THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Correspondence. 
LOW HEADS. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
I am sorry to say the Fruit Growers in Canada are slow to 
see the advantage in low headed trees, and there has not been 
much change in that direction, consequently we head our 
stock about as formerly, to meet the wishes of our customers. 
Many planters think it necessary to have the heads of the 
trees high enough to allow a team to go under them, and as a 
rule, on receiving trees from the nurseries they will trim 
off all the head and leave one limb to form a new and higher 
head. This I consider a mistake, and have advocated low 
headed trees for over twenty years. 
Fonthill, Canada. Morris & Wellington. 
ADVANTAGES OF LOW HEADS. 
It is an undoubted fact that trees with low well balanced 
heads are getting daily more in demand and command a 
higher price, particularly those destined for lawn use in dis¬ 
tinction to avenue trees. 
It still remains necessary that a street tree should be trim¬ 
med to not interfere with pedestrians, carriages and street 
lighting. 
A low top shades the t runk and the earth underneath more 
and thus prevents the bark sunscalding and the ground from 
drying out. Wm. A. Peterson. 
Chicago, Ill. 
APPRECIATIVE. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
The Souvenir issued by the National Nurseryman Pub¬ 
lishing Company, giving a history of the nurserymen, is a 
pamphlet that all nurserymen should be proud of and should 
retain in their office for reference. 
It is a pleasure for the younger nurserymen to know just 
how small a beginning many of the substantial nursery¬ 
men of the country to-day started with. 
Yours very truly, 
Berlin, Md. J. G. Harrison & Sons. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
We consider the souvenir booklet a very excellent piece of 
work, and it contains much information that is to the inter¬ 
est of all members of the Association and the trade generally. 
There are many things regarding the history of the Asso¬ 
ciation that we think but few of the members knew or had 
thought of. Yours truly, 
Bridgeport, Ind. Albertson & Hobbs. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
Y r our souvenir booklet to the members of the American 
Association of Nurserymen has been received. 1 am very 
much pleased with it and 1 think it the general feeling that 
the National Nurseryman has become a necessity to 
everyone in the trade. 
The remarks in your “ Foreword” on the Mission oi the 
Nurseryman and the force of an example in a community, 
has been very decidedly demonstrated in our town and 
vicinity. 
My father was a great lover of trees and ornamental plants. 
Coming to this place at its first settlement he at once began 
to plant orchards, and trees along the roadside. The effect of 
this example is shown in the great number of trees planted 
in the town and vicinity. This of course was much more 
apparent twenty-five years ago when the planting of trees 
and ornamenting of homes was not as common as now but 
the influence is still evident. 
With best wishes for the success of the journal, and thank¬ 
ing you for the souvenir. 
Princeton, 111. Arthur Bryant. 
“We desire to commend the missionary work you are doing 
for the benefit of the public rather than the seedless apple 
promoters. More work of this character in the past would 
have protected the long suffering public from undesirable 
novelties such as the so-called Utah Hybrid cherries which 
as you will remember was a miserable common little sand 
plum, nevertheless it sold like wildfire at $2.00 to $3.00 per 
tree. 
The growing season has been gererally favorable, more so 
we think than for several years. 
Subscriber. 
THE STORY OF THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 
INTERESTING LECTURE BY .1. HORACE MC FA BLAND. 
Certainly the most entertaining and at the same time one 
of the most instructive addresses presented at the West 
Baden meeting was that by Mr. J. Horace McFarland, Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. It was entitled “A Tree Garden to Last a Thous¬ 
and Years.” and was a story of the conception, foundation 
and management of this great botanical garden. It was 
magnificently illustrated with colored latern slides presented 
by the use of a new type of duplicating stereopticon. 
This lecture was entertaining, because it was presented in 
a pleasing way, and it was instructive, because the trees and 
shrubs were so faithfully portrayed, that to those familiar 
with them they were at once recognized and to those un¬ 
familiar, the characteristics were so thoroughly delineated 
that the type characters could be readily fixed in the mind and 
remembered. 
While the lecture was highly educational and instructive 
its main purpose was to bring before nurserymen the fact 
that as a public institution the Arnold Arboretum was ac- 
cutely in need of financial support. It was a mine of in¬ 
formation for nurserymen and plant lovers. It had been 
brought to its present splendid condition of public service by 
the self-sacrificing efforts of its director Prof. Charles Sprague 
Sargent. Nevertheless, the grevious fact remained that it 
was sorely in need of financial endowment in order that it 
should remain a continuous and permanent public institu¬ 
tion; one which would continue to serve the aesthetic de¬ 
sire and at the same time the technical needs of the plant- 
loving and plant-propogating public. 
DISSOLUTION NOTICE. 
The firm of C. A. & J. E. Stoner, trading under the name of The 
Battlefield Nurseries was dissolved May 17th, 1905, and the business 
of the Battlefield Nurseries at Gettysburg will hereafter be conducted 
by C. A. Stoner, who has become sole proprietor of said Battlefield 
Nurseries. C. A. Stoner, 
Successor to C. A, & J. E. Stoner. 
