THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Condensed ]Vews 
The Wood River Nursery Co., Wood River, Neb., has increased 
its capital stock to $100,000. The company is contemplating 
expansion. 
f. F. Rosenfield of West Point, Neb., has purchased 25 acres of 
land on West Dodge St., Omaha, and will conduct a peony farm. 
Mr. Chas. Stewart formerly of Dean Nurseries, Bournemouth, 
England, has removed his clerical department to the nurseries, 
Westmoors, Dorset. 
Getting business is a good deal like courting a girl—you must 
offer the right kind of goods and keep on calling. 
An organization to be known as the Willis Nursery Co., has taken 
over the business formerly under the name of the Willis Nurseries. 
The same management as that of the old firm will be in charge of the 
new. They write that they will be known to the nursery trade as 
A. Willis & Co. The business has now been organized as a stock 
company with a paid up capital sufficient to go forward and do a 
larger business than has heretofore been done. 
Wm. J. Jeffrey, Bellmore, Long Island, nurseryman, was 
seriously ill all last winter and is just now recovering his usual health 
and spirits. 
The Grape Products Co. of North East, N. Y. (near Fredonia), 
has heralded the fact that it will enter the field this fall not only as a 
heavy buyer for manufacturing purposes but also as middleman in 
the shipping situation. The concern is capitalized at $500,000.00 
and states that it will stand ready at all times to handle all and every 
grape offered at market prices. 
Opportunity’s office is on the top floor, and the elevator isn’t 
running. You’ll have to walk. 
There is now on in Plainfield, N. J. an interesting fight for the 
possession of a nursery. James Conroy has held the nursery in 
question for four years agreeing to pay for it in installments when 
he purchased it from its former owner Charles Berg, of East Orange. 
The court of chancery has upheld Conroy in his contention. The 
property originally belonged t Conroy’s father, who was unable to 
hold it, and the place was sold under foreclosure four years ago. It 
was bought by Berg for the sum of $18,000. At this time, James 
Conroy went to New York state to work in a nursery for a time, 
but soon returned and offered to buy back the nursery on $1,000 
installments. It was further agreed that he was to take charge of 
the business and receive $75 per month from the owner for doing so. 
Recently Berg began suit for possession but the court has upheld 
Conroy. 
The short cut to success is hard work. A pleasant road, too, 
when you once get acquainted with it. 
The duty on rose cuttings has been cut to 2X cents under the 
provision for “rose plants.” This is the result of the action taken by 
the board of United States appraisers on July 19. 
J. W. Tetirick & Son report an abundance of rain in their section 
of the country, Blackwell, Oklahoma, and that prospects were never 
better for fall and spring trade. The senior member of the firm is 
way off in the Northwest on his summer vacation and doing his best 
to tame mountain trout. 
Secretary Benjamin Hammond has issued a preliminary list of 
classes and prizes for the annual exhibition of the Rose Society. 
The list, is very similar to that of other years. 
Because of the great demand for orange trees in California, the 
Rosedale Nurseries at Orangehurst, Tulare county, have planted 
1,000,000 orange seeds. They are also raising 500,000 grape vines 
for next season’s demand. 
A nursery lath house holding about 300,000 trees has been 
recently erected in Covina, Cal. The building is only eight feet 
high and of course has an an extremely odd appearance. At the 
present time there are 300,000 young orange trees and several 
thousand shade trees of choice varieties, planted in the nurseries. 
Since the establishing of their business the Armstrong nurseries 
of Ontario, have not had such a year for the mail order business. 
Orders have passed all previous limits. Mr. Armstrong has been 
making a tour of the Northwest to see the Seattle Exposition and 
to learn the trade conditions. 
Robt. T. Pinkerton of Montreal, Canada, stopped at the office 
of the National Nurseryman while on his way to Geneva to 
visit the prominent nurseries there. It was his intention to see the 
well known firms at Newark, Rochester, Geneva and Fredonia. 
Mr. Pinkerton is one of the younger set of nurserymen in Canada 
and is rapidly establishing a high class trade. His ideas are pro¬ 
gressive and his methods are thoroughly business-like. 
Mr. Lewis Roesch made a short call at the Nurseryman office 
during the past month. He yvas in Rochester on business and only 
had time for a short stop. 
R. R. Harris, Harrisville, W. Va., writes that he has established 
a nursery near Nashville, Tenn., and expects to grow there nursery 
stock for the wholesale trade exclusively. The location is in what 
is known as the highland rim of north central Tennessee and the soil 
is of the same formation and texture as that found at Winchester. 
It is ideal soil for a nursery. 
H. G. Kennedy, state inspector for the Salem district, Massa¬ 
chusetts, states that there were more brown-tail moth nests this 
year than last but that they ha\ T e been cleaned in good shape. 
According to him, the large cities are caused great expense by the 
failure of the small towns and outlaying districts to wage war 
against the gypsy and brown-tails. 
Mr. Jacob Dietrich, the popular nurseryman of Los Angeles, 
Cal., also known far and wide as the Mayor of Montebello, is erect¬ 
ing a large greenhouse on his propagating grounds for the special 
purpose of growing roses and carnations for the cut-flower trade. 
Seeds of ornamental trees cannot be regarded as being “flower 
or grass seeds,” according to a recent decision of the board of ap¬ 
praisers. The point was raised by J. Dietrich, who imported the 
seed for use on his estate at Los Angeles, Calif. They were assessed 
at 30 per cent as “seeds of all kinds not specially provided for” 
and Judge Waite upheld the classification of the collector. 
Robt. Armstrong, landscape gardener, who for more than two 
years has been superintendent on the Arthur Letts place in Holly¬ 
wood, Cal., has heeded the call of “The Wild” and gone to Nevada, 
where fabulous fortunes have been made and are still being made in 
gold mines. 
A. W. Ross of Pasadena, Cal., the veteran nurseryman, is now 
blooming out in the millionaire class because of his investments in the 
same mining section of that State most wonderful in very many ways. 
James Backhouse & Son, well known English seedsmen and 
nurserymen, are offering a new colchicum this season, C. speciosum 
album, said to be of “surpassing beauty from its great size and purity 
of color.” 
The gypsy moth pest is so bad in parts of Massachusetts that in 
one place 25 acres of fine oak woods had to be burned in order to 
prevent the pest spreading any further. 
FOR SALE 
An up-to-date nursery and business i X miles from one of the 
best cities in northern Oklahoma. Concrete Storage and Office, 
Water SA'stem and other equipments. Fifty miles from compe¬ 
tition. Splendid opening for Greenhouse. Plenty Natural Gas. 
No indebtedness. Best of soil. Best of reasons for selling. 
$6ooo will make a starter. Will either sell or lease land. For 
further particulars, 
Address T. and S., Care National Nurseryman. 
PEONIES 
ioo.ooo Larges Plants, in the best varieties to offer at very reduced prices for 
Fall 1909. Write for Trade-List. 
DESSERT, Peony Specialist a 
Chenonceaux, France 
