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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong (Browers anb ^Dealers. 
The Saddler Brothers have purchased the Home Nursery at Bloom¬ 
ington, Ill. 
Enos B. Engle, York City, has been appointed nursery inspector in 
Pennsylvania. 
C. M. Stark, Louisiana, Mo., visited Western New York nursery¬ 
men last month. 
The Pacific Coast Horticultural Society has been formed with 
headquarters at San Francisco. 
The Fredonia N. Y.. Seed and Nursery Co., bas been organized by 
Lewis Roesh and Frank M. Roesh. 
Israel Kinney, Lanesfield, O., 70 years old, has retired from nursery 
business on account of failing health. 
H. J. Rhodes, nurseryman and florist, of Honolulu, II I., has been 
visiting trade establishments in this country. 
William Pitkin and family, secretary of Chase Bros. Co , Rochester, 
N. Y., passed a portion of the summer in the Adirondack mountains. 
Charles Waltus, for many years in the greenhouse department of 
Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, O., has removed to Boston with his 
family. 
Secretary Goodman, of the Missouri Horticultural Society, having 
heard from 300 points, states that the best Missouri can hope for is 40 
per cent, of its apple crop. 
The Fair Oaks Nursery Company at Oak Park, Ill., has been in¬ 
corporated; capital, $30,000. The incorporators are Edward Payson, 
A. E. Berry, and II. K. Bickford. 
The crop of apples for 1900 was 215,000,000 barrels, which at, say, 
$2 per barrel, gave $430,000,000. The average annual value of the 
wheat crop is about $300,000,000. 
The report of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the American As¬ 
sociation of Nurseymen, held at Niagara Falls, June, 12 and 13 has 
been issued by Secretary Seager. 
Harry T. Montgomery, president; Frank W. Glen, secretary, and 
Jackson Y. Parker, treasurer, have incorporated the Planters’ Nursery 
Co., in Chicago ; capital stock, $20,000. 
George Nicholson has resigned the position of curator of the Royal 
Gardens at Kew, England, on account of failing health. He is the 
author of the “Dictionary of Gardening.” 
The Tree Planting Association of New York reports that since 
January 1 it has planted 931 trees in the streets of the borough of Man¬ 
hattan and 1,947 in other boroughs of the greater city, making a total 
of 2,880 trees. 
The M. Crawford Co., Cuyahoga Falls, O , says that the Miller was 
their best strawberry this season, with the possible exception of the 
Challenge, which originated with J. R. Peck, Breckenridge, Mo., and 
which they are testing. 
W. H. Tincher, nurseryman, at Decatur, Ill., says the American 
Florist, drew a quarter-section of land in the Lawton district of Indian 
Territory at the recent opening and contemplates embarking in the 
nursery business there. 
The Clinton Falls Nursery Co., of Owatonna, Minnesota, has been 
incorporated under the state laws of Minnesota, with a capital stock of 
$50,000. Thomas E. Cashman is president and manager; M. R. Cash- 
man, secretary, and W. H. Hart, treasurer. 
The Canadian tariff imposes a duty of three cents on each budded 
or improved fruit or shade tree imported, and an ad valorem duty of 
20 per cent on shrubbery from the United States ; but seedling stocks 
for grafting and florists’ stock in general are admitted free of duty. 
The dutiable import of plants, shrubs and vines amounted to $4,774 
in June, 1901, against $9,206 in the same month of last year. The free 
import of seeds amounted in June, 1901, to $54,194, against $41,478, 
the value of the imports in June, 1900. The dutiable imports of seed 
amounted to $37,620 in June, 1901, as against $69,285, the value of 
these imports in June last year. 
State Entomologist William B. Alwood, of Virginia, states that cer¬ 
tificates of inspection issued by the State Board of Agriculture of New 
York must be signed by an entomologist and bear evidence that the 
inspection has been made by a person trained in entomological work. 
Inspection of nursery stock for insect pests is now in force for Penn¬ 
sylvania. The law went into effect August 1, and hereafter all nursery 
stock coming into the state will be required to have attached to it a 
certificate stating that it is free from San Jose scale or other injurious 
pests. 
In response to a query the New York commissioner of agriculture 
has made this ruling : “ The inspection of nursery can only be made 
when a nursery exists; but if you were to collect plants from the 
forests and attempt to ship them, the transportation companies would 
regard such plants as nursery stock, which can only be shipped under 
the law when accompanied by a copy or certificate of inspection. ” 
The New England Association of Park Superintendents at its fourth 
annual meeting at Hartford, Conn., elected the following officers: 
President, John A. Pettigrew, Boston; vice-presidents, Maine, A. D 
Smith, Portland; New Hampshire, W. H. Richardson, Concord; Ver 
mont, A. D. Farwell. Montpelier; Massachusetts, W. D. Whiting, 
Cambridge; Rhode Island, J. D. Fitts, Providence; Connecticut, 
Theodore Wirth, Hartford ; secretary, G. A. Parker, Hartford ; treas¬ 
urer, J. H. Hemenway, Worcester. 
A correspodent of the “ Horticultural Advertiser ”, England writes : 
“ With the present facilities for transportation, there is no valid reason 
why all classes of hardy nursery stock may not be shipped to and from 
the United States with perfect safety and success. If the stock is care¬ 
fully dug and lifted, thoroughly well packed without exposure, and 
the drying of the roots prevented in transit, and the tops packed so as 
to avoid evaporation as far as may be, all this material should be, and 
can be, safely transported the entire shipping season both spring and 
autumn. 
WOMEN IN HORTICULTURE. 
“ Women are more painstaking in small details than the men, 
and in horticulture this is of prime importance. I think in 
the future horticulture will be a great field of employment for 
women.” 
Thus spoke George T. Powell, principal of the Briarcliff 
Manor School in Westchester county, N. Y., in response to a 
question regarding the prospects of the two women who are 
students at the school. There are two general types of 
students at the school; those of considerable wealth who are 
studying horticulture with the idea of becoming competent in 
controlling agricultural land, and students who expect to 
make their livelihood from the practice of agriculture by be¬ 
coming farm managers or experts in some particular line. 
The first year of the new school is about completed. 
Twenty-seven students are registered. The work is very 
practical. Of the 65 acres making up the school grounds all 
are under close cultivation, says the Rural New-Yorker, the 
labor being done entirely by the students. The practice of 
tile drainage is followed quite extensively, and extensive 
methods are practiced in all the processes of cultivation. 
The soil is treated heavily with commercial fertilizers. These 
the students mix themselves, following formulas which have 
been found by experiment to be the test for the particular soil 
for which the fertilizer is intended. By this method the soil 
which has become poor from former neglect now furnishes 
astonishingly large crops. A small peach orchard but two 
years from the bud had in many cases over 100 well-set 
peaches to the tree. 
