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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
from America should be sent to Europe and the price should 
be in reach of every laboring man and by doing this many 
times the quantity of fruit would be consumed. 
The baling machine, simple and effective. 
The Europeans are not fruit eaters like Americans and 
we as American fruit growers should cultivate their taste to 
our mutual advantage. 
Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. 
NEW ENGLAND LOOKING UP. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
The outlook for fall trade in New England is decidedly 
more encouraging than last year. The sales of Evergreens 
during August and September have been good and the 
demand for deciduous stock is quite brisk. 
At the New England Nurseries, Bedford, Mass., large 
shipments of herbaceous perennials are being made, indicat¬ 
ing the increasing demand for the old fashioned flowers. 
[The New England nurseries w r ere recently made a center 
of civic attraction by being thrown open to the Gardeners 
and Florists Club of Boston. The occasion was the autumn 
field day of that organization.] 
Stock in general has made good growth, thanks to good 
and persistent cultivation. There is very little* surplus 
stock and prices rule somewhat better than last year. 
New England is fast becoming headquarters for high 
grade ornamentals of all kinds. Some of the finest blocks 
being found at Springfield, Framingham, Reading, Bedford 
and Newport. 
Bedford, Mass. The New England Nurseries, Inc. 
KANSAS^ SEASON UN¬ 
FAVORABLE. 
The following letter is 
evidence that all the bad 
weather in the country was 
not concentrated in the 
east, but there are always 
compensations, even in this 
instance, for we find that 
although the stock is low, 
the prices range high. The 
effect too of the excellent 
fruit crop in the south 
west will give an impetus 
to fruit planting for two 
or three years to come. • 
“The season here has been very bad for the growth of 
stock, owing to excessive rains which continued up into 
August, making it impossible to properly cultivate and care 
for the stock. This excessive moisture caused the foliage 
to drop and as a result we have had the poorest growing 
season and the lightest supply of first grade stock that there 
has been in years. To offset this there is a demand for it, all 
over the country and the prices are good. This in a measure 
helps us out some, but not enough to make it an average 
year. Trade has been good, in fact better than last year 
but we will not have nearly as much stock to put on the 
market as in former years. With a good trade this fall, 
stock will be very scarce for spring and prices should be 
better. An excellent fruit crop throughout the great south 
west has made the planters get busy again and this has been 
the reason of our good sales. This condition of affairs 
covers a great stretch of country in this south western re¬ 
gion and the orchardists will have to be satisfied to set 
smaller trees than usual if they plant at all. 
E. P. Bernardin. 
INDIANA “DRY”: TRADE 
SATISFACTORY. 
Editor National Nursery¬ 
man: 
We have had one of the 
driest seasons we have ever 
experienced, having had no 
good rains since the middle 
of May. The early drought 
affected us much more than 
the later. While we have 
a fairly good stand in our 
spring planting, we have 
not the usual growth. 
With good cultivation 
the one year and up stock 
has made almost the normal growth. The one year cherry, 
pear and apple are as good as we have ever grown. 
A corner in the packing room of the mail 
order department. 
Our retail sales are the largest we have ever had. Whole¬ 
sale orders are coming in satisfactorily, and the general out¬ 
look is good. 
C. M. PIobbs & Sons. 
Thujas and Sycamores. Storrs & Harrison Company. 
Parsons, Kan. 
Bridgeport, Indiana. 
