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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmong ©rowers anb ^Dealers. 
George C. Stone, Dansville, N. Y., buried his wife and his 
father-in-law in July. 
J. V. Cotta, Nursery, Ill., has been ill and unable to do 
business for some time. 
Thomas B. Meehan and family, Germantown, Pa., spent a 
portion of the summer at Delaware Water Gap. 
The entire stock of C. Ribsam & Son, nurserymen, Trenton, 
N. J., was sold by auction on the premises August 30. 
J. Austin Shaw fell on the marble floor of the swimming 
baths of the Oriental hotel, Detroit, on August 17, and sus¬ 
tained a concussion of the brain. He is recovering. 
D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la., and Mr. Wallace, of Troy, O., 
called on Western New York nurserymen last month, en route 
to New England. 
Mrs. Harrison, wife of J. J. Harrison, of the Storrs & Har¬ 
rison Co., Painesville, O., died suddenly August 16. Mr. 
Harrison, two sons and a daughter survive. 
Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y., chairman of the executive 
committee of the American Association of Nurserymen, 
spent the summer at his summer residence at Gananoque, Ont. 
C. C. Mayhew, Sherman, Texas, who has been making a 
tour among northern and southern nurserymen, called upon 
Western New York nurserymen during the latter part of 
August. 
Henri de Vilmorin, the head of the firm of Vilmorin, 
Andrieux & Co., of France, died August 22d. He was a 
noted seedsman and hybridizer. His reputation as an author 
is world-wide. 
An excellent likeness of S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., ap¬ 
peared in a recent issue of the American Agriculturist. He is 
64 years old and has 100 acres set with plums, pears, cherries, 
apples, peaches and apricots. 
E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind., visited Rochester nursery¬ 
men during the latter part of last month. He made a trip 
through the central and middle western states in August and 
called upon many of the nurserymen. 
Henry Wallis, Wellston, Mo., read a paper on ‘‘Cultivation 
and Best A^arieties of Grapes ” before the Missouri State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society. Several nurserymen at the Chicago con¬ 
vention sampled Mr. Wallis’ wine made from his new grape. 
A. M. Leonard, of the Zinnia Ridge Nursery Co., Piqua, O., 
made a tour last month among nurseries, visiting, among 
others, the Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., Ellwanger & 
Barry, Chase Brothers Co. and John Charlton & Co., Rochester. 
It is reported that the Alvin Nursery Co., at Alvin, Texas, 
has closed a contract for preparing the ground, planting and 
cultivating for four years 2,500 acres in pear trees near North 
Galveston, I exas. The orchard is to be delivered to the 
owners in 1903. 
C. 1 etrick, of Ghent, Belgium, who is represented in the 
bnited States and Canada by Aug. Rhotert, of New York, 
has now enlarged his establishment by an addition of 90,000 
feet ot glass, which he will use almost exclusively for the 
growing of palms, araucarias, ficus and other plants for the 
American market. 
The last session of the Missouri legislature authorized the 
estalishment of a horticultural experiment station on the south 
slope of the Ozarks, which will soon be located and put into 
operation. S. H. Linton, of the East Hill Nurseries, of Mar- 
celine, is favorably spoken of by prominent horticulturists for 
the position of managing horticulturist and his claims are 
being pushed vigorously. 
The president of the American Pomological Society, which 
will hold a biennial session in Philadelphia, September 7 and 
8, is a nurseryman, C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; and a 
nurseryman, P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., is the chairman 
of the executive committee The secretary is William A. 
Taylor, Washington, D. C. On the local committee on 
arrangements are Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa., and 
William Warner Harper, Ch stnut Hill, Pa. 
E. W. Reid’s Nurseries make the following announcement: 
“Owing to the decision of the Postoffice Department to open 
an office in proximity to the nurseries, for the better accom¬ 
modation of mail matter here, we should be pleased if you will 
kindly change our postoffice address to Upland, Belmont 
County, Ohio, instead of Bridgeport, Ohio. This is not a 
change of location, as we are still in the same place, but an 
effort of the Postal Department to give us better mail 
facilities.” 
SOUTHERN NURSERY ASSOCIATION. 
Pursuant to arrangement made at Chicago in June, the newly 
organized Southern Nurserymen’s Association met at Chatta¬ 
nooga, Tenn., on August 1. 
1 he association as organized includes the nurserymen of 
fifteen southern states. Resolutions were drawn up and 
adopted whereby the association members will be put in touch 
with each other on all matters relating to the nursery business. 
It will be the duty of the association to regulate all trade mat¬ 
ters, protect each other and govern the prices, market, sale and 
cultivation of fruit trees and other plants for which there is a 
demand. About fifty delegates were present at the conven¬ 
tion, which adjourned to meet July 31, 1900, at such place as 
the executive committee may designate. 
The following officers were elected: President, N. W. Hale, 
Knoxville, Tenn.; vice-president, W. D. Griffing, Macclenny, 
Fla., secretary and treasurer, A. W. Newson, Nashville, Tenn.; 
executive committee, C. M. Griffing, Macclenny, Fla., W. L.' 
Wilson, Winchester, Tenn., J. A. Miller, Rome, Ga.,’ E. A. 
Bissell, Richmond, A a., J. A^an Lindiey, Pomona, N. C. 
AVe are glad to welcome the new association. Its members 
aie members of the American Association of Nurserymen and 
it was launched at the Chicago convention of the national 
association. It will work with the latter as do the Western 
Wholesale Association and the Eastern Association. The 
Southern Association will undoubtedly accomplish much in 
the way of advancing the interests of the large and important 
section of which its president, Mr. Hale, spoke so entertainingly 
at the Chicago convention. 
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING IIE HEADS. 
W. M. Scott, State Entomologist, Atlanta, Ga.—“ I hand you 
herewith enclosed $1 for the National Nurseryman for another 
yeai. This journal is one of the most interesting that I read. 
Carl Sonderegger. Fairbury, Neb.—‘-Please find enclosed $1.00. 
I like your paper very much. Do not wish to have it discontinued.” 
