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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
PEAR BLIGHT REMEDY. 
It is interesting to note that a Pear Blight Remedy Company is 
located in California. This company agrees to furnish a remedy 
which will cure and prevent pear blight. No doubt the division of 
Pathology of the Department of Agriculture at Washington will be 
keenly interested in this piece of news! It is our impression that 
there will be more money in it for the promoters than for the 
orchardists. 
NEW YORK APPLE CROPS. 
Secretary E. C. Gillett of the New York State Fruit Growers 
Association estimates the apple crop of New York state to be 93 per¬ 
cent of last year’s yield and 60 percent of an average crop for the 
state. These estimates have been secured by extensive correspon¬ 
dence. It is interesting to note that Mr. Gillett’s estimates do not 
differ to any considerable extent from those offered by the com¬ 
mittee of the Inter-national Apple Shippers Association. 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN’S CONVENTION. 
The following were present at the last meeting of this association 
at Atlanta: 
McElveen & McLendon Company, Concord, Ga.; Southern 
Nursery Company, E. W. Chattin, Winchester, Tenn.; Chase 
Nursery Company, Huntsville, Ala.; Alabama Nursery Company, 
Huntsville, Ala.; Fraser Nursery Company, Huntsville, Ala.; W. L. 
Killian & Son, Newton, N. C.; P. B. Simmon, Gainesville, Ga.; H. 
Harold Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla.; J. R. Murphy, Fayetteville, Ga.; 
H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fla.; B. Thornton, Fayetteville, Ga.; R. C 
Simpson, Monticello, Fla.; C. M. Erwin, Columbia, Tenn.; R. E. 
Allison, Bowling Green, Ky.; Harry Nicholson, Winchester, Tenn.; 
John A. Young, Greensboro, N. C.; J. Van Bindley, Pomona, N. C.; 
J. A. Granger, Monticello, Fla.; Charles T. Smith, Concord, Ga.; 
Mortimer Thompson, Concord, Ga.; J. W. Geraty, Young’s Island, 
S. C.; A. A. Newson, Knoxville, Tenn.; A. I. Smith, Knoxville, 
Tenn.; W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va.; John Galhouse, D. W. Hunter, 
Chattanooga, Tenn.; W. F. Heikes, Huntsville, Ala,; J. C. Mil¬ 
ler, Rome, Ga.; James Frazer, Huntsville, Ala.; W. A. Easterly, 
Cleveland, Tenn.; E. L. Worsham, Frank Smith, Concord, Ga.; 
James Cureton, of Austell, Ga., and others. 
Obituary. 
GEORGE NICHOLSON. 
The English papers have recently recorded the death of a noted 
botanist and horticulturist, in the passing of George Nicholson for 
many years curator of the royal gardens at Kew. Mr. Nicholson 
was born in 1847 and was the son of a nurseryman. He was trained 
in French nurseries and later was employed in the nurseries of 
Messrs, Low & Company at Clapton, England. He became as¬ 
sociated with the Kew Gardens in 1886 and soon after was recognized 
as a leading authority on hardy trees and shrubs. Nomenclature 
was his specialty. His connection with the Kew Gardens gave him 
the opportunity to collect material for the Dictionary of Gardening, 
a cyclopedic work of great value. This was issued some twelve or 
fifteen years ago and until the appearance of the American Cyclopedia 
of Horticulture was the leading modern work of its kind. 
Mr. Nicholson was an energetic .plant collector and did much 
field work in the Swiss Mountains. His loss will be keenly felt by 
Americans as well as European botanists and horticulturists. 
Catalogues Received 
Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass. Wholesale price list of rhodo¬ 
dendrons, azaleas and other strictly hardy American plants. 
Leslie Brothers Nurseries. Peterson and North 40 th Avenue 
Chicago, Ill. Catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs and herbaceous 
plants. 
Oak Lawn Nurseries. Huntsville, Alabama. Wholesale price 
list, shade trees hardy flowering shrubs, cuttings, climbers, etc. 
Thos. Meehan & Sons. Germantown, Pa. Price list of seeds of 
trees, shrubs and fruits. One of the few trade lists of this kind in 
this country. 
The United States Nursery Company. Richmond, Miss. Trade 
list for fall of 1908 and spring of 1909 , covering shrubbery, roses, 
and herbaceous plants. 
Willadean Nurseries: Semi-annual wholesale price list. Donal- 
aldson company, Warsaw, Ky. 
L. Spath, Baumschulenweg, b. Berlin, Germany. An extensive 
catalogue and descriptive trade list including the whole range of 
nursery grown products. 
Otto Katzenstein & Co., Atlanta, Ga. Trade.Price list Number 
12 . Tree, shrub, seeds and bulbs. 
Glen Saint Mary Nurseries, Glen Saint Mary, Florida. Cata¬ 
logue for 1909 , specialties citrous fruits and pecan trees. 
Fraser Nursery Company, Huntsville, Ala. Wholesale cata¬ 
logue for the fall of 1908 . 
The L. Green & Son Co., Perry, O. Catalogue No. 1 . Whole¬ 
sale only. 
Old Colony Nursery, T. R. Watson, Plymouth, Mass. A trade 
list of the fall of 1908 , ornamental trees, fruit trees, small fruits, 
herbaceous plants, roses, etc. 
Sears Henry Company, Geneva, N. Y. 
B. G. Pratt Co. Mfg. Chemists, 50 Church St., New York. 
Jackson Co. Nurseries, Bosky Dell, Ill. 
Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio. Semi Annual Trade 
List. 
W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, Ohio. 
Vincent Lebreton, Nurseryman, Wholesale trade list, presented 
by McHutchison, & Co., 17 Murray St., New York. 
John Charlton & Sons Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Leedle Floral Company, Springfield, Ohio. 
Stephen Hoyt & Sons, New Canaan., Conn. 
C. M. Hobbs & Sons, Brdigeport, Ind. 
Peterson Nurseries, Chicago, Ill. 
Elizabeth Nursery Co., Eilzabeth, N. J. 
The New England Nurseries Inc., Bedford, Mass. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 
Wholesale price list for fall 1908 . 
Foster & Griffith, Fredonia, N. Y. Wholesale price list, Grape 
Vines. 
J. W. Addams & Co., North Main St. Nursery, Springfield, Mass. 
Wholesale trade list. 
Wholesale catalogue from Waukegan Nurseries. R. Douglass, 
Sons, Waukegan, Ill. Specialty, hardy and rare evergreens, and 
shade trees. 
Pricelist for 1908-09 from Herman Sievers Halstenbek in Holst. 
Waldsomen, Handlung und Baumschalen, Germany. 
Abridged check list of stock suitable for Fall planting. Elm 
City Nursery Co., New Haven, Conn. 
Surplus list from Sears, Henry & Co. Seneca Nurseries,Geneva, 
N. Y. 
Gainesville Nurseries, H. S. Graves, prop. Gainesville, Fla. 
Folder from W. W. Rawson & Co. 5 Union Street, Boston, 
Mass. Special offer to florists. 
James Sons, Ussy, France. 
Catalogue and price list of Summit Nurseries, Miller & Gossard, 
Monticello, Fla. Pretty cover of pecans coming out of burrs. 
Finely illustrated. 
WANTFD A YOUNG MAN STENOGRAPHER who can assist with corres- 
** '**■■*■* X XL #U • pondence and prepare himself for advancement. Experience in Agency 
Nursery office essential. State age, experience, present employment, and salary. 
Address “Opportunity,” care this paper. 
