THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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NEW YORK STATE CERTIFICATES. 
Regarding the certificates to be issued by the New York 
State Department of Agriculture after July ist, when the 
amended law relating to fumigation of nursery stock will be in 
effect, Assistant Commissioner Flanders of the Department 
says : 
“ In reference to the question of certifying to fumigation I 
am not sure that we will do anything different in reference to 
granting certificates to New York nurserymen than we have 
done in the past. It has been my idea that the nurserymen 
would use the certificate as heretofore, to which they may add 
their own certificate of fumigation. You will see that it would 
be impossible for the department to certify that fumigation 
had been practiced on specific shipments. It will be our 
intention to see that proper houses and formulas are used as 
required by law.” 
ALLEGED TRADE JOURNALS. 
In another column of the National Nurseryman this 
month appears an advertisement headed “ New Trade 
Journal.” Then follows an announcement that a horticul¬ 
tural advertiser is to be sent free to nurserymen, seedsmen, 
florists and dealers. We refer to this subject simply for the 
purpose of calling attention to the more or less common 
erroneous use of terms that do not describe. 
The horticultural advertiser referred to is in no sense a 
“ trade journal.” Whatever merits it may possess must rest 
entirely upon its nature as an advertising circular. It stands 
for nothing except the display of offerings horticultural and is 
simply what its title implies, a horticultural advertiser. The 
appellation “ trade journal ” is clearly a misnomer. 
PRESIDENT JOHN C. MILLER. 
John C. Miller, president of the Southern Nurserymen’s 
Association, is a member of the firm of G. H. Miller & Son, 
Rome, Ga. In addition to a large nursery trade, extending 
over the entire South, they are interested in commercial fruit 
growing, having over 1,000 acres in peach orchards. 
ADVERTISING THAT PAYS. 
William Kelly, San Jose, Cal., writes: “ Your journal is all right, 
I answered the William Fell Co.’s advertisement and got an order for 
$60 worth of Loganberries, and inquiry is coming in from my adver 
tisement. May double the space next month.” 
John Peters & Co., Uriah, Pa., Jan. 16, 1902.—“ We enclose 
check for subscription for 1902. We always miss the National 
Nurseryman when it does not turn up.” 
Pierce Bechtle, LeMars, la, Jan. 10, 1902.—“Enclosed find 
postoffice order for$l, which please place to my credit on subscription 
for the National Nurseryman. I am well pleased with the publica¬ 
tion. It covers the field quite thoroughly.” 
The April issue of “ Country Life In America” breathes the life and 
beauty of spring on every page. The photo engravings in this publi¬ 
cation are a revelation of what can be done with the camera, supple¬ 
mented by the use of a high grade of paper and artistic press work. 
Hmong (Browers anb IDea let’s. 
John M. Gibson is to start a nursery at Creston, la. 
Luke Brothers Co., Chicago, has been incorporated with a capital 
stock of $25,000. 
Elmer Reeves, Waverly, la., has received the bronze medal awarded 
to him for a display of fruit at the Paris Exposition. 
Benjamin O. Curtis, Paris, Ill., died March 17th, aged 78 years. His 
was the first nursery in Illinois. He went there from Ohio in 1819. 
Prince Henry of Prussia was in America but a fortnight, yet he 
found time while here to plant a tree on Washington’s grave at Mount 
Vernon. 
George C. Hodges and J. G. Jenkins of Elizabeth, N. J., and W. J. 
Kirk of Cokesbury have formed the Greenwood Nursery Company 
with 50 acres of land. 
John P. Burn, of the landscape department of the Meehan nurseries, 
Germantown, Philadelphia, has returned from.a tour through Florida 
and the Bahama Islands. 
William A. Peterson, manager of Peterson’s Nurseries, Chicago, has 
written a monograph on peonies and their cultivation for the Cyclo¬ 
pedia of American Horticulture. 
A. Miller & Son, Milton, Oregon, write: “Trade was never better 
with us. We will plant 150,000 apple grafts and 220,000 apple, pear, 
cherry and peach seedlings to bud this summer.” 
The firm of Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., has received a 
second order by cablegram from a wealthy resident of Corea, Eastern 
China, for fruit trees. The firm will ship an assortment of 200 trees. 
David Baird of New Jersey suggests that all new peaches have been 
chance seedlings, and that there has been no systematic work in hybrid¬ 
izing, no working for a definite purpose. Until this is done, he says, 
the product must remain a chance. 
Contracts for trees and shrubs for Schenley, Highland and the South 
Side parks, Pittsburg, have been awarded to Thomas Meehan & Sons, 
Germantown, Pa., and Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. The 
contract will aggregate about $2,000. 
The dutiable imports during last December of plants, trees, shrubs 
and vines, amounted to $93,656, as compared with $87 550 during the 
same month a year ago. The exports during December, 1901, of nur¬ 
sery stock were valued at $24,419, against $17,620 in December, 1900. 
The dutiable imports during the month of January, 1902, of plants, 
trees, shrubs and vines amounting to $69,048, as compared with 
$105,759, during the same month a year ago. The exports during 
January, 1902, of nursery stock were valued at $12,780 against $21,120 
in January, 1901. 
John Watson, for seventeen years with the Rosedale Nurseries, 
Brenham, Tex., five years as manager of those nurseries, has accepted 
a position in the office of the Phoenix Nursery Company, Bloomington, 
Ill. He will be at the Milwaukee convention in June to renew old 
acquaintances and make new ones. 
The jury in the condemnation suit of the Rio Grande Western Rail 
way Company vs. the Utah Nursery Company et al, of Salt Lake City 
has returned a verdict in favor of the nursery company for $9,678 92. 
The suit was brought to condemn land for the right-of-way over the 
nursery company’s holdings, and to assess the damage to the remainder 
of the tract. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, of whom our readers often hear, is a native of 
New York, and has been engaged from youth in the nursery business. 
Prepared the nursery and plant classification under which the treasury 
department is now woiking ; framed the New Jersey street tree plant¬ 
ing law, and originated the Essex county park scheme, which was 
authorized by the New Jersey legislature without a dissenting .vote, 
and for which $4,000,000 have been appropriated. Mr. Kelsey is presi¬ 
dent of the New England Society of Orange, a member of the Reform 
Club, Municipal Art Society and other similar organizations. He has 
been intimately connected with many park enterprises and schemes for 
city improvement. 
Nevins Bros., Blue Rapids, Wis.— “ Find enclosed $1 on sub¬ 
scription. We do not think we could do business without the Nur¬ 
seryman.” 
