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The Fbrists'' Review 



JCNE 26, 1914. 



The Kenilworth Nursery Co., of Chi- 

 cago, has received permission from the 

 secretary of state, at Springfield, 111., to 

 increase its capital stock from $7,000 to 

 $25,000. 



As the peony season in Minnesota is 

 considerably later than in the other dis- 

 tricts where that flower is extensively 

 grown, D. W. C. Kiiflf's nurseries at Bald 

 Eagle lake, near St. Paul, had, he esti- 

 mated, about 100,000 blooms on his 

 plants when he entertained the Men's 

 Garden Club of Eamsey county last week. 



An acre of rhododendrons in bloom 

 on the land of the Bay State Nurseries, 

 at North Abington, Mass., was made of 

 advertising value by the arrangement of 

 drives and walks for the accommodation 

 of visitors. W. H. Wyman, proprietor of 

 the Bay State Nurseries,, has 400 acres 

 at Eockland and North Abington in ad- 

 dition to the plant at South Framing- 

 ham, about half of which is under culti- 

 vation. The whole seventy acres at North 

 Abington are planted so as to allow 

 automobilists to drive through and see 

 the growing stock. 



PACIFIC COAST ASSOCIATION. 



[For a full report of the opening days of the 

 Vancouver meeting of tlie Pacific Coast Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen, discussions, etc., see The 

 Review of June 18, page 04.] 



Officers Elected. 



San Francisco was selected as the 

 place of meeting in 1915, during the 

 exposition. OflScers were elected as fol- 

 lows, the election coming at the close of 

 the convention: 



President — John Vallance, Oakland, 

 Cal. 



Vice-presidents — California, A. A. El- 

 mer, San Jose; Oregon, C. F. Lansing, 

 Salem; British Columbia, J. Brown, 

 Vancouver; Idaho, E. F. Stephens, 

 Nampa; Montana, D. J. Tighe, Billings; 

 Utah, P. A. Dix, Salt Lake City; Wash- 

 ington, F. A. Wiggins, Toppenish, 



Secretary-treasurer — C. A. Tonneson, 

 Tacoma, reelected. 



Executive committee — D. W. Cool- 

 idge, Pasadena, Cal.; John Gill, West 

 Berkeley, Cal.; F. H. Wilson, Fresno, 

 Cal. 



A Successful Meeting. 



The outstanding feature of the meet- 

 ing, which had an attendance of about 

 100, was the participation and active 

 interest taken by the horticultural au- 

 thorities of the states represented in 

 the association. A better mutual un- 

 derstanding was arrived at and it is felt 

 that great progress was made in the 

 matter of uniform legislation and es- 

 pecially in the intelligent enforcement 

 of laws already on the statute books. 



WELCH WINS SUIT. 



The following report of the decision 

 in the case of E. S. Welch, proprietor 

 of the Mount Arbor Nurseries, at Shen- 

 andoah, la., before the Montana Su- 

 preme court, at Helena, appeared in the 

 Missoulian, of Missoula, Mont., under 

 the date of June 6: 



"E. S. Welch, an Iowa nurseryman, 

 can do business in Montana as long as 



You may discontinu* our adver* 

 ti^ament, as we are through with our 

 spring shipments, but wo will give 

 you another order for fall, as THE 

 RESULTS from the one for spring 

 HAVE BEEN VERY SATISFAC- 

 TORY.— FranklinDavis Nursery Co., 

 Baltimore. Md.. May 19. 1914. 



THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION. 



his stock is free from disease, and he 

 does not need any license. The Supreme 

 court so ruled in an opinion by Justice 

 Holloway today, reversing the District 

 court of Yellowstone. Welch appealed 

 because the lower court refused to issue 

 a writ of mandamus preventing State 

 Horticultural Inspector M. L. Dean and 

 Fruit Inspector R. E. Bancroft from in- 

 terfering with him and also refused to 



J. B. Pilkingtgn. 



(President Amertcao AEScclatlon of Nurserrmen) 



compel them to issue certificates for 

 shipments of nursery stock. 



"That provision of the statute re- 

 quiring dealers in nursery stock to be 

 licensed is called 'one of the curiosities 

 of the law' by the Supreme court. It 

 fails to provide how or by whom the 

 license shall be issued, who shall receive 

 the $25 fee, what disposition shall be 

 made of it and also fails to provide for 

 the $1,000 bond that is required." 



NURSERY STOCK IMPORTS. 



According to government statistics 

 the imports of nursery stock in the last 

 three fiscal years had an invoice value 

 as follows: 



Year Value 



1911 $1,094,037 



1912 1,251.365 



1913 1,379,013 



This includes plants, trees and vines; 

 bulbs, formerly included as nursery 

 stock imports, now are classified separ- 

 ately. 



A Record Gathering. 



Most venerable of the commercial or- 

 ganizations in the horticultural trades, 

 the American Association of Nursery- 

 men this week is holding what probably 

 will turn out to be its record meeting, 

 at Cleveland, O. It is the thirty-ninth 

 annual gathering. Last year's conven- 

 tion having been held on the Pacific 

 coast, with only a corporal's guard in 

 the eastern delegation, the present con- 

 vention probably profits somewhat by 

 the fact that few of those who attend 

 irregularly were present last year, But 

 the advantages of Cleveland as a cjnven- 

 tion city are strongly emphasized by the 

 unusually large number of buyers pres- 

 ent. 



The convention is held in the Hol- 

 lenden hotel, with several rooms on the 

 same floor as the sessions hall devoted 

 to a trade's display in charge of T. B. 

 West, Perry, O. The opening session 

 was called to order Wednesday, June 24, 

 at 10 a. m., Eev. C. S. Harrison, well 

 known nurseryman of York, Neb., de- 

 livering an invocation, followed by an 

 address of welcome by Acting Mayor 

 Stockwell. 



President Pilkington delivered a fine 

 address from the chair, sketching the 

 work of the year and pointing out the 

 course along which he thinks effort 

 should be directed for the future. He 

 made it apparent that the subject on 

 which the bulk of attention is centered 

 at present is the harassment of widely 

 divergent and unintelligently enforced 

 state laws. 



Secretary Hall 's report showed re- 

 ceipts from membership and badge book 

 of $3,077.15, all turned over to the 

 treasurer. In concluding his report Mr. 

 Hall asked to be relieved of his oflice. 



Legislation. 



Wm. Pitkin, reporting for the com- 

 mittee on legislation east of the Mis- 

 sissippi, said that the year has been 

 uneventful. He emphasized the wai'ning 

 given last year, that the Federal quar- 

 antine law holds only menace for the 

 nursery trade, and traced briefly the 

 course of state legislation, the only im- 

 portant new law being the one in New 

 York. The main points of the New 

 York law were sketched, but with the 

 statement that they do not apply to 

 nurserymen outside that state. 



Mr. Pitkin also presented a splendid 

 report for a special committee ap- 

 pointed at Portland last year to further 

 the adoption of uniform state legisla- 

 tion. He was able to show excellent 

 progress. Several meetings had been 

 held and committees of the Inspectors' 

 Association, with Prof. J. G. Sanders, 

 of Wisconsin, as chairman, and of the 

 American Pomological Society, with 

 Orlando Harrison, of Berlin, Md., as 

 chairman, are working to the same end. 

 On beiialf of the joint committees Prof. 

 Sanders is redrafting a bill that it seems 

 everybody can support and which should 

 get past the state legislatures. The bill 



