The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyrighted 1902 by The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
“ Experimental horticulture educates the taste .”— B. F. Smith, Lawrence, Kan. 
Vol. XI. ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY, 1903. No. s 
DETROIT CONVENTION. 
One of the Liveliest and Most Profitable Meetings In History of 
American Association Is Promised at Detroit in June—Pre¬ 
liminary Program •• the Best Ever ’’—Hotel Cadil¬ 
lac-Reduced Hotel and Railroad Rates. 
The twenty-eighth annual convention of the American 
Association of Nurserymen will be held at Detroit, Mich., 
June 10th, nth and 12th. The Hotel Cadillac will be the 
headquarters. Arrangements have been made with the pro¬ 
prietors of that hotel, Messrs. Swart Brothers, by which a re¬ 
duced rate of $2.50 and upwards has been secured. First- 
class service in every respect is promised. 
Special attention has been paid this year to the preparation 
of a program for the convention sessions, at the suggestion of 
President Ilgenfritz. A program committee, of which J. Hor¬ 
ace McFarland, of Harrisburg, Pa., is the chairman, has worked 
industriously to provide discussion which shall be of direct and 
permanent benefit to all who shall attend the convention. It 
is proposed to introduce vital and important questions, through 
men of known strength and ability, in short, suggestive papers 
or talks which will bring out active discussion. The follow¬ 
ing preliminary program is an indication of the success that 
has attended the untiring efforts of Mr. McFarland, who has 
had to interest nurserymen and others to a degree necessary to 
induce them to promise co-operation : 
Preliminary Program. 
Prof. L. H. Bailey—“ The Whole Question of Varieties.” 
J. H. Hale—“ The Relation Between the Nurseryman and the Com¬ 
mercial Fruit Grower.” 
Discussion by Howard A. Chase, H. W. Collingwood, J. M. Irvine. 
Frank B. White—“ Publicity for Nurserymen.” 
Discussion by Ralph T. Olcott, J. M. Irvine, L. H. Bailey, J. H. 
McFarland, H. W. Collingwood. 
F. W. Taylor—" What the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Offers to 
Nurserymen.” 
H. W. Collingwood—“ The Nurseryman as the Editor Sees Him.” 
William Pitkin—“ Insurance for Nurserymen.” 
Discussion by George C. Perkins, E. Albertson. 
Howard A. Chase—“The Agency Business—Its Importance to the 
Nursery Interests, and the Dangers that Beset It.” 
Discussion by C. L. Watrous; Howard Davis. 
G. L. Taber—“ The Nursery Interests of the South.” 
Discussion by R. C. Berckmans, N. W. Hale, W. F. Heikes. 
E. W. Kirkpatrick—" The Nurseryman’s Work in Texas.” 
George A. Sweet—“ The Cost of a Tree ” 
Discussion by Herbert S. Chase, Orlando Harrison, W. F. Heikes, 
William Pitkin. 
All the above has been arranged. It is hoped that there 
will be a discussion of “ Spraying and Fumigation for Nursery¬ 
men Up-to-date, by Prof. John B. Smith, and “ Growing Or- 
mental Nursery Stock as a Business ” by William C. Barry. 
Reduced Railroad Rates. 
A concession of one full fare going and one-third returning 
has been granted by railroads as usual. 
The Detroit and Buffalo Steamboat Company advises that 
arrangements have been entered into whereby all rail tickets* 
sold on account of convention will be optional between Buf¬ 
falo and Detroit, so that trip can be made by rail or water, 
and it is probable that the same will be true for trip between 
Cleveland and Detroit. 
Do not fail to get a certificate of ticket agent when buying 
a ticket. Give your ticket agent notice in advance of your in¬ 
tention of availing yourself of this reduction so that he may 
have blanks on hand. If you have a commutation or mileage 
ticket, do not use it. Get a ticket and certificate for your 
trip, otherwise you may work forfeiture of the rights of all to 
reduced rates. 
There must be one hundred certificates before the reduc¬ 
tion applies. 
Send your name and membership fee to the secretary, 
George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y., and see that your room at 
the hotel is reserved. 
The Northwest Horticulturist, Tacoma, Washington, under date of 
March, 1903, says : “F. M. Settlemier is planning for millions of trees. 
Eastern nurserymen will soon have competitors from this coast.” 
H. B. Bateman, Hood River, Ore., proposes to change his location 
on account of his health, and offers his nursery for sale. 
R. H. Weber, nurseryman at The Dalles, Ore., has been appointed a 
member of the State Board of Horticulture. 
S. A. Miller, of A. Miller & Sons, Milton, Ore., nurserymen, has been 
elected Mayor of that town for the sixth time. 
John S. Kerr, secretary of the Texas Nurserymen’s Association, re¬ 
ports that there has been a large increase in the planting of peach trees 
in Texas. 
Harlan P. Kelsey has changed his office from the Tremont building 
to the Beacon building, Boston. 
The nursery of W. E. Jones & Son, Lincoln, Ill., has been purchased 
for $2,000 by W. J. Jones, Detroit, Mich. 
H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, sent to Ghent, Belgium, a consignment of 
Pandanus Sanderi to be exhibited at the quinquennial exhibition. 
Sidney G. Courteen, seedsman, has been elected president of the 
Chamber of Commerce, Milwaukee. 
P. J. Berckmans, Atlanta, Ga., has been offered the position of assis 
tant state entomologist to succeed Prof. W. F. Fiske, resigned; but he 
is ineligible by reason of being a nurseryman and officer of the State 
Horticultural Society. 
We acknowledge receipt of an invitation to attend the celebration of 
the one hundredth anniversary of the acquisition of the Louisiana ter¬ 
ritory which was commemorated by the dedication of the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition. The one-hundredth anniversary celebration was 
held In St. Louis, April 30, May 1-2. 
