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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
personal and General. 
Mr. W. P. Stark of Stark Brothers Nurseries and 
Orchards Company, has recently concluded a six weeks trip 
through the orchard regions of the Rocky Mountains and 
the Pacific Coast. He has lately returned to the head¬ 
quarters of the company at Louisiana, Mo. We shall have 
his impressions of the country visited in our next issue. 
DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS ON THE FLORIDA COAST. 
The heavy rains of late August and early September 
brought a good deal of damage to the Atlantic region of 
Florida. A letter from Mr. R. C. Berckmans says: 
“This section was visited by a most disastrous flood the 
latter part of August and this record surpasses all others. 
We were individually fortunate in escaping, for as you know 
we are situated something over 200 feet above high water 
mark. We were only inconvenienced by being cut off from 
the city for a few days, but the damage done in Augusta and 
vicinity was tremendous. The city is now exerting every 
means to overcome the damage, and in the course of the 
next few months we hope there will be no vestige of the 
destruction perceptible. It is estimated that the damage 
done in the city of Augusta is something over $2,000,000 and 
a great number of lives lost. 
We hope to have the pleasure of seeing you down this 
way during the winter and if so you will wonder that we ever 
had a flood as things will be in better shape than before. 
Prospects for business are unusually good and orders are 
being booked daily.” 
IMPORTER’S NOTES. 
We are glad to learn that a general feeling of confidence prevails 
among the nurserymen of the United States in regard to the business 
for fall and winter. Purchasers are conservative in giving orders 
for imported stock but the general tone is optimistic. 
APPLE STOCKS. 
While french apple stocks were reported very short during the 
fore part of the season there now appears to be enough to go round. 
The aggregate will probably be twenty per cent, less than last year. 
ORNAMENTALS. 
The season now closing has been very favorable for the growth 
of ornamental stock m the great producing countries of Holland and 
Belgium and the trade in these lines promises to be fully up to that 
of previous years. 
ORLANDO HARRISON ABROAD. 
Orlando Harrison of the firm of J. G. Harrison & Sonss Berlin, 
Md., has been in Europe for some weeks. Mr. Harrison visited 
French, Holland and Belgian nurserymen in the interests of his 
firm. We shall urge him to give notes and observations. 
PRESIDENT BROWN IN EUROPE. 
President C. J. Brown accompanied by Mr. Webb sailed for 
England and the continent about the middle of August and returned 
about the 20th of September. 
Clarence Weeks of Lyons, New York, called on nurserymen of 
Rochester the first part of September, also at the office of the 
National Nurseryman. 
John McGuire has started for himself in the nursery business at 
Ontario, Calif. 
Just a word from Chase Nursery Company, Huntsville, Ala.: 
The new addition to our brick storage house at Chase Station, just 
finished, gives us one of the finest nursery warehouses in the world. 
This warehouse has side tracks from two lines of railway and is so 
situated that both freight and express shipments are loaded direct 
to the car. 
ANNOUNCEMENT. 
The Knox Nurseries, IT. M. Simpson & Sons, Vincennes, Indiana, 
since issuing their last price-list have entered the wholesale business 
exclusively, and will sell only what they grow. This will enable 
them to give a uniform trade of stock, and also to handle rush 
orders promptly. They wish to thank all their old customers for 
their patronage, and hope to make many new friends. 
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well and what is 
worth doing well is worth doing at once so that you may have an 
early start to do something else better. 
Augusta, Ga. —In the severe storm and consequent flood 
which overtook this city lasting from Wednesday, August 26 to 
Friday,. August 28, Balk’s Nursery, which fortunately is more 
favorably situated than some others, suffered correspondingly less 
and was ready for business on Saturday morning, August 29. 
Stulbs Nursery was the hardest hit, water running through the 
establishment from four to six feet in depth; the loss is mainly from 
mud; the greenhouses were not injured. No considerable loss or 
damage were sustained by greenhouses, but individual losses will 
amount to from $200 to perhaps more, due to loss of plants that were 
covered with mud and possibly later damping out. The process of 
drying is taking place very slowly. We are glad to learn that 
the damage has been rapidly repaired. Editor. 
The Clinton Falls Nursery Co., Owatonna, Minn., will go into the 
seed business for next season. 
The farmers of Ivoryton, Conn., who have neglected to destroy 
the wild carrots on their land have been served with a warning by 
the grand jurors that the law will be enforced. A fine of $5 may be 
collected for each additional day after the notice has been served. 
So intense was thepate July heat in the Washtucna district, 
Wash., that farmers could work only part time in harvest fields, and 
several horses died in harness. The mercury reached 107° several 
times. ' ■ 
Farmers’ Nursery Co., Tippecanoe, O.; President, T. J. Dins- 
more, secretary, S. R. Fergus; capital increased to $200,000. 
Incorporated. 
J. A. Van Kirk intends to start a nursery for citrus fruit trees on 
the land he has recently acquired at Phoenix, Ariz. 
Co-operative Nurseries', Rochester, N. Y., J. A. Ryan, J. C. 
Feist, J. E. Kaveny; capital, $25,000. Incorporated. 
Vaughan’s Seed Store received at Chicago and New York, 
September 3, its first small consignments of Japanese lilies. The 
bulbs look much better than those of recent years. Eight carloads 
of European bulbs were received at the Chicago house September 8, 
taxing the firm’s storing facilities to the utmost. This is probably 
the largest single shipment of bulbs ever made to one house in 
this country. 
Riverside, Calif.—The Jurupa nurseries have been purchased 
by the Orange County Nursery and Land Co., which firm proposes to 
conduct the establishment on a larger scale than it has been con¬ 
ducted before. C. E. Watkins, an experienced man in the business, 
will be placed in charge here. 
The breaking of the drought by refreshing rains, during th e last 
week of September, brought relief to many dry and burning regions. 
Mr. Irving Rouse of Rochester, N. Y., chairman of the Tariff 
committee, held a meeting at his home Sept. 25th. 
