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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Every variety of twines and ropes used by nurserymen is manufactur¬ 
ed by Hooper Sons’ Manufacturing Co., 509 Arch street, Philadelphia. 
Almost half a century of fair dealing has given the products of the 
Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., that prominence which merit 
deserves. 
A large assortment of general nursery stock is offered by the Pioneer 
Nurseries Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Ben Davis and Gano apples: 
Bartlett and Rossney pears, etc. 
To clean up some blocks of cherries, nectarines, grapes, English wal¬ 
nuts and citrus trifoliata, the P. J. BerckmansCo., Augusta, Ga., makes 
special low prices. They have a fine line of other stock. 
The new “Burnham” sectional hot water boiler, for large and small 
ranges, affords the highest economy. It is made and sold by Lord &, 
Burnham Co., Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., manufacturers of green¬ 
houses and conservatories complete. 
The Phoenix Nursery Co., Bloomington, Ill., regards the Mesereau 
blackberry as the greatest small fruit acquisition of the age. Its car¬ 
dinal properties are great size, great hardiness of cane and great pro¬ 
ductiveness. It originated with J. M. Mesereau, Cayuga County, N. Y. 
©bitimr\>. 
P. S. Peterson, one of the most widely known and declared to be 
the wealthiest Scandinavian in America, died Jan. 19th. He was pro¬ 
prietor of the Rose Hill Nurseries, near Chicago, which he founded. 
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden June 15, 1830. After five years in 
the gardens of his native land he spent three years on the continent, in 
leading horticultural institutions at Hamburg, Erfurt and Ghent, at 
which latter place he was with Louis Van Houtte. He came to 
Toronto in 1851, and soon saw that the most open chances for success 
lay in the United States, and went to Rochester, N. Y., and obtained 
employment with Frost & Co., nurserymen at $8 per month. Within 
three years he had acquired the English language and was working for 
Ellwanger & Barry for $100 per month. In 1856 Mr. Peterson estab¬ 
lished 'the nursery business at Rose Hill which now comprises 496 
acres. He was the first nurseryman in Chicago to move large trees, 
and all the city’s parks and boulevards as well as those of other places 
contain his products. In 1895, William A. Peterson was admitted to 
the firm, and soon thereafter assumed the management of the concern. 
Mr. Peterson was widely known as a philanthropist. He opened 
Peterson avenue, Chicago, for a distance of three miles at his own 
expense. He was for many years a member of the Union League and 
Germania clubs, and of horticultural societies at home and abroad. In 
1894 he was made a Knight of Yasa by the King of Sweden. The bus¬ 
iness will be continued under the name of Peterson Nursery, Wm. A. 
Peterson, proprietor. 
H. B. Harrison, son of J. J. Harrison, for several years with the 
Storrs & Harrison Co., passed away on the 17th of December of pneu¬ 
monia and heart failure, after an illness of one week. Many will recall 
meeting him at the convention at Chicago Beach Hotel, June, 1900, on 
their return from California. Had been troubled with weak lungs for 
several years, but stood it bravely. He leaves a host of friends to 
mourn his loss, besides a father, sister and twin brother. 
IRecent publications. 
A large and unusually varied numbers of articles on important sub¬ 
jects appear in The World’s Work for February. By much the most 
striking article is that on the “United States Navy at Work,” by 
Lieutenant Commander Albert Gleaves, illustrated by twenty pages of 
remarkable photographs. There is an article about American skilled 
workmanship as shown in watch factories by P. P. Frost, some thirty- 
five short editoral articles in the “March of Events,” and twenty more 
in “Among the World’s Workers.” 
The 1903 catalogue of the Deming Company of Salem, Ohio, is just 
off the press. As usual, our readers will look to it to exemplify in prac¬ 
tical form the latest ideas in spraying orchards, vines, potatoes, shrub¬ 
bery, etc. The Deming people have been so long engaged in the 
business of making sprayers, and their whole line has been brought up 
to such high efficiency in the estimation of spraying people, that it has 
become second nature to look to their catalogue to show what is best 
adapted to any particular purpose. It includes hand, bucket, knap¬ 
sack, barrel, mounted and power sprayers. In certain sprayers of their 
line, notably the Century, Simplex, Peerless and Success Knapsack 
sprayers, the mechanical agitation of the liquid, insuring the perfect 
mixing of poison with the water, is worked out to a nicety. The wide 
adaptability and general usefulness of the line cannot be realized with¬ 
out perusing the catalogue. As usual, it will be mailed to anyone 
writing for it. 
A Wooden Tower 
IS DANGEROUS. IT 
IS LIABLE TO ROT 
AND THE WEIGHT 
OF YOUR TANK MAY 
CAUSE IT TO COL¬ 
LAPSE IN A HIGH 
WIND. 
W. E. CALDWELL CO. 
LOUISVILLE, KY. 
A CALDWELL 
Steel Tower 
WILL RESIST ANY 
STORM AND WILL 
BEAR FOUR TIMES 
THE WEIGHT OF 
THE TANK . . . . 
OUR 
CAT- 
PRICE 
SEND FOR 
ILLUSTRATED 
ALOGUE AND 
LIST . . . 
APPLE 
PEA6H 
LEADING SORTS, BUT HEAVIEST 
IN BALDWIN. 
SLIM, STRAIGHT, FIBROUS ROOT¬ 
ED. NO CULLS IN OUR LIGHT 
GRIDES. . . . . . 
ORNAMENTAL 
SHRUBS 
SILVER & WEIR’S MAPLE. FINE 
STOCK. . 
ALTHEAS, DEUTZIAS, SPIREA- 
A, WATERER, REEVESI, BILL- 
ARDI, TOMENTOSA. . 
EXCHORDIA, HALESIA, HYDRANGEA, SNOWBERRY, CORAL 
BERRY, WIGELIA VARIEGATED, ETC. 
Write W. B. COLE, Painesville, Ohio. 
Seedlings Not Transplanted. 
T O THE TRADE—Horse Chestnuts, 2 to 3, and 3 to 4 feet, by 1000. Luquid 
Ambor (Sweet Gum), 3 to 4, and 4 to 5 ft, by 1000 lots. Tulip or Lirioden- 
dron, 3 to 4, and 4 to 5 feet, by 100. Plane Oriental or Sycamore, 3 to 4, and 
5 to 6 feet, 100 or 1000. Holly, 12 to 18 inches, by 100 and 1000. Will exchange 
any of the above for Pear and Apple Seedlings. 
Wanted to Sell—One half interest in a well established nursery. Wholesale 
and retail trade. Address : 
EMPORIA NURSERIES, Emporia, Va. 
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