THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Trade conditions in Nebraska are exceedingly good, as 
we find by comparison that we have booked during the 
month of December 1908, stock amounting to three times 
as much as that booked the same month 1907, and orders 
are coming in more rapidly than they were at this season last 
year. Everything indicates that we will have a general 
clean up and no stock in surplus before shipping season 
commences. 
Collections are excellent and money easy throughout the 
west. We are well pleased with the outlook. 
Youngers & Co. 
Geneva, Neb. 
OHIO. 
We grow nothing but small fruits to offer at wholesale, 
and owing to the extremely dry summer, our supply is con¬ 
siderably less than normal. We find the same condition 
exists among other growers of this line of stock in Ohio. 
The demand last fall was very good, hence the available 
supply is practically exhausted at this time. 
W. N. Scarff. 
New Carlisle, O. 
INDIANA. 
NOTHING TO COMPLAIN OF. 
Concerning trade conditions at this time, we find our 
retail sales quite a little ahead of our sales at this time last 
year. We think that nursery stock is not so plentiful as 
usual, and with a good demand we believe the stock will be 
cleaned up pretty close next spring. 
C. M. Hobbs & Sons. 
Bridgeport, Ind. 
Trade with us the past year has been very satisfactory. 
Our sales have exceeded by 25% any previous year. We 
were favored by getting a splendid growth on our trees— 
cherry in particular—and since cherry is our principal crop 
we have no complaint. We have some stock to offer for 
spring but we sold out well this last fall. We think the 
nurserymen throughout this section have all enjoyed a good 
trade. The outlook is bright for good sales next year. 
Farm crops have been good and the farmer has money to 
spend for fruit trees. Collections have also been good. 
The winter so far has been quite open and dry. 
H. M. Simpson & Sons. 
Vincennes, Ind. 
KANSAS. 
BUSINESS cleaned up. 
Nursery business in this immediate vicinity is rather 
dull—cause, practically nothing to sell. Apple seedlings 
were short crop, and are all gone. Apple and peach also 
fell below usual output, and are practically all sold, except 
the light grades, and these will undoubtedly be gone long 
before Spring packing commences. Some Kieffer pear, 
but quite a little inquiry for them and believe they will all 
go. Prices very good; this helps out somewhat the short¬ 
age in stock. 
L. R. Taylor & Sons. 
Topeka, Kas. 
At this time of the year—the closing of the seedling 
trade—is rather brisk in the large inquiry for apple seedlings 
for which there is no stock on hand or in sight with which to 
supply the demand. 
Apple trees are very high in price and the demand is far 
in excess of the supply. Naturally this creates a large de¬ 
mand for the apple seedlings. The supply has been ex¬ 
hausted for thirty days with still another thirty days in 
which seedlings will be much in evidence. 
This may not mean a continued high price in apple for 
the demand for the trees may be greatly curtailed by the 
time the next springs plant will mature. The pulse of the 
trade seems to be more feverish than healthful. 
A. L. Brooke. 
North Topeka, Kans. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
A review of the trade conditions as I take them from a 
correspondence extending all over the country is distinctly 
encouraging. It would seem as if nurserymen were now 
busy, and expecting to be busier. 
J. Horace McFarland Co. 
Harrisburg, Pa. 
Our trade was very good last Fall— 10% more than the 
Fall of 1907, and with good prospects for Spring. Fruit 
trees of all kinds are scarce and in good demand. 
Hoopes Bro. & Thomas. 
West Chester, Pa. 
As near as I can judge, I find that trade in general is 
good. During the business depression of the past year, the 
manufacturers worked off the stock on hand preventing 
overproduction. 
In the nursery business perhaps less sales were made, 
but the scarcity of stock caused good prices. I only fear 
that these high prices may induce the nurserymen to over¬ 
produce in the future. . The prospects are that the coming 
year will be a prosperous one. 
George Achelis (Morris Nursery Co.) 
West Chester, Pa. 
NEW YORK. 
business of fall 1908. 
From our own experience,and what we have gathered from 
others, we can truly say that the nursery business last fall 
was not as good as in former seasons, and where the usual 
amount was sold by dealers, the sales were made through 
greater energy and more persistence, being used to get 
them. 
No doubt the financial flurry (gambling) in New York, 
and some other places had much to do with it. The country 
however at present is sound financially and all right in every 
