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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Business jVlovcmcnts and Hetivi- 
ties. 
The Peterson Nursery Co. reports a good year for its land¬ 
scape department. 
D. C. Hogan, proprietor of the Idlehour Nurseries recently 
completed the construction of two new greenhouses. 
C. R. Burr & Co., Manchester, Conn., are developing the 
Pickles Farm which they recently purchased into a fine up-to-date 
nursery. 
Nurseries at West Chester, Pa., report a fine business. 
The Hoyt Nursery Co. of Minneapolis, Minn., has secured the 
services of A. L. Rose landscape architect who has had a wide 
experience. 
At a meeting of the New London County Horticultural Society, 
May 18, Alexander Mac Lellan delivered an address upon his 
specialty, the dahlia. 
The regular monthly meeting of the New Orleans Horticultural , 
Society was held May 21. 
It is estimated that upwards of 2,425,000 trees have been 
planted in Pennsylvania by the state since it undertook tree 
planting on an extensive scale. 
The Waterloo Nursery Co. Waterloo, la., will be incorporated 
with a capital of 825,000. The company has 75 acres two miles 
east of here on the Illinois Central and plans to carry on a whole¬ 
sale and retail nursery business. The Swift Nursery Co; of Cedar 
Falls is largely interested. Several local men are among the incor¬ 
porators and will have the management of the new company. 
The Intermountain Nursery Co. Brigham, Utah, with A. L. 
Patterson, president, F. T. Tioxell, vice president, and E. M. 
Tvson, Secretary and treasurer, has filed articles ol incorporation 
with the secretary of state. The company is capitalized at 
8100,000, divided into 8t shares. The company will conduct a 
general nursery business in Boxelder county. 
An organization to be known as the Waterloo Landscape and 
Nursery Co. is being established at Waterloo, la. The company 
will have a capital stock of 810,000. It will do a general landscape 
business, handle nursery stock, do transplantings and the hand¬ 
ling of trees. 
P. J. Berekmans Co. Augusta, Go., has been given the con¬ 
tract for beautifying the grounds around the Academy for the 
Blind in the same city. 
The landscaping of the grounds of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific 
exposition has been begun and the site is beginning to take on the 
appearance it will have in 1909. 
James J. McManmon, of Brookside, Mass., has purchased 
from the Essex Co., at Lawrence, Mass., the land along the river 
bank fronting on his property. He plans to lay out the space 
between the river and the railroad tracks in a p>ark. with lawns 
and various kinds of shrubbery and trees. 
The Daffodil: “Great petals! Rosey, old chap, what hap¬ 
pened you? Got the spotted fever?” The Rose (tiercel v); 
‘‘I’ve been Burbanked, that’s all.”— Puck. 
The seventh annual convention of the National Nut Growers’ 
Association will be held at Chattanooga, October 27, 28, 29, 1908. 
It is predicted that Maine will have the largest fruit crop in 
twenty years, this season. 
More than 7,000 acres of pecan trees have been planted in the 
vicinity of Thomasville, Ga., within the past five years. 
“Why was it,” asked Teacher Dear, “that the importance of 
Columbus’ discovery of America was not realized until after his 
death”? “I guess,” answered Tommy Twaddles, “I guess it was 
beeuz he didn’t advertise .”—Cleveland Leader. 
Indications are favorable for a larger crop of walnuts in California 
than usual. 
M. Norbet Levavasseur has been elected Mayor of'Boulon, near 
Caen, France. 
Mr. J. H. Dayton, of Storres & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., 
called on the Western New York Nurserymen in the latter part of 
June. 
Orlando Harrison of J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., visited 
the Nurserymen in the Western part of New York State last month. 
A new nursery was recently organized at Beeville, Texas. It is 
called the Beeville Nursery Co. 
J. J. Harris, proprietor of the Ockley Green Nursery, Portland, 
Ore., and who, fourteen years ago lived in Rochester, called at the 
office of the National Nurseryman, not long ago. 
The Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, Minn., one of the largest 
firms in the northwest takes great pride in its nursery stock 
of which it grows practically the entire output. 
THE MCCORMICK NURSERY CO. 
The McCormick Nursery Company, a co-partnership has recently 
been formed between Cormac J. McCormick, Hon. E. R. Gildav and 
Benjamin Dansard, Jr., Monroe, Mich. This makes an even half 
dozen nursery firms that are located in or adjacent to the city. 
In the new firm Mr. McCormick will be the directing spirit. He 
is a young man of the hustle-and-get-there type. In 1898, he entered 
the employ of the Greening Nurseries, and there he found his life- 
work. He remained with them until a few weeks ago, when he 
resigned, as he had perfected and completed his plans for establish¬ 
ing a nursery business of his own. 
During his connection with the Greenings, he has had experience 
in every detail and branch of the business. For a number of years 
he edited and managed their Horticulturist, which gave him a deep 
insight into the nursery business, and understanding and grasp of 
the industry in this country, while his connection with the adver¬ 
tising department brought him into contact with leading nursery¬ 
men and hundreds of newspaper men in America. 
In anticipation of his entry into business for himself, he has grown 
stock on leased lands, to test soils. The lands proving most suitable 
have been leased by the new firm and a few weeks ago Mr. McCor¬ 
mick made a trip east and completed arrangements with one of the 
best eastern nursery companies for stock for the fall planting, so that 
when the season arrives, everything will be in readiness. By next 
spring, therefore, the firm wall make its first shipment, which, will 
probably prove the forerunner of many succeeding and steadily 
increasing cargoes. 
A simple ease of cause and effect. Advertising and a 
successful business. 
