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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Dr. T. H. Hoskins, horticulturist of Vermont, died at Newport June 
25 th, aged 74 years. He was a well-known horticultural writer and 
experimenter. 
Stephen Crane, many years ago in the employ of Ellwanger & Barry, 
Rochester, N. Y., as traveling salesman, died in Norwich, Conn., July 
14 th, aged 74 years. He was born in Orleans county, N. Y., and went 
to Norwich in 1861 . He was proprietor of the Crane nurseries in 
Norwich. 
W. J. Mandeville died July 14 th at Despatch, N. Y., aged 52 years, 
having been born February 9 , 1852 . He graduated from the DeGraff 
Military Institute, of Rochester, and later was connected with the 
firm of S. Boardman & Son, nurserymen and seedsmen. In 1875 , he 
commenced in the flower seed business in his own name, and in 1879 
became associated with Herbert S. King under the firm name of Man¬ 
deville & King. On the death of his partner in 1890 , he formed a 
partnership with Fred B. King, under the same firm name. The firm 
was recently incorporated, Mr. Mandeville being chosen president. 
He was also a director in James Vick’s Sons, and vice-president of the 
Cleveland Seed Company. 
The death of Louis F. Sanders, senior member of L. T. Sanders & 
Son, Plain Dealing, La., on June 8th, was announced in last month’s 
issue of this journal. Mr. Sanders was born in Bertie county, N. C., 
May 15 , 1845 , and was of English and Scotch descent. He moved with 
his parents to St. Francis county, Ark. (afterwards Woodruff county), 
in the winter of ’ 49 . His father being a farmer, he was brought up on 
a farm. As the country was new and schools few, his opportunities to 
obtain an education were meager. The Civil War coming on while he 
was in his teens, he enlisted for one month in the Confederate Army, 
and at the expiration of the month re-enlisted (before he was seventeen 
years old) and served until the close of the war west of the Mississippi 
river, and was discharged near Marshall, Texas, in May, 1865 , from 
Company B, 32 d Arkansas Volunteers, Roan’s Brigade, Churchill’s 
Division. 
On returning home he found that his father had died in March, and 
leaving him no parental ties (his mother having died in ’ 56 ); and the 
country being overrun by both armies, was about ruined. He at¬ 
tended school three months and then commenced work on the farm 
again. In the fall of 1867 , he went to Southwest Kansas, and in Feb¬ 
ruary, 1868 , located in Bossier parish, where he had resided continu¬ 
ously since. 
In January, 1869 , Mr. Sanders married Miss Frances A. Walker, of 
Bossier parish. He followed general farming until 1880 , when he 
added the fruit and nursery business, and made a success of both. He 
seconded every move that has been made for the upbuilding of the 
industrial, educational and political resources of the parish and state, 
and especially did he interest himself in the building up of the farm 
and fruit interests of that section. He was a prominent member of the 
Grange and Farmers’ Alliance, was a charter member of the Texas 
Horticultural Society, and was a member and vice-president for Louis¬ 
iana of the American Association of Nurserymen. He was a Mason 
and a Knight of Pythias, and was buried with Masonic honors. He 
was the senior member from Bossier parish in the General Assembly 
of Louisiana. Leon Sanders, the son, will continue the nursery busi¬ 
ness under the present firm name. 
Announcement was made in a Milwaukee daily papet that 
President Ilgenfritz had reappointed last year’s standing com¬ 
mittees of the American Association of Nurserymen. There 
was no basis for such a statement. President Ilgenfritz 
appointed new committees and they were published for the 
first time correctly in the July issue of the National 
Nurseryman. 
D. 8. Lake, Shenandoah, la , have attractive advertisement in 
another column. Theirs is one of the largest and most complete lines 
of nursery stock in the United States. 
Xong anb Sbot’t. 
Native plum pits and peach pits, box elder and ash seed can be 
secured at J. C. Welch’s, Shenandoah, la. 
Josiah Roberts, Malvern, Pa., has a surplus of Lombardy and Caro" 
lina poplar, Osage orange and California privet. 
Norway maples of the highest grade can be obtained of William 
Warner Harper, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 
A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan., presents in another column an attractive 
list of stock which he offers for fall of 1902 and spring of 1903 . 
Mazzard cherry seed and raffia are specialties handled by Thomas 
Meehan & Sons, whose wholesale department is at Dreshertown, Pa. 
Tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, Columbia raspberry tips and Rathbun 
raspberry transplants are offered by James Vick’s Sons, Rochester, 
N. Y. 
Grape vines and currant plants are specialties with Wheelock & 
Clark, Fredonia, N. Y. They have a large stock at lowest prices and 
solicit correspondence. 
Two hundred thousand asparagus roots ; also rhubarb, horse radish, 
etc., including a full line of small fruit plants can be had of W. N. 
Scarff, New Carlisle, O. 
For peach and apple trees call upon J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, 
Md. Their trees are making good growth and are sure to suit. They 
are ready for orders now. 
Three hundred thousand apple and a full line of nursery stock ; also 
apple and forest tree seedlings, fruit tree stocks, etc., are offered by E. 
S. Welch, Shenandoah, la. 
Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., offer roses, clematis, climb¬ 
ing vines, flowering shrubs, ornamental trees, conifers, standard and 
dwarf pears, cherries, peaches, plums, etc. 
A new edition of their stock book has been issued by Scran tom, 
Wetmore & Co., Rochester, N Y. It is 16 x 21 inches, bound in heavy 
Manila tag, printed on heavy ledger paper, 68 pages. 
C. M. Hooker & Sons, Rochester, N. Y.. introducers of the Perfec¬ 
tion currant, offer a limited quantity of this new and promising cur¬ 
rant, which is the first fruit to win the $50 Barry medal of the Western 
New York Horticultural Society. 
tfoveton IRotes. 
Horticulturists owe so much to the Veitch family for their numerous 
introductions of plants that it will be of interest to note that the 
founder of the Exeter, England, firm, John Veitch, was born in 1752 . 
The Royal and Hooper nurseries cover twelve acres comprising 
choice collections of orchids, palms, tree-ferns, azaleas, camellias, 
heatles, hardy perennials and alpine plants; also roses, shrubs, orna¬ 
mental and fruit trees. At Exminster is a nursery of nine acres de. 
voted to forest trees. At Exwick there are nine acres of trial grounds. 
The case of Low vs. Appleton, before Mr. Justice Lawrence and a 
special jury in the King’s Bench Division of the Royal Courts of Jus¬ 
tice, London, on May 28 th, arose out of the sale of a cypripedium, and 
created much interest among orchidists. The plaintiffs are Messrs. H. 
Low & Co., nurserymen, Enfield. The defendant is a dealer in orchids, 
and his gardener showed Mr. Low a plant he called Cypripedium insigne 
Harefield Hall variety when Mr. Low visited the defendant’s place at 
Weston-super mare. The plaintiffs paid £15 for the plant, but it did 
not flower true to name. The plaintiffs said that if genuine the orchid 
would have been worth £ 105 , and claimed that sum. The court awarded 
£70 to the plaintiff. 
The Porto Rico Trade Journal says that budded orange trees are 
worth $30 to $45 per hundred. From 8,000 to 10,000 trees are grown to 
an acre, and two years from seed will produce a paying number of 
trees. As a business, ornamental nurseries on the island are more 
lucrative even than fruit raising on account of their durability and 
ever-increasing value. 
