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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
York and Pennsylvania nurseries. I have no doubt that all 
are Gravenstein apples, but only a few bear. A loss of sev¬ 
eral thousand dollars has been caused to the nurserymen in 
question. I believe if they had propagated from trees of 
known value they would not have suffered this loss. I do not 
want to plant a tree that I do not know about.” 
A Voice—“ Then we will have to charge more for our trees.” 
Charge More for Trees. 
Mr. Hale—“ That’s all right. Charge more. A generation 
is growing up that wants that kind of trees. There is too 
much cheap tree selling. Let the nurserymen charge more 
for their trees and exercise care in growing them.” 
Mr. Watrous—“A man in Iowa may send to Prof. Bailey 
for New York buds and may grow them under different condi¬ 
tions as to soil and climate and have poor luck with them.” 
John S. Kerr.—“ I am planting a large test orchard in Texas 
on the lines laid down by Prof. Bailey and Mr. Hale. Craw¬ 
ford Early is a failure in the Southwest, Chinese Cling varie¬ 
ties are on the improvement. We have discarded Crawford. 
For the local market Chinese Cling seedlings are coming to 
the front. Elberta, Mamie Ross and others are doing well. 
I believe there is slow gain in breeding from bearing trees, but 
we should do it.” 
Mr. Kirkpatrick—“ I regret to hear my friends discussing 
an advance of but two cents per tree. I think that instead of 
sending out Elbertas at three cents apiece, we should send 
them out at $3 apiece. We have the Japanese, the Chinese, 
the Spanish and the American strains. Let us combine them 
and produce a new variety altogether. Let us throw away the 
old varieties and instead of trying to improve them, let us have 
a new variety.” 
Mr. Sweet—“ We have heard of planting bones around a 
Crawford tree to improve the fruit. We know that results are 
thus obtained. Now, do these things create individuality? 
Can the improvement be handed down ? There are many 
things to be considered in this matter. The Abraham Lincolns 
did not come from the same family. It is rare to see great 
successors from great families.” 
Prof. Bailey —“ This is an important subject. We must 
breed for efficiency, but no one can see the way through at the 
present day. These are questions that are wholly unsolved. 
We are on the verge of a new series of questions. Do not ex¬ 
pect that the nurserymen are to revolutionize their practices 
at once. As light comes they can modify their practices. I 
am not ready for a law to make the nurseryman propagate from 
certain trees.” 
ARID LAND RECLAIMED BY NURSERYMEN. 
The Chase Nursery Co., Riverside, Cal., control more than 
one thousand acres of orange trees. These orchards are 
owned by various companies, in each of which the Chases own 
a controlling interest, and may be roughly estimated as fol¬ 
lows : National Orange Co., 500 acres; Hermosa Orange Co., 
100 acres; Eureka Orange Co., 175 acres; Chase Nursery Co 
and Chase Rose Co., 250 acres, making a total of 1,025 acres^ 
All of this land, with few exceptions, says the Riverside 
Press, was developed from raw, non-producing, sage brush 
land, planted with trees of their own propagation and brought 
to their present state of productiveness and taxable value, 
through the sole and individual efforts of this enterprising 
company. 
Biltong (Browers anb Bealers. 
F. S. Phoenix, Bloomington, Ill., son of F. K. Phoenix, has sold his 
business to Saddler Brothers. 
Peter Barr, O M. H., has returned to his home in England, after a 
tour of the world extending over four years’ time. Mr. Barr is nearly 
80 years old. 
With a capital stock of $40,000 the Meneray Crescent Company has 
been formed at Council Bluffs, la., to carry on the business of F. W. 
Meneray & Son. 
The Grand Junction, Colo., Seed and Nursery Co. has been incorpo¬ 
rated by G. J. Carpenter, John E. Moore and Frank R. Davis, with a 
capital stock of $30,000. 
At the semi-centennial of the California Academy of Sciences, a gold 
medal was awarded to Luther Burbank, for meritorious work in devel¬ 
oping new forms of plant life. 
M. J. Henry, Vancouver, B. C., reports that 100,000 fruit trees were 
sold last season in British Columbia by the local nurserymen, and that 
an equal amount of stock was shipped into that territory. 
Warren H. Manning, of Boston, has been engaged as advisory super¬ 
intendent to the Milwaukee park board for two years. He will super¬ 
vise the improvement of Washington and Kosciusco Parks. 
Charles W. Ward, president of the American Carnation Society and 
American Peony Society, has been appointed member of the Board of 
Control of the New York State Experiment Station, by Governor Odell. 
The Cumberland Nursery Co., Sparta, Tenn., has been organized 
with a capital stock of $10,000 and these officers: President, D. S. 
Pope ; secretary and treasurer, William Cooper; superintendent, T. 
A. Pope. 
Stara Brothers’ Nurseries and Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., report 
that their freight aggregate for the last season shows 15,400,000 pounds 
and freight bills amounting to $53,201.02 were paid. They handled 
666 carloads, to say nothing of less than carload lots. 
The J. M. Neil Company, of Charleston, W. Va., has been incorpo¬ 
rated with a capital of $10,000 to deal in nursery stock. The incorpo¬ 
rators are : Joseph M. Neil, Robert C. Bell, James B. Menager, J. H. 
Stephenson and Willard H. McDougal, all of Charleston. 
Through the efforts of Frederick W. Kelsey, New York City, Col¬ 
lector N. N. Stranahan, at the port of New York, has given strict in¬ 
structions to the deputy of one of the divisions that more care shall be 
exercised in that division. The matter came up in a case where im¬ 
ported trees were erroneously ordered into public store. 
The government crop report for June states : Of the fourteen states 
having 5,000,000 apple trees and upwards, but two, Virginia and Ten¬ 
nessee, report conditions above their ten year averages, the conditions 
in the other important apple-producing states ranging from two points 
in North Carolina to twenty-three points in West Virginia below such 
average. 
A western paper calls attention to the announcement in a Pacific 
coast nursery catalogue, over the signature of the commissioner of 
horticulture, to the effect that “trees are free from serious iusect pests 
and all true to name,” and asks whether it is within the province of a 
state official to declare officially that the trees in any nursery are true 
to name. 
The Southern Nurserymen’s Association will hold its annual conven¬ 
tion in Winchester, Tenn., August 19th. G. H. Miller, Rome, Ga., is 
the president; J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn., is the secretary. Among 
the features of the convention will be an excursion from Winchester to 
Huntsville, Ala., which will enable the nurserymen to see 6,000 acres 
of orchards. 
Greening Bros., Monroe, Mich., report an unusually prosperous sea¬ 
son and a dividend of more than 50 per cent. They say they had prac¬ 
tically no surplus and completed delivery before April 20th. During 
the first week of April, they report, they shipped 263,000 trees in bulk, 
75,000 of these going to Benton Harbor, Mich. The capital stock of 
$100,000 is divided as follows: Charles E. Greening, 95 per cent.; 
Mrs. Charles E. Greening and Son, B. J. Greening, 44 per cent.; R. M. 
Sperry and Frank Yentz, 4 per cent. 
