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tainiiifi: F(M’tility of .\iirs(M’v Land” l)v I'rof. (L I. Lewis, 
(a)rvallis, On'^on. An address was also ^iven by \V. T. 
Maeonn. Dominion llorlienlturisL OOawa. 
Tlie afternoon session was o{)ened by tlie readinj^ of a 
papei’ “Vai’ieli(‘s of Fiaiifs foi’ Hritisli C'lolninbia” l)y IL 
AL Winslow, llorlienllnrist, Vietoi’ia, H. (L ‘‘The Panama- 
Paeifie International Fxposition in Uelation to Nursery 
liderest” by (ieorj;e (L Koedinp:, Fresno, (California, ‘dler- 
baeeons IMants in Landseape (lardenin^” by James Man- 
ton, Vietoria. 
The folloNN in^ o(lie('rs were eleeted,- President, J. Val- 
lanee, Oakland. (California; C. F. Lansing, Salem, viee- 
pia'sident for Oregon; .\. J. Flmer, San Jose, viee-presi- 
denf for (California; A. Dix, Salt Lake Caty, viee-presi- 
dent for Utah; F. F. Stephenson, Tampa, viee-[)resident 
foi‘ Idaho: 1). J. Tigbe. billings, viee-president for Mon¬ 
tana; F. A. Wiggins, To{)penisli, viee-jjresideid for AVasb- 
ington; Joseph Brown, Vaneouver, viee-president for 
British (Colombia. (L A. Tonneson, of Taeoma, was re- 
eleeted seeretarv-treasnrer. 
The exeentive eommittee eleeted were as follows,—D. 
W. (c.oolidge, of Pasadena; F. 11. Wisloii, of Fresno; and 
F. W. Oill, of AVest Berkeley, (California. 
The feature of the elosing session was an address by 
Don. Priee Ellison, Alinister of Agrieiilture. He urged 
the nurserymen to supply the Old (Country market. 
There was no reason why shipments of fruit should not 
be sent from the Paeilie (Coast to the London market. 
In opening his address Air. Ellison said he knew to 
what extent the nurserymen of the provinee had helped 
the advaneement of agrieiilture. “The government is 
anxious to aid the nurserymen,” he eontinued. “Some¬ 
times when we have had to eondemn trees the nursery¬ 
men may think otherwise, but I ean assure you that the 
government inspeetiou of fruit pests is maintained solely 
for your good, the good of the fruit grower and the good 
of the eonsumer. The sueeess of the fruit grower is your 
sueeess and the government regulations, no matter how 
striet. ean not be too far-reaehing to proteet growers. AA'e 
want you to help and eneourage the government in this 
work.” 
harm was in his exjierienee (luite unfounded. There 
are, he said, trees in the Okanagan Ahilh'v that have been 
gi'ow n with irrigation for lifty years and are still in good 
bearing eondition. Of eourse he stated, too mueh irri¬ 
gation was bad for the trees, but that was more often the 
fault of the man behind the irrigation than irrigation it¬ 
self. 
A speeial vote of thanks was tendered to AAA Elletson, 
the reeeption seeretary, for his unfaltering elTorts to give 
the delegates a good time. 
The many delightful entertainments and exeursions 
tendered the delegates were greatly apjireeiated, trips b(‘- 
ing made to Brown Bros. Nurseries, at Port Hammond, 
the largest of its kind in British Coliimbia. They also 
visited (Colony Farms at (Coquitlam. At Hammond luneh 
was served at the nursery. banquet w as also given to 
tbe visitors in the evening, followed by a delightful trip 
to Indian Biver in the steamer Melmore. 
The plaee of the next meeting was left in the hands of 
the exeentive eommittee, though it is probable they will 
dceide upon San Franeiseo. 
SENSIBLE REAIARKS OF A CANADIAN NEAVSPAPEIl 
THE CITY COUNCIL .4ND THE SALE OF TREES 
The invitation of the parks superintendent to retail 
merehants to sell trees provided by the eity for arbor day, 
and to turn in the cash to his department, is not regarded 
by some, who are in the trade, w ith favor. As a mat¬ 
ter of faet this action puts the eity eouneil in the undesir¬ 
able position of entering into eompetition w ith firms that 
make a specialty of providing trees for this purpose as 
]iart of their business, and they have the right to expect 
civic protection from this kind of opposition. 
“Although w e in British Columbia are young in the 
fruit raising sense, wa' have borrowed many of the meth¬ 
ods of our American cousins and think w e ean now claim 
to be in the same rank as American fruit grow ers,” he 
added. 
“There is one thing that I would like particularly to 
enqihasize to you. and that is that more etYort should be 
made to supply the Old (Country market. The Panama 
(c.anal w ill soon be open and with that event the rates for 
shipping fruit should be cut in half so that you will be 
ably greatly to reduce your prices on the English market. 
There is no reason w hy shiploads of fruit should not be 
sent from the Paeilie CAiast to the London market and 
should advise you most strongly to go into this matter 
fully.” he eontinued. 
Regarding irrigation, he stated that the statement 
sometimes made that irrigation did a fruit tree mueh 
As ratepayers they should not be subjected to eom- 
mereial eompetition even though the trees be secured by 
an ollieial of the corporation, and are intended to en¬ 
eourage the beautilieation of the eity. Those w ho desire 
to procure trees should be encouraged to support our lo¬ 
cal nurserymen, and the latter should not be handicapped 
by those who are eleeted to look after and [iromote their 
business development. 
If the eity enters into this business, and canvasses 
traders to do the selling for it. it sets an unwholesome 
precedent which may lead to trade opposition in other 
matters; and this is to be deprecated.- 77<e Calgary 
Xews, Alberta. 
