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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmono (Browers anb Dealers. 
J. J. Colmant proposes to start a nursery at Birmingham, Ala. 
The Stark Brothers Co., Louisiana, Mo., has increased its capital 
stock from $.300,000 to $1,000,000. 
The Minnesota Horticultural Society has a membership of 1 214. 
Can any other horticultural society beat it ? 
William C. Moon, Morrisville, Pa., and Harlan P. Kelsey, Kawana, 
N. C., recently visited Philadelphia establishments. 
August Rhotert, 26 Barclay street, New York city, returned from an 
extended trip in Europe per steamer Fuerst Bismark on Sept. 13tli. 
The exhibit of the P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga., at the conven¬ 
tion of the Society of American Florists, at Asheville, N. C., was highly 
commended. 
Efforts are being made to grow Dutch, Roman and Italian hyacinth 
bulbs in North Carolina, where the tuberose is already produced on a 
large commercial scale. 
With a capital stock of $24,000 the C. W. Stuart Co., Newark, N. Y., 
has been incorporated. The directors are: C. W. Stuart, J. M. Pitkin, 
Jr., and C. H. Stuart, of Newark. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, won first prize for display of apples 
and pears at the New York State Fair, in Syracuse, last month. First 
prize for peaches went to the American Nursery Co., Niagara Falls. 
Director M. J. Wragg and his lieutenant, Elmer Reeves, superin¬ 
tended the excellent horticultural display at the Iowa state fair, August 
25-30. C. L. Watrous and Professors Budd and Hansen were present. 
The postal administration of Germany has announced that, to pre¬ 
vent the introduction of San Jose scale, live plants or parts of plants or 
fresh fruits from the United States cannot be sent by mail to Germany. 
The Association of American Cemetery Superintendents at its recent 
Boston convention elected : President, H. Wilson Ross, Newton, Mass.; 
vice-president, J. C. Dix, Cleveland ; secretary and treasurer, J. H. 
Morton, Boston. 
The Frisco Orchard Co., Omaha, Neb., has filed articles of incorpor¬ 
ation for a nursery business with $1,000,000 capital stock and these 
incorporators: George W. Miller, William Bayard, Craig J Zwort 
and Frank M. Carroll. 
A national congress of apple growers will be held in St. Louis on 
November 18-19. H. C. Cupp, Fall River, Ill., is temporary chairman; 
C. S. Wilson, Hannibal, Mo., is secretary F, W. Taylor is a member 
of the executive committee. 
Augustine & Co., Normal, Ill., bring abundant proof that in a season 
of universal amount of blights their Sudduth pear, of which they 
have 40,000 in nursery and orchard, has not a blighted twig. It stands 
the Dakota winters, and is a prolific bearer. 
The dutiable imports during the month of July, 1902, of plants, 
trees, shrubs and vines amounted to $49,983, as compared with $22,332 
during the same month a year ago. The exports of nursery stock dur¬ 
ing July, 1902, were valued at $1,406, against "$2,313 in July, 1901. 
The Rural Californian announces: E. F. Stephens, a prominent 
horticulturist of Nebraska, has distributed free to farmers of his state 
45,000 apple trees on condition that they will be cultivated according 
to his direction. Mr. Stephens will receive one-half of the yield for a 
certain number of years. 
The exports during June, 1902, of nursery stock were valued at 
$2,173, against $4,556 in June, 1901. These exports during the twelve 
months ending with June. 1902, were valued at $132,027, against 
$134,961 during the corresponding period of 1901, and $107,172 during 
the same months of 1900 
In the last issue of the National Nurseryman, through a typo¬ 
graphical error, it was stated that the Stark Brothers Nursery and Or¬ 
chard Co. was putting in 1,000 buds per day. The figure should have 
been 100,000, as all who are conversant with the large business of that 
company must have known. 
The Florist’s Exchange publishes a picture of a Colorado blue spruce 
thirty feet in height on the grounds of Thomas Meehan & Sons. Ger¬ 
mantown, Pa., believed to be the largest of these trees in the East. 
