THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
cashier of the Iowa Loan & Trust Co., of this city, but for the past 
five years was secretary of the Des Moines Nursery Company. 
He was a popular young man of exemplary habits, high personal 
integrity, led a useful life and was highly esteemed by the business 
men of this city. His death of course, is a great loss to Mr. Hill and 
the Des Moines Nursery Company and brings to an untimely end a 
bright future which lay before him. He died from heart trouble 
superinduced by rheumatism. 
Quiz Column 
Editor National Nurseryman, 
We desire to construct a tree cellar and would be pleased to have 
any information you can give us. 
A site we would like to use is in a side hill where the road ap¬ 
proaching our nursery runs through a ravine. On this site we could 
build a two story structure, the lower being a tree cellar and the 
upper a tool house and storage house with entrance on level of our 
grounds while floor of cellar would be on the same level as road 
approaching the nursery. Our north and west sides of cellar would 
be entirely underground but our south and east would be all above 
ground. Would you consider such a location as good ? 
Soil in this location, in botton of cellar will be clay and possibly a 
little damp. Should it be fully tiled and possibly filled in a foot or so 
with other dirt ? 
We have thought of building with underground walls of stone 
and the exposed walls a foot thick of hollow blocks with three air 
spaces therein; what do you think of it ? 
Would be glad of any information as to construction, ventilation 
and management of such a cellar. 
We are very ignorant of the subject, and are finding it almost 
impossible to fill all our spring orders without a cellar for storing 
of fall dug stock. 
However, on general principles we do not like a large portion of 
the cellar stock. It seems to make it tender; the roots frequently 
seem to be rather on the dry side, lots of it shows some mold and 
smells musty and the number of broken tops and chafed limbs in 
cellar stock which we buy is a great deal larger than on freshly dug 
stock. A portion of these troubles, and possibly all of them, are 
caused by carelessness. We should like to construct a cellar that 
will hold stock right and then secure information that will enable 
us to do it. 
Northern Iowa. 
Preliminary Answer —We would refer you for information on 
storage cellars to the last report of the American Association of 
Nurserymen. In this report, Mr. Underwood, of the Jewell Nursery 
Company, had an excellent paper on the construction of cellars. 
We shall refer this letter to some of our well-posted correspon¬ 
dents and ask for suggestions. In the meantime we beg to offer 
the following from our own standpoint: 
1. The cellar, if constructed on a side hill, should certainly be 
thoroughly tiled. If tiled for a foot or more below the level of the 
floor we do not think it will be necessary to fill in with any other 
material than the natural clay. 
2. We do not see why your method of building the walls above 
ground with hollow blocks would not be satisfactory. In your 
locality it would be largely a question of excluding cold. You will 
certainly need at least two air spaces and probably three. Concrete 
or hollow blocks should serve the purpose. 
3. Ventilation must be provided and this should start at the 
level of the floor with exits above the roof line. These ventilators 
should have shut-offs so that they may be opened or closed by 
operating slides from within. 
In general, we think you are wise in planning to install this 
storage cellar. It will certainly greatly facilitate your nursery 
work. 
Let us hear from those who have had experience. 
National Nurseryman. 
GERMAN FORESTS 
Nearly one-fourth of the surface of the entire German Empire is 
covered with forests (about 48,000 square miles), more than one- 
sixth (38,000 square miles) being occupied by what the Germans call 
“hochwald,” that is, forests of full-grown trees. 
The area occupied by trees of the pine family is more than three 
times as great as that occupied by all the varieties of deciduous trees 
combined. Of the 5,658,000 acres of deciduous trees, 1,172,000 
acres are oak, 467,000 acres are birch, alder, and aspen, and 4,019,000 
acres are beech, etc. Of the 18,495,000 acres of needle-leafed trees, 
12,327,000 acres are pine, 29,000 acres are larch, 5,482,000 acres are 
red fir, and 657,000 acres are white fir. 
About two and one-half per cent, of this “hochwald” is owned 
by the Crown, nearly 40 per cent, by the State, 15 per cent, by 
municipal governments, and about 40 per cent, by private persons. 
The entire area devoted to forests is today nearly 200,000 acres 
greater than it was twenty years ago. Between 1883 and 1900, the 
decrease in the area of forests of deciduous trees amounted to 
567,000 acres, while the gain in extent of the forests of pines, larches 
and firs was 760,000 acres.— Consul-General Reports. 
FRUIT BOXES FOR SOUTH AFRICA 
Boxes intended for the South African markets for the fruits 
specified should be of the following dimensions: 
Pears and apples.— Length, 21 >2 inches; width, 12 inches; 
depth, 5 inches; sides, 4pi by f by 2 1 >2 inches; ends, 4 * l 2 3 / 2 by ]/i 
by 12 inches. 
Apricots, peaches and nectarines.—Length, 2ij inches; width, 
13 inches; depth, 4 inches; sides, 3 by f by 21 inches. 
Plums.—A box half the length of above with a depth of 5 inches. 
Mixed fruits.—18 by 12 by 5 inches; sides, 4 by tj by 18 inches; 
ends, 4 by I, by npj inches.—Joseph E. Proffit, Consul, Pretoria, 
Transvaal, Oct. 5th., 1904.— Daily Consular Reports. 
CATALOGUE RECEIVED 
Price List of Best Indian Seeds and Ornamental plants, fruit 
trees, bulbs, orchids and roses of the Medical Nursery, Calcutta, 
India: An exceedingly interesting catalogue of plants grown pri¬ 
marily for medicinal purposes. Names are given in native Indian 
script and English. The medicinal values of most of the plants are 
mentioned. In introducing the general subject of fruits and vege¬ 
tables, the catalogue says: “Vegetables should not be used ab¬ 
normal or out of season. It is then never good and may be unwhole¬ 
some. Vegetables manured with night soil, blood, meat or other 
animal products should never be used. For vegetables, old cow dung 
is the best manure available.” 
Some of the specific qualities credited to herbs are most interest¬ 
ing, as for instance, Kanthal (Artocarpus integrifolius), very nourish¬ 
ing; induces secretion of liver and fairness of complexion.” The 
catalogue reads like an echo of some of the old herbals of two 
centuries ago. 
Winfield Nursery Co., Winfield, Kansas. Wholesale Count List, 
No. 1. 
W. B. Cole, Painesville, Ohio, Special surplus price list to nur¬ 
serymen only. 
The Friend Mfg. Co., Gasport, N. Y. Catalogue illustrating the 
Friend Spraying outfits. 
Forest Nursery Sc Seed Co., J. H. Boyd, Proprietor, R. F. D. 2, 
McMinnville, Tenn. Wholesale trade list, Spring, 1909. 
Lesley Brothers Nurseries, Peterson Sc North 40th Avenues, 
Chicago, Ill. Wholesale catalogue, spring, 1909. 
American Forestry Company, Little Tree Farms, South Framing¬ 
ham, Mass. Catalogue and Price-list, Nurseries Department. 
The “New Way” Motor Company, Lansing, Mich. Illustrated 
leaflet, shov ing spraying outfits. 
Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. Illustrated General 
Catalogue. 
W. Van Kleef & Sons, The Nurs., Boskoop, Holland. Wholesale 
Catalogue of Nursery^ Stock. Fall, 1909—Spring, 1910. 
