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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong (Browers anb IDealers. 
E. H. Riehl is president of the Alton, Ill., Horticultural Society. 
The Skirrn nursery at Trenton, N. J., has been purchased by Frank 
Gravatt. 
C. H. Perkins, of Jackson & Perkins, Newark, N. Y., was in Cali¬ 
fornia last month. 
P. J. Berckmaus, Sr., Augusta, Ga., has taken up his residence in 
Ip per Montclair, N. J. 
W. H. Wyman has entered the nursery business at Rockland, Mass., 
and Joseph Miller at Kniffin, la. 
A. T. Story & Co., Taunton, Mass., have arranged for additional 
packing and propagating houses. 
Charles H. Fink, for several years owner of the Lamar Nurseries, at 
Lamar, Mo., died January 26th, aged 29 years. 
The nursery business of Franklin K. Phoenix may be assumed by 
the Phoenix Nursery Company at Delavan, Wis. 
The Green Nursery Company, Perry, 0., will build another large 
packing house on their grounds on the South Ridge. 
John Walmsley, Max Phillips and Frank R. Hansill have incorpor¬ 
ated the Greenmount Nursery Co., at Camden, N. J.; capital stock 
$50,000. 
John R. Barnes’ address is now Yalesville, Conn., three miles from 
Meriden, on a farm of 300 acres, on the main line of the N. Y., N. H., 
& H. railroad. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. A"., carried off the principal 
honors in the fruit exhibit at the Eastern New York Horticultural 
Society meeting. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa., secured more than half 
of the contracts, aggregating $2,500 for nursery stock, to be planted in 
Pittsburg parks this spring. 
George S. Butler is president, treasurer, and manager, and Charles 
E. Stevens is secretary of the Butler & Jewell Co., proprietors of the 
Cromwell Nursery, Cromwell, Conn. 
A contract for 2,000 ornamental trees and 7,000 shrubs to be set in 
Garfield and Douglass parks, Chicago, has been awarded to the Central 
Michigan Nursery Co., Kalamazoo. 
The Chase Nursery Company is planting 400 acres of beets at 
Ethanac, Cal. It is understood that if the venture proves a success, 
the company will build a sugar factory. 
William Longworth died February 15th at Bloomington, Ill. He 
was engaged in the nursery business years ago at Dubuque, la., and 
was the originator of the Longworth pear. 
George Bunyard, the well-known fruit nurseryman, of Maidstone, 
has been elected chairman of the fruit committee of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society, in the place of Philip Crowley, recently deceased. 
Jacob W. Manning, Reading, Mass., was called the great evergreen 
man of the East, 25 to 35 years ago. He is one of the early herbaceous 
plant growers, making a specialty of that department 20 years ago. 
Schuyler Worden, the originator of the Worden grape and 
Worden Seckel pear, of Oswego county, New York, died January 20. 
He was born within a few miles of the place of his death and was 90 
years of age. 
The secretary of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society has reported 
that Wisconsin produced 149 varieties of apples, 18 of cherries, 22 of 
grapes, 16 of currants, 11 of gooseberries, 14 of black raspberries, and 
12 of red raspberries. 
State Entomologist Garman, of Kentucky, has issued a public notice 
that certain nursery stock offered for sale by the Nashville Trust Co., 
trustee for the Cumberland Nurseries, Nashville, Tenn., is confessedly 
infested with San Jose scale, and is forbidden admission to Kentucky. 
A correspondent in Martinsburg, in the extreme northeastern portion 
of West Virginia, says that W S Miller and his sons are the pioneers 
in the fruit business of that section, but hundreds of farmers have fol¬ 
lowed their example in recent years, until there are not less than 7,000 
pr 8,000 acres of orchards in Berkely county alone. 
J. H. Hale says there are no more peach belts The belt is burstcd. 
Peaches are grown now almost every where and can be had from May to 
November. Fifteen years ago there were no peaches in Georgia worth 
mentioning. Now there are 3,000 carloads being shipped from there. 
