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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Correspondence. 
INTERESTING REVIEW OF TRADE CONDITIONS WITH OTHER 
NOTES. 
National Nurseryman. 
Enclosed our check for Nurseryman. We have had best 
trade in years, and up to our eyes in trees. With best wishes 
for the paper, 
Blackwell, Okla. J. W. Tetirick & Son, 
GOOD IN UTAH. 
The season just closed has been one of heavy business. 
Elberta peach and Jonathan apple have been our heavy 
sellers, with an increased demand for sweet cherries. 
Provo, Utah. Provo Nursery, 
great strawberry trade. 
Getting out June statements and arranging details to leave 
for the West Baden Springs meeting (that’s proper, Ed.) 
has kept us busy, hence the delay. 
Our packing house is cleaned, many thousands of peach, 
apple and pear were handled the past season aggregating 
more than one hundred cars. Our strawberry beds con¬ 
taining millions in March have been reduced to less than on 
acre of plants. Weather was cool and plant trade heavy. 
Our present planting was never better in growth, plenty of 
rain and conditions favorable. Only a fair stand of peach, 
Apples are putting on a good growth and will be worth more 
money than last season. Keiffer pear in grafts and buds 
doing well. Our sixty acres of regular plant of strawber¬ 
ries are promising. 
Demand: We are having more inquiries for peach, apple 
and pear and prospects for a good sale look promising. We 
feel sure prices will be in advance of last season on all stock. 
We were not injured by the freeze in any way. Our poor 
stand of buds comes from the dry late se'ason during budding. 
Berlin, Md. J. G. Harrison & Sons. 
SATISFACTORY IN INDIANA. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
In regard to the business this spring, the volume has not 
been as heavy as it has been some times, but the supply of 
stock was not as large, and in proportion to the supply of 
stock, trade has been exceptionally good. Many kinds of 
stock have been sold very close; in fact there will be much 
less surplus than there has been for many years, and we think 
this is the situation with most all of the nurserymen. They 
will be able to celebrate the wind-up of their packing season 
with much smaller bonfires than has been usual the past 
few years. Cherries, peaches and plums have sold exception¬ 
ally close, and apples have also sold well. There seems to 
be but, little surplus in pears, except a few varieties. Small 
fruits have most of them been cleaned up very closely and the 
demand for ornamental stock has been good. So that we 
can see no reason why the nurserymen should have much 
room for complaint this year, but ought to be able to attend 
the convention at West Baden with the satisfaction of a 
very good year’s business have been done, and prospects 
good for the coming year. 
Bridgeport. Albertson & Hobbs. 
IOWA COMFORTABLE. 
You will pardon the seeming neglect shown on my part in 
not making a report to you earlier in the season regarding the 
outlook of the nursery business in this state. As you well 
know, the heavy rush of our work begins in March and is now 
just letting up so that I have notTiad time to make proper 
investigation and give anything like definite report before 
this time. 
The condition of the fruit crop is very encouraging here, 
especially so from the summary report issued by the Secretary 
of the State Horticultural Society. The low percentage of 
plums I think is due to the extremely cool weather which 
we have had and the possible damage from freeze in April. 
We.had a very few warm days in March which forced the buds 
and while the cherries and apples were not pushed out as 
badly as plums, yet I think that there was a slight damage 
to all fruit bearing trees. 
The outlook for trade is excellent. 
DesMoines, la. DesMoines Nursery Co. 
AN APPRECIATION FROM MISSOURI. 
We desire personally to thank you for the splendid May 
number of National Nurseryman. It contains so much 
practical matter of interest to propagators that we have ord¬ 
ered a number of extras for our employees in our several 
branch plants. 
Louisiana, Mo. Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co. 
The Nurseryman for May is read with much interest. 
Our members will thank you for your efficient and timely 
work in advancing their every interest. Your columns are 
highly valued. 
McKinney, Texas. E. W. Kirkpatrick, President. 
ONTARIO. 
SHORTAGE OF PEACH AND CHERRY—WINTER INJURY. 
Nurserymen in Ontario had one of the finest springs for 
getting out stock, I think I ever remember. Most lines were 
cleared up pretty well except apples. There was a consid¬ 
erable surplus of them, I think, in the country. At any rate 
speaking for myself that was the condition. 
For next season I anticipate a very great shortage of peach, 
as for some reason or other the seed failed a year ago. This 
seems to be universal, as far as I have observed. Also I 
think there will be a shortage of cherry. 
Prospects are at the present time for an enormous fruit 
crop. All kinds of fruit trees are loaded with blossoms, 
especially cherries, peaches, plums and pears. The effects 
of the severe winter of 1903-4 are still visible this spring. 
The young plum orchards immediately oustide the peach 
belt were mostly destroyed and many blanks occur even in¬ 
side the beach belt. These orchards apparently were injured 
in season 1903-4. A great many of the trees are dead this 
spring that appeared to be alive through last season. 
We also find a sprinkling of grape vines, which bore very 
heavy last year, are dead this spring. Evidently the result 
of the same freeze of 1903-4, as the past winter has been a 
very favorable one, colder than usual but the ground was 
covered with snow all winter. 
Winona. E. D. Smith. 
AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
This important national organizationwill hold its next biennial meet¬ 
ing in Kansas City, August 8-10, 1905. The pressure for a meeting in 
the Middle West lias been strong for sometime and it is in deference 
to the desires of Western members that the society goes West this 
year. The Missouri State Horticultural Society (Secretary L. A. Good¬ 
man, Kansas City) and in fact all the societies of the Middle West are 
co-operating to make the meeting a pronounced success. 
