THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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John R. Barnes, West Cheshire, Conn.; Baker Brothers, Fort Worth, 
Tex.; J. N. Bigelow, Bangor, Mich.; Joseph Breck & Sous, Boston. 
Thomas E. Cashman, Owatonna, Minn.; F. II. Chappel, Oregon, 
Wis.; Custer Brothers, Normal, Ill.; Central Michigan Nursery Co., 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 
F. C. Edwards, Fort Atkinson, Wis.; J. H. M. Edwards & Son, 
Logan, la. 
W. W. Farnsworth, Waterville, O.; J. Ford & Sons, Auburn, N. Y. 
G. A. Gamble, Fort Smith, Ark. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md.; Hoyt Brothers, Scotch Grove, 
la.; II. Harrington, Williamsburg, la. 
H. W. Jenkins, Booneville, Mo.; H. A. Johns, Sioux City, la. 
Klehm’s Nurseries, Arlington Heights, Ill.; C. A. Kennedy, Mont¬ 
rose, la.; David Knight, Sawyer, Mich.; A. C. Kendall, Cleveland. 
J. N. Mandeville, Rochester, N. Y.; J. S. Michael, Sioux City, la.; 
Marble City Nursery Co., Knoxville, Tenn.; Marshall Brothers, Arling¬ 
ton, Neb.; J. M. McCullough’s Sons, Cincinnati. 
C. C. Nash, Three Rivers, Mich. 
Olden Nursery Co., Olden, Mo. 
H. B. Pierce & Son, Antioch, Ill.; G. E. Prater, Jr., Paw Paw, Mich.; 
G. S. Pickett, Clyde, O.; F. S. Phoenix, Bloomington, Ill. 
Edgar Sanders, Chicago; Sanders Nursery, St. Louis; J. W. Steven¬ 
son, North BeDd, Neb. 
Elwood Totum, West Branch, la.; F. W. Taylor, Buffalo. 
West Michigan Nurseries, Benton Harbor, Mich.; Henry Wallis, 
Wellston, Mo.; C. E. Whitten, Bridgman, Mich. 
CONVENTION NOTES. 
All kinds of stock have advanced in price, especially cherry, apple, 
pear and plum. 
Milwaukee’s mayor sent a telegram asking the Association to meet 
in that city in 1902 . 
It was the general opinion that there will be a scarcity of stock next 
year with possibly the exception of apple. 
Edgar Sanders, Chicago, the first president of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen, was at the convention. 
One of the things we shall remember is the hearty, outspoken laugh 
of the popular Wisconsin member, Z. K. Jewett. 
J. J. Harrison and H B. Harrison, Painesville, O. stopped at Chicago 
for the convention, on their way home from California. 
The Macmillan company exhibited the new Cyclopedia of Horticul¬ 
ture and several of Professor Bailey’s horticultural books. 
T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y., was missed. He has sold his 
nursery business. During last winter he was in the Bermudas. 
Prof. N. E. Hansen’s paper on “Some New Lines of Work for 
Prairie Nurserymen ” will be published in a forthcoming issue. 
Upon motion of A. L. Brooke, the thanks of the Association were 
extended to the committees on legislation and on the importation of 
stock. 
Through the courtesy of J. C. Vaughn, of Chicago, thirty members 
of the Association enjoyed a ride through the parks in a coach drawn 
by six horses. 
Of the 62 names of members the first year of the Association, 1876 , 
there are only six in the badge book of 1900 : J. J. Harrison, Edgar 
Sanders, T. S. Hubbard, Z. K. Jewett, P. S. Peterson, J. C. Vaughn. 
A. D. Appletree Barnes, Waupaca, Wis., extended an invitation to 
the members of the Association to attend the State Horticultural 
Society convention at Warsaw, Wis., the week after the Chicago con¬ 
vention. 
The record of the American Association for 1879 is one of the three 
that are missing. Mr. Albauglr said at Chicago last month, that J. J. 
Harrison, Painesville, O., was president in that year and that the 
Association met in Cleveland. 
