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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
jftom IDartous points. 
The Society of American Florists has 490 members. 
Elbert S. Carman has withdrawn from the position of editor- 
in-chief of the Rural New Yorker and has been succeeded by 
H. W. Collingwood. 
The American Carnation Society met in Detroit, August 16, 
President William P. Craig presiding. A programme for the 
February meeting in Buffalo was arranged. 
The Chrysanthemum Society in Detroit last month elected 
E. G. Hill president and Edwin Lonsdale vice-president. 
Treasurer May and Secretary Smith were re-elected. 
The Connecticut legislature has passed a law protecting the 
trailing Arbutus, said to be the first law ever passed in any 
state of the Union for the protection of a wild flower. 
Professor William Trelease, of Missouri Botanical Garden, 
has returned from a two months’ trip in Alaska. He was with 
a scientific party and has collected a valuable amount of data 
pertaining to the flora of that country. 
E. Dwight Sanderson has been elected entomologist at the 
Delaware State Experiment Station at Newark. Prof. P. H. 
Rolf, horticulturist at the Florida State Experiment Station, 
is now at Clemson College, Clemson, S. C. 
The San Jose scale was found last month on plum and pear 
trees at the home grounds of E. S. Carman, recently editor of 
the Rural New Yorker, in New Jersey. Professor John B. 
Smith, state entomologist, prescribed the necessary remedies 
and declared that there was no cause for alarm or for digging 
up and destroying the trees. 
The secretary of the Florists’ Hail Association reported at 
the Detroit convention last month: On the first day of 
August, 1899, the 864 members comprising the Florists’ Hail 
Association insured an aggregate of 11,209,865 square feet of 
glass, sub-divided as follows: Single thick, 2,838,560: double 
thick, 5,934,262 square feet; extra one-half, single thick, 254,- 
525 square feet; extra one-half double thick, 446,116 square 
feet; extra whole, single thick, 650,685 square feet; extra 
whole, double thick, 1,436,038 square feet. 
Professor Alfred Rehder, editor of a European horticul¬ 
tural journal, is visiting the large cities of the United States, 
studying the arboricultural features of the best collections, 
preparatory to writing the articles on trees and shrubs in the 
“American Encyclopedia of Horticulture,” the largest work 
of the kind, which is being edited by Professor L. H. Bailey 
of Cornell University. After visiting New York, Philadelphia 
Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis and 
the Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore, N. C., Professor Rehder 
will make his headquarters at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston. 
IRecent publications. 
The Gardeners’ Magazine and the Gardeners’ Chronicle of London, 
Eng , in their July issues, contained valuable sketches and portraits of 
noted hybridizers. 
Among catalogues recently received those of the Rosedale Nurseries, 
Stanley H. Watson, Brenham, Tex., and the Fruitland Nurseries, 
Augusta, Ga., the P. J. Berckmans Co., are especially attractive. 
1 he official proceedings of the American Association of Nurserymen 
have been issued by Secretary George C. Seager. The book is of 
much interest to all nurserymen. Those who are not members of the 
American Association should send $2 to the secretary, at Rochester, 
N. Y., and receive this book of proceedings. They should also attend 
the annual convention at Chicago next June and see what they have 
been missing in the way of enjoyment and business profit. The pro¬ 
ceedings comprise a full stenographic report of the convention, printed 
and bound in excellent manner, a credit to the secretary and his 
assistant, Edward J. Seager. 
We have received from the secretary, L. Woolverton, Grimsby, Ont., 
copies of the thirtieth annual report of the Fruit Growers’ Association, 
of Ontario, and the fifth annual report of the fruit experiment stations 
of Ontario. Together they form a valuable index to the fruits of 
Ontario according to conditions of 1898. The report of the Fruit 
Growers’Association contains papers and discussions of many timely 
topics. The report of the experiment stations is preceded by nearly 
100 pages of illustrations and descriptions of the fruits of Ontario by 
Mr. Woolverton who notes the importance of some means of identify¬ 
ing all varieties now grown in the Province. The illustrations are 
all new and original and admirably depict the various fruits. Mr. 
Woolverton’s work is to be highly commended. 
Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden, by F. Schuyler 
Mathews, is a companion volume to the author’s Familiar Trees 
and Their Leaves. Full descriptions of flowering plants arranged 
with regard to the months in which they bloom are given together 
with illustrations by means of which each may readily be identified. 
The descriptions are in such interesting and original style as to make 
the volume a most attractive one to take up and read at any point at 
any time. Popular and scientific names of varieties are given. No 
attempt is made t© give cultural directions, The flowers are described 
as they are found growing, as the reader finds them and as he wishes 
to identify them. Familiarity with a flower, says the author, does not 
always include a knowledge of its name and family. Great care has 
been given to color names in this volume which is intended as a com¬ 
panion to Gray’s Field, Forest and Garden Botany, as revised by Pro¬ 
fessor L. H. Bailey. The book has over 200 drawings by the author 
and a systematical index and floral calendar. It is printed on heavy 
paper and is handsomely bound. Cloth, pp. 808, 12 mo., $1.75. New 
York : D. Appleton & Co. 
Ornamental Shrubs, for garden, lawn and park planting, with an 
account of the origin, capabilities, and adaptations of the numerous 
species and varieties, native and foreign, and especially of the new and 
rare sorts, suited to cultivation in the United States, is a title none too 
pretentious for the timely volume just issued by the Putnams. The 
author is Lucius D. Davis who in his preface clearly outlines the scope 
of the work ; and it is of special interest to nurserymen. “It is well 
understood” says Mr. Davis, “that botany deals chiefly with fixed 
forms, as represented by orders, genera and species, and that it takes 
little or no note of such varieties as are constantly making their 
appearance throughout the world. For this there is good reason from 
a scientific standpoint, but when it comes to the practical use of plants 
in general cultivation it is found that many of the species thus treated 
have given forth varieties, through processes well understood, that 
are far more valuable for the work in hand than the originals, and 
such as are coming, in a large measure, to displace them. A very 
large proportion of the plants in the best gardens of Europe and Amer 
ica belong to the latter class, many of which are not even named by 
the scientists, much less described. To these especial attention is 
given, as for horticultural purposes they are of great value. It is 
true that much has been written in a fragmentary way concerning 
these varietal forms, but this is believed to be the first attempt to 
gather and publish in a single volume an account of the wonderful 
evolutions in connection with the several types so far as they are of 
practical use in our gardens and parks.” The idea suggested by the 
author has been followed closely in his book. It is along these lines 
directly that the nurseryman is working. Much of the material in the 
volume will be more or less familiar to him but he will find also much 
that will prove of special value in practical application to his business. 
It is a volume too, that will largely increase the intelligent demand 
for ornamental stock for planting in public and private grounds. As 
it is not designed to be a scientific treatise, no attempt is made at 
strictly botanical classification. The descriptions, however, are j re- 
