THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS A. A. N. 
Alabama, W. F. Heikes, Arkansas, George W. Scruggs; Colorado, 
George J. Spear; California, Charles Howard; Connecticutt, C. R. 
Burr; Delaware, D. S. Collins: Georgia, R. C. Berckmans; Illinois, 
Irving E. Spaulding; Iowa, Samuel, Lorton; Indiana, W. C. Reed; 
Kansas, F. W. Watson; Kentucky, E. B. Hillenmeier; Indian Terri- 
’ tory, W. R. Collins; Maryland, Joseph Davis; Massachu¬ 
setts, Harlan P. Kelsey; Michigan, C. A. Ilgenfritz; Minnesota, R. 
Underwood; Missouri, Justin James Butterfield; Nebraska, A. J. 
Brown; New Hampshire, John C. Chase; New Jersey, Hiram T. Jones; 
New York, D. II. Henry; North Carolina, J. Van Lindley; Ohio, W. N. 
Scarf; Oregon, M. McDonald; Oklahoma, J. A. Lopeman, Pennsyl¬ 
vania; J. Horace McFarland; Tennessee,W. Y. C. Grant; Texas, E. W. 
Knox; Utah, P. A. Dix, Salt Lake; West Virginia, B. D. Southern; 
Virginia, W. T. Hood; Wisconsin, Mrs. Z. K. Jewett: South Dakota, 
George ^H. Whiting. 
PERSONAL MENTION. 
—J. G. Harrison and Sons exhibited Peach, Apple and Kieffer Pear 
trees at the Convention. 
-W. W. Hunt, Hartford, Connecticutt, called on nurserymen in 
Rochester and vicinity last month. 
—Herman Berkhan, agent for Levavasseur & Sons, called on his 
many friends in the nursery business last month. 
—C. R. Burr, Manchester, Connecticut, called an Western New 
York nurserymen an his return from the convention. 
-—E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, Iowa, called on the nurserymen at 
Dansville, Geneva, Rochester and Newark the last days of June. 
—George C. Chandler, representing the Eastern Nurseries at Jamaica 
Plains, Massachusetts, stopped off at Rochester to visit the nursery¬ 
men on his return from the convention. 
—James McHutchison of McHutchison & Co., Importing Agents, 
New York City, sails for Europe on July 6th. Mrs. McHutchison wilj 
accompany him. He will make an extended trip through England 
France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, visiting the several firms for 
whom they are agents in this country. He expects to return early in 
September. 
—The many friends of Henry W. Van der Bom, Oudenbosch, Holland* 
will welcome his return to this country. He arrived about the 15th 
of June, unfortunately too late to attend the convention at West 
Baden. Mr. Van der Bom spent several months in this country last 
summer visiting the trade and made a great many friends. Henry’s 
laugh is contagious. 
—The Pennsylvania Railroad have taken the entire nursery grounds of 
Samuel C. Moon, Morrisville, Pa., and will build there an immense 
freight transfer yard. The nursery was originally started many years 
ago by Mahlon Moon, father of Samuel C. and contains many fine 
specimens of Rivers Purple Beech, Cut Leaved Beech, Weeping Beech 
and other rare evergreen and deciduous trees. It is probably that 
Mr. Moon will have to establish his nurseries in entirely new quarters. 
National Nurseryman: 
Gentlemen: —Your very beautiful little booklet received. We 
thank you very much for this favor. We certainly appreciate such 
information as we find in this book. The beginnings of any valuable 
•organization are always especially interesting to those who have an 
interest in the work of the association. It is a pleasure to read over 
the sayings of these strong, worthy men. I hope the usefulness of the 
Nurserymen’s Association will continue to increase as time goes on. 
Ottawa, Kansas. A. Willis. 
Dear Sirs: —Will you please state in the Nurseryman that we have 
gone out of business. This is to save nurserymen postage and printed 
matter. 
H. J. & O. Brabham, 
Bamberg, S. C. Proprietors Bamberg Nurseries. 
Correct English —How to Use It. Interesting, Instructive. A 
monthly magazine devoted to the use of English. Josephine r i urck 
Baker, editor. $1.00 a year. Send 10 cents for sample copy, Cor¬ 
rect English, Evanstown, Ill. 
WEST BADEN BY WABASH RAILWAY. 
Those who journeyed to West Baden by way of the Wabash 
Railway, and the editor of the National Nurseryman was 
one, found the route attractive, the cars comfortable, and the 
road bed easy. The writer is under special obligations to the 
genial Passenger agent, Mr. R. F. Kelly, of Buffalo for 
courtesies which added greatly to the pleasure of the trip. 
Those who travelled via Wabash had an opportunity also 
of visiting Purdue University and the State Experiment 
Experiment Station at Lafayette, both objects worthy of 
examination and study. 
HEADING NURSERY STOCK. 
IN FAVOR OF LOW HEADS. 
You have put up an interesting and very important subject in Na¬ 
tional Nurseryman when you discuss the formation of heads on fruit 
trees in the nursery. I am fully convinced that it is a great mistake 
to head trees as high as the fashion now requires in the nursery. Many 
of the best growers in the country have come to that conclusion, but 
when they buy a two year old apple or pear as is commonly sent out, 
they find it almost impossible to secure a low headed tree in the orchard 
The heads are already formed at a height of two and a half to four feet 
from the ground and all the side buds have started into branches which 
have been pruned off. It is practically impossible to rehead such trees 
forming tops at a lower stage. 
I have had two pieces of experience lately which have impressed 
this very strongly on my mind. Two years ago this spring I bought 
a few hundred Japanese plums to be used as fillers in an orchard already 
set. I ordered one-year-old trees, but the nurseryman for some season 
sent two-year-old trees. These were fine well-grown stock such as 
can easily lie made from standard varieties of Japanese plums. They 
had big bushy heads formed three or four feet from the ground. This 
was precisely what we did not want our fillers to be and accordingly 
the trees had to be headed back. At the same time a small number of 
one-year-old trees of our own growing were used in the same planting. 
Today the trees which were one-year old at planting are far in advance 
of those which were two year old. The latter have made straggly, 
awkward heads. Not five per cent, of them have proved satisfactory 
In the second case we were dealing with dwarf apple which we de¬ 
sired to grow in bush form. By the way we consider this 
the only satisfactory form for growing apple on Paradise, unless 
one goes into the various styles of cordons, espaliers, etc., 
which are not much used in this country. We ordered 
a number of two-year-old dwarf apple from one of the best nurseries 
in the country and received really very fine trees. These dwarf apple 
were headed back in the ordinary fashion with trunks nearly two feet 
long, a positive absurdity with this class of goods. Of course the nur¬ 
serymen feels that he has to do this to please many of his customers 
but it is a great disadvantage to other customers; and my conviction 
that high heading is wrong generally, and with dwarf trees always 
wrong, makes it seem to me a practice which should be discontinued. 
In fact I think that in many cases it is better to buy one year old 
trees for the simple reason that one can then form the heads in any 
manner and in any height he pleases. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. F. A. Waugh. 
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