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The Florists'' Review 



OaiOBBB 7. 1920 



Visitors to Painesville, O., October 2 

 were E. S. Welch, C. H. Perkins and 

 D. S. Lake. 



S0T7THWESTEBN NT7BSERYMEN. 



Meet at Dallas. 



The third annual convention of the 

 Southwestern Association of Nursery- 

 men was held at Dallas, Tex., September 

 22 and 23. About thirty-five members 

 were in attendance from Texas, Okla- 

 homa, Louisiana and Arkansas, and 

 were quartered for the convention at 

 the Oriental hotel. The meetings were 

 held in the Chamber of Commerce audi- 

 torium. 



Officers elected for next year were: 

 President, J. M. Eamsey, Austin; vice- 

 president, N. M. Shive, Cabot; secre- 

 tary-treasurer, George F. Verhalen, 

 Seottsville. E. W. Knox, of San An- 

 tonio, and James Parker, of Tecumseh, 

 Okla., were elected as members of the 

 executive committee, of which the 

 officers are ex-officio members. 



A special legislative committee, con- 

 sisting of J. R. Mayhew, Waxahachie; 

 J. M. Ramsey, Austin, and L. J. Tack- 

 ;ett, of Fort Worth, was named to look 

 after the interests of the nurserymen 

 as well as planters of Texas in regard 

 to laws controlling insects and diseases. 

 A modification of the present nursery 

 and orchard inspection laws may be 

 sought and efforts to prevent the pass- 

 ing of more stringent laws will probably 

 be made. 



The committee on nominations was 

 composed of W. A. Wagner, Sherman, 

 W. C. Griffin, Port Arthur, and J. S. 

 Kerr, Sherman. The members of the 

 resolutions committee were J. E. May- 

 hew, J. B. Baker, Fort Worth, and J. L. 

 Downing, of Wichita Falls. 



The convention was presided over by 

 James Parker, as president, and B. L. 

 Adams, of Bonham, served as secretary 

 and treasurer in the absence of J. C. 

 Boyd, of New Orleans. It was voted to 

 hold next year's meeting at Dallas. 



The Program. 



Boll call, reading of minutes, reports 

 of various officers and routine business 

 took up the time of the opening session. 

 Adjourning at noon, the delegates were 

 given a luncheon in the ballroom of the 

 Oriental hotel, being entertained with 

 musical selections under the direction of 

 Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell. 



After luncheon the convention recon- 

 vened and listened to an address by M. 

 E. Hayes, College Station, Tex., repre- 

 senting the Texas Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Mr. Hayes told of the activities 

 of that society and explained how the 

 state authorities had taken up much of 

 the work started by the society. Other 

 speakers had for their subjects a report 

 of the southern convention held at 

 Charleston, S. C, and the outlook for 

 business in the states of Oklahoma, 

 Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas, Louisi- 

 ana and Kansas. 



The program the second day, in arddi- 

 tion to the election of officers and selec- 



tion of the next convention place, con- 

 sisted of the following talks: "Quar- 

 antines and Their Effect on Trade," by 

 L. J. Tackett, Fort Worth, Tex.; 

 "Maintaining Morale of Salesmen," 

 by W. A. Wagner, of Sherman; "Orna- 

 mentals for the Southwest," by J. B. 

 Baker, Fort Worth; "The Duty of Nurs- 

 erymen as to Landscape Development," 

 by J. S. Kerr, Sherman, and "Labor 

 Problems," by Will B. Munson, Den- 

 ison. 



By the unanimous vote of its mem- 

 bers, the association will cooperate with 

 the state in establishing a botanical 

 and arboreal garden at Austin. A tele- 

 gram received from Robert E. Vinson, 

 president of the University of Texas, 

 stated that Colonel Brack^nridge, of 

 Austin, had donated a tract of land 

 near the university for the garden site. 



FRENCH GROWERS REPLY. 



Since the contents of a letter ad- 

 dressed by Lloyd C. Stark to August 

 Rolker have been widely published in 

 the horticultural trade press, the Hor- 

 ticultural Trade Committees of Angers, 

 Orleans and Ussy, France, have asked 



Prepare New to Get Your Share 

 of the Peony Profits 



Use Pennant Brand Peonies for your 

 retail trade, to complete jo^r assortment 

 and to stock u^. If you want good stock 

 at fair prices, if you want your money's 

 worth first, last and all the time, we be- 

 lieve we can satisfy you. Quarantine 37 

 will cause a shortage for a few years until 

 American growers can catch up with the 

 demand. Write for list now and order 

 early. 



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If you are Interested In these you are Inter- 

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 delivery. We also grow a full line of fruit and 

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FARMERS NURSERY CO., 



TROY, OHIO 



the privilege of a public reply, which is 

 signed by their respective presidents, 

 A. Brault, B. Barbier and M. Levavas- 

 seur. Their statement reads as follows: 



Several trade papers have published the con- 

 tents of a letter from Lloyd C. Stark to August 

 BOlker. 



The contents of this letter are not exactly the 

 same in all, because the beginning of it has not 

 everywhere been published. It reads as follows: 



"We have your favor of July 6 advising that 

 the Holland firms have withdrawn their quota- 

 tions, evidently because they are Influenced by 

 the extra high French quotations." 



Nor has another paragraph been everywhere 

 published, which reads as follows: 



"We note that you expect to hear from Italy 

 and Germany in regard to stock soon; also from 

 Holland. If the Frenchmen insist on sticking to 

 their exorbitant prices, we, and most other 

 American nurserymen, will certainly feel like 

 letting the French syndicate keep their high- 

 priced fruit stocks." 



Our eminent and gallant colleague has exam- 

 ined the situation from the American point of 

 view without considering the French side. We 

 beg him to examine it with us. 



First, he says: "Of course, we realize that 

 last year seedlings of all kinds were scarce, al- 

 most no crop on accouqt of the war and bad 

 season, but this year's crop is a good one. We 

 have confidential Information from reliable 

 French sources that there Is a big crop in prac- 

 tically all lines except plum, and there are more 

 plum than there were last year." 



We must rectify these reports concerning the 

 French situation, which have been sent by some- 



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