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The Florists^ Review 



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CALIFORNIA NURSERYMEN MEET. 



Endorse the Quarantijie. 



This is horticultural week at River- 

 side, with the annual conventions of 

 seven or eight of the California organi- 

 zations associated with horticulture. 



The eighth annual meeting of the Cali- 

 fornia Nurserymen's Association was 

 one of the first on the schedule, opening 

 May 26. President Max J. Crow, of GU- 

 roy, started things by introducing Mayor 

 Porter, who made a nice speech of wel- 

 come. 



President Crow's address recom- 

 mended consideration of the new fed- 

 eral quarantine order; it asked for con- 

 sideration of the subject of bud selec- 

 tion and for cooperation between the 

 nurserymen and the horticultural in- 

 spectors. 



Dr. C. L. Marlatt, chairman of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board, had come 

 from Washington to explain the new 

 quarantine order and was listened to 

 closely. He was followed by George H. 

 Hecke, of Sacramento, the state horti- 

 cultural commissioner, who discussed 

 the federal order as affecting California 

 interests. George C. Roeding, of the 

 Fancher Creek Nurseries, Fresno, was 

 called on to speak for the trade and said 

 nurserymen as a whole were in favor of 

 the adoption of the quarantine and that 

 interested importers are against it. He 

 offered a resolution putting the meeting 

 on record as favoring the quarantine 

 and the resolution was adopted. 



Buds and Bugs. 



W. S. Shamel, of Riverside, introduced 

 the topic, "Bud Selection: Are We Far 

 Enough Along to Show Conclusive Re- 

 sults?" He said that citrus growers 

 are recommended by their association 

 to buy trees grown from selected buds, 

 these buds being obtainable by refer- 

 ence to the association. Desultory dis- 

 cussion finally led to more pointed re- 

 marks from Messrs. Coats, Crow, Roed- 

 ing, Gandy, Holder and others inter- 

 ested in deciduous fruits as well as 

 citrus. 



F. O. Popenoe, of Altadeua, spoke on 

 avocados, giving data on different va- 

 rieties and illustrating his remarks with 

 fruits from his own plants and others, 

 showing the j)rofit8 to be derived from 

 their culture. D. W. Coolidge, of Pasa- 

 dena, in his usual happy way, spoke on 

 avocados, feijoas and custard apples, 

 samples being passed around. 



The session on the morning of May 

 27 was more or less in the hands of the 

 bug men and it seemed to a trade ob- 

 server that they felt that the same con- 

 ditions that apply to fumigating a bale 

 of cotton can also be applied to fumi- 

 gating fruit trees. Nothing seems to 

 stop the tax-paid bug men. One even 

 went so far as to say that he had saved 

 an orchid from the wreck of fumigation, 

 while another seemed to hold it as an 

 awful crime for a nurseryman to ship a 

 cabbage plant with a live aphis on it. 

 It was apparent that from their point 

 of view the country would soon go to 

 the dog* if it were not for the bug 

 sharps. 



George C. Roeding evidently was not 

 sufficiently impressed with the value of 

 the manifest law, although he was the 

 sponsor for it originally. He showed 

 what a boomerang it had been around 

 Fresno county. 



Those Present. 



The ladies ' auxiliary, organized at < 

 San Jose last year, had a successful 

 meeting. Mrs. John Vallance, of Oak- 

 land, was reelected president. Mrs. J. 

 Armstrong was chosen as vice-president; 

 Mrs. M. J. Crow, Gilroy, as secretary, 

 and Mrs. E. Jackson, Cupertino, as treas- 

 urer. The ladies took an auto trip to 

 Smiley Heights, Redlands, and to the 

 state experiment station in company 



with the men interested. Last year 

 there were sixteen members, this year 

 forty-one. 



The attendance at the meeting was 

 exceptionally good. The Nurserymen's 

 Association has 125 members, of whom 

 eighty-five were present or represented. 

 Among the well known people there 

 were Max J. Crow and wife, Henry W. 

 Kruckeberg and wife, F. R. Hills and 

 wife, George C. Roeding, J. D. Meri- 

 wether and wife, J. S. Armstrong and 

 wife and son, Mrs. John Vallance, H, 

 Plath and wife, Mark Germain and wife, 

 F. O, Popenoe, D. W. Coolidge, R. M. 

 Teague, Charles Howard, T. W. Robert- 

 son and wife, John Morley, George 

 Otto, F. Benard and daughter, Roy F. 



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