THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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HmonG (Browers anb ^Dealers. 
Irving Spaulding, Spaulding, Ill., called upon Western New York 
nurserymen last month. 
Charles F. Gardner, Osage, la., is greatly improved in health as 
the result of a three months’ sojourn in New Mexico. 
It has been found that the claim of a tree agent that peaches can be 
successfully grafted upon black walnut is not entirely valid. 
William Pitkin, secretary and treasurer of Chase Brothers Company, 
Rochester, N. Y., spent three weeks of August in the Adirondack 
mountains. 
Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind., report favorable weather with 
perhaps an excess of rain. Ground cultivates nicely and budding and 
other work has progressed well. 
The will of Wilber J. Mandeville, Rochester, N. Y., seedsman, who 
died July 14 th, bequeaths real estate valued at $ 10,000 and personal 
property to the amount of $100,000. 
The Charlton Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y., has been incorporated 
with a capital stock of $ 25 , 000 . The incorporators are J. M. Charlton, 
E. S. Osborne, D. C. Charlton and E. G. Osborne. 
Prof. F. A. Waugh, of the Vermont Experiment Station, has been 
appointed professor of horticulture at the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, at Amherst, succeeding Prof. S. T. Maynard. 
The Stark Bros. Nurseries and Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., are 
building a new storage and packing house, 132 x 224 feet, and before 
spring will probably build another car shed for this house. 
Prof. L. R. Taft, Agricultural college, Mich., is state inspector of 
nurseries and orchards at Michigan, in place of D. W. Trine, resigned. 
All communications and certificates of inspection should be sent to 
Prof. Taft. 
The Upland Nursery Co., Bridgeport, O., has a capital of $ 3 ( 5 , 000 , 
instead of $ 5,000 as previously published. This company has purchas¬ 
ed all the land connected with the E. W. Reid Nurseries in addition to 
the buildings, etc., at a cost of $ 7 , 350 . 
The dutiable imports during the month of May, 1902 , of plants trees, 
shrubs and vines amounted to $ 57 , 253 , as compared with $ 21,444 dur¬ 
ing 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 W. Mally, of Texas, well-known among nurserymen, is one of 
the incorporators of the Fitze Hill Orchard and Nursery Co., Houston, 
Tex., the capital stock of which is $ 30 , 000 . The other incorporators 
are Sam H. Dixon, W. Y. Garrison, B. H. Lee and P. E. McMahon. 
Dr. Herman Schroeder, Bloomington, Ill., one of the oldest horticul¬ 
turists and vineyardists in the country, returned to his home last 
month from-a Chicago hospital where he underwent two serious opera¬ 
tions. He is 83 years old and has suffered considerably as the result of 
bladder difficulty. 
H. B. Kemp, formerly of the Blair County Nurseries, has purchased 
all the stock and interests of the Village Nurseries located at Harneds- 
ville, Somerset Co., Pa., formerly owned and managed by George W. 
Kemp. He will continue the business at the same place under the old 
name and will greatly enlarge and improve the plant. 
D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la., has been building storage and packing 
cellars 16 x 75 feet with an ell 130 x 193 feet, comprising 37,330 square 
feet of floor space. The side walls will be 14 feet in height, the ceil¬ 
ing in the center to be twenty feet in height. A Burlington railroad 
switch extending into the west end of the cellar will provide for load¬ 
ing cars inside. 
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 
The eighteenth annual meeting of the Society of American 
Florists was held at Asheville, N. C., on August 19-22. There 
was a large attendance and a Southern welcome was extended. 
President Burton in his address suggested that efficient work 
in the care and propagation of plants should receive recogni¬ 
tion similar to that bestowed in England in the form of medals 
by societies. Secretary Stewart reported that there are 50 life 
and 881 annual members of the society. Members added 
since last meeting 192. Treasurer Beatty reported that there 
is a balance of $2,430.56 in the general fund and $1,766.81 in 
the life membership fund. Reports of state vice-presidents 
were submitted. Papers were read on subjects connected 
with the florist trade and there were enjoyable social features 
of the convention. These officers were re-elected : Presi¬ 
dent, John Burton, Philadelphia ; vice-president, C. C. Poll- 
worth, Milwaukee ; secretary, William J. Stewart, Boston ; 
treasurer, H. P. Beatty, Oil City, Pa. The next annual meet¬ 
ing will be held in Milwaukee. 
Xono anb Short. 
The Village Nurseries, Harnedsville, Pa., offer an exceptionally fine 
block of peach trees. 
Apple trees in general assortment may be had of the Laketon Nurse¬ 
ries, Laketon, Wabash Co., Indiana. 
Ramblers, Crimson and Yellow, are wanted by Thomas Meehan & 
Sons, Inc., Germantown, Phila., Pa. 
. A general line of well-grown stock is offered by the Spaulding Nurs¬ 
ery and Orchard Co., Spaulding, Ill. 
Apple grafts will be made to order by A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, 
Kan., who has a large supply of grafting stock. 
Seedlings of pear, black locust, mulberry, ash and box elder and 
apple, are offered by J. A. Gage, Beatrice, Neb. 
For pin oaks, magnolia tripetela, sugar maples, and oriental planes, * 
write Hoopes, Brother & Thomas, WestChester, Pa. 
A large stock of small fruit plants is offered by Allen L. Wood, 
Woodlawn Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. His list appears in another 
column. 
The largest grower of grape vines in America, George S. Josselyn, 
offers a large stock of high grade vines. His other specialties are cur¬ 
rants and gooseberries. 
F. H. Stannard & Co., Ottawa, Kan., are strong on apple, cherry, 
pear, plum, peach, apricots, apple seedlings, Mahaleb pear seedlings, 
forest tree seedlings, apple scions. 
McNary & Gaines, Xenia, O., offer, for fall of 1902 and spring of 
1903 , apple, pear, cherry, plum, peach, apricot, and grape vines. They 
are headquarters for the Opalescent apple. 
W. W. Thomas who has changed the location of his small fruit 
plant business from Makanda to Anna, Ill., had 150 acres in strawberry 
plants this year. He is the largest grower of strawberry plants in the 
West. 
George Achiles, Westchester, Pa., makes a specialty of Oriental 
planes, Carolina poplars, American linden, hydrangea, Babylonian 
weeping willows, maples, seedling altheas, Japan snowballs, Osage 
orange, salisburia, etc. 
John Charlton & Sons, University Avenue Nurseries, Rochester, 
N. Y , offer for fall of 1902 standard apples, standard pears, plums 
and ornamental trees in variety. They make a specialty of paeonies, 
phloxes, hollyhocks and Golden Glows. 
Peters & Skinner, N. Topeka, Kan., proprietors of the Capital 
Nurseries, have to offer 2 and 3 -year apple, 1 and 2 year cherry, peach ; 
plum, apricot, and 1 and 2 year Kieffer pear. In shade trees : Elm, 
ash, box elder, maple and weeping mulberry ; also apple and Japan 
pear and forest tree seedlings. 
A prominent florist in St. Paul, Minn., writes, June 10 , 1902 : “I 
wish you would book my order for next fall shipment, 200 of the first 
size Dorothy Perkins Roses. By the way, this is a great acquisition 
in the wdy of a forcing rose. I consider it much more valuable than 
the C. Rambler, better seller, better keeper and more useful.” 
A. S. Swanson.—To Jackson, Perkins & Co., Newark, N. Y. 
