THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Volume III of the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticul¬ 
ture by L. II. Bailey is being issued. 
It contains pages 1201 to 1760 letters F to K. The 
work is in six volumes, published by the MacMillan Com¬ 
pany, 66 Fifth avenue, New York. Price -$6.00 per 
volume. 
The more one uses this work the more you are im¬ 
pressed with the magnitude of its scope. If there is a 
phase of horticulture that has been overlooked in its com¬ 
pilation the writer has not discovered it yet, in fact every 
reference to it reveals an unexpected store house of in¬ 
formation. 
The work is a monument to Professor Bailey, and an 
absolute necessity for every horticulturist who is inter¬ 
ested in his profession. 
HORTICULTURAL AND POMOLOGICAL CONVEN¬ 
TIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO WHICH YOU OUGHT 
TO ATTEND 
August 12-14, 1915 
Thirteenth Annual Convention: The Pacific Coast As¬ 
sociation of Nurserymen, Auditorium, San Francisco. 
President, John Vallance, 81 Glen Avenue, Oakland; 
secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Washing¬ 
ton. 
August 12-14, 1915 
Fifth Annual Meeting: The California Association of 
Nurserymen. President, Fred H. Howard, Ninth and 
Olive streets, Los Angeles; secretary-treasurer, Henry W. 
Kruckeberg, 237 Franklin street, Los Angeles. 
Monday, August 16, 1915 
Nurserymen’s Day at the Panama-Pacific International 
Exposition. 
August 17-19, 1915 
Annual Meeting: The American Rose Society, Audi¬ 
torium, San Francisco. Secretary, Benjamin Hammond, 
Beacon, New York. 
August 17-20, 1915 
Thirty-first Annual Meeting: Society American 
Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists, Auditorium, 
San Francisco. President, Patrick Welch. Boston; vice- 
president, Daniel MacRorie, 430 and 432 Phelan building. 
San Francisco; secretary, John Young, 53 W. lwenty- 
Eighth street, New York City; treasurer, W. b. Lasting, 
Buffalo, New York. 
Same dates as the above: The National Association oi 
Gardeners, Auditorium, San Francisco. President, John 
W. Everitt, Glen Cove, New York; secretary, M. C. Ebel, 
Madison. New Jersey. The Florists’ Telegraph Delivery, 
Auditorium, San Francisco. President, Irwin Berter- 
mann, Indianapolis, Indiana; secretary, Albert Pochelon. 
Detroit, Michigan. The Florists’ Hail Association <>i 
America, Auditorium, San Francisco. Secretary, John 
I). Esler, Saddle River, New Jersey. 
August 18-20, 1915 
Annual Meeting: Hie American Association of Park 
Superintendents, Auditorium, San Francisco. Secretary- 
treasurer, Roland W. Cotterill, Seattle, Washington. 
August 23-25, 1915 
Thirty-fourth Biennial Session: The American Borno¬ 
logical Society, Berkeley, California. President, L. A. 
Goodman, Kansas City, Missouri; California vice-presi¬ 
dent, Henry W. Kruckeberg, 237 Franklin street, Los 
Angeles; executive committee, George C. Roeding, 
Fresno; secretary, E. B. Lake, 2033 Park Road, n. w., 
Washington, 1). C. 
AMENDED LAW FOB NEW YORK STATE 
The last Legislature made a slight amendment to the 
act passed a year ago relating to the sale of nursery 
stock in New York State and the provisions of a limited 
liability contract. The original section is shown below, 
and the words in brackets are left out in the revision of 
the law as amended last winter. 
“In any action to recover damages suffered by 
the purchaser by reason of any fruit tree or trees 
not being of the name or variety under which they 
were tagged and sold, the seller shall have the bur¬ 
den of proof in establishing that any contract (not 
in writing) or any provision of any such contract 
exempting the seller from liability or limiting his 
liability was (fully understood and) agreed to by the 
purchaser. In every case of a sale of fruit-bearing 
trees in lots of twenty-five or more, (when by writ¬ 
ten contract,) the seller must at once furnish the 
purchaser a copy of such contract upon the face of 
which shall be plainly printed the following: In 
any action to recover damages suffered by the pur¬ 
chaser by reason of any fruit tree or trees not being 
of the name or variety under which they were tagged 
and sold, the seller shall have the burden of proof 
in establishing that any contract (not in writing) or 
any provision of any such contract exempting the 
seller from liability or limiting his liability was 
(fully understood and) agreed to by the purchaser.’ 
The effect of this change is not very important. The 
original law applied to verbal contracts only so far as the 
obligation placed on I he seller to show in case ot any dis¬ 
pute that the limited liability contract was fully under¬ 
stood and agreed to by the purchaser. This did not 
meet the approval of the fruit growers’ committee, which 
insisted that the law should be amended so as to apply to 
contracts printed or in writing, and the effect ot the 
words omitted by the amendment is that the provisions 
apply to written contracts, but it is not encumbent on 
the nurserymen to show that a contract was "fully un¬ 
derstood by the purchaser,” but simply to show that the 
contract was “agreed to by the purchaser,” and our at¬ 
torneys advise that the production ot a printed contract 
signed by the purchaser is sufficient evidence that In* 
agreed to the contract when he signed it and agreed to 
any provision of the contract whereby the liability ot tin 1 
nurseryman was limited. 
It is thought that this change will satisfy the fruit 
