THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
OFFICERS ELECTED. 
American Pomological Society.—President, Prosper J. 
Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; vice-presidents, Charles L. 
Watrous, Des Moines, la.; J. H. Hale, South Glaston¬ 
bury, Conn ; J. A. Alexander, Augusta, Ga.; G. B. Brackett, 
Denmark, la.; W. C. Strong, Brighton, Mass.; T. T. Lyon, 
South Huron, Mich.; William Parry, Parry, N. J.; Dr. F. M. 
Hexamer, New York city ; George W. Campbell, Delaware, 
O.; H. M. Engle, Marietta, Pa.; R. A. Wickerham, 
Winchester, Va ; Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal.; 
Fred Wellhouse, Fairmount, Kan.; secretary, George C. 
Brackett, Lawrence, Kas.; treasurer, Benjamin G. Smith, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Western New York Horticultural Society.—President 
William C. Barry, Rochester; vice-presidents, S. D. Wil 
lard, Geneva ; Wing R. Smith, Syracuse ; George A. Sweet, 
Dansville ; C. L. Hoag, Lockport; secretary and treasurer, 
John Hall, Rochester; executive committee, C. M. Hooker, 
Rochester; C. W. Stuart, Newark ; Nelson Bogue, Batavia ; 
E. A. Powell, Syracuse ; H. S. Wiley, Cayuga. 
Illinois Horticultural Society.—President, T. A. Good¬ 
rich, Cobden ; vice-president, J. L. Hartwell, Dixon ; 
secretary, H. N. Dunlap, Savoy; treasurer, Arthur 
Bryant, Princeton. 
Montreal Horticultural Society.—Honorary president, 
W. Ogilvie ; honorary vice-president, Robert Mackay; 
directors, Thomas Hall, Joseph Bennett, John Walsh, 
John Doyle, W. M. Ramsay, Jules Betrix, Frank Roy, 
G. Trussed, D. William.son ; library committee, W. M. 
Ramsay, John Eddy, Frank Roy, W. Evans, James Mc¬ 
Kenna ; auditors, Messrs. Riddell and Common. 
Northern Illinois Horticultural Society.—President, Dr. 
C. C. Miller, Marengo ; first vice-president, A. R. Bryant, 
Princetown ; second vice-president, C. A. Getting, Rock 
P^'aHs ; third vice-president, H. R. Cotta, Freeport ; secre¬ 
tary, J. L. Hartwell, Dixon ; treasurer, L. Woodard, 
Marengo. 
Southern Minnesota Horticultural Society.—President, 
F. W. Kimball, Austin ; vice-president, George H. Pres¬ 
cott, Albert Lea; secretary, Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea. 
Iowa Horticultural Society.—President, M. E. Hinkley, 
Marcus; vice-president, J. M. Elder, Concord; secretary, 
J. L. Budd, Ames; treasurer, W. M. Bomberger, Harlan. 
Minnesota Horticultural Society.—President, J. M. 
Underwood, Lake City; vice-presidents, (one for each 
congressional district) E. H. S. Dartt, Owatonna; S. D. 
Richardson, Winnebago City; Mrs. A. A. Kennedy, 
Hutchinson; R. S. Mackintosh, Langdon; J. H. Stevens, 
Minneapolis; Mrs. Jennie Stager, Sauk Rapids; J. O. Bar¬ 
rett, Brown’s Valley; treasurer, Titus Day, Farmington; 
executive committee, for three years, Wyman Elliot, 
Minneapolis, and J. S. Harris, La Crescent; for two years, 
Prof. S. B. Green, St. Anthony Park, and Clarence Wedge, 
Albert Lea; for one year, J. P. Andrews, Faribault, and 
L. R. Moyer, Montevideo. The secretary is to be elected, 
in accordance with the new constitution, by the executive 
committee. 
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New Jersey Horticultural Society.—President, E. P. 
Beebe, Elizabeth ; vice-president, I. W. Nicholson, Cam¬ 
den ; secretary, H. 1 . Budd, Mt. Holly; treasurer, Charles 
L. Jones, Newark; executive committee. Dr. J. B Ward, 
Charles Parry, 1 . J. Blackwell, T. F. Baker, D. A. Van- 
derveer. 
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.—President, W. H. 
Moon, Morrisville ; vice-presidents, 11 . M. Engle, Mari¬ 
etta; Howard A. Chase, Philadelphia, and H. S. Rubb, 
Shiremanstowp; recording secretary, E. B. Engle, Waynes¬ 
boro ; corresponding secretary, W. P. Brinton, Christiana; 
treasurer, J. Hibbard Bartram, Milltown. 
Southwestern Iowa Horticultural Society—President, 
C. L. Watrous, Des Moines; vice-president, W. H. 
Hoopes, Muscatine; secretary, C. W. Burton, Cedar 
Rapids ; treasurer, W. Green, Davenport; superintendent 
of exhibits, Henry .Schroeder, Sigourney. 
TWO OR THREE? 
Editor of National Nurseryman: 
There is no American pomologist from whom I should 
be more loath to differ on any question of orchard lore 
than T. T. Lyon. Nevertheless, I feel obliged by my 
experience to do so on the point of removing trees from 
the nursery to the orchard at one or two years from the 
root graft, or bud. It is entirely a question to be decided 
by trial; and by trial I have always had to agree with the 
long established custom of transplanting at three years. 
I felt so sure that Mr. Lyon must necessarily be right 
when he declared that two years, or even one year, was 
the better age—though contrary to such long and wide 
practice for so many years—that a year ago the past fall 
I transplanted from nuisery to orchard about too very 
nice and thrifty two year trees as soon as the leaves would 
strip. They were dug with care to save every root, 
planted as fast as dug with special care ; and there was 
seemingly nothing unfavorable m the seasons, either 
spring or fall. Yet these young trees made scarcely an 
inch of growth before stopping to rest; and although they 
did considerably better at their second start early in 
August, the total growth was inferior to spring-set three- 
year-old trees. 
Of course this was only a single trial ; but the result 
agreed with a forty years’ experience in nursery and 
orchard—first in Maine, then for twelve years in Kentucky, 
and now with nearly thirty years in Northern Vermont. 
I do not mean that I never got a free growth on fall-set 
trees the first season ; but that I have nearly always found 
that the spring-set trees did the best; and this, too, on 
trees only out of the ground for a few minutes, and care¬ 
fully handled. If I am correct, a two years’ tree is not so 
well able to endure removal from nursery to orchard as 
one three years old, even where the removal is careful, 
and the trees out of the ground but a short time. With 
transported trees, it seems to me that the result would 
generally be even less favorable. 
Newport, Vt. T. H. HoSKiNS. 
