THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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FROM OUT OF THE WEST. 
At the recent summer meeting of the Missouri Horticultural 
Society, at Eldon, says the Country Gentleman, the secretary, 
L. A. Goodman, told a story of a man who had great faith in 
the profits of the dewberry and who planted 35 acres, with the 
utmost confidence that he was going to make a fortune. After 
experimenting for two or three years with indifferent success, 
he became disgusted and plowed up the patch on account of 
borers. The following year he had a mammoth crop of dew¬ 
berries and realized a large sum of money. He picked the 
berries for two or three years, and supposing that he had 
come to the end of. his string, he mowed down the vines and 
then set fire to the patch. He was astonished to see the fol¬ 
lowing year that he had another tremendous crop of dew¬ 
berries. Two or three years later he repeated the experiment 
of mowing and burning, and it was followed by splendid 
results. The past year he gathered 15 carloads of dewberries 
and they sold for $2 a crate. 
GEORGIA HORTICULTURISTS. 
President P. J. Berckmans, of the Georgia State Horticul¬ 
tural Society, was unable to attend the annual meeting of the 
society in Macon last month. His absence was greatly 
regretted. His world-wide reputation as a horticulturalist was 
referred to at the meeting. R. W. Hunt, of Eatonton, said : 
“ I attended a horticultural meeting in London once, and I 
was astounded to note how these lords spoke of our modest 
Georgia citizen. They quoted him as one of our lawyers 
would quote Blackstone. I had not until that time realized 
what a treasure our society had at its head, although I had a 
high appreciation of his wisdom and learning in matters per¬ 
taining to his business.” 
Secretary Louis A. Berckmans of Augusta, the secretary 
whose activity and intelligent work has done so much to 
augment the efforts of his father, called the meeting to order, 
and Major G. M. Ryals of Savannah was chosen president 
pro tern. C. T. Smith, Concord, delivered an address on the 
home orchard, showing how good fruit could be had nearly 
every month in the year. 
H. A. Matthews of Fort Valley, read a paper on the outlook 
of the peach industry in the state. He criticised the railroads 
for being exacting in their freight rates, and for demanding 
much heavier rates on fruit going North than they ask for 
freights of the same character coming South, but he seemed 
to think that the time would come when the railroads would 
realize their mistake. He was not sure that they would be too 
long in awakening to the situation, however, and he gave the 
fruit business just three years to go where the watermelon 
business has gone—out of existence. He said Texas would 
outstrip Georgia in the peach growing business as it had done 
in cotton growing. He declared that already 1-exas has 
pushed Georgia out of the Western peach markets. Prof. 
F. W. Taylor made a plea for a representative exhibit by 
Georgia at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. There was a 
fine display of fruit at the meeting. President P. J. Berck¬ 
mans was re-elected president for the twenty-seventh time. 
W. M. Scott, state entomologist, was elected secretary ; L. A. 
Berckmans, treasurer. 
Ihi IRucsetT llxows. 
Terry Plum. —We received last month samples of the fruit of 
Terry plum from H. A Terry, Crescent, la., on whose fruit farm it 
originated. Mr. Terry says it is a true Americana and is believed to 
be the most valuable variety in cultivation for all Northern and North¬ 
western United States. The plum appears to have a number of desir¬ 
able characteristics. It is of medium size, round, red, juicy, of a 
pleasant sub-acid aromatic flavor. Its firm skin, well protecting the 
pulp, should give it special shipping qualities. Mr. Terry has sold 
the Terry plum to C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la., who will propagate 
it and place it on the market in the fall of 1903. Doubtless Captain 
Watrous will have more to say of this plum. 
Dorothy Perkins Rose.— There have been many visitors recently 
at the Jackson & Perkins Co.’s nurseries, Newark, N. Y., to view the 
fine fields of Dorothy Perkins rose. This new rose is the result of a 
cross between Mme. Gabriel Luizet and Rosa Wichuraiana. As a com¬ 
panion to the Crimson Rambler, for growing indoors, it is probable 
that Dorothy Perkins will become as popular as a pink variety as has 
Crimson Rambler as a red. A very strong point in favor of the Doro¬ 
thy Perkins rose is its odor, thus placing it ahead even of the Crimson 
Rambler. The new rose is hardy and a strong climber, and the petals 
retain their color to a remarkable degree, the same bright pink being 
present from the unfolding of the bud to the falling of the petals. 
One Way of Grafting. —“ I promised some of my friends to show 
them how I do my grafting,” says Andrew Wilfert, Cleveland, in Min¬ 
nesota Horticulturist. “I am not a nurseryman, but I have been in 
the orchard business since I came to Minnesota. I heard some nursery¬ 
men remark that if they had thirty-three per cent, of their grafts grow 
they were fortunate. A year ago I grafted one hundred, and I saved 
ninety-eight trees. I will tell you the way I do it. In the fall I get 
some sand and put it in the cellar, and in the spring when the time 
comes to cut the scions I cut them and store them. When I put up ice 
in the winter I leave out a block in the top layer. The blocks are 
twenty-two inches square, and I have a box eighteen inches square. I 
put the box down in the space left vacant by the block of ice. I put 
about two inches of sand into the box and then lay in my scions on the 
sand, then some more sand and more scions until I have as much as I 
want; then I cover up the box, which is a foot deep, and as the ice is 
nearly two feet thick I get ample covering. When the first of July 
comes those scions are just as dormant as the day they were put in. I 
take the scions and go to the tree I wish to graft. Most of the fruit I 
had on my place last fall was grafted on wild stock. I cut off the top, 
then take my knife and split the bark, and at that time the cambium 
layer is forming, and there is a sort of mucilage under the bark. I do 
not cut it straight, but I cut it somewhat slanting. Then I take a 
goose quill and sharpen it in the shape of a toothpick. I loosen one 
side and then run the quill under the bark, which is lifted up to admit 
the scion, and then wax it over and tie a string around it or use cloth. 
In twenty-four hours I had a graft shove out a quarter of an inch. 
Three years ago I had one tree that was grafted on the 24th of July, 
and when frost came it had shoved out four inches. One thing we do 
not want to forget: after they are grown together, say in about two 
weeks, we must go around and cut that string. If it were not cut it 
would injure the graft. I do the grafting about July 1st. I do not 
cut the wood at all—just loosen the bark. 
©bituatr. 
W. Lee Wilson, secretary of the Southern Nursery Company, Win¬ 
chester, Tenn., died July 28th, at his home there after an illness of 
several months of consumption. He was secretary and treasurer of the 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association and he had proved an active and 
valued member. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of 
Pythias and Masonic orders, and was one of the most prominent busi¬ 
ness men of Winchester. He leaves a widow and three children. The 
remains were interred at his former home in Louisiana. 
