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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National N urseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
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Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.50 
Six Months, “ “ 1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AflERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Theodore J. Smith, Geneva, N. Y.; vice-president, N. W. 
Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; C. L. Watrous, Des 
Moines, la.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind. 
Committee on Transportation—Theo lore J. Smith, ex-officio, chairman ; A. L. 
Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, 
Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Phoneton, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N.Y. 
Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Annual convention for 1901—At Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 12-13. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., May, 1901. 
THE SEASON’S TRADE. 
Reports from all sections of the country to the National 
Nurseryman indicate a continuance of good trade and the 
prospect of a prosperous fall business. The season was back¬ 
ward, but, as usual, the spring packing went forward finally 
and the clean-up was on the whole satisfactory. Reports from 
the West show that owing to the good apple crop of last year 
there has been a demand for apple stock, and that higher 
prices than in several years were received for No. 1 stock. 
The prospect is that prices on cherry will hold their own and 
that there may even be an advance ; also that there will be 
an improvement in plum and pear prices. There is a shortage 
of peach in the West. A Topeka correspondent states that 
one-year cherry blocks have been dug close and that this will 
cut the supply of two-year trees for next year materially. 
From Canada it is reported that there is a surplus of the 
leading kinds of sour cherries. More ornamentals than usual 
have been sold, and the sale of small fruits has increased 
materially over that of the last few years. At Toronto frost 
has been out of the ground since the first of April, and before 
the middle of the month most of the stock had been dug for 
the regular packing. 
Throughout the country, fall business is reported as opening 
up well. _ 
FRUIT GROWERS GOING TO BUFFALO. 
It is proposed to organize a special excursion of Western hor¬ 
ticulturists to the Pan-American Exposition during the summer, 
says Farm, Field and Fireside. They will arrive in Buffalo in 
time for the meeting of the American Pomological Society 
September 12 and 13 . The party will have a special train, will 
visit the fruit sections of Michigan and Southern Canada, and 
after attending the meeting of their society make side trips to the 
orchards of Western New York, and return to Chicago through 
the Chautauqua grape belt. The trip will cover about three 
weeks’ time. The excursionists will live in the cars except 
when at Buffalo, and a programme of entertaiment has already 
been arranged by a number of horticultural societies on the 
route. The management of this excursion has estimated upon 
a sufficient number to make a good train load. 
TO MAINTAIN PRICES. 
The spring packing season finds the nurserymen enjoying a 
comparatively full measure of prosperity. It is well at this time 
to pause to consider what should be done to aid in maintain¬ 
ing or still further improving conditions. Prices are on an 
upward tendency. The experience of most of those who are 
in the business proves that prices will remain so only for a 
more or less certain time. The wiser ones will profit by that 
experience. Over-production is the bane of uniform prices. 
This, we believe, is admitted by all. The problem is to adjust 
matters so that the supply will in some nearly comparative 
measure meet the demand. 
It is when considering this subject that the need of an under¬ 
standing among the nurserymen in the matter of the produc¬ 
tion of stock is felt. Some form of combination similar to 
those in other industries has been suggested, but it has been 
deemed impracticable. The subject is certainly worthy of 
consideration, among others, at the annual meeting of the 
American Association. It is of a very practical nature and 
might well be discussed instead of an entomological treatise, 
which, thanks to the executive committee, is not likely to be 
on the programme. 
So well-informed an authority as the firm of Hoopes, Bro. 
& Thomas says: “We think that prices in the future should 
be better than in the past, but unless there is some uniformity 
in the ideas of the trade, there will still be a decided cutting 
from the figures as sent out in their lists. We notice a great 
tendency among many nurserymen to yield, we think unneces¬ 
sarily, in price both in fruit and ornamental stock, as we feel 
confident that when the season is over there will be scarcely 
any surplus.” 
Myer & Son, Bridgeville, Del., say: “ Prices have been 
entirely satisfactory and we have had no trouble in holding 
them strictly to our printed quotations. Collections are much 
better than usual and we see no reason why the prices on all 
nursery stock cannot be held up to a paying basis from now 
