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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National N urseryman. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
(incorporated) 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
PRESIDENT - THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
VICE-PRESIDENT AND EDITOR - - RALPH T. OLCOTT 
SECRETARY-TREASURER AND BUSINESS MANAGER, C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance, - $1.00 
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Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AHERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Charles A. Ilgenfritz, Monroe, Mich.; vice-president, D. S. 
Lake, Shenandoah, la.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; N. W. Hale, Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb. 
Committee on Transportation—President Ilgenfritz, ex-officio; A. L. Brooke, 
N. Topeka, Kan.; Henry Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, 
Ind.; Howard Davis, Baltimore, Md. 
Committee on Tariff-Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; Thomas B. Meehan 
Germantown, Pa.; J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Silas Wilson, At¬ 
lantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; George A. Sweet, bans- 
ville, N. Y,; Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Programme-George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; Wilson J. 
Peters, Troy, Ohio; J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Committee on Publicity—C. M. Stark, Louisiana, Mo.; Ralph T. Olcott 
Rochester, N. Y.; F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 
Annual convention for 1903—At Detroit, Mich., June 10-12. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester , as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., October, 1902. 
SHORTAGE IN NATURAL PEACH SEED. 
It was generally supposed that there was a good crop of 
natural peach seed this year, and many nurserymen failed to 
place orders early thinkiug there would be a drop in the price 
when delivery time came around. About the middle of 
September, however, nurserymen began to discover that 
insterd of being in surplus there was a great shortage in the 
crop ; indeed it appears to be practically a failure, and now 
Lev are willing to give almost any price for the seed. One 
prominent firm offered $ 1.50 per bushel for any amount up to 
a carload, while another firm sent printed postal cards 
requesting offers of peach seed in any quantities. 
The dealers also are in the same condition. Ordeis were 
booked and promises made by collectors in the natural peach 
district, but they are unable to fill the orders for collection 
that they have accepted, and are cutting these orders from 
50 to 75 per cent. 
FRENCH STOCKS SCARCE. 
More surprises await the grower of apple stocks. The 
indications now are that the shortage of French apple seed 
will be as great this year as it was last, and prices will pro¬ 
bably soar skyward again. 
Mannetti rose stocks, both French and English, are also 
quite scarce. The English Mannetti stock is used largely in 
this country by florists for grafting tea roses. They are 
especially graded for this purpose as the French stock is too 
large to pot in the small pots used by florists in this work. 
The supply of the English stock is now exhausted and only 
the few in the hands of the dealers are now for sale, and these 
in quite limited quantities. 
French pear stocks are very scarce and are only being 
offered in connection with other stocks. Many of the French 
growers will not sell pear without other stocks in equal quan¬ 
tities. 
BRITISH-AMERICAN PARCELS POST. 
The White Star steamer Teutonic on September 10 th 
brought from Great Britain the first consignment of pack¬ 
ages shipped to this country under the new parcels post plan. 
The packages were consigned to the American Express Com¬ 
pany which will distribute such parcels in the United States 
instead of the government. This company will ship parcels 
to the Parcels Post of Great Britain. A parcel weighing not 
more than eleven pounds may be sent by mail to any point in 
the United Kingdom. 
The rate per three pounds from Great Britain to New York 
City is one shilling ; to any other part of the United States 
two shillings; for parcels from seven to eleven pounds in 
weight, three shillings to New York, four shillings to any other 
part of the United States. To this is added a fee of a shilling 
per package for clearance and a fee of a shilling for the 
sample office, and any duty to which the articles may be sub¬ 
ject. For an additional fee the package may be insured. The 
package must not be longer than three feet six inches. 
PACKING FOR LONG SHIPMENT 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., suggest that in packing 
trees for long shipment, the packing should be moist but not 
wet. Boxes should be well made and double paper lined. 
Plenty of packing should be used about the roots, so placed 
that it will not shake off, and'the trees should be tightly 
pressed together. Irving Rouse, Rochester, N*. Y., says that 
well packed goods can remain in boxes two or three months 
unhurt. The cases must be protected from drying winds, the 
sun, and steam boilers. 
