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The Florists^ Review 



January 29, 1920 



Notices of the third annual convention 

 of the Illinois State Nurserymen's As- 

 sociation, at Hotel La Salle, Chicago, 

 February 11 and 12, have been sent 

 out by Secretary A. M. Augustine, of 

 Normal, and President Guy A. Bryant, 

 of Princeton. 



MASSACHUSETTS MEN MEET. 



In connection with the union meet- 

 ings last week in Horticultural hall, 

 Boston, the Massachusetts Nurserymen's 

 Association, as one of the cooperating 

 societies, held its annual meeting Jan- 

 uary 20. 



Papers were read by Harlan P. Kel- 

 sey, on ' * American Plants Which Should 

 Be Propagated to Take the Place of 

 European Ones, the Importation of 

 Which Is Now Forbidden"; by David 

 Stranger, of West Newton, on "The 

 Tractor as an Aid in Nursery Work," 

 and Howard Frost, on "Transplanting 

 Evergreens." 



Officers were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent, Walton G. Wyman, North Abing- 

 ton; vice-president, Julius Heurlin, 

 South Braintree; secretary and treas- 

 urer, Winthrop Thurlow, West New- 

 berry. 



WESTERN ASSOCIATION. 



Meets at Kansas City. 



Amid several other conventions, the 

 Western Association of Nurserymen is 

 holding its thirtieth annual convention 

 at the Hotel Baltimore, Kansas City, 

 Mo., Wednesday and Thursday, Janu- 

 ary 28 and 29. The opening session, 

 beginning at 10:30 a. m., was taken 

 up chiefly with the president's address, 

 delivered by Earl D. Needham, of Des 

 Moines, la., and 3-minute talks on trade 

 conditions from each state represented, 

 after the applications for membership 

 had been received, committees ap- 

 pointed and other business of a more 

 or less routine nature transacted. 



Wealth of Discussion. 



The afternoon meeting was devoted 

 entirely to addresses, as were also the 

 sessions on Thursday. The program for 

 these was as follows: 



WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 28, 2 P. M. 



"ImiK)rt8 aud Quantitips of Stook Available 

 ill tlie Future." by James McHutcliison, New 

 Vork. 



•'The Effect of the Shortage of Fruit Tree 

 StiK'ks on Future Rusiness, from the Wholeaal- 

 fT'H viewpoint," by E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, 

 Iowa. 



"Work that Has Been Done by Agricultural 

 (Viileges in Recognition of the Demands for In 



spectlon Coming from Planters," by Dr. W. M. 

 Jardine, president of the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Manhattan, Kan. 



"How Can Agricultural Colleges and Nursery- 

 men Promote Greater Interest in Horticulture?" 

 by Prof. Albert Dickens, State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Manhattan, Kan. 



"Experience and Opinion on Conditions In 

 France at the Present Time," by Herbert Chase, 

 Chase, Ala. 



THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. 



"Putting Our House In Order Preparatory to 

 the Market Development Campaign," by George 

 Parker, Oakland, 111. 



"Market Development," by John Watson, ex- 

 ecutive secretary of the American Association 

 of Nurserymen, Princeton, N. J. 



"Federal Quarantine," by Charles A. Scott, 

 Winamac, Ind. 



"The Nursery Fraud Act of Arkansas," by 

 O. M. Wild, Sarcoxle, Mo. 



"The Principal Reason for the Enacting of 

 Drastic Federal and State Nursery Laws," by 

 Lloyd C. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 



".Scarcity of Popular Varieties This Year and 

 Danger Arising Therefrom," by C. C. Mayhew, 

 Sherman, Tex. 



"Trade Relations with Landscape Architects," 

 by H. L. Merkel, Des Moines, la. 



"The Retailer Who Sells Through Agents; His 

 Duty to the Buying Public; also His Relation- 

 ship to the Wholesaler," by B. H. Smith, York, 

 Neb. 



"The Retailer Who Sells Through Catalogues; 

 His Duty to the Buying Public, to the Retailer 

 Who Sells Through Agents and to the Wholesale 

 Nurseryman," by Carl Sonderegger, Beatrice, 

 Neb. 



"The Wholesaler; His Duty to the Buying 

 Public Through the Retailer Who Sells Through 

 Agents, and the Retailer Who Sells Through 

 Catalogues," by Henry Chase, Chase, Ala. 



"Trade Relations with Tree Dealers or Job- 

 bers Who Have no Established Headquarters 

 or Business of Their Own," by A. J. Bruce, Des 

 Moines, la. 



"Trade Organizations Necessary for Protec- 



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