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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
lh(’ inirs(M'y indusliy ol' lli<‘ Uiiih'd Stales, and will l)e 
inoiii'iK'd Ity his many Iric'nds. 
WiLMA.M II. iMastin 
William II. Mastin. N('wai'k. N. V.. dic'd at llu' (i('m'ial 
Hospital. K()(‘h('st('r. \lai'(*h 25lh. 
Mr. Mastin had Ix'c'ii ill lor sc'vc'ral wcM'ks in that hos¬ 
pital and lh(' Ulillon Spring’s Sanitaiiiim. 
Mis many fric'iids in the nursery trade' will h(' d('e|)ly 
^■rievc'd to lu'ar o! his imlinu'ly (h*ath as no oiu' (*ould be 
more' lo^'('d and respc'elc'd. 
Only 12 yc'ars of a^c*. yet lu' liad won for himself an 
(‘nvial)le position and aeeomplislu'd more' than many of 
us tw iec' his a^c'. IIis tireh'ss energy, eheerfuhu'ss. and 
(h'volion to duly made' his lile a saeritiee for otiu'rs. lb' 
was Iwiec' ('l('el('d |)residenl of llu' New York State Nur- 
sc'ryuK'n’s Assoeialion. 
At th(' time' of his dc'alh lu' was manage']' of the' Whole- 
sjile' de'])arlmenl of the C. W. Stuart Company. Ne'wark. 
N. Y. Aeee'pling e've'r moie' work and responsileilily w itli 
a smile, he' drove' ahe'ael, anel ke'pt een elriving. anel the 
e'xlenl lee whieli Newark's fame ;is a nursery eenter is 
elue' le) him, few be'yeenel his immeeliale' asseeeiate's in the' 
husine'ss w ill e'ver kneew . 
The e'stee'in w ilh w hieh he' w as lie'lel in his eeemmunily 
as husbanel. fatlu'r anel fraternal breethei' w as e)f the' high¬ 
est eereler. Sle'aelfastness te) the prinei[)les e)f the Maseuiie 
fiate'rnity ween him sigmil elistini*lie)n in that eerdei'. 
Mr. Mastin was be)rn in Oalen, Wayne eeeunty. New 
Yeerk. een May 21, 1881. the' seen eef ,Ie)hn H. anel Cariie H. 
Mastin. Aflei' atle'iieling ruial sehe)e)l, he e;»me' le) Ne'waik 
abe)ut tw e'lily-tw e) ye'ars age), and ee)m|)leleel his eelueatie)]) 
in the' Llms Ceemmeieial Sehe)e)l. At this lime he aeee'j)'- 
e'el a ('h'l'ieal jceesition with C. W. Stueirt & Company. 
Spe'eializing in the' whe)lesale' ele'pailment e)f these nur¬ 
series. he ])re)gre'ssed ra])idly until fe)i’ seuue lime ])rior 
le) his eleath he w ;is manage']' e)f the w’heelesale eleparUiU']]! 
e)f the' Stua]'l Nurseries. assu]i]ing ]i]e)st e)f the aetive 
weerk in ee)]]neetio]] w ith the greewuig a]id shi])pi]ig'. 
Besieles his w ife, deeeaseel is surviveel by tw e) ehildre]]. 
Na]]ey, aged ni]ie'. anel Kiehard. aged se'veei; by his broth¬ 
er. Je'sse' C. Masli]]. e)f Cieeiewa. aeid his father, Jolui 11. 
Mastin. of Clyde. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED 
Whitesbog Blueberry Nurseries, Whitesbog, N. J. 
Foleler offering Named Kinds of Blueberries. 
Buntings’ Nurseries, Selbyville, Del. 
Bulletin No. 3. 
Jackson & Perkins Company, Newark, N. A’. 
Bulletin No. 7 and a Form Letter Offering Lodense Privet. 
Howard Hickory Company, Hickory, N. C. 
Retail Price List. 
J. H. Skinner & Company, Topeka, Kansas. 
Wholesale Trade List. 
Vaughan’s Gardening Illustrated, Vaugh in’s Seed Store, 
10-12 AVest Randolph Street, Chicago. 
Blue Grass Nurseries, H. F. Hillenmeyer & Son, Lexington, 
Ky. Retail Catalogue Copiously Illustrated and Finely 
Gotten Up. 
