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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
that the object for which the committee was appointed will 
undoubtedly soon be accomplished. 
“ Your committee is under special obligations to the Hon. 
Henry C. Brewster and the Hon. W, B. Hooker of New York 
and the Hon. J. P. Dolliver and the Hon. W. B. Allison of 
Iowa, for the interest they manifested in the measure and the 
valuable aid they gave. 
“ It is proper to add that the Messrs. Albaugh and Hale, 
being unable to serve on the committee, Messrs. Rouse and 
Harrison were appointed by the president in their stead and 
Mr. Pitkin of the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association was 
added to the committee. 
Appended are copies of the circulars addressed to the asso¬ 
ciation by the committee. 
Respectfully submitted, 
William C. Barry, J. J. Harrison, 
Silas Wilson, Irving Rouse, 
William Pitkin. 
LEGISLATION. 
The main topic of discussion during the convention was the 
San Jose scale. The committee on legislation composed of 
C. L. Watrous, N. H. Albaugh and Irving Rouse, made a 
report which is embodied in an account of this feature of the 
convention, in another column. 
OTHER COMMITTEES. 
The president appointed the following committees ; 
On president’s address—W. J. Peters, Ohio ; H. J. Weber, 
Mo.; W. F. Heikes, Ala. 
On treasurer’s report—C. A. Ilgenfritz, Mich.; Peter Youngers, 
Neb.; E. M. Sherman, la. 
On exhibits—J. W. Manning, Mass.; C. N. Dennis, III; C. 
M. Hobbs, Ind. 
On necrology—T. S. Hubbard, N. Y.; J. Van Bindley, N. 
C.; E. H. Bissell, Va. 
On resolutions—A. L. Brooke, Kans.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Ohio ; Orlando Harrison, Md. 
The committee on president’s address reported as follows : 
“ We, the committee on the president’s address, beg leave to 
report as follows ; We fully coincide with him in recommend¬ 
ing the appointment or continuance of committees on trans¬ 
portation, tariff and insect legislation, and cheerfully recom¬ 
mend the appropriation of expense fund therein named.” 
Upon recommendation of the committee on treasurer’s 
report, the report was adopted as presented. 
EXHIBITS. 
The committee on exhibits reported as follows : “We find 
the following exhibits. 
“ E. H. Riehl, Alton, Ill.—Ruby strawberry, large even 
size, conical, bright red, moderately firm, tart, plant apparently 
strong, vigorous, healthy and productive. 
“ A. H. Griesa, Lawrence, Kan.—Fink apples in a good 
state of preservation showing it to be a long keeper. He also 
exhibits a branch of Superb apricot, showing good size and 
productiveness. 
“ D. Hill, Dundee, Ill.—Shows forty-four samples and 
twenty-one varieties of evergreens, including the rarer kinds, 
Pinus pungens, Picea concolor, Pondersa pine. One three old 
specimen of the last named measures three feet in height. 
L. T. Sanders & Son, Plain Dealing, La,—Shows ripe 
Eureka peaches, Biery, Abundance and Norman plums and 
Early Margaret apples ; also a specimen of variegated-leaved 
Liquid Amber. 
“ M. B. Fox, Rochester Lithograph Company—A good 
exhibit of lithograph plates, flowers, etc., plate books and 
binding for nurserymen’s use. 
“ J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa.—Shows nursery¬ 
men’s catalogues and printing, photographs of fruits, flowers, 
etc., also Professor Bailey’s Rural Science and Garden Craft 
series of books. 
“ J. P. Sinnock, Moberly, Mo.—Specimens of variegated 
leaved ash, a sprout from the native green ash. 
“ E. H. Ricker,. Elgin Nursery Co., Elgin, Ill.—Seventeen 
specimens of seedling evergreens, mostly 2-year, two of 
European Larch, all vigorous and healthy ; also samples of 
baled moss for nurserymen’s use. 
“Joseph Heinl, Jacksonville, Fla.—Samples of well-rooted 
Irish Juniper cuttings. 
“ Dayton Fruit Tree Label Co.—Full and artistic display of 
tree and plant labels. 
“ Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J.—Specimens of Rosa 
rugosa stock for working tree roses, grown by J. Blauw, Bos- 
koop, Holland. 
“ Z, K. Jewett, Sparta, Wis.—Samples live sphagnum moss 
for nurserymen and florists’ use. 
“ F. L. Williams, Tamaroa, Ill.—Device for transplanting 
small stocks and plants. An exhibit of Sneed peaches from 
Tennessee was of such taking quality as to be all gone when 
the committee reached the basket.” 
NECROLOGY. 
The committee on necrology reported as follows : 
“We are gathered here as representatives of one of the 
largest and most important industries of the country. While 
engaged in the active duties of our profession, considering the 
questions that perhaps check our progress and making plans 
on which future success will depend, it is but proper that we 
should recognize that we who are here in the full enjoyment of 
health and life’s pleasures are profiting by the patient indus¬ 
try, by the careful study and the calm judgment of others 
whose labors on earth have ceased and who have passed to 
their rest beyond. 
“ We have to chronicle the loss from our membership by 
death during the past year of J. S. Sears and Lemuel Heren- 
deen, of the firm of Sears, Henry & Co., Geneva, N. Y.; J. G. 
Bubach, of Princeton, III, the well-known originator ; Robert 
Douglas, of Waukegan, III, and W. M. Samuels, the pomo- 
logist, of Clinton, Ky. 
“ By the loss of these members we recognize that we are 
deprived of those who have been strong forces in promoting 
the interests of our profession in various branches. Robert 
Douglas was one of those who were active in organizing this 
association, and he has ever since been one of our most valu¬ 
able and efficient members. The history of the useful life of 
these members is one that we can all study with profit, and 
their example will be an incentive to others.” 
REPORT ON RESOLUTIONS. 
The following is the report of the committee on resolu¬ 
tions : 
“ This association of national nurserymen before closing its 
labors of one of the most laborious and useful conventions 
