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the national nurseryman 
We have then to consider the most approved methods now 
in use and suggestions for possible improvements. 
Next month we will consider the most improved methods of 
winter storage now in use, the buildings in use and difficulties 
encountered. 
WILLIAM A. PETERSON. 
William A. Peterson, the proprietor of the Peterson nursery, 
was born in 1876 at the old homestead in Jefferson, now a 
part of Chicago. To an inherited good constitution, with a 
mixture of Swedish and Puritan blood in his veins, the out¬ 
door life at the nursery gave ftdl sway. He road horseback a 
great deal and attended the high school at Evanston, riding 
daily the six miles thither and was not only diligent in his 
studies, but also took an active part in all kinds of athletics. 
At 18 the young viking, six feet four 
in height, had fitted himself for college, 
but owing to the sudden death of Mr. 
Lillja, his father’s right hand man, it was 
thought best for the son to enter business 
at once. This was a great disappoint¬ 
ment, as he was naturally a student, which 
is testified to by his choice library number¬ 
ing to-day some four thousand volumes 
including old manuscripts, rare first edi¬ 
tions, the oldest printed book in Chicago 
and many Latin, French, German and 
Scandinavian books, both on horticul¬ 
tural and other subjects. This booklore 
was supplemented by extensive travels at 
home and abroad, during which he ac¬ 
quired a familiarity with the best, examples 
of landscape. He has had exceptional 
opportunities in Europe, being entertained 
by various court gardeners, such as at 
Potsdam and St. Petersburg, as these 
gentlemen had been associated with the 
elder Peterson at Louis Van Houtte’s 
establishment in Ghent. 
Being the only child, he employed his otherwise lonely 
hours in making collections, and the fact that there were 
on the premises several Indian village sites made it easy 
to acquire the very large collection of stone implements 
which forms the nucleus of his well-known museum. 
Possibly his scientific work among the peonies has brought 
his name most prominently before the people. He has 
long been an enthusiastic Sunday School worker and is 
identified with many philanthropic movements. 
Mr. Peterson brought home a wife in 1892, who has since 
aided the mother in making the old manor house a center of 
much social life.' He belongs to the Union League, Chicago 
Athletic, Caxton and other clubs. In 1895 he was made a 
member of the firm and since then has been its manager. 
The making of landscape plans is quite an adjunct to the 
steadily increasing business. The present management is 
keeping up the old-time reputation of the concern. 
Uong and Short. 
Pin oaks are proffered by William Warner Harper, Chestnut Hill, 
Pa. 
L. R. Taylor & Sons, Topeka, Kan., are headquarters for apple 
trees. 
Evergreens are a specialty with tire Scotch Grove Nursery, Scotch 
Grove, la. 
D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la., wants Snowballs and white and yellow 
Ramblers. 
T. W. & J. P. Rice, Geneva, N. Y., offer a general line of high grade 
nursery stock. 
Ilakestraw & Pvle, Kennett Square, Pa., offer surplus stock for 
spring of 1904. 
Hardy ornamentals of all kinds may be had of Henry A. Dreer, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Baldwin and Ben Davis apple trees are offered at a bargain by Charles 
Ernst, Moscow, O. 
This season marks the golden anniversary 
of Thomas Meehan & Sons, Dreshertown, Pa. 
One hundred acres of nursery lands are offered 
near Emporia, Va., by the Emporia Nurseries. 
Shrubs, evergreens, roses and hardy plants 
are specialties with Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, 
N. Y. 
Fruit trees and ornamentals, tree diggers and 
cultivators may be had at L. G. Bragg & Co.’s, 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Rosa multiflora Japonica, any size and qual¬ 
ity, can be had of the California Rose Com¬ 
pany, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Standard apple and pear in carload lots, 
complete assortment, at Pioneer Nurseries Com. 
pany,’s Salt Lake, Utah. 
Native ornamental trees, shrubs, plants and 
vines, ferns, etc., are offered by Sackett Bros., 
Lebanon Springs, N. Y. 
Peters & Skinner, North Topeka, Kan., have 
a fine stock of apple, peach, cherry and stand¬ 
ard pear; also grape vines and small fruits. 
The firm of C. P. Carpenter & Sons, Winona, 
Ontario, Canada, has been dissolved. The 
nursery branch will be continued by C. W. F. 
Carpenter, the fruit branch by C. P. Carpenter 
and T. H. P. Carpenter. 
The Shenandoah Nurseries, Shenandoah, la., have in cold storage 
at Rochester, N. Y., for early spring shipment stock listed in another 
column, all well graded and first-class. 
Standard fruit trees and small fruits may be had of Paul Hauber, 
Tolkerwitz, Germany. Shipments are made to all countries. He 
makes a specialty of trees trimmed and trained. 
Readers of the National Nurseryman will be interested in the 
bulletin just issued by the division of zoology, department of agricul¬ 
ture, Harrisburg, Pa., giving treatment for combating the San Jose 
scale. In addition to the directions, it gives an illustration of an appa¬ 
ratus for boiling “ lime-sulphar-salt wash ” in barrels or tanks with 
live steam. Prof. H. A. Surface, economic zoologist, will be pleased 
to send copies of this bulletin to all those who ask for it. 
Publications Received —"Insects Affecting Forest Trees,” by E. 
P. Felt, D. Sc., state entomologist of New York, a handsomely printed 
monograph illustrated with half-tone engravings and lithographs; 
“ Boskoop in Words and Pictures,” by J. W. De Ruyter, a beautifully 
printed description of the seat of J. Blaauwo & Co.’s Nurseries at 
Boskoop, Holland, including views of their home, office and grounds 
as well as views in the vacinity; ‘‘What to Plant and How to Plant 
it,” an attractive catalogue of the Pomona Nurseries, Griffing Brothers 
Co., Jacksonville and Miami, Fla., illustrated; catalogue of Phoenix 
Nursery Co., Bloomington, Ill., Experiment Station Record, Yol. XV, 
No. 4; bulletin on grapevine root worm, by Dr. E. P. Felt, New York, 
entomologist; proceedings of annual meeting of Georgia Hort. Society, 
William A. Peterson. 