The Conrad & Jones Co., AVest Grove, Pa. 
Trade Bulletin No. 2. 
Paramus Nursery, Inc., Ridgewood, N. J. 
Hardy Perennials, Conifers, Trees, Shrubs. 
J. C. Grossman, AA’olcottville, Ind. 
Retail Price List. 
T. W. Rice, Geneva, N. Y. 
AVholesale Trade List Bulletin No. 2. 
Almon S. Sawyer, Mentor, Lhio. 
Eleventh Annual Price List. 
Leesley Bros. Nursery, C'hicago, 111. 
AVnolesale Catalogue. 
Griffing Nursery, Beaumont, Texas. 
Wholesale Catalogue. 
Laurence J. Farmer, Pulaski, N. Y. 
Farmer’s Catalogue for 1924. 
Princeton Nurs., Princeton, N. J. 
Wholesale Price List. 
Kelsey Nurs., St. Joseph, Mo. 
AVholesale Price List. 
Malmo and Co., Seattle, Wash. 
Price List. 
D. Hill Nur. Co., Inc., Dundee, Ill. 
Lining Out Stock. 
Gilson Manufacturing Co., Port AVashington, AVis. 
Bolens Broadcaster. 
Poughkeepsie Nur. Co., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
The Economizer. 
Roman J. Irwin, Inc., 43 West 18th St., New York, N. Y. 
Bulletin for Customers. 
Harrisons’ Nurs, Berlin, Maryland. 
Price List. 
Conyers B. Flew, Jr., Germantown, Pa. 
Price List. 
Conard and Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. 
Bulletin No. 2. 
De Baun and Co., Wyckoff, N. J. 
Huntsville Wholesale Nurs., Inc., Huntsville, Ala. 
Box List, No. 1. 
Young’s Aurora Nurs., Aurora, Ill. 
AVholesale Price List. 
WHITE-OAK ACORNS AS FOOD 
One of the principal foods of the North American Indians 
was meal made from white-oak acorns. Unlike turkey, squash, 
tobacco, and Indian corn, this food has never become popular 
with the white man and is seldom heard of to-day, though our 
white oaks continue to yield heavy crops and the few remain¬ 
ing Indians from AA^’isconsin to AA^ashington still make use of 
them. The process of manufacture varied with the different 
tribes and with the species of the oak from which the acorns 
were taken. The following dispatch from a Washington paper 
describes the process still in use by the Klickitat Indians of the 
Pacific coast: 
The Indians of Massachusetts parched the fresh acorns and 
stored them in that condition. The early records of the Pil¬ 
grims tell of the discovery, during their first hard winter, of 
such a store buried in baskets in the ground. The meal was 
used in various ways. Probably the commonest was to make 
it into hoe cakes which were baked in the ashes, but the Indians 
of the Great Lakes region boiled it as mush, usually combined 
with maple sugar and often with the further addition of venison. 
With a modern Kitchen equipment the acorn meal can easily 
be prepared at home. After husking the acorns they should be 
ground in a hand-grist mill or food-chopper. The meal is then 
mixed with hot water and poured into a jelly bag. The bitter 
tannin, being soluble, will be taken out by the water, but some¬ 
times a second or even third washing may be necessary. After 
washing, the wet meal is spread out to dry and then parched 
in an oven. If it has caked badly it should be run through the 
mill again before using. 
In cooking, acorn meal may be used in tbe same way as corn 
meal. Its greatest fault is its color, muffins made from it being 
a dark chocolate brown. The taste suggests a mixture of corn- 
meal and peanut butter, and some people relish it at once, but 
others, it must be confessed, have to be educated to it. Be¬ 
cause of the high oil and starch content of the acorn, it is very 
nutritious and is reported to be easily digested. Only acorns 
from white oaks should be gathered, as those from the black 
oaks are too bitter. The white oaks have fiaky gray bark and 
leaves which are not spine-tipped. Typical Missouri representa¬ 
tives of this group are the white oak, the swamp oak, the bur 
oak, and the chestnut oak. The small pile of acorns shown in 
plate 3 made nearly two quarts of meal.—MISSOURI BOTANI¬ 
CAL GARDEN BULLETIN. 
J^m£>riran^ssQd^ti^n “^Nurserymen^ 
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