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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
buildings, for a house the size shown completely erected in 
place is from $2,200 to $2,500. 
UNIFORM TEMPERATURES. 
The apparatus described will maintain uniformly low tem¬ 
peratures at about the freezing point in the entire building 
during the cold weather when most of the nurserymens 
products are stored, and in one-fourth of the house during 
the summer. The initial cost of the apparatus is not exces¬ 
sive, the cost of operation almost nominal and the results 
to be obtained positive. Only a moderate amount of refriger¬ 
ation is required in storing nursery products, but when re¬ 
quired, it is very important, and the cost is so small that it 
will soon pay for itself in saving of loss and perfection of results 
possible to obtain. In many cases the nurseryman is a fruit 
grower as well, and cold storage would be a good auxiliary 
to add for the purpose of taking care of the softer fruits 
temporarily and the hardy fruits for a longer term of storage. 
$6,000 FREIGHT ON NURSERY STOCK. 
Suzuki & Iida had to pay freight and duty of nearly $6,000 
on one big shipment of nursery stock received by overland 
route from Japan last week, says American Florist. The 
goods were Japanese maples, wistarias, sciadopitys and a 
variety of evergreens and Mr. Suzuki thinks this one of the 
largest invoices in its class ever coming to New \ork. 
IN CANADA. 
Toronto, Ont., April 12.—Pelham Nursery Co.: “Busi¬ 
ness for this spring delivery has been fair. Our surplus this 
year is small, owing to our not having had a very heavy stock 
for this season’s sales. The exceptionally severe weather 
of this past winter hurt business. We will have a heavy list 
of stock to offer for the new season, and our planting this year 
will be larger than ever.” _ 
AMERICAN NURSERIES COMPANY. 
The Jonesboro, Ark., Nursery and Plantation Company 
has been changed to the American Nurseries Company and 
the capital stock has been increased from $2,500 to $10,000. 
The officers are: W. J. Hughes, president; J. B. Gregg, trea- 
urer; I. O. Hughes, vice-president; C. M. Galeener, secretary 
and general manager; J. H. Hawthorne, counsel. The follow¬ 
ing are stockholders: J. B. Harper, Nashville, Tenn.; J. 
Feldwisch, St. Louis, Mo.; W. J. Hughes, St. Louis, Mo.; 
C. M. Galeener, Jonesboro, Ark.; W. B. Teters, Corning, Ark.; 
I. O. Hughes, Jonesboro, Ark.; J. H. Hawthorne, Jonesboro, 
Ark.; L. B. Ligon, Ivennett, Mo.; J. B. Gregg, Jonesboro, 
Ark.; J. H. Gant, Jonesboro, Ark.; M. I. Hughes, Jonesboro, 
Ark.; B. O. Hughes, Jonesboro, Ark.; P. S. Hudspeth, Luxora 
Ark.; T. E. Baldwin, Kennett, Mo.; Chas. E. Petrie, Poplar 
Bluff, Mo.; C. B. Gregg, Jonesboro, Ark.; B. J. Harrison, 
Lake City, Ark.; J. C. Harrison, Lake City, Ark.; J. G. Sud¬ 
bury, Blythesville, Ark.; C. H. French, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 
A. A. Keller, Jonesboro, Ark.; J. W. Ligon, Kennett, Mo.; 
C. B. Poland, Jonesboro, Ark.; H. H. Houghton, Jonesboro, 
Ark. 
Three hundred and twenty acres of land have been added 
to the nursery, and a greenhouse will soon be constructed in 
Jonesboro for the growing of plants and flowers for the retail 
trade. 
TJmong Growers and Dealers. 
James Mott, Miami, Fla., died on April 13th. 
Mark S. Stone, San Jose, Cal., died recently aged 39 years. 
There has been an unusual demand for nursery stock in British 
Columbia. 
Four carloads of trees from Oregon recently entered the Okanagan 
district of British Columbia. 
Barnes Brothers’ Nursery Company, of Wallingford, Conn., has been 
incorporated with a capital stock of $15,000. 
It is estimated that 250,000 trees were planted this spring in the 
Yakima, Wash., valley. Last year 150,000 trees were planted there. 
A. J. Baumhoefener and Hugh Williams have purchased the interests 
of Hugh Harrington and W. P. McFann in the Williamsburg, Iowa, 
nursery. 
John Porterfield has several his connection with Puckett’s depart¬ 
ment store Traer, la., and will give his entire attention to the nursery 
business. 
Thornton Stark, has charge of the branch nursery establishment 
of Stark Brothers of Louisiana, Mo., at Portland, N. Y. He reports 
a good business. 
The Aurora Nursery Company, Aurora, Ill., has been incorporated 
with a capital of $5,000. The incorporators are J. K. Newhall, J. A. 
Young and F. C. Grometer. 
It is said that Yakima County, Wash., will plant nearly half a million 
trees this year. Last year there were set out 267,000 trees and the 
orchards already cover 15,000 acres. 
The Cottage Gardens Company, Queens, N. Y., has been incorpor¬ 
ated; capital, $60,000. Directors: C. W. Ward, Wilhelmina S. Ward, 
and J. C. Gowing, of Queens Borough. 
The Barnes Brothers Nursery comyany, of Wallingford, Conn., has 
been incorporated at Hartford, capital $15,000. The incorporators 
are J. Norris Barnes, John R. Barnes and Albert Van Leuvan. 
The Chicago Tree Planting society was organized April 13th with 
the following officers: President, O. C. Simonds; vice-president, 
Edwin A. Kanst; secretary, George E. Hooker; treasurer, L. V. Le- 
Moyne. 
D. Hill, Dundee, Ill., will arrange for the bureau of plant industry, 
a model farm with fifty groves made up of trees of different varieties 
from all parts of the country. More than $1,000 will be expended on 
the display. 
Prof. Carl Schumann, curator of the Royal Botanical Museum, 
Berlin, Germany, is dead. With the exception of the aged Sir Joseph 
Dalton Hooker, no one probably had so comprehensive knowledge of 
flowering plants as had he. 
C. W. Ward, of Queens, N. Y., reports that he has disposed of a half 
interest in his new red seedling carnation No. 303, which scored 92 
points at the Detroit convention, to the J. D. Thompson Carnation 
Company, of Joliet, Ill., for a consideration of $10,000. 
A report from Glenwood, Col., says that John F. Spencer, a nursery¬ 
man of Grand Junction, has, after seven years’ work, produced a seed¬ 
less apple. The new fruit resembles the seedless orange in that the 
meat is solid and there is a slightly hard substance in the navel end. 
The trees have no blossoms. 
County Fruit Inspector Beck reports that for the month of March 
165,000 fruit trees were received by farmers and orchardists in the 
Yakima valley. Of this number 15,000 were received at Kennewick. 
Mr. Beck says that when the time for planting is past this spring the 
total, counting those received last fall, will foot up 400,000. Every 
district in the valley got a share of these trees. 
Nurseries in Connecticut have somewhat increased in acreage during 
the year and probably now have a total area of about 500 acres. There 
is a decided tendency among the smaller nurserymen to keep on hand 
a larger stock of those trees and shrubs not attacked by the scale and to 
buy each year from the large nurseries, as needed, their fruit trees and 
other stock that is especially liable to infestation. 
