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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
^foreign Botes. 
A bulletin has been issued by F. V. Theobald on “The San 
Jose scale and its probable introduction into England,” with 
electros supplied by the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture. 
At the Paris exposition of 1900 ample space will be allotted 
to horticulture. There are to be 18 groups comprising 120 
classes in the entire exhibition. Group VIII, classes 43—48, 
includes horticulture and arboriculture. Great preparations 
are being made Horticultural products will be exhibited on 
the north side of the Seine, near the Place de l’Alma. 
The province of Cagliari, which contains the richest and 
most extensive wine regions of the island Sardinia, has re¬ 
mained free from the invasion of the phylloxera, but, never¬ 
theless, the wine growers and proprietors of vineyards are still 
menaced by this dreadful calamity ; and, in order to keep off 
the pest the director of the School of Viticulture has com¬ 
menced to recommend most warmly the introduction and cul¬ 
tivation in Sardinia of American vines. 
At the recent Royal Horticultural Show Thomas Rivers & 
Son exhibited a new late peach named after the senior mem¬ 
ber of the firm, and Paul & Son a new hybrid tea rose, the 
Una, a cross between Rosa canina and Gloire de Dijon. The 
last named firm exhibited a new China rose, Queen Mab, at 
the British National Rose Society’s exhibition on July 2d* 
B. R. Cant, Colchester, won the championship trophy in the 
contest between six of the leading rose-growing nurserymen. 
FLORISTS’ CONVENTION. 
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Society of American 
Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists will be held at the 
First Congregational church, Omaha, August 16—19. The 
president will hold a reception in the church parlors on the 
evening of the first day. There is to be a trade exhibition, a 
special medal competition, exhibition of photographs, bowling 
contest and the establishment of five new departments desig¬ 
nated as follows : Credit information, co-operative purchase, 
legislation, arbitration and claims. 
FLORISTS DISAPPOINTED TOO. 
Notwithstanding the statements to the contrary, thus far no 
rate has been made to the Society of American Florists, by 
the railroads from Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul, nor from points 
like Buffalo and Pittsburgh west to Chicago, any better than 
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the ordinary one-man thirty-day rate allowed to anybody and 
everybody. This is manifestly unjust to an association like 
the S. A. F., with an average attendance of over 600 for the 
past ten years. 
Professor Taylor at the Providence convention certainly 
made broad promises of liberal rates on account of the Trans- 
Mississippi Exposition, and instead of realizing on them we 
are confronted with the highest fares ever known in connection 
with the annual meeting. The present Chicago-Omaha round 
trip being $20, it will be impossible to muster anything like a 
representative gathering to push this pioneer work in the West. 
— American Florist. 
AMERICAN PARK ASSOCIATION. 
The American Park and Outdoor Art Association, was the 
designation in the constitution adopted at the Minneapolis 
meeting of the association. The following officers were 
elected : President, C. M. Loring, Minneapolis ; secretary, 
Warren H. Manning, Boston ; treasurer, E. B. Haskell, Bos¬ 
ton ; vice-presidents, P. H. A. Balsley, Detroit ; W. H. Olm¬ 
sted, Boston ; G. H. Warder, Cincinnati; E. J. Parker, Quincy, 
Ill.; Lewis Johnson, New Orleans ; M. L. Moore, Toledo. 
The association will meet next in Detroit. 
SNEED, TRIUMPH AND GREENSBORO. 
J. Van Lindley, Pomona, N. C., sends the following as his 
experience this season with the three peaches named : 
The Sneed commences ripening first and is a fine quality peach, 
ripening on the tree to perfection and is generally well colored with 
bright crimson. It is most valuable for home orchards and local mar¬ 
kets, and is all right for markets which can be reached morning after 
being gathered, but too tender for distant markets and long hauls. It 
commences to ripen about ten days ahead of the old Alexander and is 
about through before that variety commences, so there is nothing in its 
way. Its main place is in the family and local market orchard where 
it is bound to continue 1o stand high, and for home use it is better than 
the Alexander ever was. 
The Greensboro ripened immediately following Sneed and with 
Alexander is larger than that variety and far superior in every way ex¬ 
cept color. However its bright delicate crimson next the sun makes 
it show up beautifully on trees and in baskets and it sold well on New 
York market this season. It is a semi-cling, will part from the seed 
when overripe. On account of its large size and quality it has come 
to stay and completely lakes the place of Alexander. While not alto¬ 
gether as good a carrier as some of the later varieties, yet, as stated 
above, it did well on the markets this season. As a family and local 
market peach, it will never be excelled as it will please the taste of the 
most fastidious. 
The Triumph commences about a week later than the Greensboro, 
coming on when that variety and Alexander are two-thirds gone. It 
is of good size, averaging considerably larger than Alexander; is of 
high color and most excellent quality. It ripens well to the seed and 
is a semi-cling, full ripe ones will part clean from the seed. It being a 
yellow peach ripening when it does and extremely hardy in every re¬ 
spect, makes it a most valuable market peach for distant markets, 
coming in at a season when we needed just such a peach and fills up a 
little gap that is very important to commercial fruit growers. 
My test with the above varieties was with 2,000 trees each, one and 
two years old in orchard or two and three years old from bud which I 
think is a very fair test. 
Altogether these three varieties, though comparatively new, give 
us fruit of good qualities for a full month without a break where here¬ 
tofore we only had the Alexander and its class of inferior quality for 
about ten days. 
©bttuar\>. 
George W. Campbell, of Delaware, O., died July 15, aged 82 years. 
He was one of the best known horticulturists of this country. He was 
born in Cortlandville, N. Y., January 12, 1817. More than three score 
years he devoted his efforts to horticulture. He had been a continuous 
member of the American Pomological Society since 1850. He had been 
president of the Ohio Horticultural Society and was a member of the 
American Association of Nurserymen. President Hayes appointed 
him United States Commissioner to the Paris Exposition of 1878 and he 
attended other universal expositions in an -official capacity. He sent 
out the Delaware grape and a few years ago originated the Campbell’s 
Early grape. His death is a severe loss to American horticultural in¬ 
terests. 
