THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Earnestly I say to you that many catalogues are issued 
to-day which not only in their names, but in their descrip¬ 
tions of hardihood and so on, throw a doubt upon the 
knowledge and veracity of their authors, and many of 
those who doubt them do not take the trouble to have a 
square talk with you about it, but abuse you behind your 
backs, and not only withhold their orders, but never even 
trouble to look further than the first few bad errors. 
There is no use for obsolete and synonomous names in 
catalogues where they can be got rid of. It is bad 
enough to have them sticking around the cells of one’s 
brain, and botanists and nurserymen and ^florists cannot 
too soon help to clean them out. Nicholson’s Dictionary 
is on most of your shelves, and Johnson’s Gardener’s 
Dictionary is sold by Macmillans for $4. 
Trenton, N. J. JAMES MacPiIERSON. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 
Following is the programme for the 21st annual meet¬ 
ing of the American Association of Nurserymen at the 
Sherman House, Chicago : 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10. 
OPENING SESSION, 11' O’CLOCK. 
Every member will sign Membership Roll. 
President’s Address—Silas Wilson, Atlantic, Iowa. 
Report of Treasurer—N. A. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill. 
Election of Officers. Selection of Next Place of Meeting. 
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2:30 O’CLOCK. 
Appointment of Committees. Question Box. 
“To Plant, or Not to Plant, That’s the Question,”—Hon. N. H. 
Albaugh, Tadmor, Ohio. 
“The Duty of the Nurseryman to the Fruit Grower.”—Hon. H. E. 
Van Deman. 
THURSDAY, JUNE 11. 
MORNING SESSION, 10 O’CLOCK. 
“The Nursery Lands of New York State,”—Professor L. II. Bailey, 
Cornell University. 
“Grapes,”—E. II. Pratt, of T. S. Hubbard Co., Fredonia, N. Y. 
“Hardiness of Trees and Tree Seeds,”—Robert Douglas, Wauke¬ 
gan, Ill. 
“ Social Value of our Conventions,”—A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan. 
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2 O’CLOCK. 
“ The Agency of Crossing and Hybridizing in the Improvement of 
the American Grape,”—G. W. Campbell, Delaware, Ohio. 
Reports of Committees. 
“ All but the Corpse Furnished,”—J. Jenkins, Winona, Ohio. 
“ Necessity of Nurserymen Having Specimen Orchards,”—Charles 
A. Green, Rochester, N. Y. 
An effort may be made to take a boat ride on the lake, 
in which case the programme will be very materially 
changed. 
The Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective Association 
annual meeting will be held Wednesday evening, June 
loth, 1896. 
The annual meeting of the American Nurserymen’s 
Protective Association will be held Wednesday evening, 
June 10th, at 8 o’clock, in gentlemen’s parlor of the 
Sherman House. 
INFESTED NURSERY STOCK DESTROYED. 
At the April meeting of the Washington Board of 
Horticulture at Tacoma, the secretary reported: “So 
far as reported the fruit trees shipped into this state have 
been free from insect pests except a shipment from the 
state of New York in which some of the stock was 
infested with the woolly aphis. All the infested stock 
was destroyed. 
“There are 1,000 acres in the state of Washington 
devoted to the raising of nursery stock. As a rule the 
trees are very thrifty and in excellent condition for the 
planters of orchards. A greater care on the part of some 
of the nurserymen not to mix varieties will redound to 
the interest of the entire nurseries of the state.” 
foreign IHotes. 
Leon Say, statesman and economist, is dead. He was president of 
the National Horticultural Society of France. 
In Holland about 90,000 narcissus bulbs are needed to plant an acre, 
while of hyacinths 100,000, of tulips 115,000, and of crocuses 150,000 
bulbs are needed for a similar area; this is, of course, for flowering 
bulbs. 
There is promise of an abundant crop of most kinds of hardy fruit in 
Scotland. The unusually warm and dry summer of last year matured 
the growth of the trees which came to an early rest and did not seem 
to be materially influenced by the wet autumn. 
Northern Spy apple stock is used in Australian nurseries upon which 
to graft, being practically immune from attacks by woolly aphis, 
according to statements made in the “Vigneron,” of Sydney, New 
South Wales. The Winter Majetin is also used for this purpose but is 
not considered so good a stock as the Northern Spy. 
The P. and O. Company’s steamer Rome arrived at the Albert Dock, 
London, on May 2d, having on board 10,568 cases of apples from 
Hobart, 1,650 from Melbourne, and 120 from Adelaide. It is worthy 
of note that the improvement noticed in last year’s consignments seems 
characteristic of this year’s imports, some fine specimens of Ribstons 
and Pearmain’s being on sale at prices which must certainly be remun¬ 
erative ; they are fetching twice as much money as could be obtained 
a few years since for the unsorted, irregular fruit, then thought good 
enough for the English market. 
Sweet peas in America command far more attention than they do in 
England, says an American correspondent of the Gardeners’ Magazine. 
Nearly every state has a special flower show given up to them, San 
Francisco, from its closeness to San Jose, the seat of the seed farms, 
heading the list. The flowers are great favorites with the ladies here ; 
and American girls are far more exacting critics, from a floral point of 
view, than English ones. It is quite a pity from a business point of 
view, that the English lady cannot or will not be educated up to the 
standpoint of her American cousin. Flowers here are far more gener¬ 
ally given and received than in England. 
The currant crop in Greece has of late years been in excess of the 
world’s demand, and consequently prices have been so low as scarcely to 
cover the cost of production. A report recently made by the British 
consul at Patras shows that a crisis has arisen in the currant industry, 
and to meet this the government brought in a bill last year requiring 
exporters to deposit in public stores fifteen per cent, in kind of the 
currants they intend to export, and these will be used by the govern¬ 
ment for wine or spirit production. While a currant crop of 130,000 
tons, which is about the amqunt required for the world’s consumption, 
will realize over two millions sterling, a crop of 70,000 tons will only 
produce a little over one million. Last year’s crop is estimated at 
150,000 tons, of which about 50,000 tons remained in Greece at the 
commencement of this year. Great Britain takes about half the total 
export and France about a fifth. 
