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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES OF TREES AND SHRUBS 
The Nurserymen’s Convention 
The thirty-second annual meeting of 
the American Association of Nursery- 
men at Detroit, Mich., last month, 
brought together a representative 
body of nurserymen in encouraging 
numbers. In his annual address Pres- 
ident Harr.'son emphasized the im- 
portance of producing a higher grade 
of .nursery stock to meet the demand 
for better trees at correspondingly 
better prices. 
It was decided to urge Congress to 
transfer the inspection of imported 
nursery stock from the Treasury to 
the Agricultural Department; to give 
the latter department the means to 
fight insect pests; and to regulate in- 
terstate shipments. The papers were 
largely of a practical nature and 
ma nly devoted to growing fruit trees 
and grading and marketing fruit. 
Growing ornamental nursery stock 
was discussed quite exhaustively by 
\V. H. Wyman, of North Abingdon, 
Mass., and Geo. C. Perkins, Newark 
N. Y. The association continued its 
financial support to the National 
Council of Horticulture, whose bulle- 
tins in the secular press are intended 
to foster a love for flowers and in- 
struct in their culture. 
Prof. John Craig’s entertaining ster- 
eopticon lecure on “Nurseries of the 
United States” presented views of 
many of the best known nurseries of 
the country that had been visited by 
the lecturer, including the grounds of 
Luther Burbank in California. This 
much advertised man was caught by 
the camera in the act of taking a lit- 
tle relaxing exercise, the picture 
showed him in the rather undignified 
but brain clearing attitude of standing 
on his head as he was doing a somer- 
sault. 
A resolution was adopted condemn- 
ing the congressional free seed dis- 
tribution as now conducted and favor- 
ing the original provision of the law 
for tlie introduction and distribution 
of new and valuable seeds and plants 
by the Department of Agriculture. 
The trade exhibit was the best the as- 
sociation has yet made. At least forty 
firms were represented by nursery 
stock, insecticides, and various ma- 
chines and appliances for nurserymen. 
This is a feature that is always inter- 
esting and should be encouraged. 
Next year’s meeting will be held at 
Milwaukee. The officers elected for 
the ensuing year were: President, J. 
W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; vice-presi- 
dent C. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind.; 
secretary, George C. Seager, Roches- 
ter, N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, 
Rochester, N. Y.; executive committee, 
J. H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio; E. M. 
Sherman, Charles City, la., and Henry 
B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala. 
Rapidity of Growth of Trees 
Beginning with a three-inch sapling 
the following named varieties of trees 
will, in twenty years, under favorable 
conditions, attain a diameter approxi- 
mately as follows : 
Inches. 
White or Silver, Maple 21 
American White Elm 19 
Basswood 17 
Red Maple 16 
Yellow Locust 14 
Box Elder 14 
Hard Maple 13 
Red Oak 13 
Scarlet Oak 13 
White Ash 12 
White Oak 11 
. Hackberry 10 
The height which each species may 
be expected to attain is omitted here 
as it will assume the usual proportion 
to the diameter. (Report of the New 
York Forestry Commission.) 
Planting Street Trees 
“The planting of street trees requires 
as much care as does their selection. It 
is not enough to merely dig a hole and 
crowd the roots into it. Any expecta- 
tions based on such planting are 
doomed to end in disappointment. In 
laying out for street planting, let the 
first stakes be set at the street cross- 
ings. When the abutting streets also 
are to be planted, place two stakes at 
each corner, about thirty feet from the‘ 
point of intersection' of the curb line, 
on each street. Then space off the in- 
tervening distance, setting the stakes 
equally distant apart, but not less than 
si.xty-five feet, as the shortest distance. 
Street trees, generally, are planted 
too closely together. Sometimes this is 
done with the intention of cutting out 
alternate ones, as the growth of the 
trees require. Tin's, however, is seldom 
done, and the trees grovy up too tliickly, 
thereby overcrowding and injuring each 
other, destroying all the individual 
beauty of the trees and the symmet- 
rical arrangement which an avenue of 
trees should have.” J. A. Pettigrew'. 
Landscape Surgery 
The question of removing super- 
fluous trees in the interest of devel- 
oping a piece of ground on landscape 
lines, has always been a bone of con- 
tention betw'een the ordinary citizen 
and the authority directing the work. 
It appears like a sacrilege to cut 
down a healthy and growing tree, 
and it is a natural sentiment that in- 
spires the critic. But the landscape 
gardener in the pursuit of his calling, 
and in any special work he may have 
in hand, finds many trees which must 
be removed in order to carry out his 
design on the one hand, and on the 
other, to prevent the marring of his 
plan in the future by the death of 
trees owing to their short lived na- 
ture. These and many other reasons 
present themselves to the landscape 
expert to lead him both to remove 
and replant trees to further the plans 
he has mapped out and the ideal for 
which he works. For in landscape 
gardening the ideal is in the future 
and in the designer’s mind and he has 
to work with that in constant mental 
view. And. this is true in relation to 
landscape work of whatever e.xtent. 
The commissioners of the Calumet 
Park District, adjoining Chicago, 
have been subjected to severe criti- 
cism for cutting out certain Box 
Elders, Soft Maples, and other un- 
necessary trees in the course of some 
park improvement in Morgan Park, a 
beautiful suburb of Chicago, on the 
historical Blue Island ridge. The 
landscape w'ork has been planned by 
Mr. Jens Jensen, superintendent of 
the Chicago West Side Park system, 
and what is termed as ruthless de- 
struction of trees has been carried out 
under his orders. Mr. Henry J. 
Bohn, a prominent worker in Morgan 
Park improvement affairs, in a recent 
issue of the “Ridge Record,” perti 
nently discussed the questions raised 
by the opposition, which shou’d cer- 
tainly “lay the ghost” of tree destruc- 
tion in the intelligent minds of his 
readers, for no trained landscape 
architect would group short lived and 
long lived trees when designing for 
permanent results and effects. 
Transplanting Trees at Night 
It has long been known that bud- 
ding trees, when transplanted in the 
evening, are more likely to thrive 
than those moved in the daytime, says 
The Garden. A French expert has 
gone a step farther, and claims that 
distinctly beneficial results can be 
gained by transplanting in the dead 
of night. He has transplanted large 
trees without losing any by the adop- 
tion of this method. 
