THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmong (Browers anb IDealers. 
Theodore Bechtel, Staunton, Ill , has begun the nursery business at 
Ocean Springs, Miss. 
David H. Patty, Geneva, N. Y., spent a portion of last month in 
Camden, South Carolina. 
Herbert C. Salmon, nurseryman, Louisville, Ky., was married in 
Rochester, N. Y., December 15th. 
Nurserymen in the State of Washington have been planting largely 
<>f apples of the late keeping varieties. 
The Missoula, Mont., Nursery Company recently completed a 
modern greenhouse for growing roses and carnations. 
E. G. Mendenhall, Kinmundy, Ill., has been re elected secretary and 
treasurer of the Horticultural Society of Southern Illinois. 
Orlando Harrison, Berlin, and J. W. Kerr, Denton, w r ere elected 
vice-presidents of the Maryland State Horticultural Society. 
The dutiable imports of plants, trees, shrubs and vines amounted to 
$165,437 in October, 1900, against $121,349 in October, 1899. 
A school of practical horticulture has been established near Hartford, 
Conn., by the trustees of the Handicraft Schools of Hartford. 
Several Minnesota nurserymen have taken Prof. Hansen’s advice and 
are propagating apples on Siberian crab to avoid root killing. 
Joseph Meehan, in the Florists’ Exchange, advocates the growing of 
Norway spruce, three to six feet in height, in pots for Christmas trees. 
Thomas Meehan was elected professor of botany at the annual meet¬ 
ing of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, in Philadelphia last 
month. 
Pelmulder & Wayne are now conducting the Grant City Nursery, 
Grant City, la , Jasper Wayne having succeeded to the interest of B. C. 
Butler. 
Parcels of 11 pounds weight may be sent by mail between New Zea¬ 
land and the United States at a rate of 12 cents per pound or fraction 
i hereof. 
P. J. Regan, H J. Paasch and Charles Kane have incorporated the 
Great Northern Nursery Co., at Coralville, la , with a capital of 
$25,000. 
It is slated that the American Pomological Society may hold a meet¬ 
ing next September at some point convenient to the Pan-American 
Exposition. 
Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea, Minn., suffered a heavy loss in the 
burning of a residence and valuable papers on his nursery grounds, 
December 12th. 
E. Albertson, of Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind., and John B. 
Morey, Jr., of Dansville, N. Y., visited Western New York nursery¬ 
men last month. 
Donaldson & Gibson, of Warsaw, Ky., recently shipped 150,000 
young Russian mulberry trees to Shenandoah, la., to be planted and 
grown into fence posts. 
J. W. Garrett has succeeded to the interest of the senior partner in 
the firm of Dickey & Garrett, Scotland, Ind The nurseries will be 
conducted by Garrett & Son. 
M. J. Henry, nurseryman, Vancouver, B. C., has purchased the nur¬ 
sery stock of E. Hutcherson of Ladner and will remove it to his 
grounds in Vancouver for further disposal. 
A total of 150 car loads of Christmas trees from Maine, New Hamp¬ 
shire and Vermont, about 60,000 trees, were disposed of to Philadel¬ 
phians. New Yorkers purchased 200 car loads. 
The six weeks’ course in horticulture at the Rhode Island College 
will commence on February 20. Among the lecturers who assisted in 
1900 is Edwin Hoyt, nurseryman, New Canaan, Conn. 
Jobbers in nursery stock report that the ‘‘dollar cherry tree” may 
become a reality before spring. They say that they cannot now buy 
at double the price paid a year ago.—American Florist. 
Over 700 lots of fruit-bearing trees, plants and vines were placed 
with 125 experimenters during last year by the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. These include 200 varieties representing 22 species. 
Prof. W. J. Green, horticulturist of the Ohio Experiment Station, 
thinks that fruit growing will sooner or later fall into the hands of 
specialists, owing to the carelessness of farmers in combating insects 
and diseases. 
The New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo., did a rushing business 
last fall. T hey have built a storage room 56x70 feet, which gives them 
a total frost proof storage of 130x70. The new part is made of stone, 
with 18-inch walls. 
Among the exhibitors at the California Fruit Growers’ convention 
last month were: Chase Nursery Co , Riverside, Thompson’s improved 
navel oranges; George C. ltoeding, Fresno, Smyrna figs; Fresno Nur¬ 
sery Co., fruit trees, vines, etc. 
Thanksgiving Day was Arbor Day at Macon, Ga. City laborers 
planted 100 trees, each bearing a plate on which was inscribed the 
name of a Georgian. Addresses were made in a tent in front of the 
postoffice, Mayor Smith presiding. 
Semi-tropicul ferns and palms, and various other genera and species 
of trees, vines, shrubs and floral plants have been arriving at the Pan- 
American Exposition by the carload, for the ornamentation of its miles 
of plazas, courts and sylvan mazes. 
The Tree Planting Association of New York City offers to furnish to 
all inquirers, free of charge, full information as to the most suitable 
trees for city growth, with list of nurserymen, and prices for the’com- 
pleted work, including iron tree protectors. 
President McKinley, in his annual message, 1900, said: “The exposi¬ 
tion of the resources and products of the western hemisphere, to be 
held at Buffalo next year, promises important results, not only to the 
United States, but for the other participating countries.” 
Secretary James Wilson of the Department of Agriculture, in his 
aunual report says: “ The card catalogue of fruits described in stand¬ 
ard American publications has been finished, and so soon as all the 
fruits can be catalogued, will afford copy for the most complete index 
in pomology.” 
Prof. W. G. Johnson, state entomologist of Maryland and secretary 
and treasurer of the Maryland Horticultural Society, has accepted a 
position as associate editor of the American Agriculturist. He has 
been prominently identified with the investigations in connection 
with the San Jose scale and the peach pests in Maryland. 
Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture, has placed the 
government- seed order with the New York Market Gardeners’ Asso¬ 
ciation at $101,975.50. The last contract, that for 1901, was awarded 
to Charles Parker, Santa Clara, Cal., at $64,900 and the order for 1900 
was executed by the New York Market Gardeners’ Association on a 
bid of $70,980. 
The Chase Nursery Company has a tract of 1,500 acres at Ethanac, 
Cal., almost all of which is under cultivation at the present time. 
Alfalfa is grown extensively. Five wells furnish the tract w’ith 
water. For fuel, oil is used, a tank having a capacity of 50,000 gal¬ 
lons being in close proximity to the engine house. The Chase Nursery 
Company owns its own oil well in Los Angeles, from which all of its 
fuel comes. 
It is reported that the total shipments of fresh fruits during 1900 
from California were 6,435 cars against 6,868 one year ago, 5,007 two 
years ago, 5,323 in 1897, 4,052 in 1896, and 4,568 cars in 1895. Of 
the number first named New York received most, 1,527 cars; Chicago 
stood next with 1,101; Boston, 649; Minneapolis, 302; Denver, 233. 
England was the destination for 192 cars, Canada 71 cars, Scotland 
seven cars. Out of the 6,435 cars shipped from California during the 
last year, 2,115 cars were pears, 1,361 were peaches 1,158 plums and 
prunes, 
Burnet Landreth, secretary of the Wholesale Seedmen’s League, in a 
recent circular says: “If the government established a seed shop and 
sold its seeds it would certainly be a most active competitor in the seed 
business, but it does worse—it gives them away. It has established a 
seed shop larger, with two or three exceptions, than any of the fifty or 
sixty large seed establishments in the country. It runs against them a 
most active competition. For years the seed trade has been the only 
business thus crushed down by the government, and the competition is 
annually getting worse.” 
