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BUSINESS NOTES 
Petersburg, W. Va.—A company has been organized in Hardy 
county, with Wm. Keller and M. E. Bean at its head, for the purpose 
of establishing a nursery plant. 
Geneva, N. Y.—The Washington Street Nursery Company has 
been incorporated. Capital stock, $5,000. Directors: Thomas J. 
Maney, William H. Witt and Margaret F. Witt, all of Geneva. 
Gardiner, Me. —-The Gardiner Forestry Co., recently organized, 
has been incorporated to plant trees and establish nurseries. The 
president is Robert H. Gardiner, and the treasurer Charles H. 
Gray, both of Gardiner. 
Eunice, La. —W. E. McMicken, proprietor of the Southeast 
Texas Nursery Co., located at Faunette, Tex., has been in this city 
for two or three days in the interests of his business. He will 
probably start a nursery business here. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association.— The tenth annual meet¬ 
ing of this Association was held at College Station, July 28 and 29. 
The presiding officers were: J. B. Baker, president, Fort Worth; 
R. W. Holbert, vice-president, Arcadia; John S. Kerr, secretary- 
treasurer, Sherman. All nurserymen in good standing in Texas, 
Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana attended the meeting, whether 
members or not .—Florists Exchange. 
W. W. Thomas, the strawberry plant man, of Anna, Ill., says 
that his business for several seasons has been growing very rapidly, 
and that the season just passed has exceeded any former year. 
Therefore, he has been compelled to increase his acreage to meet 
the growing demand for strawberry plants. This summer he ex¬ 
pects to build an additional large up-to-date packing house so that 
his daily output of plants will be greatly increased during the 
shipping season. This will enable him to handle promptly all orders 
that are received. 
Our Book Table 
The Quest of John Chapman. Author, Newell Dwight Hillis. 
349 pages, no illustrations. Price, $1.50. Publishers, the 
MacMillan Co., New York. 
It is an exceedingly gratifying thing to men who are interested 
in the progress of pomology, to feel that a litterateur of the power 
and versatility of Dr. Hillis should seek to idealize the work of any 
pioneer in the delightful field of horticulture. In a previous issue 
of this journal attention was drawn to the fact that the work of the 
eccentric John Chapman, better known as “Johnny Appleseed,’’ had 
been recognized by an historical society in Ohio, by the erection of a 
monument bearing an epitaph couched in appropriate terms, 
describing the life work of this individual. Without any doubt, the 
Ohio River Valley and contiguous portions of the middle west owe 
much to the idealistic labors of John Chapman, who travelled up 
and down the land scattering apple-seed and planting fruit trees. 
Dr. Hillis has spent a good deal of time in investigating the life- 
work of this man who labored for others, and although he was not 
successful in tracing the activities of this early fruit lover, yet he 
has woven around him a network of romance that will probably do 
more in bringing before the common people the essential features 
and benefits of Chapman’s life work than could be secured by the 
mere presentation of an historical record. It is needless to say that 
the book is written in the pleasantest possible style, and that the 
reading will do much to impress the present day horticulturist with 
the difficulties and obstacles which beset the footsteps of the pioneer 
of the middle West. We are glad to see a subject like this, which 
has now become almost exclusively traditional, idealized and 
sentimentalized, and glad to know that it has found a prominent 
place in literature. This book will appeal to nurserymen in general, 
but more particularly to those whose lots are cast in the Ohio Valley 
and the region immediately west of the Alleghanies. 
Your Journal is a good one for the advertiser. It did the work 
forme and hope to use it more extensively this fall. Many 
wishes for increased success. 
Yours truly, 
D. W. Babcock, Md. 
Catalogues Received 
Barnham Nurseries Limited, Barnham Junction. Sussex, 
England. A trade catalogue of fruit trees, roses and general 
nursery stock. 
Summit Nurseries, Miller & Gossard, Monticello, Fla. Cata¬ 
logue and price list of orchard fruits, including a large selection of 
pecans and other nut trees. 
