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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
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. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
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should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
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([^“Drafts on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are 
requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AflERlCAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Wilson J. Peters. Troy, O.; vice-president, D. S. Lake, Shen¬ 
andoah. Ia.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; treas¬ 
urer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; C. L. Watrous, Des 
Moines, la.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind. 
Committee on Transportation—Wilson J. Peters, ex-officio, chairman ; William 
Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; A. L. Brooke, N. 
Topeka, Kan.; Robert C.Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Tadmor, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Annual convention for 1900—Chicago Beach Hotel, June 13-14. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester , as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., July, 1899. 
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. 
There was no talk of biennial conventions of the American 
Association of Nurserymen at the recent gathering at Chicago. 
On the contrary, so large was the attendance, so enthusiastic 
were the members and so satisfactory the hotel and convention 
hall accommodations, that, as one man, the members rose to 
their feet and said : “We will come back here in June, 1900 .” 
There was, however, a demand for a change in the form of 
programme. “We do not want more than three papers to be 
read before the convention,” said the president to the writer 
I he most of the sessions should be devoted to business and 
discussion. The members do not want to listen to the read¬ 
ing of several long papers. The question box is a good thing. 
It has proved the one thing at this convention to provoke 
discussion.” 
Four months ago the National Nurseryman suggested 
the importance of providing the right kind of a programme, 
and ventured the assertion that a programme that would draw 
out discussion, put the members on their feet and arouse 
activity during the sessions, would do more than any other 
thing to increase the attendance, and with increased attend¬ 
ance will come an increased balance in the treasury, railroad 
certificates without trouble and other desired conditions. 
Reference to the proceedings will show that the question 
box caused the only discussion of the convention. Not a 
single paper that was presented provoked any discussion. 
The very appropriate questions sent in to the National 
Nurseryman, and published in the April and Mav issues, 
were inadvertently left behind by the secretary, but he 
promises to look out for this feature of the programme next 
year. 
There was evidence of a generally stronger market for 
nursery stock. Comparatively few sales were made as the 
nurserymen evinced a disposition to await developments. 
They felt assured that prices would at least be no lower later 
on. The surplus of stock in the states is believed to be small. 
The greatest satisfaction with the hotel accommodations 
was frequently expressed, and resolutions thanking Manager 
Ross for his courtesy and efforts in behalf of the members were 
adopted promptly and unanimously in the convention. At no 
time in its history has the American Association been quite so 
well entertained. 
SOUTHERN NURSERY ASSOCIA TION. 
The Southern Nursery Association was formed at Chicago 
during the convention of the American Association. For 
some time it has been thought desirable to have in the South 
such an association as the Western Wholesalers or the Eastern 
Nurserymen’s Association. 
N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn., is enthusiastic over the 
possibilities of the South, as evidenced by his address pub¬ 
lished in this issue. A number of nurserymen from the South 
met at the Chicago Beach hotel, June 14 , for the purpose of 
organizing an association. N. W. Hale presided. It was 
decided to call the organization the Southern Nursery Asso¬ 
ciation. The membership will include nurserymen east of the 
Mississippi river and south of the Ohio river. 
The following officers were elected : President, N. W. 
Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; vice-president, W. D. Griffing, Mac- 
clenny, Fla.; secretary and treasurer, Amos Newson, Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. A committee was appointed to draft a constitu¬ 
tion and by-laws and to report at a meeting of the association 
to be held at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the first Wednesday in 
August. 
NATURAL ENEMY OF THE SCALE. 
Inasmuch as the San Jose scale was one of the principal 
topics at the Chicago convention, though one in which com¬ 
paratively little interest has been taken of late, it is of interest 
to note what E. Dwight Sanderson, an entomologist of Mary¬ 
land, says in American Gardening: 
The value of our common lady-bird beetles as destroyers of injurious 
plant lice and scale insects is not appreciated as it should be, for very 
frequently they are killed by persons who think them injurious. 
Besides the little orange or red beetles, spotted with black, which 
are ordinarily known as “ lady-bird ” or “ lady-bugs,’! there are a num 
ber of forms included in this family of beetles, the coccinnellidse, which 
