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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong Growers anb ^Dealers. 
C. L. Watrous has given trees to Des Moines College. 
J. J. Harrison, Painesville, O., was in Rochester and Dans- 
ville last month. 
C. W. Whitman, of Fairfield, Neb., reports that he lost 
nearly 50,000 trees in his nursery rows last winter. 
Mrs. E. E. Theilman, wife of the proprietor of the Lake 
Shore Nurseries, Erie, Pa., died May 13th, aged 26 years. 
Nurseries have been started by N. R. Reynolds at Luverne, 
Minn. ; F. M. White, at Homer, Ill., and W. A. Garrett at 
Leon, la. 
Nicholas H. Ohmer has been elected president of the 
Montgomery County, Ohio, Horticultural Society for the 
thirty-first time. 
Silas Wilson, of Atlantic, la., has an orchard of 3,000 
Domestica plum trees, mostly Tatge. Mr. Wilson was in the 
G nesee Valley last month. 
Irving Jaquay & Co., Benton Harbor, Mich., heartily en¬ 
dorse the question box proposed by the National Nursery¬ 
man for the Chicago convention. 
Vice-President E. Albertson of the American Association 
visited Thomas Meehan & Sons, Hoopes Brother & Thomas 
and New York city parties last month. 
J. A. Gage has removed his business from Fairbury, Neb., 
to Beatrice, Neb., where he secures better soil, better shipping 
facilities and generally improved conditions. 
The Chase Nursery Co., of Riverside, Cal., has received 
from Florida 10,000 trees of the citron of commerce to be 
grown to demonstrate that it will prove profitable in California. 
Byron O. Clark, nurseryman, of San Bernardino county, 
Cal., who went to Hawaii to instruct the natives and who 
became secretary of agriculture there, resigned his office on 
May 1 st. 
Charles Loechner representing Suzuki & Iida, n Broadway, 
New York, and 3 Nakamura, Yokohama, Japan, called on 
nurserymen and seedsmen in- Western New York en route to 
the West last month. 
The summer meeting of the Indiana Horticultural Society 
will be held at Rome City, Ind., August 9-10, with the Noble 
County Horticultural Society. J. C. Kimmel is president; 
J. C. Grossman, vice-president, of the county society. C. M. 
Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind., is president of the state society. 
W. F. Heikes, manager of the Huntsville Wholesale Nur¬ 
series, on June 1st closed the Chicago office of that concern, 
1610 Unity building, and repaired to Huntsville, Ala., with 
the intention of hereafter conducting the business of the 
company from the nursery at that point and without represen¬ 
tation in Chicago. The nursery started in a small way last 
season at Benton Harbor, Mich., will be continued, as will the 
one at Biloxi, Miss. 
The Greensboro (N. C.) Observer says of the Pomona Hill 
Nurseries : “ The J. Van Lindley Nursery Company is the 
firm name of the Pomona Hill Nurseries. The J. Van Lindley 
Nurseries were established in 1866, two miles south of Pomona, 
and in i860 Mr. Van Lindley moved to the present place. He 
associated with him his son, Paul C. Lindley, W. C. Boren and 
G. S. Boren (the latter having been his clerks for years), and 
J. R. M. Baxter, who has been his foreman for twenty years. 
The sales of trees, plants and flowers from the nurseries last 
year amounted to over $60,000.” 
THE CONVENTION TRIP. 
Much of the pleasure of the convention trip is derived 
from going in parties. This method, too, is conducive to a 
larger attendance, for often a nurseryman who intends to go 
allows a minor matter to deter him at the last moment, when, 
if he had promised to form one of a party, he would be more 
apt to get there. 
Two of the best roads running into Chicago are the 
Wabash and the Rock Island, the former for those from the 
East and the Southwest ; the latter for those fiom the West, 
Northwest and Southwest. The Wabash has four daily vesti- 
buled trains from Buffalo to Chicago, with free reclining 
chairs, Wagner sleeping cars and Wabash dining cars. Unex¬ 
celled service to the West is offered at lower rates than some 
of the other roads. The Wabash is the shortest route be¬ 
tween Buffalo and Chicago. The 10:05 a. m. train on the 
West Shore from Rochester, 2 p. m. from Buffalo, via the 
Wabash, enable Genesee Valley nurserymen to reach Chicago 
at 7:13 o’clock on the morning of the first convention day, 
affording ample time to prepare for the first session of the 
convention at 11 a. m. The 8:30 p. m. Wabash train, the fast 
mail, out of Buffalo arrives in Chicago at 10:55 a. m. An 
Illinois Central suburban express train will take the nursery¬ 
man to the Chicago Beach Hotel in ten minutes. The Conti¬ 
nental Limited train, leaving Rochester at 10:05 p. m., arrives 
in Chicago at 3 p. m. the next day. On all except the fast 
mail the fare is $2 less each way than that on the Lake Shore 
and Michigan Southern. 
Each of the roads mentioned has authorized a rate of a 
fare and one-third to the Chicago convention. General Pas¬ 
senger Agent Sebastian of the Chicago, Rock Island and 
Pacific Railway Co., writes : 
“For the nurserymen’s convention at Chicago, June 14th 
and 15th, our line has authorized rate of fare and one-third 
on certificate plan from all stations ; tickets to be purchased 
at full rates June 10th to 14th inclusive, receipt taken by 
purchasers, which will enable them to obtain one-third rate 
returning, June 15th to 19th inclusive, provided certificate on 
receipt is filled out by secretary and countersigned by joint 
agent. Our line reaches many points in the West—Peoria, 
St. Paul, Omaha, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth, Kansas 
City, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Fort Worth, with 
numerous large intermediate cities. Running time of trains 
may be obtained from folders at any station.” 
The great cities of the West, Northwest and Southwest are 
reached quickly and comfortably ir Pullman sleepers and free 
reclining chair cars. The special rates to the convention 
should attract a large number. 
A rate of $2 per day has been secured at the Chicago 
Beach Hotel, the headquarters of the convention. The hotel 
grounds cover eight acres, and there are one thousand feet of 
broad verandas at the water’s edge. 
CAN’T DO WITHOUT IT. 
L. G. Green & S>>n Co., Perry, O.: “ YVe enclose if l for renewal 
of subscription. Can’t do without it.” 
