THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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The American Pseony Society will meet Thursday evening. 
The officers of the American Association and the standing 
committees are published regularly on the editorial page of the 
National Nurseryman. 
Hotel and Railroad Plans 
One hundred certificates are required to make the conces¬ 
sion in railroad rates effective. Do not fail, therefore, to get 
a certificate from your ticket agent for the trip going. 
This notice is of the utmost importance. Get a certificate. 
Swart Bros., proprietors of Hotel Cadillac, in submitting 
their proposition, wrote as follows : 
We will make your association a rate of $ 2.50 per day each person, 
where rooms on the court-side of the house are occupied by two or 
more persons, two persons in abed ; outside rooms without bath, $ 3 . 00 , 
$ 3.50 and $ 4.00 per day, each person; rooms with bath, $ 3 . 50 , $ 4 . 00 , 
$ 4.50 and $5 00 per day, each person—American plan. 
Provided your association selects Hotel Cadillac as official headquar¬ 
ters, you may depend upon us to room every member as comfortably 
as possible and to do our very best to give each one the rate he selects, 
or as near that rate as possible. We do not wish in any way to make 
any statements that we cannot fulfill to the letter. We might state 
further, that in all rooms, except where the $ 2.50 rate prevails, each 
person will be given a bed to himself if desired. 
TEXAS NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
The third annual meeting of the Texas Nurserymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation will be held at College Station, Tex., July 7-10, in¬ 
clusive. The officers of the association are: President, E. W. 
Kirkpatrick; vice-president, B. L. Adams; secretary, J. S. 
Kerr. Following is the program: 
Opening Address—President E. W. Kirkpatrick. 
Commercial Peaches, Best Varieties—Col. Bonner. 
Best Methods of Growing Open Ground Roses—J. B. Baker, Jno. F. 
Sneed. 
The Wholesale Nursery Business for the Southwest—C. C. Mayhew, 
C. G. Monzingo. 
Can There Be Too Many Elberta Peaches Grown—J. A. Taylor, C. 
P. Orr. 
The Relation of the Nurseryman to Commercial Orcharding—Col. A. 
G. Pickett, F. K. McGinnis. 
A Scale, or Nursery and Orchard Inspection Law for Texas, State 
and National. Reviewing those pending—Prof. F. W. Mally, B. L. 
Adams. 
Nursery Office Methods—Misses Mayhew, Holsapple and Kerr. 
Trade Marking for the Protection of the Introducer of New Varieties 
of Trees and Plants—F. T. Ramsey, Wm. B. Munson, Jr. 
Improvement of Fruit Trees by Bud Selection, or Propagation from 
Bearing Trees vs. Nursery Rows.—A. S. Bassett, J. S. Kerr. 
Crown Gall and “Whiskers” on Young Apple Trees, Causes and 
Remedies—A. K. Clingman, J. W. Higginbotham. 
Best Method of Propagating Japan Persimmons and Nut Trees—W. 
A. Yates, Jno. L. Foster. 
Question Box Opened. 
Reports of Standing Committees. 
Re-election of Officers for the Ensuing Year. 
The co-operative labors and the resulting benefits and priv¬ 
ileges of the Texas Nurserymen’s Association are open and 
cordially tendered to all nurserymen of Texas and the South¬ 
west. Send annual membership fee, $1.00, to Jno. S. Kerr, 
Sec’y-Treas., Sherman, Texas. 
Richmond, Va., May 2 , 1903 .—Knoxville Nursery Co , K. Morton, 
Mgr.: “ I inclose $ 1 . Please renew my subscription to the National 
Nurseryman. Your journal is one of the necessary tools of our busi¬ 
ness which cannot be omitted. Wish you increased subscription and 
everlasting success.” 
BEAUTY OF DETROIT. 
Her Parks and Boulevards Form the Chief of Many Attractive 
Features—A Credit to a Liberal Policy of Improvement — 
Nurserymen Will be Especially Interested • 
Iherewillbe practically no limit to the opportunities to 
visit places of interest in and about Detroit, save that of time. 
The beauty of the city is far-famed. Perhaps no single feature 
will be of greater interest to the nurserymen than the parks 
and boulevards. Our space at this time permits only a ref¬ 
erence to the great system of which residents of Detroit are 
justly proud. 
The annual report of Commissioner R. E. Bolger, including 
that of Supt. R. J. Coryell, shows that the twenty-eight parks 
of Detroit contain 926 acres and that there are eleven miles of 
boulevard comprising an acreage of 212. The largest of the 
parks, Belle Isle, an island in the Detroit river, contains 707 
acres. Palmer park, on Woodward avenue, contains 140 acres, 
and Clark park 24 acres. The annual report is profusely illus¬ 
trated with half-tone engravings of the beautiful and interest- 
ng scenes in the parks. A park nursery has become thor¬ 
oughly established. It has a frost-proof storage pit. Many 
trees and shrubs have been gathered from the woods and fields 
adjoining and placed in nursery rows. The green-house de¬ 
partment has produced plants to the value of $18,000 which 
have been used to decorate the parks and boulevards. An ar¬ 
boretum, aquarium and horticultural building and a well- 
equipped zoological department are features of the park sys¬ 
tem. Band concerts are provided, as are also ice water drink¬ 
ing fountains, bath houses and park phaetons. The popular¬ 
ity of the parks is shown by the fact that for the fiscal year 
ended June, 1901, the phaeton registers showed that 231,774 
passengers were carried across Belle Isle bridge, and the re¬ 
ceipts for phaeton service amounted to $10,071.84. Spanish 
war trophies decorate the parks and there are lakes and picnic 
pavilions. The Merrill fountain, on opera house lawn, has re¬ 
cently been completed. 
It is probable that a street car ride about the city and to the 
private grounds of Mr. Berry, and a boat ride to Belle Isle and 
a drive through the island will be provided for the nurserymen 
and their wives. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW. 
The New Hampshire legislature has passed a bill, now a 
law, containing this provision : 
All nursery stock shipped into this state from any other state, coun¬ 
try or province shall bear on each box or package an unexpired certifi 
cate that the contents of said box or package have been inspected by a 
duly authorized inspecting officer, and that said contents appear to be 
free from all dangerous insects or diseases. In case nursery stock is 
brought within the state without such certificate the consignee shall 
return it to the consignor at the expense of the latter, or shall call 
the state nursery inspector to inspect the same ; provided, however, 
that any package or box bearing a certificate of fumigation which 
meets the requirements specified in section four of this act may be ac¬ 
cepted as though bearing a proper certificate of inspection. 
Perry, O., May 2 , 1903 .—Western Reserve Nurseries, The L. Green 
& Son Co.: “ Please find inclosed $ 1 , renewal of our subscription to 
the Nurseryman. We do not want to miss a single number,” 
