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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong (Browers anb dealers. 
The Southern Nursery Association will meet in Charleston, S. C., on 
January 21 st. 
C. W. Stewart & Co., Newark, N. Y., this full constructed a frost 
proof cellar and packing house. 
The annual meeting of the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association will be 
held in Rochester on January 15 th. 
The McKinney Nurseries, established by E. W. Kirkpatrick at Mc¬ 
Kinney, Tex., have been sold to Robert Cruse, Benham, Tex. 
The Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen will hold its 
semi-annual meeting in Kansas City, Mo., December 17 th. 
Captain Watrous, the Des Moines nurseryman, says the Fruitman, 
has bought the Terry plum, once called the Free Silver, and will push 
it on its merits. 
R. Morrell, the Michigan peach expert, will make a venture in Texas. 
He is to plant there the largest peach orchard in the world, 6,000 acres. 
—The Fruitman. 
J. C. Roese, Osceola, Wis., says: “This section has been blessed 
with abundant rains the past season, which bodes well for the nursery¬ 
men and fruit growers.” 
Mr. and Mrs. Philippe de Vilmorin, of Paris, who made a tour 
through the United States and Canada during the last two months, 
sailed for home from New York November 14 th. 
The twenty-sixth state convention of Fruit Growers of California 
will convene at San Francisco under the auspices of the State Board of 
Horticulture on December 3 d, and continue in session four days. 
H. F. Hartzell, of John Peters & Co., Uriah, Pa., has sold his inter¬ 
est in that firm to his partners, John Peters and Earl Peters, who will 
conduct the business in the future under the same firm name as before. 
Robert George has been elected general manager of the Storrs & 
Harrison Company to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William 
G. Storrs. Edward B. George has been elected superintendent to suc¬ 
ceed his father. 
The seventh annual meeting and exhibition of the New Hampshire 
Horticultural Society was held at Clairemont, October 23 - 24 . The dis¬ 
play of apples was said to excel that of New York at the Buffalo Expo¬ 
sition. The largest exhibit was by C. A. Evans, over 200 varieties of 
fruits, flowers and vegetables. 
Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Chase Rose Company 
of Riverside, Cal. The company is organized to do a general nursery 
and floral business, and is incorporated for $ 25,000 all paid up. The 
incorporators and directors are: E. A. Chase, F. F. Chase, H. B. Chase, 
M. A. Chase and C. W. Howard. 
William Crawford Barry, son of William C. Barry of the firm of 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., and Miss Grace Goodloe, young, 
est daughter of the late William C. Goodloe, Lexington, Kentucky, 
were married by Rt. Rev. Bernard J. McQuaid, bishop of the Roman 
Catholic diocese of Rochester, at Lexington, Ky., on November 14 th. 
At the fall meeting of the Michigan Horticultural Society part of the 
afternoon was spent on the grounds of Greening Brothers’ Nurseries, 
where a steam digger was in use, digging trees. Senior students of 
the agricultural college were taken to this nursery in the morning, and 
in the afternoon to the Monroe Nurseries, I. E. Ugenfritz’s Sons, and 
the details of the business shown and explained. 
The vineyardists on this belt are not pulling out their grapes, says 
George S. Josselyn of Fredonia, N. Y., in Rural New Vorker. On 
the contrary, they are buying more vines to put out more acreage, 
although we have 30,000 acres on our belt. The exact reason, I think, 
that they are not pulling out vineyards, and are going to plant more, 
is that the grapes here are bringing big prices, better prices than they 
have before in many years. 
E. F. Stephens, Crete, Neb., Nov. 7, 1901 —“ We take pleasure 
in sending you $1 to renew our subscription to your excellent journal 
We hope to continue to receive it as long as we remain in business, 
which will be as long as we live.” 
MAINE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
At the annual meeting of the Maine Pomological Society at 
Dexter, Nov. 6-7, J. H. Hale said he had expended thousands 
of dollars for commercial fertilizers ; but that he is not doing 
it now for he thinks it is money wasted. “ I am stirring the 
soil as it ought to be stirred,” he said, “and that is my fertil¬ 
izer.” Six hundred plates' of apples, 85 of pears and six of 
grapes were exhibited. These officials were elected : Presi¬ 
dent, Z. A. Gilbert, North Greene ; vice-presidents, D. P. True, 
Leeds Center, H. L. Leland, East Sangerville ; secretary, 
D. H. Knowlton, Farmington ; treasurer, C. S. Pope, Man¬ 
chester. 
PHYLLOXERA-RESISTING VINES. 
Resistant vines, says the California Nursery Company’s 
catalogue, are now being generally planted in all parts where 
phylloxera has made its appearance. The progress of this per¬ 
nicious insect has been slow in California, but wherever it has 
appeared, it has been found necessary to graft on resistant 
stocks. Only in isolated districts where phylloxera is not 
likely to reach, it is safe to plant the European grapes on their 
own roots. The great value of resistant stock may be judged 
from the fact that since the almost total destruction of the 
vines of France, that country has replanted its vineyards with 
resistant stocks, and now possesses about two million acres of 
vines grafted on phylloxera-resisting roots. The yield of 
wine in France which once had dwindled down to an insignifi¬ 
cant figure, has in consequence increased to such an extent, 
that it is now several million gallons greater than it was be¬ 
fore the advent of the phylloxera. In California the use of 
resistant stocks has proven as great a success as in France. 
THE KIEFFER PEAR. 
Nurserymen will be interested in the following statement by 
the Rural New Yorker, in response to a query from Benton 
Harbor, Mich : 
R. N. Y.—We have been watching the Kieffer pear closely in this 
market. A few years ago in New York, during its season, the push 
carts and fruit stands were well covered with it. Many were sold to 
eat out of the hand, and the result, nine times out of ten, was evidently 
a disappointment. Gradually the fruit has disappeared from these 
retail stands, until now it is rarely seen. This is good evidence that 
the buying public recognize it, and will not buy it for eating from the 
hand. We believe that its sale will be limited to the demand for can¬ 
ning purposes, and there are few better fruits for this purpose. In 
order to make sure we have asked some leading fruit dealers for 
opinions as to the future trade in Kieffers. 
Stearns & Brothers, Baltimore, Md., state that the Kieffer 
does r.ot bring the prices that other varieties do, and think 
that too many of them are grown. S. H. & E. H. Frost, New 
York say : “The foreign demand seems increasing somewhat. 
This will help to relieve the market, and it may be that large 
increased production might pay many years to come.” 
Brown & McMahon, Philadelphia, say : “ Our opinion is 
that the Kieffier pear business is very much overdone, and 
instead of planting more trees they would better cut some 
down.” Archdeacon & Co., New York: “It may be very 
good for canning or cooking ; in fact, in the South it is a pear 
which they prefer to all others, probably because they have no 
others.” 
