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TTie Weekly Rorists' Review. 



47 



Geors* C. Sealer. 



(Secretary American Association of Nurserymen.) 



ported having secured the striking out 

 of the release clause on nursery stock. 



Papers Read. 



At the initial session J. H. Dayton, of 

 Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., 

 read a spirited paper, urging nurserymen 

 to cooperate in keeping up prices. 



T. B. Wilson, of Halls Corners, N. Y., 

 read a paper entitled "What the Or- 

 chardist Expects from the Nurseryman." 

 He mentioned as among the difficulties 

 the substitution of stock and the furnish- 

 ing of inferior stock. 



Prof. William Alwood, of Charlottes- 

 ville, Va., spoke on the by-products of 

 fruits, describing the work of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture in studying the 

 quality of fruit with reference to the 

 sugar and acid contents. 



Samuel C. Moon, of Morrisville, Pa., 

 read a paper entitled "Evergreen Con- 

 ifers." "The aim of this paper," he 

 said, "shall be to encourage a more 

 general planting of evergreens about 

 rural and suburban homes and an en- 

 largement of the number of species used 

 for this purpose. I have no new varie- 

 ties to exploit and no new discoveries to 

 advance, but simply wish to reiterate and 

 emphasize the statement that the rural 

 homes of our country need more ever- 

 green trees about them." After refer- 

 ring to the limited number of species 

 planted in years gone by, he continued: 

 "There is a large field for missionary 

 seivice on the part of nurserymen who 

 employ traveling salesmen in exerting 

 themselves to push the sale of such trees 

 and benefit mankind and our country 

 thereby. I am not now arguing for the 



improvement of the lawns and large es- 

 tates of wealthy landowners. Landscape 

 designers and engineers take care of 

 these, and are probably doing their work 

 fairly well. But the multitude of coun- 

 try home owners, who are neither very 

 wealthy nor very poor, who do not con- 

 sult landscape gardeners and who have 

 not had their attention called to some of 

 their own needs nor learned to appreciate 

 them, require the sympathy, encourage- 

 ment and assistance of the nurserymen. 

 Every nurseryman who raises ornamental 

 trees for sale should have himself, or 

 else have in his employ one who has, 

 some knowledge about the simple ar- 

 rangement and planting of home grounds, 

 and it should be his duty and his pleasure 

 to freely assist his neighbors and pa- 

 trons with suggestions in such lines, as 

 occasion is presented." Mr. Moon went 

 on to state that among the conifers to 

 be recommended for ordinary planting, 

 experience led him to include at least 

 fifty species, and he proceeded briefly to 

 mention their individual merits. 



Other Addresses. 



The program for Thursday called for 

 the election of officers and the selection 

 of next place of meeting, with a number 

 of routine reports of standing commit- 

 tees, and the following papers: 



"Our Department's Work," by R. A. Pearson, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, Albany, N. Y. 



"The Science Point of View," by Prof. L. H. 

 Bailey, Cornell University. 



"Commercial Peach Orchards," by L. A. 

 Berckmans. Augusta, Ga. 



"The Experiment Station and the Fruit In- 

 terests," by Dr. W. H. Jordan, New York Agri- 

 cultural Station, Geneva, N. Y. 



"Relations Between the Grower and Retail 

 Nurserymen," by E. S. Osborne, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



Thursday afternoon the protective as- 

 sociations hold their regular annual meet- 

 ings. 



Local Hospitalities* 



The local hospitalities, which were on 

 a more elaborate scale than ever before, 

 began with a ride Wednesday afternoon 

 through Bochester and the parks as 

 guests of the western New York nurs- 

 erymen. 



For Thursday afternoon the visiting 

 ladies were invited to a reception and 

 luncheon at the Genesee Valley Club and 

 Thursday evening the ladies were asked 

 to a theater party at the Lyceum theater, 

 adjoining the hotel. For the men a 

 smoker was announced for Thursday 

 evening at the Masonic Temple, with 

 ' ' something doing every minute. ' ' Fri- 

 day was left with no set program in or- 

 der to make it possible for the visitors 

 to do business with one another and to 

 inspect the nurseries. 



The entertainment was in the hands 

 of the following committees of western 

 New York nurserymen: 



Bzecutlve Committee — William Pitkin, J. M. 

 Pitkin, Charles J. Brown, Charles J. Maloy, 

 E. S. Osborne, Horace Hooker, William 0. 

 Barry, A. H. Salter, George C. Seager. 



Committee on Finance — William C. Barry, 

 Irving Rouse, Nelson Bogue, George C. Perkins, 

 George S. Josselyn, Theodore J. Smith, John B. 

 Morey, William J. Maloney. 



Committee on Rides, Excursions and Lonesome 

 Roads— Charles J. Maloy, M. B. Fox, B. F. 

 Allen, F. E. Grover, Charles H. Hawks, R. D. 

 Lnetchford, A. L. Wood. 



Committee on Entertainment of Ladies — 

 Horace Hooker, R. G. Salter, J. F. Dale, E. S. 

 Mayo, A. A. Mosher, Thomas F. Brown, 0. H. 

 Chase, Mrs. C. J. Brown, Mrs. G'. C. Seager. 



Committee on Smoker — E. S. Osborne, Charles 

 L. Yates, O. G. Chase, J. M. Pitkin, O. B. 

 Graham. Walter W. Wyman, Charles H. Vick. 



Committee on Decorations — A. H. Salter, 

 J. M. Charlton, George F. Crosman, J. fif. 

 Keller, Fred W. Vick, Fred Schlegel. 



Press Committee — H. C. Goodwin, Prof. John 

 Craig, Charles A. Green. 



Trade Exhibits. 



The number of trade exhibits in place 

 at the opening of the convention was not 

 as large as sometimes has been the case. 

 Possibly the trade felt that exhibiting 

 at Bochester would be in the nature of 

 carrying coals to Newcastle. The ex- 

 hibits in place Wednesday morning were 

 as follows: 



J. Frederick Lee, Bochester, advertis- 

 ing goods. 



Clark Nursery Co., Bochester, peach 

 seeds and raffia. 



M. Brunswick & Co., Bochester, water- 

 colored fruit pictures. 



McHutchison & Co., New York city, 

 raffia. 



Chase Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala., 

 nursery supplies, such as pruning shears 

 and tree counters. 



Bochester Lithographing Co., Boches- 

 ter, advertising lithographs. 



Dayton Fruit Tree Label Co., Dayton, 

 O., tree labels. 



McFarland Organizations, Harrisburg, 

 auto-chromes and colored slides. 



Vredenburg & Co., Bochester, litho- 

 graphs and advertising specialties. 



Paul C. Koeber Co., photo gelatine 

 color process. 



Stecher Lithographing Co., Bochester, 

 fruit plates and other lithographs. 



The Macmillan Co., New York city, the 

 Cyclopedia of American Agriculture by 

 L. H. Bailey. 



Vincennes Nurseries, Vincennes, Ind., 

 one and two-year-old cherry trees. 



P. J. Berckmans Co., Atlanta, Ga., 

 Aucuba Japonica, Perfection currant. 

 Biota aurea nana and Azalea Indica. 



J. W. McNara, Hydrangea arborescens 

 sterilis. 



