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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National N urseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
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Rochester, N. Y., July, 1896. 
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-first annual meeting of the American 
Association of Nurserymen has passed into history. Its 
proceedings will be summarized and added to the list of 
those of its predecessors. Opinions as to the results will 
differ. It will be generally agreed, probably, that the 
objects of these annual meetings are mainly the exten¬ 
sion of acquaintance and good fellowship, for there was 
perhaps less business transacted at the Chicago meeting 
of 1896 than has been the case at any of the meetings for 
several years. The occasion was characterized by the 
attendance of a number of the veteran members, nursery¬ 
men of national reputation, whose participation in the 
proceedings added greatly to the interest and instruction. 
President Wilson repeatedly evidenced his active 
interest in the welfare of the members by making sugges¬ 
tions which led to action by the convention. The 
treasurer’s report showed a prosperous financial condition 
of the association. The discussions on freight rates, the 
tariff and laws affecting nurserymen touched upon subjects 
which are of fundamental importance to all in the trade. 
More time might have been profitably spent on these 
matters. A vote of thanks was promptly tendered 
Professor Bailey for his remarks which, as Mr. Watrous 
said, opened up a large field of thought and will undoubt¬ 
edly lead to considerable study upon the subjects con¬ 
nected with the treatment of the soil. 
The first lively discussion in open convention as to 
place of meeting led to the expression of individual 
opinions on this subject which have heretofore been 
reserved for small coteries. The choice was finally made 
in a satisfactory and good-natured manner, a large 
minority acquiescing readily to the will of the majority. 
The association is to be congratulated upon retaining for 
another term as its president a man whose deep interest 
in the prosperity of the trade, general knowledge of con¬ 
ditions and executive ability especially fit him for the 
position. A prominent eastern nurseryman said : “ I 
look forward to these occasions as among the most enjoy¬ 
able of the year.” It is in the same spirit that the 
members will anticipate the twenty-second meeting in 
St. Louis in June, 1897. 
REDUCTION IN PEACH CROP. 
During the closing week in June southern peaches be¬ 
gan to move toward the northern and western markets. 
The volume of the crop is quite different from what was 
promised in the spring. The commercial crop of the 
South will be less than half of that of last year. Reasons 
assigned are that the orchards bore heavily last year and 
they have been subjected to attacks of the curculio. The 
shipping season in the Georgia peach belt began June 
20th. It will continue until August 20th. 
J. H. Hale of South Glastonbury, Ct., and Ft. Valley, 
Ga., who has 100,000 peach trees in Houston Co., esti¬ 
mates that the peach shipments from all of Georgia will 
not exceed 500 cars this season, or only a third of what 
seemed a fair prospect last April when the fruit was well 
set on the trees and before the attacks cf curculio. The 
railroads have made arrangements to put on fast trains, 
carrying southern peaches into New York two days after 
the fruit is picked, and almost as soon in Chicago. 
The outlook in the northern peach orchards continues 
fairly bright. Michigan growers are encouraged. The 
crop in Maryland and Delaware will be uneven. 
MR. SANDERS’ OBSERVATION. 
Edgar Sanders, of f liicago, writing to the Florists' 
Exchange regarding the Chicago convention says: 
Tlie 1896 meeting of the association may be set down as a very suc¬ 
cessful one. It speaks well for such a society when it has attained its 
majority (21 years), with a bona-fide paid-up membership of 409 mem¬ 
bers, according to the badge-book, exclusive of members taken at the 
convention, out of a possible 1,524 nurserymen in the country, as shown 
by the last directory. 
One of the striking features of the occasion was the address on the 
“ Nursery Lands of New York State,” delivered by Professor L. H. 
Bailey, of the Cornell University. That address, in my opinion, is of 
profound interest to nurserymen in particular, and to thoughtful florists 
as well. I might say in passing, it is not a little singular that so little 
interest was taken by our city florists in this large body of men of 
kindred interests. Not even a presentation of flowers for the presi¬ 
dent’s table was in evidence. On the other hand quite a delegation of 
nurserymen, on invitation by the president of the Florists’ Club, was 
present on Thursday evening at its meeting, and participated in the 
discussion on hardy roses. 
A. R. Pennell, Honeoye, N. Y.—“We enclose $1 to balance ac¬ 
count for The National Nurseryman, and sincerely hope that by 
this time every nurseryman in the nation is a good paying subscriber. 
It is filling a long-felt want.” 
