THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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“Hollo anb Short. _ 
A foreman is wanted at the Greeley Nurseries, Greeley, Colo. 
The John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse, Wis., offer all kinds of seed. 
For evergreen trees and shade trees, call upon Jacob Manning, 
Reading, Mass. 
French fruit stock, Orleans grown, is offered by Bobbink & Atkins, 
Rutherford, N. J. 
The Feigly tree digger is featured in another column. It is declared 
to be the nurserymen’s frien '. 
Baldwin cherry trees, direct from the originator, and other desirable 
stock is to be had at the Seneca Nursery, Seneca, Kan. 
Hammond slug shot, made at Fishkill on Hudson, N. Y., is for sale 
hy the seedsmen. It has been used for twenty-one years. 
Apple, peach, plum, cherry, Carolina poplar, arbor vitae, and apri¬ 
cots are offered by H. M. Simpson & Sons, Vincennes, Ind. 
Attention is called to the attractive list in another column of the 
Mount Arbor Nurseries, E. S. Welch, proprietor, Shenandoah. Ia. 
Hardy rhododendrons, azaleas, Japenese maples, magnolias, and rare 
evergreens are offered by Parsons & Sons, Limited, Flushing, N. Y. 
Choice apple, Opalescent apple, standard pears extra strong one. 
year cherry, and Japan plums may be had at McNary & Gaines’, 
Xenia, O. 
W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, O., offers seventy five varieties of straw, 
berries, new and old kinds at reasonable prices; also currants, goose, 
berries, etc. 
Black and Honey Locust seedlings and Osage Orange plants will be 
found with A. E. Windsor, Havana, Ill. See his advertisement in an¬ 
other column. 
The Ellwanger & Barry Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y., are headquar¬ 
ters for the highest class of nursery stock of all kinds. Their catalogue, 
just issued, is a general guide. 
Ornamental trees, of extra size, and a fine line of ornamental shrubs ; 
also standard and dwarf pears and plums, besides small fruits may be 
had of Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. Y. 
Andre L. Causse, 105 Hudson street, New York City, offers the sur. 
plus stock of the Andre Leroy Nurseries., Angers, France. A tine list 
of one year stocks, just lauded in New York, is listed. 
Stark Bros. Co., is on hand as usual with a fine assortment of frui 
and ornamental trees and shrubs. This company has mammoth storage 
houses and can ship on a day’s notice. See list in another column. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, of Berlin, Md., offer on outside cover page, a 
list of Kieffer pears, all sizes ; Bartlett pear, peach trees, a complete 
assortment of apple trees, asparagus roots and strawberry plants, and 
are prepared to ship at Any time. 
Fruit trees, grape vines, small fruits, ornamental trees, deciduou 
and evergreen shrubs, climbing vines and trailers, greenhouse plants' 
etc., are offered at the well-known nurseries of Storrs & Harrison Co/ 
Painesville, O. Personal inspection is cordially invited. 
Robert Veitch, botanist and florist, died in New Haven, Conn. ; 
February 17th, aged 84 years. 
Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa., last month visited nursery, 
men in Pittsburg, Toledo, Chicago, Indianapolis and other cities. 
W. P. Bates has severed connection with the firm of Bates Brothers, 
at Floral, Kan., and has opened business at Winfield, Kan., under the 
name of the W. P. Bates Wholesale Nurseries. 
The forty-third annual report of the Horticultural Society of Mis 
souri, for 1900, has been received from the secretary, L A Goodman 
It contains reports of the summer and winter meetings—much valuable 
material. 
FRUIT GROWERS AT SYRACUSE. 
The New York State Fruit Growers Association was organ¬ 
ized at Syracuse last month with these officers : President, L 
T. Yeomans; vice-presidents, John T. Roberts, Onondaga 
John Potter, Niagara ; secretary, F. E. Dawley, Fayetteville ; 
treasurer, Charles Darrell. The association will meet in 
Syracuse next January. 
PLEA FOR ITALIAN PRUNE. 
Secretary Dosch, of the Oregon Horticultural Society, argu¬ 
ing for extending the growth of the Italian prune in the 
Northwest, says in the California Fruit Grower: 
While East selecting space for Oregon at the Pan-American Expo¬ 
sition, I made some observations which showed me that the East 
knows nothing of our prunes. At hotels where I stopped I made it the 
rule to always ask for a dish of prunes. At some of the hotels where 
they charge $3 and $5 a day, they brought me dishes of little French 
prunes which a Japanese restaurant would be ashamed to place upon 
the table. Not a single dish of our fine Italian prunes did I see. 
DISSATISFIED FRUIT GROWERS. 
The Orleans County Fruit Growers Association has been 
organized by a large number of fruit growers, who do not 
agree with the action of the Western New York Horticultural 
Society in regard to the fumigation of nursery stock. The 
following officers have been elected : President, L. N. Steb- 
bins of Albion ; vice-president, H E. Wellman of Kendall ; 
secretary, W. E. Laffer of Gaines ; treasurer, D. D. Culver of 
Barre. 
ENGLAND’S FRUIT IMPORTS. 
For the twelve months ended December 31 , 1900 , the value 
of imports into Great Britain from all sources of supply of 
fresh deciduous fruits, citrus fruits, and “nuts used as fruits,” 
reached the total of $ 37 , 196,053 as compared with $ 34 , 805,497 
in the previous year. The imports for 1900 were distributed 
as to kind as follows : Deciduous fresh fruits, $ 19 , 147,991 ; 
citrus fruits, $ 12 , 532,399 ; and nuts, $ 5 , 695 , 662 . Among the 
deciduous fruits are named : Apples, the imports of which 
reached the value of $ 5 , 951 , 823 ; grapes of the value of 
$ 2 , 891,700 ; bananas of the value of $ 1 , 908 , 502 , with pears, 
cherries, currants, strawberries and other varieties following. 
THE KEW GARDEN. 
The famous Kew garden in England was originally a private 
fruit and vegetable garden of seventeen acres, belonging to 
the Prince of Wales, father of George III, who began to im¬ 
prove it as a botanical garden and pleasure ground in 1730 . 
It has received additions from time to time, so that at present 
it contains 270 acres. It became public in 1840 and was 
placed under the control of Her Majesty’s office of public 
works, with an annual appropriation for its maintenance of 
^ 32,650 or $ 162 , 250 . It is said to be the finest and most 
complete botanical collection and arboretum in the world. 
ARKANSAS HORTICULTURISTS. 
The Arkansas State Horticultural Society met in Little 
Rock in annual session January 31 , and elected the following 
officers : J. P. Logan of Benton County, president ; S. H. 
Nowlin, Little Rock, first vice-president ; R. W. Gray, Jud- 
sonia, second vice-president ; W. K. Tipton, Little Rock, sec¬ 
retary ; Joseph W. Vestal, Little Rock, treasurer. 
The committee on legislation recommended that state pro¬ 
vision be made to prevent the introduction and spread of the 
San Jose scale, peach yellows and other contagious fruit 
diseases. 
