THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Tliird Assistant Postmaster General, A. ]\r. Doekery, 
for a eom])arative re])ort of December 18tli, lOtli and 
20th, tignring on the new lower rates that went into 
effect on Jannary 1st, and establishing 8 ounces as a 
maximnm nnder the flat rate, with all above 8 ounces 
in the i)arcel ])ost, we foniid tliat with some five hun¬ 
dred and thirty-one packages mailed in this off sea¬ 
son, that with the flat rate system at existing rates, 
that we actually ])aid $51.68, as against the new rates 
])arcel post of $59.12 and that it took exactly five 
times as long to zone, or the time cost for the 18th of 
December figured in money was 60c as against $3.00 
by zone system. 
This was in an off season, when we had ])lenty of 
time and also plenty of hel]), but in the busy season 
the congestion and confusion would be almost impos¬ 
sible. 
It is true that there is considerable saving in the 
large, short distance package handling, even up to 
the fifth zone, with the new rates but from the view¬ 
point of the nurseryman, even this is not available, 
because of the present size limit of seventy-two 
inches combined girth and length, for while it is com¬ 
paratively easy to keep inside of the fifty ])ound 
weight limit or even the twenty pound limit, it is not 
much of a package of nursery stock that can be made 
to conform with the size limit. 
At a recent meeting in New Y^ork of Committees 
from the American Seed Trade Association, Tlie 
Wholesale Seedsmen’s League, the Postal Progress 
League, the New Y"ork Merchants Association, the 
New York Hardware Club, etc., the following recom¬ 
mendations were made by the Committee from tiie 
American Seed Trade Association, viz,— 
Elimination of zones. 
If entire elimination is impossible, the reduction to 
three at most, say 50, 500 and the balance of the coun¬ 
try. 
Increase in size of parcel, not weight, but measui'V 
nient. 
Recommend if increased to make maximum not 
less than 96 inches and 108 if possible. 
Provision by department of suitable equipment and 
carriers for handling perishable products. 
These were unanimously approved and coi)y sent 
to Third Assistant Postmaster General Dockery. 
It was reported by Postal Progress League tluit 
the Postal Department was seriously considering the 
reduction of zones and that it was believed that three 
was the number thought most in-actical. 
Erom the Dominion Nursery & Orchards Co., Ihni- 
couver, B. C. we have the following: ‘AVe wish you 
success in carrying forward the interests of the nur¬ 
serymen in the future, as your paper has so ably done 
in the past.” i 
Frfy?it V Hant 
I’lie Albany Nui'series, Inc., All)any, Ore., are of¬ 
fering a new apple for which much is claimed. Judg¬ 
ing from the litliograph it is an atti-active looking 
variety resembling the Gravenstein. It has been co})}’- 
righted under the name of “Goal.” 
Sowles Perfection ('herry is a seedling from the 
Governor AVood, and oilginated on the Sowles farm 
in Oshtemo Townshii), Kalamazoo County, Alich. It 
is being ex])loited by the Pi-udential Nursery CM., 
Kalamazoo, Alich. 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONNECTICUT 
NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
The annual business meet of the C’oimecticut Nur¬ 
serymen’s Association was held in Hotel Bond, Wed' 
nesady, February 4th. 
Air. T. E. Burroughs, of Deep River, was re-elected 
President, also F. L. Tlionias, of Alanchester, was re¬ 
elected Secretary. AY. AY. Hunt, of Hartford, was re¬ 
elected Treasurer, and Charles Turner, of Hartford, 
was elected ATce-President. The standing commit¬ 
tees for the ensuing year are as follows: 
Legislative, E. F. Coe, C’hairman; Stephen Hoyt, J. 
R. Barnes. 
Executive: C. H. Sierman, CJiairman, AY. AY. Afc- 
Cartney, Gustave Alinge. 
Entertainment: AA". AY. Hunt, Cdiairnian, Charles 
Turner, C. R. Burr. 
Three new ap])lications for niem])ershi]) were pres¬ 
ented and a})]dicants duly elected. 
Dr. Britton, State Entomologist, s])oke on the sub¬ 
ject of the pro]iosed uniform state law of nursery¬ 
men. 
Proper care, and lack of such in the ])revention of 
scale as a])plied to neighboring ])reniises was discuss¬ 
ed and it was very a]dly i)ut iqi by Air. Cam])bell, of 
New Haven, that one man would use great care in 
si)raying and endeavoring to do away with and ke(*]) 
his premises entirely clean from the scide, whereas 
the man next door would ])ay no attention to it and 
the idea was brought forth that some uniform action 
should be taken to cause each ])erson to use at least 
usual care in clearing his ])remises of such ])ests. 
Air. Adams, of Springfield, Alass., s])oke of the New 
England Association whose meet will be held in Hart¬ 
ford the latter i)art of this month. 
President Burroughs read a very intei'(‘sting ar¬ 
ticle on the first nursei'y in the United States whic.b 
according to liis statisti(*s was lo(*ated in Flushing, L. 
I. as early as 1730. 
The Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association is in a 
flourishing condition. 
