THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmong ©rowers anb IDealers. 
Luther Burbank has produced a stoneless prune, the Miracle. 
George Hunt, Port Byron, Ill., expects soon to retire from the nur¬ 
sery business. 
N. H. Albaugh spent several weeks of the summer in the Georgia 
peach orchards. 
II. T. Mood, of the Wm. II. Moon Co., Morrisville, Pa., visited Cin¬ 
cinnati last month. 
II. P Showalter, Muskogee, Indian Ter., is contemplating entering 
the nursery business. 
Henry L. Gaiser, geymour, Ind., has retired from the nursery busi¬ 
ness on account of old age. 
C. T. Zimmerman has purchased the Cameron Nurseries, Cameron, 
Mo., from John Zimmerman. 
The Clinton Falls Nursery Co., Owatonna, Minn., has been incorpo¬ 
rated ; capital stock $100,000. . 
August Rhotert, New York, started on a European trip August 11th, 
per S. S. Kronprinz Wilhelm. 
American bulb growers expect to demonstrate the value of their pro¬ 
ducts, at the St. Louis Exposition. 
Otto Katzeustein, formerly manager of the Pinehurst, N. C., Nur¬ 
series, is starting a Dursery at Atlanta, Ga. 
Charles Fremd, Rye, N. Y., was thrown from his carriage August 
17th. Both legs were broken. He is 71 years old. 
Martin G. J. Vos is manager of the Hamilton Nursery, Paterson, N. 
J., where ornamentals and field-grown roses are produced. 
George O. Morehouse, Lafayette, N. J., has purchased the nurseries 
of that place, formerly conducted by J. Frank Backster. 
A. F. Miller, Portland, Ore., will represent the horticultural and agri¬ 
cultural interests of the State of Oregon at the St. Louis exposition. 
E. F Stephens, Crete, and C. S. HarrisoD, York, Neb., read papers 
at the summer meeting of the Nebraska Horticultural Society, at Fre¬ 
mont, Neb. 
The Upland Nursery Co., Bridgeport, O., has severed its connection 
with A. Jervis, who has been one of the officers of the company for 
several years. 
S. A. Miller, Milton, Ore., is the president of the Pacific Coast Asso¬ 
ciation or Nurserymen, instead of A. Miller, Portland, Ore., as previ¬ 
ously reported. 
W. F. Schell, of the Wichita, Kansas, Nursery Co., has been 
appointed superintendent of the Kansas horticultural exhibit at the St. 
Louis Exposition. 
The Cotta Nursery and Orchard Co., which has nurseries at Freeport 
and Rockford, Ill., has moved its offices to the latter place where there 
are better facilities. 
The only nurserymen in Framingham or South Framingham, Mass., 
or within several miles of that place, are the W. B. Whittier & Co., 
formerly the Framingham Nursery Co. 
A. D. Field, who for twenty five years has been in the nursery busi¬ 
ness at Indianola, la., will go out of the business entirely after the sales 
of 1904. He will grow small fruits and flowers. 
William C. Eisele has laid out the grounds of the 47-acre estate sur¬ 
rounding the mansion of President John A. McCall of the New York 
Life Ins. Co., at West End, Long Branch, N. J. 
William Smith of the firm of W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y., 
has given a $150,000 building to Geneva for a women’s college. Mr. 
Smith built the Smith Observatory, the Smith Opera Ho).|e aud other 
substantial buildings in Geneva. ,,- 
William Tricker, formerly in charge of the aquatic garden depart¬ 
ment of H. A. Dreer & Co., Riverton, N. J.. and author of the “Water 
Garden,” has been engaged as superintendent of the new 500-acre estate 
of W. K. Vanderbilt. Jr., at Great Neck, L. I. 
John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex., writes: “ General crop prospects in 
Texas this year are fine. Good summer rains are reported throughout 
most of the state. Nurserymen are in good shape, have fine stocks of 
trees and trade promises to be very satisfactory.” 
Hale s orchard employs 700 men and 100 horses and mules. The cost 
of operating for the season of six weeks is about $2,750 per day. One 
hundred thousand crates aud 600,000 baskets are required to transport 
a season’s fruit crop of the Hale orchard.—Peach Grower. 
