THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Business Movements and 
Hctivities. 
Thaddeus N. Yates & Co. report nursery business very brisk and 
much better than expected. They have commenced the shipment 
of a large order of trees for the Massachusetts Highway Commission. 
W. J. and A. E. Maloney of Dansville, N. Y., together with F. 
Walter Wells of Rochester, N. Y., have organized a company under 
the name of Maloney Bros. & Wells, for carrying on a general retail 
and wholesale nursery business. 
The Continental Nurseries, Franklin, Mass., have received from 
Holland a large consignment of hardy rhododendrons, azaleas, roses, 
Japanese maples, etc. 
The American Evergreen Company succeed the A. J. Fellouris Co. 
at 52 West 28th Street, New York. They will shortly remove to 103 
West 28th Street. 
W. L. E. Green, one of the proprietors of the Estella Nurseries, 
Wood River, has located at Kearney, Neb., and started a nursery. 
A retail office and yard will be maintained. 
Reports from Hartford, Michigan, state that local nursery 
dealers have had an excellent trade this spring. Practically all of 
the choicest fruit lands on which the orchards were destroyed by the 
frosts of 1906 are being reset with a choicer variety of trees. 
Bobbink & Atkins, of Rutherford, N. J., are sending out great 
quantities of nursery stock. The blue spruce and other conifers 
grown by this firm are among the finest of this year’s offerings. 
Expert evidence was brought forward recently at Toronto, Can., 
to show that purchases of stock by the park department from 
nurse^men were charged for at rates enormously increased over 
those asked by others in the trade. The city, it was said, had paid 
$10,164 for stock that should have been purchased for $3,000. 
The Puget Sound Nursery & Seed Co., of Seattle, Wash., reports 
that its business is fairly good at present. Two carloads of nursery 
stock have been received from Europe and another is expected. 
The Christopher Nurseries of Auburn, Wash., have been shipping 
fruit trees and loganberry bushes to Seoul, Korea. 
The Grand View Nursery Co., of Des Moines, la., reports a fine 
season’s business. It is contemplating considerable additions to 
its plant this spring. 
A Mr. Ingalls, of North Yakima, Wash., has purchased 75,000 
trees from the Brown Nursery Company which he is preparing to 
sell to fruit growers in that section. 
The Capital City Nursery company, of Salem, Oregon, report the 
sale of 60,000 apple and peach trees to a fruit association with head¬ 
quarters at Ellensburg, Wash. 
Three persons whose names have not yet been made public have 
bought twelve acres of land at Ashland, Wis., and will establish a 
nursery there. 
H. M. Seekatz and Frank Teager are said to be planting the 
establishment of a nursery at Leaf River, Minn. Mr. Seekatz was 
formerly with the Gateway Nursery company of Iowa. 
W. H. Moore, E. A. Henby and J. R. Canfield have been elected 
the directors of the Indianapolis Forest and Nursery Company 
recently incorporated at Indianapolis, Ind. The company is 
capitalized at $20,000. 
The South Eastern Nursery Company of Beaumont, Texas, has 
been incorporated with a capital stock of $6,000. The incorporators 
are E. McMickin, J. W., T. A., and A. S. Sporlock. 
Irwin Ingels, nurseryman of Lafayette, Ill., has predicted a good 
year for fruit in his state. 
The E. B. Frantz Company, or Tecumseh Nurseries, of Cedarville, 
Ohio, have gone out of business. 
The manager of Washington Irrigation company, E. F. Blaine, has 
purchased 12,000 apple trees from the Sunnyside, Wash., Nursery 
company. The nursery company has obtained seven tons of peach 
pits for next season’s planting. 
H. Bellwood, recently went to Quinlan, Okla., where he super¬ 
vised the distribution of thousands of fruit trees bought by farmers 
in that vicinity from Ottawa, Kan., nurseries 
Marshall Brothers, nurserymen, of Arlington, Neb., have reported 
that they are having great success with the Windsor Chief apple on 
which they won the highest awards at an exhibition in Paris. 
The Willis Nurseries, Ottawa, Kan., have just remodeled their 
office and completed a large addition to their packing house. 
The Wapato, Wash., Nursery Co. has secured a five-year lease of 
the Jesse Peam French, 80 acres, and another 40 acres, giving them, 
in all 200 acres of ground. 
The Sneed Nursery & Orchard Co., Tyler, Tex., has been chart¬ 
ered with a capital stock of $43,000; C. W. Wood, J. F. Sneed, Frank 
Brunton, incorporators. 
The Parma, Idaho, Nurseries are to be enlarged by the addition 
of over 100 acres purchased by the proprietors, The Hawkes Invest¬ 
ment Co. 
The North Jersey Nurseries now have offices at 188 Market street, 
Newark, N. J. E. D. Pennell, the manager, reports a promising out¬ 
look for spring. 
Headquarters have been established in Waterville, Me., by the 
Phoenix Nursery Co. of Bloomington, Ill., which will be the general 
office for the state. 
The Senate of the state of Maryland has refused to reimburse 
Josiah A. Ramsburg of Frederick, Md., for diseased trees valued at 
about $4,500 that were destroyed by order of the inspector at his 
nursery. 
The Palisades, N. Y., Nurseries have been incorporated with a 
capital of $15,000. The directors are: Andrus McGillivary and 
John M. Stevens, of this place, and James Cochran. 40 Wall street, 
New York. 
J. C. Grosman of Wolcottville, Ind., has accepted a position with 
C. M. Hobbs & Sons, nurserymen, at Bridgeport. 
H. Weber & Sons, Sanders’ Nursery, Rotenhoefer and Schuette, 
of Missouri, have had a very busy season in trees and shrubs. Stock 
of all kinds is selling better than ever before. California privet is 
having a big run at all these places. 
The Conine Nursery Co., of Stratford, Conn., imported a larger 
quantity of European stock this season than ever. 
The Elizabeth Nursery Company of Elizabeth, N. J., anticipat¬ 
ing an extra demand for hardy trees, shrubs and perennials, has 
grown an enormous quantity of this class of stock. 
