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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
LAST CALL FOR THE BADGE BOOK. 
Secretary Seager wishes to remind all those who have not yet sent 
in their names and subscriptions, that the badge book is about to be 
closed. We note that many of our members are already prepared to 
give their badge book number. This shows desirable foresightedness, 
and is a practice which should be copied by other well meaning but 
more dilatory members. If the badge book has not been attended to, 
let the person concerned in this write at once to Secretary Seager, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
DO NOT RECOMMEND JUNE BUDS. 
BY W. T. HOOD & CO. 
We will state that our experience with June buds during the past 
twenty-five years has been of a limited nature, we will also add that 
we are not favorable to this class of stock. 
June buds twelve to fourteen inches we do not think will do well; 
the roots, in fact the entire tree being very weak, besides the cost of 
lining out would be considerable. Peach as a rule being very cheap 
we would recommend the planting of only first class trees in every 
instance. June buds two to three feet we think would probably make 
a good orchard tree if planted in the spring at the North. 
We do not believe in planting cheap nursery stock (small grades). 
June budding being done in mid-summer the severe cutting off that 
follows has a tendency to weaken the tree unless the season is very 
favorable. When we carried over June buds and cut back the following 
year the growth was never as good as the growth of dormant buds. 
Our experience with grafted pears has not been satisfactory, nor do 
we think they will succed in the North, some of the Alabama nursery¬ 
men have however, secured good results grafting pears, they have 
however as a rule, a warm planting season. We advise planting good 
seedlings. 
Richmond, Virginia. 
JUNE BUDS? YES, IF PROPERLY HANDLED. 
BY ORLANDO HARRISON. 
The matter of June buds has received considerable attention by us 
for the past seventeen years. As to using June buds for lining out in 
the nursery row, it can be done, the trees being clipped back very close, 
leaving only one or two buds, the tree will have more fibrous roots than 
when planted in the ordinary way, but it is not usually so well shaped. 
1st—You must select good soil, something that will produce from 
fifty to sixty bushels of corn to the acre, plow deep, subsoil, prepare the 
ground as if preparing for potatoes. 
2nd—The change in latitude from the South to Ohio w r ould not 
affect them whatever. We have frequently grown trees in this way 
from five to six feet but most of them will be from two to four feet 
trees. I would not, however, consider this a safe way of growing 
nursery stock if I had to depend on it from year to year. Trees grown 
in this way will stand equally as much cold as if planted in the ordinary 
way. 
3rd—You can buy June budded peach trees large enough for orchard 
planting, growth made in about ninety days, that is to say in the same 
season, but to have them shipped North in the fall and “heeled in’’ 
until Spring would result in failure, June budded peach trees should not 
be handled in the fall at all if it can be avoided. If they were taken up 
about December first, and taken North and there trenched in, they 
should be covered both top and roots with soil as in this way they come 
out fresh in the spring; but if the tops were left out during the winter 
until about March I would be safe in saying there would be a loss in the 
Northern latitude. 
4th—As to buying pear already grafted, I would advise you to ex¬ 
periment with this a little yourself, as some are successful while others 
in different soils are not and find it an entire failure. With us we have 
been quite fortunate in grafting the Keiffer pear, but we have bought 
grafts several times that were poorly packed that made a heavy loss 
to us. 
Summing it all up, you can buy June budded peach trees and grow 
them one year and make good yearling trees under good conditions. 
You can also buy pear grafts and make good trees under good conditions 
but with a dry season and poor cultivation, look out for failure. 
Berlin, Maryland. 
Hmong the experiment Station 
Workers. 
South Carolina: The experiment station has recently issued a 
bulletin entitled “A Chemical Study of the Tea Industry in South 
Carolina.” This is much more than its title indicates, because fully 
one half of the bulletin is given up to a discussion of culture and field 
management. The experiments in tea culture at Pinehurst, S. C., 
indicate that the growing of this crop is quite within the range of com¬ 
mercial possibility in that region. The bulletin recommends that level 
lands thoroughly drained and very prous, free from all acidity be 
used for the growing of the tea plant. 
United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers Bulletin 221. 
This bulletin is devoted to a popular discussion of the commoner 
fungous diseases of the cranberry. Cranberry “blast,” “scald,” 
“rot,” and “anthracnose” are the leading plant parasites infecting 
this crop. 
United States Department of Agriculture. The control of the boll 
weevil is discussed by W. D. Hunter in Farmers Bulletin, No. 216. 
Among the recommendations made by the author are early planting, 
thorough cultivation, thinning of plants, destruction of badly infested 
fields, and stimulation by the use of fertilizers of slightly infested fields. 
Colorado: Bulletin No. 96 from the Colorado Experiment Station, 
Fort Collins, is devoted to a discussion of the shade trees of Denver. 
This takes up the special problems surrounding the growing of shade 
trees in irrigated sections. The descriptions and measurements, as 
well as illustrations of the leading and most suitable types of trees for 
that region are given. This bulletin, while somewhat out of the beaten 
track, will prove nevertheless very useful. 
United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers Qulletin No. 185. 
A discussion of simple methods of beautifying the home grounds. The 
planning and planting, accompanied by descriptions of suitable material, 
for decoration of home grounds, are discussed in this bulletin. The 
Farmers Bulletins are free to all who apply for them. 
Illinois: Bulletin No. 99. This suggestive bulletin contains a 
discussion of desirable methods of treating the more depleted soil areas 
of the state, found especially in the glaciated region. This bulletin 
suggests very pointedly that farm manure, legunes and lime, coupled 
with a proper preparation of the land will do much more for crop pro¬ 
duction than artificial nitro-culture. 
AN INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE. 
The incorporation of a society of agricultural experts in New York 
City recently expresses the trend of the times in agriculture and horti¬ 
culture. This corporation has for its purpose the giving of expert 
advice in all matters concerning land development, farm organization, 
and farm forestry. It includes within its ranks men skilled in agri¬ 
culture, horticulture, entomology, and sanitary engineering. The 
president is George T. Powell, formerly president of the Briar cliff 
School. 
Truckers in the region of Savannah, Ga., have been fighting an in¬ 
vasion of caterpillars of the army worm tribe. These voracious insects 
are not particular as to their menu, and it makes little difference 
whether it is cabbage or corn, everything goes. 
Work on the new state agricultural college buildings at Cornell is 
now being energetically forwarded. The contract was awarded to an 
Albany contractor, and the ground broken by the students of the 
College of Agriculture on May first. The contractor is under bonds 
to complete the work by July first, 1906. 
PROFESSOR HEDRICK OF MICHIGAN TO COME TO GENEVA, N. Y. 
The position of horticulturist at the New York Experiment Station 
Geneva, made vacant by the resignation of S. A. Beach, has been 
filled by the appointment of Prof. U. P. Hedrick, horticulturist of the 
Agricultural College and Experiment Station of Michigan. Prof. 
Hedrick is a graduate of the institution from which he comes, and has 
had several years experience in experiment station work, and in horti¬ 
cultural teaching. We congratulate the experiment station on the 
appointment of an active, aggressive worker, as we know Prof. Hedrick 
to be. 
