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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Resolved, That the secretary be instructed to have a copy of the pro¬ 
ceedings printed and mail a copy to each member of this Association 
and also to each experiment station director in the South, and the 
National Nurseryman. 
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
President, N. W. Hale of Knoxville, Tenn.; Vice-President, 
W. D. Griffing, Jacksonville, Fla.; Secretary and Treasurer,W. 
Lee Wilson, Winchester, Tenn.; Executive Committee, John 
A. Young, North Carolina, J. C. Hale, Tennessee; Charles T. 
Smith, Georgia, C. M. Griffing, Florida, R. C. Chase, 
Alabama. 
The president appointed the following committee on trans¬ 
portation: G. H. Miller, Rome, Ga.; J. Van Lindley, Pomona, 
N. C.; L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
By unanimous consent the president was made chairman of 
this committee. Asheville, N. C., was selected as the place for 
holding the next meeting. 
H. Lightfoot of Sherman Heights, Tenn., gave an interest¬ 
ing talk upon the inception and growth of the strawberry bus¬ 
iness in the Chattanooga district. Votes of thanks were tend¬ 
ered Prof. Scott for the splendid paper read and his interest in 
the meeting; to the proprietor of the Sweetwater Hotel, for the 
hospitable manner in which he had entertained the Association, 
and to the President and Secretary. On motion, the Associa¬ 
tion then adjourned to meet at Asheville, N. C., on the third 
Tuesday in July, 1901. 
Among those at the meeting were: Hon. N. W. Hale, 
Knoxville, Tenn., representing the Knoxville Nursery Com¬ 
pany; W. L. Wilson and F. A. Pattee, representing the South¬ 
ern Nursery Company, of Winchester, Tenn.; A. A. Newson, 
Knoxville, representing the Marble City Nursery Company; 
J. C Hale, of Winchester, Tenn., representing the Tennessee 
Wholesale Nursery Company; L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., 
representing the Berckman’s Nursery Company; J.Van Lindley, 
of Pomona, N. C., representing the Pomona Nurseries; John 
A. Young, of Greensboro, N. C., representing the Greensboro 
Nurseries; W. D. Griffing, Jacksonville, Fla., representing the 
Griffing Bros. Nurseries; H. Lightfoot, Sherman Heights, 
Tenn., representing H. Lightfoot Plant Nursery. 
Many nurserymen were unable to attend the meeting, be¬ 
cause of the large peach crop. 
NURSERYMAN AT THE HEAD. 
A despatch from Geneva, N. Y., says: 
The canniDg industry in Geneva, has grown to be quite an important 
factor until at the present time it brings thousands of dollars into the 
city annually and advertises Geneva to no small extent. 
Of the two preserving companies located here, the Geneva Preserv¬ 
ing Company is the largest. It has four large storehouses and a shed 
180 x 75 feet for its peas and corn work, the latter having been built 
this year. It cans everything in the canning line and ships over 
8 , 000,000 cans of preserves annually. Over 400 men and women are 
employed and between $ 225,000 and $ 250,000 is paid out yearly for 
labor and salaries. This company has 600 acres of land about two and 
half miles south of this city upon which peas, corn, squash and beans 
are grown. The company has grown very fast during its eleven years 
existence until to-day it is represented in all the large cities. 
The officers of the company are : President, Irving Rouse of Roch¬ 
ester ; vice-president, B. E. Rouse of Geneva ; treasurer and manager, 
E. H. Palmer, Geneva. 
A PIONEER NURSERYMAN. 
In a recent article in the Buffalo Express, Jane Marsh 
Parker, Rochester, N. Y., writes entertainingly of George 
Ellwanger, the senior member of the Ellwanger & Barry Nur¬ 
sery Company. Mrs. Parker writes : 
“ You might walk from New York to San Francisco under your own 
trees,” broke out a guest of George Ellwanger, after listening to his 
story. 
“No ! no ! I did not say that—I would not say that,” came emphat¬ 
ically from the genial horticulturist, strenuons always for accuracy of 
statement and to whom exaggeration is distasteful. So it will not do 
to state as a fact what would not be so very far from the truth, after 
all, with reasonable license for poetic flight. The best of the journey 
might certainly be made under his own vine and fig tree—or trees that 
were sent out by him from Rochester—sturdy trees too—many of them 
now nearly as old as the elm he planted about 1839, when he had been 
in the country some four or five years—a slip he sent to Belgium for 
when his little nursery was hardly one year old and which to-day is a 
giant of beauty, a land mark, the rival in size of its near neighbor, 
the great native American elm, 250 years old, presumably, to be seen 
near the entrance gates. 
It is something to stand under the younger tree with the man who 
planted it, and has lovingly watched its growth and hear his praises of 
its beauty—-the charm of his speech increased by his German accent; 
a cheery, active, kindly man, “ more than 80 years young.” The truth 
that the deeds of a man’s life go with his selfhood are amply illustrated 
in his personal influence, so like the blessed shade of the great elm. 
“ It was only a slip, nothing but a whip,” he said, briskly pacing the 
soft turf to get the width of its crown—about eighty feet, nearly as 
wide as that of its venerable rival. 
The German lad, “ only a slip,” that sturdy son of the vineyard of 
Wirtemberg, who was transplanted to the Genesee country in 1835, 
that “Dutch boy,” who could not speak a word of English when he 
landed, and who had barely enough in his pocket for stern necessities 
(mind you he had that)—he it was, that founded as a young man, the 
nursery long known as the largest in the world. Not a few of the 
great nurseries of the country, some of them now larger than the Ell¬ 
wanger & Barry, had their initial root in the firm that for years had a 
large monopoly of the business. That slip of an elm had a sound, 
healthy root to start with, and was planted in the right soil. 
So George Ellwanger in his early training in his father’s vineyard at 
Gross-Heppach, in the Remsthal, and the four years he spent in Stutt¬ 
gart, where he made a thorough study of horticulture, was eminently 
prepared for laying good foundations for his future career; and he 
made no mistake in choosing where best to utilize his training, his 
knowledge of trees, vines, soil, etc., in the New World. 
The sunsetting of the beneficent life of George Ellwanger falls tran¬ 
quilly upon him in his beautiful home, opposite the site of his first 
greenhouses, the nursery of 65 years ago—the superb elm he then 
planted not far from the wide veranda where he likes best to sit in the 
summer evenings, his children and grandchildren around him, and 
with whom it is his custom to speak much in German. That he is 
beloved and honored as a representative citizen is too well known for 
repeating now. A 1 is in harmony with his life record—a fuller revela¬ 
tion of his close kinships with trees and fruits and flowers—with every¬ 
thing that makes life far other than it would be if there were fewer 
men like George Ellwanger, men glad and loyal in making the world 
as beautiful and as fruitful as they possibly can. 
NURSERY INSPECTION IN NEW YORK. 
The inspection of nursery stock in New York State was 
begun in 1898. In that year 6,749 acres of nursery stock 
were examined, and 469 acres of vineyards whence nursery 
cuttings came ; in 1890, 6,015 acres of the former and 817 of 
the latter. Reports of inspectors show that many places in¬ 
fested with the scale in previous years are almost entirely free 
from the ravages of the pest this year. 
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