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NURSERYMAN 
THE NATIONAL 
packing material between the bundles, but covering both tops and roots 
with a light layer of moss which has been sufficient to keep the plants 
from drying out. Stock so treated has come out of the cellar as fresh 
in the spring as though just dug and when transplanted without ex¬ 
posure has given equally as good results as freshly dug plants. Seedling- 
stock is kept heeled in, in sand and if corded up, care must be taken to 
put on sufficient sand to prevent its becoming dry. 
Elizabeth, N. J. H. T. Jones 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
In reply to yours of the 29th concerning the storing of nursery stock 
would say, that as growers of ornamental stock exclusively we have not 
been in the habit of storing any large quantities of it. It is difficult for 
us to tell just how much, and of what varieties we would sell, conse¬ 
quently if we were to dig a lot of assorted shrubs and store them we 
might have to plant a considerable quantity of them in the spring and 
the varieties we did not store might be the ones we would have call for 
most largely These we would have to dig from the field anyway, 
consequently we have found it impracticable to store much stock, 
finding it much more convenient to dig and fill orders right from the 
open ground. We can do this to good advantage, because our spring 
season usually opens up so early here that we can commence digging 
orders by the 15th of March. 
Another reason why we do not store this stock, is because our spring- 
orders are not accumulated during the fall, we usually do not get our 
orders until our customers want them shipped, the orders coming right 
in at that period and we digging and shipping them off at once. What 
few shrubs we have stored over winter, have been stored in the “heeling 
in” process; that is to say, we have the floor of our storage house cov¬ 
ered with about a foot or fifteen inches of sand and the plants are bedded 
right in the sand, the same as they would be if heeled in out of doors. 
We think this method more satisfactory than any other, but of course, it 
takes lots of room and a nurseryman who is storing large quantities of 
stock could not practice it. We have also stored in bins, but mostly 
use sand for protecting the roots, though we have used sawdust, pack¬ 
ing, and moss, but there is nothing that keeps the roots so fresh as sand. 
Dreshertown, Pa. Thomas Meehan & Sons, Inc. 
MARYLAND. 
In this section it is not necessary to cellar nursery stock during the 
winter for early spring shipment, as we can usually begin digging in 
March for our spring trade. We have handled a little cellared stock 
and must say that it does not always give satisfaction and 
we would much prefer trees that have not been cellared. Roses in¬ 
variably go to pieces in the spring when taken from cellars. This is 
the case also with much other stock We do not buy stock that has been 
cellared if we can help it. 
Baltimore, Md. Franklin Davis Nursery Co. 
The best method we have for storing nursery stock is to trench in 
sand in the packing house. 
Berlin, Md. ,1. G. Harrison & Sons. 
GEORGIA. 
Owing to the fact that we are seldom frozen up for more than a day 
or so at a time in this section it is not necessary for us to cellar nursery 
stock. AVe, however, find that when trees are packed in old sawdust 
the results are much more satisfactory than when packed in sphanum. 
AVe have never had any stock to heat when packed in old sawdust 
which has gone through fermentation. 
Augusta. P. J. Berckmans Co. 
GRANGE SCHOLARSHIPS IN CORNELL COLLEGE OF AGRI¬ 
CULTURE, ITHACA, N. Y. 
The move which the New' York State Grange made last winter provid¬ 
ing for tour scholarships in Cornell college of agriculture, worth $50 
each, to be given to the tv r o men and the two women who pass the best 
examinations, is a very important advance in agricultural education. 
In doing this, the Grange is promoting the best ideals which the 
fraternity stands for, along educational lines. All applications for 
these scholarships should be made to the master of the Pomona 
Grange in the district in w'hich the intending applicant resides. 
Doings of Societies. 
—Apple Growers’ Congress: H. M. Dunlap, Savoy, Illinois, re¬ 
elected president. T. C. Wilson, Hannibal, Missouri, re-elected secre¬ 
tary. 
—The Maine Pomological Society met November 16th to 18th at 
Skowhegan. The session was well attended, profitable and interesting. 
Z. P. Gilbert and D. H. Knowlton were re-elected president and secre¬ 
tary respectively. 
—The meeting of the New York State Fruit Growers’ at Geneva on 
January 11th and 12th (not 4th and 5th as first announced) contains 
a number of items of interest among which we note a judging contest 
after the score card method by the Horticultural students of Cornell 
University. 
—The Twelfth National Irrigation Congress met at El Paso, Texas, 
November 18th. The meeting was large and enthusiastic. In connec¬ 
tion with it, there was held an exhibition of vegetables, fruit, and other 
farm products, grown on irrigated farms. This feature w r as said to 
lie quite impressive and certainly instructive. 
—American Forestry Association: An important meeting of this 
association wall be held at Washington on January 2d, the sessions 
will continue until the 6th. This particular convention is for the pur¬ 
pose of considering some matters in connection with forestry and 
irrigation policies. The secretary of the association is AV. L. Hall, 
Atlantic Building, AVashington. 
—The Western New York Horticultural Society is making elaborate 
preparations for a record-breaking meeting to punctuate the half 
century mark of its existence which will have been reached when the 
society convenes in its own familiar quarters on January 27th and 28th. 
The energetic secretary, John Hall, of Rochester, is leaving no stone 
unturned in planning for an enthusiastic and epoch making meeting. 
—The Boll AVeevil Convention: The Louisiana cotton planters are 
very much in earnest in their efforts to find feasible means of checking 
the devastations of the Boll AVeevil. The second National meeting 
of the Louisiana Cotton Boll Weevil Association was held at Shreeve- 
port, Louisiana, early in November. Committees were struck and 
measures adapted for the campaign against this dangerous enemy. 
Frequent meetings of the association will be held. 
—The Maine Pomological Society has appointed committees to se¬ 
cure legislation and the appropriation of necessary funds to carry on a 
war of extermination against the Brown-tail moth and Gypsy Moth 
which are in Massachusetts and may invade Maine. They have also 
appointed committees to report upon the grading and inspecting of 
fruit, to consider the question of packages, and to report upon the 
position of co-operation with the officers of the agricultural fairs. 
—The Ontario Fruit Growers’ Association held its annual meeting at 
Toronto, November 17th and 18th. The meeting was held in connec¬ 
tion with the provincial fruit and flower show which, continued through¬ 
out the week. This fruit show seems to have been a success. The 
meeting of the society was hardly as well attended and as successful as 
those of former years which have been held in smaller places. It is 
the experience of most societies that small towns situated in fruit 
growing centers, give the best turnouts. A. McNeill, Chief of the Fruit 
Division of the Department of Agriculture was elected president. Mr. 
H. B. Cowan was re-elected secretary and edicor of the Canadian Horti¬ 
culturist. 
GOLD MEDAL. 
The Perfection currant originated by C. G. Hooker, and now being 
introduced by C. M. Hooker & Sons, Rochester, N. Y., was awarded the 
Gold Medal at the AVorld’s Fair, St. Louis. This makes the third medal 
which this currant has taken, as it received the $50.00 Barry Gold 
Medal of the AVestern New York Horticultural Society in 1901 and the 
Pan-American Medal the same year. It has never failed to take highest 
honors, wherever exhibited. 
This is a great year in Texas. We are making large sales. Allow me 
to give myself the pleasure of enclosing one dollar for the National 
Nurseryman. It is a pleasure to read it. F. T. Ramsey. 
