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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Business Movements and 
Hctivities. 
The Sunnyside Nursery Co., Sunnyside, Wash., just recently 
finished the delivery of last season’s stock, and has planted seed¬ 
lings and grafts for this season. The shipment of seedlings received 
from France this spring is 100,000 cherries, 110,000 pears, 10,000 
plums. They are lining out 300,000 apple seedlings for budding and 
planting 000,000 apple grafts. They have sufficient peach pits for 
budding 100,000 during the summer. This company has nurseries at 
Sunnyside, Grandview and White Bluffs. 
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Capital City 
Nursery Co., Salem, Ore., called for the purpose of canvassing the 
results of the campaign for subscriptions to the capital stock of the 
reorganized company, it was found that the company still lacked 
$8,000 of the required $50,000. It seemed to be the sense of the 
meeting that another effort should be made to raise the required 
$8,000 and if success was not met with to give up the proposition. 
“What this means to Salem,” says a local paper, “can be under¬ 
stood when it is known that the Oregon Nursery Co. has the second 
largest payroll in the city at present, and it is believed the reorgani¬ 
zed Capital City Nursery Co. would become still larger, for the 
country is yet in the infancy of the transformation from a grain 
growing section to a fruit producer. There are unlimited possibili¬ 
ties ahead for a good nursery in this section.” 
E. Farley, proprietor of the Denison Greenhouses, Denison, 
Texas, has had a large trade during the winter, and has had diffi¬ 
culty in attending to it on account of illness at his home. The de¬ 
mand in fact, was greater than he could supply, thoigh he bought all 
the available stock in his neighborhood in the effort to fill his orders, 
He will soon add about 1,500 feet of glass to his plant, and already 
has part of the material ordered. 
The lecture season at Horticultural Hall in Boston closed March 
28 with a conference on grape growing. 
Mr. Suzuki, managing director of the Yokohama Nurseries of 
Japan, said to be the largest of its kind in that country, is on a tour 
of the United States. While in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, he 
appointed Jacob Dietrich, nurseryman, general agent of his firm for 
southern California. 
J. B. Pilkington, the prosperous nurseryman, with a salesroom on 
Front street, Portland, Ore., also had a good word to say, the sales on 
trees and shrubbery eclipsing all previous years. Mr. Pilkington 
was successful in figuring with the Rose Carnival Society and sup¬ 
plied it with several thousand roses. 
The Phoenix Nursery Co., Bloomington, Ill., is opening offices in 
various sections of the country for the purpose of handling the 
agency force. The latest office opened is at Jackson, Miss. 
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, O., has is¬ 
sued an attractively printed bulletin entitled “Evergreens, Their 
Uses and Culture,” which will be of interest to nurserymen. 
C. F. Dallman, of the Missoula Nursery Co., Missoula, Mont., 
March 24 shipped two carloads of nursery stock to McDonald & 
Tighe, of Billings. The shipment included a large number of 
McIntosh Reds and other varieties, which will be planted by the 
farmers of the Yellowstone valley. 
The philadelphus thrives in almost any well drained soil and often 
does well in the shade of trees and buildings. Pruning should be 
done after the shrubs have flowered, as the blossoms appear on the 
wood of the previous year’s growth. By pruning, the shrubs can all 
be kept within fixed limits of growth. 
Kansas City, Mo.—The contract for the nursery stock, consisting 
of trees and shrubbery to be planted in the city parks, was let, March 
2, by the park board to M. E. Chandler Elmhurst nursery, Argentine, 
Kans. The amount of the contract was $1,350. 
The National Fruit Growers’ Association, through its officers and 
members, has begun a series of uniform observations, to be taken in 
all parts of the country, with a view to accumulating data showing 
the adaptability of varieties to the different section. The initial 
work will be confined largely to the pecan, but other nuts will be 
taken up in the same way if the expectations regarding the pecan are 
realized. 
The Albany Georgia Pecan Company has purchased a large tract 
of land at Hardaway, Ga., and has already planted 400 acres in 
choice pecans. 
B. F. Vandervoort, an old nurseryman, has bought six acres of 
land at Normal, Ill., and is building packing sheds preparatory to 
starting a nursery. 
The nursery business is as good as it ever was, what little falling 
off is noted in certain localities being fully made up for by gains in 
the farming communities and in landscaping. 
The Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, Conn., mailed its 1908 
catalogue only to customers who have been heard from in the last 
three years, and the general custom is to distribute the books less 
promiscuously than heretofore. 
W. W. Hunt & Co., proprietors of the Blue Hills Nurseries, Hart¬ 
ford, Conn., have issued an enlarged catalogue this season, thirty- 
two pages being given to hardy perennial, bulbous and other plants 
not included under fruits or ornamentals. 
The F. R. Williams Co. has let the contract for eight rose houses, 
each 25x300, even-span and open under the gutters. The Evans 
ventilator machines will be used, and the firm has placed an order 
for 38,400 square feet of Everlasting tile bench. They have used 
this bench for the last five years, for both roses and carnations, and 
are well pleased -with it. 
The Palisades Nurseries, Sparkhill, N. Y., have been incorpora^ 
ted with $15,000 authorized capital stock. The directors named are 
Angus McGillivary and John M. Stevens, of Palisades, and James 
Cochran, of New York city. 
The Grand View Nursery and Orchard Co., of DesMoines, la., 
will erect a new office building, 24x50 feet, at the packing grounds. 
The mail order business to date this season is reported to be better 
than it was in the same period last season. 
The Devils Lake Nursery has been incorporated at Devils Lake, 
N. D., with a capital stock of $5,000. The incorporators are John 
W. Maher, Henry Hale and J. E. Maher, all of Devils Lake. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., is making preparation 
for added water supply. There are several large storage tanks 
about the nursery and a four horse-power pumping engine has just 
been purchased of the Standard Pump & Engine Co., Cleveland, to 
pump water froln the river for the system. It replaces a two horse¬ 
power machine previously used. 
The L. L. Olds Co., Clinton, Wis., lost their entire plant by fire on 
March 5. The loss is placed at $50,000, partially insured. 
Superintendent E. C. Hilborn, of the Enderlin schools, Grand 
Forks, N. D., formerly a student of the North Dakota university, is 
organizing a new nursery company which is to make its home in 
Valley City. The promoters and stockholders in the company are: 
Dr. E. A. Pray, of Valley City; E. C. Plilborn, of Enderlin; P. A. 
Pickett, of Leal, and O. O. Wagley, of Milwaukee. Mr. Hilborn is 
