THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
679 
A MID-SUMMER REVIEW OF NURSERY CONDITIONS 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
In a general way the nursery stock at the present time 
looks very well, and we are in hopes of having our usual 
supply. The shortage we believe will be chiefly in apples 
and peaches. We do not look for any surplus in any line 
for the coming season. At least we have none that we can 
call a surplus now. 
Ellwanger & Barry. 
GENEVA, N. Y. 
The past spring’s business has been the largest in the 
experience of this company and we cleaned up practically 
everything we had in salable grades. The planting season 
was particularly favorable, - having good rains after the 
stock was planted, consequently everything is looking well 
and growth generally is satisfactory. We are having a dry 
spell at present, but so far it has not been serious enough to 
injure nursery stock or stop the growth. 
It seems to us that the demand for stock for the coming 
season is quite unusual for this time of the year. We look 
for good average prices for the year to come. From what 
we have seen of plantings in certain localities it is quite 
evident, however, that the era of high priced fruit stocks 
will shortly be over, unless some unforeseen accident should 
destroy part of the crops which have already been planted. 
W. & T. Smith Company 
CHAUTAUQUA CO., N. Y. 
We are having splendid growing weather here now and 
stock is making a strong, vigorous growth. Two year old 
grape vines and currants especially have done well. The 
weather is getting dry and we need rain which would help 
cuttings. There is about the usual supply of grapes, cur¬ 
rants and gooseberries grown here and all are looking well 
except the cuttings which need rain. While it is yet early 
to judge what trade will be, yet indications point toward 
good sales. 
T. S. Hubbard Co. 
NEWARK, N. Y. 
Here the cold, wet spring did not enable us to finish 
planting until somewhat later than usual; the warm, dry 
weather that followed was ideal for growing; stands arc 
good, and stock looking as well as it ever did. We are well 
up with our budding. 
Having no retail trade of our own, and growing entirely 
for other nurserymen, we cannot say that we are ever 
either “long” or “short”; we grow about the same list of 
stock each season, with such increase as the growth of our 
business justifies, without “plunging” on anything. We 
have about our usual blocks. It has been an ideal season 
so far; we could not ask anything better. 
Yours truly, 
Jackson & Perkins Company, 
By John Watson, Secretary. 
P-S. The proof of the pudding, or, properly, of the pie, 
being in the cherries, we don’t know of a better argument 
for planting cherry trees than the high prices paid by a 
large cannery. Farmers about here are collecting large 
sums for fruit from the trees along the lanes and division¬ 
lines; how much better than unproductive shade trees! 
One farmer told us yesterday he had gathered in $200 for 
fruit from the cherry trees along the roadway in front of his 
place. With sour cherry orchards bringing growers $1,000 
an acre this year, cherry trees ought to be in demand. 
[Note. —Prices offered by Newark, N. Y. cannery in 
another column.] 
POST CARD ANSWERS 
MARYLAND 
The nursery conditions so far as I can see are about the 
same as last season in this section. The season has been a 
very peculiar one. Stock is making good growth now. It 
looks to me as if there is going to be considerable Shortage in 
peach and possibly apple. Other stock I think will be equal 
to the demand. I grow nothing but grape vines and may 
be somewhat long on Concords. I never had cuttings do 
better than those planted last spring. All my one year 
transplanted are going to make exceedingly heavy vines. 
The weather here has been very warm and dry for the past 
10 days. Rain, which was needed badly, came on the even¬ 
ing of the fourth and all the crops that had been thoroughly 
cultivated are making growth very fast and show very mark¬ 
ed improvement in the past 48 hours. I see no reason why we 
should not make fine growth from now on and have No. 1 
stock. The grape crop in Delaware is not going to be a 
heavy one, possibly something over a one-half crop, at least 
so reported to me last week; late frosts injured the bloom; 
very few vineyards grown in this immediate section. 
Peaches, pears and plums,good crop ; apples three fourths. 
More early than late varieties. No large orchards here, 
mostly truck crops except strawberries; these are planted 
heavily and have paid well. The prospects are that the 
demand for strawberry plants will be heavy and the supply 
of plants likely short unless the splendid rain of the fourth 
came in time to make abundance of plants. August usually 
is our best month for runner growth. 
Salisbury, Md. Chas. M. Peters 
GEORGIA 
The June rains have caused all nursery stock to make up 
for lost time. 
A large proportion of our one year apples are already 
five feet, and trees are branching nicely. Plenty of peaches 
now 6 to 7 feet. One year plums headed back to three feet 
four weeks since are already four feet and well branched. 
Ornamentals are also putting on a good growth. The de¬ 
mand for ornamental trees and shrubs and coniferous and 
broadleaved evergreens is on the increase. 
