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June 19, 1913. 



J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., 

 will entertain on the lawn of Mayor Or- 

 lando Harrison, July 31, the Maryland 

 State Horticultural Society and the Pen- 

 insula Horticultural Society. Invita- 

 tions will also be extended to members 

 and officers of Pennsylvania, New Jer- 

 sey, Virginia and West Virginia horti- 

 cultural societies. 



"Ox account of the decrease in the 

 number of large orchards, especially of 

 apple trees, planted during the last 

 year, ' ' say J. G. Harrison & Sons, Ber- 

 lin. Md., ' ' our business has, of course, in 

 that line materially decreased. However, 

 the ornamental trade has been better 

 ahd we look forward to a large business 

 in that line the coming season." 



Eastern nurserymen en route to Port- 

 land, Ore., for the thirty-eighth annual 

 convention of the American Association 

 of Nurserymen, passed through Chicago 

 June 13. The party was headed by 

 Thomas B. Meehan, of Dresher, Pa., 

 president of the association. Others in 

 the party were Secretary John Hall, of 

 Rochester, N. Y. ; Howard Davis, Balti- 

 more; John C. Chase, Derry, N. H.; 0. 

 M. Peters and wife, Salisbury, Md. ; W. 

 L. Hart, Fredonia, N. Y.; Ralph T. 01- 

 cott, editor American Fruits, Rochester, 

 N. Y. ; T. I. Ilgenf ritz, Monroe, Mich. ; 

 Joseph Charlton, Rochester, N. Y.; J. B. 

 Morey, Dansville, N. Y. ; George Perkins, 

 Newark, N. Y.; C. R. Burr, Manchester, 

 Conn.; J. F. McClare, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 

 G. Hale Harrison, Berlin, Md,; Albert F. 

 Meehan, Dresher, Pa., and L. J, Farmer 

 and wife, of Pulaski, N. Y, 



THE PORTLAND CONVENTION. 



A Gala Event, 



The American Association of Nursery- 

 men is this week meeting on the Pacific 

 coast for the first time in its history, 

 and certainly never in its long and 

 honorable career has it been received 

 with so great enthusiasm. Never has 

 the convention attracted so much atten- 

 tion from the public, and never have 

 the arrangements for reception and en- 

 tertainment partaken so much of the 

 social character. The A. A. N. is a busi- 

 ness body; it puts on no frills or feath- 

 ers, but Portland people were so glad 

 to see their guests that the headquar- 

 ters at the Multnomah hotel had been 

 lavishly decorated by the local florists. 

 There also is an unusually large display 

 of fruits, flowers, nursery stock and 

 nursery supplies, adding not a little to 

 the festival appearance of the building. 



With the thirty-eighth annual conven- 

 tion of the A, A. N, the Pacific Coast 

 Association of Nurserymen is holding 

 its eleventh annual meeting. The Pacific 

 coast organization is the largest and 

 most intensely active of the many dis- 

 trict associations of nurserymen, and its 

 large membership Justified the national 

 body's long journey west. To the 

 florists and seedsmen the special inter- 

 est in the Portland meeting will attach 

 to the fact that movements are on foot 

 to take all three trade bodies to San 



Francisco in 1915. Of course at that 

 time there will be the added attraction 

 of the exposition and low railroad rates 

 to stimulate attendance, but there also 

 will be the lure of the exposition and 

 sight-seeing to distract attention from 

 the business meetings. In the case of 

 the A, A. N. this year it has proved 

 that the attendance from the east and 

 middle west is negligible; only a hand- 

 ful of the regulars from east of the 

 Mississippi are on hand, but' on the 

 whole the attendance is nearly up to 

 the best records, as there were on the 

 opening day 120 present from the Pacific 

 coast states, few of whom ever before 

 had attended a convention of the A. 

 A. N. 



Pacific Coast Business Session. 



The Pacific Coast Association of Nur- 

 serymen was given charge of the open- 

 ing session, held Tuesday morning, June 

 17. It took the form of a reception, 

 with music by the Portland Ad Club 

 Quartette. This was followed by a busi- 

 ness session of the Pacific coast body, 

 under the chairmanship of President 

 Albert Brownell, at which the visitors 

 from the east were interested specta- 

 tors. Reports of officers and commit- 

 tees carried this into the afternoon, 

 when officers were elected for the next 

 year, as follows: 



President — Richard Layritz, Van-, 

 couver, B. C. 



Vice-president — Charles Trotter, Van- 

 couver, B. C. 



Secretary-treasurer — C. A. Tonneson, 

 Tacoma, Wash. 



