THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Biltong (Browers anb Dealers. 
Frederic J. Rea, Norwood, Mass., has succeeded the firm of Rea 
Brothers, dissolved. 
E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, la., has purchased the business of Welch 
Brothers of that place. 
E. H. Atkinson, Dover Nurseries, Dover, Del., has sold his nur¬ 
series to Henry C. Walker. 
The annual meeting of the Society of American Florists will be held 
August 19 - 22 d at Asheville, N. C. 
John G. Gardner of the Montgomery Nurseries, Villa Nova, Pa., 
will lay out a park at Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Charles A. Maxson, of the Central Michigan Nursery Co., Kala¬ 
mazoo, was in New York city last month. 
D. S. Lake, Shenandoah. la., writes that the season has been favor¬ 
able, and that they are loaded for the trade. 
Jones Brothers & Co., Hobart, Oklahoma, will conduct a general 
nursery business with a capital stock of $ 25 , 000 . 
A. D. Barnes, Waupaca, Wis., read a paper on cherries at the sum¬ 
mer meeting of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society. 
W. C. Reed, Vincennes, Ind.. called upon Western New York nur 
serymen last month on his trip among the nurseries of the east. 
The sixth annual meeting of the American Park and Outdoor Art 
Association will be held in Horticultural hall, Boston, August 5 - 7 . 
The Charlton Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y., has bought two acres 
of land from Allen L. Wood, upon which he will erect packing sheds 
at once. 
Guy A. Bryant, Princeton, Ill., is the secretary of the American 
Retail Nurseryman’s Protective Association, not L. A. Bryant as pre¬ 
viously reported. 
James Troop, state entomologist of Indiana, has sent out a public 
notice that the seventeen-year locusts have done practically no dam¬ 
age to the nursery stock in that state. 
A stock company with a capital of $ 5,000 has been formed at Detroit 
by Charles W. Harrah, Willis Hough, Frederick T. Ducharme, and 
William H. Maybury, the last-named gentleman holding 497 shares. 
The Allen Nursery Co. and the Hawkes Nursery Co., Rochester, 
have purchased land for packing purposes at East Rochester. They 
will construct packing cellars which will be ready for use in the fall. 
A bulletin by the Geneva, N. Y., experiment station calls attention 
to the yellowing and dropping of apple leaves in Western New York. 
It is believed that spraying during adverse weather conditions is the 
cause. 
A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan., has been visiting nurseries since the Mil¬ 
waukee convention. He proposes to build a packing house 80 x 100 
feet, and asks for information regarding composition or other kinds of 
roofing. 
Wyman Elliot, Minneapolis, says: “There is a splendid opportun¬ 
ity for experimental work by enthusiastic horticulturists who seek 
renown and fortune by producing the ideal commercial apple and culi¬ 
nary plum. 
Thomas E. Cashman is secretary and manager of the Clinton Falls 
Nursery Co., Owatonna, Minn., which is building a new office ; also a 
frost-proof tree cellar, 120 x 80 and 10 feet in height, with walls 28 
inches thick. 
France proposes to make a great outdoor display at the St. Louis 
exposition. Her commissioner has asked for eight acres of land sur¬ 
rounding the French building, to be planted by the nurserymen, 
florists and seedsmen. 
The dutiable imports during the month of May, 1902 , of plants, 
trees, shrubs and vines amounted to $ 57 , 258 , as compared with $ 21,144 
during the same month a year ago. The exports during May, 1902 , 
of nursery stock were valued at $ 14 , 544 , against $ 6,385 in May, 1901 . 
Fred Wellhouse, the well known apple grower of Kansas, is quoted 
as saying that his state will raise one of the largest crops this year in 
its history. The trees are not as full of fruit as they have been in 
other years, but the size and good quality will make up for quantity. 
A Southern Nut Growers Association is proposed. A* an informal 
meeting recently at Albany, Ga., these temporary officers were elected: 
President, G M. Bacon, DeWitt, Ga.; vice president. Robert J. Bacon. 
