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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
DELEGATES TO CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 
We have a block of apples that were budded last fall and 
are now ready to stub. Heretofore we have been stubbing 
about two inches above the bud, and then when bud had 
grown to about ten inches, we would restub close to the bhd. 
Now if we can overcome the restubbing we would like to. 
Would it be advisable to cut the seedling off close to the bud 
at this time and let the one cutting suffice for all? or would 
you think best to wait till just as the buds are starting to 
grow ? 
Just before the buds begin to push cut the stubs off even 
with the top of the bud. One cutting is all that is necessary 
and you can readily understand it saves a good deal of time. 
Please advise me through your columns how to grow 
holly bushes from berries? 
To be successful in germinating Holly berries they should 
be stratified for a year before sowing. The best way is to 
put the quantity you intend to sow in flower pots, covering 
the flower pots with a piece of slate or tile and bury them in 
the gi'ound. Be sure to select a position where the ground is 
not too wet and where water will not acciunulate during the 
winter. 
The following spring, as soon as the ground can be worked, 
they should be dug up and sown. They will come up the 
same season in April or May. When fresh berries are sown 
they seem to germinate very indifferently, only few coming 
up at a time. It very often happens that a great portion 
of the seed practically lies dormant for a year. 
ready to aid any residential section to plant, care for and 
improve street trees, under certain regulations, in creating 
a “city beautiful.’’ 
Indiscriminate planting of these trees is a haphazard 
arrangement, incompatible not only with beauty, but even 
with neatness, the pamphlet declares; while under such 
supervisory control as the commission is empowered to 
exercise trees can be planted, protected and cared for in a 
systematic way more cheaply and efficiently than would be 
possible by individual effort. 
After stating that only a few kinds of trees will grow 
satisfactorily in our streets and that the California poplar 
and silver maple, which are most frequently used, are almost 
entirely unsuited to the purpose, the commission suggests 
the kinds of trees best suited and submits its plans for aiding 
in planting trees in residential seetions and the wider thor¬ 
oughfares. 
It is the intention of the commission to plant a certain 
number of streets with trees each year, protecting each tree 
with a guard. The first streets to be treated will be Spring 
Garden street between Broad street and Fairmount Park, 
and Broad street from Spring Garden street to South 
street. 
The commission is not prepared at present to plant 
isolated trees for individual property owners, but will issue 
specifications as to how such work shall be done, and will 
detail inspectors to supervise the planting. Existing trees 
will be sprayed, pruned, cleaned and put in order or removed 
by the commission as rapidly as funds will permit. Expenses 
of removal of condemned trees and the planting and proteet- 
ing of new trees will be charged to the property owner at 
cost. 
As to subsequent care of trees, the commission’s pamphlet 
gives much detailed information. 
FAIRMOUNT PARK COMMISSION ISSUES REPORT 
ON THE STREET TREES OF PHILADELPHIA 
Oriental plane, pin oak, gingko and Norway maple, 
according to the Fairmount Park Commission, are the best 
kinds of trees to plant in city streets. So far as ^Councils’ 
appropriation for the purpose will go, the commission is 
A CORRECTION 
On page 262 in our July issue appeared the picture of M. 
McDonald. The inscription under it read “W. A. McDonald, 
President Washington Nursery Co., Toppenish, Wash.” 
It should have read “M. McDonald, President Oregon 
Nursery Co., Orenco, Oregon.” 
