THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmong Growers anb dealers. 
E. E. Hewett’s home at Hannibal, Mo., was destroyed by lire recently. 
William Warner Harper, Chestnut Hill, Pa., sailed for Europe last 
month. 
Robert George, of Painesville, 0-, visited New York state nurseries 
last month. 
A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan., was in Rochester and Dansville, N. Y., 
last month. 
August Rolker, New York, made a western trip after the Detroit 
convention. 
Charles Fremd, Rye, N. Y., called upon Western New York nursery¬ 
men last month. 
Hiram T. Jones and family, Elizabeth, N. J., are spending their 
vacation in Maine. 
The California Horticultural Alliance has been formed, with H. H. 
Lilienthal as president. 
William A. Peterson, Chicago, visited Clifton Springs, N. Y., and 
Island Heights, N. J., last month. 
James McHutchison, New York, sailed for Europe July 9, by S. S. 
Moltke, on his annual business trip. 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., recently visited the Chattanooga, Tenn., 
district in search of fruit industry data. 
Fred L. Atkins, of Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., is on a 
European tour in the interest of the firm. 
J. A. Taylor, Wynnewood, Ind. Terr., has sold 40,300 apple trees to 
one orchardist. He reports the demand very strong. 
Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la., has been appointed superintendent of 
horticulture for Iowa’s World’s Fair Commission. 
The Wholesale Seedmen’s League has elected these officers : Presi¬ 
dent, F. W. Bruggerhof ; secretary, B. Landreth. 
ProL John Craig has been elected to the chair of horticulture at 
Cornell University, as successor to Professor Bailey. 
P. J. Van Heiningen, the American representative of P. Loef Az & 
Company, Boskoop, Holland, sailed for Europe July 8. 
C. W. Murphy, Lawrence, Kan., called upon Western New York 
nurserymen and other friends during the last days of June. 
Prof. F. A. Waugh, Amherst, Mass., sailed for Europe July 20, to 
visit fruit-growing establishments of England, France and Germany. 
Under the new Michigan law all nursery stock going into that state 
must be fumigated, and railway companies are to be held responsible. 
During June, L. L. May & Co., St. Paul, Minn., sold at their retail 
florist establishment, fruit from strawberry plants grown at the May- 
field nursery. 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Kelsey and son, New York, sailed for 
Europe July 2. Mr. Kelsey will visit France, Switzerland, Holland, 
Belgium and England. 
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson says that any farmers can 
procure, from the Department of Agriculture, lady bugs, the imported 
enemy of the San Jose scale. 
The Ozone Park Nurseries, at Ozone, L. I., have been started, with 
40 acres of leased ground, by Edwin Webber and Charles Iffinger, with 
C. B. Knickman as manager. 
Ex-President Charles A Ilgenfritz, of the American Association, 
Monroe, Michigan, visited Painesville and Perry, O., and Western 
' New York nurserymen last month. 
C. J. Maloy, of the firm of Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., 
attended the meeting of the New England Association of Paik Super¬ 
intendents, in Albany, N. Y., June 23d. 
Olmsted Bros., Brookline, Mass., have been given the contract at 
$4,000 for the landscape architecture of Grant Park, the lake front 
at Chicago, which is to be improved at large expense. 
E. Runyan, of the Elizabeth, N. J., Nursery Co., sailed for Europe 
on July 1st. He will visit France, Holland and Belgium to secure 
specimen trees and shrubs. He will return August 22. 
I he New York rimes reports that within a radius of eighty ndles 
around San Jose, Cal., are 14,500 acres upon which plants and flowers 
are raised for their seed alone and that the value of the crop is $3,000,- 
000 per year. 
Charles II. Vick, of the firm of James Vick’s Sons, Rochester, N. Y., 
has been appointed superintendent of floriculture and horticulture for 
the State of New Y r ork at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held 
in St. Louis. 
S. II. Iiumph, Marshallville, Ga., the originator of the Elberta peach, 
the pioneer among commercial peach growers in Georgia, has orchards 
containing 150,000 trees, and does a nursery business amounting, it is 
said, to $75,000 annually. 
H. Lightfoot, Chattanooga, Tenn., who has been connected with the 
Southern Fruit Grower since its establishment in 1890. has resigned 
his position as editor because of pressure of duties as president and 
manager of the Lightfoot Nursery Co. 
According to N. G. Robertson, horticulturist and nurseryman, of 
Trenton, Mo., the reports of damage by frost to the Missouri fruit 
crop have been greatly exaggerated. Missouri, he says, will raise one 
of the biggest fruit crops in the history of the state this year. 
K. Morton, Richmond, Va., writes : “ There are over one hundred 
nurseries in Virginia. As state vice-president of the American Associa¬ 
tion, I propose to stir things up some, and hope, at Atlanta in 1904, to 
have all these nurseries represented ” Mr. Morton was the sole repre¬ 
sentative from Virginia at the Detroit convention. 
The National Nut-Groweis’ Association, whose second annual con¬ 
vention will be held in New Orleans, October 28, is modeled after the 
American Association of Nurserymen, in that it is to issue a badge 
book containing program, officers, names of members and advertise¬ 
ments. The association also has state vice-presidents. 
The first competition since 1897 for the George Ellwanger prize, 
which the Western New York Horticultural Society has in trust for 
the best private place having reference to shade trees, shrubs and hardy 
flowers, is on. Wing R. Smith of Syracuse, John Charlton of Roches¬ 
ter, and F. E. Rupert of Seneca Falls, are a committee on awards. 
Charles J. Marc, owner of the florist and nursery business conducted 
by Gabriel Marc & Co., at Woodside, L. I., has discontinued ihe busi¬ 
ness and sold the property. Gabriel Marc was one of the pioneer 
American nurserymen, beginning operations in the early forties. He 
imported tree roses and camellias and sold them throughout the South. 
Michigan florists are protesting against the state law, requiring all 
florists who sell plants classed as nursery stock to file a $1,000 bond 
with the agricultural department, binding themselves to handle only 
such stock that has been inspected under the direction of the depart¬ 
ment and to keep a correct list of the names and addresses of the par¬ 
ties sold to. 
Apropos of the discussion on publicity at the Detroit convention, a 
nursery agent exhibits his faith in publicity by inserting the following 
advertisement, in display type, in the Winnfield, La. Comrade, a 
weekly paper : Fruit trees. I will canvass YVinn Parish this season 
in the interest of the old reliable Clingman Nurseries and would be 
glad if you would hold your orders for me. Japanese Chestnuts and 
Pecans a specialty. G. E. Bates, salesman.” 
Professor William B. Alwood, who had served as state entomologist 
of Virginia for seven years, has resigned that position in order to 
devote his time to the work of the Polytechnic Institute, at Blacks¬ 
burg; and J. L. Phillips, who has been assistant entomologist for three 
years, has been appointed state entomologist. The services of Prof. 
Alwood have been retained as consulting entomologist of the Virginia 
Crop Pest Commission, of which John T. Brown, Brierfield, Va., is 
chairman. 
The H. J. AVeber & Sons Nursery Co., at Nursery Station, St. 
Louis, Mo., has been incorporated under the laws of Missouri with 
a paid up capital of $50,000, divided into 500 shares, of which II. J. 
Weber holds 378, F. A. Weber, 28, Anna M. AVeber, 21, Emelia C. 
Weber, 20, William A. AVeber, 20, AV. T. E. Weber, 18, G. A. Weber, 
15. This corporation owns 162 acres of valuable land near the city 
limits of St. Louis, with improvements, and has leases on 40 acres 
adjoining. It does a general nursery business, both wholesale and 
retail. 
