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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
iis teisisessee isurseries. Hmortg (Browers anb ^Dealers, 
Stands of all Young Stock are Excellent and all Stock Growing 
Well — Vice-President Wilson Reports that there is no 
San Jose Scale in the State—Peach and Apple 
Crop will be Light. 
Winchester, Tenn,, May 20 th. — Conditions in Ten¬ 
nessee in the nursery line are very favorable indeed. The 
Knoxville nurserymen report that their sales are some better 
than last year at the same date. The spring planting at that 
point is growing off in good shape, the stands being good and 
the coming two year old stock in excellent condition. The 
prices being realized there are quite satisfactory and they 
report nothing but encouraging news. At Winchester the 
plant was some heavier this year than last. 
The stands of all young stock are excellent and all stock in 
general is growing in good shape. We are very much discour¬ 
aged over our stand of peach buds. In March we had the 
prospect of a fine stand, but we find that thousands of buds 
have not up to this date started and of course never will. Our 
blocks of apple coming two year old are very fine, as well as 
pears, cherries, plums and other stock. 
We cleaned up closer at this point the past spring than ever 
before, and the fall sales are fully up to last season at this 
time. With the exception of the bad stand of peach buds we 
have nothing of an adverse character tn report. I have been 
unable to get reports from Nashville or Humbolt which are 
the other nursery points in the state. 
The impression seems to have gone abroad that the San 
Jose scale exists broadcast in Tennessee. We were astonished 
to receive a letter from one of our New York customers com¬ 
menting on stock shipped him the past spring which he wound 
up by saying “ the best part of the whole business was that our 
inspector could find no evidence whatever of the San Jose 
scale.” The scale has never infected but two sections in 
Tennessee. Some years ago a commercial orchard at Harri- 
man, Tenn., became infected with the scale and I am told that 
the orchard was cut down and burned. There are no nurser¬ 
ies nearer than one hundred miles from Harriman in our 
state. The only other appearance of scale in our state was at 
Nashville two years ago when a large nursery there became 
infected. This nursery was dug up and destroyed by fire, and 
no stock from the infected nursery was ever permitted to be 
shipped by our state authorities after the scale was discovered. 
I am quite positive that the scale does not exist in any section 
of our state to-day, and we have an excellent scale law which 
is being carried into effect by our very efficient entomologist. 
The peach crop in Tennessee will be very light this year, 
while the apples will only be a partial crop except in the most 
favorable sections. The strawberry crop which is just being 
wound up was only about one-third the usual crop. However, 
the prices realized for the fruit was very satisfactory. 
Trust that we may have a banner convention at Milwaukee. 
W. Lee Wilson, 
Vice-President American Association. 
The Napa Valley Nursery Company has been incorporated at San 
Jose, Cal., with a capital of $15,000 by John Ames, president and man- 
ager ; Leonard Coates, William Fisher and others. The company will 
have 85,000 grafted vines and 150,000 other vines for next season, as 
well as 250,000 fruit trees. 
A. Logan and J. B. Weaver will establish a nursery at Union, 
Oregon. 
J. E. Wright, foreman of the Wragg Nursery, Waukee, la., died 
April 23. 
The mid summer meeting of the Michigan Horticultural Society will 
be held at Pontiac, June 3—4. 
The annual meeting of the American Seed Trade Association will be 
held June 24, 25, 26 in Minneapolis. 
J. Blaauw, Boskoop, Holland, who has been visiting American nur¬ 
series, sailed for Holland on May 10th. 
Fruit growers of California, representing 88 per cent, of the trade, 
have organized to control eastern shipments. 
A. McGill, secretary and treasurer of the Oregon Nursery Co., Salem, 
Oregon, visited Western New York in April. 
O B. Hadwen has offered to the city of Worcester, Mass., a gift of a 
fifty-acre tract of land on the shores of Curtis pond for a public park. 
The summer meeting of the Missouri Horticultural Society will be 
held at Eldon, June 10—12; the winter meeting at Springfield, Dec. 
2—4. 
Ex-President Irving Rouse, Rochester, will not be at the Milwaukee 
convention, another important engagement taking him East at that 
time. 
Seven hundred large shade trees, some 18 inches in diameter, were 
moved this spring to the St. Louis Exposition grounds and at this time 
give every promise of success. 
E. P. Felt, state entomologist of New York reports that the grape- 
root worm has destroyed 80 acres of vineyard in the Chautauqua grape 
belt and that it infests 200 acres near Ripley. 
John Ward, Shobdon. Herefordshire, England, is propagating what 
is reported to be a hybrid between the apple and the pear. The fruit 
has something of the form of a pear and the color and flavor of an 
apple. 
One of the finest, best equipped and best managed private places in 
the west is that of J. J. Hill, railroad magnate of St. Paul, Minn., pre¬ 
sided over by A. Hallstrom. Altogether there is about 15,000 square 
feet of glass. 
Albert Brownell, proprietor of the Albany nursery, Albany, Oregon, 
says that he has not only had a good clean up in disposing of nursery 
stock, but that a large number of the trees had been sold for the fall 
delivery of this year. 
The Winchester, Virginia, Nursery Company has been incorporated 
with a capital stock of $50,000. The incorporators are Hugh S. Lup- 
ton, Clark H. Purcell, L. F. Lewis, S. M. Chiles, W. H. Baker, W. A. 
Bell and A. J. Levenner. 
A party of twenty-five or thirty nurserymen from the East will start 
for Milwaukee from Buffalo on Monday night, June 9th, via the 
Wabash railroad. They will arrive at Milwaukee, Tuesday night, 
stopping a few hours in Chicago. 
There are 5,203,033 orange and 1,342,882 lemon trees in California. 
Of this number 4,126,765 orange and 1,247,830 lemon trees are in 
Southern California, comprising the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, 
Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis 
Obispo and Ventura. 
Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., last week received the largest 
shipment of bay trees that has’ever come to New York at any single 
time. The trees number 1,200. Among them are some of the largest 
specimens ever imported. A special train of fifteen cars was used to 
convey the consignment from the Hoboken depot to the firm’s 
nurseries. 
Jacob W. Manning, Reading, Mass., writes that he hopes to be at 
the Milwaukee convention, for it is a habit he has had since June, 1878, 
at Cleveland. He has been in the nursery business 48 years at the same 
place. He began work at tree growing and planting in 1847 and com¬ 
menced the Reading Nursery in 1854. “If you do not see me at 
Milwaukee ” he writes, “ tell Mr. Albaugh how it is. I am still two 
years ahead of him.” 
