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advanced in valuation to a very considerable extent, several 
articles from one of our own importations and entirely with¬ 
out cause. We have learned that several other importers have 
had similar difficulty and action is being taken to prevent the 
repetition of such injustice. We would suggest, therefore, 
that if any other nurserymen who have had such troubles will 
communicate with us, herhaps some concerted action could be 
arranged that would be of mutual benefit.” 
THE PROGRAMME. 
Secretary Seager, of the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men, is busily engaged in the preparation of a programme for 
the Chicago convention next month. It was hoped that 
Professor L. H. Bailey would speak at the convention, but he 
cannot attend. The following is a partial list of the addresses: 
President Brooke—Annual address. 
Professor S. J. Hunter, State University of Kansas—“Our Insect 
Friends : Wliat They are Doing for Us.” 
S. M Emery. Bozemau. Mont.— ‘The Real Attitude of Our State 
Board of Horticulture.” 
N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.—“The Nursery Business In the 
South.” 
Hon. N. H. Albaugli—“Effectof Cold Weather on Nursery Stock and 
How to Protect It.” 
Addresses by Prof. Goff, of Wisconsin, and C. L. Watrous, of Iowa. 
The convention will open on June 14, at the Chicago Beach 
hotel. Reduced railroad rates have been secured. The 
secretary has issued a circular of information. Members are 
urged to attend the convention, contribute to the question box 
any questions on the practical work of the trade and partici¬ 
pate freely in the discussion. 
EXTRA HARDY FRUITS. 
In his Ameiican notes in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, of 
London, Eng., Professor F. A. Waugh, of Vermont, says : 
The destructive winter will doubtless revive interest in the 
search for extra hardy varieties of fruits. This hunt has been 
going on in this country with waxing and waning zeal for a 
quarter of a century or more. No more interesting or instruc¬ 
tive piece of horticultural history could be mentioned. 
Thousands of horticulturists, spread over a territory of 600 
miles wide and 2000 miles long, have, been striving by every 
means in their power towards one end. That end is the pro¬ 
duction or discovery of fruits (especially apples) which shall 
withstand the severe winters of Canada and the Northern 
States. It seems to me that there has never been an experi¬ 
ment in plant breeding and acclimatisation attempted on such 
a tremendous scale. To a great degree the efforts have been 
successful, and apple-culture has moved forward many miles 
upon the northern frontier in the last two decades. The 
work still g( 3 es on. There is not space here to give any 
account of it; but a few of its features have been the Russian 
expeditions of Charles Gibb, Professor Budd, and Professor 
Hansen ; the extensive importations of Ellwanger & Barry, 
S. D. Willard, A. C. Tuttle, the Department of Agriculture; 
the intensely interesting breeding experiments of Peter Gideon 
and others, and especially the fortuitous discovery of hardy 
native seedlings. The man who would collect the facts could 
make a good book on this subject, one valuable as history, 
and valuable to horticulture. 
WHY THEY SUCCEEDED. 
One of the most progressive of nursery firms is that of 
J. G. Patterson & Son, Stewartstown, Pa. They have adver- 
t'sed persistently and judiciously in the nurseryman’s trade 
journal, and now at the close of a successful season they write 
as follows : 
Stewaktstown, Pa., April 22 , 1899 . 
National Nukseryman Publishing Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Gentlemen :—Please find enclosed draft in payment for our adver¬ 
tisement in the National Nurseryman. We have had a very suc¬ 
cessful season, and we attribute great part to your journal. All salable 
stock cleaned up, with excellent prospects for fall of 1899 . 
Yours truly, J. G. Patterson & Son. 
The advertising columns of the National Nurseryman 
compose an index of the leading nursery firms of the country. 
Continued and unsolicited commendatory letters prove that 
this journal is appreciated, is often referred to and is pre¬ 
served. Its interests are identical with those of the trade. 
Its prosperity depends upon the prosperity of the nursery 
trade, and the publishers will do all in their power to advance 
trade interests. The circulation is confined to the trade, and 
every copy of every issue counts. Have you renewed your 
subscription ? 
AMERICAN APPLE CONSUMERS' LEAGUE. 
A very practical suggestion for increasing the demand for 
apples is made in the Rural New Yorker’s Hope Farm notes : 
I find so many places where good apples are never served that it oc¬ 
curs to me that apple growers ought to organize an Apple Eaters’ 
League. Let’s pledge ourselves to call for apples in some form when¬ 
ever we eat a meal at a public table. Organize your friends, and see 
if we can’t get millions of people to keep calling for apjiles ! Demand 
them either raw, baked, or in sauce, pudding or pie. If the proprietor 
doesn’t serve them, tell him he is a back number—“or words to that 
effect.” Make the heaviest run on raw apples, for that will encourage 
the use of the best varieties. Just make yourself an agent for the 
advancement of American apples. 
The object of the American Apple Consumeis’ League is to 
encourage the consumption of American fiuit by Americans. 
All are eligible to membership. There are no dues. The 
league should have a million members at once. 
The current issue of the Experiment Station Record has a 
bulletin by Professor F. M. Webster, which calls attention to 
the odor of the San Jose scale. When the air is quiet, he 
says, it is often possible to detect the presence of a badly in¬ 
fested tree at a distance of a yard or more. This being the 
case the civil service examination for inspectors under state 
inspection laws should include a test for olfactories. 
There was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature this 
year an act providing for the annual election of a tree warden 
in each town, who shall have full control of all public shade 
trees except those in care of park commissioners, and shall 
prescribe such reasonable regulations for the care and preser¬ 
vation of such trees as he may deem expedient, and enforce 
these regulations by fines and forfeitures. Towns are author¬ 
ized to appropriate money to be expended by the tree warden 
in planting shade trees on the highways or on adjoining land, 
with the written consent of the owner. This is another of the 
many measures which will increase the demand for trees. 
