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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Hmong Growers and Dealers. 
W. P. Robinson, Atlanta, Ga., died recently, aged 81 years. 
Stark Brothers nursery, seven miles from Huntsville, Ala., has been 
discontinued. 
W. A. Peterson, Chicago, has been elected a director of the State 
Bank of Chicago. 
James M. Kennedy, Dansville, N. Y., called upon Rochester nursery¬ 
men last month. 
The West Coast Nursery Co. has been established by H. A. Curtis at 
St. Petersburg, Fla. 
J. J. Harrison, of Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., with his 
daughter, are in California. 
M. J. Wragg, Waukee, la., has been re-elected a member of the Iowa 
State Board of Agriculture. 
The Jackson & Perkins Co., shipped 250,000 rose plants this season 
from their California nurseries. 
George Barter, Attila, O., is not in the nursery business. His name 
appears in the florists’ directory. 
J E. Carothers has changed his address from Stillwater, Minn., to 
Argentine Station, Kansas City, Kan. 
The P. J. Berkmans Co., Augusta, Ga., have formed a company for 
the raising of cattle in the vicinity of Augusta. 
Mr. McGill, of the Oregon Nursery Co., visited Topeka and other 
points in the Mississippi Valley last month. 
Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la., is chairman of the civic improvement 
committee of the Iowa State Forestry Association. 
The forty-ninth annual meeting of the Western New York Horti¬ 
cultural Society will be held in Rochester, January 27-28. 
The first annual meeting of the Agricultural Experimenters’ League 
of New York will be held at Cornell University, January 8-9. 
Prof. Charles S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, called upon 
Rochester Park officials on his tour around the world last month. 
H. W. Jenkins, proprietor of the Walnut Hill Nursery at Boonville, 
Mo., has moved to Plattsburg, where he will grow trees and plants for 
E. Mohler. 
The Dogwood Hardy gardens have been incorporated at Dogwood, 
N. J., with a capital of $25,000 by H. F. Smith, C. Pelrey Walker and 
F. E. Williamson. 
H. L. Bird, of the West Michigan Nurseries, Benton Harbor, Mich., 
called on Rochester nurserymen on his way home from New York just 
before the holidays. 
Charles Fremd, Jr., Rye, N. Y., found among his Christmas presents 
a new boy who arrived December 26th. Mr. Fremd is right in the 
nursery business. 
Twenty-five thousand trees have been planted in the Kansas City 
streets under the supervision of the city and 15,000 planted privately 
exclusive of the parks. 
Fire recently destroyed rare plants to the value of $10,000 in the 
Missouri Botanical Garden and trees, shrubs and buildings to the value 
of $50,000 at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. 
Stark Brothers Co., Louisiana, Mo., use a tree digger of their own 
make, drawn by eight strong mules, which gets practically all the roots, 
allowing the purchaser to trim as he chooses. 
Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md., made a trip to Western points before 
the holidays. He reports trade outlook in the West as especially good 
and prospects of increase in prices of nursery stock. 
The Huntsville Wholesale Nursery company has purchased the 
Motz farm of eighty acres two miles from Huntsville, Ala., and will 
establish thereon warehouses and shipping headquarters. 
J. M. Underwood, of the Jewell Nursery Company, Lake City, is one 
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition commissioners from Minnesota. 
Mr. Underwood is also chairman of the legislative committee of the 
Minnesota Horticultural Society. 
A four-year-old Wagener apple tree in the Hood River valley, Oregon, 
that yielded more than four bushel boxes of apples this season which 
sold for $2 per box, came from a Western New York nursery. This 
from the East! 
Carl Purdy, Ukiah, Cal., will endeavor to produce bulbs of Tulips 
Hyacinths and Narcissus equal to Holland grown. The IT. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture has furnished to him quantity of stock obtained 
by the government from Holland. 
A carload of bulbs, seeds and plants, principally from the Royal 
Seed Establishment, of Reading, England, and Carter & Co., of London, 
arrived late in November in St. Louis for planting about the English 
pavilion at the Louisiana Exposition. 
The Muskogee Nursery Company, Muskogee, I. T., has been incor¬ 
porated with a capital stock of $20,000. The officers are: J. L. 
Knisley, president; Benj. Martin, Jr., vice-president; S. E. Gidney, 
secretary, and James T. Perkins, treasurer. 
Orlando Harrison, of the firm of J. G. Harrison Sons, Berlin, Md., 
from the Atlantic coast, met A. W. McGill, of the Oregon Nursery 
Company, from the Pacific Coast, at Topeka, Kansas, and delivered to 
him a quantity of Apple seedlings to go to the Pacific coast. 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., manages thirty orchards extending 
from Eastern Nebraska to the Wyoming line in Platte Valley. He 
expects to work in Wyoming next season, perhaps also in Montana. 
He does ornamental work also for the Burlington railroad system. 
The commissioner of parks, New York city, has awarded to Hitch- 
ings & Co. the contract for the completion of the range of propagating 
houses at the nurseries on the east side of the New York Botanical 
Garden, together with a series of propagating pits at a contract price 
of $7,593. 
It is stated that the Good Nursery Co., Springfield, O., with a cap¬ 
ital of $60,000 proposes to establish a rose farm of 3,000 acres in the 
delta section of the Mississippi. The promotors are John M. Good, L 
Verney, C. T. Ridgely, Edwin S. Houck, C. W. Welsh, and L. P. Job, 
all ofSpringfield, Ohio. 
H. M. Stringfellow, of root pruning fame, looks with contempt upon 
the use of dynamite in tree planting. He says: “With common sense 
methods New England is destined to be the apple orchard of Europe, 
but never will be if 20-inch drilled holes and a stick of the dangerous 
dynamite is a necessity for every tree. ’ ’ 
E. Runyan, Elizabeth, N. J. is organizing a company to be incorpor¬ 
ated under the laws of New Jersey, for the purpose of operating in 
Cuba, to act as agents for American goods, and to grow tropical fruits 
in that island. It is also proposed to grow nursery stock until such 
times as the fruit plantations come into bearing. 
Much has been said in favor of thinning fruit on apple trees. Pres¬ 
ident T. B. Wilson, of the New York Fruit Growers Association, says: 
“When there is a general crop of apples and the crop, or set, is very 
full, so that the chance for small fruit is very great and widespread 
over the country, I think it would pay to thin to such an extent as to 
insure good-sized fruit. Aside frorrrthis I do not think it would pay, 
only for the protection of the tree.” 
NOT IN NURSERY ROWS. 
In the F. R. Pierson Nursery at Scarborough, N. Y., in¬ 
stead of the familiar parallel rows, one finds irregular and 
picturesque groupings of stock so planted as to set forth the 
full character of each subject in decorative effect, the taller 
material in the background and the low in front, skirting well- 
built, winding driveways from which customers may inspect 
the stock under best conditions and make personal selections 
without leaving their carriages. For a nursery catering to a 
cultured community, says American Florist, this method 
impresses one as eminently sagacious and practical and we 
are assured by Mr. Pierson that it pays in every way, the 
massed plantings being cared for at even less expense than 
when laid out on the usual parallel-row plan. 
