THE NATION AI 
NURSERYMAN 
135 
Correspondence. 
WARMLY APPRECIATIVE. 
Berlin, Md., Sept. 1, 1904. 
National Nurseiy Publishing Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Gentlemen: —The writer just returned to the office this morning 
after an eight weeks trip through sixteen states including two days 
in Canada, which has kept him moving very rapidly. 
I learn that Mr. John Craig has become the editor of The National 
Nurseryman, This certainly is a matter for congratulation as he is 
a man who has been through some the hardships of nursery life. It 
should be to the advantage to the nurserymen’s interests of this country, 
to have a man of this type, editor of the paper that is recognized as 
the official organ of the nurserymen of the United States and Canada. 
Our “ad” with the National Nurseryman was placed in the first 
issue and I do not believe it has escaped a single copy up to this date. 
Trusting you may have continued success with your paper as the 
nurseryman’s guide and reference book, I remain 
Yours very truly, 
J. G. Harrison & Sons. 
BUSINESS FLOURISHES IN IOWA. 
Our stock this season has made the best growth we have had 
for the past three years. The weather has been favorable for nursery 
stock and we have had sufficient rainfail to keep everything in nice 
condition. Roses, evergreens, apples and cherries seem to have made 
the best strides. One year apple grafts are not as heavy as usual. 
Grapes have an abundance of top, but we have not examined roots. 
Cherries seem to be in good demand, also European and American 
plums. 
Our sales up to this time compare favorably with previous years, in 
fact we are somewhat ahead of last year’s sales at this time. We 
never had a better haying and harvest sale than this year. The out¬ 
look for business this winter is good. This is if Iowa is allowed to 
mature her com crop. Small grains all harvested and fair crops re¬ 
ported, and if the com is allowed to mature before frost we think that 
nursery sales in Iowa will be O. K. 
Trusting that the above information will be of interest and wishing 
the National Nurseryman continued success, we remain, 
Yours truly, 
Des Moines Nursery Co., Des Moines, la. 
FINE STOCK IN IOWA. 
Louisiana, Mo. 
We beg to say we have several of the finest blocks of Jap. 
pear seedlings and apple seedlings at Atlantic, Iowa, we have 
ever grown. These latter are mostly from Vermont seed. Silas Wilson 
always claimed to grow the cleanest seedlings in the country; 
and to secure such seedlings and an ideal location we pur¬ 
chased the Wilson nursery. We have not had the opportunity since 
our return to personally go through our several plants but the growth 
as reported is very satisfactory indeed. Sales are satisfactory, exceed¬ 
ing expectations. The outlook for spring is promising and doubtless 
the trade conditions next spring will show quite an improvement over 
last spring. Truly, 
Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co. 
A LINE FROM KANSAS. 
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 29, 1904. 
The forepart of the season here was very wet which retarded the 
growth of stock considerably, but later it has been very good growing 
weather and stock has been doing very well. Owing to the high water 
in 1903 we have only a light stock of peach, plum and No. 2 year apple, 
but a good standard of 1 year, but our ornamental stock is doing as 
well as we ever had it do. It has made a splendid growth and is a good 
stand. Also grapes, currants, etc., of which we have a very heavy 
stock is doing nicely. Our apple seedlings are looking very promising. 
Very respectfully, 
Blair & Kaufman. 
THE SITUATION IN DANSVILLE. 
Dansville, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1904. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
M e are pleased to note the active interest you are taking and we are 
also glad to give you any information that you may desire. 
The season with us has been exceptionally fine for the growing of 
nursery stock. We suffered somewhat by frost last winter, but with 
the seasonable rains and cool spring, nature lias repaired the damage 
so their is but little trace of the winter’s w r ork. European plums 
show in a small degree the effects of the winter but standard pear, 
cherry and apple were never better, Yours truly, 
Morey & Son. 
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. 
Salem, Oregon, Aug. 24, 1904. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
We may say that the past season has been the dryest one we have 
ever experienced in Oregon as we have had scarcely any rain since 
the middle of April, and as a consequence apples will be somewhat under¬ 
sized, though of first quality. There are not sufficient apple seedlings 
or seedlings of any kind grown on the Pacific coast to make any state¬ 
ment regarding them. Cherry trees will probably be up to the usual 
standard as to size and quality, also plum and peach. Pear trees, 
however, will be both short in number and undersized. 
On account of dry weather the percentage of loss in seedlings planted 
last spring will be much greater than ordinarily, so this will have a 
tendency to decrease the output for another year; and as there was 
a shortage in planting (especially of apple seedlings) on the coast 
this spring, we look for quite a shortage in nursery stock generally 
next year. You, of course, understand that this does not mean that 
nursery stock has been so very much injured on account of the dry 
weather, but it is not quite up to our usual standard. Business, how¬ 
ever, is exceptionally good this year and so far as we know, the nursery¬ 
men generally on the coast have increased their sales over the same 
period last year. Yours truly, 
M. M. McDonald, Oregon Nursery Co. 
A PEONY SPECIALIST HEARD FROM. 
We beg to advise you that we have removed our main nursery 
office to Lincoln and Peterson avenues, Chicago, where the nursery is 
located. We will continue, however, in our city office room [21, 164 
La Salle Street, as the headquarters of our Landscape Department 
which is constantly increasing in capacity and importance. 
The advertising will be attended to from this office as well as being 
a place where orders may be placed personally and cash paid. 
We also wish to state as a matter of interest to the trade, that we 
have sent to Cornell University to be put in their Peony testing fields, 
18 specimens and 107 varieties of Peonies. 
Very respectfully, 
Peterson Nursery. 
Chicaco, III. 
A NOTE FROM FRANCE. 
The well known French house, the Andre Leroy Nurseries of Angers, 
writing through its New York agent on the general situation of the 
crop of fruit seedlings and shrubs in France, reports as follows: 
“We have had during the summer, heat and drought such as the 
oldest inhabitants in our district have never seen before. From the 
8th of June to the end of August, we did not have a drop of rain. In 
July for a period of nearly two weeks, the mercury rose every day 
from 112 to 116 degrees in the shade, and on July 29th, it reached 
120 degrees. 
Where seedlings and shrubs could not be watered, their growth 
was practically stopped and as a result we shall have a groat scarcity 
of large size stocks, and a great many shrubs have died. Those that 
have sold stocks early without having the goods on hand, or being 
safely covered, will find themselves in a tight corner at time of 
shipment. 
You may think we were too conservative in holding back offers in 
June, but we are now congratulating ourselves to be with some surplus 
stock on hand.” Yours very truly, 
New York. A. L. Causse. 
