THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
.,S.s 
Block of coming two-year apple containing over 100,000 trees. 
Excellent growth. Westminster, Md. 
After the Southern Nurserymen’s meeting at Mont 
Eagle, Tenn., I visited the nurseries at Winehester and 
Hunstville and while the season had been very dry and had 
told on farm erops the nurseries did not seem to suffer exce])t 
will make more small sizes of peach; also the June bud peaches 
were not as large as I have seen on fonner visits. The 
Winchester and Huntsville Nurseries are growing lots of 
nice stock—Winchester very heavy in apple, and there will 
be plenty of them one year from now and it looks to me as if 
they will have plenty of them to burn, especially Jonathan 
which seems to be their leader, and while it is one of the fine 
apples the commercial planters of Virginia want very few of 
them. The Huntsville and Chase Nurseries were in “apple 
pie’’ order, everything looking nice, the standard pears 
especially, both one and two year; the dry summer had 
suited them and they made fine growth not a leaf shed 
which were very large and as green as they were in early 
summer. The Chases are growing lots of ornamentals 
and it looks as if they want to have a corner in Altheas, 
Roses and Spiraes these three varieties alone would make 
a large nursery. In one block of running roses I think they 
said there was over 40,000 Dorothy Perkins. 
Our own planting for the past two years has been much 
heavier than usual, especially in apples and we had very good 
success in securing good stands; we also had a very good size 
budding especially peach and think we have a good stand of 
buds as we are about finishing up now. 
Have about all our boxes made for fall business and hope 
when the time comes to dig will be able to push through in 
good time. 
Very truly, 
W. T. Hood & Co. 
Without answering your questions in detail, we will state 
that the growing season here has been very good indeed. 
We have sold very close on Peach. 
Have fine lots of leading kinds of Apple for commercial 
orchards in one year trees, as good as ever grew, in our 
judgment. All stock has made very satisfactory growth. 
Our trade so far this year has been about an average, and 
we think we will have very good fall trade, though we see 
nothing to warrant an overly optimistic view. 
Yours very truly, 
Pomona, N. C. J. Van Lindley Nursery Co. 
Fall planting of nursery stock is very light compared 
with spring business and I do not believe our fall business 
will vary $500 from one year to the other. 
Most blocks of apple trees through New York State 
have made a very fair growth but I do not believe that there 
are many blocks that will grade over 50 per cent first-class 
trees. Most all varieties of apples seem to be in surplus 
this fall and the trade seems to be entirely demoralized 
amongst the growers; each grower trying to cut the other 
man’s throat to get an order. Our leading varieties in apples 
are Baldwin, McIntosh, Rome Beauty, Wealthy and Duchess. 
There are only a few blocks of good pear trees in this 
state and the blocks will not average 40 per cent first-class 
trees. I do not think that there will be many varieties of 
pears in surplus outside of Kieffer. Our leading varieties of 
pears are Bartlett, Clapp’s and Seckel. 
Plum trees will not grade up nearly as well as they have 
in other years and I do not believe there will be many varie¬ 
ties in surplus. 
Richmond, Va. 
