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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



December 13, 19C6. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTMEN. 



Pres., Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; Vlce- 

 Pres., J. W. Hill, Dee Moines, la. ; Sec 'y, Geo. C. 

 8ea«:er, Rochester; Treas. C. L. Yates, Rochester. 

 The 32d annual convention will be neld at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, 1907. 



Irving Rouse, of Rochester, is en route 

 home from a tour of Euglish and Con- 

 tinental nurseries. 



C. N. Olston, Brookings, S. D., has 

 organized the Sioux Valley Nursery Co. 

 A range of greenhouses is planned. 



J. H. M. Edwards, a nurseryman of 

 Logan, la., was a witness December 5 

 in the Nebraska land fraud cases on 

 trial at Omaha. 



George R. Moore, president of the 

 Chautauqua & Erie Grape Co., and of the 

 village of Fredonia, N. Y., died Decem- 

 ber 2, aged 55 years. 



The storage house of the Ohio Nurs- 

 ery Co., Elyria, O., was pretty thorough- 

 ly demolished by the explosion of nine 

 sticks of dynamite December 3. 



The big general mail order house of 

 Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, short- 

 ly will be a considerable factor in the 

 catalogue mail trade in nursery stock. 



Last week and this nearly every one 

 of the state and local horticultural socie- 

 ties have held their winter meetings, 

 and nurserymen have been active par- 

 ticipants. 



With the price of every other article 

 higher than it has been in years, there 

 is no good reason why the nurserymen 

 should not realize better returns in the 

 spring of 1907. 



The R. G. Chase Co. has removed its 

 Philadelphia oflSce to the headquarters 

 at Geneva, N. Y. The management now 

 is in the hands of G. M. Chase. H. M. 

 Chase no longer is connected with the 

 company. 



The Western Association of Nursery- 

 men holds its semi-annual meeting at 

 Kansas City next week, December 18 

 and 19. A larger attendance than usual 

 is expected. Peter Youngers, Lincoln, 

 Neb., is president. 



A JURY at Geneva, N. Y., spent a day 

 on a suit of the Western New York Nurs- 

 ery Co., J. E. Dale, proprietor, against 

 Rice Bros., of Geneva, involving the 

 value of 300 %-inch cherry trees, and 

 rendered a judgment for $4.50. 



The fall season has only just closed 

 in a number of localities and the aggre- 

 gate of business done is in most in- 

 stances well ahead of the best previous 

 year; indeed, the deliveries by wholesale 

 nurserymen as a rule are much the larg- 

 est on record. 



The nurserymen of Utah, at their re- 

 cent meeting at Salt Lake City, held a 

 conference with the horticultural board 

 and will organize at a meeting next 

 month for the purpose of urging the 

 state legislature to pass a bill licensing 

 all nurserymen. 



Nurserymen as a body have failed to 

 appreciate the binefit to be derived by 

 the whole trade from the press bureau 

 of the National Council of Horticulture, 

 which is shortly to begin its second sea- 

 son's work. The council has the confi- 

 dence of editors as have few publicity 



John T. Lovett. 



organizations, for its literary offerings 

 are of the safe and sane variety. The 

 A. A. N. should get its help in counter- 

 ing the work of seedless apple propa- 

 ganda. 



The Michigan peach growers who lost 

 in the October freeze are a considerable 

 factor in the market. Some of them 

 require many thousands of trees for 

 replanting. 



' ' Study the classification tables and 

 watch the freight bills; it Avill save you 

 money. ' ' — Emery Albertson, special 

 agent of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen. 



JOHN T. LOVETT. 



John T. Lovett, of Little Silver, N. J., 

 has been a factor in nurserydom in this 

 country for over thirty years. His star 

 is in the ascendant; he has triumphed 

 over all misfortunes and obstacles. He 

 will accomplish hnuch in the future as 

 the result of his persistency and courage. 

 Walter Scott, at Abbottsford, would 

 know just how to appreciate the confl^ict 

 that has ended in success. 



Mr. Lovett has over 200 acres devoted 

 exclusively to nursery stock in great vari- 

 ety, except fruit trees, which have been 

 eliminated that entire attention may be 



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