THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong (5rowers anb IDealevs. 
L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., visited New York last month. 
John McAnelly, Mendota, Mo., has sold his nursery to Joseph Miller, 
of Unionville, Mo. 
T. V. Wilson, Hall’s Corners, N. Y., is the president of the New York 
State Fruit Growers’ Association. 
Thomas E Cashraan, nurseryman, has been appointed superintendent 
of the Owatonna, Minn., Experiment Station. 
R. M Teague of the San Dimas Nurseries, California, has shipped 
two carloads of orange trees to Johannesburg. South Africa. 
A writer in the Kansas Farmer suggests that trees be planted to 
improve the condition of the recently flooded lands in Kansas. 
Brown Brothers Company, of Rochester, N. Y., will probably offer 
the new rose, Mine. Norbert Levavasseur, in the fall of 1904 or spring 
of 1905. 
P. J. Parrott, entomologist of the Ohio Experiment Station, succeeds 
Victor H. Lowe, deceased, at the New York Experiment Station, at 
Geneva. 
Charles Fretnd, Rye, N. Y., who was injured in a carriage accident 
on August 17th is improving rapidly. He will return to his home early 
this month. 
In 1859 S. M. Biyles founded] the South JSt. Louis Nurseries. He 
retired in 1894 and was succeeded by the present proprietors, J. W. 
Schuette & Co. 
E. Albertson and wife, Bridgeport, Ind., visited Rochester and Dans- 
viile nurserymen early last month. They went to New York before 
returning home. 
Fred L. Atkins, of the firm of Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., 
has returned from his European trip. He has secured an interesting 
supply of novelties and general stock. 
Victor H. Lowe, for some years entomologist at the N. Y. State 
Experiment Station, Geneva, died August 27 at Fort Collins, Colo. 
He was a native of Michigan, 34 years old. 
J. W. Stanton, president of the Horticultural Society of Southern 
Illinois, has been appointed to take charge of Illinois Horticultural exhi¬ 
bition at the Louisiana Exposition at St. Louis, in 1904. 
Orlando Harrison, of the firm of J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., 
called upon Rochester nurserymen late last month. He was a delegate 
from Maryland to the Farmers’ National Congress at Niagara Falls. 
The American Apple Growers’ Congress will meet in second annual 
convention at the Lindell Hotel, St. Louis, No 7 . 17-18. Henry M. Dun¬ 
lap, Savoy, Ill., is president: T. C. Wilson, Hannibal, Mo., secretary. 
A recent issue of the Tacoma, Wash.. Ledger, says the State Horti¬ 
cultural Commissioner is now filling 609 great glass jars, each four feet 
high, with specimens of fruit that will make the mouths of World’s Fair 
visitors water. 
At the annual meeting of the American Association of Cemetery 
Superintendents, in Rochester, N. Y., John C. Dix, of Chicago, was 
elected president. W. C. Barry addressed the Association on the sub¬ 
ject of variety in cemetery trees. 
Three hundred and twenty acres of land at Fitzwilliam, N. H., 
including the 11 acres of Rhododendron Maximum, the largest growth 
of these plants east of the Alleghenies, has been given to the Appala¬ 
chian club by Miss Mary L. Ware. 
Herbert S. Chase, Huntsville, Ala., wife and son, visited Rochester 
friends and relatives in Western New York during a portion of August 
and September. The son has the proud distinction of being born in the 
great Empire State duriug this visit. 
W. V. Rupert & Son, Seneca, N. Y., have a Russian sweet apple, 
the advisability of introducing which they question by reason of doubt 
regarding a considerable demand for another sweet apple. There is 
comparatively little demand for sweet apples. 
Charles T. Smith of Concord, Ga., has been elected president of the 
Concord Baking Company, a new bank lately chartered at that place 
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with $25,000 capital. Mr. Smith will continue to hold the position of 
business manager of Smith Brothers’ nurseries. 
At the Farmers’ National Congress at Niagara Falls Sept. 22, Hon. 
James Wood, Mt. Kisco, N. Y., spoke on the enlargement of foreign 
markets. Prof. F. M. Webster, Urbana, Ill., discussed the effects of 
insect pests. Governor Odell and Hon. T. M. Woodruff were on the 
programme. 
Charles H. Vick, director of the New York state horticultual exhibit 
at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, states that the extensive grounds around 
the state building will be largely planted by four Rochester nursery 
firms, Chase Bros. Co., Ellwanger & Barry, John Charlton & Son and 
Brown Bros. Co. 
Petitions have been sent to the park commissioners of Brooklyn to 
have Third avenue planted with trees from Sixty-sixth street to Fort 
Hamilton. One thousand one hundred Norway maples are to be planted 
along Fourth avenue between Fortieth street and Flatbush avenue. 
Fourth avenue is 120 feet wide. 
The Jonesboro Nursery and Plantation Co., Jonesboro, Ark., has 
been incorporated under the laws of Arkansas with these officers : Pres¬ 
ident, J. W. Ligon ; vice-president, P. S. Hudspeth; secretary and 
treasurer, C. M. Galeener. The directors are: T. E. Baldwin, W. B. 
Peters, L. B. Ligon, P. S. Hudspeth, J. B. Harper, J. W. Ligon, C. M. 
Galeener. 
Prof. Samuel B. Green, at the Minnesota Experiment Station, has 
grafted the tomato upon the potato and produced a plant which bears 
tomatoes on the top and potatoes on the root at the same time. A good 
thrifty potato is started in a 6 inch flower pot and when about ten inches 
high is cut off at about eight inches, and a top of a thrifty tomato plant 
is inserted in it. 
A Society for Horticultural Science was formed at Boston last month, 
with Prof. L. H. Bailey as president and Prof. S. H. Beach as secretary, 
and an executive committee composed of L. C. Corbett, of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C.; W. R. Lazenby, of Ohio ; J. C. Whitten, of Missouri, and 
F. A. Waugh of Massachusetts. Membership will be limited to persons 
actually engaged in teaching horticulture or in investigations bearing 
directly on horticulture. 
GREAT YEAR FOR CALIFORNIA. 
“This is the one great year for California fruits in our 
eastern markets,” says J. H. Hale, “and I wish the greatest of 
prosperity to all my fellow fruit growers of California. Such 
a shortage of good fruit in the East is not likely to occur again 
in a lifetime, and I rejoice that our brothers of the Pacific 
Coast are in a position to take advantage of the markets, and 
I hope they are getting their full share of the profits.” 
NOVA SCOTIA APPLE CROP. 
According to official estimates, based on present indications, 
there should be a full crop of superior Apples in Nova Scotia, 
with a surplus of over 400,000 barrels for export, varieties and 
qualities being about as follows: Nonpareil, 60,000 barrels; 
King, 50,000; Gravenstein, 50,000; Ribston Pippin, 40,000; 
Golden Russet, 30,000; Baldwin, 60,000; Rhode Island Green¬ 
ing, 30,000; other varieties, 80,000 barrels. 
TO DETROIT AND KANSAS CITY. 
On October 16th to 20th, inclusive, the Wabash Railroad will sell tick 
ets to Kansas City and return from Buffalo at rate of $33.70, limited to 
October 26th. Extension of limit to November 10th. can be secured 
for 50 cents. Only line offering through service from Buffalo. 
On October 15th, 16th. 17th and 19th the Wabash Railroad will sell 
tickets from Buffalo to Detroit and return at rate of $7.00 good return¬ 
ing October 23rd. Four limited trains each way daily. Write for fur¬ 
ther information to R. F. Kelley, G. A. P. D. Wabash Railroad, 
287 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
