THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Interesting Review of the Season . 
WAYNE GOUN , NEW \ ORK. We believe the poor growth of two year olds is due to effects of last 
Stock here made a good growth last summer, and fall business was last winter as our one year Plum, Cherry and Pear have made a re¬ 
better than we expected. The outlook for spring is promising. markable growth and in most cases will grade up more favorable than 
Newark, N. Y. Jackson & Perkins Co. 
THE SEASON IN OHIO. 
We do not know as there has been any thing special to characterize 
the fall trade. We have had all that we could handle. The season has 
been a very wet one, and too wet for low land; on the other land, our 
stock made a very fine growth, much better than we have had in the 
past three years. We think the outlook is that there will be a very large 
demand for stock for next spring’s planting, and with possibly one or 
two exceptions, all kinds of fruit stock will be sold out, long before 
spring planting season is over. The demand for ornamental stock has 
increased materially this fall with us, and judging from the inquiries we 
are getting from other nurserymen, there is a very heavy shortage on 
fair size ornamental trees of nearly all kinds. Think the main trouble 
the nurserymen will have next spring, will be to obtain stock to fill 
orders. 
Painesville, Ohio. The Storrs & Harrison Co. 
The season just closing has been highly satisfactory. We have sold 
up clean on all lines except Apple. The past summer was favorable to 
the growth of stock with the possible exception of the cherry, which 
does not take kindly to excessive moisture. Late rains facilitated 
digging, and the humid atmosphere prevailing through the packing 
season gave us favorable conditions in which to handle stock. Present 
outlook is certainly most encouraging. 
Xenia, Ohio. McNary & Gaines. 
OUTLOOK AT PHONETON AND THE MIAMI VALLEY OF 
OHIO GENERALLY. 
A good plant was made last spring and a good stand secured. Also 
a satisfactory stand of buds from this year’s budding; also a good 
stand of apple grafts. Owing to the wet season, (above the average) 
two year cherries failed to thicken up, leaving a heavy stock of under 
half inch trees to carry over into three years. Young apple trees were 
much freer from aphis than they have been for a good many years. 
There will be a fine lot of three year olds for coming spring and for 
next fall. Peach trees were uncommonly fine but there is not a very 
heavy stock left to carry over for spring. Taken altogether the nursery 
business in this valley is in very satisfactory shape. Fall trade has 
been fully up to the average. Very light stock of cherry for spring and 
they mostly of small sizes. 
Phoneton, O. N. H. Albaugh. 
IN MARYLAND. 
The character of the fall trade has been very satisfactory, the only 
trouble being that many people want their stock shipped too early, 
which results in loss of trees to the planter. We felt obliged to refuse 
several orders for early shipment. 
The demand for nursery stock is very promising, and it certainly 
looks as if we will make some good sales during the winter. 
We began digging apple trees in carload lots about Oct. 10th, also 
running out a few peach trees, but during the next thirty days we 
shipped peach trees, cherry and Kieffer pear trees in large quantities. 
Berlin, Md. J. G. Harrison & Sons. 
IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
The past season has been normal; growth of stock fairly good. We 
are yet in the midst of our shipping. Trade has been good, deliveries 
going off nicely with good collections. The only unfavorable con¬ 
ditions we have had this year has been the dry weather during digging 
season. 
Greensboro, N. C. John A. Y oung. 
TOO MUCH RAIN—LABOR SCARCE—IN MISSOURI. 
The growing season with us has been one of the best (as lar as moist¬ 
ure is concerned) that we have had in many years, stock in general in 
J this locality has made a wonderful growth with the exception oi Cherry 
and Pear, for these the weather has been too moist and cold at times 
Domestica Plum for instance have not made their usual growth in the 
two year old stock while the one year olds have made a remarkable 
growth. 
will the two year olds. 
Peacli and Apple have made a splendid growth and on good land the 
grades run heavy. 
The fall packing season has been the worst we believe we have ever 
gone through, rain, rain, rain and for weeks it has been impossible to 
get man or beast onto the land more than three days out of a week. 
Last week the weather was fine and we made good headway; it has, 
however, been the first good week in a month or more. 
Men are exceedingly scarce and it is almost impossible to get workers 
at any price, consequently we have been short handed all fall. 
The season at first started in rather slow but since the latter part of 
October we have had all we could attend to, and from the looks of our 
blocks we are not a bit worried that we will not clean up pretty well 
by spring. 
The outlook for spring business is very flattering, we already have a 
nice line of orders and they are coming freely without much solicita¬ 
tion, what we need most is a mild winter and a long spring and there 
will be no question as to the trade. 
The writer expects to go East early in December and renew ac¬ 
quaintances. 
Nursery, Mo. H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co. 
H. J. W. 
KANSAS. 
WET weather; stock well cleaned up. 
Our past season was above the normal in rainfall; it was also un¬ 
usual in that we would have about two weeks of w T et weather then two 
weeks of dry, which made cultivating difficult. Notwithstanding 
this stock as a rule made better growth than it has with us for the past 
three or four years. Good stands were secured on all budded stock, 
and the outlook for prime stock in all lines for next Spring’s market 
is unusually favorable. Our Fall trade was light; but after all 
Spring planting is coming to be the main one, and Fall Trade is de¬ 
creasing accordingly. Prices have held about as last Spring with 
slight decrease on Cherry and Plum. Apple started off for Fall quite 
slow, but from inquiries coming for Spring we think they will all be 
cleaned up—the supply of Apple in this vicinity is not up to the aver¬ 
age. Demand for Pear quite heavy, and these have about all been 
picked up; supply of Cherry, Plum and Peach here is small, and no 
doubt all of this stock will go long before spring at somewhat better 
prices than were current this Fall. 
Topeka, Kansas. L. R. Taylor & Sons. 
SOME PERTINENT REMARKS ON THE APPLE 
SEEDLING SITUATION. 
The packing for fall in this part of the West is never heavy at the best. 
The sales here this fall have not been “the heaviest we have ever had.’’ 
We have been without an apple crop in Northeastern Kansas for 
three years. This year was the worst one of the three. Something has 
come over the crop each year. Kansas has, however, in other parts 
raised some fine apples, which are now selling at good prices. 
Will this help the demand for apple trees? We think not. One 
good crop over the West would stimulate planting. Until we have 
this we must be content . 
The seedling situation is not in as healthful a condition as it should 
be, owing to the utter foolishness of the growers. Conditions never 
have justified present prices. Judging from their actions almost any 
of the growers exhibit foolishness enough to become active mem¬ 
bers of a Kansas legislature! The main problem in the trade seems to 
lie how long can one grow seedlings for less than the cost of production 
and keep at the business. 
You know “time cures all things” and it will this. 
No. 1 apple seedlings are now about all sold. There is nothing to 
keep the price from advancing but stupidity. This we think will give 
place to common sense finally, 
Topeka, Kans. Y. L. Brooke. 