Baconton. Ga.; treasurer, J. M. Tift, Albany, Ga.; secretary, J. F. 
Wilson, Poulan, Ga. 
The United States government has planted five acres in Arizona to 
date trees imported from Africa, besides 1,000 seedlings In the past 
year at the governmental experimental station near Phoenix, three 
imported trees bore more than 500 pounds of fruit, ripening between 
August and January. 
John Rock, manager of the California Nursery Co., Niles, Cal , en¬ 
tertained 275 members of the Pacific Coast Horticultural Society, on 
July 6th, at a picnic on the nursery grounds. There are six green¬ 
houses and 650 acres under cultivation. Foreign shipments of trees 
are made regularly from this nursery. 
Secretary Dawley of the New York State Fruit Growers’ associa¬ 
tion reports that the outlook for the fruit crop in New York state, 
based upon 100 as an average full crop, is as follows : Apples. 70 ; 
grapes, 90 ; peaches, 25 ; pears, 25 ; Japan plums, 10 ; European 
plums, 40 ; raspberries, 85 ; currants, 65 . 
The Upland Nursery Co., which purchased all the buildings, etc., of 
the E. W. Reid Nursery, and removed them to the Darrah farm at 
Lansing, west of Bridgeport, O., was recently reorganized, says the 
Florists’ Exchange. It will be a stock company with a capital of 
$ 5 , 000 , but this amount will be increased at an early date. J. M. 
Brown was elected president, J. C. Dent vice p esident, E. B. Bowie 
secretary-treasurer, and Mr Jarvis general manager J. M. Brown, J. 
C. Dent, J. B. Briggs, E. B. Bowie and D. H. Dondan were elected 
directors. 
Hn 1Rurser\> IRows. 
White Strawberhies. —In reply to a correspondent, The Country 
Gentleman says that while White Strawberries may be found growing 
wild in tie northeastern states, small, conical, and of comparatively 
little value, those who wish to cultivate them should send to French or 
English nurserymen. 
Perfection Currant.— Samples of the Perfection Currant, origin¬ 
ated and grown by C. M. Hooker & Sons, Rochester, N. Y., were 
received at this office last month This is certainly a valuable currant, 
large, tart, juicy, and a prolific bearer. This is the first fruit to be 
awarded the $50 gold Barry medal of the Western New York Horticul¬ 
tural Society. It also received the highest award of any new fruit at 
the Pan-American Exposition. This year, as heretofore, the Perfec¬ 
tion Currant is surpassing all other varieties on the grounds of the 
originators, as to size, quality, length of bunch, etc. The colored cuts 
of the currant do not in any way exaggerate. The fruit is fully up to 
the illustrations. 
Hardy Grape Stocks.— Can hardy, vigorous vines of other species 
than the ordinary labrusca grape be profitably used in commercial 
vineyards as stocks upon which to graft varieties which are better in 
fruit than Concord ? In order to ascertain the facts in this connection, 
the New York Agricultural Experiment Station is undertaking co-op¬ 
erative experiments with vineyards in different sections of the state. 
Among the varieties which will be tested in this way are Barry, Her. 
bert and some others of the Rogers hybrids, Brighton, Campbell, Mills, 
Iona and Vergennes. Some of the varieties more commonly found in 
commercial vineyards, such as Concord, Delaware, Niagara and Wor¬ 
den, will also be grown in the same way for comparison with the 
varieties first named. One experimental vineyard is located on the 
farm of T. H. King, Trumansburg, Tompkins County, N. Y., on the 
upland bordering Cayuga Lake. A second experimental vineyard is 
located on the farm of I. A. Wilcox, Portland, Chautauqua County, 
N. Y., in the midst of the famous Chautauqua grape belt. It is pro. 
posed to locate a third vineyard at some easily accessible point in a sec¬ 
tion of the Hudson Valley, where grapes are grown commercially. 
