THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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October Offerings 
Try the Leedle Floral Company, Springfield, O., for a full line of 
rases. 
Dreer’s fall trade list is very full in the line of perennials and her¬ 
baceous plants. 
Forest tree seedlings are offered in large quantities by the German 
Nurseries, Beatrice, Neb. 
Apple seedlings in wholesale quantities are found at F. W. Watson 
Sc Co.’s place, Topeka, Kansas. 
The real thing in peach seed and peach seedlings is found at the 
Austin Nursery, Austin, Texas. 
The Shawnee Nursery Company, Topeka, Kansas, report a fine stock 
of apple trees and apple stocks. 
H. C. Clark, Dansville, N. Y., have a fine lot of home grown 
Mahalebs and European plums. 
Write James M. Kennedy, Dansville, N. Y., for Japan and Euro¬ 
pean plums, standard and dwarf pears. 
Barbier & Co., Orleans, France, are in market with large collec¬ 
tions of ornamentals, also a heavy stock of fruit stocks. 
C. C. Abel & Co., 110 Broad St., New York, are agents for the well 
known firm of P. Sebire & Son, Ussy, Calvados, France. 
The Geo. Peters Nursery Company, of Trov w Ohio, are offering a 
full line of general nursery stock to the wholesale trade. 
The Burnham-Flitchings-Pearson Co., of New York, are now ready 
to execute greenhouse construction orders on short notice. 
California privet and Carolina poplar are in great demand this year 
by parks and private planters. Josiah A. Roberts, Malvern, Tenn. 
The Harrisons’ Nurseries, Berlin, Ind., offer an exceptionally well 
grown and smooth lot of apple trees. The stock is fine and prices 
right. 
North Carolina is coming to the front as a peach pit state and John 
A. Young of Greensboro makes a specialty of collecting the right 
brand. 
The umbrella tree is a great tree in the middle south. J. Van 
Bindley Nursery Co., Pomona, N. C., are specializing in this and other 
fine shade trees. 
Geo. S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y., has returned from his annual 
fishing trip and is now ready to enter orders for a few million grape 
vines and small fruit plants. 
An experienced and industrious packing foreman in retail nursery 
packing department, is wanted by Thomas Meehan & Sons, Inc., 
Germantown, (Philadelphia), Pa. 
Tree protectors not only guard against rabbits and mice but pre¬ 
vent sun scald and perhaps collar rot. They are sold by the Hart 
Pioneer Nurseries, Fort Scott, Kansas, 
As usual, H. M. Simpson & Sons, Vincennes, Ind., in this issue of 
the Nurseryman announce a thrifty stock of Cherry, Peach and Ap¬ 
ple seedlings; also Kieffer standard pears, one and two year. 
Mr. Carl Sonderegger of Beatrice, Neb.,called at this office early in 
September with his wife and daughter on their way home from a visit 
to Switzerland, the land of his birth. Mr. Sonderegger reports more 
recently that prospects for the autumn trade in Nebraska are 
gratifying. 
James McHutchison, senior member of the firm of McHutchison 
& Co., New York City, New York, arrived on the 19th after a two 
months trip through Europe. During his absence he visited nearly all 
the large and important nursery centers on the other side. Mrs. Mac 
accompanied him on the trip and they both report a very enjoyable 
time and good weather during the whole of their journey. 
—Mr. A. Willis of Ottawa, Kans. was in Lawrence the last days of 
September calling on Nurserymen of that vicinity. 
—The 32nd annual meeting of the Horticultural Society of Southern 
Illinois will be held at Olney, Nov. 21-22, 1905. E. G. Mendenhall 
has been its secretary and treasurer for fifteen years. 
—F. G. Sheffer wishes to inform his many friends in the nursery 
business that his address is Sarita, Cameron Co., Texas. He writes 
that they have very mild winters in the S. W. Texas, and considerable 
attention will be paid to the growing of citrus fruits. He would 
thank the nurserymen to send their trade lists to his new address, 
Sarita, Cameron Co., Texas. 
