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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hn flureer^ IRows. 
Stock for Arid Regions— George J. Spear, of the Greely Nur. 
series, Greely, Colo., says: “We buy nothing but the best French 
stock to use for our grafting and budding. The French stock is the 
best on account of its freedom from insects and disease and is used by 
all first-class nurserymen. These we grow one year before budding. 
The first year after planting we water our stock on an average of once 
a month, but during the second year and all following seasons we le 
them take care of themselves so far as water is concerned, this with the 
mineral composition of the soil goes to make up the hardiest trees and 
plants in cultivation. To persons living in the semi arid regions these 
trees and plants are bound to become valuable. As all we ask is that 
you water them if the weather is dry when planting and they will take 
care of themselves afterward.” 
Wilder Currant— Three or four years ago, at the meeting of th e 
Western New York Horticultural Society, at Rochester, S. D. Willard’ 
spoke so highly of the Wilder currant as the best red and of the Imper" 
ial as the best white that I have planted a hundred bushes of these 
two varieties the spring following, and I do not regret it. For some 
reason not much has been or is being said in horticultural papers and 
elsewhere about the Wilder currant, yet it seems to me one of the most 
deserving sorts that has ever been sent out. I will not say much 
about the Imperial, except that it is a really good white, and’ 
like all white sorts, more suitable for home use than for mar" 
ket, but I feel that I cannot say too much for the Wilder, with 
its long-stem clusters, and its large berries of good color and quality. 
My plants are very thrifty—extremely so—although this may be the 
result of good soil and good cultivation, and are quite productive 
The fruit seems later than Fay or Cherry, and of such size that I was 
unable to find large and fine currants like my own in our local markets 
or Niagara Falls stores.—T. Greiner, La Salle, N. Y., in New York 
Tribune Farmer. 
The Pacific Northwest. —In a bulletin on orchard enemies in the 
Pacific Northwest, C. Y. Piper of the State Agricultural College, Pull¬ 
man, Washington, calls attention to the fact that within the last ten 
years the fruit-growing industry in the states of Washington, Oregon 
and Idaho has developed rapidly. He says : “ Up to the present time 
commercial fruit growing in the coast region has not been a prominent 
feature of its agriculture. Prune growing is as yet the one phase of 
fruit production that is conducted on a large scale, and this industry 
is confined mainly to Clark county, in Washington, and the Willamette 
Valley, in Oregon. Inasmuch as all stone fruits except the peach do 
remarkably well, and apples and pears of fine quality can be grown— 
in fact, fully equal to those of the inland regions—it seems strange 
that their production on a commercial scale has not been more fully 
developed. The principal explanation of the failure to do this seems 
to be the large loss occasioned by scab to the apple and pear, and by 
brown rot to the stone fruits. To a less degree the black-spot apple 
canker may have had a like effect. The control of these diseases, how¬ 
ever, seem to offer no more serious problems than do the codling moth 
and San Jose scale in the inland valleys. Be that as it may, it is cer¬ 
tainly desirable that a large additional amount of experimenting be 
carried on to determine how far these factors are inimical to success. 
Another factor that may have something to do in limiting commercial 
fruit growing is the higher initial cost of the land.” Those who are 
especially interested in this territory should procure from the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, in Washington, D. C., farmers’Bulletin 153 
A COSTLY CARNATION. 
For the largest consideration ever paid in this country for a 
single carnation, says the Indiana State Journal, Dormer & 
Sons, florists of Lafayette, have sold to the Chicago Carnation 
Co., of which H. M. Higginbotham is president, a plant 
called “ Fiancee,” which was on exhibition at the recent flower 
show in Chicago, and which was awarded the silver medal of 
the Society of American Florists, being pronounced the finest 
carnation in the world. Although the sellers are under con¬ 
tract not to divulge the price paid, the buyers reserving the 
right to do this when the flower is put on the market next 
year, it is said that the local florists are to receive $15,000 for 
all plants, cuttings and roots that are produced by them from 
now to June 30th next. 
AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-first annuil meeting of the American Forestry 
Association was held at Washington, recently. The morn¬ 
ing session was a business meeting at which the president 
of the association, Secretary Wilson, presided. At the after¬ 
noon session a number of papers were read. Among the 
speakers were George B. Sudworth, Overton W. Price, F. E. 
Olmstead and William L. Hall, of the Bureau of Forestry ; 
Dr. B. F. Fernow, director of the New York State College of 
Forestry ; Professor Henry Solon Graves, director of the Yale 
Forest Schools ; Dr. C. A. Schenk, director of the Biltmore 
Forest School ; Filbert Roth, chief of the Division of Forest 
Reserves in the General Land Office, and Dr. Chase Bessy, of 
the University of Nebraska. 
AN IOWA RECOMMENDATION. 
According to the Twentieth Century Farmer, published in 
Nebraska, Secretary Greene, of the Iowa State Society, recom¬ 
mends that all nurserymen, tree jobbers and agents should be 
licensed by the state, the jobber being also required to give 
bond to idemnify buyers from possible loss. He also recom¬ 
mends that the State Horticultural Society be changed into a 
state board of horticulture, with whom all complaints should 
be filed. This board would have authority to arbitrate all 
difficulties between buyers and sellers and appeal to the courts, 
when necessary. An inspector should be employed to visit 
nurseries and packing grounds and inspect stock and methods. 
IRecent (Publications. 
Among the progressive catalogues received this spring are those of 
the William H. Moon Co., Morrisville, Pa , and Luke Brothers 
Company, Montreal and Chicago. 
The Bartram house of Philadelphia, a unique memorial of pre-Revo- 
lutionary days, is described and illustrated in a paperjin the March De¬ 
lineator. John Bartram, the builder, was a farmer who turned his at¬ 
tention to botany, and eventually become the most famous American 
botanist of his day. 
“ Home Floriculture ” is the subject of a book by Eben E. Rexford, 
published by the Orange Judd Co., New York. It is intended to assist 
the amateur who desires to become better acquainted with “our 
friends, the flowers.” There are 51 chapters replete with valuable in- 
fomation and embellished with 72 illustrations. 
“ American Animals,” by Witmer Stone and William Everett Cram, 
is one of the latest and most attractive of nature studies. The aim 
has been to produce a book sufficiently free from technicalities to 
appeal to the general reader and at the same time to include such 
scientific information relative to the North American mammals as 
would be desired by one beginning their study. There are six plates 
in color and 130 pictures from life. The volume is replete with instruc¬ 
tion and entertainment. There is a key to the genera of North American 
mammals and a bibliography of the principal works on this subject. 
All the matter in the book is conveniently indexed. 4to. Pp. 318. 
Cloth. $3. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co. 
