THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Hmong Growers anb ^Dealers. 
Ellsworth Brown has begun the nursery business at Seabrook, N. H. 
Prof. S. M. Emery has resigned the position of director of the 
Montana Experiment Station. 
Henry Schroeder, Sigourney, la., read a paper on figs in Iowa, at the 
recent state horticultural meeting. 
F. L. White, of the Moscow Nursery, Spokane, Wash., reports a 
large sale of fruit trees during spring of 1901. 
Nashua, N. H., is to lay out a park of 160 acres. Young trees are 
to be planted. Judge C. W. Hoitt is a park commissioner. 
S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., is president of the Ontario County 
Fruit Growers Association formed at Canandaigua, N. Y., on May 4th. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs, and vines amounted to 
$50,986 in March, 1901, against $54,655 in the same month of last, year' 
The Farmers’ Nursery Company, Baltimore, has obtained a verdict 
for $800 against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for plants 
destroyed en route. 
T. V. Munson, Denison, Tex., writes : “Have had unusually good 
trade last fall and this spring. We always take much interest in read¬ 
ing the National Nurseryman.” 
A tree is wholly the property of him upon whose land it stands, not¬ 
withstanding the roots extend into, or the branches overhang, the land 
of the adjoining owner, say the New York and other state courts. 
It is reported that the Enterprise Nursery Co , St. Joseph, Mo., has 
given a deed of trust to Maurice Phillips for the benefit of creditors. 
Irving Rouse, Thomas' Meehan & Sons, Fairmount Nurseries and W. 
T. Hood & Co., are creditors. The largest claim is $70.50. • 
Dr. Galloway of the Department of Agriculture, in whose hands 
Secretary Wilson recently placed all matters connected with the gov¬ 
ernmental free distribution of seeds, is formulating a system of free 
distribution which will do away with the present promiscuous and 
unsatisfactory method 
Plans have been agreed upon for a new United States Department 
of Agriculture building to cost not exceeding $2,000,000. It will be 
U-shaped, of white marble, four stories high, with a 400 foot front and 
two wings each 200 feet long. The present building will be incorpo. 
rated within the new structure. 
The imports of nursery stock into the United States during the five 
years ended June 30, 1900, were valued as follows ; 1896, $955,307 ; 
1897,$963,977; 1898, $762,158; 1899, $768,982; 1900, $972,385. The 
exports from the United States were valued as follows: 1896 s 
$133,735 ; 1897, $135,047 ; 1898, $96,330 ; 1899, $134,929 ; 1900, $107,172. 
The Pennsylvania legislature has passed a bill looking to the preser¬ 
vation of the forests and aimed to promote planting of highway trees. 
Any person liable to road taxes, who shall transplant to the side of the 
public highway on his premises, any fruit, shade or forest trees Of 
suitable size, shall be allowed by the supervisor of roads, in abatement 
of his road tax, $1 for every two trees set out. 
The strawberry fields of J. G. Harrison & Sons of Worcester Co., Md., 
cover over 60 acres of newly cleared land. This firm now has about 
1000 acres devoted to fruits. It is an interesting sight to see these 
happy negroes at work, says the American Agriculturist. There is 
one old auntie and 16 of her children. She says she has worked on this 
same farm for “nigh onto 20 years” and brought her children up 
“ a-packin’ and a-pickin’ berries.” 
WILL STIMULATE PRICES. 
R. H. Blair & Co., proprietors Lee’s Summit nurseries, 
Kansas City, Mo., write : “ Our sales for the past spring have 
been very satisfactory, our stock closed out well and collections 
never better. Our plant starting off well in everything, owing 
to a favorable spring. Prospects for a sumptious crop of fruit 
this season will stimulate prices for trees next spring, the 
supply not being in excess of the past season. 
TEXAS FRUIT GROWERS ENCOURAGED. 
A correspondent of the California Fruit Grower writing 
from Austin, Tex., says : Just what the passage of the Dixon 
bill means to the vegetable and fruit interests of this state is 
hardly appreciated even by those whom it most affects. 
About eighty companies are organized already and will open 
up as soon as charters are received. Before the organization 
of fruit companies in California, Missouri, Georgia and 
Arkansas the growers in those states experienced the same 
trouble in marketing that the growers of Texas have had, and 
to engage in the industry was a precarious business. But it is 
different now. Land values in those states have about 
doubled and a general spirit of thrift prevails. The fruit 
crops of California last year brought the growers of that state 
$ 30 , 000,000 or about $20 per capita. Texas has a greater 
area suitable to this industry than California. She is a thous¬ 
and miles nearer the great markets and from twenty to thirty 
days earlier in ripening period. It is impossible to conceive 
of what can be done in this state. Ten years will bring about 
a wonderful change. Fruit growing in Texas has just begun 
and thousands of acres stand ready for occupancy. 
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE. 
The formal opening on May 15 , 1901 , of the new school 
building and dormitories of the New York School of Practical 
Horticulture at Briarcliff Manor, Westchester county, N. Y., 
marks another pronounced step in the advancement of horti¬ 
culture. Three hundred persons attended the exercises. 
George T. Powell, under whose direction work at the school 
is done, announced that they had now thirty students. It is 
barely fifteen months since the plans were laid for the present 
school, yet such had been their success that they were able to 
open up for studies in September last with nine students ; and 
now they boasted of thirty ! He was furthermore delighted 
with the class of students which they had been able to bring 
together ; with the thoroughness with which they had been 
imbued ; their determination to learn and to succeed. He 
spoke of a New York city gentleman now at Briarcliff as a 
student in his overalls, doing some ditching. He was glad 
that he was able to make such an appearance, although it 
would shock some of his friends, glad that he was able to learn 
how to make ditch and lay tile, and to do it in such a work¬ 
manlike manner that no one could get beyond it. Mr. Powell 
thought that with students of that calibre, the efforts put forth 
at Briarcliff would be well rewarded. He spoke interestingly 
of the many advantages which the school has, its proximity to 
the model dairy farm belonging to W. W. Law, who has an 
estate of six thousand acres, and who has in his dairy depart¬ 
ment 1,045 Jersey cattle, over 1,500 pigs, 4,000 chickens and 
400 sheep, and beside all this huge commercial greenhouses. 
The school has the privilege of studying all this work in the 
regular course. The proximity of the school to New \ ork is 
also a distinct advantage, in that such business men who are 
beginning to think about making investments in land, will take 
advantage of the school and get information which will be of 
immense value. In that way the school will not only educate 
the cultivators, but it will educate the investors, and, as Mr. 
Powell looked at it, this will be a distinct advantage. 
