THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
nursery business, he has found time to take an active part 
in the upbuilding of his home town and is popular at home 
where he is best acquainted, having served several terms as 
councilman, and in 1.897 was elected mayor, which office he 
now holds, having succeeded himself at each annual election. 
He is a member of the Board of Regents of Walla Walla 
college and also a member of the Milton school board. 
MOUNT TABOR NURSERIES 
Mt. Tabor, Ore., May 16—T. V. Sluman: “Mount Tabor 
Nurseries are located on the eastern slope of Mt. Tabor, 
Oregon, a suburb of Portland, three miles from the main 
business district of the city. We grow a full line of nursery 
stock, fruit trees, shade trees, ornamentals, small fruit, 
shrubs, vines, plants and roses. 
“Almost all plants do well here excepting the citrus vari¬ 
eties. The nut-bearing trees have passed beyond the experi¬ 
mental stage. Mt. Tabor has an elevation of about 600 
feet above sea level; on the west overlooking the city of 
Portland and the beautiful Willamette river; on the north 
the Columbia, the only home of the king of all food fishes, 
“The Royal Chinook Salmon.” On the east is a very fertile 
tract of land, the Powell Valley, producing grain, grass, 
vegetables, fruits and timber to perfection, also pasturage 
for live stock the entire year. South, at the base of Mt- 
Tabor, are two immense reservoirs containing a great volume 
of water supplied by the snowy peaks and springs from the 
Cascade mountains, for the benefit of Portland and its sub¬ 
urbs, a city of 110,000 inhabitants. 
“Our state enjoys a climate that in mildness and equability 
is unsurpassed on earth and is unrivalled anywhere else in 
the United States, and it is as healthful as it is delightful. 
Oregon is everywhere dotted with schools, colleges, universi¬ 
ties and churches. 
“The proprietor of these nurseries invites those interested 
enough to attend the Lewis <fe Clark Centennial Exposition 
to be held in Portland next year (1905) to ascend Mt. Tabor 
and view the beautiful scenery, as well as the nurseries.” 
MONTE VISTA NURSERIES 
Scappoose, Ore., May 11—A. Haladay: “The season 
has been quite satisfactory to me. Sales have been about 
twenty per cent, greater than last year, but collections have 
been somewhat slower on account of the bad weather last 
fall and lateness of this spring. 
“-This is a country of tall timbers and the ideal home of 
the big Northern Spy apple, several carloads of this variety 
having been shipped out of here this last spring. 
“I think the outlook for the nurserymen and fruit-growers 
of the Pacific coast is very bright.” 
THE O. F. GRIFFIN NURSERY COMPANY. 
Pomona, Cal., May 10—“We have no immense business 
to report as this has been an off season for our oranges; still 
we have sold nearly twenty thousand trees. 
“The planting of deciduous trees has been small yet nearly 
all kinds have brought good prices. There has been a large 
acreage of walnuts planted and it looks as if it would con¬ 
tinue. Have sold some over eleven thousand walnut trees 
this season and will have fully fifteen thousand to sell next 
season.” 
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Hmong Growers and Dealers. 
Charles W. Stuart, of the firm of C. W. Stuart & Co., is a director 
ol the First National hank of Newark, X. Y. 
In honor ol the third term ol Mayor Orlando Harrison, of Berlin, 
Md., a banquet wa.igiven at the leading hotel of that place last month. 
South Carolina has passed a hill providing a penalty of $5 per day 
for every day in excess ol the time before limited, for unnecessary 
delay of freight. 
Articles ol incorporation were filed May 4 bv the Watrous Nursery 
Company of Des Moines, la. Capital *20,000; C. L. Watrous and 
Charles A. Watrous, incorporators. 
Henri \ anHerBom ol the firm of H. \\ . VanDerBoni Co., nursery¬ 
men, Oudenbosch, Holland, arrived per S. S. Rotterdam, and will 
make an extensive trip through the states. His address will be in 
care ol McHutchison & Co., 21S Fulton Street, New York. 
.1. Frank Jones, who for the past six years has been connected with 
Clen Bros, ol Rochester, N. Y., has gone to Lawrence, Kansas, to take 
charge of the retail business of the Mount Hope Nurseries at that place. 
James M. Kennedy, of Dansville, X. AN, has set out this spring 
150,000 seedlings in the town of Geneseo on one of his farms about 
fifteen miles from Dansville, situated in the Genesee valley, which is 
a most desirable place to grow good nursery stock. 
H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co., at Nursery Station, St, Louis, 
Mo., write under date of May 2d: “Our season has been the longest 
we have ever had. Trade opened up here about the first of March and 
since then we have had all we coidd do. All the surplus we have con¬ 
sists of peach mostly, a few hundred pear and cherry and possibly 
500 apple and a few variieties of grape vines. Our heaviest trade 
has been in the ornamental line; everything of any size is cleaned up.” 
THE FRUITLAND NURSERIES. 
The largest nurseries in the South growing a general line 
of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs and vines and green¬ 
house plants are owned by the P. J. Berckmans Company, 
incorporated, proprietors of pruitland Nurseries, at Augusta, 
Ga., says the Florists’ Exchange. This establishment has 
been steadily growing larger and becoming more widely known 
every year since its inception in 1856, and now the products 
of this company are sent to every section of the United States 
and to many foreign countries. 
The nurseries are situated four and a half miles west from 
the center of the 1 city of Augusta, Ga., and contain 400 acres, 
in which are most of the different textures of soil found in 
that section of the state, thus enabling an enormous number 
of varieties of nursery stock to be grown to the best advantage 
in the soil particularly adapted to their growth. Of these 
400 acres, 25 are devoted to the choicest and most popular 
varieties of roses, 275 acres are occupied with fruit trees of 
thoroughly tested varieties; there are 10 acres in grapes, 
15 acres in small fruits, 40 acres in evergreen and deciduous 
trees and shrubs, and 25 acres in orchards and testing grounds. 
The immense quantities of peach trees and nut trees handled 
by this company are grown at the orchards of the Berckmans 
Bros., Mayfield, Ga., all buds and grafts being cut from 
healthy, vigorous, bearing trees, thus guaranteeing the stock 
to be true to label. 
The greenhouse department is made up of 60,000 square 
feet of glass, devoted to the growing of palms, rubbers, citrus 
fruits, caladiums, and other specialties in immense quantities. 
