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Catalogues Received. —Boskoop, Holland, Nursery Associa¬ 
tion; D. Dauvesse, Orleans, Prance ; William Parry, Parry, N. Y.; 
Barbier Brothers & Son, Orleans, Prance, represented by Knauth, 
Nachod & Kuhne, New York ; The Bellevue Nursery, Wm. P. 
Bassett & Son, Hammonton, N. J. ; P. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown- 
on-Hudson, N. Y. ; Portland-Pearmount Nursery, Pilkington & 
Co.^ Portland, Ore. ; Michel Plant and Bulb Co., St. Louis, Mo. 
Cleveland Nursery Co., Rio Vista, Va.; A. T. Cook, Hyde Park, 
N. Y.; Lewis Roesch, Predonia, N. Y.; The Bloomsdale Nurseries, 
Woodstock, Ont.: Kennesaw Wholesale Nurseries, Marietta, Ga.; 
P. Van Exter, Gendbrugge-Ghent, Belgium; Kansas Home Nur¬ 
sery, A. H. Griesa, Lawrence, Kan.; W. Atlee Burpee &Co., Phil¬ 
adelphia; J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York City; Oscar Knopft' 
& Co., Erfurt, Germany. Kelway & Son, Langport, England; 
George S. Josselyn, Predonia, N. Y. 
Joseph Meehan recommends the top-grafting of apple 
trees instead of the root-grafting process by which most 
nursery stock is produced. This is especially important for 
the Baldwin apple, which is somewhat tender, and does bet¬ 
ter when grown on other roots than its ow n. 
^rom Darious points. 
Thirty-one hundred car-loads of grapes wure shipped 
from the Chautauqua district last year, of which the Grape 
Union shipped 1,837. 
Irving A. Wilcox of Portland, N. Y., and S. S. Crissey 
of P'redonia, N. Y., have been elected president and sec¬ 
retary respectively of the Chautauqua County Horticultural 
Society. 
The Michigan State Horticultural Society has elected 
these officers: President, Roland Morrill, Benton Harbor; 
secretary, PMwy C. Reed, Allegan; treasurer, Plvart H. 
Scott, Ann Arbor; executive board, C. W. Garfield, Grand 
Rapids; Fred J. Russell, Muskegon; and T. T. Lyon, 
South Haven. 
At the tw^elfth annual meeting of the American P'orestry 
Association in Washington, December 15th, Secretary of 
Agriculture Morton, whs re-elected president; Dr. H. M. 
Fisher, treasurer; B. Pk Fernow', chairman of the execu¬ 
tive committee, and J. D. W. P'rench, secretary pro tern. 
Upon invitation of Colonel W. P". P'ox, forest warden of 
New York, the association wall hold a meeting in Albany 
this w'inter. 
A California paper says : “ Wineries are running night 
and day and crushing a vast amount of grapes. The Los 
Gatos Co-operative has contracts for 3,000 tons ; the Sara¬ 
toga and Los Gatos Wine and Fruit Company 1,000 tons, 
and the California Grape Food Company for 2,000 tons 
(mostly Zinfandel and Muscat), to say nothing of the grapes 
used in the small wineries scattered through the mountains 
and foothills. The yield of grapes was fully up to the 
average and prices range from $g to )&io per ton.” 
At the 24th annual meeting of the Southeastern Iowh 
Horticultural Society on December 5—7, the folloiving offi¬ 
cers wure elected : C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, president ; 
W. H. Hoopes, Muscatine, vice-president; C. W. Burton, 
Cedar Rapids, secretary; W. M. Green, Davenport, treas¬ 
urer. Directors—ist district, W. S. Fultz, Muscatine ; 2d 
district, D. F. Bruner, Toledo ; 3d district, Pk A. Branson, 
New^ Sharon; 4th district, H. Schroeder, Sigourney; 5th 
district, T. L. Lunckenbill, Huron ; superintendent of ex¬ 
hibits, Jonas Miller, Wapello. 
The New' Hampshire State Horticultural Society has 
been organized at Manchester, N. PL, with the following 
officers ; President, C. C. Shaw', Milford ; vice-president, 
J. W. P'arr, Littleton; secretary, W. D. Baker, Quincy; 
treasurer, Thomas Pk Hunt, Gilford ; directors, George !'• 
Beede, Rockingham county; J. M. Haynes, Stratford county; 
J. L. Davis, Belknap county; Pk M. Shaw, Hillsborough 
comity; Harvey Jew'ell, Cheshire county; J. T. Harvey, 
Merrimack county; Thomas P'. Pulsifer, Grafton ; Charles 
McDaniel, Sullivan county. The annual meeting w'ill be 
held in October, 1894. 
