THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Packing Trees for Shipment. 35 
Peach Crop. 37 
Protest Overruled. 42 
Prices Nursery Stock. 47 
Peach Growing.62, 99 
President’s Address. 65 
Place Meeting A. A. N. 66 
Plea for Chicago. 66 
Plant Breeding. 74 , 86 
Postal Regulation. 86 
Peony Culture.78, 89 
Park and Cemetery. 89 
Park Projects.95, 107, 123, 139 
Promising New Fruits. 98 
Porto Rico Fruits. 117 
Philippines. 109 
Question Box... 59 
Railroad Improvements. 7 
Recent Publications 9, 18, 26, 36, 62, 91, 
Responsibility of Nurserymen. 25 
Rambler Roses. 33 
Rouse, Irving. 47 
Register A. A. N. 68 
Railroad Nursery. 96 
Ramsey, F. T. 99 
Stark Bros. Eastern Branch. 19 
St. Louis Exposition, 21, 23, 32, 34, 47, 129 
Southern Points.43, 57, 118 
Sergeant-at-Arms for Florists. 44 
Spring Season’s Trade. .43, 44, 45, 46, 47 , 48 
Stark Nurseries and Orchards Co.. 60,126, 131 
Strawberry Culture. 61 
Secretary’s Report. 66 
Southern Association. 88 , 93, 106 
Substitution.92, 136 
Short Root Pruning. 96 
Small Fruit Culture. 97 
Society American Florists. 99 
Statistics Horticulture. 107 
Southern Nursery Interests, 113, 118, 120 , 123 
Seed Distribution.118, 135 
Smithville Flats Experience.. 129 
Texas Fruit. 6 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association. . 55 , 83, 117 
Taylor, H. S. 57 
Treasurer’s Report. 66 
Trade Marking. 83 
Texans in California. 96 
Test of Laws. 110 
Tree Planting in Nebraska. 113 
Utah Regulations. 109 
Veneered Seedlings. 8 
Vincennes, Ind. 20 
Value of Trade Publications. 22 
Valley Pips. 6 
Veitchian Nurseries. 61 
Vice Presidents A. A. N. 66 , 69 
Virginian Law Scored.126, 135 
Visiting Tours... 73 
Variety Conception. 74 
Varieties Old and New. 75 . 86 , 136 
Vegetable Peach. 97 , 135 
Virginia Trade. 125 
Washington Nurserymen. 2 
Western Wholesalers. 5 , n, 100 
Wilder Currant. 26 
Western States Trade. 45 ( 119 
West Virginia Law.67, 86 
Wholesale Rates. 84 
Washington Law. 97 
Welch E. S.;. 133 
ILLUSTRATIONS, VOL. XI. 
Peter S. Peterson. 17 
John C. Chase. 23 
Brown Bros. Co., 30, 40, 52, 82, 104, 116 
George Achelis. 33 
A. C. Griesa. 45 
H. S. Taylor. 57 
American Association. 64 
President N. W. Hale. 71 
Officers American Association. 75 
M. McDonald. 87 
E. W. Chattin. 97 
JohnS. Kerr. 107 
James McHutchison. 121 
E. S. Welch. 133 
PROSPECTIVE WORK IN PARKS. 
The St. Charles, Mo., fair grounds have been sold at auction for 
$6,400. They contain 41 acres, and will be converted into a park. 
The Indiana Union Traction Company is to become the owner of 
the Broad Ripple Park, Indianapolis, and w r ill improve the same at an 
estimated cost of $75,000. 
The purchase of Ferry Park, Louisville, Ky., by Col. J. D. Hopkins, 
one of the owners of Forest Park Highland, of St. Louis, and Forest 
Park, of Kansas City, is practically completed. About $ 100,000 will 
be spent in improvement of this property. 
Col. T. W. Symons, Washington, D. C., has recommended large 
appropriations for improvement of public grounds in that city. 
Ten thousand dollars has been appropriated by the city council for 
new parks in La Villa, East Jacksonville, Fla. 
New parks are proposed at Malden, Mass., $18,000; Louisville, Ky., 
Chicago, Calumet Park District; Minneapolis, $ 10 , 000 . 
W. C. Bennett, Scotland, Ind.—“ I enclose $1 for the National 
Nurseryman. It is the only paper for the nurseryman.” 
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