W. Fromow & Sons, Windlesham, Surrey, England. Whole¬ 
sale catalogue 1908-9; specialties, American plants, including trees 
and shrubs. 
Munson Nurseries, T. V. Munson & Son, Dennison, Texas. 
Catalogue of fruits including a special list of grapes; many hybrids 
produced by the author; shade and ornamental trees. 
American Nursery Company, Sales Dept. 150 Broadway, New 
York, Nurseries, Flushing, N. Y. and Springfield, N. J. Illustrated 
catalogue of shrubs and trees. 
Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala. W. F. 
Heikes, manager. Bulletin No. 3 of Surplus Stock of trees. 
Mushroom Spawn and Guide to Mushroom Culture. Pure 
Culture Spawn Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
George S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y. Condensed price list for 
spring 1909, of grape vines and small fruits. 
Wisconsin Seed Growers Association, La Crosse, Wis. 1909 
Catalogue of grains and other seeds. 
B. F. Smith, 1847 Haskell St., Lawrence, Kan. 27th Annual 
Catalogue and Price List of berry plants, fruit trees and flowering 
shrubs. 
F. W. Watson & Co., Topeka, Kansas. Wholesale price list of 
fruits and ornamental trees. 
Bowker Insecticide Co., 43 Chatham St., Boston, Mass. At¬ 
tractive card advertising “Pyrox” as a spray material. 
The Elm City Nursery Co., Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, 
Conn. Attractive catalogue of trees, shrubs, hardy plants and 
garden supplies. 
Benjamin Hammond, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. Catalogue of 
insecticides. 
The Van Dusen Nurseries, W. L. McKay, Prop., Geneva, N. Y. 
Catalogue of fruit trees, grapes and small fruits. 
Mount Arbor Nurseries, E. S. Welch, Prop., Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Wholesale price list of surplus stock, fruit and ornamental trees, 
roses, etc. 
Morrisville Nursery, Sam’l. C. Moon, Morrisville, Penn. A very 
pretty catalogue illustrated and descriptive throughout. The il¬ 
lustrated and descriptive throughout. The illustration on the 
cover of the catalogue represents a hedge of hemlock spruce growing 
along one of the nursery drives, which has long been one of the 
attractive features of the place. Every other spring it is sheared 
and is thus kept at about 12 feet in height and 8 feet in width. At 
the end of the hedge are three fine specimens of Noordman’s Silver 
Fir, about 25 feet in height. 
Forest Nursery & Seed Co., McMinnville, Tenn. Wholesale 
trade list for fall 1909. 
John Palmer & Son, Ltd., Annan Nursery, Dumfriesshire, Scot¬ 
land, Special trade list of nursery stock. 
Eagle Tank Co., 474-498 W. 21 Place, Chicago. Mfgs. of 
Wood and Steel Tanks and Towers. 
Glen St. Mary Nursery Co., Glen St. Mary, Fla. Wholesale 
catalogue for nurserymen and dealers only. 
A. Dessert, Peony Grower, Chenonceaux, France, General Cata¬ 
logue No. 15 , and Supplement of Pseonies. 
VanDillewyn and Thiel, Meirelbike, near Ghent Belgium, 1900 
Catalogue for the trade only. Azaleas, Araucarias, Aspidistras, 
etc. 
NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 
NOTICE OF BULLETINS 312 AND 314 
The white-marked tussock moth, for many years a dreaded pest 
of village and city shade trees, last year became destructive in 
many apple orchards in north western New York and was thus 
brought strongly to the notice of Station entomologists. Bulletin 
312 of the Station at Geneva gives an outline of this outbreak, with 
brief descriptive notes on the insect, and indicates the repressive 
measures that should be adopted. 
In Bulletin 314 of the same Station another more fundamental 
orchard problem is attacked,—the proper management of orchard 
soil. A careful perusal of the data here presented should convince 
