THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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The topics to be discussed are of direct interest to nursery¬ 
men. 
In connection with this meeting, Professor S. A. Beach, 
Geneva, N. Y., announces that it has been decided to organize 
the Society for Horticultural Science, referred to in these 
columns. Professor L. H. Bailey will preside at the Boston 
meeting, September 9th, at 2 p. m. It is hoped that as many 
as can will attend this organization meeting. 
GEORGIA HORTICULTURISTS. 
President P. J. Berckmans presided at the 27th annual meet¬ 
ing of the Georgia Horticultural Society, at Athens, Ga , Aug. 
3d. Mr. Berckmans has been at the head of this society since 
its organization. Dr. N. L. Willet, of Augusta, presented a 
paper on “ The Georgia Seed Growing Industry as a Side-line 
to Horticulture.” There was discussion of nut culture, the 
Georgia fig, irrigation and cold storage. A large increase in 
the number of peach orchards in Georgia in the next few years 
is looked for. These officers were elected : President, P. 
J. Berckmans, Augusta ; secretary, W. M. Scott, Atlanta ; 
treasurer, L. A. Berckmans, Augusta. 
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 
The nineteenth annuaj meeting of the Society of American 
Florists was held at Milwaukee August 18-21. It was largely 
attended. President Burton in his address discussed the 
importance of attendance at the sessions of the convention. 
This, is a subject of importance to nurserymen also. A dis¬ 
cussion by the executive committee resulted at Milwaukee 
in the appointment of a sergeant-at-arms, who, with his assist¬ 
ants, is required to see that all members who can do so be 
induced to attend the meetings and postpone the discussion of 
personal or business matters to a more opportune time. “ We 
mean,” continued President Burton, “ to make an earnest effort 
to do justice to the able gentlemen who have come so far and 
who have prepared themselves at great pains to address us. 
The executive committee wish it clearly understood that the 
rule as to having the exhibition hall cleared during sessions is 
to be strictly enforced ; that it is no mere whim of the ser¬ 
geant-at-arms, but an iron-clad rule that must be obeyed by all, 
by exhibitors as well as by visitors.” 
It was decided to give the peony committee power to add to 
its membership and proceed. The report of the committee on 
affiliated societies was referred to the board of directors. 
Philip Breitmeyer, of Detroit, was elected president ; Wil¬ 
liam J. Stewart, secretary. The Society will meet next year in 
St. Louis. There were many exhibits, including those by P. 
J. Berckmans Co., Henry A. Dreer and Lord & Burnham. 
PEACH GROWING IN LOUISIANA. 
From many quarters come repeated reports of the rapid 
growth of fruit growing in the South. The Georgia peach 
orchards are already famous, Texas is coming rapidly to the 
front, and other states are showing marked increase in number 
and extent of orchards. 
George F. Gallagher, of Rochester, N. Y., New York City 
and Louisiana, in conversation with a representative of the 
National Nurseryman, said that a large amount of peach 
planting is contemplated in Northern Louisiana in the hilly 
sections. Land that has been discarded for cotton growing, 
can with little or no building up be planted to advantage to 
peaches, for below the subsoil is a hardpan containing much 
iron which is of distinct advantage to high quality in the 
peach. 
Nurserymen will have an opportunity next summer to view 
the remarkable extent to which peach growing has been 
advanced in the South, and in the time intervening before the 
convention of the American Association at Atlanta the fruit 
growing interests of the South will attract more than usual 
attention, as they will also thereafter. 
Improved transportation facilities, successful methods of 
combatting the attacks of the curculio and monilia, and the 
originating of the Elberta peach by Samuel H. Rumph of 
Marshallville, Ga., are the causes of development of the com¬ 
mercial peach industry of the South which has extended from 
Georgia to South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas 
and Texas, and recently to Louisiana. 
APPLE SHIPPERS’ CONVENTION. 
At the ninth annual meeting of the International Apple 
Shippers’ Association, at Niagara Falls, August 5-6, with an 
attendance of 200 of the membership of 256, representing all 
the commercial apple sections of the United States and Can¬ 
ada, except the Pacific coast, the following estimate of the 
apple crop was given out : For Ontario and Nova Scotia, 
i3,3 oo , oo ° barrels ; for the United States, 48,614,000 barrels ; 
total 61,914,000 barrels. The figures for last year were as fol¬ 
lows : Ontario and Nova Scotia, 16,120,000; United States, 
47,625,000 ; total 63,745,000 barrels. 
Prof. M. B. Waite of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
discussing legislation for control of orchard diseases, said : 
Among insect diseases the San Jose scale is the greatest problem, 
although recent developments of the use of the lime-sulphur-salt spray 
appear to have effectively settled the whole question. Laws against 
plant diseases require marked distinction between the orchardist and 
the nurserymen. The latter should be subject to more stringent regu¬ 
lations, as diseases in nurseries are apt to be given widespread distri¬ 
bution. 
One of the breeziest and best of “ travel letters ” is the 
Epistle to the Texans, written in the eighth month A. D. 1903, 
by Ramsey, F. T., and distributed among the multitude by 
Farm and Ranch. In it are detailed the observations of the 
author in a strange land, when he went out from the state that 
has long known him, to mingle with the tribes of the North in 
the city that was founded by Cadillac, in the sixth month, and 
to wander thereafter for a time in the realm of the king, and 
then to witness strange scenes along the Allegheny, all to the 
great delight of his own and his wife’s cousins and aunts. In 
due time he was returned to his own duly tagged and ticketed, 
and he rejoiced and was exceeding glad and at once fell to 
thanking the Lord that he was not as other men who could not 
abide in Texas. And straightway he went out and marveled 
at the greatness and exceeding brilliancy of the Lone Star. 
May his tribe increase. 
W. T. Gough, Abilene, Kan.—“ Enclosed find $1 for National 
Nurseryman. We feel we cannot do without it.” 
Thomas E. Burroughs, New London, Conn. “We must have the 
National Nurseryman. It is an up-to-date publication and just 
what every up-to-date man needs in his business. Enclosed find $1.” 
