THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Mr. Yeomans legislative committee is made up of five gentlemen, 
who are also members of the legislative committee of the Western New 
York Society. As members of the latter committee they joined in an 
agreement made at the January meeting “to drop all legislative pro¬ 
ceedings this year.” It would interest many people to know by what 
process of reasoning they square their present position with that 
agreement. 
Mr. Yeomans’ statements in reference to the Western New York 
Horticultural Society are at variance with the facts. Last year Mr. 
W. C. Barry, the president, was criticised by nurserymen for allowing 
so much latitude in the discussion. The talk was really all on one 
side, the nurserymen practically having nothing to say, as is shown by 
the records. In view of the statements made, however, it might be 
well to remember that the Western New York Horticultural Society 
has from the first had nurserymen for presidents. It has been made 
what it is to-day by nurserymen’s money and nurserymen’s brains ; and 
it therefore seems strange to think that nurserymen who are members 
are not to be allowed to raise their voices in defense of their own busi¬ 
ness, and in answer to attacks of those who will not or cannot appre¬ 
ciate existing conditions. _ Irving Rouse. 
JOHN WATSON’S CHANGE. 
Regarding his resignation as business manager of the Rose- 
dale Nurseries, Benham, Tex., John Watson says : 
“Owing to the condition of my health, which has never 
been robust, on account of fifteen years close confinement in 
the office her^e, I was obliged to resign, on February 15 th , the 
position which I held for seven years, as business manager of 
the nurseries. Outside life, in a higher altitude, is necessary, 
I find ; and I shall shortly move to some point in West Texas. 
I shall by no means give up my interest in matters pertaining 
to the nursery business ; I am thinking of growing peach, 
plum, roses, and some specials for the wholesale trade, if I find 
a suitable location.” 
IRecent publications. 
Recent publications—“ Notes on Spraying Peaches,” Maryland 
Experiment Station; “ImportantInsecticides : Directions for Prepara¬ 
tion and Use,” “Our Foreign Trade ; ” Exp. Sta. Record, Yol. XII. 
No. 6., U. S Dept. Agriculture; Journal Columbus, O., Hort. Society; 
especially attractive catalogues of T. S. Hubbard Co., Fredonia, N. 
Y.; Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. ; Frederick W. Kelsey, New 
York city. 
A Useful Guide to Making the Home Grounds More Attractive is the 
title of what is really a catalogue of the many good things in the nur¬ 
series of Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown Pa., but which appears 
on account of its unusual and attractive covers to be a brochure upon 
a special subject not so comprehensive. A liberal use of half-tone 
engravings, accurate, condensed original and honest, adds much to the 
interest created by this handy list of the best that is grown in fruit and 
ornamental stock. 
Little, Brown & Co.’s spring list includes! “ Sir Christopher,” by 
Maud Wilder Goodwin; “ Ballantyne,” a strong novel by Helen Camp¬ 
bell; Richard Le Gallienne’s new romance, “The Love Letters of the 
King, or The Life Romantic;” “A Daughter of New France,” by 
Mary Catherine Crowley; a unique problem story by Ellis Meredith. 
“ Truth Dexter,” by Sidney McCall; “Portia, a Story of the Seven, 
ties,” a powerful story of a North Carolina town by a new writer, 
Anna Bowman Dodd’s new book, “ The American Husband in Paris; ’ 
new editions of Mrs. Fawcett’s Life of Queen Victoria,” and of Prof. 
Benjamin W. Wells’s “ Modern German Literature; ” and a limited edi¬ 
tion of “ In and Around the Grand Canyon,” by Prof. George Wharton 
James. 
It is probable that no great Exposition has been so beautifully illus¬ 
trated in its advertising matter as has the Pan-American The latest 
production is a dainty booklet of 16 pages in green cover bearing a 
miniature reproduction of the famous poster “The Spirit of Niagara.” 
Many of the features of the Exposition are depicted and catalogued. 
The last page shows a ground plan of the Exposition, whereon the 
location of different buildings is indicated. The railroads will make 
low rates from all parts of the country during the Exposition, which 
opens May 1 and continues six months, and the people of Buffalo are pre¬ 
paring to entertain comfortably the millions who will attend. Anyone 
desiring a copy of this booklet may have it free by addressing the Pan- 
American Bureau of Publicity. 
The latest volume in the Rural Science series edited by Prof. L. II. 
Bailey is “The Principles of Vegetable Gardening” by Prof. Bailey. 
This is another of the distinctly practical books upon subjects connected 
with agriculture and horticulture for which Prof. Bailey is noted. 
Anything from his pen may be accepted at once as the result of actual 
experience coupled with scientific investigation and thorougly up to 
date. This book is divided into two parts: General view aud vege¬ 
table gardening crops, and comprises twenty chapters and an index. 
It discusses the lay-out of the plantation, the making of frames and 
hotbeds, treatment of the soil, tools, seeds, books upon the subject, 
root crops, cucurbitous crops, perennial crops, etc. In general aud in 
detail the subject is treated from the view point of the practical vege¬ 
table gardener and furnishes to him exactly the information wanted. 
Cloth, pp. 458. $1.25. New York: The Macmillan Co. Roch¬ 
ester: SCRANTOM, WETMORE & CO. 
Xonq an<> Short. 
Seedlings for fall of 1901, apple, pear and forest trees, may be had of 
the Titus Nursery, Nemaha, Neb. 
Apple seedlings are offered by Hawkeye Nurseries, Stratford, la., in 
exchange for cherry trees and ornamentals. 
Hammond’s Slug Shot destroys pests which prey upon vegetation. 
It may be had of B. Hammond, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
Fruit Stocks, Mahaleb and Mazzard Cherry, Pear, Myrobolan and 
Mariana Plum, at Thomas Neehan & Sons’, Germantown, Pa. 
The Andre Leroy Nurseries, of Angers, France, through their sole 
agent Andre L. Causse, 105 Hudson St., New York city, are taking 
orders for nursery stocks for delivery next fall, at favorable prices. 
Trees, fruit and ornamental, in all varieties and of the highest grade 
may be had at all times of the w T ell known nursery firm Ellwanger A 
Barry, established over 60 years. Shade trees, hardy roses, hardy 
plants, climbers, etc. 
The copartnership known as Elm City Nursery Co., C. P. Lines 
and Ernest F. Coe, proprietors, has been incorporated and will be 
known in the future as the Elm City Nursery Co.; capital $15,000, 
paid in. President and treasurer, Ernest F. Coe ; secretary and man¬ 
ager, H. E. Turner. 
G US Fine, two year. 
Worden-Seckel Standard Pears, first class, £ and up. Sweet Apples, 
first-class, f and up, summer and winter varieties. Crab Apbles, first- 
class, | and up, Martha and Transcendant Wickson Plums, all grades. 
English Hawthorne, Scarlet and White. Clematis Paniculata, Heavy 
Plants. An entire unbroken block of 2-year apple. Grown at Geneva, 
WHITING NURSERY CO. BOSTON, MASS. 
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Apple, 
Peach, 
Standard Pears, 
Plum, 
Apricots, 
Grapes, 
Shade Trees, 
Evergreens, 
Shrubs, 
HEADQUARTERS FOR 
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NURSERY stock. X Strawberries 
Baltimore and Richmond Nurseries, |japan^Sim B s 
BALTIMORE, JYID. X Roses, 
FRANKLIN DAVIS NURSERY CO. • „ 
50 years. Tennessee Natural Peach Pits and selected Smock. 1000 acres. X & c ., &c 
LOW PRICES ON PEACH TREES FOR EARLY ORDERS. J &c. 
