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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National N urseryman. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
(incorporated) 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
PRESIDENT - - - THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
VICE-PRESIDENT AND EDITOR - - RALPH T. OLCOTT 
SECRETARY-TREASURER AND BUSINESS MANAGER, C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance, - - - - - $1.00 
Six Months, - .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.50 
Six Months, “ “ 1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AflERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Charles A. Ilgenfritz, Monroe, Mich.; vice-president, D. S. 
Lake, Shenandoah, la.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; N. W. Hale, Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb. 
Committee on Transportation—President Ilgenfritz, ex-officio; A. L. Brooke, 
N. Topeka, Kan.; Henry Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, 
Ind.; Howard Davis, Baltimore, Md. 
. Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; Thomas B. Meehan, 
Germantown, Pa.; J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Silas Wilson, At¬ 
lantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; George A. Sweet, Dans- 
viUe,.N. Y.; Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Programme—George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; Wilson J. 
Peters, Troy, Ohio; J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Committee on Publicity—C. M. Stark, Louisiana, Mo.; Ralph T. Olcott, 
Rochester, N. Y.; F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 
Annual convention for 190A-At Detroit, Mich., June 10-12. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., March, 1903. 
PROGRESS OF IRRIGATION. 
The progress of irrigation throughout the West is notable. 
The passage of laws and the formation of societies has given 
the work an impetus, and now and then news of great under¬ 
takings in this line appears. 
There was consummated on February 9 one of the largest and 
most notable transfers of land and water ever made in River¬ 
side County, California. In furtherance of their important 
deal with the Temescal Water Company at Corona, the Chase 
Nursery Company bought of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance 
Company 1,250 acres of high mesa land at Corona, paying for 
the property $60,000. The Nursery Company will plant 700 
acres to oranges as a result of this move. The Chase Com¬ 
pany already has some of the choicest orange property in 
Southern California, but they do not hesitate to say that their 
new holdings will excel anything attempted by them before. 
The cost of pumping the water the Chases regard as a 
premium on the freedom from frost. 
HOTEL CADILLAC HEADQUARTERS. 
Arrangements have been made by which the Hotel Cadillac, 
in Detroit, will be the headquarters of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen at the annual convention to be held in 
that city June 10-12. The committee on program, con¬ 
sisting of Secretary George C Seager, Rochester ; Wilson J. 
Peters, Troy, O., and J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa., 
is preparing for the instruction and entertainment of the mem¬ 
bers during the sessions. President Ilgenfritz may be de¬ 
pended upon to make the meeting a profitable one for all who 
attend, and there should be a large percentage of the members 
present. Don’t forget the question box. Now is the time to 
send in the questions to the secretary. 
THE INSURANCE QUESTION. 
Among the topics that might well be discussed at the Detroit 
convention is that pertaining to fire insurance rates for nursery¬ 
men’s property. This subject has been up for discussion in 
the National Nurseryman, and some practical thoughts 
have been presented. Is there room on the June convention 
program for this subject ? 
And now someone suggests that if spraying is such a good 
thing, and most fruit growers and nurserymen are willing to 
admit its efficacy, why is not capital enlisted in the direction 
of insuring nursery stock and orchards, by doing the work of 
spraying and guaranteeing results, for a premium. Itinerant 
power sprayers have been used in certain sections. 
TO TRY NEW FRUITS. 
It is stated that recently there have been shipped to the 
station at Santa Anna, Cal., by the Department of Agriculture 
at Washington, fifty varieties of plants, among which are a 
seedless lemon from Corfu, Greece ; a new variety of seedless 
orange, supposed to be an improvement on the navel ; anew 
variety of lemon, the feature of which is its great size ; a white 
skinned orange ; a blood orange from Patras ; three new vari¬ 
eties of walnuts from Greece ; a new blackberry ; a seedless 
loquat, and a rare class of grape. A new guava, a pistachio 
nut, and a new variety of pomegranate are among the growths 
which are to be given a trial at Santa Anna. 
APPLE CONSUMERS’ LEAGUE. 
There is a lesson for the nurseryman in the little pleasantry 
by which the well-known New York nurseryman, H. S. Wiley, 
of Cayuga, was dubbed by his fellows of the New York Fruit 
Growers Association, the “president of the American Apple 
Consumers’ League,” because at the Buffalo meeting of that 
association Mr. Wiley disposed of more baked apples than any 
other man at the convention. Not long ago a writer in the 
