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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong (Browers anb IDealers. 
F. A. Beebe, Jones City, Okla., is soon to open a-nursery. 
James McHutchison, of New York, visited Rochester nurserymen 
last month. 
Application has been made for a charter by the Elliott Nursery 
Company, Pittsburg, capitalized at $10,000. 
D. M. Tate, Gage, Tenn., has discontinued growing nursery stock 
and is devoting all his time to his orchards. 
Henry L. Slosson, at one time in the nursery business in Geneva, 
N. Y., died there November 16th, aged 61 years. 
William Peterson, of the Rose Hill Nursery Company, has been 
elected a director of the State Bank of Chicago. 
A nursery firm has been established on a 40-acre tract of land on 
Anna Maria Key, Jacksonville, Fla., by Jarvais & Kasson. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, New York city, has been succeeded as pres- 
dent of the New England Society of Orange, of New Jersey, by Isaac 
C. Ogden. t 
Harlan P. Kelsey and Irving T. Guild have formed a partnership 
for the practice of landscape architecture, with offices in Boston. Mr. 
Guild was formerly editor of the Architectural Review. 
The Easterly Nursery Company of Bradley County, Tenn., has been 
incorporated; capital stock, $10,000. Incorporators: W. A. Easterly, 
G. M. Bazmore, J. F. Johnson, W. P. Lang and J. E. Johnston. 
The incorporators of the Callahan Nurseries at Eau Claire, Mich., 
are James P., James E., Margaret N. and Cornelius L. Callahan and 
John McLane of Eau Claire, and J. W. Loftus of Dansville, N. Y. 
Charles Fremd, Jr., Rye, N. Y., advocates the planting of the Um¬ 
brella Pine, of Japan, at once a beautiful ,useful and curious tree. It 
is pyramidal in form and attains a height of 100 feet. This tree stands 
to-day as a monotypic genus like the Gingko. 
Ernest H. Balco has resigned his position in the office of the Allen 
Nursery Company, Rochester, N. Y., where he has been employed 
for a number of years. He has gone West and has taken a similar 
position in the office of T. E. Griesa, proprietor of the Griesa Nurseries, 
Lawrence, Kas. 
During the month of September, 2,744,119 pounds of cured fruits 
were forwarded from San Francisco, of which 2,087,738 pounds of 
prunes* 37,200 pounds of apricots and 37,300 pounds of pears went 
to Germany. Total shipments for the same period last year wero 
873,924 pounds. 
With J. H. Hale as president and Prof. Craig, of Cornell University 
as secretary, the American Pomological Society should forge ahead 
this year. These are two active workers. They are receiving prom¬ 
ises from nurserymen to lend a hand, and also biennial and life mem¬ 
berships from growers of nursery stock. 
A certificate of incorporation has been granted the Sleepy Creek 
Orchard Company, of Sleepy Creek, Berkeley County, W. Va., to engage 
in the fruit growing and nursery business; capital $25,000. Incor¬ 
porators, W. M. Scott, S. H. Fulton, M. F. Scott, L. R.Fulton, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C.,; A. H. Apperson, Atlanta, Ga. 
The Red Banks Orchard Company has been incorporated at Visalia, 
Cal., with a capital stock of $125,000 to carry on a nursery orchard 
and marketing business. The property owned by the company con¬ 
sists of 500 acres, 80 acres of which are set to nursery stock. Between 
200 and 300 acres will be planted to orange trees the coming season. 
The high cost of barrels has been a feature of the apple harvest, cut¬ 
ting sharply into profits of growers. Ordinarily, new barrels can be 
bought for 30 to 35 cents each. This year the market advanced to 
45 cents, in many instances 50 cents, and occasionally 52 cents. Second 
- hand flour barrels have recently sold in eastern cities at fully 30 cents. 
A nurseryman of San Dimas recently shipped 250 cases of Washing¬ 
ton navel trees to Italy, to be distributed among the various experi¬ 
ment stations in that country, says the California Fruit Grower. A 
carload of trees, over 5,000 in all, were also shipped to Cape Town, 
South Africa, by the same nurseryman, being the fourth order of the 
same size to be filled by him from that point. 
