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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 8, 1906. 



NIIRSERV NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 



Pres., E. AlbertBon, Bridgeport, Ind.; Vlce- 

 Prea., Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; Sec'y, Geo. 

 0. SeMer, Rochester; Treas., C. L. Yates, Roches- 

 ter. The 31st annual convention will be held at 

 Dallas, Texas, June, 1906. 



Frank T. Haseltink, Crookston, 

 Minn., has employed John Schmidt, an 

 experienced nurseryman, as manager. 



The Canadian Pacific Eailroad will 



Slant large nurseries along its western 

 nes for the purpose of eventually cut- 

 ting its own tie timber. 



Nurserymen in northern Minnesota 

 are experiencing a heavy demand for 

 Carolina poplars and large numbers will 

 be used in that section this season. 



At the end of February the Georgia 



' fruit belt had one of the coldest nights 



of the season, down to 28 degrees, with 



fruit trees and strawberries in heavy 



bloom. 



The Mount Arbor Nurseries, Shenan- 

 doah, la., were established in 1875 and 

 have been under the management of E. 

 8. Welch since 1891, since which time 

 the business has trebled. 



_ The New York Fruit Growers ' Asso- 

 ciation held its annual convention at 

 Poughkeepsie February 22, The presi- 

 dent, T. B. "Wilson, announced a decrease 

 in membership from 500 to 350. 



E. Ferrand & Son, of Detroit, Mich., 

 are enlarging their planting of orna- 

 mental trees and shrubs at their old 

 nursery in Oakland county. They have 

 established a branch at Monroe, Mich. 



A PARTY of Michigan nurserymen has 

 been touring Texas, investigating condi- 

 tions for fruit culture in that climate. 

 Considerable interest is manifested by 

 northern growers in Texas orchards since 

 the recent excursions run by the various 

 roads into that state. 



It is reported from Houston, Tex., 

 that "March 3 Stanley H. Watson, in- 

 dustrial agent of the Central-East and 

 West lines left for California, where he 

 will attend a meeting of the nursery- 

 men of California for the purpose of in 

 teresting them in the meeting of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen in 

 Dallas June 13-16." 



Farmers at Alton, 111., who bought 

 nursery stock which proved to be dead 

 stock are preparing to prosecute H. A. 

 Dunnegan and A. B. Jones, of Spring- 

 field, III., on a fraud charge. Notes 

 were given by the farmers and it is al- 

 leged these were turned over to attorneys 

 for collection. It is claimed the notes, 

 by virtue of a verbal agreement, were 

 to be payable in five years. 



Fred'k W. Kelsey says of his cata- 

 logue that he intended it to be the ' ' best 

 ever" and second to no publication of 

 the kind in this country or abroad. In 

 the different classifications not only are 

 the different sizes of each variety indi- 

 cated, but the alphabetically arranged 

 index gives both the botanical and com- 

 mon names of a large variety of the best 

 trees and hardy plants, making the cata- 

 logue a hand-book for convenient and 

 ready reference. Of course paper and 

 printing are in keeping. 



The Miami Valley Nurserymen's As- 

 sociation met at Dayton, O., February 



28. 



Escaping illuminating gas is destroy- 

 ing many of the fine old elms in several 

 New England cities. 



One item of which there are reported 

 to be exceptionally large and well grown 

 stocks for spring is tne grape m standard 

 sorts. 



Apple growers of eastern New York 

 fear that the purchase price and selling 

 price of their crop will soon be fixed 

 wholly by the pleasure of the storage 

 concerns. 



Since A. H. Rogers and A. H. McGill 

 acquired a controlling interest in the 

 Spaulding Nursery and Orchard Co., 

 Spaulding, 111., the number of directors 

 has been decreased from five to three. 



The Lowell, Mass., park commissioners 

 advise the public that in planting trees 

 it is a good rule to ' ' deal only with re- 

 sponsible parties, pay good prices and 

 demand good services. No one should 

 be employed to purchase or plant a tree 

 who does not understand the business." 



ALBERTSON'S AMBITION. 



Emory Albertson is a man who is 

 never still; he must be perpetually do- 

 ing something. The vital forces which 

 keep him constantly pushing in his own 



Emory Albertson. 



business were at once turned upon the 

 interests of the trade at large when he 

 was appointed chairman of the transpor- 

 tation committee of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Nurserymen. It was a happy 

 selection. When he was elected to the 

 presidency of the association it only 

 broadened his field of activity. 



In its three decades the American As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen has had many 

 strong men at its head, but there are 

 few who have taken up its work with 

 greater energy and accomplished so much 

 as has President Albertson. Early in 

 his official career he found that the asso- 

 ciation was without further funds for 

 the use of the transportation committee, 

 just then at a point where several years 

 of effort were about to bear fruit. A 

 stirring appeal to the trade brought sub- 

 scriptions ample to the needs of the occa- 



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 NURSERY COMPANY 



ELIZABETH, N- J. 



