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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
HARRISONS’ EXTENSION. 
Berlin, Md., Nurserymen Have Added Three Hundred Acres, 
Confirming Their Faith in Bright Prospects for Trade—Also an 
Exta Packing Shed—Believe in Late Digging and 
Matured Stock—Brisk Demand for Stock — 
No Excuse for Cutting Prices. 
Berlin, Md., Oct. 9 . —J. G. Harrison & Sons : “ We have 
made our first shipment of trees to-day. We do not start 
digging early, as we prefer to let the trees stand and let them 
thoroughly ripen before sending them out. We have a number 
of large orders booked for this fall ; also for spring shipment. 
The demand for trees is very good, especially peach. We 
have a large stock of apple which are selling quite well, and 
the prospects are good for cleaning up 
“ Kieffer pear are selling better, as the price of the fruit on 
the Peninsula this season is ranging from 18c. to 20c. per 
basket in car lots, and the prospects are that they will go to 
25c. per basket. Even at this low price, this is a paying crop. 
We have one customer who has more Kieffer pear trees out 
than any other one in the state of Delaware, and will plant 
this fall 1,500 more Kieffer pear trees on land that cost him 
$100 per acre, which shows his faith in the fruit after selling the 
fruit for the last ten years. 
“Plum trees are selling well, from the fact that plums paid 
this season on the Peninsula. One of our customers who 
planted four years ago 25 each—Abundance, Burbank and 
Satsuma ; this year the 75 trees netted him $260.00. 
“ Asparagus roots are in demand, as it was a paying crop 
the past season, as it has been for the last few years. Grapes 
have not paid so well, yet the season has been an exceedingly 
good one for growing vines and we have a stock of them. 
Strawberries paid quite well the past season, and the demand 
for plants is very good. 
“ Taking it as a whole, the prospect for trade is exception¬ 
ally good ; in fact, confirming our faith in this, we have just 
purchased a three hundred acre farm that will be planted in 
nursery stock. We are building an extra packing shed at this 
time, 50 feet by 150 feet, with the railroad siding into same, so 
that we can handle our stock with more ease and without 
exposure to cold winds and sun, loading from the packing 
house to the car. 
“ Taking it as a whole, the price of stock is ranging very 
good, and we see no reason why there should be any cutting 
and slicing in prices as there is not enough stock to-day to 
supply the demand in most varieties of fruit trees.” 
Wesley, P. O., Md., Oct. 10—Wm. M. Peters’ Sons: “ Trade 
in most all kinds of stock has been up to our expectations, 
and the prospects are very flattering. Especially is it the case 
of peach trees, of which in our opinion, there will be very few 
left for spring. Our shipping season does not begin much 
before November 1st. Apples are in not as good demand as 
peach. In fact that is the case with most all other kinds of 
stock that we handle. We think we have booked in general as 
many orders as we did the past season, and hope collections 
will be as good. See no reason why they should not be.” 
By recent changes in the Department of Agriculture, Prof. G. H. 
Powell, lately of Newaik, Del., goes to the Pomology division as 
Assistant Pomologist succeeding W. A. Taylor, who becomes Pomol- 
ogist in Charge of Field Investigations. 
©bituar\>. 
William G. Storrs, one of Painesville’s most prominent and 
respected citizens, and owner of large interests in the Storrs 
& Harrison Company, of which he was vice-president and 
general manager, died Tuesday, October 22d, at 112:30 o’clock. 
Mr Storrs was held in the highest esteem by all with whom 
he was associated, and his untimely death is generally deeply 
regretted. He was sixty.-one years old, and leaves a wife and 
four daughters. 
Mr. Storrs was born in Cortland County, N. Y., Jan. 19, 
1840 In 1864 he went to Lake Co., Ohio, with his brother, 
the late Horatio Storrs, and his father, Jesse Storrs,who founded, 
the Storrs & Harrison nursery. He was educated in the 
Painesville High school, and spent his early life there, assisting 
his father in the development of the new enterprise. 
August 22, 1861, he enlisted in Company G., Second Ohio 
Cavalry, and served until Sept. 17, 1865, when he was hon¬ 
orably discharged. The early part of his service was in the 
Western Army at Fort Scott, and in the Indian Territory- 
He returned to Ohio in December, I862, and recruited through 
the winter at Columbus. Leaving April 6, 1863, he went to 
Kentucky, and joined the Army of the Cumberland, operating 
through that state until fall, when he went with Burnside to 
Tennessee, being among the first to occupy Knoxville. Later 
engaged with Longstreet’s forces in Virginia, he suffered many 
hardships. In April, 1864, he joined the Army of the Poto¬ 
mac, and in May was with Grant’s Army in the battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor. In August, 
1864, Mr. Storrs became blind with erysipelas and after much 
difficulty secured his removal to Cleveland, where he recov¬ 
ered. Then in December, 1864, he again joined his regi¬ 
ment, and continued in the service until the close of the war. 
The marriage of Mr. Storrs and Mary E. Post, of Paines¬ 
ville, Ohio, was celebrated Sept. 2, 1868. 
SMALLEST APPLE CROP IN YEARS. 
The comprehensive reports of the American Agriculturist 
on the apple crop show interesting facts. The country has 
the smallest apple crop in years. In the Southwest, including 
Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, there is a good crop, many 
counties reporting the largest yield in years. The commercial 
apple crop of the United States approximates 23,000,000 bar¬ 
rels, against more than double that amount last year and it is 
little more than one-third of the big crop of 1896. 
“ Many commercial orchards in Northern Ohio are a complete 
failure, so far as fruit suitable for shipping and storing is con¬ 
cerned,” says the American Agriculturist, “and farmers in¬ 
clined to hold for $1 per bushel. A prominent dealer writes 
that it is safe to say that a stretch of land, 100 miles long, 
between Cleveland and Western New York, bordering Lake 
Erie, will show that 90 per cent, of the orchards are absolutely 
without No. 1 packing apples. In Central New York heavy 
winds in September cut the prospects, already small, and win¬ 
ter apples are finding ready buyers at $3.50 per barrel for 
Baldwin, Greening, Russet, etc. In Monroe county buyers 
are paying $2.50 to $3.50 per barrel. In Southern Pennsyl¬ 
vania and in parts of Maryland and the Virginias, the showing 
is relatively better. Bedford and Frederick counties in Vir¬ 
ginia secured some good York Imperials, Tompkins, etc., and 
