THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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jfrom Daiious points. 
One hundred thousand fruit trees have just been planted in Elberta 
county, Georgia. 
Total shipments of fruit, mostly peaches, from Georgia, up to 
August 1st amounted to 857 carloads. 
The total yield of peaches and plums in Michigan territory this sea¬ 
son is placed at a little more than 3,000 cars. 
Eighteen hundred acres in Cullman county, Ala., owned by Emil 
Alrichs are to be planted to Loblolly Pine, Chestnut and Oak. 
The park department of Pittsburg, Pa., is asking for bids for about 
5,000 trees and 2,000 young shrubs to be planted in the nursery. 
The bureau of forestry, U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, has planted 850 
pounds of Pin us ponderosa seed at the station near Halsey, Neb. 
The Cook County, Ill., Park Commissioners are taking steps to con¬ 
struct an outer belt of parks 120 miles long in the county outside of 
Chicago limits. 
George L. Clothier, acting chief of the U. S. Division of Forestry, 
suggests that large areas of land injured by the floods in Kansas could 
be profitably planted to forest trees. 
The new plan for ad interim examination, by American Pomological 
Society committees, of new fruits entered in competition for the 
Wilder medal is arousing active interest. 
San Francisco park commissioners recently gave away in one day to 
3,000 persons 35,000 rooted cuttings from the Golden Gate park 
nursery, in preference to destroying them. 
Charles H. Vick, commissioner for New York State for the St. Louis 
Exposition, urges fruit growers to place in cold storage this fall fruits 
for the Exposition which is to open next May. 
The Pine Mountain Fruit Co., President J. J. Stranahan, Bullocli- 
ville, Ga , has purchased 1,000 acres of land at Nebula, Meriwether 
county, Georgia, and will plant this year 13,000 Snead and Elberta 
peach trees. 
The Peninsula and the Maryland state horticultural societies held a 
jqint field meeting at the large farms of W. F. Allen, at Salisbury, 
Md., August 6. The meeting was attended by over 100 members of 
the two societies. 
A Vermont man says: “ It is wrong to plant Ben Davis in New 
England.” This emphasizes the western claim that the proper home 
of the Ben Davis is the land of the Ozarks—Southern Missouri and 
Northern Arkansas. 
Ex-Governor, Alva Adams, of Colorado, argues that the apple should 
be the symbol of the clothing business the world over; for if Eve had 
not tasted of the apple and divided with Adam there would have been 
no need for clothing. 
Franklin Sherman Jr., Raleigh, N. C., entomologist of North 
Carolina, has issued a circular descriptive of the rules relating to the 
sending of nuisery stock into that state. He will send a copy to any 
nurseryman upon application. 
September events are as follows : American Association of Ceme¬ 
tery Superintendents, at Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 8, 9, 10; American 
Pomological Society, at Boston, Sept. 10, 12; National Farmers’ Con¬ 
gress, at Niagara Falls, Sept. 22. 
Government crop report on apples, Aug. 1st: New York, .59; 
Virginia, .76; Arkansas, .43; Ohio, .48; Michigan, .66; Indiana, .42; 
Illinois, .46; Missouri, .36; California, .82; Oregon, .87; Wisconsin, 
.58; Minnesota, .82; Maryland, .77. 
One hundred crates of Elberta peaches were shipped from Marietta, 
Ga., to London during the first week in August by W. B. Turner, as 
an experiment. State Entomologist Scott superintended the packing. 
New York market prices were guaranteed. 
Germany has declared that apples will not be admitted to that 
country except in bulk. This will let in apples from France, Holland, 
Denmark and other nearby countries, but it practically excludes those 
from the United States. U. S. Pomologist Taylor is investigating the 
subject. 
Tobacco, an ocean of it, bearing a ship constructed wholly of the 
chewing weed, perched high on a massive globe, also built of tobacco, 
on the top of a pagoda formed of tobacco, is intended to be the crown¬ 
ing feature of the universal tobacco exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition. 
Sir Thomas Lipton, tea merchant and yachtsman, has purchased an 
immense tract of land near Brunswick, Georgia. He proposes to raise 
fruit and vegetables for the London market. Tne scope of his opera¬ 
tions will include a line of cold storage steamers to carry his produce 
from Georgia parts to the markets of England. 
The largest tree in Oregon was felled recently to be sent as a 
curiosity to the World’s Fair. It is the Aberdeen spruce, and stood 
nearly 300 feet high, 40 feet around and 118 feet from the ground to 
the first limb. Its age is calculated at 440 years, being a good sized 
tree when Columbus discovered the land that was afterward called 
America. 
The latest variety of Rose to gain the gold medal of the National 
Rose Society of England is the single-flowered garden rose Blush 
Rambler which bears a profusion of soft blush-pink flowers each with 
a small cluster of yellow stamens. Blush Rambler is a result of 
crossing Crimson Rambler with Garland, by Benjamin Cant & Sons, 
Colchester, Eng. 
The Florists’ Hail Association reported at its annual meeting in 
Milwaukee an equivalent of 18,250,000 square feet of glass injured. 
Since the organization of the Association in June, 1887, 608 losses 
have been paid involving an expenditure of 858,000. During the last 
year $4,623 were paid for losses. The reserve fund consists of $10,400, 
invested, and $742.01 cash in hand, making the reserve fund on hand 
August 1, 1903, $11,142.01. 
At a conference of members of the New York State St. Louis Fair 
Commission in Albany last month, it was agreed to offer to all 
orchardists of the state the privilege of sending fruit of really super¬ 
ior quality in barrel lots to the show without expense, the commission 
furnishing padded barrels and paying freight; also to send experts to 
the county fairs this fall to select the best products and make up car¬ 
loads of them for St. Louis. 
Editorial representatives of American Agriculturist are visiting 
every portion of the Canadian northwest for the purpose of personally 
investigating the agricultural resources and capabilities of the vast 
territory north of our border. This district is the last large area of 
unoccupied farm land on the American continent north of the tropics, 
and barring Argentina, the last unoccupied wheat land on the western 
continent. The tide of American immigration is being turned toward 
this district. 
The seedsmen, at their recent convention, again put themselves on 
record in opposition to the present government distribution of seeds. 
From every fair point of view the seedsmen are justified in fighting 
this abuse. For it is not only an abuse of a government function but 
an unfair attack upon reputable private business. Just now the 
seedsmen suffer, but how long will it be before men in other lines of 
trade or even farmers will find the government competing with them 
by giving away what they have to sell ?—Rural New Yorker. 
©bituaiT 
Frederick L. Olmsted, the famous landscape architect, died Aug. 
28th, at Waverly, Mass., aged 81. 
William Fairchild Peters died in Philadelphia, August 2d. He was 
formerly in the nursery business in Wilmington, Dol. 
Mrs. Cornelia Ellwanger, wife of George Ellwanger, died at her 
home in Rochester, August 7th. in her 87th year. She was the 
daughter of General Michael Brooks, of Livingston county, N. 
and was married to Mr. Ellwanger in 1846. She had four sons, two of 
whom, George H. and William D. Ellwanger, survive. Mrs. Ellwan¬ 
ger was prominent in church and charitable work, but shrank from 
publicity. Her husband, the venerable senior partner of the firm of 
Ellwanger A Barry, survives, in his 87th year. 
E. R. Gastin, Peru, Ind.—“I enclose $1 for the journal. Glad to have 
you remind me of this as I do not want to be without it. 
