THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
409 
Our spring was very wet until planting time, then turned 
suddenly dry, and we had no rain to do any good until 
August. Very favorable after that date. 
We have a good growth on stock planted last fall and two 
year stock. We lost many cuttings, grafts, etc., on this 
spring’s planting. 
Trade looks good for our line of stock, small fruit plants. 
Gooseberries, blackberries, currants, catalpa and other 
seedling stock are in best demand now. 
New Carlisle, 0. W. N. Scarff. 
The season with us has been extremely dry up to the 
middle of August, and since then we have had more than a 
normal rainfall, with some damage by hail in limited sections. 
The growth of stock has been about 75% of a normal 
growth, and while fruit trees, etc., are not as large as they 
should be, small fruit plants are making a rapid late growth. 
Trade conditions are about normal. We have very little 
fall planting in the North, and trade is not active at this 
season. 
Apple seems to be the most in demand with plum and 
cherry next in order. Only Americana plum are being 
planted in this latitude with success. 
We have no marked improvement to report now, although 
we shall be obliged to add to our storage capacity, as the 
business is growing steadily. 
We are not booming any novelties and stick to the old 
tried kinds. 
We would not recommend any varieties to be discarded. 
In the strawberry class, we have dropped both Autumn and 
Pan American. 
Janesville, Wis. Kellogg’s Nursery. 
The character of our season has been very adverse. We 
did not have any rain to speak of in this section from June 8 
until August 10, and at the same time, it was intensely hot. 
However, we gave our stock first class cultivation, and noth¬ 
ing seemed to suffer, with the exception of strawberries and 
raspberries; but since our rains, and we have had a fine 
supply lately, they have made a wonderful growth._ Our 
asparagus has also made an excellent growth. This has 
partly compensated for the backwardness on strawberries, 
raspberries, and asparagus, which was occasioned by the 
exceedingly dry weather. 
The trade conditions have been very good, considering the 
above—equally as good as last year. 
There seems to be a high demand for apples. There is a 
strong feeling for more commercial orchard planting. Shrubs 
in assortment are sold very heavily, as is also a complete line 
of small fruit. 
We have a frost proof building, 140 x 156, which gives us 
excellent facilities for storing and packing. 
Nursery management in the west is tending more than in 
former years to be conducted under large concerns. The 
smaller firms, consequent to the adverse conditions, are 
dropping out of the game. 
New varieties of promise are such as the Perfection Cur¬ 
rant, Everbearing Strawberries, Meehan’s Mallow Marvels, 
and the Dudley Apple. 
There are many old varieties of trees and plants that are 
being discarded, such as the Gregg and Ohio Raspberries, and 
the Wilson and Crescent Strawberries. 
We think there is a great dearth of instruction in our 
schools in the rudimentary principles of horticulture and 
agriculture, that should be remedied, because we are a nation 
of home-builders. When the home is completed, there are 
thousands of people whose best interests are not served, 
because of the lack of knowledge of what to plant, when and 
where to plant, and what care should be given. 
The Coe, Converse & Edwards Co. 
Fort Atkinson, Wis. 
We are pleased to report a satisfactory season on the 
whole, so far as growth of stock is concerned. We had a little 
too much rain for comfort during July, a condition that manv 
sections of the country cannot report this season. Some lines 
of stock are a little better this year than we had ever seen 
them ; peach particularly good, pear and cherry fine. The 
outlook for business is, we think, promising. 
Huntsville, Ala. Chase Nursery Company. 
Weather has been favorable here, with the result of satis¬ 
factory growth of stock. Trade is normal, with apples and 
peaches most in demand. Our list of varieties has been 
revised, so that we think they are about on a balance. 
Huntsville, Ala. Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries. 
The present season has been rather an unusual one, with 
the early spring favorable and then a prolonged drouth with 
excessively high temperature. May was the hottest on 
record—between 90° and 97° for three weeks. Small, stock, 
cuttings, and seeds that needed favorable conditions at that 
time in many instances were a complete failure. 
Selling stock is clean and healthy in foliage and body and 
we expect a good root system. Apple seem to be in active 
demand and other stock in proportion. 
As to the discarding of old varieties, we have always felt 
that the nurseryman could reduce his list one-half with 
advantage both to his customers and to himself. The idea of 
carrying 60 or 75 varieties of apples when 20 contain the 
“Cream” is unnecessary, and has seemed a burden to the 
intending purchaser. Fear of losing'a sale because we can’t 
supply the entire list will always make us slow about discard¬ 
ing old familiar varieties. ' Co-operation in this matter may 
be worthy of consideration. 
Collections have been a little slower than usual, due no 
doubt to the unfavorable season. 
Lexington, Ky. H. F. Hillenmeyer & Sons. 
Excessive Heat 
The past season has been one of heat, drouth and mystery. 
We had but little moisture in the soil in the opening part of 
the season, and got but little rain through the months of 
April, May, and June. 
Never in the history of the Southwest has there been 
known such extreme continued heat as we had through the 
entire season. It seemed impossible at times for animal or 
vegetable life to continue to exist. We did, however, survive 
it, and the sixth of July we had the first good rain of the 
season, which was followed by more rain throughout the 
month of July and early part of August. 
It is strange, yet true, that we have, notwithstanding the 
extreme heat and drouth, gotten a very satisfactory growth 
on all classes of stock, and I am more convinced now than 
ever before, that intense cultivation, with a carefully prepared 
soil before planting, is the method that should be adopted and 
pursued by all nurserymen, especially those in the southwest. 
Owing to the drouth of the past three years, there has been 
quite a loss in all kinds of fruit trees. This has created a 
demand for stock in a retail way. Sales, therefore, have been 
very satisfactory. 
Kinds of stock most in demand: Pear, cherry, apple, 
peach, plum and blackberry. Planters are not buying apple 
as freely as in past years, while peach, plum and blackberry 
are being planted in large quantities. 
Enid. Okla. J. A. Lopeman. 
GOOD SEASON IN TENNESSEE 
All told we have had a very satisfactory growing season; 
in fact, we believe we have been especially favored, plenty of 
rain and stock has made an uncommonly fine growth. This 
applies especially to yearling apple, pear, cherry and June 
buds. 
