THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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in our section is demanding heavier stock than has usually 
been delivered to them in the past and for such stock are 
willing to pay advanced prices. 
Davenport, la. Davenport Nursery Co. 
KANSAS 
Pointers on Root-Grafting 
We have had a very good growing season so far, although 
it has been a little wet the past few days. Our block of 
apple is one of the best we have ever had and promises to 
make up good in the larger sizes. 
We are not bothered much in this part of God’s country 
with insects or diseases. We have been cutting our scions 
and seedlings to a feather edge and wrapping with cloth 
for the last four years and have, to a great extent, eliminated 
root knot. 
The trade for this fall seems to be very promising at the 
present time, not only retail, but also wholesale; and also 
at a very good price. 
Our main plant is apple and peach, although we have a 
block of very fine grape, one and two year old. 
Chanute, Kan. James Truitt & Sons 
Fighting Weeds 
During June we have had an unusual outbreak of weeds; 
the infestation has been the worst we have encountered in 
any one season for several years past, and our time and 
attention has been so taken up with this trouble that we 
don’t know a thing that would be of any interest to the 
trade in general. We hope to get cleaned up soon, so we 
can turn • our attention to other interests of the nursery 
business. 
Topeka, Kan. L. R. Taylor & Sons 
Stock Satisfactory; Sales Good 
We had it very wet here a part of the season which has 
made it hard to keep weeds and grass down, but for the 
past few weeks have had scarcely any rain. 
Stock is making a very satisfactory growth. Catalpa 
seedlings while not a very good stand on account of so 
much rain early in the season, are doing fine now and 
promise a very large percent of the heavy grades. We 
never have had grapes look better at this time of year 
than now. 
Will finish budding next week. 
Retail sales for fall are considerably above those we 
had this time last fall. 
Kansas City, Mo. Geo. H. Johnston 
MASSACHUSETTS 
Continued Drought but Good Growth 
Notwithstanding a continued drought this summer, our 
stock has made a fine growth and is looking exceptionally 
well. The strong demand for evergreens continues and we 
have sold more than ever before for August planting. The 
public is appreciating more and more the beauty of ever¬ 
green trees and plants and probably more than half our 
stock sold last spring belonged to this class. 
The trade is overstocked with peonies but there is as 
much call as ever from amateur growers for the better 
varieties, and by that we do not mean the new, expensive 
seedlings, but the ones which have proved themselves to be 
good bloomers and healthy growers. The demand for 
other herbaceous stock continues steady. 
West Newbury, Mass. T. C. Thurlow & Co. 
MISSOURI 
Recommend Scalecide Spray in the Fall 
Our spring season was the finest we have had in years, 
weather was ideal during the months of March and April 
and we had two months of good shipping conditions. 
The months of May and the early part of June were 
rather cool and we had a number of very heavy rains during 
these two months, making it hard to cultivate properly, 
but it was very beneficial for the young planted stock. 
Stock in general is doing nicely at this writing and if we 
do not have excessively dry weather from now on, believe 
we will get an unusual good growth by fall. 
Insect pests have not bothered us to any great extent on 
the growing nursery stock this year; we attribute this 
freedom to Scalecide as for the last two years w r e have 
sprayed all of our growing nursery stock with this solution 
annually after the foliage has dropped or early in spring 
before growth started and believe by so doing we have 
gotten rid of many troubles that we would otherwise have 
had to contend with. 
It is our firm belief that if the nurserymen of the United 
States (that is those that are located in infested sections, 
and who of them are not?) would spray their growing 
nursery stock every fall after foliage drops or early in 
spring before growth starts there would be less trouble 
with insect pests. For leaf-eating insects we now use 
arsenate of lead almost exclusively. 
There is nothing new in the way of cultivation or fertiliz¬ 
ing that we have taken up, we use nothing but well de¬ 
composed barnyard manure. We aim to cultivate our 
growing blocks once every week, rain or shine, weeds or no 
•weeds and believe that this is the only way to conserve 
moisture during an excessively dry spell and to keep stock in 
a good growing condition. 
The outlook for fall 1909 and spring 1910 seems to be 
very bright, especially in ornamentals; the fruit crop in 
this section is not good and considerable falling off in this 
line may be expected; small fruits have done well and have 
been generally profitable. We are looking for a large in¬ 
crease in this end of the business. 
We are pushing the ornamental line in all branches and 
are making a specialty of California Privet of which we will 
have about one half million plants in all sizes, about 80,000 
of which will be 2 year old transplanted stock which 
promises to be extra fine. 
One block of ornamental shrubs contains over 50,000 
plants in more than 100 varieties, grown specially for the 
landscape trade which promises to be the finest block we 
have, ever grown, averaging 3 to 6 feet in height according 
to varigties, besides other blocks in younger stock. 
Nursery, Mo. H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co. 
