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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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naturally expects the llower to resemble the butterlly. 
whereas it was evidently applied to it because the plant 
when in flower attracts them, but this is common to 
quite a number of plants that bloom through the fall 
months. 
One of the main reasons the Buddleia has not been 
grown more by nurserymen is its lack of hardiness. In 
the latitude of Philadelphia it barely comes through the 
winter, unless located in a sunny position where the soil 
is light and well drained. Heavy wet soil is fatal to it 
in the winter. 
It is a plant that should really be classed with the her¬ 
baceous perennials in the north, as the tops invariably 
winter kill, but this is not a detriment because a very 
small cutting will make a bush four to five feet or more 
in one summer and give a good supply of bloom. 
There is little doubt but that plants set out in spring, 
grown all summer and kept in sand in the storage cellar 
over winter would come out in good shape in spring and 
the tops would be available for a new stock as it roots 
readily from hard wood cuttings. 
B. Veitchiana, B. magnified, B. superba and B. Wilsoni 
are all good and come to their best at different seasons, 
extending the period of bloom. 
Beautiful racemes of mauve, lilac-purple and rose- 
lilac flowers that last well, when cut. are worth while* 
Connecticut Nurserymen on the baseball field on the occasion of their outing to 
Lake Compounce 
THE NATIONAL NUT GROWERS CONVENTION 
The 1915 convention of the National Nut Growers Asso¬ 
ciation will be held at Albany, Georgia, Wednesday. 
Thursday and Friday, October 27, 28 and 29. It was in 
Albany fourteen years ago that the initial move was made 
which culminated in the formation of this national body. 
Six years ago, in 1909, after annual and remarkably 
successful conventions had been held in seven different 
states, a wonderful gathering was held in Albany and a 
special train used in carrying the visitors who came from 
fifteen different states, from orchard to orchard and 
which proved to be one of the greatest demonstrations of 
horticultural science ever attempted in this country. 
That convention and the tour through thousands of 
acres of pecan orchards which had magically sprung into 
Existence since that initial Albany meeting only eight 
years before, may well be regarded as a propitious seed 
time, while the coming convention may fittingly be antici¬ 
pated as the harvest. Again a tour will be made through 
the now bearing orchards, at a time when the golden 
harvest of brown beauties is in active operation, when 
the various processes of gathering, drying, grading and 
loading the rich product in solid car loads can be wit¬ 
nessed. This year, however, a hundred or more auto¬ 
mobiles will take the place of the railroad train and the 
vehicles of every description used in 1909. An entire 
day will be given to the excursion over a sixty mile 
course, with frequent stops for refreshments and inspec¬ 
tion. The greater part of this tour will be along the 
driveways of thousands of acres of solid pecan orchards 
and through scenes of surpassing beauty which at present 
have no counterpart in the world. 
THE INTRUDERS 
Six magnificent elm trees on the Eastern Parkway 
have been cut down to make room for the operation 
of steam shovels in constructing the new subway. 
—New York World. 
Why should there be any room for magnificent trees in 
a large city? The business of the city is to throttle 
Nature. Natural impulses have a hard time in getting 
along with it. They are more or less de trop. An elm 
tree is one of the most naturally beautitul objects in the 
world. It is out of place among riveted steel structures, 
cast-iron statues, painted women, poverty-stricken 
hordes, clanging railways and red head-lines.— Life. 
