CALIFORNIA FRUIT CONDITIONS. 
The twenty-ninth convention of California Fruit Growers, 
at Fresno, is thus summarized by the Country Gentleman: 
President Cooper said the season just closed was not as disastrous 
as that of 1902. Walnut growers had received higher prices than ever 
before, but the future of this industry is menaced by a blight which 
in some districts reduced the crop one-half. The association has 
offered a prize of $20,000 for a feasible remedy. Shipments of table 
grapes have given excellent results, but wine grapes have not sold at 
prices that would pay for their production. Olive-growing remains 
uncertain, owing to the substitutions and adulterations used in 
making olive oil, and their being forced on the market at ruinous prices. 
The ripe olive pickel is, however, in great demand, and a large market 
is offered to the careful grower. Almonds have sold at higher prices, 
but the uncertainty attending their culture forbids its encouragement. 
The prune question is also unsettled. The citrus industry was never 
more depressed; orange shipments not successful; lemon was worse. 
Many lemon growers will either bud with oranges or root out their 
trees. Still, many new plantations are noted through the citrus 
districts. Alden Anderson reported the season’s shipments of decid¬ 
uous fruit at 7,668 carloads, of which 1,867 were peaches, 1,802 
grapes, 1,719 pears, 1,145 plums and prunes, and 670 apples, exceed¬ 
ing last year by several hundred carloads. This fruit was distributed 
to 131 cities. Most of these shipments were made by the California 
Fruit Distributors. 
EVERGREENS 
The rooty, symmetrical, thrifty, home-grown, transplanted sort that will 
grow again. 
Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea Pungens) 8 to 36 inches 
inclusive. Any color L om green to silvery shiners. 
Balsam Fir, 18 to 48 inches inclusive. Any number, grade or 
degree of excellence 
Norway Spruce, 18 to 36 inches inclusive. The best lot we have 
ever grown. 
White Pine, 21 to 48 inches. A choice lot 
flrborvltae (American!, 24 to 48 inches, inclusive. The bushy, 
rooty kind. 
Arborultae (Pyramidalis), 60 to 84 inches, A few choice big pyramids. 
Send for list and let us know how many and what you need. 
Address 
SCOTCH GROVE NURSERY 
Scotch Grove, Iowa 
TREES 
A General Line of High Grade Nursery Stock. 
We are especially heavy on Standard and Dwarf Pears and 
Peaches. 
Write for prices on large or small quantities. 
WILLIAM STREET NURSERIES 
T. W. and j. p. rice, Proprietors 
GENEVA, N. Y. 
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Surplus Stock for Spring, 1904 
Apples, to y and y 2 to %. 
Cherries, sweet and sour, ^ to ^ and to H- 
Peaches, all grades. 
Japan Plums, all grades. 
Bartlett and KielTer Pears, y and up. 
American Persimmons, American Chestnuts, English Filberts, Butternuts, 
Asparagus, 2 year ; Osage Orange, 2 year; California Privet, 2 year ; 
Catalpas, American Elms, Laburnums, Yellow Locusts, Maples, Oaks, 
Poplars, Salisburias, etc. _ 
RAK ESTRAW & PYLE 
Kennett Square, Pa. 
When writing to advertisers mention The National Nurseryman. 
WANTED 
1,000 Snowballs, 2-3 feet. 
500 Snowballs, 3-4 feet. 
500 White Ramblers, first-class. 
500 Yellow Ramblers, first-class. 
THE SHENANDOAH NURSERIES 
D. S. La Ice, Proprietor Shenandoah, Iowa 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
I IN OAKS 
Low branched specimens—good roots and fine tops. 
8 to 10 feet. IA to 2 inch caliper. 
Also a surplus of specimen Norway-Sugar and Silver Maples. 
14 to 18 feet. 3 to 4^ inch caliper. 
Price list now ready 
ANDORRA NURSERIES 
Wm. Warner Harper, Prop. 
Chestnut Bill 
Phlla, 
Salzer’s National Oats. 
Most prolific Oats on earth. The 
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, Wash¬ 
ington, says: '‘Salzer’s Oats are the 
best out of over four hundred sorts 
tested by us.” This grand Oat 
yielded in Wisconsin 156 bu., Ohio 
187 bu., Michigan 231 bu., Missouri 
25.5 bu.,and North Dakota31ubu. per 
acre, and will positively do as well by 
you. Try it, sir, and be convinced. 
A Few Sworn to Yields. 
Salter’s Beardless Barley, 121 Du. per A. 
Saber’s Homebuilder Corn, 804 Du. per A. 
Salter's Big Four Oats, 250 bu. per A. 
Salter’s Sew Sal iomil Oats, 810 Du. per A. 
Salter's Potatoes. 186 Du. per A. 
Salter's Onions, 1,000 bu.'pcr A. 
All of our Farm and Vegetable Seeds are 
pedigree stock, bred right up to big yields. 
Salzer’s Speltz (Emmer). 
Greatest cereal wonder of the age. It is 
not corn nor wheat, nor rye, nor barley.nor 
oats, imt a golden com bination of them all, 
yielding 80 bu. of grain and 4 tons of rich 
straw hay per acre. Greatest stock food on 
earth. Does well everywhere. 
Salzer’s Million Dollar Grass. 
Most talked of grass on earth. Editors and 
College Professors and Agricultural Lecturers 
praise it without stint; yields 14 tons of rich 
hay and lots of pasture besides, per acre. 
Salzer’s Teosinte. 
Ralzer’s Teosinte produces 113 rich, juicy, 
sweet, leafy stocks from one kernel of seed, 14 
feet high in 90 days; yielding fuily 80 
tons of green fodder per acre, doing 
well everywhere, East, West, South ttsKfcj 
or N Orth. 
Grasses and Clovers. 
Only large growers of grasses and 
clovers for seed in America. 
Operate over 6,000 acres. Our 
seeds are warranted. We make 
a great specialty of Grasses and 
Clovers, Fodder Plants, Corn,Po¬ 
tatoes, Onions, Cabbage,and all 
sorts of Vegetable Seeds. 
For 10c in Stamps 
and the name of this paper, we 
will send you a lot of farm 
seed samples, including some 
of above, together with our 
mammoth 140 page illus¬ 
trated catalogue, for / 
but 10c in postage 
stamps. ' * 
Send for same V^^T#A 
to-day. 
When writing to Advertisers mention The National Nurseryman. 
