THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IN SOUTHERN STATES. 
Concord, Ga. Aug. 25.—As predicted early in the season, 
the supply of peach trees will not be equal to the demand. 
The peach crop matured in fine condition and was marketed 
at satisfactory figures, hence the demand for trees is heavy. 
Orders have been booked for practically everything salable, 
and many who wish to plant will not be able to get the trees 
this season. It is unfortunate that the nurserymen cannot see 
a year or two ahead in order to prepare for such an abnormal 
demand. 
G. H. Miller & Son, of Rome, Ga., are preparing to build a 
large packing house and storage house combined. It is to be 
120 x 100 feet. 
Smith Bros., of Concord, Ga. have just purchased 200 acres 
of the best nursery land in the country, on which to make 
their plantings the coming season. 
This has been a good season for cherry and pear, and the 
large growers at Huntsville have fine blocks of them. Peach 
trees have not grown so well, and will run a little short in 
size, as well as quantity. 
The meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society in 
Macon, Ga., the 6th and 7th inst., was well attended by our 
nurserymen. Among those on the program were G. H. Miller 
of Rome, Ga., on “Some Lessons of the Past Year” and 
Charles T. Smith of Concord, Ga., on “The Home Orchard.” 
Other nurserymen present were W. F. Heikes, .J. C. Hale, 
John Frazer, S. H. Rumph, R. C. Berckmans, L. A. Berckmans 
and J. G. Justice. P. J. Berckmans was re-elected president 
for the 26th time, and W. M. Scott, state entomologist was 
elected secretary. 
A GREAT FRUIT FARM. 
A letter from Hartville, Mo., says that a contract has been 
closed by a Des Moines (la.) syndicate for a 5,000-acre tract 
of land lying north of there on Bear Creek, for a fruit farm, 
says the Country Gentleman. The syndicate has contracted 
with the ’Frisco Railway to build a spur, leaving that road 
three miles west of Sleeper Station, in Laclede County, and 
running through the orchard. Orders have been received for 
the manager to employ hands and clear off 1,000 acres of the 
land, which the syndicate proposes to put in apple trees next 
spring. A steam stump puller will be used in clearing off the 
ground, and a disk gang plow operated by an engine will be 
used to plow the land. Two thousand additional acres are to 
be ready for planting during 1904, and the remaining 2,000 a 
year later. 
STUB-PRUNED TREES AT THE NORTH. 
Regarding the failure of stub-pruned trees to grow at the 
North, H. M. Stringfellow says in Rural New Yorker : 
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. 
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NEW YORK STATE INSPECTION. 
Commissioner Weiting of New York state has issued the 
following statement : 
Under provisions of chapter 519, laws of 1902, nursery stock shipped 
from other states into New York state must be fumigated w r ith hydro¬ 
cyanic acid gas before planting, sale or distribution. All stock dug for 
sale, growing within half a mile of an infested section of San Jose 
scale, must be fumigated. I am permitted to exempt from the neces¬ 
sity of fumigation conifers and citrus plants. Nursery inspection by 
this department will be done as heretofore. All trees showing marks of 
San Jose scale or other injurious insects, as well as all trees affected 
with fungous diseases and crown gall, or galls on the roots, must be 
destroyed. Shipments into this state from points outside will be 
examined by state inspectors, and where San Jose scale or any indica¬ 
tion of it is found the trees w r ill be destroyed, and the remainder of the 
shipment must be fumigated. Duplicate certificates of New York state 
nurserymen are required to be filed in Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, 
North Carolina and Virginia, when such nurserymen desire to ship 
into any of the states named, and will be furnished by this department. 
All nursery slock consigned for shipment must be accompanied by a 
copy of a certificate of inspection signed by the commissioner of 
agriculture, dated not earlier than July 24, 1902, which certificate will 
be valid until June BO, 1903. 
AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. 
We take pleasure in publishing herewith a call for the 
organization of what is proposed to be the American Peony 
Society. Only good and the best interests of all concerned 
can result from the formation of these special societies, it 
would seem, and it is probable that the American Peony 
Society will be started with an enthusiasm and on a basis that 
will insure its success. Following is the call: 
The undersigned, having combined to organize a society for the 
purpose of furthering the knowledge and interest in the peony, cor¬ 
dially invite all those interested in the flower to join in said organiza¬ 
tion. The initiation fee will be $5.00; the annual dues $3.00. The 
general scheme of the organization will be upon the same lines as the 
American Carnation Society, which has been such a signal success, and 
which has produced a phenomenal improvement in the carnation flower. 
The Peony Society will have ample financial backing and its success is 
amply assured. Those wishing to join may become charter members 
by remitting $5.00 membership fee to Alex. Wallace, temporary secre¬ 
tary and treasurer, Box 1607, New York City. 
W. A. Peterson, Chicago, Ill. 
Jas. Wheeler, Brookline, Mass. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. 
John Charlton & Sons, Rochester, N. Y. 
F. A. Blake, Rochdale, Mass. 
H. A. Dreer, Riverton, N. J. 
W. H. Wyman, No. Abington, Mass. 
Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio. 
E. G. Hill, Richmond, Indiana. 
C. S. Harrison, York, Neb. 
J. F. Rosenfield, West Point, Neb. 
E. J. Shay lor, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
E. Smith & Sons, Geneva, N. Y. 
Jackson & Perkins, Newark, N. Y. 
W. & T. Smith, Geneva, N. Y. 
E. L. Beard, Boston, Mass. 
George Hollis, So. Weymouth, Mass. 
C. W. Ward, Queens, L. I., N. Y. 
Alex. Wallace, care Florist’s Exchange, New 7 York, N. Y. 
William Scott, Buffalo, N. V. 
T. C. Thurlow, West Newbury, Mass. 
The Georgia peach business has developed to such an extent that it 
is estimated that 1,500 carloads of the fruit will be shipped from that 
state this season. 
