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The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyright, 1899, by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
“ America a land of fruits." —Bailey. 
Vol. VII. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY, 1899. 
No. 1. 
THE NURSERY PATRONS 
Proceedings of Fruit Growers in Annual State Conventions — 
Conditions and Prospects in Rhode Island, Western New 
York, Illinois, Kansas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 
Delaware, Maryland, Nebraska and Virginia.' 
The forty-fourth annual convention of the Western New 
York Horticultural Society was held in Rochester, Jan. 25-26. 
Over 400 members were enrolled for another year. President 
William C. Barry of the firm of Ellwanger & Barry was con¬ 
fined to his home by the grip. Vice-president S. D. Willard, 
post-master of Geneva, presided. Among those present were : 
Dr. G. C. Caldwell, of Cornell University ; M. V. Slingerland, assist¬ 
ant entomologist of Cornell ; David K. Bell, West Brighton ; Professor 
W- H. Jordon, director of New York Agricultural Experiment station, 
Geneva; Wendell Paddock, S. A. Beach, of the same station ; Oliver 
Troth, Camden. N. J.; L. H. Bailey. Cornell ; I. P. Roberts, Cornell ; 
S. S. Crissey, Fredonia; W. N. Britton, Rochester; Roland Morrill, 
of the Michigan State Horticultural society, Benton Harbor, Mich.; 
Herbert Collingwood, of the Rural New Yorker; L. H. Read, of 
the executive board of the Wisconsin State Horticultural society; 
William M. Orr, Fruitland, Ontario, Canada, superintendent of spray¬ 
ing experiments for provincial government of Canada; George E. 
Josselyn, Fredonia; J. J. Harrison, Painesville, O.; F. E. Rupert, 
Seneca ; E. M. Moody, Lockport; T. S. Hubbard, Geneva ; E. C. Peir- 
son, A H. Peirson, Waterloo ; Wing R. Smith, Syracuse : V. H. Lowe 
W. C. Smith, D. H. Patty, Mr. Henry, Geneva ; C. H. Perkins, 
Newark ; Irving Rouse, John Charlton, C. M. Hooker and others, of 
Rochester. 
Professor Jordan advised the fruit growers of the state to organize 
and put the organization’s label on their marketable fruit. Upon 
motion of S. Wright McCollum, of Lockport, the society endorsed a 
bill introduced at Albany, providing that where fruit growers dispose 
of their wares through commission merchants the latter shall, on appli¬ 
cation by the consignor, give to him the name of the person to whom 
the fruit was sold and the price paid. The intent of the bill, is to pro¬ 
tect the grower against dishonestly on the part of the commission 
merchants. 
Professor Slingerland delivered a lantern slide lecture on “ Insect 
Pests of 1898 .” “ Pruning and Cultivation of the Peach,” was the 
subject of a talk by Roland Morrill, ex-president of the Michigan State 
Horticultural society at Benton Harbor. Mr. Morrill said he was some¬ 
what modest in speaking before the society, as he considered Rochester 
as the center of horticultural knowledge and information. Mr. Morrill 
showed lantern slides and prefaced the illustrations with ideas on the 
cultivation of peach orchards. He advocated continuous cultivation 
and high fertilization with proper materials. 
“We fellows out in Michigan think we know a thing or two about 
apple trees,” said Mr. Morrill, “but bless you, you people in Western 
New York understand how to trim trees better than any I’ve ever seen.” 
Herbert W. Collingwood, editor of The Rural New Yorker, who 
raises strawberries down in Jersey with astonishing success and as a 
result know T s all that can be learned about that fruit, gave some inter¬ 
esting and amusing experiences with the strawberry plant, interspersed 
with funny stories and jokes and a lot of good, homely philosophy. 
“ I don’t believe that a land ever wears out.” he said. “ It loses char¬ 
acter and heart just like a man who’s been abused. Cow peas furnish 
the new character and the heart.” 
A new committee on the Patrick Barry gold medal for a new variety 
of fruit or ornamental tree, shrub, flowering plant or vegetable, was 
announced as follows: C. M. Hooker. John Charlton, John B. Col- 
lamer. There was no award this year of either the Barry prize or the 
George Ellwanger prize for the best collection of trees. 
S. Wright McCollum, Lockport ; I. H. Dewey and C. M. Hooker 
were appointed a committee on reclassification of freight weights. W* 
M. Orr read a paper on spraying. The meeting was probably the 
largest and most successful in the history of this well known society. 
The exhibit of fruit was unusually fine considering the adverse con¬ 
ditions of 1898 for the growth of fruit. Ellwanger & Barry as usual 
made the principal display, although that of the state experiment sta¬ 
tion, at Geneva, was extensive. Ellwanger & Barry showed forty-five 
varieties of pears and thirty-six varieties of grapes. President William 
C. Barry, of the horticultural society, made special exhibit of a basket 
of superb specimens of the Anjou pear, and Mrs. Patrick Barry exhib¬ 
ited ten varieties of foreign grapes grown under glass as follows : Bar- 
barossa, Raisin de Calabre, Gross Guillume, Chasselas Napoleon, Black 
Alicante, Golden Queen, Black Morocco, Syrian, Golden Champion, 
Gromier du Cantal. 
The following officers were elected : President, William C. Barry. 
Rochester ; vice-presidents, S. D. Willard, Geneva ; George A. Sweet, 
Dansville ; Wing R. Smith, Syracuse ; secretary-treasurer, John Hall, 
Rochester. Executive committe : C. M. Hooker, Rochester ; C. W. 
Stuart, Newark ; Nelson Bogue, Batavia ; E. A. Powell, Syracuse ; H. 
S. Wiley, Cayuga. 
ILLINOIS. 
The annual meeting of the Illinois Horticultural Society 
was held at Springfield, December 28-29. W. S. Pcrrine, 
Centralia ; Charles C. Bell, Boonville, Mo. ; H. R. Cotta, 
Freeport, and W. S. Ross, Alma, discussed fruit, and Arthur 
Bryant, Princeton, ornamental stock. A. M. Augustine, 
Normal, discussed commercial peach orchards, and H. Augus¬ 
tine the work of experiment stations. The legislature was 
urged to pass a pure food law. Many cash prizes of from 
$2.00 to $10.00 were awarded for fruit exhibited. 
The following officers were elected : President, Henry M. 
Dunlap, Savoy ; vice-president, R. A. Aldrich, Neoga ; secre¬ 
tary, L. R. Bryant, Princeton ; treasurer, J. W. Stanton, Rich- 
view ; executive board, Henry M. Dunlap, Savoy ; L. R. Bry¬ 
ant, Princeton ; J. L. Hartwell, Dixon ; G. L. Foster, Normal ; 
H. L. Doan, Jacksonville ; J. W. Stanton, Richview ; C. W. 
Barnard, Manteno ; L. M. Beal, Mt. Vernon. 
KANSAS. 
The annual convention of the Kansas State Horticultural 
Society was held at Topeka, December 27-29, with 150 mem¬ 
bers present. Among the prominent horticulturists there 
were Professor H. E. Van Deman, who discussed western 
orcharding, Frank Holsinger of Wyandotte, E. J. Holman of 
Leavenworth, George W. Munger of Greenwood, B. F. 
Douglas, Dr. Bohrer of Rice, S. S. Dickinson of Pawnee, E. 
D. Wheeler, state forestry commissioner ; George E. Van 
Houten of Des Moines, secretary of the Iowa State Horti¬ 
cultural Society ; Mr. Butterfield of Lees Summit, Mo. ; A. 
F. Coleman of Corning, la. ; A. L. Brooke, B. F. Smith, A. 
