THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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^rom Darious points. 
The regular session of the American Pomological Soci¬ 
ety, will be held in San Francisco, upon invitation of the 
State Horticultural Society of California, at some time 
between December, 1894 and February,, 1895. 
The World’s Horticultural Society was organized at the 
World’s Fair, in the office of Chief J. M. Samuels of the 
horticultural department, on August 22d. George W. 
Campbell was temporary chairman and Professor L. H. 
Bailey, secretaiy. The permanent organization was effected 
by the election of these officers : President, P. J. Berck- 
mans, Augusta, Ga.; vice-president, Henri L. de Vilmorin, 
Paris, P"ranee; secretary and treasurer, George Nicholson, 
Kew, England. 
The California Nurserymen’s Association was formed 
on August 14th, with these officers: President, G. C. 
Roeding ; vice-president, Leonard Coates; secretary, 
R. D. Fox, San Jose ; treasurer, John Rock ; executive 
committee, W. P. Harman, J. Waters, A. F. Board- 
man, John Rock, C. C. Royce. The action of the Cali¬ 
fornia State Horticultural Society, inviting the American 
Pomological Society to hold its next meeting in San 
Francisco, was indorsed. 
The nurserymen of Northern California have organ¬ 
ized themselves into an association, which already em¬ 
braces a large membership. The objects of the asso¬ 
ciation are mutual protection, regulation of prices and 
transportation, controlling the matter of pests and dis¬ 
eases, and to guard against the importation of large 
quantities of trees from infected localities by dealers and 
middlemen. Why do not the nurserymen of Southern 
California organize on similar grounds ?—Rural Cali¬ 
fornian. 
By the terms of the New York law on black knot, any 
tree affected is declared a public nuisance and must be de¬ 
stroyed by fire. A board of three commissioners is to be 
created in any town or city upon application of the free¬ 
holders, the commissioners to be fruit growers. Their 
duties are to institute investigations in the region over which 
they have jurisdiction and to condemn any affected tree, or 
part of tree. Anyone failing to comply with their orders to 
destroy diseased trees, is liable to a fine of or to ten 
days’ imprisonment, or both. 
J. H. Hale writes from Connecticut: “The season at 
the south has been very favorable for nursery stock, but 
h^e extreme drouth held all through the early summer. 
Still by constant cultivation stock has kept growing a little 
and it has been on the jump since the rains came the last of 
August. The big storms of early September so thrashed 
black caps on twelve acres that not many tips can be rooted 
and stock will be short, but our twenty-five acre block of 
strawberries must have rooted at least four million plants 
the last month, and they are still at it,” 
The Louisiana [Mo.] Press says : “We give below 
the monthly pay-roll of Stark nurseries for the nursery 
year ended June, 1893 : June, 1892, $6,695 ! July/' 
$7,943.35; August, $6,082.15; September, $5,786; Oc¬ 
tober, 9,582.60; November, 7,369-30; December, 
$5,269.50; January, 1893, $5,201.10; February, $4,- 
445.15; March, $5,790.50 ; April, $10,394.35; May, 
$6,584.15; total, $81,145.10. This amount was paid 
for labor alone and does not include salesmen’s salaries 
or commissions, nor the amounts paid railroads, express 
companies, merchants, blacksmiths and a hundred other 
items of expense.” 
The author of “Sketches on Horseback,” says of the 
Lombardy Poplar : This poplar illustrates a principle 
in horticulture of much importance. Our original stock 
came from the valley of the Po river in Italy, where it 
was supposed to be native. But in 1882 we discovered 
that its home was in East Europe, and that some of its 
varieties were as hardy as any of the Russian trees, and 
far more beautiful than the one from the Po valley. 
Around Minneapolis and St. Paul, and in parts of North 
Iowa and Dakota, may be been specimens in perfect 
health. The Russian variety we introduced from the 
Agricultural College of Varonesh, in Russia, is quite as 
upright as our old form, but its top is not so thin, and 
its foliage is handsomer and darker. In certain situa¬ 
tions the Lombardy Poplar is admissible in landscape 
gardening, and the hardy variety of it will be more plen¬ 
tiful in Iowa fifty years hence than was the old variety 
twenty-five years ago.” 
Says the Iowa State Register: “We have four 
queries in regard to the propagation of the cut-leaved 
birch. This beautiful tree is in demand and our nur¬ 
series have never a supply except as ordered from east¬ 
ern propagators. It is not more difficult to propagate 
by budding than the cherry or plum. Seedlings of the 
common European white birch are set in nursery rows 
one spring and are budded in June of the next season. 
Of course in June the new buds are not properly devel¬ 
oped. Hence the buds are taken from two-year-old 
wood. Two-year-old buds put in from the 20th to the 
last of June will not grow under, as in the cherry or 
plum, and being less excitable, will not start to any ex¬ 
tent until the stocks are cut off the next spring. When 
the buds start, a tendency to drooping can only be pre¬ 
vented by tying to small stakes. When once started 
upward they make an upward growth. The use of two- 
year-old buds is now becoming common in propagating 
the pear at the East. Of late years the spot disease of 
pear leaves has interfered with August budding. To 
avoid this, two-year-old buds are set in June, when the 
leaves-are healthy, and the tops are cut off as usual the 
next spring. ” 
Superintendent Schwagerl of the Park Commission 
of Seattle, Wash., recently collected choice botanical 
