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68 



The Florists^ Review 



July 22, 1915, 



iniKSERY NEWS. 



AXEIUOAN ASSOCIATION OF mmSESYMEN. 



President, B. S. Welch. Sbenandoab. la.; Vice- 

 prestdent, John Watson, Newark, N. Y.; Secre- 

 tary, Jobn Hall, Rocbester, N. Y.; Treasurer, 

 Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb. 



Forty-flrst annual meeting, Milwaukee, Wis., 

 Jnw 22 to 24. 19ie. 



This week's obituary column contains 

 a report of the death of James C. "Wal- 

 lace, a pioneer nurseryman of Alhambra, 

 Los Angeles county, California. 



N. P. HusTED, head of the nursery 

 concern of N. P. Husted & Co., which 

 operates over 100 acres at Lowell, Mich., 

 died there last week at the age of 79. 



Cakl L. Sewell, formerly manager of 

 the La Grange Nursery Co., at La 

 Grange, 111., and later at Lima, O., is 

 embarking in the landscape business at 

 Hiawatha, Kan. He will grow peren- 

 nials also. 



The thirty-fourth biennial session of 

 the American Pomological Society will 

 be held at Berkeley, Cal., August 23 to 

 25. Henry W. Kruckeberg, of Los An- 

 geles, is California vice-president, and 

 George C. Roeding, of Fresno, Cal., is a 

 member of the executive committee. 



August 12 to 14 are the dates set for 

 the thirteenth apnual convention of the 

 Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen 

 and the fifth annual meeting of the 

 California Association of Nurserymen, 

 both at San Francisco. Monday, Au- 

 gust 16, is Nurserymen's day at the ex- 

 position. 



The Farmer Seed & Nursery Co., of 

 Faribault, Minn., has closed the branch 

 •which it operated on Hennepin avenue, 

 Minneapolis, during the spring months. 

 The success met by this venture in this, 

 its first year, has decided the company to 

 make it an annual affair. The branch 

 was in charge of E. J. Kiekenapp and 

 O. V. Sherpy, both members of the firm. 



George "Weinshank, of Whittier, Cal., 

 one of the largest growers of grafted 

 walnut nursery stock in the state, has 

 purchased twenty-nine acres in North 

 Whittier Heights, at a given considera- 

 tion of $23,698. Twenty-three acres is 

 set to 1 and 2-year-old grafted soft shell 

 walnuts of the Placentia Perfection var- 

 iety. Mr, Weinshank will grow walnut 

 nursery stock between the rows of or- 

 chard trees while they are coming into 

 bearing. 



The William H. Moon Co., Morris- 

 ville, Pa., has leased for a term of years 

 a tract of land adjoining the Gedney 

 Farm hotel, at White Plains, N. Y., from 

 the Gedney Farm Co. The Moons are 

 evidently going after busiQess in the Em- 

 pire state atrongly, f or it was only two 

 weeks ago that this column carried no- 

 tice of the incorporation of the Moon 

 Nursery Co., New York, for the purpose 

 of selling the products of the Morrisville 

 concern in that state. 



David Hill, head of the D. Hill Nurs- 

 ery Co., Dundee, HI.,* had a narrow es- 

 cape from serious injury when the 

 tongue of a large wagon struck his auto- 

 mobile and shattered the steering gear. 

 Mr, Hill was coming down the street in 

 his new Buick and did not notice the 

 wagon moving at a rapid pace across the 

 street. vmtiLl&lroost upon it. He at- 

 tempted to pass ahead of it, but the 

 driver of the team could not stop in 

 time to avoid the collision. ' 



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