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being interested in the orchards; we hope that this popularity will 
grow, and that those who have tried it, have found among the trees 
contentment, which they have sought elsewhere, with health and hap¬ 
piness as a result of their tree labor. 
Among the speakers from other states were : Assistant 
Pomologist G. H. Powell, United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture ; O. M. Lord, plum expert, Minnesota ; Stancliff Hale, 
son of J. H. Hale, Connecticut. Two hundred varieties of 
plum were exhibited by J. W. Kerr, who delivered an address 
on apple culture. A. W. Slaymaker, Delaware, reported on 
plums and peaches. Prof. W. C. Johnson delivered an illus¬ 
trated lecture on “ Some Famous Orchards.” A. N. Brown, 
Wyoming, Del., was elected president ; Wesley Webb, Dover 
Del., secretary ; J. W. Kerr, one of the vice-presidents, and 
Orlando Harrison, a member of the executive committee. 
Fifty members of the society, residing in the upper part of 
the peninsula, returned on the same train, and while en route 
they held a meeting, at which Lieutenant Governor Cannon, 
of Delaware, presided. The seats in the coach were 
reversed and for two hours matters of interest to the horticul¬ 
turists of the peninsula were discussed. 
WM. FELL & CO. (HEXHAM) LTD. 
Regarding the successful floating of the business of 
the Royal Seed Warehouse and Nursery Establishment 
of William Fell & Co., as a limited liability company, now 
William Fell & Co. (Hexham) Ltd., capital stock $100,000, 
the Hexham, England, Herald of October 19, 1901, says : 
Following the trend of so many large industrial undertakings at the 
present time, the old and widely known firm of Messrs. William Fell & 
Co., seed merchants and nurserymen, is now to become a limited lia¬ 
bility company, a change necessitated by the ever widening process of 
business, and in obedience, we suppose, to the principle of co-operation 
which is a conspicuous feature in modern commercial life. Many large 
firms, “ hoar with antiquity,” have had to fall in line with a movement 
that must have an important influence on our future prosperity, and 
those who have failed to grasp the present changed requirements and 
economic conditions of trade, and elected to hold fast by the old order 
of things, are being left behind by their more up to-date compeers. 
Thus we find among those fully alive to the progressive movement the 
firm of Messrs. Wm. Fell & Co., who by their diligence and attention 
raised the business to a unique position in the ranks of nurserymen and 
seedsmen, possessing, as it does, a very extended connection. The 
share capital, as will be seen by the advertised prospectus, is £20,000 
(#100,000), divided into ten thousand five per cent, preference shares of 
£1 each, and ten thousand ordinary shares of £1 each. The directors 
are: Wm. Fell, chairman and managing director; Thos. Atkinson, land 
agent, Newcastle; Geo. Hogarth Bell, Summerrods, Hexham; Wm 
Milne, managing director; Robert H. Dobson, secretary The business 
was first established nearly a century and a quarter ago by the prede¬ 
cessors of the late Ralph Robson, who carried the business successfully 
for several years. When Messrs. Fell & Co. purchased the business, 
over 21 years ago, it was almost entirely of a local character ; now their 
business relations extend throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, 
and they include among their patrons the Crown and many of the most 
extensive landed proprietors, and they have during recent years estab¬ 
lished valuable business connections in the United States and Canada, 
and have secured an important Continental list of correspondents. The 
managing directors will be the members of the present firm, who will 
be holders of two-thirds of the ordinary shares of the new company. 
They have associated with them in the directorate two able bu3inass 
gentlemen, viz.; Mr. Geo. Hogarth BelL, of this town, and Mr. Atkin¬ 
son, land agent, Newcastle. The firm are considerable employers of 
labor, their staff in the offices, seed department, in the nursery and on 
landscape gardening and forest planting operations outside the nursery 
average about 75 hands. 
Hmcmo ©rowers anh Bealers. 
E. H. Riehl has been elected president of the Alton, Ill., Horticul¬ 
tural Society. 
Greening Brothers, Monroe, Mich., have filed articles of incorpora¬ 
tion ; capital stock, #100,000. 
A. L. Wood and family. Rochester, N. Y., went to Florida last 
month to spend a portion of the winter. 
C. M. Peters, Wesley, Md., read a paper on “ Grapes,” at the annual 
meeting of the Peninsula Horticultural Society at Berlin, Md., last 
month. 
W. B. Schaeffer, Long Grove, Ill., announces that after the spring’s 
trade he will go out of the nursery business and will move to another 
part of the country. 
To John Charlton & Son, Rochester, N. Y., was awarded by the 
Western New York Horticultural Society last month the Barry medal, 
for the new Charlton grape. 
The Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen reports a pros¬ 
pect of a good demand for stock the coming spring. The association 
will meet July 8th in Kansas City. 
Frederick W. Kelsey was toastmaster at the New England Society’s 
dinner at Orange, N. J., December 31st. He is president of the 
society. Four hundred persons were present. 
The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the New Jersey Horticultural 
Society was held at Trenton on January 8-9. W. H. Reed, Tennent, 
was elected president, H. J. Budd, Mt. Holly, secretary. 
The annual meeting of the Eastern New York Horticultural Society 
will be held in New York city, Feb. 12 and 13. 1902, in the rooms of 
the American Institute, which hold-5 its mid-winter exhibition at the 
same time. 
It is stated that the state horticulturist of Washington intends to 
enforce to the letter the provision of the Washington state law requir¬ 
ing nurserymen doing business in that state to furnish a bond for #1,000 
and procure a license. 
All who knew the late Thomas Meehan will be especially interested 
in the biographical sketch of him in the January issue of Meehan’s 
Monthly. This monthly will be continued by C. Mendelson Meehan 
on the lines laid down by Thomas Meehan. 
Prof. Webster, state entomologist of Ohio, reports that the San Jose 
scale commission in that state has spent #150,000 during the last year 
in fighting the scale. Inspections were made in the 192 nurseries. 6,130 
acres, in the state, and 133 certificates were granted ; 86,000 trees were 
destroyed, 25,000 of which were in a single nursery. 
“ Worcester county now has the largest peach nursery in the United 
States of America,” declared Dr. James C. Dirickson who delivered an 
address of welcome on behalf of Mayor Orlando Harrison, at the 
annual meeting of the Peninsula Horticultural Society last month, at 
Berlin, Md., the home of the nurseries of J. G. Harrison & Sons. 
At the annual meeting of the Iowa State Horticultural Society. 
Charles G. Patten, Charles City, presented his report as delegate to the 
biennial meeting of the American Pomological Society, and in it he 
criticised the formation of the hybridizers’ congress on the ground that 
the work of such a congress should be left to the pomological society. 
Chase Brothers Company, Rochester, N. Y., recently won a court 
action brought for collection of corporation tax, on the ground that 
the assessment was wrongfully made upon “ Chase Brothers,” the 
word “ company ” not appearing. The judge declared that an assess¬ 
ment to be legal must be made against a corporation in its official title. 
At the New York State Fruit Growers’ Association meeting in Syra¬ 
cuse, the following was adopted : “ Resolved, That the New York 
State Fruit Growers’ Association, in the name of every fruit grower in 
the country who has not received his land as a guaranty from the 
national government, denounce all projects for irrigating any portion 
of the public domain at the public expense, every such project being 
a direct blow at the prosperity of American husbandry at large and 
therefore at the best interests of the whole American people, broadly 
viewed.” _ 
The official trade journal—NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