Tlie tree was presented to the late Thomas Meehan by Professor C. S. 
Sargent, of Brookline, Mass. 
G. Harold Powell, assistant pomologist of the U. S. Dept, of Agri¬ 
culture, has been in Western New York collecting fine pears for ship¬ 
ment to Europe by way of experiment. H. P. Gould, of the depart 
ment, has been collecting mountain-grown peaches in Maryland and 
West Virginia for shipment to England. 
Articles of incorporation have been filed in the office of the secretary 
of state of California by the Eureka Orange company, place of busi. 
ness, Riverside. Capital stock $175,000, and E. A. Chase, H. B. Chase, 
F. F. Chase, E. S. Moulton, H. R. Greene, Jr., G. Rouse, W. A. Pur- 
ington, H. T. Hays, F. T. Morrison, F. M. Heath and M. J. Twogood 
rf Riverside, Cal., directors. 
The dutiable imports during the month of June, 1902, of plants, 
trees, shrubs and vines amounted to $6,782, as compared with $4,825 
during the same month a year ago. The imports during the twelve 
months ending with June, 1902, reached a valuation of $1.172 023, 
against $1,098,469 during the corresponding period ending June, 1901. 
These imports during the corresponding period of 1900 were valued at 
$965,369. 
August Rhotert, 26 Barclay street, New York city, represents in the 
United States and Canada the following firms : Vilmorin-Andrieux 
& Co., wholesale seed growers, Paris, France; Louis Leroy, nursery¬ 
man, Angers, France; O. Petrick, hot-house plants, Ghent, Belgium ; 
M. Koster & Sons, nurserymen, Boskoop, Holland ; John Palmer & 
Son, Limited, Annan, Scotland ; E. Neubert, Lily of the Valley Pips, 
Wandsbek, Germany ; The General Bulb Co., Dutch Bulbs, Vogelzang, 
Holland ; G. H. Richards, Raffia and XL All Specialties, London, 
England. He transacts custom house business and attends to import 
and export shipments. He has special shipping facilities at Hamburg, 
Bremen, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, etc. He takes import 
orders on commission for goods of foreign manufacture, and is repre¬ 
sented in Paris by A. D. Marsily, 8 Rue Martel. 
MARYLAND REQUIREMENTS. 
A bulletin recently issued by the Maryland Agricultural 
Experiment Station, after quoting the law, contains this an¬ 
nouncement : 
All nurserymen who desire to do a business in this state should file 
with the state entomologist, before November 1st, a copy of then- 
nursery inspection certificate. While this is not required by law, we 
desire these certificates to determine, as far as possible, by whom the 
inspections were made. No tags from this department are necessary 
on shipments into the state. Simply attach copy of your certificate 
of nursery inspection and shipments will be delivered by our transpor¬ 
tation agents. It is not desired to in any way restrict the commerce 
of outside nurserymen in this state, but any violation of the above 
section will be immediately dealt with. 
THE BREEDING OF APPLES. 
Philip Lux, of Kansas, discussing apple growing, throws 
out a suggestion to nurserymen : 
I frequently pass two small orchards, one on either side of the road. 
For six years the one has had a good crop of apples almost every year, 
while the other has seldom borne anything at all. The conditions are 
in favor of the unproductive orchard. 
This state of affairs exists all over our country. Now the question 
is, What is the matter ? Have our nurserymen bred their commercial 
apples up by their method of getting scions from their nursery trim¬ 
mings or anywhere, regardless of their merits, just so that they were 
true to name ? No wonder Major Holsinger, in the last number of the 
Fruit Grower, makes the following remark : “I spent nearly thirty 
years and nearly as many hundred dollars in experiments, and just 
learned that I don’t know anything about orcharding.” 
Our berrymen, chickenmen and stockmen propagate from such stock 
only as have special merits. Is it not time that we should do the same? 
I am convinced that if apple raisers had selected scions from trees of 
special merit, and with proper care, there would be less disappoint¬ 
ment now, and there would be no need of Major Holsinger’s confession. 
