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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Biltong ©rowers anb Bealers. 
P. Ouwerkerk sailed for Europe July 6th. 
W. S. Hall has established a nursery at Hannibal, Mo. 
Frederick Bimel has established a nursery at St. Henry, Ohio. 
The storage buildings of L. Green, Troy, O , have been enlarged. 
John Leppold, Haffey, Pa., has sold his nursery to William Lafferty. 
George C. Roeding’s California Smyrna fig has been named the 
Calimyrna. 
Howard & Howard are proprietors of a new nursery at Spring Val¬ 
ley, Minn. 
C. W. Chauncey and W. S. Marshall have established a nursery at 
Fresno, Cal. 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., was awarded a diploma for his fruit 
sent to Paris. 
The Milford, Del., nurseries have been incorporated with a capital 
stock of $30,000. 
State Entomologist Otto Lugger, of Minnesota, died at St. Anthony 
Park on May 21st. 
George B. Galbraith, Fairbury, Neb., visited Philadelphia after the 
convention at the Falls. 
Ex-President Wilson Peters, Troy, O., called on Western New York 
nurserymen last month. 
W. A. Peterson, of the Rose Hill, Ill., Nurseries, has been yachting 
off the New Jersey coast. 
The National Apple Shippers’ Association will hold its annual meet¬ 
ing in Toronto, August 7th. 
The opening of the new horticultural hall in Boston on June 2d was 
one of the horticultural events of the year. 
During the latter part of June and in July Thomas B. Meehan made 
a tour of the nurseries of the Central West. 
The Clinton Falls Nursery Company, Owatonua, Minn., has been 
incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. 
E. Albertson, Frank Weber, Allen L. Wood, and Robert C. Berck- 
mans visited Philadelphia nurserymen in June. 
William Gibbs, foreman of the Phoenix Nursery Company, Normal, 
Ill., is on a tour of the eastern part of the country. 
Professor Green of the Central Experiment Station, Minnesota, has 
received a consignment of apple scions from Russia. 
W. T. Gough has purchased the interest of his partner, Mr. Carter, 
and is continuing the nursery business at Abilene, Kan. 
M. Butterfield has started a nursery business at Farmington, Mo.; 
Jesse Butterfield will manage the Lee’s Summit Nurseries. 
The Messrs. Bagby of the New Haven, Mo., Nurseries entertained 
the members of the Missouri Horticultural Society in June. 
G. Miller, of Anita, Iowa, says: “ With me the sand cherry stock for 
plums has passed the experiment stage. I shall henceforth use it 
largely.” 
Thomas S. Ware, a noted grower of hardy plants in England, died 
May 30tli, aged 76 years. He and Peter Barr became well known as 
growers of narcissus. 
G. A. Gamble, Fort Smith, Ark., editor of the Arkansas Fruit 
Grower, argues against the free distribution of nursery stock by fed. 
eral or state governments. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs and vines amounted to 
$21,454 in May, 1901, as compared with $52,303 worth in May, 1900, 
which shows quite a decrease. 
The seventeenth convention of the Society of American Florists, 
incorporated by special act of Congress, March 4, 1901, is to be held 
at City Convention Hall, Buffalo, August 6 to 10. 
Secretary R. B. Watrous, of the Citizens Business League of Mil¬ 
waukee, has issued a special invitation to the Society of American 
Florists to hold its convention of 1902 in Milwaukee. 
George C. Perkins, of Jackson & Perkins Company, who has been in 
ill health for the past year or more, has gone for a two months’ cruis¬ 
ing and fishing trip along the coast of Newfoundland. 
Special Agent I. N. Mills of the Delaware railroads has completed his 
estimate of the peach crop for the season of 1901. It is 2,000,000 
baskets. The estimate of last season’s crop was 4,000,000 baskets. 
W. H. Oakes, horticultural inspector for Stevens county, Washing¬ 
ton, condemned a consignment of root grafts shipped from an Iowa 
nursery to W. B. Aris. The stock was infected with woolly aphis.— 
Northwest Horticulturist. 
