THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
V Charlton is president and Mr. E. S. Osborne is secretary- 
treasurer and general manager, maintains a large, up-to-date 
storage house, storing this winter about 350,000 trees, of 
which 50,000 are apples. Their business is mainly a shipping 
one, their shipments including most of the territory to the 
■4 Mississippi River. Mr. Osborne reports that this year his 
k sales are thirty per cent better than last year, giving prospects 
of a big year, 
*1 Chase Brothers’ Storage System 
i Chase Brothers’ Company, with their storage facilities 
, located in Brighton, have a concrete storage house three 
hundred feet square, constructed of walls six inches thick 
with one air space of four inches. The walls are tied together 
with wires placed at convenient places. Roof is of yellow 
pine unmatched, covered with building paper, then 2x2 
strips of matched boarding, covered with three ply felt. 
Within the house the humidity is kept about 79-81%. 
The peaches are stored where there is no heat; for they 
mildew easily. The roots of all the trees except cherries are 
covered with excelsior. The stock is packed in the bins, so 
that the overlying rows are alternately set in. These only 
are covered with excelsior, since they can not be sprayed. 
Evergreens, Walnuts, Calycanthus, Comus, and Viburnum 
must be-heeled-in; for they mildew easily. Other ornament¬ 
als have no moss on them, and they are merely sprayed 
about every three weeks. Weeping trees need be heeled-in; 
for their branches break easily when packed together. 
The roses and small fruits, with exception of the ramblers, 
which start growth easily, are stored with roots covered with 
moss. The perennials are stored in sand or heeled-in. 
Peonies are stored in moss. Little attention is paid to 
temperature with perennials and peonies, but they need fresh 
air, without which they mould easily. 
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Brown Brothers’ Company, Wholesalers 
Brown Brothers, with eighteen hundred acres under 
cultivation, do a large wholesale business. They have a 
large 400 x 100 foot house for apples and other tree fruits, a 
rose room, a small fruit room, and a section for the storage 
of perennials in sand. The two-year-old roses were very fine 
I early in February, and were in bundles of twenty-five, stored 
in damp sand. Their cellars were heated merely enough to 
keep the temperature about 30®, and were constructed nearly 
frost proof. 
Demand for the Varieties 
^ A few words in regard to the sales of the different fruits. 
The various nurser3mien agree that the leading apples sold 
by them this year so far are: Baldwin, given first place; 
i Ben Davis is reported as selling better than ever this year; 
I McIntosh and Northern Spy vie with the Ben Davis in sales, 
I The summer apples, though not reported as gaining in 
I popularity, are confined principally to Wealthy, the most 
I ^ popular, and Duchess, which is also popular. Stark and 
I Northwestern Greening are both reported to be gaining in 
[ favor, the Northwestern Greening being especially valuable 
for topworking. In Pennsylvania the York Imperial is most 
The Bartlett Pear still holds its own. Anjou and Clapp’s 
Favorite seem to be second in sales. Kieffer, the “money¬ 
maker,” and Seckel hold their places, the Kieffer constituting 
about one-fifth of the pear sales. Of the dwarf pears. 
Duchess d’Angouleme leads, with Anjou and Seckel as great 
favorites also. 
The sour cherry still holds its place as the greatest seller, 
being the one demanded for canning. Montmorency, Early 
Richmond, and Dyehouse are the leaders, in the order named. 
Of the sweet varieties, Napoleon, Black Tartarian, and 
Windsor, with possibly Governor Wood, are still the greatest 
favorites. 
Of the plums, there is a greater difference of opinion as to 
the leading varieties. At least, the Japanese varieties, 
Burbank and Abundance, are as popular as ever. Never¬ 
theless, a list of popular selling plums would be incomplete 
were German Prune, Red June, Shropshire Damson, Brad¬ 
shaw, and Lombard omitted. 
The Elberta peach leads, followed by the early varieties, 
which are gaining popularity. Early Crawford, Carman, and 
Late Crawford being especially prominent. The demand for 
XX stock is greater in peaches than for XXX, the growers 
holding that size of stock is not indicative of quality in the 
peach. 
Apricots constitute only a small proportion of the nursery¬ 
men’s sales. They are planted merely by private estates, 
and their sales would hardly equal one per cent, of those of 
peach. Alberge de Montgamet and Moorjiark are about the 
only ones planted. 
The Orange quince sells better than all other varieties 
put together. 
Small Fruits 
Among the raspberries, Cuthbert leads the reds, Colum¬ 
bian the purples. Plum Farmer, Ohio, Gregg or Black 
Diamond being the best black raspberries. Marlboro is 
important as an early red raspberry. 
The leading blackberries are the Snyder, Eldorado, and 
Blowers. Glen Brothers are advertising a variety which 
they claim is especially prolific and a strong grower, and they 
have named it St. Regis. 
Currant varieties differ greatly in demand, but Cherry, 
Fay’s Prolific, and Wilder are especially good. C. M. 
Hooker and Sons are advertising and sending out wholesale 
the “Perfection Currant,” which was originated and intro¬ 
duced by Mr. C. G. Hooker. 
No other bush fruit is increasing in sales like the goose¬ 
berry, Pearl and Downing leading. There is a steady fall in 
demand for the English varieties. 
A majority of the Rochester nurserymen place the grapes 
in the following order of importance: Concord, Niagara, 
Worden, Brighton, and Salem. 
Strawberries vary in demand a great deal, but Senator 
Dunlap, William Belt, and World’s Wonder are important 
varieties given by Mr. Allen L. Wood. 
Ornamentals 
In ornamental trees, roses and shrubs, it is difficult to 
name favorite or leading varieties, it being often a question 
merely of what suits the situation best. 
