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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
A carload exhibit, competing for the $1,500 prize, calls 
for 210 barrels or 63c fifty-pound boxes of one or more 
varieties, while the $1,000 premium is for exhibits of not 
more than two barrels, boxes, baskets or plates of one 
variety. The exhibitor of the largest apple, of regular shape 
with perfect stem and calyx and without disease or blemish, 
will receive a reproduction of the fruit in bronze, heavily 
plated with gold, mounted on a silver pedestal representing 
Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. 
There is also a prize of a gold medal and $100 for a box, 
barrel or package that is more practicable, economical and 
better adapted for shipping apples than those now in use, 
and prizes of $350 each for apples grown on irrigated and 
nonirrigated lands, also awards of $100 each for the best 
box and barrel packs. One hundred dollars in prizes will 
be given to the best individual plate exhibit of five apples 
grown by women, and $25 for the best exhibit of two or 
more apples proved to have been preserved the longest in 
cellars or cold storage without artificial means. 
OTHER EXHIBITIONS. 
Dutch Bulb Growers’ Society. 
The bulb growers of Holland are preparing for a great 
exhibition to commemorate the half-centenary of the 
organization of their society. This will take place in 
Haarlem in 1910. This exhibition will be supported by the 
city of Haarlem as well as by the society itself. The organi¬ 
zation, however, is a strong one including as it does, a 
membership of 2800 growers. The annual report issued is 
a large volume of over xooo pages. This exhibition will 
consist of a display of out-door flowers and the city is laying 
aside a desirable piece of ground whereon the display may 
be arranged. 
Western New York Horticultural Society. 
To the Members of the Society: 
At the fifty-fourth annual meeting of this Society, to be 
held in the large new Convention Hall, Rochester, N. Y., 
January 27th and 28th, 1909, Cash Prizes will be offered 
for exhibits of apples, pears, grapes, etc., as per schedule 
appended hereto. 
The premiums are open for competition to all members of 
the Society for 1909, and entries may be made with the 
secretary in person or by letter, any time prior to January 
15th,1909. 
Instructions to be observed by exhibitors will be sent out 
with the program of the meeting early in January next. 
It is believed that the offering of prizes for exhibits will 
encourage a large number of exhibits, and .thus enhance the 
growing interest in the annual meetings of the Society, as 
well as to attract other fruit-growers to its membership. 
Fraternally yours, 
John Hall, Sec’y-Treas. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
PEACH TREES FOR SALE. 
A limited stock of standard varieties of peach trees will be 
closed out at reasonable rates. Apply at once to Peach Trees, 
office of National Nurseryman, Rochester, N. Y. 
]Votc and Comment. 
WATROUS NURSERY COMPANY PACKING CELLAR. 
The Capital City Nurseries of Des Moines are just completing a 
large packing cellar which wdl enable them to handle stock at all 
times of the year. As the President of the company says, “equip¬ 
ment of this kind is of the kingdom of successful competition.” 
GEORGIA FRUIT EXCHANGE. 
The peach growers of Georgia have effected an organization 
looking towards the more satisfactory and profitable marketing of 
this fruit. The object of the organization is to prevent market 
glutting, secure an even distribution of the fruit and in this way 
raise the average price of the crop for the season. A charter is be¬ 
ing drawn up for submission to the state authorities. It is then in¬ 
tended to raise a working capital of $100,000 by issuing stock. The 
permanent organization will be located in Atlanta. It will operate 
through local branches which are expected to completely cover the 
state. 
PARAGRAPHS CULLED AND COPIED. 
La Crosse, Wis.—T he John A. Salzer Seed Co. has received an 
order for several thousand pounds of timothy, redtop and orchard 
grass seed for Yokohama, Japan, with instructions to have same 
shipped via the Suez canal. 
Bismarck N. D.—Oscar H. Will & Co. are just completing a fine 
new wing to their seed warehouse and have made considerable im¬ 
provements in all the departments. 
C. G. Nieman, of Port Clinton, O., who has heretofore purchased 
his stock from nurseries, has made arrangements to start a nursery 
of his own. 
W. F. Chessley, an agent for Rice Bros. Co., nurserymen of 
Geneva, N. Y., who it is alleged, has been collecting money through 
Maine and failed to give credit for same, was arrested. 
Harvard College has recently made another addition to the land 
it is acquiring in Worcester County for forestry purposes, having 
purchased the Dexter estate of forty-three acres. 
Hoyt Bros., nurserymen at Scotch Grove, la., put up a winter 
scene with evergreens and imitation snow at the recent fair at Monti- 
cello, Fla. The exhibit made a hit. 
San Diego, Calif. —E. Benard has removed his sales yard from 
the corner of Sixth and D streets and hereafter orders for nursery 
stock, roses, olives and plants will be filled direct from his extensive 
nursery just east of the Mission Valley city pumping station, or they 
can be sent to R. F. D. No. 2, San Diego, Calif., where he now spends 
his whole time. 
Charles Henderson of Peter Henderson & Co., New York, who 
has been in Europe with his family during the last three months, has 
returned to the city. Mr. Kirby, of the same house, who has been in 
London the last six weeks, is also at home. 
H. Frank Darrow, New York, reports that Eugene Schaettel, 
representing Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., Paris, France, arrived 
September 26 and made his usual trip through the United States and 
Canada. 
PERSONAL AND GENERAL. 
Mr. James M. Kennedy, the extensive nurseryman of Geneseo, 
N. Y., recently visited the Toronto Exhibition and dropped into the 
business office of the Nurseryman on his way home. He reports a 
season of excellent growth during the fore part but rather dry 
recently. 
August Rolker & Sons report that American importations of 
nursery stock are not quite up to par this year, although there is 
a fine line of goods offered in English and European nurseries, the only 
shortage existing, being in apple seedlings. They report that Fro- 
mow & Sons, of Windlesham, England have a fine line of rhododen¬ 
drons, conifers and deciduous ornamentals for the autumn trade. 
