THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IN THE EAST . 
Sales Extremely Heavy at Geneva, N. Y, — Prices Averaged Higher 
—Season a Record Breaker at Nevark, N. Y, — Unusually 
Strong Wholesale Demand —All Salable Grades Cleaned 
Up—Good Demand for Ornamentals—Weather 
Favorable for Shipping. 
Geneva, N. Y., April 14 .—“The season in Geneva opened 
unusually early, and the weather conditions have been very 
favorable up to this time for conducting business, and stock is 
even now in dormant condition. Sales have been extremely 
heavy. Almost all lines have been sold up close, and prices 
have averaged higher than last season. The plantings will be 
rather above the average for the last ten years, but not quite 
as heavy as last year. On account of the lighter grades being 
sold from two-year blocks, and large quantities of one-year- 
olds sold, prices will probably be maintained next season.” 
Morrisville, Pa., April 15 .—S. C. Moon : “A good 
demand for ornamental trees and shrubs, particularly in large 
sizes, at good prices. Such stock appears to be scarce. I 
have shipped several elm trees from five to eight inch caliber 
and beeches and maples of about the same size, and ever¬ 
greens from eight to ten feet high.” 
Newark, N. Y., April 15 .—Jackson & Perkins Co.: “This 
spring has been a record-breaker with us. We have never 
before sold out so closely as we have this season. We have 
had to turn down hundreds of orders within the past two 
weeks. Even smaller grades have been used up clean. We 
have never seen quite such a strong wholesale demand cover¬ 
ing nearly all lines of stock. About mid-winter it looked as 
if there might be a little surplus of plums and standard pears 
(except Bartlett), but with the opening of shipping season, it 
soon became evident that there was hardly enough to go 
around and, so far as we can judge, all salable grades have 
been cleaned up. 
“The spring, with us, was especially favorable for our ship¬ 
ping. The frost went out of the ground quite early, so that 
we were able to commence digging in some parts of our 
nurseries by the 12 th to 15 th of March, but the continuance 
of moderately cold weather up to the middle of April kept 
stock perfectly dormant and in good condition for shipment. 
It also had the effect of holding back shipping orders some¬ 
what so that business did not come on us all in a rush as has 
happened some seasons, when the ground has staid frozen up 
until late, and it has then turned warm suddenly. In a word, 
we are pretty contented with this spring’s business and, we 
believe, most growers feel likewise. 
“ We think that prospects are good for at least one year 
more. Believe there will be no especial surplus for next 
season in any lines. Are not increasing our plantings this 
spring, for we believe that two or three seasons like this one 
cannot fail to over-stimulate the growing business and result 
in a market as badly glutted as there was in 1893 - 95 . 
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BETTER THAN A CATALOGUE. 
Webb Gustin, a fruit tree agent, went hunting yesterday and 
got on a farm that was posted. I he owner, in a rage, caught 
him. Webb pacified him with a funny story to the extent 
that the farmer invited him to dinner and before he left, at 
1 o’clock, Gustin had sold him a $100 bill of fruit trees. 
Indianapolis News. 
Hmong (Growers anb IDealers. 
John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y., was in California last month. 
A. Rolker & Sons have moved into a new store at 31 Barclay street, 
New York city, one flight above Suzuki & Iida. 
It is reported that the Wichita Nursery Company, Wichita, Kan , 
received an order for 10,000 fruit trees for the Pecos Valley Orchard 
Company, at Roswell, N. M., this spring. 
The demand for fruit trees this spring almost exhausted the supply 
at San Jose, Cal. It was difficult to fill an order for even two or three 
dozen trees, two years old, of assorted kinds. Prunes remain the pop¬ 
ular fruit. 
It is reported that Fred Wellhouse, the apple king of Kansas, put 
out 72,000 grafts in nursery this spring, destined for the orchard next 
spring. The varieties are given preference in the following order : 
Ben Davis, 25,000 ; Missouri Pippin, 17,000 ; Jonathan, 15,000, and 
Gano, 1,500. 
From Huntsville, Ala., says the California Fruit Grower, comes 
word that since February 1 about $250,000 worth of fruit trees have 
been shipped to foreign markets by the six large local nurseries. A 
car of cherry trees represents in value about $3,000 and a car of peach 
trees about $1,000. 
At the meeting of the executive committee of the Society, of Ameri¬ 
can Florists, in Asheville, N. C., on March 4th, a communication 
regarding the proposed United States laws in reference to the inspection 
and fumigation of nursery stock was referred to the legislative com. 
mittee of the society. 
Charles A. Green, Rochester, N. Y., is one of several Rochesterians 
who have given to the Mechanics’ Institute of the city one hundred 
cases of mounted specimens of birds in connection with the establish¬ 
ment of a “bird day.” It is hoped that all may be taught that the 
destruction of birds is wrong from many points of view. 
Regarding the San Jose scale, George S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y., 
says : “ We have never had this pest on our grounds or premises. We 
believe the best way to manage this scale is to keep it out and have 
used strenuous methods to accomplish this. We have observed that 
one easy way to acquire this scale is to exchange stock with ‘Tom, 
Dick and Harry ’ from any where and everywhere. We haven’t made 
an exchange deal for stock in more than fifteen years and don’t propose 
to begin.” 
H. M. Stringfellow says he thinks he has learned why stub pruned 
trees fail to grow at the North. In a communication to the Rural New 
Yorker he says: “If set in fall or early winter they grow easily, but 
if planted in spring after sap begins to move, they will callus readily 
and make nice tops, which soon wither, as no roots are emitted I 
have always advocated fall planting for stub pruned trees, and it is 
especially important at the North, where spring comes so quickly, thus 
starting wood growth before roots strike While long rooted trees will 
live if set after new roots start, it is risky to plant stub-pruned trees 
unless perfectly dormant.” 
CITRUS TRIFOLIATA AS A STOCK. 
The Jessamine Gardens, at Jessamine, Pasco county, Florida, says 
a correspondent of the Florists’ Exchange, make a specialty of citrus 
trifoliata as a stock upon which to work (by budding) the unique and 
highly decorative little Kumquat, Kin-Kan or Chinese gooseberry 
orange (as it is variously known, and also the various large-fruited 
oranges, grapefruit, lemons and limes, designed both for open ground 
planting in the lower South and for pot or tub cultivation elsewhere ; 
and their nurseries present some remarkable examples of results ob¬ 
tainable by the use of this hardy Japanese citrus (trifoliata). It 
dwarfs the variety budded or grafted on it, just as quince stock dwarfs 
the pear, or the Paradise stock dwarfs the apple, and induces fruiting 
as soon as wood enough has grown to hold fruit. 
Joseph H. Dodge, Rochester, and Fred T. Wiley, Cayuga, have been 
appointed on the list of thirteen state nursery inspectors. 