Plant your peaches on high ground. High poiuts are coolest in 
summer and warmest in winter. 
M. Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, O., says in Horticultural Visitor, 
regarding H. M. StringfelloM’’s method : “I believe these preparations, 
which constitute the ‘ New Horticulture,’ to be the most important, 
discoveries in fruit growing made during the past century. Of course 
they will not be generally accepted for some time; but truth will 
prevail. Old, erroneous theories die hard.” 
Irvin Ingles, nurseryman and fruit-grower, Lafayette, Ill., says • 
“ The prospect for fruit the coming season in this vicinity is better 
than it has been for a number of years. Owing to the fact that the 
fall was very favorable to the thorough ripening up of all kinds of 
trees, vines, etc., they went into winter in a perfectly dormant condi 
tion, after having made a splendid season’s growth.” 
An extensive pulling out of peach orchards is in progress in Kent 
County, Maryland, to plant more profitable crops. From careful esti¬ 
mates it appears that there are now 450,000 peach trees standing, 
where 12 years ago there were 2,000,000. A few peach growers, how¬ 
ever. agree with former State Entomologist Willis G. Johnson that the 
peach still has a great future in Kent, and are planting out fine young 
orchards. 
The Stringfellow method having been the subject of a poem in the 
Rural New Yorker, Mr. Stringfellow writes to that journal : “If the 
poet wishes proof of the results obtained by me through this method, 
if he will write to J. C. Glover, station agent at Hitchcock, Texas, he 
will learn that I grew heavy crops of pears every year, and in 1894 
shipped 10,000 bushels from 1,500 10-year trees, and then sold the 
orchard for $20,000. 
Professor W. H. Ragan, of Indiana, is completing the card catalogue 
of fruits begun by the late T. T. Lyon for the U. S. Division of Pom¬ 
ology. The catalogue of plums now contains about 2,300 cards, of 
which more than 1,000 represent distinct varieties, and nearly 1,300 are 
of recognized synonyms. The catalogue of grapes contains nearly 
2,700 cards, of which more than 1,400 represent distinct varieties, and 
nearly 1,300 are of recognized synonyms. 
Nurserymen who expect to ship into Georgia, North Carolina or 
Virginia from other states must file certified copy of their certificate of 
inspection with the state entomologists. Prof. W. M. Scott, Atlanta, 
Prof. Franklin Sherman, Raleigh, and Prof. William B. Alwood, 
Blacksburg, respectively. In each case special tags will be issued, one 
of which, together with copy of original certificate, must be attached 
to each package going into the states above named. 
F. W. Kelsey, New York City, is quoted in the New York Evening 
Post as comparing the Ship-Subsidy Bill with the inconsistency and 
abuse of the congressional free seed distribution business. “What 
would be thought,” says he, “of the proposition of an annual appro¬ 
priation by Congress for the purpose of a free distribution to the 
favored congressional constituency of a million dollars’ worth of lum¬ 
ber, or of groceries, or of textile fabrics—woolen and cotton goods ?” 
T. S. Hubbard, formerly of Fredonia, but now of Geneva N. Y , and 
who has sold out his interest in the business at Fredonia, sailed Feb. 
14th on the Fuerst Bismark, of the Hamburg-American Line, for an 
extensive Oriental tour. The itinerary includes a month in Egypt, 
embracing the principal points of interest up the Nile as far as the first 
cataract; then a month in Palestine, followed by visits to Ephesus, 
Smyrna, Constantinople, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Paris, and Lon¬ 
don. He plans to return home about July 1st. 
Regarding the conditions in Kansas, the Kansas City Journal says: 
“A leading business man says this snow is worth five million dollars to 
the Kansas farmers. If it stays on the ground a month and goes off 
gradually, it will be worth ten millions. Kansas has reached a period 
when it is impossible to beat her out of a 50,000,000-bushel crop under 
most favorable circumstances, and under favorable ones she will yield 
100,000,000 bushels. If the snow sticks to the ground there will be a 
bumper crop. Acreage is larger than ever and stand is good.” 
