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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 18, 1908. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHIUCAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTHEN. 



< )tticers for HK)8- <>: Pres., Charles .). Brown, Ro- 

 chester, N. Y.; Vlce-Pree.. V. M. UobbH, Bridge- 

 port. Ind.; Sec'y, Geo. O. SeaKer, Rochester, 

 N. Y.; Treas.. 0. L. Yates. Rochester, N. Y. 

 The 84th annual convention will oe held at Ro- 

 cheiter, June 190',). 



Those Texas nurserymen certainly do 

 think Texas is all right. 



The St. Louis park commissioner has 

 issued the usual beautifully printed and 

 freely illustrated annual report. 



The seventh annual convention of the 

 National Nut Growers' Association is 

 booked for Chattanooga, Tenn. The date 

 will probably be the latter part of Octo- 

 ber. 



A xrRSERY agent named B. C. Clark 

 has been arrested at Bath, N. Y., charged 

 with collecting commissions from a New- 

 ark, N. Y., nursery by means of the old, 

 old scheme of orders signed by fictitious 

 names. 



LoNiCER.\ Japoxica Halleana is an 

 excellent climber and a vigorous grower, 

 with white, sweet-scented flowers, chang- 

 ing to pale yellow. The berries, borne in 

 autumn, are black. It spreads rapidly 

 from underground runners. 



The Intermountain Nursery Co., of 

 Brigham City, Utah, has filed articles of 

 incorporation with the secretary of state. 

 The capital stock is $100,000, in $1 

 shares. The oflBcers are: A. L. Patter- 

 son, i)resident; F. T. Troxell, vice-presi- 

 dent; E. M. Tyson, secretary and treas- 

 urer. 



J. W. Kerr was the only one at the 

 ^lilwaukee convention who had a good 

 word to say for the Kieffer pear. He 

 said $200 to $300 per acre has been 

 made in Texas off the Kieflfer and that 

 such a variety is entitled to credit. It 

 Ma.s an aspersion for the northern nur- 

 seryman to interject: "Who buys 'em, 

 Texans?" 



The new Waterloo Nursery Co., Water- 

 loo, la., heM a meeting June 9, at which 

 the following officers were selected: 

 President, P. C. Schmidt, Cedar Falls; 

 secretary, C. H. Dietrich; treasurer, F. 

 F. Knapp. Walter Brown and F. E. 

 Hunter will comprise the board of direc- 

 tors, together with the above named of- 

 ficers. The new firm will soon be ready 

 for operation, and will both wholesale 

 and retail nurserv stock. 



MILWAUKEE CONVENTION. 



A Successful Meeting. 



J. W\ Hill proved an ideal presiding 

 officer and the thirty-third annual con- 

 vention, held at Milwaukee June 10 to 

 12, hatl a snap and go that was as re- 

 freshing as the delightful weather. The 

 attendance was not so large as it has 

 been in some years, but there was lively 

 interest throughout. All the familiar 

 faces were there. Nearly every state in 

 the Union Avas represented, there being 

 members present from New England and 

 Florida, from Texas and Oregon. As 

 buying and selling between members oc- 

 cupies 80 large a place in the week, it 

 was but natural that all the firms seek- 

 ing nurserymen's trade should be repre- 

 sented — there were probably more sales- 

 men present than ever before. More 

 business has been done between members 



in some other years, but notebooks were 

 nevertheless much in evidence. 



President's Address. 



In his address President Hill spoke 

 in part as follows: 



' ' During the past year we, like all 

 other business men, were brought face 

 to face with a financial depression which 

 resulted in what Ex-Secretary Shaw 

 claims to be ' the worst *panic the world 

 has ever known. ' This condition of af- 

 fairs arose last fall, at the time the re- 

 tail nurseryman was nftiking his ship- 

 ments, and in many places poor de- 

 liveries were made, or clearing house cer- 

 tificates, notes and other evidences of 

 indebtedness were taken in payment for 

 trees, but with the readjustment of af- 

 fairs, these have been promptly met, con- 

 gress has just passed the compromise 

 currency bill, and we are now, I trust, 

 over the roughest places with nobody 

 badly hurt. 



