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The election of officers was the most important 
work of the third day. J. G. Harrison, of Berlin, 
Md., mayor of his town, was made president, and the 
other officers elected as follows : J. W. Hill, Des 
Moines, la., vice-president ; George C. Seager, Roch- 
ester, N. Y., secretary; C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y., 
treasurer; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind., chairman 
of executive committee; J. H. Dayton, of Ohio, and 
F. H. Stannard, of Kansas, members of the execu- 
tive committee. E. Albertson was appointed a spe- 
cial agent to look after matters of legislation with 
reference to labeling and inspection of stock. 
An interesting and spirited discussion of fertilizers 
followed, and the official business closed with the 
passage of the following resolution : 
‘‘Resolved, That this association urges its members 
to adopt three classes of prices ; first, retail ; second, 
wholesale ; third, trade. The latter class is to be avail- 
able only to nurserymen and florists, or those who 
buy for public plantings. And that we disapprove the 
practice of advertising trade prices in periodicals. 
“Resolved, further. That this association disap- 
proves the practice of sending or quoting trade prices 
to others than those strictly in the trade, as mentioned 
before.” 
After adjournment a party of about 125 of the 
visitors left on a special train for San Antonio, Hous- 
ton, Galveston and other points of interest in southern 
Texas. 
EUPATORIUM AGERATOIDES (WHITE SNAKEROOT.) 
The ageratum-flowered eupatorium is a useful, hand- 
some but greatly neglected perennial. Its good qual- 
ities are so pronounced that it is really invaluable 
and it should be grown abundantly in every garden 
Do not confuse this refined flower with its coarser, 
commoner and far less attractive relative, E. per- 
foliatum, better known by its popular name of Bone- 
set or Thoroughwort. The latter, one of the best 
known “old women’s herbs,” and still widely gath- 
ered and used as a domestic remedy, is fine, also, in 
its place. It serves an excellent purpose in low, 
damp situations used in masses for producing strik- 
ing effects at considerable distance. But its foliage 
is too coarse and its flowers too dingy for a near 
view, and it is quite impossible as a cut flower. The 
same may be said of another near relative, E. pur- 
pureum or Joe-Pye Weed, except, perhaps, that its 
more attractive flowers are sometimes admissible as 
cut blooms for particular times and places. The sub- 
ject of the illustration, however, bears close inspection 
as a plant, is admirable for use in shaded situations 
in the garden or shrubbery, and is especially desir- 
able for- cutting. It blooms in very late summer or 
early fall when white flowers are at a premium for 
use among autumn’s wealth of golden bloom, and 
they are clear and pure — most pleasing in form and 
in tone. The heads are less dense than the cymes 
of the other varieties cited although sufficiently am- 
ple and' they are loose, open and graceful. A jar 
of these blossoms is certain to attract attention and 
favorable comment from their beauty and novelty, 
for the plant is so seldom seen in sufficient quantities 
for generous cutting that it is practically unknown. 
There is, however, a fine plantation of it flourishing 
as an under plant just west of one of' the bridges at 
the south end of the Wooded Island in Jackson Park, 
Chicago. It was probably established there with 
thousands of other appropriate wildlings before the 
Fair in developing the charming landscape effects seen 
there in connection with the lagoons. The plant 
illustrated is a chance seedling standing close to 
EUPATORIUM AGERATOIDES. 
the trunk of an old, wild crab-apple tree and 
only about eight feet north of a dwelling, and 
so close to the driveway that its foliage is barely 
missed by wheels of vehicles. In fact it was cut off 
in its infancy one spring by a carelessly guided wag- 
on delivering coal and was entirely missing for a 
year. Barring this untimely accident, it appears 
annuall}^ flourishes determinedly without watering or 
attention of any sort, but while always flowering as well 
as shown in the cut, and producing quantities of seed,, 
not another plant has sprung up anywhere around 
the place. This fact suggests the probable difficulty 
of starting white snakeroot seedlings but, if so, the 
hard conditions which obtain with this specimen 
prove it to be a stayer when once, established. It 
is unfortunate that growers of hardy perennials so 
generally neglect this very satisfactory eupatorium. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
