THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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FRUIT TREES IN WASHINGTON. 
Reports.from the various counties just compiled by F. A. 
Huntley, state horticultural commissioner, show that 
Washington had 9,184,366 bearing fruit trees in 101,707 
acres of commercial orchards at the close of 1907. Twenty- 
five thousand acres have been added since the spring of 
1906, and it is expected that more than 1,000,000 trees will 
be set out before the end of, this year. The value of a full 
crop of fruit, is estimated to reach from $35,000,000 to 
$40,000,000. 
The state has within its boundaries 5,337,094 apple trees, 
857,892 pear trees, 1,392,760 peach trees, 557,674 cherry 
trees and 1,044,946 plum and prune trees, besides 133,883 
apricot, quince, nectarine, almond and English walnut trees 
not enumerated in the foregoing statistics. This is a gain of 
3,977,614 trees since the report given out in March, 1907, 
and an increase of 64,083 trees of the last named varieties. 
Yakima county heads the list with 1,795,689 apple trees, 
Chelan county is second with 717,324 and Spokane county 
is third with 459,937. Yakima county also leads in pears, 
peaches and cherries, the total acreage devoted to the four 
fruits being 34,885, and 192 acres in plums and prunes, 
while Chelan county has 7,032 acres devoted to the six 
fruits. Spokane county has 7,388 acres in fruit trees, 
including all the varieties named. 
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WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat and' Chronicle in a 
recent editorial speaks very highly of the work of this 
organization, the membership of which is now 1,136. Of 
President W. C. Barry the editor says: 
“For more than seventeen years the office of president of 
the society has been ably filled by William C. Barry, of this 
city, and to his intelligent activity and unflagging interest 
much of the success of the society is attributable. As an 
expert technical and practical horticulturist, Mr. Barry 
stands at the head of his profession; for horticulture as 
exemplified by Mr. Barry and his colleagues in the society 
has come to be distinctly classed as an important profession. 
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INTERMOUNTAIN NURSERY CO. 
The Intermountain Nursery Co., of Brigham City, Utah, 
has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. 
The capital stock is $100,000, in $1 shares. The officers 
are: A. L. Patterson, president; F. T. Troxell, vice-presi¬ 
dent; E. M. Tyson, secretary and treasurer. 
( INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 
Senator Armstrong, of New York has recently introduced 
a bill into the Senate at Albany placing under the direction 
of the State University the matter of developing industrial 
education in New York State. 
The National Society for the Promotion of Industrial 
Education has strongly urged the necessity for organized 
instruction along these lines. Fourteen years is the 
limit of compulsory education while sixteen is the usual 
age for acceptance of apprentices. It is in order to use 
these two years to the best advantage that it is proposed to 
establish trade schools throughout the State.- , 
Iri New York City a committee has been appointed by 
the Board of Education to investigate trade schools. The 
chairman is Frederick R. Coudert. 
OUR BOOK TABLE. 
Rural Telephone Equipments. Published by Western 
Electric Company, New York. 28 pages, February, 
1908. 
The present day movement from the cities to the country 
has created many new problems. The question of trans¬ 
portation has been met by electric roads and automobiles. 
The problem of efficient and effective means of communica¬ 
tion has not, however, been so well solved. In the light-of 
this fact the booklet published by the Western Electric 
Company is extremely timely. 
The comprehensive scope of this little book may be seen 
from the subjects treated. The Value of the Telephone; 
Organizing a Telephone System (a) Constitution, (b) By¬ 
laws; Telephone Lines; Telephone Sets, etc.; Maintenance 
and Operation; Material; Conclusion. In brief, the book 
tells how a rural community may organize a telephone sys¬ 
tem that will be least expensive and most efficient. Clear 
and complete diagrams of telephone equipment are given 
and the whole subject is brought plainly before the lay 
man. A companion book “Pole Line Construction and 
Substation wiring” is issued by the same company. Both 
will be sent free of charge to any one interested. Every 
Nurseryman should look into the matter for he will receive 
much helpful knowledge. 
The cost of advertising that more than pays for itself 
should not be a bug bear. 
FENCE POSTS. 
Wyoming experiments in preserving pine fence posts 
show that when the posts were dipped in crude petroleum 
and burned off so that the char comes above the ground 
when posts are set they will keep indefinently. 
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. 
We call your attention to the new postal regulations 
which require that publishers cut off from their list sub¬ 
scribers whose subscriptions are four months in arrears. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Rice Bros. Co..Geneva, N.Y. General catalogue of Fruit 
and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses and Herbaceous Plants. 
Wholesale Trade Price List of Tasmanian Native 
Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs, Herbaceous 
Plants, Etc. from J. Overall, Zeehan, Tasmania. 
Wholesale Catalogue 1908 from H.M. Hardyzer, Boskoop 
(Holland) whdlesale grower and exporter of Rhododendrons, 
Roses, Boxwood, Azaleas, Pasonies, Clematis, Hardy and 
Forcing Plants and Shrubs. H. Frank Darrow, No. 26 
Barclay St., New York, Sole American Agent. 
Trade list of Aug. Haerens, Somergem, near Ghent, 
Belgium, extensive grower of Indian Azaleas, Greenhouse 
Palms, Araucarias, Ficus, etc. Aug. Rolker & Sons, 752 
P. O. Box, New York City. Agents for the United States 
and Canada. 
