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. The Weekly Horists' Review. 



Juin 10. 1900. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHBBIGAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSBBTMEN. 



OfflcerB for 1908 9: Pres., Charles J. Brown, Ro- 

 chester, N. Y.; Vice-Pres., C. M. Hobbs, Brldge- 

 Sort, Ind.; Sec'y, Geo. C. 8eager, Rocbester, 

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

 84tb annual convention will be held at Roches- 

 ter, June 9 to 11. 1909. 



Owing to cold weather, it was decided 

 to postpoae the meeting of the American 

 IPeony Society at the Cottage Gardens, 

 Queens, N. Y., to June 11 and 12. 



Ievino Rouse, of Eochester, chairman' 

 of the committee on tariff of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen, spent 

 several days at Washington last week. 



C. W. Waed, president of the American 

 Peony Society, is in Michigan, and will 

 not be present at the meeting of the 

 society at Queens at the end of this 

 week, R. T. Brown, manager of the Cot- 

 tage Gardens Co., will do the honors in 

 Mr, Ward 's absence. Mr. Ward has been 

 in ill health for the last seven months, 

 but is now pulling up. 



THE ROCHESTER CONVENTION. 



A Splendid Meeting in Progress. 



The thirty-fourth annual convention of 

 the American Association of Nurserymen 

 convened at the Hotel Seneca, Rochester, 

 N. Y., Wednesday morning, June 9, with 

 the largest attendance in years. Roches- 

 ter is recognized as the leading nursery 

 center of the United States and it is the 

 Mecca to which members of the trade are 

 wont to travel for inspiration. Elaborate 

 preparations had been made for the re- 

 ception of the national association, all 

 the nurseries having been put into the 

 best possible shape for the inspection of 

 the large number of visitors. The pro- 

 gram was so arranged that morning ses- 

 sions only would be held, giving the aft- 

 ernoons to the inspection of the nurseries 

 and to the incidental hospitalities. 



The initial business session was called 

 to order with exemplary promptness and 

 an address of welcome delivered by Hon. 

 H. H. Edgerton, mayor of Rochester. 

 The city has recently achieved some repu- 

 tation as a convention center and the 

 mayor is in good practice for such a duty 

 as he was ctdled upon to perform in this 

 instance. George 8. Josselyn, of Fredo- 

 nia, responded in, it need hardly be said, 

 a humorous vein, and this time in poetry. 



President Charles J. Brown said in ad- 

 vance of the meeting that it was his in- 

 tention to make a record for brevity in 

 the matter of the president's address, 

 and prepared no set paper. The report 

 of Secretary George C. Seager was also 

 the briefest of documents. It merely set 

 forth the financial transactions of his of- 

 fice, as follows: 



Secretar/s Report. 



RBCKIPTS. 

 Jnne 6, 1906, to Jane 7, 1009. 



Membership fees $2,035.00 



Advertising in Badge Book 722.00 



Extra badges and books 23.50 



Exchange 5.25 



Ckjdes .85 



Total 12,786.30 



DISBURSEMENTS. 

 May 3, 1909, C. L. Yates, treasurer. . .$1,070.00 

 June 7, 1909, C. L. Yates, treasurer... 1,692.25 



Exchange 22.10 



Postage 1.95 



Total $2,786.30 



The report of Treasurer C. L. Yates 

 showed a balance of $3,853.79, with item- 



Charles J. Brown. 



(President American Association of MurserTinen). 



ized receipts and disbursements as fol- 

 lows: 



Treattirer't Report. 



Your treasurer submits his annual report from 

 June 10, 1908, to June 7, 1909: 



RECEIPTS. 



1908. 



June 8, to cash on hand.. $2,913.27 



June 30, Interest 26.17 



Dec. 31, interest 35.53 



1909. 



May 3, Geo. C. Seager, secretary 1,070.00 



June 7, Geo. C. Seager, secretary 1,692.25 



Total $5,737.22 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



1908. 



June 18, Geo. C. Seager, 'salary. etc...$ 506.21 



Whitehead and Hoag Co. 



badges 27.45 



Union and Advertiser Co, 



badge books 303.26 



June 22, Geo. C. Seager, telegrams, etc. 1.11 

 July 13, C. L. Yates, salary and post- 

 age 50.80 



July 16, Miss Emma Jacobson, report- 

 ing convention 64.90 



Orlando Harrison, stamps, 



printing, etc 30.95 



B. E. Fields printing 1,000 



copies S. D. law 25.55 



July 27, Thomas B. Meehan, commit- 

 tee on exhibits 22.67 



Oct. 17, Union and Advertiser Co 234.90 



Oct. 23, J. H. Dayton, attending meet- 

 ing tariff commission 15.00 



Geo. C. Seager, express 2.20 



Dec. 26, J. H. Dayton, expense on 



tariff commission, Wash'ton 47.40 

 Theo. J. Smith, expense on 



tariff commission, Wash'ton 32.60 

 Wm. Pitkin, expense on tariff 

 commission, Washington 40.20 



1909. 



Jan. 13, M. E. Wolff Co., bond for 



treasurer 18.75 



Mar. 2, W. C. Reed, attending Wash- 

 ington classification com- 

 mittee 95.40 



Stark Bros., attending Wash- 

 ington classification com- 

 mittee 83.80 



Mar. 18, J. H. Dayton, expense Wash- 

 ington legislation committee 46.60 



Mar. 18, J. M. Pitkin, expense Wash- 

 ington legislation committee 39,75 

 Wm. Pitkin, expense Wash- 

 ington legislation commit- 

 tee 46.01 



Mar. 25, Wm. Pitkin, expense Wash- 

 ington legislation commit- 

 tee .54 



Thomas B. Meehan, expense 

 Washington legislation com- 

 mittee 23.00 



Mar. 27, Irving Rouse, expense Wash- 

 ington legislation committee 40.60 

 12, Wm. Pitkin, expense to Buf- 

 falo tariff committee 6.25 



Irving Rouse, expense to Bof- 



falo tariff committee 6.83 



7, Wm. Pitkin, expense to Wash- 

 ington tariff committee.... 82.80 

 ^Irving Rouse, expense to 



Washington tariff committee 40.00 

 June 7, Cash to balance 8,853.79 



Apr. 



May 



Total $6,737.22 



Tariff Committee's Report. 



Irving Rouse, chairman of the commit- 

 tee on tariff, reported that the followinj; 

 rates of duty on nursery stock are prac- 

 tically agreed upon: Stocks, cuttings or 

 seedlings of Myrobolan plum, Mahaleb or 

 Mazzard cherry, Manetti, multiflora and 

 Briar rose three years old or less, $1 pe'" 

 thousand plants; stocks, cuttings or seed- 

 lings of pear, apple, quince, St. Julian 

 plum, evergreen seedlings, three year-' 

 old or less, $2 per thousand plants; ros" 

 plants, budded, grafted or grown on their 

 own roots, 4 cents each; stocks, cuttingc 

 and seedlings of all fruits and ornamen- 

 tal trees, deciduous and evergreen shnib.« 

 and vines, and all trees, shrubs, plants 

 and vines commonly known as nursery 

 or greenhouse stock, not specially pro- 

 vided for in this section, twenty-five pef 

 cent ad valorem. 



P. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan., chair- 

 man of the transportation committee, re- 



