The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyrighted 1903 by The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
"Have you tongue-grafted apples to any bill of fare?"—Rural New Yorker. 
Vol. XI. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1903. No . , 2 . 
APPLE GROWERS’ COISGRESS 
NEW ENGLAND’S OPPORTUNITY. 
Regulations on Grades of Fruit and Size of Packages—To Give 
Away 100,000 Apples—Committees on Awards. 
—Apple Day at St. Louis Fair. 
At the second annual meeting of the American Apple 
Growers’ Congress in St. Louis, November 17-18, the report 
of the committee on grades of fruit and sizes of packages was 
adopted, recommending a standard barrel holding three bush¬ 
els, and a standard bushel holding 2,645 cubic inches. It 
grades a No. 1 apple to be not less than inches in diameter, 
except in Romanite, Russet, Winesap, Jonathan, Missouri 
Pippin and kindred varieties, when they may be not less than 
2 Vinches; not over 10 per cent, affected by defacement, hand¬ 
picked, and not bruised, and of bright color and shapely. A 
No. 2 apple may be one-fourth of an inch less in diameter than 
No. 1, not over 20 per cent, affected by defacement, scab, dry 
rot, worms or other defects. Must be hand-picked, not 
bruised and of bright color and shapely. 
Prof. John Stinson, superintendent of pomology at the 
World’s Fair, spoke on the “Apple Exhibit at the Exposi¬ 
tion.” He suggested that a day be set aside as apple day at 
the Fair and that apples be given every visitor on that day. 
It is proposed to have on hand not less than 100,000 apples, 
including all the better known varieties, for gratuitous distri¬ 
bution. Most of the supply will be donated by the apple 
growers. The selection of the day has been placed in the 
hands of the executive board, which will name a date in the 
last week of September or the first of October, 1904. 
The following committees on awards w T ere appointed: For 
new varieties of apples exhibited at the convention—Messrs. 
L. A. Goodman, Kansas City, Mo.; J. W. Stanton, Rich view, 
Ill.; Wesley Green, Des Moines, la. For all other varieties 
of apples and other fruits exhibited—Messrs. W. Farnsworth, 
Waterville, Ohio; W. H. Perrine, Centralia, Ill.; W. C. Reed, 
Vincennes, Ind. 
NEW YORK’S EXHIBIT AT ST. LOUIS. 
In the course of an address before the Rhode Island Horti¬ 
cultural Society at Providence, President J. H. Hale, of the 
American Pomological Society, said: 
Here in New England we have the finest markets in the world right 
at our door. We are right on the Atlantic coast, and have the best 
facilities of any location in the world for supplying the great English 
market. Practically all the fruit used in London and vicinity has to 
be imported, and New England is the nearest available point where 
this fruit can be grown. There is in this country at the present time 
a ready market for twice the amount of good apples now consumed. 
In other sections of the country vineyards and orchards are being laid 
out on a large scale for the growing of fruit to supply the New England 
market. 
The land in New England is cheap, the opportunities are all here, 
and it only waits for the enterprising man or woman to take advantage 
of them. 
NURSERYMEN SHOULD PROGRESS. 
President J. H. Hale, of American Pomological Society, 
speaking of the advantage to the nurseryman of keeping in¬ 
formed on matters pertaining to his business, says: 
Suppose Colonel Pope years ago had thought only of manufacturing 
bicycles; how many would he have sold? His biggest efforts were 
always in the line of good roads for bicyclists to run on and a general 
knowledge of and encouragement of the use of the bicycles, and when 
he got the people stirred up thoroughly along this fine they were ready 
to buy his goods and so it is with the nurserymen. They want to 
devote more of their energies, time and money in an encouragement of 
a love and appreciation of fruits, flowers and plants and then there 
will be more and more people to buy their wares and will want them 
of higher quality and be willing to pay higher prices for them. That 
is why it is a good business policy for every nurseryman in the country 
to take hold and help boom the American Pomological Society and then 
do everything they can in their own states through the local horticul¬ 
tural and pomological societies, not working directly in the interests of 
nurserymen, but in the interest of general horticulture and pomology. 
The right kind of liberality along horticultural lines will prove of great 
and most lasting benefit to the nurserymen and I am sure more are go¬ 
ing to see it as the years roll around. 
SMITHVILLE FLATS EXPERIENCE. 
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The New York State exhibit of fruit for the St. Louis Expo¬ 
sition, which Director Vick of the department of horticulture 
and floriculture has been gathering from all parts of the state 
for six months, is practically complete and will be shipped 
from Gleason’s warehouse in Brighton, where it is in cold 
storage, as soon as cold weather sets in. There are four 
hundred barrels of apples, comprising 250 varieties, consti¬ 
tuting the largest and finest exhibit of this fruit ever made 
by the state. Mr. Vick has about 2,500 pounds of grapes for 
shipment. 
A writer, “A. D. B.,” in Smithville Flats, N. Y., writes to 
the Rural New Yorker: 
Seven years ago one of the much-talked-of agents called at my place 
and informed me he was selling McIntosh Red Apple trees. I whis¬ 
tled for the dog, and before the dog came he showed me a flaming 
picture of the old tree loaded with beautiful red fruit and a certified 
letter stating the agent’s trees were from buds from the old original 
standing on the old McIntosh farm in Ontario, Canada. Of course, I 
bit, paid him 75 cents a tree for six. The result is these trees have 
borne three annual crops, and have taken a first prize wherever shown. 
They will be seen at the St. Louis Exposition. 