The new Rambler rose. Queen Alexandra, color pink with white 
center, is featured in the July 13th issue of the Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
It has much the same habit as Crimson Rambler. It received a gold 
medal at the recent Temple Show. 
Alfred G. Gelletly, Williston, Md., showed enterprise in exhibiting 
nursery stock on a float in a procession on July 4th at Denton, Md. 
The Denton “ Journal ” says: “ It was rich in suggestion as well as an 
excellent advertisement of his stock.” 
August Rblker & Sons, 52 Dey street, New York, have sold to Reed 
& Keller their stock of florists’ store supplies. Messrs. Iiolker will 
limit themselves in the future to foreign and domestic bulbs, plants, 
seeds, nurserymen’s and greenhouse stock, and will continue this line 
with increased energy. 
Nurserymen at Shawnee county, Kansas, assert that 90 per cent, of 
the apple seedlings used in the nurseries of the United States are grown 
within a radius of fifteen miles of Topeka. It is estimated that be¬ 
tween 600 and 700 acres of seedlings are growing in Shawnee county 
this year.—American Florist. 
The International Society of Aboriculture was organized at Con- 
nersville, Ind., May 25, 1901. Dr. C. A. Schenck, of Biltmore, N. C., 
was chosen vice-president; John P. Brown, of Connersville, Ind., sec¬ 
retary and treasurer, and the Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska 
City, Neb., was nominated for the presidency. 
“ I have succeeded in getting about a thousand seedling cherries 
from last year’s seed,” says Professor Green in Minnesota Horticultur¬ 
ist. “ I intend to make quite a point of this growing of cherries from 
seed, as I think the opportunities of getting something more valuable 
than we now have for Minnesota are very good.” 
Charles H. Hooker, of Rochester, N. Y., has received the Barry 
Medal offered by the Western New York Horticultural Society “ to the 
originator or owner of any new fruit or ornamental tree, shrub, flower¬ 
ing plant or vegetable, which shall be considered worthy of it.” Mr. 
Hooker won on the merits of the red currant Perfection. 
J. H. Wisner, Port Elgin, Ont., says in Canadian Horticulturist 
regarding the hardiness of American sweet chestnuts in the North: “ I 
have grown them here in nursery rows for the past 25 years; have 50 
of them permanently set out and in bearing, and have proved them to 
be perfectly hardy, the frosts of all these years never having injured 
even a single tip of any of them.” 
E. F. Stephens, of Crete nurseries, says an exchange, is interested in 
several nursery establishments in different portions of the semi-arid 
region in the west end of the state. His display of cherries, plums and 
other fruits from those nurseries was very interesting, and showed con¬ 
clusively that with a proper mixture of “ brains” the western portion 
of Nebraska will make fine fruit. 
Architect Burnham, Landscape Gardener Olmstead and Charles 
Moore, clerk of the senate committee of the District of Columbia, a 
committee appointed by the committee referred to who have been 
visiting the capitals of Europe for a few weeks to get suggestions to 
be used in the plan of enlarging and beautifying the park system of 
Washington, sailed for home from London on July 20th. 
English publications print pictures and sketches of Thomas H. 
Cook, aged 33, who has been appointed by King Edward VII. to be 
head gardener at the royal gardens, Sandringham. Charles Turner, 
Slough, England, has been appointed, by royal warrant, nurseryman 
to the king; W. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross, are rose growers to the 
king; Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading, and J. Carter & Co., High 
Holborn, seedsmen to his majesty. 
Under date of July 13th State Entomologist E. P Felt, of New York, 
says: “ Praying mantis eggs have hatched and living young freed in 
Washington Park, Albany; and they have also been liberated in Lock- 
port, Niagara county. Egg clusters sent to other localities should 
have hatched before this.” The praying mantis was illustrated in a 
recent issue of the National Nurseryman. It is a beneficial insect 
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as it feeds upon insects injurious to vegetation. 
