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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Mr. Uhl rci)orts that business as a whole was very favor¬ 
able in the last ten years, and that the present eonditions 
look like a continuance of this era. So good has the business 
been that in the last few years no surplus stock has existed, 
to be burned. 
As to the general trend of the want and the surplus lists 
year after year, the red varieties of apples, the German 
])rune, the Burbank and the Abundance have been pretty 
generally on the want list, while the surplus lists have been 
rather empty. 
STARK BROTHERS 
vStark Brothers, whose main plant is in Missouri, maintain 
an office and nurseries and a 90 by 40 feet storage house at 
Dansville. Two hundred and fifty acres are kept in fruit, 
wrapped the grafts with ordinary number 13 cotton after 
they were finished. This is a better and a quicker method 
than the old way. A man can wrap seven to eight thousand 
grafts in one day. The cotton is said to be more serviceable 
than the grafting cord because it wraps closer and rots more 
quickly. Of the grafts sixty per cent or more can be counted 
on to take. 
Business prospects are good, and if business is in keeping 
with last year it will be all that can be desired. 
MALONEY & WELLS COMPANY, DANSVILLE 
Maloney & Wells Company, at present Maloney 
Brothers, owing to the withdrawal of Mr. Wells, have been in 
business in the Dansville section for twenty-six years. The 
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MALONEY & WELLS COMPANY’S FROST-PROOF COLD STORAGE, ERECTED 1911 
but little, except a few apples and bush fruits, are kept in 
storage this winter, as the selling was very close last fall. 
The main work of this plant at present is the making of 
apple grafts. Fourteen men are kept at this all winter, 
with the intention that over 500,000 be finished. Of these, 
over 100,000 are Stark Delicious. Other prominent varie¬ 
ties are the Jonathan and the York Imperial. 
The seedlings used for stocks are French grown, as these 
are believed to serve the purpose better than the Western 
grown stock, which are thought to be less hardy, and more 
liable to crown gall and aphis. The grafts are put into 
excelsior in boxes, which are then stored till spring, in the 
storage house. 
A Graft W rapping Machine 
An innovation obseiA^ed in the grafting room was a 
machine designed by the general foreman of the firm, which 
company was founded in 1885 and was incorporated with a 
capital of $60,000 in 1911. Over 250 acres are in nursery 
land and the larger proportion of this area is devoted to 
apples. Peaches, plums, cherries, and pears follow in that 
order. There is a small line of shrubs, ornamentals and 
evergreens. The business is both wholesale and retail. 
The retail end of the business is done on the cash with order 
basis, and the only agents employed to secure business are 
advertising and catalogues. 
Apples and peaches were especially pushed during the 
last year. The Duchess and the McIntosh are generally 
very popular, while the Stayman Winesap seemed to hold 
the floor in Pennsylvania. In plums the heaviest call is 
for the Abundance, while the Burbank sells well. The supply 
of cherries for the ensuing fall, thinks Mr. Maloney, is not as 
large as it was last season or as it was in the past few seasons. 
