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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 30, 1904, 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN V^SSOCMTION OF NURSERYMEN. 



Pres., E. W. Klrkpatrlck, McKlnney, Tex.; 

 Vlce-Pres., C. L. Watrous. Des Moineb; Sec'y, 

 G^o. C. Seager, Rocheuter; Treaa., C. L,. Yateti, 

 Rochester. The2yih annual convention will be 

 held at West Baden, Ind., June, IVNK. 



NURSERYMEN'S CONVENTION. 



, The Aiiiericau Association of Nur«ery- 

 UH n held its twenty-ninth annual meeting 

 at Atlanta, Ga., last week. The attend- 

 ance was very satisfactory, although not 

 up to the record of recent years, the dis- 

 tance from recognized nursery centers 

 probably accounting for the falling off. 

 There was, however, an attendance of 

 many who are not usually present, and it 

 is felt to be well worth while to carry 

 the flag into new fields. 



C. L. Watrous occupied the chair, ow- 

 ing to the absence of both President N. 

 W. Hale and Vice-President Frank A. 

 Weber. The prearranged program of 

 I)aperH and discussions was not followed 

 because of the absence of a number of 

 those to whom topics had been assigned. 

 But it is never the regular program of 

 the meetings which supplies the incentive 

 for attendance at the conventions of this 

 association, however attra«tive the pro- 

 grams may be. Business counts for more 

 than anything else with the nurserymen. 



The president 's address suggested sev- 

 eral matters for consideration, among 

 them increasing the dues to provide 

 funds for the prosecution of such work 

 as securing uniform inspection laws, 

 freight rates and classifications on nur- 

 sery stock and the abolition of the un- 

 warranted licenses now imposed on nur- 

 serymen in certain states. The insurance 

 committee reported a plan for mutual 

 insurance. The committee on legislation 

 reported lack of progress on a national 

 inspection law. An advance in freights 

 was reported by the committee on trans- 

 portation. Committees were appointed 

 to attend meetings of traffic officials and 

 plead the cause of the nurserjmen. 



Interesting papers were read by G. L. 

 Taber, Glon St. Mary, Fla. ; H. T. Jones, 

 Elizabeth, X. J.; H. P. Kelsey, Boston; 

 Prof. Newell, state entomologist of 

 Georgia; J. H. Hale, of Georgia and Con- 

 necticut; J. H. McFarland, of Harris- 

 burg. Pa.; J. C. Chase, New Hampshire; 

 C. T. Smith, Concord, Ga. ; G. H. Powell, 

 Washington; Prof, cTohn Craig, of Cor- 

 nell, and others. 



The election of officers resulted as fol- 

 lows: l^resident, E, W. Kirkpatrick, Mc- 

 Kinney, Tex. ; vice-president, C. L. Wat- 

 rous, Des Moines, la.; secretary, Geo. 

 C. Seager, Rochester; treasurer, C. L. 

 Yates, Koihester. One vice-president for 

 each state was appointed as usual. It 

 was voted to meet next year at West 

 Baden, Ind. 



The several protective associations held 

 their annual meetings during the con- 

 vention. Each reported a prosperous year 

 and officers were re-elected. 



The local hospitalities consisted of an 

 old-fashioned barbacue, and on Friday 

 morning the nurserymen were taken on a 

 special train for a visit to the peach or- 

 chards of Berckmans Bros., J. H. Hale 

 and others in the vicinity of Mayfield 

 and Ft. Vallev. 



The popular old Wilson blackberry 

 seems to have nearly run its course in 

 many districts. 



E. W. KIRKPATRICK. 



The newly elected president of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen 

 was born in Jefferson county, Tenn., in 

 1844. In 1856 his parents removed- to 

 Texas. In the large family of children 

 there were only two boys, and it was the 

 lot of the elder, the subject of this sketch, 

 when still young to be the aid of his 

 widowed mother. In 1874 Mr, Kirkpat- 

 rick established a nursery at McKinney, 

 Texas, and the business prospered. He 

 has taken much interest in horticultural 

 subjects of all kinds, and has ever been 

 eager to learn new ideas and to give as- 

 sistance and encouragement to everyone 

 in that line. The Texas Nursery Co., of 



E. W. Kirkpatrick. 



President Am. Association of Murserymen. 



Sherman, is the outgrowth of the former 

 nursery. Mr. Kirkpatrick has for years 

 been a regular attendant at the conven- 

 tions of the national society and his elec- 

 tion as its head is a merited recognitiou 

 of his efforts in its behalf. 



EVERGREEN SEEDLINGS. 



C. H. Joosten recently protested 

 against the assessment of duty on an 

 importation of evergreen seedlings en- 

 tered at the port of New York. The 

 seedlings of various evergreen trees were 

 classified under the provision in para- 

 graph 2.52, tariff act of 1897, for "ever- 

 green seedlings," and were claimed lo 

 be dutiable under the provision in the 

 same paragraph for ' * stocks, cuttings 

 and seedlings of all fruit and ornamentJil 

 trees, deciduous and evergreen, not 

 specially provided for." The board of 

 general appraisers • overruled the pro- 

 test. 



All nursery stock exported to Austra- 

 lia M'ill be fumigated on its arrival there. 



The Revue Horticole announces the 

 death, on May .5 last, of the distinguished 

 French horticulturist, Felix Sahut. lie 

 was one of the first to discover, in asso- 

 ciation with Planchon, the phylloxera on 

 the roots of the grape vine in the neigh- 

 borhood of Montpelier, France. He was 

 also one of the most active In advocating 

 and practicing the introduction of Amer 

 ican resistant vines on which to graft 

 the wine-producing varieties. 



Greenwood, Ind, — J, O, Bishop says 

 tliat business was very good this spring. 

 He has already put up a new. house for 

 carnations and expects to put up still 

 more glass this summer. ' 



Frankfort, Ind. — H. M. Humfield has 

 a banana tree which has ripened a bunch 

 containing thiry-five fruits, which he is 

 selling at 25 cents apiece to those who 

 have a desire to partake of home grown 

 fruit. 



MoLiNE, III. — The Tri-City Florists' 

 Club met with Wm. Knees June 16 and 

 decided to hold a picnic for members and 

 families in July, probably at Campbell's 

 island. T, Ewoldt, of Davenport, fur- 

 nished a strawberry treat from his beds. 

 J. T. Temple, of Davenport, brought 

 over a basket of many varieties of peo- 

 nies and they were examined closely, for 

 the members believe that this is one of 

 the coming flowers of the day. 



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