remarkable keeping and 
shipping qualities. 
R. H. Long, Edwin Barlow and R. L, Taylor are among the incor¬ 
porators of the Greenville Nursery and Floral Co., Greenville, Texas ; 
capital stock $20,000. 
A. D. Shamel, of the Agricultural College of Illinois, will this year 
take up the study of plant breeding with Dr. Weber, of the U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
Irvin Ingels, LaFayette, Ill., in his annual review of fruit conditions 
in the northwestern part of Illinois, says the prospects for a good crop 
of staple fruits are excellent. 
The R. M. Kellogg plant farm at Three Rivers, Mich., will pass into 
the hands of a stock company in the spring. Mr. Kellogg as president 
will retain a controlling interest. 
New England and New York state florists protest strongly against 
the increase of express rates for cut flowers by the Adams, American 
and National Express companies. 
Arthur L. Towson, Washington Co., Maryland, is secretary of the 
Western Maryland Horticultural Society. He has 2,000 trees in bear¬ 
ing and will plant 1,500 this spring. 
Alexander Pullen, Milford, Del., who is spending the winter in 
Dover, will soon begin the manufacture of a complete machine canner 
and preserver of fruits and vegetables. 
H. S. Wiley of Cayuga, C. M. Hooker, Rochester, and S. D. Willard, 
Geneva, constitute the committee to look after the display of fruit to be 
made by the New York State Fruit Growers at St. Louis. 
E. B. Engle, Waynesboro, Pa., secretary of the Pennsylvania Horti. 
cultural Society, has held that position since 1874. In August. 1901, he 
was appointed by Governor Stone inspector of nurseries. 
Frank W. Glen, formerly president of the Planters Nursery Co., of 
Chicago, has severed his connection with that company and has taken 
a position with the Phoenix Nursery Co., of Bloomington, Ill. 
It is said that H. S. Wiley, Cayuga, N. Y., called for more baked 
apples than any other man at the convention of New York fruit grow¬ 
ers in Buffalo last month. We should practice what we preach. 
The annual meeting of the American Seed Trade Association will be 
held in Philadelphia in June. Walter P. Stokes is president, C. N. 
Page, vice president, and S. F. Willard, Wethersfield, Conn., secretary 
and treasurer. 
The Patent Office, according to a New York paper, has refused to 
issue a copyright for a new flower to be known as the “ Roosevelt 
Rose,” on the ground that the consent of the President of the United 
States had not been obtained for the use of the name. 
William Smith, Geneva, N. Y., of the W. & T. Smith Company, 
was confined to his house ten days last month on account of an accident 
in which he was knocked down by a runaway team. He was not 
seriously injured. He still has strength and vigor, despite his 84 years. 
Silas Wilson, Atlantc, Iowa, writes : ‘‘I have more trade by one- 
half than I have stock to sell. Trade has never been so good as the 
last fall and this winter. Peach trees, apple trees and grape vines are 
all scarce and high. I appreciate the value of your columns as an 
advertising medium.” 
The Elm City Nursery Company of New Haven, Conn., of which 
Ernest F. Coe is president and treasurer and H. E. Turner is secretary 
and manager, have recently leased the Cleveland Smith farm adjoining 
their nurseries on the south. This will be planted largely to orna¬ 
mentals to grow on into specimens. 
President Charles A. Ilgenfritz of the American Association of 
Nurserymen, called upon Rochester nurserymen on his way home from 
the meeting of the committee on legislation at Washington last month. 
President Ilgenfritz is enthusiastic over the amount of good that the 
American Association can do for the members if the right plans are 
carried out. He believes in active committee work. 
EASTERN NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
At the meeting of the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association, 
January 28th, a committee was appointed to co-operate with 
the committee of the American Association on transportation 
regarding the subject of freight rates. The officers were re¬ 
elected : President, W. C. Barry ; vice-president, C. H. 
Hawks; secretary and treasurer, William Pitkin. 
THE FEDERAL BILL. 
The legislative committee of the American Association of 
Nurserymen met in Washington January 6th. All the mem¬ 
bers, including President Ilgenfritz, were present. The com¬ 
mittee found that Congressmen Joseph G. Cannon and James 
Breck Perkins were opposed to the bill ; the first because of 
the money involved, the second because of complaints by con¬ 
stituents. Chairman Watrous is of the opinion that further 
effort at this time would be useless. 
CENTRAL MICHIGAN NURSERY EMPLOYEES. 
One hundred officers and employees of the Central Michi¬ 
gan Nursery, Kalamazoo, Mich., and their wives enjoyed a 
banquet January 20th as the guests of the company. The 
president of the company, Dr. William E. Upjohn, was the 
toastmaster. There were speeches by Charles A. Maxson, for 
the management ; Fred W. Remington, for the employees ; C. 
A. Krill, “The Nursery Salesman;” W. C. Cook, “Green¬ 
houses ; ” E. C. Foster, “ Landscape Gardening.” The officers 
of the company are ; President, W. E. Upjohn ; vice-presi¬ 
dent, J. W. Rose ; treasurer and general manager, Charles A. 
Maxson ; secretary, C. A. Krill ; manager greenhouses, W. C. 
Cook ; superintendent of Three Rivers branch, C. C. Nash ; 
landscape artist, E. C. Foster. 
