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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Emono ©rowers anb Sealers. 
J. J. Gavatte, nurseryman, died February 2d, at Burlington. Ia. 
W. C. Fourt, of Holt’s Summit, will establish a nursery near Fulton. 
Mo. 
Lewis H Radcliffe, Marcus, Ia , is closing out the Marcus Nursery 
stock. 
The Rochester. N Y , Park Board will erect two propagating houses 
at Highland Park. 
Thomas Maloney & Son, Dansville, N Y., have purchased a farm in 
Sparta, N. Y., for nursery purposes. 
A. Yon Leuwen & Son are proprietors of the Continental Nurseries, 
recently established at Franklin, Mass. 
Chase Brothers Co., Rochester, N. Y., have purchased the Thomas 
W. Bowman & Son nursery, Rochester. 
C. G. Patten and daughter, of Charles City, Ia., are spending a por¬ 
tion of the winter in Southern California. 
E. J. Holman, of Leavenworth, Kan., has been re-elected president 
of the Leavenworth County Horticultural Society. 
W. W. Tracy has been appointed to the position of expert in seed 
and plant distribution, U. S. Dept, of Agriculture. 
The New York Assembly is considering a bill to make the unlawful 
entering of a ginseng garden an act of third degree burglary. 
Charles A. Maxson and William C. Cook, of the Central Michigan 
Nursery Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., visited Chicago last month. 
In the recent municipal campaign 'n Concord, Ga., Charles T. Smith, 
of the Concord Nurseries, was re-elected Mayor without opposition. 
The Board of Regents of the University of Michigan will lay out a 
tract of seven acres at Ann Arbor, for a botanical garden and arboretum, 
The Stark Brothers Nursery and Orchard Company, of Louisiana, 
Mo., has purchased the Silas Wilson nursery interests at Atlantic, Ia 
Prof. Hansen, of South Dakota station, continues to urge the general 
planting of hardy apple seeds as a right step in the northwestern apple 
search. 
A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts legislature to give 
the electric railway companies permission to engage in the express 
business. 
At the 39th annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Asso¬ 
ciation, Col. Shippy Spurr was elected president ; S. C. Parker, Ber¬ 
wick, secretary. 
J. Horace McFarland, of Harrisburg, Pa., lectured before the St. 
Louis branch of the Civic Improvement League, January 27th, at the 
Mercantile Club, St. Louis. 
Leonard E. Loomis, formerly with the Storrs & Harrison Company. 
Painesville, O., in the greenhou e department, has accepted a position 
with James Eddy, Cleveland. 
The fumigating station at Niagara Falls, Ont., will be opened on 
March 15th and remain open until May 15th. There is no change from 
last year’s fumigating regulation. 
Edwin Barlow is manager of the Greenville, Tex., Floral and Nur¬ 
sery Co., which has been capitalized at $5,000. M. L. B. Seaman is 
president, R. L. Taylor vice-president. 
The Great Northern Nursery Co., Baraboo, Wis., which has increased 
its capital stock to #50,000, has awarded the contract for the construc¬ 
tion of another packing house, 80 x 140 feet. 
Apples upon the surface of which are perfectly reproduced the 
photographs of the Emperor and Empress of Russi a'd of the Presi¬ 
dent of the French Republic have been recently shown in France. 
The Royal Horticultural Society of England, in 1902, enrolled 1140 
Fellows, the largest number elected in any one year since the society 
was organized in 1804. There are 116 affiliated provincial societies. 
The Northwest Fruit Growers Association has elected Dr. W. G. 
Blalock president, George H. Lamberson, Portland secretary, with 
vice-presidents for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia. 
Harvey C. Stiles, formerly manager of the Chico, Cal., Nursery Com¬ 
pany, has been appointed by the Board of Supervisors as horticultural 
commissioner for Butte county to succeed Col. C. C. Royce, resigned. 
At the Poughkeepsie meeting of the New York Fruit Growers Asso 
ciation, the strongest of its kind in the country, Prof. Bailey, Dr. Jor¬ 
dan, J. H. Hale, Prof. E. P. Felt and S. D. Willard were among the 
speakers. 
The New York Assembly has passed a bill providing that no person 
shall keep a peach tree affected with “ little peach ” disease without 
promptly notifying the Commissioner of Agriculture who may order the 
tree burned. 
Experiments have been carried on with the Trifoliate orange crossed 
on the tender orange of the South, resulting in a tree that will stand 16 
degrees above zero, and produced fairly good oranges, but not of the 
flavor of Florida oranges. 
There is some talk of modifying the horticultural law in the state of 
Washington in such manner as to require nurseries outside of the state 
putting up a cash bond before they can do business within the state 
instead of a surety bond as at present. 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture entomologists are now con¬ 
vinced that the San Jose scale is no more native to Japan than it is to 
San Jose, Cal. They assert that it is found in Japan only where Amer¬ 
ican plants, especially fruit tree stocks, were introduced. 
Thomas H. Douglas, Waukegan, Ill., writes: “I have read the 
articles in your valued periodical on Salisburia Adiantifolia with, 
interest. There is one point that has been overlooked, that is this : 
It is supposed to be the only broad-leaved tree that has no mid rib to 
its leaves.” 
VALUE OF TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 
There is no doubt that the trade publication of to-day is 
the text-book, directory and cyclopedia of the business and 
manufacturing world, says a writer in the California Fruit 
Grower. The marvelous growth of trade journalism every¬ 
where has necessarily been the outcome of the want of direct 
and specific information on given lines, not shown or concen¬ 
trated in the daily press. It has become the province of the 
trade editor to study and seek out > everything in the shape 
of news, information and instructive matter that would help 
or appeal to his particular line of clientage. 
Fifty years ago, says Robert Mitchell Floyd, this branch of 
newspaperdom was unknown, while to-day it has grown to 
such a power that its representatives associate on terms of 
equal importance with the great metropolitan dailies, and their 
knowledge and counsels are generally sought. 
These papers cover the entire range of business and labor, 
including as they do, trade, commerce, mines, mechanics, 
agriculture, manufactures, construction and technical ques¬ 
tions. All great commercial centers have their representative 
trade papers, and the rise and fall of business conditions are 
clearly reflected in their columns. Among the often-sought 
reference files in our national and state libraries, there are no 
publications holding more valuable records and statistical re¬ 
ports and comparisons than these bound and indexed vol¬ 
umes. 
What, then, is the rightful and accepted position of this im¬ 
mense list of trade publications ? Representative, oracle, 
mouthpiece ; for what is uttered in the columns of these 
papers is but type-set thought and speech, crystalized and 
given out authoritively. 
Maine Pomological Society —Au interesting programme and 1 000 
plates of fruit were presented at the annual meeting at Farmington, 
recently. These officers were elected : President, Z. A Gilbert, 
North Green ; vice-presidents, D. P. Line, Leeds Centre, H. L. Lea- 
man, East Sangerville; secretary, D. H. Knowlton, Farmington ; 
treasurer, Charles S. Pope, Manchester. 
