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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNX 20, 1912. 





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NDKSERY NEWS. 



AMEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NTTBSESYMEir. 



Officers for 1912-1913: Pres., Thomas B. 

 Meehan, Dresber, Pa.; Vlce-Pres., J. B. Pllklng- 

 ton, Portland, Ore. ; Sec'y, John Hall, Rochester, 

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

 Thirty-eighth annual meeting, Portland, Ore., 

 June, 1913. 



The Kirkman Nurseries Co., Fresno, 

 Cal., has just invested $21,000 in two 

 lots at Tulare and O streets, on which it 

 will establish offices and city sales head- 

 quarters. 



B. E. Gage and B. S. Gage, of Peter- 

 son Nursery, Chicago, are making an au- 

 tomobile trip, combining business and 

 pleasure, through northern Illinois and 

 southern Wisconsin. 



C. P. Hartley, Emmett, Idaho, is plan- 

 ning to build a storage and packing 

 house 40x300 feet and two stories high. 

 It is needed for handling fruit as much 

 as for nursery stock. 



The Pope County Nursery, of Potts- 

 ville. Ark., is now owned and controlled 

 by J. A. Eackley and W. A. Martin, who 

 expect to have a fine stock of young 

 trees ready for market in the coming 

 season. 



It is stated that the nurseries at 

 Boskoop, Holland, in the autumn of 1911 

 exported to the countries of continental 

 Europe 577 carloads of nursery stock, 

 and 500 carloads in the spring of 1912. 

 In addition large quantities were ex- 

 ported to England and to America. 



From Fruitland, Idaho, it is reported 

 that Carnifex & Williams, proprietors of 

 the Fruitland Nursery Co., have made a 

 trade with Sargent & Burnet, orchardists, 

 by which they have received thirty acres 

 of young orchard north of Pleasant View 

 in exchange for their nursery stock, 

 which will be disposed of under the name 

 of the firm by the summer of 1914. 



NURSERYMEN'S CONVENTION. 



[For an account of the ilrst day's proceedings, 

 president's address, committee reports, papers to 

 be read, trade exhibits, etc., see last week's 

 Issue of The Review.] 



Officers Elected. 



At the thirty-seventh annual conven- 

 tion of the American Association of Nur- 

 serymen, held at the Hotel Somerset, 

 Boston, June 12 to 14, the following 

 oflBcers were elected: 



President — Thomas B. Meehan, Dresh- 

 er, Pa. 



Vice-president — J. B. Pilkington, Port- 

 land, Ore. 



Secretary— John Hall, Rochester, N. 

 T., re-elected. 



Treasurer— C, L. Yates, Rochester, 

 N. Y., re-elected. 



Etecutive committee — H. B. Chase, 



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Portland Next. 



The A. A. N. is peripatetic, all right, 

 for, like Aristotle, it expounds its 

 philosophy on the move: Last year, at 

 Dallas; this year, at Boston, and in 1913 

 the convention will be held at Portland, 

 Ore., in conjunction with the meeting of 

 the Pacific Coast Nurserymen's Associa- 



tion. The association never has been 

 farther west than Denver. 



Quarantine Bill Endorsed. 



At the session June 13 the report of 

 the legislative committee was taken up 

 and there was a general discussion of 

 the proposed federal quarantine law, fed- 

 eral inspection, and allied subjects. As 

 usual, views as wide apart as the poles 

 were shown. There was both denuncia- 



Thomas B. Meehan. 



(Presltlent-elect American Association of Nurserymen. 



