THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Comfortable homes and pleasant union lawns. 
country, is the manufacturing of rejected seedlings into 
root grafts and selling them at $5.00 per thousand, which 
makes a competitor in nearly every neighborhood, and they 
ask that this evil be stamped out for the benefit of future 
business and future orchards. They also complain (and 
with cause) of unfair competition brought abou + by trade 
lists being mailed indiscriminately to planters. What other 
trade pursues such a ruinous policy? 
Apple buyers last year evidently lost their judgment in 
the wild speculative craze, and the effects are far reaching. 
Editor Craig tells about 
Hood River apples selling 
in London for less than 
their cost at Hood River. 
Canned goods soared sky¬ 
ward then slumped and in 
the reaction the Canners 
Trust are taking hold very 
gingerly. Bartlett pears 
have sold this year to 
canneries as low as $15.00 
per ton. How will this 
effect nurserymen w'ho are 
straining every effort to grow more Bartlett pear trees? 
Summing up our observations of the west—-it is a magnifi¬ 
cent, wonderful country and still young in its tremendous 
and undeveloped possibilities. Speaking horticulturally, 
the country is in its infancy—its greatest future lies before it. 
Let them correct the errors, which experience is bringing 
out each day, and the best markets of the world will be theirs. 
Home Outlook. 
We find our fall sales show a generous increase over the 
corresponding season last year and the out-look for spring is 
good indeed. The demand for many lines is unusually 
active. It is our opinion that all good stock will be used 
up even closer than last Spring. 
Some nurserymen have learned that they have been 
selling at pi ices not equal to the cost of production, much 
less the cost of distributing. We are impressed more than 
ever with the future, and belieVe the far west will become 
the most dependable source of the orchard fruits and that 
they will have less competition each year, especially upon 
the consideration of quality—and we might add quantity. 
William P. Stark, Treasurer, 
Stark Bros. Nurseries and Orchards Co. 
Louisiana, Mo. 
IMPRESSIONS ON EUROPEAN NURSERIES AND 
ORCHARDS. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
After visiting orchards and nurseries in England, France, 
Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Germany, I find the 
nurseries and farms are well cultivated but the orchards as 
far as I have seen have been poor, but little cultivation and 
but little spraying. • Trees are headed too high, conse¬ 
quently poor fruit. The only good fruit especially peaches 
I found in England was grown under glass. They have a 
promising crop of winter apples but only a small quantity.of 
trees. 
While many thousands of trees are grown against walls, 
it is not a profitable way to grow them as a commercial 
business. 
In France I found the peaches and apples very poor with 
some good specimens of pears growing and maturing well. 
The peaches grown outside of glass are not to be compared 
with our peaches in quality. 
The price of fruits is out of reason and that decreases the 
sales. In Switzerland I found more pears of good quality 
but there the apples and 
peaches are poor. The 
price of fruits is not quite 
so high in Switzerland as 
in England, France and 
Germany. 
Europe is far behind 
America in commercial 
fruit growing. 
I feel greatly encouraged 
in finding the great op¬ 
portunity the markets of 
Europe afford for our 
American fruits. The fruit growers of the United States 
and Canada who will grow and pack only good fruit have 
a great future for the output of their fruit through the 
export trade. 
It would now take many years for the Europeans to grow 
enough fruit to supply their people. I doubt if it will ever 
be done. They want our fruits in England. 
The editor of the Gardeners Chronicle said to me—“We 
welcome the American fruits in our markets.” More fruit 
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