' ' The season just closed is generally 

 regar<led as one of the best we have had 

 for many years. All stock, with the pos- 



J. W. HiU. 



(Pres'dent Nurserymen's Association. 1907-8.) 



sible exception of Kieflfer pears and some 

 varieties of plums, has commanded un- 

 usually strong prices, and stocks were 

 well cleaned up. In consequence of this, I 

 am inclined to think every man here to- 

 day is happy, and I see no reason why 

 we should not have an enjoyable and 

 profitable convention. 



"The present condition of the affairs 

 of the association, with a membership 

 of more than 400 and annual receipts of 

 about $3,000, are, on the whole, quite 

 satisfactory. Some aggressive action, 

 however, is needed along certain lines. 



' * As far as I am able to learn, the out- 

 look for future business is good, with 

 such indications as to justify us in 

 thinking that the present satisfactory 

 wholesale prices will be maintained, but 

 the practice of our wholesale men in 

 placing surplus stock on the market late 

 in the season, at greatly reduced prices, 

 I think is demoralizing and should be 

 discontinued. 



' ' I am inclined to the opinion, how- 

 ever, that the retail nurserymen, who con- 

 stitute {I large portion of tne member- 

 ship of this association, are not getting 

 from the planter prices commensurate 



Avith the total cost of stock handled. 

 These prices should be advanced and this 

 can be gradually brought about by han- 

 dling' only first-class trees, of the grades 

 specified, and consigning the inferior 

 stock to the brush pile rather than dis- 

 posing of it to department stores and 

 unreliable mail-order concerns, which 

 dump it on the market at ridiculously 

 low prices, in competition with dealers 

 in first-class trees. Tell your customer 

 the truth, furnish him first-class stock, 

 charge him good prices for it, and you 

 will soon find him taking care of it and 

 willing to pay you the right prices for 

 good trees," 



Committee Reports. 



Orlando Harrison, for the committee 

 on a national inspection law, presented a 

 long report, showing the divergent views 

 of the trade, and recommended that for 

 the time being the association make no 

 further effort to secure such a law cov- 

 ering domestic stock in interstate com- 

 merce, but that a law for the inspection 

 and certification of imported stock would 

 be desirable. The report was accepted 

 and the committee discharged. 



For the transportation committee, F. 

 H. Stannard reported only routine work 

 in the last year, except opposition to the 

 adoption of "Rule 4" by the western 

 roads, releasing the roads from liability 

 for loss or damage, unless twenty per 

 cent additional freight be paid. The 

 outcome is not yet determined. The com- 

 mittee on tariff, by Irving Rouse, made 

 a verbal report. 



For the committee on mutual fire in- 

 surance, Peter Youngers reported that 

 the various state laws made the matter 

 impracticable. For entomology, C. L. 

 Watrous related the cooperative work 

 with the Society of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists, the organization of state and other 

 bug hunters, which already has done 

 much to ameliorate the hardships im- 

 posed on nurserymen by different laws 

 and diflferent interpretations and admin- 

 istration of similar laws. All these re- 

 ports were accepted. 



The legislative committee was author- 

 ized to proceed to contest such legisla- 

 tion as it considers open to its attack, as 

 was the South Dakota law. 



Following a report of C. J. Maloy on 

 the work of the National Council of Hor- 

 ticulture, the appointment of a com- 

 mittee of three on national horticulture, 

 to which work the association contributes 

 $200, was authorized. 



The treasurer's report showed a bal- 

 ance of $2,913.27 in the treasury. Ex- 

 penditures for the year were $2,883. 



Resolutions. 



J. C. Hale, of Tennessee, presented a 

 resolution giving the association's en- 

 dorsement to a national inspection law 

 to apply to imported stock alone and 

 urging its passage by congress. Referred 

 to the committee on legislation. 



Fred W, Kelsey presented a resolution 

 authorizing the transportation committee 

 to take up with the railroads the matter 

 of treating nursery stock as perishable 

 goods and thus avoiding delays. Adopt- 

 ed. Also a resolution setting forth that 

 the association is opposed to any ad- 

 vance in freight rates. Adopted. Also 

 a resolution endorsing the parcels post 

 and commending the recent reduction in 

 the rates of foreign postage. Adopted. 



C. L. Watrous presented resolutions 

 on the deaths of N. H, Albaugh and E. 

 H. Pratt, which were adopted. 



