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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
TREE AND PLANT LABELS. 
Why cannot the nurseryman, when he is sending out his 
orders, label each with a permanent label, and so let the one 
act be that of utility and lasting use, asks Harrison Weir in 
Gardner’s Chronicle. Instead of which as matters are, when 
one is planting, fresh labels have to be got and written, the 
traveling ones taken off, and the permanent ones substituted. 
This double labor should be avoided, and the customer put to 
as little inconvenience and trouble as possible. This I take it 
is the proper and business-like way of doing things, not the 
slipshod style now adopted, of useless labeling, beyond that of 
present identification. Permanent name appendages would 
also simplify planting, and make it at least more pleasurable 
than as now it is tedious 
Why not have either wood or zinc in a form easily 
wired on the tree and written on either with indelible 
ink or with an indelible pencil ? And so with the herbaceous 
plants. Why not have nice white wooden labels so written 
that when the new comers are garden placed, the label can be 
inserted in the soil, and then so on to the next and the 
next. True, it may be argued, and this with some reason, 
that you, knowing what you have ordered, can prepare and 
write your labels beforehand, and then change the nurseryman’s 
for yours. Yes, this could be done, doubtless, and probably 
is, but if you have a hundred or two they get mixed, and each 
has to be sought for as wanted, and thus very much valuable 
time is lost. Whereas, if the nurseryman, on sending out his 
trees or what not, properly puts on permanent labels, all this 
secondary use of time, which is lost, would be saved and the 
planting perfected at once. It is just as easy to tie on one 
kind of label as another, and, therefore, it is merely a matter 
of cost, which might be slightly more, yet of such a trifling 
sum as to render it unworthy of consideration in the face of 
the increased utility. 
KANSAS ORCHARDS. 
Ex-Governor E. N. Morrill of Kansas is another apple 
king in that region of royalty in the fruit line. His orchards 
are in the southern part of Leavenworth county. Counting 
27 000 trees he set out last April, there are 64,000 trees on 800 
acres, a compact area of land, making it perhaps the largest 
single apple orchard in this country or in the world. Mr. 
Morrill bought 880 acres of land three years ago and began 
planting. The severe winter of two years ago destroyed 
20,000 young trees. The trees are planted 80 to the acre. 
There are 12,000 Jonathans, which are considered the best 
apples for that country.—Fruit Trade Journal. 
Xotig atib Short. 
The Deming field sprayer is thoroughly reliable. 
The Opalescent apple is one of the specialties offered by McNary & 
Gaines, Xenia, O, They furnish description. 
The Willis Nuseries, Ottawa, Kan., offer 50,000 apples, No. 1 , two 
years, 10,000 cherries, No. 1 , two years, 2,500 Kieffer pears, No. 1 , two 
years. 
D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la., claims to be the largest grower in 
America of apple seedlings, graded to the highest standard, either 
straight or branched roots for budding or grafting. He has gooseber 
ries, apple, cherry, plum, grapes and shade trees by the carload. 
CHANGE IN FIRM. 
On November 15, 1901, the firm of Schuette & Czarnowski, 
St. Louis, Mo., was dissolved by mutual consent ; Mr. Czar¬ 
nowski retiring. The firm will continue business as heretofore 
under name of J. W. Schuette & Co. The change in name 
means no change in the management whatever, as Mr. 
Schuette who has had complete charge of the management 
since 1894, and previously for S. M. Bayles, will continue to 
give the business his personal attention ; and maintain the 
reputation established during the last 43 years. 
PLASTER CASTS OF FRUIT. 
With the large number of fruits named and scattered over 
the country, it is impossible for any one to keep' in memory 
the characteristics of each one—and yet nurserymen every¬ 
where continually have fruits sent them for name, says Mee- 
han’s Monthly. A correspondent makes the good suggestion 
that if some one would take in hand the making of plaster 
casts, properly colored, of all the leading varieties of fruit, 
there would be sufficient demand for them to make the prep¬ 
arations profitable. There are few nurserymen, he believes, 
but would be glad to have on hand a dozen or so of the lead¬ 
ing varieties of apples and pears, at least. He observes, 
further, that there is just as much need of these models of 
fruits as there is of a herbarium to a botanist. 
©bituaiT. 
Judge Samuel Miller, well known in the Central West as a horticul¬ 
tural writer, died at his home in Bluffton, Mo., October 24 th, aged 81 
years. He was born in Lancaster, Pa. He had nine children, 38 grand¬ 
children and six great grandchildren. For sixty years he grew trees 
and plants and developed fruits. He originated the Martha white 
grape. In 1867 he moved to Bluffton where he developed the Captain 
Jack strawberry. While serving in the horticultural department at 
the Pan-American Exposition, Judge Miller contracted an illness 
which proved fatal. 
Arthur T. Nelson, Lebanon, Mo., died November 10 th, aged 71 
years. He was one of the leading citizens of Laclede county, and one 
of the greatest fruit growers in South Missouri. He was born in 
Oneida county, New York; he lived in Buffalo twenty-three years, 
where he was engaged in lake and canal transportation and farming. 
He went to Lebanon in 1888 as manager of the Ozark Plateau Land 
Company, which had purchased 150,000 of land in Laclede and adjoin¬ 
ing counties, which position he held at the time of his death. He was 
a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and had been treasurer of 
Missouri State Horticultural Society for eight years. 
CHARLES DETRICHE, Senior, 
ANGERS, FRANCE, 
Grower and exporter of fruit tree Stocks, forest 
Crees and Ornamentals. 
Extra Large Assortments of Shrubs, Conifers, etc. 
Prices on Application. 
JACKSON & PERKINS CO . } NEWARK, N. Y. 
Sole Representatives for the United States. 
Mr. Detriche would be glad to receive any horticultural catalogues or 
papers. 