SATISFACTORY OUTLOOK. 
The season is opening up very busy with us. In addition to 
taking care of stock which we have in our home nursery, also in our 
branch nurseries at Wellington and Rock, Kansas, we are building a 
stone and brick cold storage building SO feet square and 14 feet high, 
hence we shall have splendid facilities for handling our winter trade. 
Our advertisement in your paper so far has been a paying in¬ 
vestment. We feel inclined to keep our card there as it is a good 
publication for the nurserymen. 
Cooper & Moncrief, Winfield, Kas. 
MAGNIFICENT EXCURSION TENDERED TO THE 
AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY BY KANSAS 
CITY SOUTHERN AND FRISCO RAILROADS 
—NURSERYMEN WHO ATTENDED. 
The editor of the National Nurseryman is free to say 
that of the many excursions he has participated in none was 
more instructive and successful than that provided by the 
railroads mentioned above, to the members of the American 
Bornological Society, at the close of the recent Kansas City 
convention. 
Sixty-five ladies and gentlemen, members of the society, 
comprised the party, and the train consisting of two Pull¬ 
man’s left Kansas City at eleven-thirty, on the night of the 
twenty-first,over the Kansas City Southern. The party was re¬ 
turned to Kansas City on the morning of the twenty-seventh, 
by the Frisco railroad. 
Transportation was provided by the railway companies 
and entertainment by the citizens of the towns visited. The 
Pullman’s furnished comfortable homes for the' ladies and 
gentlemen making the tour. 
Halts were made and the following towns on the Kansas 
City Southern Railway, were visited for the purpose of in¬ 
specting adjacent fruit regions: Neosho, Mo.; Gentry, Siloam 
Springs, Horatio, Mena and Ft. Smith, all in Arkansas. 
On the Frisco Railway stops were made at Fayetteville, 
Rogers, Bentonville, Ark.; Springfield, Thayer, Brandsville, 
West Plains and Mountain Grove, Mo. At each of these 
places, on both roads, elaborate entertainment was provided. 
Carriage drives brought the travelers to the orchards and 
receptions made them acquainted with the people. The 
visitors were profoundly impressed with the evidence of sub¬ 
stantial progress, and the great fruit growing possibilities 
of this ozark region of Missouri and Arkansas. 
NURSERYMEN PRESENT. 
Among the nurserymen who took in the excursion were 
J. Van Bindley, N. C., Jesse Butterfield, Mo., E. J. Hol¬ 
man, Kansas, Wild Bros., Missouri, Geo. Holmar and 
Fred. Dixon, Kansas. 
The party represented twenty-five states, from New York 
to New Mexico and South Dakota to North Carolina. Mr. 
L. A. Goodman, president-elect of the American Bornologi¬ 
cal Society, was indefatigable in his efforts to make every¬ 
thing run smoothly, and it is needless to add that he was 
eminently successful. 
THE ROBINSON NURSERIES. 
ANOTHER WHOLESALE AND RETAIL NURSERY FOR LAWRENCE, KANSAS. 
That Lawrence is fast becoming the nursery center of the West, has 
often been mentioned by the World. There are now ten or more nur¬ 
series doing business from this city, the latest of the number being 
The Robinson Nurseries, owned and managed by R. B. Robinson. 
Mr. Robinson has had ten years’ experience in growing nursery 
stock. The first five years were spent in working for others and the 
last five in growing stock for himself. For the past five years he has 
been wholsaleing stock, and last spring he opened a retail business in 
Baldwin, Kan. The rapid growth of the retail department has forced 
him to make Lawrence headquarters, although he will continue to 
grow stock both at Lawrence and at Baldwin. 
Mr. Robinson has rented the front suite of offices over the Hiawatha 
Cafe and will be open for business this week. Mr. Robinson will go 
after business in earnest and will undoubtedly meet with continued 
success .—Clippings from the Daily World. 
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