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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Correspondence. ]Vote and Comment. 
INTERESTING BUDGET FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. 
The Pacific Coast nurserymen are pleased to see the effort made by 
the Legislative Committee looking towards uniform state legislation 
affecting the inspection of nursery stock, and all nurserymen should 
render the committee all the assistance possible in this work. The 
nursery business seems to have been made the target by horticultural 
legislators in most states, while little attention has been given to the 
eradication of insect pests in their real breeding places, old orchards, 
parks and private grounds. Let nurserymen insist that these breeding 
places adjacent to their grounds be cleared up, and it will not be long 
until there will be no need for such close inspection of nursery stock. 
If old orchards and other breeding places for insect pests and diseases 
are kept clean, there will be very little danger of nursery stock being 
diseased. Yes, support the legislative committee in this work of fair 
and uniform state legislation. 
The Lewis & Clark Exposition closed Saturday the 14th of October, 
with a record that places it at the head of the best of successful World’s 
Fairs for its size and scope, the management stating that a dividend of 
about 30 per cent, will be returned to the stockholders. The exhibits 
of fruits at the Exposition were exceptionally fine, and brought forth 
many exclamations of surprise on the part of Eastern visitors who were 
not prepared to see such a great development of horticulture in the old 
Oregon country. 
The nursery business is sharing in the general development and a few 
years should see the Pacific Coast the nursery center of the United 
States. Nurserymen are in the midst of their fall shipping season, and 
the outlook at this time is bright for good sales, prices and collections. 
The agents’ retail business is about the same as last year, but inquiries 
for trees for the planting of large commercial orchards is very brisk for 
this season of the year, and at the present time, the outlook is for a good 
clearing up in all lines before spring. 
Many lines of stock such as cling peaches, pears and cherries are be¬ 
ginning to show signs of shortages already, and prices have an upward 
tendency all along the line. 
Salem, O. M. McDonald. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. A. Price list 
of specimen trees, shrubs, roses and fruits, fall of 1905. B. A beauti¬ 
fully illustrated little booklet describing the various steps in the digging 
packing and shipping of coniferous trees. This booklet is most at¬ 
tractive and suggestive, and aside from this is distinctly instructive. 
F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y., wholesale price-list 
of bulbs, palms, etc., for the fall of 1905. 
Oak Lawn Nursery, Huntsville, Ala., wholesale price-list, fall and 
winter, 1905. 
T. V. Munson & Co., Denison, Tex., a descriptive, illustrated 
tree planters’ handbook, and catalogue for 1905-’06. 
Descriptive price list of the Shatemuc Nurseries, Tarrytown, 
Duchess county, N. Y. Superintendent and manager, Mr. Geo. 
T. Withers. 
The Good V Reese Co., Springfield, O. Catalogue of green¬ 
house plants, including hardy roses and flower seeds. 
The New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo., issue a very 
attractively gotten up catalogue, which contains not only pictures 
of the nurseries, but of the proprietors. 
The Cayuga Nurseries, H. S. Wiley & Son, Cayuga, N. Y. 
The Henry Phillips Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O. 
Knox Nurseries, H. M. Simpson & Sons, Vincennes, Ind. 
John A. Salzer Seed Co., Lacrosse, Wis. 
T. S. Hubbard Co., Fredonia, N. Y. 
R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston, Mass. 
P. J. Berckmans Co., Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, Ga. 48 
pages, voluminously illustrated with pictures of grounds and 
plantations. 
Otto Katzenstein & Co., Atlanta, Ga., and New York. A 
price list of seeds and trees and shrubs, including herbaceous 
plants, fruits and bulbs. 
Thomas Meehan & Sons, Dreshertown, Pa., showing specimen 
trees and shrubs. Photographs made from trees growing on 
home grounds. 
THE FRUIT CROP. 
THE ORANGE OUTLOOK. 
Reports from various parts of Florida indicate that the crop will not 
be a large one, that it will be a little later than usual, and that the fruit 
will be of excellent quality. In some sections full crops and larger are 
' reported, while in other regions light yields or no yields at all are the 
rule. The character of weather between now and maturing time will 
determine to a large degree the quality of the fruit. The “Packer” 
estimates that the state yield will amount to 1,500,000 boxes. Prices 
about the middle of October ranged from 90 cents to $1.25 to $1.50 per 
box on the tree. 
FLORIDA TRUCK. 
The season in Florida is such as will throw the marketing period of 
truck crops considerably behind time. Florida strawberry growers 
expect to get their first fruit on the market about Christmas time, while 
such vegetables as egg plant, peas, string beans, and tomatoes will, bar¬ 
ring unlooked for frosts, be ready between the middle of December and 
Chrismtas time. 
APPLES IN THE EAST. 
With a short apple crop, good apple growers, (the men who get the 
fruit) are making money this year. Prices run from $2.00 to $3.00, and 
even higher for fane/ stock. In New York state there is probably not 
more than twenty per cent, of the crop of last year, but practically 
everything is being barreled and we may look out for brusque protests 
from the other side when the fruit is opened. The tendency when 
short crops prevail is to barrel everything in sight, irrespective of cod¬ 
ling moth of scab. There is no one county in New York state that can 
claim anything like full crop. Perhaps Orleans county makes as good 
a showing as any. The crop in most of the states is light, but prices 
range high. Ben Davis were selling in the orchards of the Ozarks a few 
weeks ago at $3.00 a barrel, while Jonathan and Grimes were even 
higher. 
GRAPES. 
Black rot made serious inroads into the grape crop of the Chautauqua, 
Seneca Lake and Iveuka Lake regions. In the wine making sections 
standard varieties like Concords sold rather slow, for the reason 
that in the last two years of heavy yields, wine makers have stocked up 
pretty heavily with grape juice, but later in October prices picked 
up wonderfully. Delawares have been good stock at ten cents, while 
Niagaras are held a cent or two lower, with prospects of an advance. 
APPRECIATED ABROAD. 
National Nurseryman. 
With pleasure I enclose one dollar to renew my subscription. Your 
Journal certainly meets with my approval, it is as good as any and 
better than most in the trade. You may place the same advertising in 
vour next six papers for me. 
Boskoop, Holland. P. Ouwerkerk. 
Editor, National Nurseryman. 
The Journal is Good, and you deserve support, and great 
credit for your work. Wishing you much success, and hoping to place 
an add, with you next season, we remain, 
Charlotte, N. C. Mecklenburg Nurseries and Orchards. 
Part of a Block of Bungeii Catalpa grafted one year, standing six to nine feet high. 
W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y. 