N. H. Albaugh and Jacob Manning have attended twenty-two of the 
twenty-live meetings of the American Association. Z. K. Jewett, an¬ 
other charter member, missed only the meeting of last year. Miss 
Jacobson, the stenographer, has attended eleven consecutive meetings. 
Invitations for the convention of 1901 were extended by Alexander 
J. Porter, of the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara 
Falls, and Mayor M. B. Butler, of Niagara Falls, who stated that 
ample hotel accommodations may be secured there at from $2 to $4 
per day. 
George J. Spear made an active canvass for the holding of the con¬ 
vention of 1902 in Denver. Invitations to the Association were 
received by Secretary Seager from Governor Charles S. Thomas, of 
Colorado, Mayor II. T. Johnson of Denver, and William N. Byers, 
President of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. 
Promptly after the first session of the convention all the members 
were assembled on the verandah of the hotel overlooking Lake Michi¬ 
gan and were there photographed by J. W. Taylor of 215 Dearborn 
street, Chicago, from whom copies of the picture may be obtained. 
It appears as the frontispiece of this issue of the National Nursery - 
man. 
M. J. Daniels, referred to by Mr. Watrous, in his report of ex¬ 
periences in Washington, is the Californian who as a member of the 
California State Board of Horticulture attended the Washington con¬ 
vention of horticulturists in March 1897 which proposed legislation 
regulating the transportation of nursery stock. He was the secretary 
of that convention. 
Reference was made, in one of the addresses, to the late George W. 
Campbell as the originator of the Delaware grape. It is generally 
supposed that Mr. Campbell was the originator of this grape, but a 
short time before he died Mr. Campbell told a representative of the 
National Nurseryman that he did not originate the grape ; that he 
was among the very first to recognize its value and pushed it to the 
front. 
Vice-president Hale said that he was led into the nursery business 
by seeing a man in a Prince Albert coat, large checked trousers and 
tall hat ride up on horseback to his father’s front door in Tennessee 
and draw a plate book on the elder Mr. Hale. “ My father did not 
intend to buy any stock,” said Mr. Hale, “but the man talked him 
into buying so quickly that father and I stood lost in admiration as 
we watched him ride away. I chose the business right there. I was 
14 years old.” 
Jacob Manning, the veteran member of the American Association, is 
noted in horticultural circles by reason of his introduction of the Cut¬ 
ter’s seedling strawberry in 1859 , the Amber grape in 1860 , and Smith’s 
seedling gooseberry in 1865 ; also, for the dissemination of the Con¬ 
cord grape (with E. W. Bull, the introducer), in 1849 , the White spruce 
in 1853 , the Clethra alnifolia in 1857 , the Celtis or Nettle tree in 1859 , 
the John Sweet apple in 1860 , the Yucca filamentosa in 1862 , and the 
Granite Beanty apple in 1866 . Thomas Meehan has said that Mr. Man¬ 
ning did more than any one else at first to introduce the White spruce. 
CROP CONDITIONS. 
The federal crop report on June ist showed that the average 
condition of the apple crop is exceptionally favorable, the 
whole of the fourteen states having 3,000,000 or upward apple 
trees in bearing at the last census reporting a condition above, 
and most of then considerably above their ten-year averages. 
The condition in New York, 100, is the highest reported from 
that state in fifteen years, and is 12 points above the average. 
Kansas also reports 12 points. Pennsylvania 11, Maine 10, Vir¬ 
ginia and Michigan 13, North Carolina 23, Illinois 9, Missouri 
6, Ohio and Indiana 5, Kentucky and Tennessee 4 points and 
Iowa 1 point above their respective ten-year averages. Of the 
remaining states and territories, with all their diversity of soil 
and climate, all but some half dozen have the promise of 
more than an average crop. 
“The present prospects of the peach crop,” says the report, 
“ are nothing less than phenomenal, almost every important 
peach-growing state reporting a condition far above the aver¬ 
age, and some even above 100. Among the latter are Dela¬ 
ware, Georgia and North Carolina, whose reports of 106, no 
and 105 are about double their respective ten-year averages. 