D. W. Hunter, of Chattanooga, purchased the peach crops of Messrs. 
J. M. Bellali, E. W. Sturdivant and W. M. Rich. Judge Bellah sold 
his crop for $3,000, E. W. Sturdivant for $1,000 and W. M. Rich for 
$550. The prices paid will average about $100 per acre.—Peach 
Grower. 
The National Nursery Co , Denver, Colo., has a black hollyhock in 
its nursery, single variety. While this is not common East or West, 
John Charlton, Rochester, N. Y., has several plants of the black vari¬ 
ety, and there are others in Western New York nurseries. Mr. Charlton 
says that Mr. Chater of England, the hollyhock specialist, years ago 
had black ones among his varieties. 
J. II. Hale, of Connecticut and Georgia, called upon Rochester nur¬ 
serymen early last month. He had finished his southern peach harvest, 
securing half a crop, while the State of Georgia averaged about one- 
third of a crop. Mr. Hale said that he aud Mr. Berckmans were plan¬ 
ning to make the visit of the American Association of Nurserymen ta 
Atlanta next summer an enjoyable and profitable one. 
Headlight, a new early grape of the Delaware group, is being intro¬ 
duced by-T. V. Munson & Son, Denison, Tex. Prof. Beach, Geneva, 
N. Y., says : “Its largest berries are as large as large Delaware ber¬ 
ries. The berries are not very uniform in size. The flavor is often 
suggestive of Delaware, but is less sweet aud vinous. The seeds are 
of good size, but average less than two per berry. It is a promising 
new early grape.” 
With such representative men on the board of control at the New 
York experiment station at Geneva as those recently appointed, Messrs. 
Olin, Rouse and Ward, farmers cau reasonably expect that their inter¬ 
ests will be looked after from every point of view. This particular 
trio represents the live stock, nursery and floral interests, a very impor¬ 
tant combination. We bespeak for them a successful term of office.— 
American Agriculturist. 
VIRGINIA LEGISLATION. 
State Vice-President K. Morton, Richmond, Va., writes : 
I have recently talked with W. T. Hood who tells me that he was 
very much opposed to the passage of the Virginia license law ; that 
the outline presented to the State Horticultural Society was entirely 
different from the law as it stands, and that the bill was railroaded 
through without the knowledge of any parties who were really 
interested. Mr. Hood says he would have made strenuous objection 
to the passage of such a bill ; other nurserymen say the same thing. 
It is hoped that there may be a revision of the law. 
NEW PARK PROJECTS. 
Park projects in which nurserymen dealing in ornamentals 
may be interested, details of which may be obtained from the 
sources indicated, are reported as follows : 
Amsterdam, N. Y., Guy park, 25 acres. Benton Harbor, Mich., 5 
acres. Carthage, Mo., Regan park. Cincinnati, considering sites for 
new parks. Chicago, appropriation of $1,300,000 for development of 
Grant park, 205 acres ; South park system to be increased by two 40-acre 
parks in South Chicago at cost of $500,000, and two 40-acre parks in 
town of Lake, cost $1,000,000. Dallas, Tex., contemplating bond issue 
for park. Hartford, Conn., plan for rose garden one acre in extent in 
Elizabeth park. Kansas City, Kan , $10,000 to be spent on new park. 
Lake, Ill., new park of 80 acres. Lake Park, la , to establish new 
park. Maywood, Ill., to improve Maplewood park. Milwaukee, 
aquatic basin in Mitchell park. Mt. Vernon, Ind., 29 acres for new 
park. Ottawa, Quebec, plans prepared for improvement of public 
grounds and connecting system of boulevards. Pueblo, Colo., to pur¬ 
chase 157 acres for park. Sterling, Ill., to improve river islands for 
parks. San Francisco, proposed to establish Twin Peak, 161 acres, and 
extend Golden Gate park 25 acres. Troy, N. Y., Prospect park under¬ 
going improvement. Wikesbarre, Pa., proposition to raise money for 
new park. Washington, residents of Georgetown have signed petition 
for park. 
