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IRecent publications. 
INSPECTING MARYLAND NURSERIES. 
The thirteenth annual report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, con¬ 
taining administrative reports and research by the garden stall, has 
been issued by the director, Dr. William Trelease. A scientific treatise 
on the Yucceae by Dr. Trelease, illustrated with 100 plates and index¬ 
ed, will prove a mine of information on this subject. It shows a 
scholarly treatment of a most interesting matter. Many of the excellent 
illustrations are from photographs by the author. 
The World’s Work for September contains among other articles 
well illustrated contributions on breeding new kinds of corn—striking 
new developments in corn culture—by W. S. Harwood ; a typical 
irrigated community in Washington—showing vividly the contrasts 
between the desert preceding irrigation and the fine harvests that fol¬ 
low it,—by Joseph Blethen ; the highest of all railroads,—a remarkable 
engineering feat in the Andes mountains,—by E. C. Rost, and the 
latest lessons in modern farming from Kansas, by C. H. Matson. 
The window garden often almost wholly represents the floral world 
to dwellers in the crowded localities of the cities where story upon 
story towers skyward and buildings are built so close that space is 
denied for even a blade of grass to grow. The various classes of plants 
which thrive best under a moderate temperature, according to the 
Delineator for September, are abutilons, azaleas, carnations, callas, 
cinerarias, cape jasmine, Chinese primrose, cyclamen, hibiscus, mar¬ 
guerites, petunias, roses, stevias, violets, palms and ferns and spring 
blooming bulbs. 
A feature of the issue of Country Life in America for September is 
the illustrated description of Biltmore, the North Carolina home of 
George W. Vanderbilt. The landscape department of this great estate 
includes an herbarium started by Frederick Law Olmsted and a nursery 
of which one hundred acres is devoted to the production of ornamental 
and forest trees, the annual output aggregating 2,000,000 plants, nine- 
tenths of which grow north of the Mason and Dixon line. The entire 
production is placed upon the market. 
All persons interested in forestry should study the seventh annual 
report of the chief fire warden of Minnesota, C. C. Andrews. It is 
estimated that there are, in scattered localities, and principally in 
Northern Minnesota, 3,000 acres of waste sandy, hilly or rocky land 
that is only fit for bearing pine forest. Hence, if the state were now to 
begin to plant that land with pine at the rate of 37,500 a cies yer yer, 
the whole would in eighty years become a well stocked normal forest, 
yielding perpetually thereafter 675 , 000 , 0(0 feet board measure annu¬ 
ally. The net annual revenue to the state would be just what this 
amount of 675 , 000,000 feet would, at such future time, be worth, 
standing. It might be $ 3 , 000,000 or more. The summaries of forestry 
conditions in European countries, contained in this report are valuable. 
Irrigation Farming. —Since the publication of the first edition of 
“ Irrigation Farming,” so many important improvements in irrigation 
have been made, and new and better methods been introduced, that in 
order to keep abreast with the times a new edition of this standard 
work has become a necessity. Realizing this need, the author has pre¬ 
pared this volume, which has been largely rewritten, entirely reset and 
considerably enlarged so as to present in systematic sequence and con¬ 
cise form everything pertaining to the most modern irrigation methods 
and means, thus making it the most complete manual on the subject 
ever published. While the first edition was primarily written for and 
adapted to our western farmers and farms, this new edition also devotes 
appropriate attention to irrigation in humid regions. The principal 
chapters treat very fully of the advantages of irrigation ; relations of 
soils to irrigation ; treatment of alkali ; water supply ; canal construc¬ 
tion ; reservoirs and ponds ; pipes for irrigation purposes ; flumes and 
their structure ; duty and measurement of water ; methods of applying 
water ; irrigation of field crops, the garden, the orchard, the vineyard 
and small fruits ; all about alfalfa ; windmills and pumps ; devices, 
appliances and contrivances ; sub-irrigation and subsoiling ; seepage 
and drainage ; electricity in irrigation ; winter irrigation ; irrigation in 
humid regions ; common law of irrigation ; glossary of irrigation terms, 
etc., etc. The volume is profusely, handsomely and practically illus¬ 
trated. New edition, revised, enlarged and rewritten. By Lucius M. 
Wilcox. Illustrated, five by seven inches, 500 pages, cloth, $ 2 . 
New York : Orange Judd Company. 
Baltimore, Aug. 20 —A special dispatch to the Sun from 
College Park, Md., says : State Entomologist A. L. Quaint- 
ance and State Pathologist J. B. S. Norton, with their assist¬ 
ants, are now engaged in making a thorough inspection of the 
nurseries of the state. As required by law, these inspections 
are made each year and certificates are issued to those entitled 
to them to the effect that the premises and the stock are free 
from injurious insects and plant diseases. It is unlawful for 
any nurseryman to sell or dispose of plants in any way without 
accompanying each package with a copy of the certificate of 
inspection. In addition to an inspection of all nursery stock 
it is required that all Maryland nurserymen fumigate their 
stock with hydrocyanic acid gas in houses or boxes approved 
by the state officers. From these inspections and fumigation 
Maryland offers exceptional advantages for clean healthy 
stock to the tree-buying public. 
During the past week Professors Quaintance and Norton 
have been on the Eastern shore, where, at Berlin, there is 
probably one of the largest nurseries in the United States. An 
idea of the extensiveness of this nursery may be had 
when it is stated that five hundred acres are planted to 
trees and plants. There are here growing in round numbers, 
2,000,000 apples, 2,000,000 peach trees, 36,000 pear trees, over 
300,000 grape vines, 60 acres of strawberries and about 30 
acres of asparagus. 
Experienced Traveler to sell European 
Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, etc., to Whole¬ 
sale Seedsmen, Floiists and Nursery¬ 
men. Must be of gentlemanly appear¬ 
ance, healthy, sober and energetic, 
Steady position. State reference, 
former occupation and salary wanted. 
Address confidentially, AUGUST RHOTERT, 26 Barclay Street, 
New York. 
PEACH TREES 
We offer to the Trade for the FALL OF 1902 and SPRING OF 1901, an 
exceptionally fine block of Peach Trees of the following varieties : 
Elberta, Wager, Gary’s Holdon, Wonderful, Stump, Foster 
Reeves’ Favorite, Wheatland, Crosby, Stephen’s Rareripe 
Mary’s Choice, Iron Mountain, Early Rivers, Kalamazoo 
Greensboro, Holderbaum, Susquehanna, Eureka, Salway 
Beer’s Smock, Old Mixson Free, Mt. Rose, Liston No. 2 
Bokara. Chair’s Choice, Gold Drop, Champion, Lemon 
Free, Moore’s Favorite, Crawford’s Late, Liston’s No. I 
Levy’s Late. Submit us your want list and let us quote 
you prices. 
VILLAGE NURSERIES, HARN #“ SV, “- E 
APPLE TREES 
1 have to offer APPLE in 3-4, 5-8 and 
1-2 inch grades. General assortment. 
Also other stock in general assortment. 
- WRITE FOR PRICES ~ ' - 
The Laketon Nurseries 
LAKETON, WABASH COUNTY, INDIANA 
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