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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Business Hetmties 
A new concrete root cellar and packing house with all 
modern conveniences has just been finished 50 by 150 feet 
at Fredonia, N. Y., built by the T. S. Hubbard Company. 
This additional room was much needed and now places them 
in good position to care for their large stock of vines and 
the prompt handling of orders. 
Jos. Hackethal recently purchased the south half of the 
Harrison nursery property, north of the city of York, Neb. 
Wm. A. Peterson, Chicago, has made many automobile 
trips this summer to visit the nurseries in Indiana, Michi¬ 
gan, Wisconsin and even as far as Mayfield, Minn. He says 
the general state of business with the nurseries of the middle 
west never was better. 
Mr. Dean Alvord of Port Jefferson, Long Island is 
entering the nursery business. He will appreciate hearing 
from his brother nurserymen who have been longer in the 
business. 
Mr. John L. Foster is now living in the town of Denton, 
Texas. He has purchased a piece of land suited to growing 
nursery stock and has started in the business. His new 
address is R. F. D. No. 4, Denton, Texas, instead of East 
Side avenue as heretofore. 
GeO. W. Sutherland, Athol, Mass., has completed a large 
brick chimney, 60 ft. high in connection with his new steam 
plant for heating his greenhouses. A number of enlarge¬ 
ments and improvements have recently been made by Mr. 
Sutherland, and give him one of the most complete nursery 
establishment in this section. 
The Stark Nursery Co., Louisiana, Mo., has commenced 
work on an addition to its wholesale packing house. It 
will be 210x270 ft. The company will also build another 
addition to the office building. 
Incorporation of the Hyde Park Nursery Co., Muskogee, 
Okla., is announced with a capital of $2 5,000; incorporators, 
Clayton S. Stoner, Wm. D. Ford and Wm. S. Harsha. 
The Hanford Nursery of Clarkston, Wash, say—“We 
are constant readers of your valuable paper, in fact can’t 
get along without it. 
A certificate of dissolution has been filed by the Sneed 
Nursery and Orchard Co., of Tyler, Tex. 
A new nursery company is soon to be incorporated to do 
a general nursery business in Billings, Mont. W. H. Rals¬ 
ton, for many years salesman for the Jewell Nursery Co., 
and M. I. Tuttle of Fort Morgan, Colq., will be active in the 
new concern. A 40-acre tract west of the city has been 
purchased and the lumber for a number of the buildings is 
already on the ground. Berry plants in variety will be a 
specialty of the new firm. 
Mr. H. L. Stanley who is in business with his father, W. 
W. Stanley, at Campbell, Mo., visited Rochester, August 
18-20, and called at the office of the National Nursery¬ 
man. He made calls at all of the large nurseries in this city 
and left for New York returning home from there. Mr. 
Stanley is of the straightforward manly type found so often 
among nurserymen. 
Beginning Monday, August 16 and ending Tuesday, 
August 31, Messers. Protheroe and Morris, London, Eng. 
held great trade sales of Dutch bulbs. 
Port Arthur, Tex., has every chance of securing a large 
nursery. C. H. Crawford, a prominent nurseryman of 
Minnesota has submitted the authorities a proposition. 
With Alfred T. Osterman as president, and Louis A. 
Soldan as manager and treasurer, a company to be known 
as the New Haven Nurseries has been formed at New 
Haven, Conn., the intention being to grow and sell hardy 
nursery stock and to do a general landscape gardening 
business. The address of the firm is 123 Church St. 
As an experiment the Florida East Coast Railway Com¬ 
pany has had more than ten thousand of Eucalyptus trees 
propagated by William Fremd, head gardener of the Royal 
Poinciana grounds, and of Mr. Flagler’s Winter home, White 
hall. These trees will be established somewhere in Palm 
Beach county as an experimental forest. 
Mr. L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., left August 8, for 
three weeks’ trip to Maine and other points of interest in 
the East. He reports that in Georgia they have had 
excellent growing weather and that their nursery stock is 
in fair shape. 
A. Willis of the Willis Nurseries, Ottawa, Kas., called at 
the office of the National Nurseryman early on August 19. 
Eastern business men do not apparently start work early 
enough in the morning to catch the early westerner. Try 
again Mr. Willis, and we’ll be ready for you. 
The seedlings which were set out this spring at the Musk¬ 
rat nursery near Boulder, Montana, on the Helena national 
forest, are doing finely, according to reports by Forest 
Supervisor Dwight Bushnell. 
The good will, corporation name, stock and all pertain¬ 
ing to the mail order business of Heller Bros., Newcastle, 
Ind., has been taken over by purchase by Dingee and 
Conard, West Chester, Pa. The business will continue to be 
carried on under the name of Heller Bros. The cut 
flower business still remains in Newcastle. 
The Wooster Nursery Co. of Wooster, Mass., has leased 
the building now occupied by the Wooster Brush Works, 
and will occupy the building in a short time. The Nursery 
Co., in addition, is about to double its capital stock and in¬ 
corporate at $20,000, which will greatly facilitate its ability 
to do a much larger business. 
The eleventh annual convention of the American 
Association of Park Superintendents was held at Seattle, 
Wash., August 9-11, and is reported to have been the most 
successful yet. Few eastern men were in attendance but 
western Park Superintendents turned out in large numbers. 
The New England Dahlia Society will hold its second 
exhibition at Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass., September 
10, 11 and 12. For particulars address Maurice Field, 5 
Union St., Boston, Mass. 
Our stock has grown beautifully this summer, favored 
with abundant rains just when most needed. The prospect 
for fall trade is very encouraging. 
Detroit, Mich. E. Ferrand & Co. 
