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president and treasurer and Mr. Pickett is secretary. The three 
officials constitute the board of directors. The company has an 
authorized capital of $50,000. The firm will be known as the North¬ 
west Nursery Company, and will be ready for business at once. 
The New England Nurseries anticipate a lively spring trade and, 
from orders already received, find but little indication of any decline 
in the demand for choice nursery stock. 
The Bay State Nurseries report business up to date as consider¬ 
ably ahead of 1906, but not quite so good as that of 1907. How¬ 
ever, there appears to be more new business coming than a year ago 
and prospects are good. 
The firm name of Shotwell & Graver of Fargo, N. D. has been 
changed to that of the Shotwell Floral Company, Winthrop B. Shot-, 
well purchasing the interest of J. L. Graver, and will continue the 
florist and nursery business with A. T. Shotwell under the name 
given above. 
The Southeast Nursery Company of Beaumont, Texas, with a 
capital stock of $6,000 has been chartered. Its incorporators are 
E. McMicken, J. W. Spurlock, T. A. Spurlock and A. Spurlock. 
The Olson greenhouses, New London, Wis., have secured a new 
location just south of the city. Their present quarters were entirely 
inadequate for their needs and with plenty of room they expect to 
make the growth of nursery stock and bulbs two important branches 
of their business. The 57 acres they have secured give them the 
needed room and the two greenhouses in use at present will be 
moved to the new site. Three additional buildings will also be 
erected. 
The Central Nursery Company is cutting sw r eet peas and violets 
of fine quality which sell readily at sight. The firm also reports 
orders for nursery stock, etc., in excess of last year. 
Mr. Krill of the Prudential Nursery Company likewise reports the 
nursery business brisk. 
George C. Southard, a nurseryman, has decided to establish in 
Redlands, Cal., a nursery for growing Luther Burbank’s spineless 
cactus. Mr. Southard has made a study of the thornless cactus and 
has been conferring with Mr. Burbank on the subject. He believes 
that from the showfing the cactus has been making in recent years 
the plant will in a few more years become one of the leading food pro¬ 
ducts for cattle and other stock and that there will be a demaqd for 
the plants for use on the desert. 
The Orroville Nursery Co., of Orroville, Wash., has been incor¬ 
porated with $1,500 capital stock, by David W. F. Reed, James F. 
Irving and John R. Fraser. 
The city council of Cleveland, O., has passed an ordinance pro¬ 
viding for a fine up to $100 for any person who shall plant a tree with¬ 
out first producing a city license. 
The Peters Nursery Co., of Knoxville, Tenn., has now been in¬ 
corporated with a capital stock of $25,000. The incorporators are 
S. V. Carter, L. D. Tyson, G. W. Callahan, R. P. Gettys and R. E. 
Gettys. 
J. W. Shadow,proprietor of the Cedar Hill Nursery and Orchard 
Co., Winchester, Tenn., has made a voluntary assignment in favor 
of Hugh Morton, trustee, for the benefit of his creditors. 
The George Peters Nursery Co., Dayton, O., notified the service 
board that they would plant any number of trees and shrubs desired 
at 36 cents each. This firm was the lowest bidder, but their original 
bid called for more shrubbery than desired, and it was to secure 
the work that the nursery company agreed to plant the amount de- 
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sired at the lower price. 
The Alabama Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala., have just issued a 
handsome and very complete illustrated book of nursery tools— 
send for it. 
Headquarters have been established in the Savings Bank build¬ 
ing, Waterville, Me., by the Phoenix Nursery Co. of Bloomington, 
Ill., which will be the general office for the state. 
Montgomery Ward & Co., the Chicago mail order house, now 
have a nursery at Arlington Heights, Ill. 
J. P. Sinnock of the Sinnock Nurseries, Moberley, Mo., recently 
closed a deal whereby he sold a carload (10,000) apple trees to an 
Iowa firm, to be shipped in the spring. 
Aloys Frey, head gardener at Lincoln Park, Ind. has bought 
thirty acres of land northeast of Crown Point. He will establish a 
nursery immediately. 
Gifford Pinchot, United States forester, addressed the St. Louis 
Society of Pedagogy last week, at the Central high school. In his 
remarks he said that the forestry problem is becoming critical, and 
declared that the future will suffer from present carelessness. Pro¬ 
fessor William Trelease, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 
also spoke. The attendance was large. 
Sanders, H. Weber & Sons, J. W. Schuette and Emil Rothenheber 
have had an exceptionally good year in fruit trees, ornamentals and 
shrubs of all kinds. 
The Superintendent of the University Nurseries of San Francisco 
will plant half a million young redwood trees in the hills back of 
Berkeley. The trees are from the State Forest Preserves in Men¬ 
docino. 
A large iron boiler-house and packing .shed has been erected by 
Domoto Bros., San Francisco to replace one of wood recently de¬ 
stroyed by fire at their Central avenue nursery, Elmhurst. 
The Wedge Nursery of Albert Lea, Minn., during the week March 
23-29 shipped a carload of American elms to Denver, Colo. 
It is announced that Hiram McFeron, of the firm of Kelly and 
McFeron, Columbus, Ind. has purchased his partner’s interest in the 
nursery business. 
The demand for ornamental nursery stock is already beginning to 
be a feature of the nursery business in the Southwest. 
The legislature of Texas is devoting all the time it can spare from 
railroads to nursery legislation. Texas now has a nursery bill 
pending. 
J. B. Maron, formerly rose propagator with the McGregor Bros. 
Co., Springfield, Ohio, is now in Chicago. He plans to locate in the 
vicinity of that city and to establish a nursery for hardy stock. He 
also plans to do a landscape business. 
The plans of the Spokane Nursery Co., Spokaffe, Wash., for its 
plant on the North Side include fireproof concrete buildings, some 
23,000 square feet under glass, and private water system to be com¬ 
pleted at an expense of $50,000. J. H. Mumm is president of the 
company. 
The North Jersey Nurseries now have their offices at 188 Market 
street, Newark, N. J. 
The Wapato Nursery, Wapato; Wash., has secured a five year lease 
of the Jesse Peam Trench, 80 acres and another 40 acres. They 
have in all 200 acres of ground. 
The Sneed Nursery and Orchard Co., Tyler, Tex. has been 
chartered with a capital stock of $43,000; C. W. Wood, J. F. Sneed, 
Frank Brunton are the incorporators. 
