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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Business Changes. 
The nurseries of the Realty Syndicate Co., Oakland, Calif., have 
been leased by J. A. Frutado. 
Joseph Menny of Fresno, California, has purchased the Macomber 
estate at Chicopee, Mass., and will engage in market gardening. 
William White has purchased the business of Robert Miller at E. 
Brookfield, Mass. It is reported that Mr. Miller will locate near Salt 
Lake City, Utah, and take up the business of rosd growing on a large 
scale. 
APPLE NOTES FROM CALIFORNIA. 
I sold my apples on the tree except a few for home use 
and some of the better new varieties for specimens. KING 
DAVID is much improved-this year, and on some trees were 
certainly fine—much better than ever before. The tendency 
to overbearing seems to be its worst fault, and it has but 
little that it can afford to lose in size. Thinning is the 
only remedy I saw for it will bear in spite of you. 
DELICIOUS was also very fine, large and high colored. 
I found two growing on one twig, that were nearly round 
and a very dark red. Will plant the seed as an experiment. 
STAYMAN is certainly a wonderful apple here. 
WINTER BANANA is another apple that is improving 
year by year, and the fruit seems perfect this year, beautiful 
and more uniform in size than it has been other years. 
BLACK BEN was a little off this year. The trees,like all 
the Ben Davis family, except Shackelford, is very subject 
to mildew here and it affected the fruit a good deal this year. 
PARAGON was full and fine—forty boxes from two of 
the trees. 
Ahwahnee, Cal., Frank Femmons. 
APPALACHIAN-WHITE MOUNTAIN BILL. 
Dear Sir: 
The Appalachian-White Mountain Bill, urged by the President, 
unanimously passed by the Senate, and unanimously recommended 
by the House Committee of the LIXth Congress, failed to reach a 
vote in the House. 
In consequence, denudation of southern and eastern water-sheds 
continues unchecked; and agriculture, commerce, water supplies, 
waterways and waterpowers of priceless value are menaced or 
destroyed. The last Ohio Valley flood illustrates the danger. 
This bill should not fail again. Its importance must be brought 
home to the people and to Congress. Its practical, commerical side - 
must be emphasized. Friends of the measure must be enlisted and 
organized. There is no time to lose. An educational campaign 
must be made. 
The American Forestry Association, national in scope and effort, 
is waging this campaign. It seeks to reach the people through the 
printed page and the lecture platform. Its literature should be 
scattered broadcast and its speakers sent throughout the land. To 
win, this Association must have funds. Its membership, now 
over six thousand, should be multiplied. It appeals to all who ap¬ 
preciate the need. 
We shall be glad to welcome you to this organization and to re¬ 
ceive your cooperation in forwarding this great work. 
Very truly yours, 
Sec. Am. Forestry Assoc. Thos. E. Will. 
ORLANDO HARRISON BEFORE MARYLAND HORTI¬ 
CULTURAL SOCIETY. 
At the last meeting of the Maryland Horticultural 
Society in Baltimore, President Orlando Harrison presented 
a strong address covering various features affecting fruit 
growers and nurserymen. In speaking of unsatisfactory 
express service he said, “Of all the troubles we have in 
marketing our products, the abuses of the express compan¬ 
ies stand out most prominently. Inefficient employees, 
irresponsible employees, result in more carelessness, more 
overcharges more losses and more stealing than occurs in 
any business I know of today; and the patron pays for all 
this inefficiency. Hardly an agent in a hundred understands 
the rates and attempts to apply them correctly. Customers 
of nurserymen are robbed, shippers are robbed, both in re¬ 
gard to rates charged and in connection with the common 
practice of pilfering from the fruit packages forwarded. 
Fruit growers and nurserymen should stand together for a 
reorganization of express companies, and for a service which 
shall be reasonable and efficient.” 
Mr. Harrison urged the institution of a parcels post, and 
a better freight service. 
On the matter of quality of stock he stated that tree 
planters are growing more exacting in regard to the stock 
that they buy, are less in favor of cheap trees, and realize 
more and more the value of a well grown article. He be¬ 
lieved with J. H. Hale that inferior nursery stock was one of 
the greatest retarding influences to the progress of the 
nursery industry. Mr. Harrison was very optimistic re¬ 
garding the future of fruit growing in Maryland, and urged 
growers to study conditions, study varieties, plant and care 
for in the most approved manner, and to those who worked 
perseveringly and conscientiously he promised satisfactory 
rewards. 
The National Nurseryman 
Gentlemen: 
Find enclosed check for $1.00 for year’s subscription to 
National Nurseryman to January 1909. I think it one 
of the best nursery periodicals that come to my desk. 
Yours very respectfully 
Wm. J. Chapman. 
LITERARY NOTE. 
Ex-President Grover Cleveland has written a remarkable 
article on “Our People and Their Ex-Presidents” for The 
Youth's Companion, which was published in January issue. 
In it Mr. Cleveland says: 
“As I am the only man now living who could at this time 
profit by the ideas I have advocated, I hope my sincerity 
will not be questioned when I say that I have dealt With the 
subject without the least thought of personal interest or 
desire for personal advantage. I am not in need of aid from 
the public Treasury. I hope and believe that I have pro¬ 
vided for myself and those dependent upon me a comfortable 
maintenance, within the limits of accustomed prudence and 
economy, and that those to whom I owe the highest earthly 
duty will not want when I am gone. These conditions 
have permitted me to treat with the utmost freedom a topic 
which involves no personal considerations and only has to do 
in my mind with conditions that may arise in the future, 
but are not attached to the ex-President of to-day; and I 
am sure that I am actuated only by an ever-present desire 
that the fairness and sense of justice characteristic of true 
Americanism shall neither fail nor be obscured.” 
