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this fall because most of the shipping to planters is done in the spring 
instead of in the autumn as was the case thirty five years ago. 
Des Moines, Iowa. C. L. Watrous. 
The growing season was exceptionally good for weeds and- grass and 
some lines of nursery stock while other lines made but little growth. 
Carolina Poplar, for instance, usually grows 10 to 14 feet the first year 
from cuttings, the past season it grew 10 to 14 inches. From a business 
standpoint our summer sales were up to the average but the bulk of our 
business is done in the w-inter for spring delivery. 
The Lees Summit Star Nurseries, Mo. M. Butterfield & Son. 
Stock throughout this part of the country is not in as large supply as 
last year and the sales have not been quite as large or good, on account 
of too much rain, which made poor stands and poor growth. The 
overflowing of the streams has badly crippled the planters where the 
best of the sales were made in this western country. Stock, however, 
is ripening up fine and will go into the winter in prime condition. 
Parsons, Kan. Williams & Bernardin. 
Our season in Nebraska has been exceptionally fine for propagating 
and also for germinating seed. We never had a better stand of apple 
seedlings and the growth has been very satisfactory. All kinds of trees 
have made vigorous growth with the exception of cherry. We had a 
little too much rain for these and the trees shed their foliage. From a 
business standpoint, will say that our fall trade was fully up to our ex¬ 
pectations, in fact there were more orders booked than usual and all 
indications point' to a very heavy spring trade. 
Geneva, Nebr. Youngers & Co. 
Just now we are through shipping apples and digging trees. We 
regard the winter apple crop at 20 per cent. The weather has been so 
warm and wet that we are afraid that Nebraska apples will not keep. 
Our merchants are planning to purchase their winter apples from New 
York. The peach crop on the other hand was very favorable indeed 
and has done much to reassure our Nebraska orchardists and to en¬ 
courage them that fruit can be grown in large amounts with profit. 
Peach orchards 200 miles west of the Missouri river gave a very good 
account of themselves and having a high price local market were in a 
small way indeed, quite profitable. 
Crete, Nebr. The Crete Nurseries. 
The season was late here owing to the cool, dry August which was 
followed by warm, wet September. Stock, up to the usual digging 
season, October 1st to October 10th was very green. On the whole the 
growing season on peach, two year pear and two year cherry was very 
good, but on plum, especially european, apple and one year cherry it was 
not so good. Dry, clear, crisp October weather has ripened up 
everything which will go into winter in good shape. This is especially 
applicable to the stock in dormant buds, on all of which an unusual good 
set of buds has been secured. Owing to the late season but little effort 
was made by us for early fall business but we anticipate our late fall and 
winter business will be as good as usual. 
New Haven, Mo. New Haven Nurseries. 
PACIFIC COAST 
From a growing standpoint, the season has not been very good for 
the nurserymen in the Willamette Valley. During last winter it rained 
almost incessently until the early part of April, preventing planting 
being done in February as usual in our country. After the middle of 
April we had very little rain until the middle of October, making perhaps 
the longest dry spell we perhaps, have ever had, in this section. As a 
consequence there are heavy losses on seedlings planted in the spring and 
growth on both seedlings and trees is much less than usual. Still, on 
account of the dry summer, our stock has ripened up nicely and is in 
better shape for fall shipments than usual. 
From a business standpoint, we may say the season has been very 
good; our sales at the present time are 10 per cent, in excess of the 
same date last year, while prices are equally as good and in many cases 
better. We believe that the same average will apply to most of the 
nurserymen on the coast who are doing an active business. 
We are just finishing our fall shipments at this time, but have not got 
far enough into the deliveries to make any statement about collections, 
we look, however, for them to be as good as last year, at least. 
Salem, Ore. Oregon Nursery Co. 
Correspondence. 
JUNE BUDDED PEACH TREES—A REPLY. 
V e notice on page 145 of the November issue of National Nursery¬ 
man quotation lrom " A Leading Nurseryman ” under the heading “ Sup¬ 
ply and demand” in reference to June budded peach trees. 
Now we quite agree with this nurseryman about June budded peach 
trees as grown in the North and northern part of the South but must 
take exception to what he says about them as regards the lower South. 
He evidently has not investigated the subject very thoroughly as far as 
ti ees giown in the lower South are concerned, otherwise he would not 
have made such a sweeping statement as that contained in his letter. 
We have, for years, grown practically no otherkind of peach trees than 
June buds. I hey are by all odds the best peach trees we can grow here 
in the lower South. They are greatly to be preferred in every way to 
the dormant budded peaches. Here in the lower South, we can grow 
June budded peach trees as large as any one wants them and as fine as 
can be grow-n anywhere in any way. In some seasons, it is actually 
necessary for us to discontinue cultivation before the growing season is 
over in order to keep these June budded peach trees from attaining a 
size too large to be easily marketable. 
We have many hundreds of testimonials from customers throughout 
the North and South, speaking in the highest praise of our peach trees. 
It fact we have one customer in Alabama—a man who has planted 
several thousand peach trees during the past few years—who says he is 
willing to pay us $15.00 or $20.00 per thousand more for the same sized 
Elberta peach trees than he would have to pay to get them from nur¬ 
serymen further north on account of the fact that our June budded trees 
give him results so much better than the other trees that he feels war¬ 
ranted in doing this. He will in fact, purchase no other kind than June 
budded trees as he says he has, from long experience, found June peach 
trees so much better than other kinds as to warrant him waiting a year 
for June budded trees rather than plant dormant budded peach trees. 
Nor is the above a single exception. We have hundreds of customers 
throughout the lower South—planters who have had ample experience 
in the planting of both kinds of trees—who will not set any other kind 
if they can possibly get the June buds. 
Glen Saint Mary Nurseries, Fla. Aubrey Frink. 
THE SAN JOSE SCALE AND NURSERY CONDITIONS IN GEORGIA. 
I am not able to report definitely upon San Jose scale conditions in 
southern states other than Georgia, but in Georgia I think we have the 
situation well in hand. Our nursery inspection is very close and exact¬ 
ing, and as a protection to the nurserymen we inspect, so far as possible, 
all orchards from which they take grafts and budding wood. In this 
way we often prevent nurserymen from purchasing infested buds, and 
hence getting their nurseries infested. All of our principal nurserymen 
and many of the small nurseries are equipped with first class fumigat¬ 
ing houses or boxes and a thorough fumigation of all nursery stock 
sold in this State is required. 
The nursery business in Georgia has shown a very healthy growth 
during the last two or three years as has also the peach industry. In 
commercial orchards in those sections of the State where San Jose scale 
occurs, the orchardists control the pest satisfactorily by spraying with 
some one of the lime-sulphur mixtures. In fact, they find that it is 
possible to grow just as good fruit and just as much fruit in infested 
orchards that are properly treated as it is to grow good fruit in a non- 
infested orchard. In our climate the San Jose scale breeds from April 
to November, or even longer, and is particularly destructive when 
allowed to have its own way. I think there is no doubt whatever, but 
that in some sections of Georgia the San Jose scale is actually putting 
out of business the careless and indifferent class of fruit growers who 
rarely, if ever, produce good fruit anyway. If anything, the San Jose 
scale is proving a benefit to the progressive and up-to-date orchardist. 
While San Jose scale occurs at a good many points in the State, it is 
by no means universally distributed, and I think this Department is 
succeeding in checking its rate of spread very materially, and there are 
some sections in the State where it may not occur for a good many years 
to come. 
• Atlanta, Ga. Wilmon Newell, 
State Entomologist. 
