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THE NATIONAL NUESERYMAN 
Review, note Conftment. 
Robert E. Berry, Cliatliani, N. J., lias discontinued 
bis rose growing estaldislinient and will take charge 
of the Shrewsbury Nurseries, at Eatontown, N. J. 
The annual meeting of the American Association 
of ikii'k Suiierintendents, will be held August, 1914, 
at Newburgh, N. Y. President: J. J. Levison, Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 
Idle next annual meeting and exhibition of the 
American Peony Society will be held at Chicago, 
June, 1914. President: B. H. Earr, Reading, Penna., 
Secretary, A. P. Saunders, Clinton, N. Y. 
IMiss Elorence AVynian, North Abington, IMass., 
and Arthur W. Calkins, were married on February 
tlie 10th. Hiss AVynian is the daughter of W. 11. Wy¬ 
man, i)ro])rietor of the Bay State Nurseries. 
Suit has been entered against the Kentucky Nur¬ 
sery Co., Louisville, Kentucky, by Gr. W. ATin Gelde- 
ren, of Boskoo]), Ifollaiid, for $477.40. This amount 
is alleged to be due on two notes executed May S, 
1913. 
Re])ort of a rushing business in ornamental shrnli- 
bery has been made by the Howell Nursery Company, 
Knoxville, Tenn. One of their recent orders was re¬ 
ceived from British Columbia for a large consign¬ 
ment. 
IMr. S. J. Harmeling, of Vashon, Washington, wms 
elected ])resident and IMr. C. A. Tonneson, of Tacoma, 
AVashington, second vice president at the annual 
meeting of the AVestern AA^ashington Horticultural 
Association. 
Idle Twenty-eighth annual convention of the As¬ 
sociation of American Cemetery Sn]ierintendents will 
be held at St. Louis, Missouri. President-elect: AL 
P. Brazil, St. Louis, Secretary-treasurer, Bellett 
Lawson, Jr., River Grove, Ill. 
Idle next annual meeting of the Alississipiu Nur¬ 
serymen’s Association will be held at the Alississip])! 
Agricultural and Arechanical College, Agricultural 
College, AIississip])i, during the first week of Septem¬ 
ber, 1914. The meetings will probably last for two 
days. 
AVhen inpiorted nursery stock is unclaimed at the 
customs the collectors have been instructed to notify 
r(‘])i-esentatives of the Heinirtment of Agriculture. 
It will be sold at public auction, like other unclaimed 
merchandise, if it has been imported in accordance 
with the plant quarantine act. If not in accordance 
with this act it will be destroyed. 
xV number of brown tail moth nests have been dis¬ 
covered in shii'anents of seedling stock from France, 
notably from the xVngers district. A single box has 
contained as many as seven nests and indicates very 
careless ins])ection of this material from this quarter 
of France. The inspectors have been strongly urged 
to make thorough examination of all seedling stock 
from France. 
The efforts of the Department of Agriculture, Al¬ 
bany, N. Y., to encourage the unemployed in the 
cities to look for work among the farmers of the 
country is a splendid ])roceeding. As Commissioner 
Calvin J. Huson states, many of them have drifted 
from the countiy into various manufacturing estab¬ 
lishments and now find themselves out of wmrk. Nur¬ 
series are invariably short of help during the ship¬ 
ping season and perhaps wfill be benefitted by the ef¬ 
fort. 
BOOK REyreyf 
Every Day in My Garden by Viryinm E.Teridanel:. 
AYm. R. Jenkins Co., New York, Publishers. Colored 
illustrations. Price $2.50. 
This book is a very practical guide for the cultiva¬ 
tion of flowers, fruits and vegetables. It is sort of a 
diary,—instructions regarding what and how to 
plant, for each day in the year, are given. AA^ith the 
turning of each leaf a plan for the work of one week 
is disclosed, Sunday, excepted. Three days are given 
on each page and ample space is allowed for addi¬ 
tional notes. This book, used systematically will be¬ 
come a useful and perpetual guide. 
INCREASED COST OF PRODUCTION. 
Air. H. P. Chase requested me to talk on the “In¬ 
creased Cost of Production,” and asked me not to 
turn him down. It is not an easy matter for me to 
compose an article on this subject as it would be for 
a number of you. I am not a speaker neither a com¬ 
poser. I do not know what new matter I could tell 
you that you already don’t know. Still I did not 
care to refuse Air. Chase altogether, because any ar¬ 
ticle like this that conies before us for discussion, 
may be of great benefit to us. 
AVe all know^ that labor is a great deal higher than 
it was in the past years. Few years ago we ]iaid our 
common class of men $1.50 for ten hours. Noav it is 
$1.75. Next spring it looks to me the chea]iest labor 
we can hire Avill be $1.75 for nine hours. AAdien labor 
Avas plentiful it seems to me the men Avorked harder 
