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should give place to practice. Let the members generally have 
the benefit of the valuable information now meted out to the 
few in the lobby tete-a-tetes. 
SEEDLING PEACH FROM CANADA. 
We received last month from Stone & Wellington, Toronto, 
a sample of a new seedling peach which, judging from its 
flavor, size and general condition, should be a valuable variety. 
The flesh is particularly yellow, rich, juicy and very sweet. 
Stone & Wellington say of this peach : 
“The tree has been fruiting four years in this city, and 
shows great hardiness, never being killed back in the slightest, 
although of course Toronto is out of the peach district. 
Ripening as it does, late, (from the 1 st to the 10 th of October,) 
, and being a freestone, of yellow flesh, we consider it a valuable 
variety.” 
“ We do not believe in multiplying varieties, but this one 
seems to us to have merits worthy of its propogation. We 
think very highly of the peach, and have decided to name it 
after one of the members of our firm, and call it ‘ The 
Wellington.’ 
“ The peaches are smaller than usual this year, as the tree 
was overloaded, and not thinned out as it should have been. 
Last season the fruit was at least one-third larger—three 
peaches weighing \ ]/2 lbs.” 
NURSERY INSPECTION CRITICISED. 
Those who have not much acquaintance with the practical 
intelligence required by a good cultivator, are very much 
alarmed at the progress in distribution of the scale insects, or 
other injurious insects, by the sale of nursery plants, says 
Meehan’s Magazine. Every good nurseryman or tree grower, 
who is worthy of the title of “good,” perfectly understands 
how easy it is to destroy these insect pests, and no good 
nurseryman, who values his reputation, would for one moment 
think of distributing nursery stock with insects of this 
class upon it. The theoretical leaders are making great out¬ 
cry against the spread of these noxious insects, and in many 
states they are urging legislature to have nursery stock inspected 
before it is sent out. That there are men who are indifferent 
about having clean nursery stock, is certain ; but these are not 
among those who have been called good, intelligent nursery¬ 
men. The proper course would be to impose a fine on those 
who were guilty of such indifference. To this, there would be 
no objection ; but it is the height of absurdity to employ, out 
of taxation, men to examine the stock of nurserymen, who 
sometimes know more about such matters than those who are 
sent to examine them. 
THOMAS MEEHAN SERIOUSLY ILL. 
As we go to press announcement is made of the serious ill¬ 
ness of Thomas Meehan, of the well-known firm of 1 homas 
Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Phila., Pa. Mr. Meehan is one 
of the ablests botanists of the country, a Kew man, an author 
of wide range and prominent in affairs in his locality. He has 
long been regarded as high authority in matters horticul¬ 
tural. _ 
The annual meeting of the Indiana Horticultural Society will be held 
in Indianapolis December 5-6. 
IIS GENESEE VALLEY. 
Heavy Retail and Wholesale Trade-Sales More Than Double Those 
of Last Year—Fine Weather for Digging Stock—Large Demand 
for Apple—With Exception of Kelffer Pear There Seems to 
Be no Surplus—Plum Prices Disappointing. 
Dansville, N. Y., Oct, 16 —James M. Kennedy: “Sales for 
this fall will- be more than double that of a year ago. The 
steam digger and the digger run by horses are busy every day, 
several cars being shipped daily. Help has never been so 
scarce; impossible to get enough at any price. 
“We have never experienced such a fine fall for digging and 
shipping of nursery stock. Prices have been extremely good 
and the nurserymen feel confident that business will continue 
good for some years to come. 
“ The retail and catalogue trade exceeds that of last year. 
Judging by the orders that are coming in every day, Dansville 
will not carry over any surplus stock after next spring 
delivery. 
“ We are digging and shipping a large quantity of one-year 
stock of all kinds which will reduce the stock for another 
year. This goes to show that stock for next year will bring 
good prices. There will be planted here next spring the usual 
amount of stock. There is a general list of stock still for sale 
consisting largely of plum, cherry and apple.” 
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 14 —Irving Rouse: “ Fall sales have 
opened very good indeed, prices are very satisfactory and 
orders plenty. 
“ Owing to the extreme dry weather West, the East has been 
called on heavily to make up shortages, this is especially true 
of apples. Old stock in apples and pear have been thoroughly 
used up, and with the exception of Keiffer pear there does not 
seem to be a surplus of anything in the market.” 
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 11 .—Brown Brothers Company: 
“ The nursery business, both wholesale and retail, is at present 
in excellent condition, and the prospects are very bright for an 
unusually heavy spring trade. 
“ The only notable instance in which we believe there will 
be a shortage of stock, and consequently much higher prices, 
is in the case of first-class apple trees. While the apple crop 
is not large this year, yet there is going to be a great demand 
for the trees on account of the very high price of the fruit. 
We have had a much larger stock of apples this year than 
usual, but are already entirely sold out of many of the leading 
kinds, and the demand keeps up with great strength. 
“ We have been disappointed in the way in which plums 
sold, as we expected that they would command better prices 
than they have done.” 
A meeting of the National Organizing Commission of the National 
Flower Congress was held at New Britain, Conn., October 1st, to con¬ 
sider the subject of adopting the carnation as a national flower. The 
carnation was the favorite flower of President McKinley. The golden 
rod or columbine are favored by many. The secretary of the com. 
mission is T. L. Thomas, Forestville, Conn. 
“ Roses, blackberries, raspberries, and gooseberries can also be made 
as perfectly thornless as strawberries or apples are by the same educa¬ 
tion and individual selection,” says Luther Burbank. At present, 
however, the authors of new fruits and flowers are fully employed in 
improving the size, abundance and perfection of form, color, and bag- 
rance in flowers and the abundance and lusciousness of buits, other, 
wise the thorns would have been eliminated long ago.’ 
