THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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IRecent IPublicattons. 
The December Delineator represents the high-water mark of beauty 
and utility, and possibly of circulation also, in a woman’s magazine, 
having a first edition of more than a million copies It contains 240 
pages. Among the notable contributors are: Richard Le Gallienne, 
W. A. Frazer, Albert Bigelow Paine, Harriett Prescott Spofford, Andrew 
Lang, and Gustav Kobbe, with an interesting paper describing the life 
of Mme. Emma Eames, in her Italian home, with her portrait in colors. 
There is also the third installment of “The Evolution of a Club Woman.” 
“Principles of American Forestry” is the title of a book by Samuel 
B. Green, Professor of horticulture and forestry in the University of 
Minnesota. This is a book of elementary forestry, and has been pre¬ 
pared especially for students and others beginning this subject. It 
is also intended for the general reader who wishes to secure a general 
idea of the subject of forestry in North America. Much of the matter 
included herein was originally published by the Geological National 
History Survey of Minnesota under the title “ Forestry in Minnesota.” 
The favor with which that work was received has encourage the pub¬ 
lishers to get out this volume, in which the matter is treated in a more 
general way and enlarged to better adapt it to the whole country. 
12mo., XIII-334 pp., 73 figures, including many half-tones. Cloth, 
$1.50. New York: John Wiley & Sons. London: Chapman & 
Hall. 
The forty-fifth annual report of the Horticultural Society of Missouri, 
containing the procedings of the summer and winter meetings of 1902, 
has been issued by the secretary, L. A. Goodman. The importance of 
Missouri as a fruit state and the activity of Secretary Gooman in all 
matters pertaining to the society, of themselves are reasons why this 
report is looked forward to with interest by horticulturists generally; 
and the papers and discussions at the meetings are of great value not 
only to the fruit growers of Missouri, but to horticulturists of other 
states. The volume is fully illustrated and indexed, and it contains an 
excellent map of the state. There are full page portraits of George 
Hussman, of Napa, Cal., who was secretary at the organization of the 
society, in 1859. During the last eight years, Missouri has jumped 
from third or fourth place as a frtiit state to first place in the number 
of growing apple trees. 
“The Nature Study Idea”, an interpretation of the new school 
movement to put the child in sympathy with nature, by Professor L. 
H. Bailey, has just been issued by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 
The book is timely in that it describes what nature study is, who 
originated the term, and the meaning of the movement about which we 
hear so much of late. The movement started almost simultaneously 
in Illinois and Massachusetts schools in 1889 under the title of element¬ 
ary science. The author of the book in hand describes nature study 
as the development of a keen personal interest in every natural object 
and phenomenon—putting the child into intimate and sympathetic 
contact with the things of the external world. Nature study is study¬ 
ing ; not reading nature books. The author’s ideas regarding the 
study of plants are especially interesting, because of his associa¬ 
tion with old-time methods under Asa Gray and his acknowledged 
leadership in modern methods. Plants, he says, should always be 
taught by the laboratory method ; that is, the pupil should work out 
the subjects directly from the specimens themselves ; but he should 
want it to be understood that the best laboratory may be the field. In 
part III, of the book, Prof. Bailey asks some practical questions and 
gives some ways of answering them. The book is of great value to all 
who are in any way interested in the new movement, especially to 
teachers. The book is uniform in style and binding with Neltje 
Blanchan’s “ How to Attract the Birds,” by the same publishers. Pp. 
150. Cloth, $1. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co. Rochester, 
N. Y.: Scranton, Wetmore & Co. 
One of the finest catalogues that come to our desk is that of the 
Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O. It is printed on heavy calen¬ 
dared book paper which sets off the half-tone engravings to good ad¬ 
vantage. The catalogue is profusely illustrated and is enclosed in a 
strikingly handsome cover bearing colored half-tones. Regarding 
their nurseries the company says: “Fifty years ago, the founder of 
Painesville Nurseries made the first small plantings for a local trade 
herein Northern Ohio, along the shore of Lake Erie. To our wonder¬ 
fully favorable location and great variety of soils the steady growth 
of the nurseries is doubtless largely due. They now include over 1,000 
acres, and extend for over two miles along the shore of the lake. Prox¬ 
imity to such a large body of water protects our nursery stock from 
early and late frosts and severe climatic changes. No section of the 
United States is better adapted to the production of healthy, hardy, 
well-rooted, thoroughly ripened nursery stock. So large an acreage 
gives space for planting all our fruit and ornamental stock at 
good distances for the proper development of top and root, so that 
customers need not lose several years coddling trees and shrubs into 
growth, or pruning them into well-furnished heads. It also permits 
the necessary careful lifting of specimen trees and shrubs without 
interfering with others in the rows. Successful growth after trans¬ 
planting depends greatly upon securing the whole root system of the 
stock purchased. The soil-variety of our nurseries, ranging from 
gravelly loam and deep muck to the heaviest clay, enables us to grow 
a large assortment of fruit and ornamental stock, and yet to plant each 
kind on soil especially adapted to its best development. We give 
more especial attention to the development of fibrous, healthy roots 
that will transplant successfully in different soils and climates than to 
luxuriant, showy tops. We are located on main lines of Lake Shore 
and Nickel Plate, branch line of B. & O. R. R.; have American, National, 
United States and local electric Express companies, giving us direct 
connections and prompt service for all shipments.” 
FAVORS NURSERY BUDS. 
In a discussion of the value of buds from bearing trees 
J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn., says in Rural New Yorker: 
In my opinion, buds and scions procured from nursery rows are better 
than those cut from bearing trees, provided that you know absolutely 
that your trees in the nursery rows are true to name. If you get your 
buds from nursery rows and grow a block of trees from them, isn’t it 
reasonable to suppose that they are true to name, provided, of course, 
the nurseryman exercised the proper caution and judgment in stak¬ 
ing his blocks and recording the same in his office? And there is no 
question that buds grown from nursery rows have this advantage 
over those from bearing trees, in that the chances of introducing 
pests into your nursery are 90 per cent, greater when you go into your 
orchard and procure buds from bearing trees, than it is when you get 
them from nursery rows, because you are getting buds off nursery 
trees of the same year’s growth. In addition to this, the nurseryman 
cleans up his block every two years, while the orchard is exposed to 
pests of all kinds, from year to year. 
There is another advantage to nurserymen in cutting their buds from 
nursery rows instead of the orchard, in getting them to correspond in 
size to the seedling stocks into which you bud—which is not always the 
case when you bud from stocks cut from bearing trees, as the sticks 
from bearing trees are usually larger than the seedling stocks into 
which you bud. In addition to this, the inexperienced budder might 
put in a good many fruit buds instead of leaf buds. The only argu¬ 
ment that I can see for cutting from bearing trees in the orchard, is to 
insure your varieties being true to name. But when you analyze this 
proposition, it resolves itself into this simple fact: I cut my buds 
from bearing trees and bud my nursery blocks; I sell that nursery 
block to a planter, or plant it in an orchard myself; instead of cutting 
buds out of those rows for my next year’s work, I go to the orchard 
again for buds; later on, when the trees I sold or planted myself, be¬ 
come bearing trees I go back to them and cut my buds—something I 
would not do when they were in my nurseries, in rows. It all hinges 
on the fact of knowing exactly what you have in your orchard or nurs¬ 
ery rows to cut from; and it is just as easy to keep them pure in the 
nursery rows as in the orchard. 
The Coe, Converse & Edwards Co., Fort Atkinson, Wis.—Enclosed 
find $1 for National Nurseryman. We certainly like the paper and 
do not wish to be without it.” 
