THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Rmong the Growers. 
MARCH OFFERINGS. 
The Jewell Nursery Co., of Lake City, Minnesota, offers a surplus of 
strong-three year old apple-trees such as are shown in this illustration. 
To those who need first class northern grown stock this opportunity 
is worth careful consideration. 
C. R. Burr, Manchester, Ct., quotes Rambler roses at low rates. 
Note the advertisement for Packer, P. O. Box 7118, New York. 
Thos. Meehan & Sons, Dreshertown, Pa., are handling nurserymen’s 
spades. 
Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., are leaders in roses and cle¬ 
matis. 
Now is the season for ordering garden seeds. Note Salzer’s adver¬ 
tisement. 
Examine Mendenhall’s smoothing and levelling harrow, designed for 
nursery use. 
The Reliance Nursery Co., Geneva, N. Y., make a specialty of packing 
free of charge. 
For Norway maples and arbor-vitse apply to the Tecumseh Nurseries, 
Cedarville, O. 
The Andorra Nurseries, Philadelphia, Pa., are offering special induce¬ 
ments on Pin Oaks. 
For a general line of nursery stock consult the advertisement of Geo. 
Peters & Co., Troy, O. 
Stone & Wellington, Toronto, Ont., are offering standard apples, 
duty paid, at low rates. 
A heavy stock of apple and peach has been grown by the New Haven 
Nurseries of New Haven, Mo. 
Messrs. Cooper & Moncrief, Winfield, Kans., are long on Mahaleb 
stocks and forest tree seedlings. 
T. W. & J. P. Rice. Geneva, N. Y., have a large stock of the leading 
orchard and bush fruits on hand. 
Rakestraw & Pyle, Kenneth Square, Pa., are offering Japan plums 
and Keiffer pears in large quantities. 
P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga., have grown a long line of hedge 
plants well adapted to Southern trade. 
Huntsville Whalesale Nurseries, Huntsville, Alabama, offer a heavy 
stock of orchard trees in all lines except plums. 
The long-established firm of J. Van Lindley Nursery Co., Pomona, 
N. C., has 400 acres in nursery and ten greenhouses. 
For a full line of standard apples, pears and small fruits consult the 
advertisement of the Monroe Nursery, Monroe, Mich. 
Lord & Burnham Co., New York, and Irvington-on-the-Hudson, are 
specializing just now in greenhouse ventilating apparatus. 
Marshall Bros., Arlington, Neb., are specializing in Russian Olive and 
Tamarix, in addition to other general lines of nursery stock. 
The Niagara Gas Sprayer Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., offer a unique spray 
machine operated by carbonic gas. No pumps or engine required. 
Those who are in need of tree seeds and forest tree seedlings should 
communicate with the Forest Nursery & Seed Co., Irving College, Tenn. 
Franklin Davis Nursery Co., Baltimore, Md., in addition to car lots 
of apple, pear, and peach, offer ornamental shrubs and peach seed in 
quantity. 
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM . 
Annual Convention American Association op Nursery¬ 
men. June 14-16, 1905. West Baden Springs, Indiana. 
Attractive Subjects. 
The coining convention promises to be the most interesting 
one the American Association has ever held and all members 
who expect to attend should come prepared to ask questions 
and discuss each subject. As this program is only prelimin¬ 
ary, it is open to modification and a number of subjects that 
have been suggested will probably be added later. It will 
include: 
Soil Inoculation, (Stereopticon) 
Dr. Geo. T. Moore, Department of Agriculture, Wash. 
Mistakes in office management, Thos. B. Meehan, Phila. Pa. 
Importing of nursery stock, By various ones interested. 
A Tree Garden to Last A Thousand Years, (Stereopticon) 
J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Plants in department stores, Howard A. Chase, Phila., Pa. 
Refrigeration of nursery stock, and storage in cellars, 
Madison Cooper, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Experimental Pomology and the Nurseryman, 
Prof. John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. 
The lowest prices of ornamental nursery stock, 
Chas. Maloy, Rochester, N. Y. 
What are the chief contributions to Pomology gained from 
the Louisiana exposition, J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn. 
Picking, packing, grading and shipping of fruit, (Stereopticon) 
J. H. Hale, So. Glastonbury, Conn. 
The latest notes on the cost of a tree, 
H. L. Bird, Benton Harbor, Mich. 
Views of a Texas Horticulturist, D. H. L. Borner, Omen, Tex. 
Best methods of improving our standards in trees and fruits, 
G. L. Taber, Glen St. Mary, Fla. 
Crown Gall and Root Knot, Geo. C. Hedgecock, St. Louis, Mo. 
The association will be welcomed by good speakers and the 
proper arrangements will be made for the meetings of the 
protective associations, probably Wednesday night the first 
day of the session. There will be a fruit banquet Friday 
night, and a splended trip to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, on 
the Saturday following the three day’s meeting. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, 
Boston, Mass. Chairman Program Committee. 
The Deming Co., Salem, O., offer a barrel type of pump, also very 
useful. 
The Fraser Nursery, Huntsville, Ala., in addition to standard fruits, 
carry pecans, privet, and hydrangeas. 
Nurserymen should consult the advertisements of our spray machin¬ 
ery manufacturers, appearing in this issue. 
The E. C. Brown Co., Rochester, N. Y., are pushing their hydraplex 
pump, which is said to give excellent satisfaction. 
The Spramotor Pump Company of Buffalo, have long been in the 
field with pumps of excellent quality and great durability. 
Mount Arbor Nurseries, Shenandoah, la., are prepared to supply the 
trade with a full list of fruits, ornamental trees and shrubbery. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., make an exceedingly attractive 
edition to the advertising columns of the journal this month by their 
handsome dish of strawberries which graces the center of their ad. 
We are sure that the beautiful insert of the Rochester Lithograph¬ 
ing Company in this issue will be studied and admired by catalogue 
makers. 
