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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
fruit and plant Notee. Quiz Column. 
Windsor Chief Apple. Form, oblate, slightly conical, regular; size, 
large; color, pink, shading to deep, dark red; skin, fairly smooth, 
dots, large and numerous; cavity, very shallow, a mere depression; 
stem, short, very stout; basin small, somewhat irregular; calyx, lobes 
short, and eye open; flesh, yellowish white; quality, subacid, juicy, 
pleasant, good; texture, breaking, melting; core, closed, small; seed, 
large, elongated, light brown; season, late winter. 
Specimens received from W. H. Dempsey, Trenton, Ontario, Canada; 
described by John Craig. Date, December 4, 1902. 
Windsor Chief appears to be of Black Detroit Family. This variety 
originated as a chance seedling in Wisconsin. It is a strong grower 
and of undoubted hardiness. Promising as a late winter variety. 
AUTUMN FRUITING RASPBERRY. 
The National Nurseryman has recently received samples of a 
rather remarkable autumn fruiting raspberry from Hugo Beyer of 
New London, Iowa. This raspberry belongs to the black-cap section 
but differing in that it fruits almost exclusively on the young wood. 
Its fruiting habit prevents it from propapating by tips, as is the 
case with the normal black-cap. The fruit is of good size and re¬ 
sembles the “Gregg” raspberry quite closely. It appears to be re¬ 
markably productive and covers in its fruiting season a period from 
the first of August until hard freezing weather arrives. 
ROSES FOR OUTDOOR PLANTING. 
At the last (sixth) annual meeting of the American Rose Society 
the following list of roses was- recommended for out-door culture in 
New England. 
HYBRID PERPETUALS. 
Baroness Rothschild, Clio, Prince Camille de Rohan, Baron de 
Bonstetten, Ulrich Brunner, Captain Hayward. 
HYBRID TEAS. 
Caroline Test.out, Mme. A. Chatenay, Ivaiserin Augusta Victoria, 
Madam Cochet, Captain Christy, La France. 
RAMBLERS. 
Sweetheart, Farquhar, Lady Gay, Debutante, Philadelphia Rambler. 
MORE LIGHT ON SPENCER SEEDLESS APPLE. 
I read in the Rural New Yorker of November 24, 1904, an article on 
the “Spencer Seedless Apple,” under the signature of H., and the 
editor said it was from one of the highest pomological authorities in 
the country. In closing the article he said: “If the source from which 
the stock of the variety was obtained by Spencer could be located 
the whole matter could, no doubt, be promptly cleared up without 
loss to the public.” In the early fifties I obtained a few scions of an 
apple from a man in Virginia, called bloomless, coreless, and seedless. 
I was then owning a nursery at Springville, Vernon county, Wisconsin. 
In a few years I had several thousand trees in nursery and a few in 
orchard. One of Wisconsin’s hard winters killed the orchard trees, 
and hurt the trees in the nursery so that I never sold any more trees 
there. Later, I grew a few trees in Grant county, Wisconsin, also 
Sac county, Iowa, just enough to hold this stock. In 1884, coming to 
this place, I brought scions and grew them in nursery; sold a few trees 
t customer saying, “Wait and see what the fruit is. The fruit is 
not sa able, not as good as Ben Davis.” In 1890 I went to Grand 
Junction, Colorado, taking a few trees with me, letting J. F. Spencer 
have part of them. I left Grand Junction in 1.896, not hearing one 
word of “John” developing the seedless. A. H, Jewett, a nurseryman 
here, grew a few in orchard until they fruited, then grubbed them up. 
There are two trees near here that I have for this year, to exhibit the 
fruit at the Lewis and Clark Fair this Fall. If “John” has an apple 
that will do what the seedless orange has done, “All hail the news.” 
White Salmon, Washington. Charles Waters. 
Rural New Yorker. 
National Nurseryman: 
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for $1.00 in payment for our renewal subscription and desire to say 
that the journal certainly meets with our approval and you may always 
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high standard. 
Rochester, N. Y. Charlton Nursery Company. 
National Nurseryman. 
I am about to set out a rather large vineyard for market grapes, 
also for wine making, and would be much pleased to have your opinion 
as to the best kinds of grape vines for above purposes, suitable for the 
Missouri climate about twenty miles west of Hannibal, Missouri where 
my farm is located. I have purchased and read the book on grape vine 
culture and wine making by G. Hussmann, of California, but find that 
the gentlemen he mentioned as propagators of superior vines are dead 
or I cannot get any reply from them and others I have written are too 
high priced for their vines in large numbers. So if you know of any 
new good and reliable grape vines used between Buffalo, N. Y. and 
Toledo, Ohio, please let me know the names of them and where they 
can be procured. By doing so you will greatly oblige. 
Chicago, Illinois. J. S. S. 
Answer 1. Among the varieties most popular for wine making 
in your vicinity are: Elvira, Missouri Riesling, Catawba, and Norton’s 
Virginia. Now you might get another list from persons living in that 
vicinity which would be safer and more desirable to plant than this one 
and I am asking an experiment station man in Missouri to make a 
recommendation. 
As to firms from which to buy your stock I would suggest that you 
correspond with Bush & Son & Meissner, Bushburg, Jefferson county, 
Missouri; Stark Bros. Co., Louisiana, Missouri; T. S. Hubbard Co., 
Fredonia, New York; Geo. S. Josselyn, Fredonia, New York, Louis 
Roesch, Fredonia, New York. These men are all well known grape 
growers and could undoubtedly furnish you with good stock. W. A. 
Consult advertising pages of National Nurseryman. Ed. 
Answer 2. I would say that the grapes most generally used for 
wine on the river hills of this state are Norton and Cynthiana, Elvira, 
Montefoire and Concord. For a grape of the Concord type, however, 
I believe that Hicks has been shown to make a superior wine. 
Columbia, Missouri. . J. C. Whitten. 
CONDENSED INFORMATION REGARDING STATE REQUIRE¬ 
MENTS GOVERNING THE SHIPMENTS OF FRUIT. 
The following states have no laws governing shipment of 
nursery stock. 
Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Okla¬ 
homa, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Wyoming. 
Fumigation is required by following states. 
California (will lie disinfected at destination as well as inspected), 
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, 
Montana (at destination), New York (if shipped in from other states), 
North Carolina (not absolute but advisable to avoid delay), Oregon 
(all stock grown on apple roots must be fumigated), South Carolina, 
Utah, West Virginia. 
The following states demand a duplicate certificate. 
Arkansas, Georgia (file certificate with entomologist and secure tags), 
Kentucky (file copy of certificate to avoid delay), Maryland (file copy 
of certificate), Michigan (file copy of certificate to avoid delay,) New 
Jersey (it is advisable to file certificate), North Carolina (file certifi¬ 
cate), South Carolina (file certificate and secure tags), Virginia (file 
certificate and secure Virginia tags). 
The following states require and honor certificates. 
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut (inspection and fumigation cer¬ 
tificates required), Delaware (inspection and fumigation certificate 
required), Georgia (official Georgia tag and inspection certificate 
sigend by the nurseryman), Idaho (inspection and fumigation certifi¬ 
cates required), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky (certificate of in¬ 
spection and list of contents), Louisiana, Maine (either inspection or 
fumigation certificate), Maryland, Massachusetts (either inspection 
or fumigation certificate), Michigan (inspection and fumigation cer¬ 
tificates), Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska (the entomologist desires a 
certificate), New Hampshire (certificate of inspection or fumigation), 
New Jersey (certificate of inspection required), North Carolina (cer¬ 
tificate of inspection, fumigation desired), Ohio (inspection or fumiga- 
