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learned be thrown away, or will experience make us 
wiser? What say you, Mr. Editor? 
J. B. Fleming. 
There is nothing more demoralizing to a market than 
dumping larger quantities of stock upon it than the de¬ 
mand can take care of. Everyone knows what happens 
to values on the stock market when securities are sud¬ 
denly thrown on to it; a panic ensues. It is just the 
same with fruit trees, let the feeling, that there is a sur¬ 
plus, above normal demand, get abroad and values drop 
much lower than perhaps the real conditions warrant. 
Fruit, flowers, vegetables sold by auction at just what 
they will bring, perhaps does benefit the consumer, 
maybe at the expense of the producer, but even this can¬ 
not be said of fruit trees, because they are not a finished 
product, of potential value only, and the cost of the trees 
is so small in proportion to the cost of bringing them to a 
productive stage that they should not be offered in excess 
of demand. 
Mr. Fleming bits the nail on the head when lie says:- 
“We believe the true interests of all nurserymen can be 
best subserved by keeping within the limits of our sale 
possibilities in the growing of our nursery stock.” 
There is every reason to believe that nurserymen are 
beginning to realize there is more to be gained by co¬ 
operation than a selfish desire to win his brother nur¬ 
seryman’s trade by selling at a lower price.— Editor. 
, ftote Comment. 
The nursery business of Clias. G. Curtis, of Callicoon, 
N. Y., will after July 1, be known as the Clias. G. Curbs 
Company. 
Mr. Curtis lias for the past 14 years conducted a very 
successful business in collecting and growing native 
.plants and trees, making a specialty of Rhododendron 
Maximum. The business has been increasing very 
rapidly for several years past. 
The new member of the firm is Miss Elizabeth Metzger 
of Callicoon, N. Y. Miss Metzger is thoroughly ac¬ 
quainted with the business, she having been in Mr. Cur¬ 
tis’ office for several years. 
The purpose of the new Company is to enlarge the 
business. One of the main objects is to transplant an< 
grow native plants and trees for the wholesale trade, 
also to handle all classes of nursery stock, including 
bulbs, foreign and domestic. 
As soon as completed, the new Company will occupy 
the large building now being erected on Bridge sl:v< ! 
with yard and packing shed at the west end of the build¬ 
ing- 
The capital of the Company is $10,000. 
MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF THE MANNING NURSERIES 
Announcement has been made that on Monday, August 
2nd, the property, including the nursery stock, ol J. A 
Manning, North Wilmington and North Reading, Mas¬ 
sachusetts, will be offered for sale to cover an unsatis¬ 
fied mortgage. 
In accordance with certain provisions of the mortgage 
deed and since the date thereof, nursery stock placed or 
grown on the mortgaged premises has been removed from 
lime to time and other nursery stock has been placed 
upon the premises.. All nursery stock upon the mort¬ 
gaged premises will be included in the sale. 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN 
NURSERYM EN’S ASSOCIATION 
The annual meeting of the Southern Nurserymen’s 
Association will be held at Hendersonville, N. C., w ith 
the St. John Hotel as headquarters, on August 25th, 26th 
and 27th, 1915. Hendersonville is only a short distance 
from Ashville, and all of that mountain part of western 
North Carolina is classed as very fine summer resort 
territory. The rates at the St. John Hotel are averaged 
$2.50 per day, American plan, and splendid facilities an* 
offered in this hotel as headquarters for the conducting 
of a successful meeting. 
All Southern nurserymen, as well as others disposed 
to join, are urged to send to Secretary and Treasurer, A. 
I. Smith, Knoxville, the annual fee of $2.00. 
A very splendid program is being arranged by the pro¬ 
gram Committee, and it will be the object of liie officers 
of the Association, as well as the North Carolina nursery¬ 
men, to make the meeting a success both as to the pro¬ 
gram and discussions, and socially. A week spent 
breathing pure mountain air and drinking pure moun¬ 
tain water, will put the average hard worked nursery¬ 
man on bis feet for the hard autumn work. 
The President of the Association this year is Mr. Mil- 
ton Moss, proprietor of the Huntsville Wholesale Nur¬ 
series, Huntsville, Ala. He is ably assisted by the Vice- 
president, Ray Simpson, of Monticello, Fla. 
Yours very truly, 
A. I. Smith, Secretary S. N. .1. 
A SUBSTITUTE FOR BEES WAX FOR GRAFTING 
We are in receipt of a sample of Cantol Compounded 
Rees Wax from the West Texas Products Company, San 
Antonio, Texas. This Compound wax is made from Can¬ 
tol Vegetable wax, which they manufacture in south 
Texas from the plant known as Euphorbia anti-syphil- 
itica. It is claimed this wax is nearly 100 per cent pure, 
free from foreign matter, and contains only a small 
amount of moisture. The wax itself is very 
similar to a pure bees wax, and like bees wax. is made 
up very largely of higher alcohols, and hydro-carbons. 
The chemical composition is practically the same; and for 
the reason of this similarity, it is very easy to modify its 
physical properties with vegetable oils, w hich, of course, 
reduces the melting point, and this adjustment is so 
happily made, that the melting point and consistency 
correspond to that of a pure natural bees wax. 
The advantage of using the Compounded wax, is that 
it will always be found to be the same. Much ot the bees 
wax on the market is adulterated with cheap tallow' and 
cheaper paraffine, and hardly any two samples will be 
found alike. The Cantol Compounded Bees Wax will al¬ 
ways be the same, as it is made from a strict formula. 
From the look of tin' samples ot the w ax it is certainly 
worth investigating by anyone who uses a quantity as 
do many nurserymen for making grafting wax, 
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