THE NATTONAT. \n^'RSERYMAN 
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the deep recesses of the canyons where the sunshine 
never penetrates. 
Time did not permit me to return to New Zealand, 
Tasmania or South Australia and space does not allow 
me to tell you anything about Queensland, or its capital 
teen inches across. Some idea of the immensity of 
Australia can be gained when I say that it took our 
steamer seven days to travel from Sydney to Thursday 
Island in the extreme north. Our next stop will be 
Manila, then China and Japan, from where the next in- 
View in Sydney Botanical Gardens 
city of Brisbane with 140,000 people. The Parks were 
filled with tropical vegetation, the scarlet Poinsettia were 
in full bloom while we were there. Several of these 
bushes were as large as a small house with flowers eigh- 
stallment will be sent, unless a typhoon, (prevalent at 
this time of the year) sends our ship to the bottom. 
(The November issue of The National Nurseryman will con¬ 
tain the fourth letter from Mr. McHutchison, covering his visits 
to Australian Nurseries.— Editor. 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN’S CONVENTION 
The seventeentli annual convention of the Southern 
Nurserymen’s Association was held at Signal Mountain 
Inn, Chattanooga, Tennessee, on August 26th and 27th. 
Signal Mountain Inn is situated 2000 feet above sea 
level. It is thirty minutes ride by trolley from Chat¬ 
tanooga, and being centrally located in the south, is an 
ideal spot for such a convention, and it is to be regretted 
that so few attended the meeting. 
In the absence of President J. R. Mayhew, on account 
of sickness. Vice President, Harvey M. Templeton, took 
the chair and called the meeting to order at 10 a. m. The 
invocation was delivered by Mr. Harvey Nicholson. 
Mayor Thompson, of Chattanooga, Avelcomed the conven¬ 
tion in a very interesting address, and Mr. Du Fries, the 
manager of the Inn, gave us the freedom of the moun¬ 
tain, and told us that he would do everything possible to 
make our stay a pleasant one. The addresses of welcome 
were responded to by Charles Smith. 
Vice President Templeton, made a short address, urg¬ 
ing co-operation between nurserymen and a better at¬ 
tendance at meetings of the Association. He also ap¬ 
pointed the following committees to report the next day: 
Auditing:—Messrs. Simpson, Fletcher and 0. Frazer. 
Nominations and Place of Meeting:—Messrs. R. Chase, 
Howard and Miller. 
Resolutions:—Messrs. Moss, H. B. Chase and Charles 
Smith. 
The program was carried out in full as far as possible, 
but the absence of W. T. Hood, Dr. E. Lee Worsham and 
Prof. G. M. Bentley, cut out several good numbers, al¬ 
though the subject of W. T. Hood, “The Nursery Bus- 
