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Hmong (Browers anb Sealers. ^foreign IRotes. 
G. H. Miller is president of the North Georgia Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. 
The Northwestern Nursery and Orchard Company will be established 
in Berrien county, Mich., by B. S Webb, of Peoria, Ill. 
Oglesby Paul, nephew of James Paul, of the firm of Drexel & Co., 
bankers, has been appointed landscape gardener for Fairmount Park 
Philadelphia, at a salary of $ 2 , 000 . 
H. S. Wiley, Cayuga, N. Y., has budded 1,000 of what he has called 
the Dr. Cummings peach, originating on the grounds of Neil Cum¬ 
mings in Cayuga. It is thought to be an Early Crawford seedling. 
Leonard Coates, Napa, Cal., well known on the Pacific coast as an 
orchardist and writer on horticultural subjects, has traded his Sausal 
fruit farm for an eighty acre vineyard near Barton, Cal., formerly 
owned by S. Hansen. 
John S. Collins & Sons, Burlington county, N. J., the first to plant 
Kieffer pears on a large scale, now have 25,000 Kieffer trees in bearing. 
Up to October 4 th, they shipped 14 carloads of Kieffer pears to Lon 
don, Liverpool and Glasgow. 
W. H. Guilford, Dubuque, la,, observes that the good conditions of 
the growth of trees this year indicates that more water is needed than 
is received in an average year. He suggests that nurserymen might 
profitably establish irrigation plants. 
The nursery of Edward and Ben. Hoyt, at Scotch Grove, Iowa, ex¬ 
tends back from the railroad a mile or more. It is devoted principally 
to the growing of evergreens. This list embraces all the leading 
varieties and their blocks cover many acres. The business is 80 years 
old. 
The dutiable imports during the month of September, 1902 , of plants, 
trees, shrubs and vines amounted to $ 317 , 897 , as compared with $ 279 ,- 
612 during the same month a year ago. The exports during Septem¬ 
ber, 1902 , of nursery stock were valued at $ 7 , 612 , against $ 4,010 in 
September, 1901 . 
Samuel C. Moon, Morrisville, Va., addressed the November meeting 
of the Philadelphia Florists’ club on the subject: “The Importance of 
Hardy Plants to the Florists’ Trade.” He urged that planting be done 
for the future. The oak, he said, will overtake the poplar and sugar 
maple, though the latter are of quicker growth. 
Irving Jaquay, of the Benton Harbor Nurseries, has purchased 300 
acres of land three miles from Buchanan, Mich., at a cost of $ 16 , 000 , 
for nursery purposes. He retains his interest in the Benton Harbor 
Nurseries and is interested in an Alabama peach farm of 1000 acres. 
He will employ 40 men during the busy season at his new nursery and 
will construct a boarding house for them. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, New York City, worked earnestly for the suc¬ 
cess of the proposition to appropriate another million dollars for the 
Essex county, N. Y., parks and parkways, and the act of legislature 
making a mandatory appropriation of at least $100,000 annually for 
maintenance of the park system. Both propositions upon submission 
to the people were adopted by a considerable majority. 
The Storrs & Harrison Company, Painsville, O., has an area of 1200 
acres in outdoor stock and a range of greenhouses covering 125,000 
square feet Forty-five acres were planted to roses this season. Five 
acres are devoted to cannas and an acre to anemones. There are pott¬ 
ing sheds covering 25,000 square feet of floor surface. Three hundred 
and fifty acres are devoted to fruit trees and 200 acres to ornamental 
stock. All incoming stock is treated in a fumigating house attached 
to the storage houses. 
G. H. Miller & Son, Rome, Ga., Jan. 15 , 1902 .—“ We enclose $1 
on subscription for the National Nurseryman for the year 1902 . 
We are well pleased with the journal and look upon it as a necessity. 
Our trade for the last year has been very heavy, about double what it 
was for the year before and we anticipate a heavy trade for 1902 .” 
King Edward has given 100 guineas towards the erection of the new 
horticultural hall of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Prince 
of Wales £ 50 . Leopold Rothschild, a generous patron of horticulture, 
has given £500 toward the same object. 
“ I had hoped the Plant Breeding and Hybridization Conference, 
recently held in New York, would have been the means of developing 
some new suggestions in the direction of obtaining new breaks in 
chrysanthemums.”says R. Dean.Y. M. II., in American Gardening. “We 
make but little advance with the flower except in the direction of size. 
New types of roses and begonias are forthcoming; the chrysanthemum 
appears to be practically barren in this respect. I can foresee the time 
when there will be a revolt of popular liking for these huge blooms 
and when the first indications of this appear experts should be prepared 
to put forward some other type or section of blooms, so that there may 
be secured a transference and not a loss of popular favor and support. 
One new variety is, after all, so much like another that the cry may 
soon be started, “Who will give us something new ?” 
LITTLE PEACH TO BE ERADICATED. 
At the request of several of the leading fruitgrowers of 
Allegan county, Mich., Prof. L. R. Taft, state inspector of 
nurseries and orchards, has appointed Horace S. Welch of 
Douglas a special deputy to look after the disease known as 
“little peach” which has been so destructive in that section. 
Mr. Welch has made a study of the disease for several years 
and no one in the state is better posted regarding it. His 
duties will be to inspect the orchards and secure the removal 
ot infected trees. At first his efforts will be confined to the 
west half of Saugatuck township, and an endeavor will be 
made to have every diseased tree removed from that section 
before growth starts in the spring. Later on other sections 
will have attention. 
A REAL LABOR-SAVING DEVICE. 
Inasmuch as the nursery business is conducted to a very large ex¬ 
tent by correspondence the members of the trade are especially inter¬ 
ested in office labor-saving devices. While there are a number of such 
devices on the market, none, in our opinion, is more meritorious in 
every way than is the Elliott Addressing Machine, made by the Elliott 
Co. of Boston. It is of the most practical kind and, as it applies 
directly to a portion of the nursery business at once important yet 
laborious under old systems, it commands earnest and serious consider¬ 
ation. This is the only machine on the market that will satisfactorily 
and speedily do the work for which it is made. 
With this machine 2,000 addresses may be written in an hour by 
the use of stencil cards automatically fed through the machine by foot 
power. One motion of the foot inks, prints direct on envelopes or 
wrappers of any size, cards, invoices, statements or shipping tags, and 
changes to next stencil. The machine can be operated by an office boy, 
is durable, and occupies, with cabinet, about the same space as a small 
typewriter table. 
Among the nurserymen who have installed the Elliott Addressing 
Machine in their offices are : 
Peter Henderson & Co., New York City. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, Boston. 
Buel Lamberson’s Sons. Portland, Ore. 
Stark Brothers’ Co., Louisiana, Mo. 
H F. Mitchell, Philadelphia. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons. Inc., Dreshertown, Pa. 
Plant Seed Co., St. Louis. Mo. 
C. Young & Sons. St. Louis, Mo. 
The Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City. Minn. 
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