AMERICAN NURSERY 



LANDSCAPE 



W. H. Wyman, Chairman, North Abington, 



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F. L. Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 



J. M, Pitkin, Newark, N. Y. 



Wm. Warner Harper, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 



H. P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass. 



LEGISLATION 



William Pitkin, Chairman, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Peter Youngers, Geneva, Nebraska, 

 Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Abner Hoopes, West Chester, Penn. 

 Thos. B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 

 ^J. M. Pitkin, Newark. N. Y. 

 J. H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio. 

 E. S. W'elch, Shenandoah, Iowa. 

 A. E. Robinson, Lexington, Mass; 

 W\ P. Stark, Neosho, Mo. 

 W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va. 

 R. C. Chase, Chase, Ala. 

 W. H. Wyman, North Abington, Mass. 

 L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 

 W. F. Ilgenfritz, Monroe, Mich. 



E. W. Chattin, Winchester, Tenn. 

 N. W. Hale, Knoxviile, Tenn. 



W. C. Reed, Vincennes, Indiana. 



F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kansas. 

 William Flemer, Springfield, N. J. 

 E. F. Coe, Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin. 

 C. R. Burr, Manchester. Conn. 



E. A. Smith, Lake City, Minn. 



A Nursery Tree 



Few purchasers of nursery stock realize 

 the work and care given the tree which is 

 finally placed in their hands ready for plant- 

 ing. Let us trace an apple seedling from its 

 origin, probably in France from whence most 

 fruit seedlings come to the time it is deliv- 

 ered to the Ohio orchardist or farmer. 



The tree which he plants in the fall of 

 1916 or spring of 1917 originated in an apple 

 seed in France in the year 1913; planted 

 there in the spring of 1914 it devloped into 

 an apple seedling about two feet in length 

 during the growing season of that year. In 



