June 17, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



5J 



American Auociation of Nurserymen at Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., June 10, 1909. 



indoors as well as outdoors. We have de- 

 veloped colleges of medicine, or of dis- 

 ease. We shall sometime have colleges 

 (if health." 



Committee on Legislation. 



Wm. Pitkin, for the legislative com- 

 luittee, reported calling on Irving Rouse, 

 .1. M. Pitkin, J. H. Dayton, Abner 

 lloopes, W. H. Moon and T. B. Meehan 

 for aid on a trip to Washington that re- 

 sulted in killing the bill that had almost 

 jiassed, providing for the inspection of 

 imported nursery stock at the port of 

 entry. At the suggestion of representa- 

 tives of the government, a bill for a sim- 

 ilar purpose but not inimical to nursery 

 interests has been drafted by the com- 

 mittee and is now in the iiands of the 

 Department of Agriculture for considera- 

 tion. The committee had investigated 

 many state laws during the year. The 

 Maine law contains little considered detri- 

 in?ntal to nursery interests. Counsel ad- 

 vised that the Montana law cannot be 

 .successfully attacked. The unreasonable 

 Wisconsin law has not been enforced. 

 The Pennsylvania law is thought to be 

 invalid; an invitation for a test case was 

 declined. The objectionable North Da- 

 kota law was killed in committee. The 

 New York law was reported as having 

 been modified until it could be cited as a 

 model. The California law, as interpreted, 

 practically excludes shipments of peach 

 trees into that state. The Wyoming law 

 is thought open to attack in some of its 

 features. 



The committee asked to be given au- 

 thority to act in securing the passage of 

 a proper bill providing for the inspection 

 of all foreign nursery stock at destina- 

 tion on the premises of the consignee or 

 owner, and for the inspection and treat- 

 ment of growing nursery stock if it is 

 found to be infested or suspected of in- 

 festation with diseases new to the United 

 States. Such power was granted the com- 

 mittee in a motion made by Col. Watrous, 

 of Iowa, and further power was con- 

 ferred on the executive committee to act 

 on matters arising from hostile legisla- 

 tion in various states. 



Other Papers Read. 



' ' P^xperiment Stations and Fruit In- 

 terests" was the subject of an address 

 by Dr. W. H. Jordan, of the New York 



Agricultural Station, Geneva. Dr. Jor- 

 dan spoke of the scope of agricultural 

 colleges at the present time, the ones he 

 is associated with having an annual in- 

 come of approximately $14,000,000, with 

 a student body of something like ten 



V. P. Stark. 



(Vice-president American Association of 

 Nurferjmen.) 



thousand, about 500 reports and bulletins 

 being sent out each year. It requires 

 little effort today to secure reasonable 

 appropriations from legislatures in New 

 York or any other state for the endow- 

 ment of these institutions, but the secur- 



ing of such funds should be left to the 

 boards of control of these institutions. 

 It has been unfortunate that the men who 

 have had the responsibility of the scien- 

 tific and educational management of 

 these institutions have been obliged in 

 some ways to enter the field of politics 

 to secure financial support; their places 

 should be at the institutions, working for 

 the discovery of truth and trying to solve 

 the problems that the discovery of new 

 facts brings before them. 



E. S. Osborne, of Rochester, read a 

 paper entitled, * ' Relations Between the 

 Grower and Retailer." These relations, 

 he said, should be of the pleasantest char- 

 acter, and each should strive to assist 

 the other and protect him, as the suc- 

 cess of each is dependent upon the suc- 

 cess of the other. The grower should 

 be particularly careful to see that his 

 varieties are not mixed in propagation, 

 and that stock is absolutely true to name. 

 The practice of sending wholesale price 

 lists and surplus lists to the consumer 

 should be discouraged; also sending such 

 lists to professional landscape gardeners 

 who turn over such stock to their em- 

 ployers without an advance in price. 



A paper on "Commercial Peach Or- 

 chards" was read by L. A. Berckmans, 

 of Augusta, Ga., in which he stated that 

 in order to make a success of peach or- 

 charding one must be a good tiller of the 

 soil, understand plant life, know how to 

 kill bugs and fight to a finish those in- 

 sidious and invisible atoms of destruc- 

 tion known as microbes and fungous 

 germs. Sandy loam, with a porous red 

 clay subsoil, is the ideal soil for a peach 

 orchard. Elevated areas are the most de- 

 sirable. Prepare soil by removing all 

 stumps, roots and debris, sow crimson 

 clover or cowpeas, then turn under the 

 cover crop, plow deep, plant trees 18x18 

 feet apart, in two-foot holes. Cultivate 

 thoroughly, raising peas, melons or pota- 

 toes among the trees up to the bearing 

 period. Prune two or three times during 

 tlie growing season, removing all super- 

 fluous growth. For the first two years 

 the growth of the orchard should be stim- 

 ulated by an abundant supply of phos- 

 phoric acid and nitrogen. To guard 

 against the peach tree borer, apply a 

 wash of one bushel of quick lime, twenty 

 pounds of sulphur, one gallon of coal tar 



