THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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None added this year. We recently planted another vine¬ 
yard to supply additional wood for making cuttings for grape 
nursery. 
Armalaga, Ellen Scott, Bailey and Captivator grapes, Mun¬ 
son Free and Cling peaches, are all promising new varieties. 
We have already discarded all unworthies. Catalog will 
show those we are not growing. 
Denison, Tex. T. V. Munson & Son. 
We have had a queer season as to weather: plenty of rain 
in March and April, giving an ideal season for lining out; no 
rain in May and June, but just as we thought everything 
would die, it began raining in July, and during the month 
more than six inches fell, causing everything to put on an 
excellent growth. 
Now that the growing season is nearly over, nursery stock 
will be up to an average, and much better than the two pre¬ 
ceding years. But few peach seed came up, and such stock 
will be scarce another year. We look for an increased 
business in ornamentals. The agitation for parks and civic 
improvements generally has greatly stimulated the interest in 
such things. A marked improvement is noted in the demand 
for the better grades of stock. 
The past three dry seasons have called attention to the 
necessity of planting the hardiest varieties and species. 
Such shrubs as hydrangeas, snow-balls, and calycanthus 
have nearly all perished, and weigela, deutzias, forsythias, and 
kerrias have had a hard struggle to pull through. The old 
lilacs, philadelphus, cydonias, altheas, red buds, and spireas 
have lived and grown, but not flourished. 
These seasons have brought into prominence many new or 
little known shrubs that have flourished, and some have even 
luxuriated in the intense heat and severe drouth which have 
prevailed at times. Foremost among these and about in the 
order named are the Parkinsonia aculeata, Poinciana Gilliesii, 
Russian olive, Vitex agnus-castus, all the Tamarix (some of 
which are beautiful, especially the Hispida estivalis, Odes- 
siana, and Japonica) the Robinias (among which there are 
some lovely new varieties) the Chilopsis, and crape myrtle. 
We have gotten hold of a shrub that is new to us, and we 
have not yet been able to identify it. It is a shrubby salvia, 
very similar in flower to the splendens, is a continuous bloomer 
from May until frost. It is of neat compact habit, and has 
stood both zero weather and our extremely hot summers with 
equal indifference. 
We shall be pleased to send The National Nurseryman 
or any of its readers a spray of it for identification, if interested. 
Fort Worth, Tex. ' Baker Bros. Co. 
A REMINDER OF EX-PRESIDENT ALBERTSON 
Growing nursery stock in Colorado does not amount to 
much. The stock produced here is not enough to supply the 
demand within the state. 
I can tell you about other things, I think of more interest 
to our nursery friends. 
Two months this summer we were on the Pacific Coast. 
A fine time; no heat, no frost, no dust, (are you sure?—Ed.) 
no rain; sunshine all day every day. We spent a day with 
the Albertsons (formerly Bridgeport, Indiana), at Whittier, 
California, 17 miles from Los Angeles. He lives in one of the 
cleanest towns I ever saw; enjoys life and the folks about 
him are glad. Whittier is a Quaker town; no saloons, nary a 
bootlegger, nary a shack, nary a loafer. Well shaded streets, 
and beautiful parks to make you glad; one college, beautiful 
school buildings; shrubs and flowers at will; citizens who 
know how to spell and who love decency and order. 
There I saw a fuschia which covered a good sized house; a 
geranium with a stem six inches through; a castor oil plant 40 
feet tall; and it wasn’t a very good day to see things either. 
The Albertson’s have the marks of prosperity all about 
them, the clean, modest, real kind. The day we spent with 
them did us good, they enjoy meeting old friends. 
Delta, Col. Herbert Chase. 
THE FAR WEST 
Conditions For Growth Quite Favorable 
The past summer, taking it all in all, has been rather 
favorable to the growth of nursery stock in the Willamette 
Valley. With the exception of a few days of very warm 
weather in July, we have had a very fine growing season. 
Rains began earlier than usual in the fall, but generally fine 
weather has prevailed the greater portion of the time. 
The effect of these conditions on the growth of nursery 
stock has been such as to give us-a uniform stand of nursery 
stock throughout this year. May say that we have never 
had a better outlook for good stock at this time. 
Our sales, while probably not carrying as many large com¬ 
mercial orders as we have booked in the last two or three 
years, in the aggregate surpass the amount sold at this season 
last year. 
The outlook for placing all of the first class merchantable 
stock at this time is very bright. Some lines, such as prunes, 
pears, almonds, and apricots, have been very brisk, and the 
visible supply of sorne of these stocks is now entirely ex¬ 
hausted. This would refer particularly to prunes. 
Reviewing the trade over the Pacific Coast we are inclined 
to think that there is a tendency to reduce prices on apple 
stocks, and there probably will be a surplus of this class at 
the close of the season. 
On the whole we think the nursery business on the Pacific 
Coast is in a very prosperous condition, and the demand for 
the home orchard is increasing every year. 
When erecting our buildings two years ago, we did so on a 
large enough scale to take care of our business for some time 
to come, and as a consequence have not found it necessary to 
make any improvements during the past two years. 
With splendid crops and high prices for all farm products 
on the Pacific Coast this year, we see no reason why the out¬ 
look should not be of the very brightest kind for the nursery¬ 
men. 
Orenco, Ore. Oregon Nursery ‘Co. 
THE MOUNTAIN REGION 
Breezy Conditions and Remarks 
Characteristics of the season—Spring, dry and very windy. 
Summer, very dry, no rain at all. Fall, very dry, beginning 
to rain since the 15th of September. 
Effect on growth of stock—Wind and dry weather in 
spring; result, heavy loss in seedlings and grafts, and retarded 
starting of dormant stock. Later, when irrigation began, 
stock that had not perished by drouth and wind had done 
well and made good growth. Drouth after June ist has no 
terror for the irrigator. We will all harvest a lot of fine two 
year old Apple grafts and one year old buds in apple, cherry, 
pear, peach and apricots. 
To the present time there has been no business in this 
country to speak of, good crops, fair prices, but everybody 
waiting; we do not know what for, neither do they. 
Kind of stock most in demand—apple, pear and prune only, 
if there is a demand for anything. Improvements in your 
field or storage equipment or enlargement of your business.” 
New Brown’s Rochester Nursery Spray Cart broke down 
before we got it to the field. Still out of commission. 
Hints on nursery management—A little like the late 
Grover Cleveland’s “Resumption.” “The way to resume is 
• to resume.” 
The way to manage a nursery is to manage it, and one 
fellow can’t tell the other fellow how to do it. 
New varieties of promise—Mr. Burbank’s Formosa Plum, 
Standard Prune Himalaya; Blackberry, and Early Elberta 
Peach 
Old varieties to be discarded—Most of them, save perhaps: 
30 varieties of apple; 5 of pear; 12 of plum; 5 of prune; 12 of 
cherry; 12 of peach; 3 of apricot; ^ doz. each small fruit, 
except grapes 
Roy, Utah. 
P. A. Dix. 
