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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
'January Crade jottings. 
The Burnham Boilers are good ones. 
Try Harris, of HarrisviUe, W. Va., for budded apples. 
Note Scarff’s (New Carlisle, Ohio) novelties in small fruits. 
Mr. Mundenliall recommends the Speer grafting machine very highly. 
O. F. Smith Blackfoot, Idaho, has an opening for a bright young 
man. 
See “ads” of parties who wish to close contracts with good stock 
growers. 
Observe the fine assortment of stove and hardy plants offered by 
Bobbink & Atkins. 
Hardy perennials; always useful, always floriferous. Consult 
Dreer’s extensive list. 
The Oakland Nurseries of Manchester, Conn., carry a complete line 
of nursery stock. 
The Ruby Red Raspberry is being pushed by C. G. Velie & Son of 
Marlboro, N. Y. 
Lee’s Summit Nurseries are for sale. For information write to J. C. 
Blair, Kansas City, Mo. 
The Easterly Nursery Co., of Cleveland, Tenn., offer June Bud 
peach in quantity. 
Apple seedlings and grafts made to order are specialties of Cooper 
& Moncrieff, Winfield, Kansas. 
The Chickamaugua Nurseries of Chattanooga, Tenn., have propa¬ 
gated an extensive line of peaches. 
Weber & Sons Nursery Co., of Nursery, Mo., secured a grand prize 
for ornamentals at St. Louis World’s Fair. 
The new International Encyclopaedia by Dodd, Mead & Co., is 
especially complete in matters of interest to the nurseryman. 
Peters & Skinner offer a fine line of large fruits apple seedlings and 
shade trees. They are to be addressed North Topeka, Kansas. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., have a large stock of Keiffer’s 
peach, apple, Norway and silver maples and strawberry plants. 
Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., offer an unusually extensive 
line of roses, flowering shrubs, deciduous and evergreen ornamentals. 
Ward-Dickey are manufacturers of Box Straps which they offer to the 
nurserymen in our advertising columns . Write them for sample and 
prices. 
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT. 
One William Jackson, of Bethel Hill, Pa., was engaged in picking 
apples on November 3rd. He used a bag suspended from his shoulders 
as a receptacle. When near the top of the tree he lost his balance and 
falling downward through the branches of the tree, the bag which was 
nearly full of apples, went on one side of the branch and the man on the 
other. In this way, the man actually strangled to death. His body 
was found in the tree a few hours later. 
GOOD PROSPECTS. 
Ernest H. Balco, a former Rochester boy, now manager of The 
Griesa Nurseries, Lawrence, Kansas, called upon old friends and Nur¬ 
serymen in the Flower City during the hoildays. He reports good pros¬ 
pects in the famous Sunflower State. 
—G. A. Harrison, of the Arm J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., 
called upon Western New York nurserymen during the last days of the 
old year. 
Saginaw, Michigan, is to have a twenty acre park in a convenient 
location in that city, through the thoughtfulness and generosity of 
Governor Bliss of Michigan. Twenty acres will make a delightful 
breathing place for the people. 
VALUE OF ADVERTISING. 
Agricultural Advertising for November has the following to say about 
the advertising methods of Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, 
Dreshertown and Philadelphia: “ They are among those nursery¬ 
men who fully appreciate the value of plenty of good advertising 
literature. They keep themselves constantly before the people by 
the frequent issuing of seasonable catalogues, good booklets, 
folders and price lists. Their autumn catalogue for 1904 is some¬ 
thing out of the ordinary and has been a prominent factor in in¬ 
creasing their business six times over that done last fall. Mr. Charles 
W. Kesser, head of the advertising department, takes a good deal of 
pride in this book, which is thoroughly warranted, especially as it was 
produced on economical lines, depending for originality upon the manner 
of treating the various subjects and the mechanical arrangement em¬ 
ployed.” 
INCREASE OF FREIGHT RATES. 
January 1st, 1903, the Trunk Line Classification Committee raised 
the classification on nursery stock in boxes, less than carload lots from 
third to second class, an increase amounting to about 25 per cent. 
January 1st, 1904, imported nursery stock, seedlings, etc. were 
required to pay freight as “live plants” instead of trees, thus taking 
a higher rate. 
April 6th, 1904, perishable freight (including trees) was not to be 
receipted for “refrigerator car through to destination” in less than 
carload lots. These changes applied to all the roads in the Trunk 
line territory east of the Mississippi river. The rating of imported 
nursery stocks as “live plants” instead of trees has since July 1st, 1904, 
been rescinded, owing to strong representations made by nurserymen 
and others interested. The other two rulings still hold and are bear¬ 
ing very heavily on the trade, especially the increase of freight rates. 
Three more such sweeping changes in the next two years would put 
us out of business. To illustrate, the writer quotes from a letter re¬ 
ceived from a heavy western buyer early in December last. “Freight 
rates are so high from your section now in less than carload lots that 
we could not afford to ship in that way. We should think that if you 
Eastern nurserymen intend to do business West you would have the 
classification of nursery stock restored to where it formerly was. Get 
all you can in the car and cancel the balance of the grder.” 
It is high time that through serious, united effort the Railroads be 
made to see the error of their ways. If each nurseryman east of the 
Mississippi river would write or see his division freight agent, ascertain 
who represents the roads over which he ships, on the Classification 
Committee and Avrite that member protesting against the increased 
rates and requesting that trees in less than carloads lots be put back 
to third class as they formerly were, backing the matter up with any 
arguments that he may have at hand, we feel sure that the work 
of the Freight Committee would be materially helped. This is a very 
important matter. You can help. Do what you can and do it at 
once. 
Irving Rouse, Chairman, 
Eastern Nurserymen’s Freight Committee. 
©bituar\>. 
DEATH OF PROFFESOR BUDD. 
As we go to press the death of Professor Joseph L. Budd, for many 
years head of the Horticultural Department of the Iowa State College, 
is announced from San Antonio, Texas. For many years Professor 
Budd was a prominent figure in the horticulture of the middle west. 
FEIGLY. 
On November 4tli, at Medway, Ohio, D. Feigly passed away at the 
age of 76 years. His death was not expected as his illness dated back 
several months. 
Mr. Feigly was deeply interested in tree growing and allied work. 
He was of an inventive turn and during his long and useful life, devised 
and patented several farm implements including breaking plows, a 
potato digger and a tree digger. We are indebted to his daughter, 
Miss Lizzie Feigly, for the substance of this note. • 