From Philadelphia comes word of the failure of the firm of D. Lan- 
dreth & Sons, seed merchants, with liabilities of about $150,000, and 
assets much less. The firm was founded in 1784 by David Landreth, 
who came from England, and the business has since remained in the 
family. The firm owns extensive seed farms in Bucks County, Pa. f 
Burlington, N. J., and Lancaster, Pa. A receiver was appointed on 
November 7. 
"Down in Georgia where there is a hard subsoil,” says J. H. Hale, 
“I put out 35,000 peach trees last Winter, and broke the land all up 
way down deep with a subsoil plow, and I propose to do the same on 
about 20,000 trees going out there this Fall. In California, in places 
where the soil is very hard, yet altogether free from rocks and stones, 
they have found it a decided advantage in putting in their orchard 
trees to break up the ground with dynamite before planting.” 
Much of renewed interest in Rhododendrons and allied flowering 
evergreens may be credited to such nurserymen as Harlan P. Kelsey, 
Boston, Mass., who has long been advocating the use of reliable native ' 
species in preference to cross-bred varieties of tender parentage, says 
Rural New Yorker. Mr. Kelsey is an extensive collector of hardy 
plants and shrubs, and in addition has a large nursery at Kawana, 
N. C., at an elevation of 3,800 feet, for the propagation of the rarer 
species. 
The Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company, of Louisiana, 
Mo., filed suit October 19 for $12,000 damages against Jas. B. Wild 
& Brothers, of Sarcoxie, Mo., nurserymen. The plahltiffs charge 
that Jas. B. Wild & Brothers have been selling apple trees since July, 
1902, under the names of "Senator,” “Champion,” "Black Ben Davis’ 
and “Apple of Commerce,” names which the Stark Company says it 
has registered both with the Missouri secretary of state and in the U. S. 
patent office. The Stark nursery claims that it originated the vari¬ 
eties so named. 
FOR HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE. 
Formal announcement of the organization of the Society 
for Horticultural Science has been issued by the secretary, 
Prof. S. A. Beach, Geneva, N. Y. Prof L. H. Bailey is the 
president. A constitution and by-laws have been adopted. 
The Society will meet about January 1st, in St. Louis, with 
the A. A. A. S. 
jfrom tDarious points. 
Americans in Cuba have placed orders already for 40,000 to 50,000 
orange trees. 
A number of individuals have placed orders for citrus trees amount¬ 
ing to eighty or ninety acres around Cutler, Fla. 
Griffing Bros, will, between this date and March, set sixty acres in 
citrus fruits at Orange Glade, Dade County, Fla. 
A Northern party has given orders for orange trees to cover 250 
acres at Terra Ceia, Fla., another to plant thirty or forty acres at 
St. Petersburg, Fla. 
It is estimated that 3,000 acres of apples will be planted in the Rogue 
River vallev, Oregon, this Winter, including Yellow Newtowns, Spitzen- 
bergs and Jonathans. 
The prospects are that Florida will produce a good crop of oranges, 
pineapples and truck this season. The orange yield is estimated at a 
round 1,725,000 boxes. 
The Delray, Fla., Fruit and Vegetable Growers ’Association estimates 
70,000 crates of pineapples for that section next Summer. The pine¬ 
apple acreage is increasing very fast. 
Professor Samuel B. Green, of Minnesota, has been elected director 
of the combined forestry and horticultural exhibits to be made by the 
Association of American Colleges and Experiment Stations at the 
St. Louis Exposition next’year. 
Thirty of the most prosperous, enterprising and wide awake towns, 
cities and counties of Georgia have organized The Greater Georgia 
Association, having for its object the upbuilding of the state by means 
of judicious advertising throughout the middle West and the Atlantic 
states. 
The Federal crop report for November shows percentages on apples 
above 80 for only seven states: Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, 
Nevada, Washington, California and Oregon. New York has rating 
of 76, Missouri 29, Ohio 49, Michigan 73, Illinois 33, Iowa 53, a full 
crop being 100 per cent. 