The 1914 meeting — Vancouver, B. C. 



Conditions on the Coast. 



A summing up of the reports shows a 

 decreased planting of nursery stock in 

 the far west, especially apple. It is the 

 consensus of opinion that more atten- 

 tion should be devoted to studying the 

 needs of the planters and to developing 

 the markets for the products of nursery 

 products, also to the development of 

 aesthetic horticulture. On legislation the 

 reports from the different states varied. 

 In California great activity is manifest 

 by the authorities, and the trade is 

 somewhat embarrassed by too many 

 regulations, but progress appears to be 

 made. In Washington the laws have 

 been completely changed, the depart- 

 ment of agriculture now being in charge 

 of all matters to promote nursery and 

 fruit-growing interests. In Montana the 

 horticultural law is before the courts 

 on the question of licenses and charges. 

 In the last year $4,000 has been sub- 

 scribed for legal purposes. It was the 

 consensus of opinion that a federal law, 

 uniform for all the states, should regu- 

 late inspection. 



A Joint Session. 



Wednesday morning, June 18, there 

 was a joint session of the two associa- 

 tions, with President Brownell seated 

 at the right of President Meehan. There 

 were addresses of welcome and re- 

 sponses. Then the two presidents read 

 their annual addresses, recounting the 

 year's work and indicating, as the result 



of the year's experience, what appears 

 to be the course for the future. 



Then came probably the longest pro- 

 gram of essays and discussions either 

 association ever has been called on to 

 consider. Not all the papers shown in 

 the program were presented, but in 

 place of those who did not come were 

 others who had matters of importance 

 they wanted threshed out. The papers 

 were as follows: 



"Uniform Horticultural Laws; their Enforce- 

 men and Beneflt," by A. J. Cook, Commlssionor 

 of Horticulture, Sacramento, Cal. 



"Between the Nurseryman and Fruit Grower," 

 by Prof. O. M. Morris, Pullman, Wash. 



"What Shall the Future of Horticulture Be?" 

 by E. W. Kirkpatrlck, McKlnney, Tex. 



"Park Making on the Pacific Coast," by E. F. 

 Mische, Portland, Ore. 



"Care of Small Fruit Plants; Duty of Nursery- 

 man and Planter," by J. L. Farmer, Pulaski. 

 N. Y. 



"Working and Results of the New Federal 

 Horticultural Law," by J. McHutchison, New 

 York. 



"Horticultural Laws," by Geo. C. Roeding, 

 Fresno, Cal. 



"Oregon's New Quarantine Law," discussion 

 opened by W. K. Newell, Easton, Ore. 



"Nurserymen's Problems in Fungus and Bac- 

 terial Diseases," by Prof. H. S. Jackson, Oregon 

 Agricultural College. 



A. A. N. Business Session. 



The conclusion of the several long 

 joint sessions of the two organizations, 

 largely devoted to discussions of horti- 

 cultural laws, was followed by the busi- 

 ness session of the American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen. Coming at the 

 close of the convention instead of at 

 the start, and with so many of the old 

 guard absent, the routine work was 

 not of a character to occupy much time. 

 The last act of the convention will be 

 the election of officers. 



Secretary's Beport. 



Secretary John Hall, of Rochester, in 

 his report, prepared in advance of the 

 convention, said: 



"We have approached this conven- 

 tion with considerable anxiety from the 

 fact that a peculiar combination of cir- 

 cumstances has prevented many of our 

 members from attending this anni- 

 versary. One of the main explanations 

 for this condition is that the meetings 

 of the association, it is claimed, are held 

 at an inopportune time. The spring 

 packing season has barely closed by the 

 time for which this annual gathering is 

 scheduled, and the work which follows 

 the packing season demands such close 

 attention that members cannot leave 

 home without incurring loss. Beside-, 

 they have no intelligent idea at thi t 

 early date of what stock they have on 

 hand and what their future wants wil 

 be. Quite a number of members hav>? 

 expressed themselves as favoring i 

 later date, suggestions varying froi i 

 two weeks to two months later than tht' 

 constitutional date. 



"Then, too, the Panama-Pacific Inter- 

 national Exposition of 1915 in San Fran 

 Cisco is claiming the attention of man ' 

 members to the extent of their lettin;,' 

 this convention pass. There are still 

 others who had planned to be presenr 

 who are prevented from doing so by 

 sickness, either of themselves or mem 

 bers of their families. There is also .i 

 strong feeling that the annual conven 

 tion should be held at some more cen- 



