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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
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. 
One year, in advance, _____ $1.00 
Six Months, ______ .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.50 
Six Months, “ “ 1.00 
Advertising rates willTie 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. 
AflERlCAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. ; vice-president, R. J. 
Coe, Fort Atkinson, Wis.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, 
Tenn.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Committee on Transportation—A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; William Pit¬ 
kin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Silas Wilson, At¬ 
lantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; Howard A. Chase, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Paines- 
ville, O.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Annual convention for 1902—At Milwaukee, Wis., June 11-12. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., November, 1901. 
THE SEASON’S SALES. 
We present reports from various points regarding the sea¬ 
son’s sales. There is a general cleaning up of stock and no 
good reason for cutting prices is apparent. It is expected that 
prices will be higher in the spring. The weather has been 
favorable for the most part. Sales have increased over those 
of last year and collections promise to be good. The reports 
speak for themselves and should be carefully read. 
NURSERY STOCK. FOR ALBANY PARKS. 
Superintendent W. S. Egerton of Albany was in Rochester 
last month arranging for the purchase of the following nursery 
stock for the Albany parks; 200 American elms, 100 European 
lindens, 50 liquidambers, 100 Norway maples, 100 Wiers’ cut¬ 
leaved maples, 100 Schwedler’s maple, 100 sugar maple, 100 
Oriental plane, 50 yellow wood, 50 pin oak, 50 scarlet oak, 50 
macrocarpa, 100 Japanese maples in four varieties, 200 Ber- 
beris Thunbergii, 200 hybrid perpetual roses. Little & Co. 
bid $755 for the order, The William H. Moon Co.. $901, and 
the Chase Bros. Co., $940. Ellwanger & Barry bid $500 and 
secured the contract. 
CANADIAN REGULATIONS. 
N. B. Colcock, custom house broker at Niagara Falls, Ont., 
calls attention to the fact that many nurserymen omit to place 
a number on their packages going to Canada, thus causing 
much confusion and delay at times. On October 14th four 
shipments arrived at that port of entry from one nursery to 
the same party in Canada. There were four invoices, and the 
officers not being experts, could not tell which was which cor¬ 
responding with the shipments. They threatened to enforce 
the regulation by detention until a new invoice could be pro¬ 
cured. 
The following circular of information explains what is 
required: 
Each and every case, box, cask, crate or other package coming into 
Canada from any foreign country, after March 1, 1899, must have a 
designating mark and number on the outside of said package, and that 
mark and number must also be on the invoice in such a manner that 
the examining officer can at once identify and check the contents of 
each individual package with the invoice. 
This regulation is imperative and will, hereafter, be strictly enforced. 
In a recent circular from the department at Ottawa to the customs 
officers of the several ports of entry, the following appears: “All im¬ 
ported packages, when not properly marked and numbered on the out¬ 
side so as to identify the contents of each package with the corres. 
ponding marks and numbers on the invoice will be subject to detention 
and special customs examination after 1st March, 1899.” 
A PLEA FOR FRANK INTERCHANGE. 
In another column of this issue is an article on secrets in 
horticulture. The central thought is that there ought to be 
no horticultural secrets, for only by a general diffusion of 
knowledge can there be progress. 
This is a subject to which we have several times referred. 
It is brought forcibly to mind upon the occasion of the annual 
conventions of the American Association of Nurserymen. It 
is our opinion that were there a freer interchange of ideas as 
to trade matters, a practical discussion without reserve of the 
every day problems, the mutual benefit derived would be 
marked. 
All who have heard the pithy remarks of Professor L. H. 
Bailey of Cornell University, at the conventions of the Ameri¬ 
can Association cannot fail to have noted his utter frankness 
in all that he says and it is this very quality that makes his 
addresses so popular, so valuable and so thoroughly appre¬ 
ciated. 
A large part of the discussion at the conventions is of this 
nature, to be sure, but there might be much more of it. What 
one man knows is not of less value to him because he shares it 
with another, as has been so well stated. Unless there is free 
discussion, the liberal use of a question box and a programme 
prepared with care and forethought, those who attend the 
annual conventions do not benefit by these gatherings as they 
should. 
Opportunity should there be given for a profitable consider¬ 
ation of practical trade topics on a working basis. Theories 
