THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
5 $ 
in our history. Have not had time to figure lip and compare 
the volume of business with last year’s, but think it will be 
as large, as we were ahead early in the spring. 
“Prices have not averaged quite as good on the whole as 
last year, as competition has been sharp and buyers were late 
in placing orders. 
“We are making an average plant in fruit trees, but in¬ 
creasing on ornamental stock, roses, etc., in order to keep up 
with the growing demand. 
FOR ATLANTA CONVENTION. 
Cheap Rates and Through Sleepers via Southern 
Railway. 
Nurserymen and their friends going to Atlanta, Ga., to 
attend the National Convention in June are advised that 
specially reduced rates will be arranged for this occasion by 
the railroads interested. Through sleeping cars will be 
operated from Rochester via the Northern Central to Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., thence via the Southern Railway to Atlanta. 
For those delegates who come from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
etc., through sleeping cars will be operated from Cincinnati 
via the Queen & Crescent Route through Chattanooga, thence 
Southern Railway. Persons desiring berths in these cars 
should communicate promptly with Mr. C. L. Yates, Business 
Manager, at Rochester, or with representatives of the Queen 
& Crescent Route at Cincinnati, or with L. S. Brown, General 
Agent, Southern Railway, Washington, D. C., C. L. Hopkins, 
D. P. A., Southern Railway, Philadelphia, A. S. ThwatQ 
Eastern Passenger Agent, Southern Railway, 271 and 1185 
Broadway, New York, and full information will be furnished. 
AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL REPORT. 
The secretary of this national society of fruit-growers and 
students of horticulture, announces that the report of the 
proceedings of the Boston convention has just come from the 
press and is ready for distribution. This report contains an 
unusually large amount of valuable matter, including as it 
does, the addresses of noted scientists and pomologists. 
Impotrant changes appear in the amended code of nomencla¬ 
ture. For the first time, the pomological history of the 
middle states is written up; the chapter on ideals in pomology 
is full of suggestions; the cold storage of fruits is thoroughly 
discussed. There is also to be found an important contribu¬ 
tion on the judging of fruits by the score-card method. 
Orginators of new fruits should acquaint themselves with the 
method of ad interim awards recently adopted by the society 
whereby the grower can enter a new fruit for a Wilder silver 
medal at any time of the year. The biennial fee is two 
dollars; life fee, twenty dollars, payable to Treasurer L. R. 
Taft, Agricultural College, Mich., or Secretary John Craig, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Rong and Short. 
The P. J. Berckmans Co., Augusta, Ga., offer specialties for fall in 
which many nurserymen will be interested. 
The entire nursery plant of the Ortiz Fruit Farm, Mexico, Mo., is 
offered for sale by C. F. Clark, assignee, Mexico, Mo. 
Clean, sharp and lasting carbon papers and typewriter ribbons are 
offered by the Stationery Supply Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Roses are a specialty with the Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. 
Y. They have an attractive announcement in another column of this 
issue. 
Fruit and ornamental stock in carload or smaller lots is offered by 
Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind. Also spades, excelsior and box 
straps. Special prices on early orders. 
E. G. Mendenhall, Kinmundy, Ill., is general agent for the smooth¬ 
ing and leveling harrow for nurserymen’s use. It is made in two sizes: 
one horse, six feet; two horse, eight feet. 
John Fraser, Huntsville, Ala., will commence June budding the last 
of May. He offers to grow special orders of June buds of plum and 
peach for next fall’s delivery. He has a complete assortment of 
varieties true to name. He offers pear, cherry, pecan and ornamental 
nursery stock. 
Recent publications 
Country Life in America for May, with a thrilling salmon-fishing 
cover in colors, is one of the largest and most beautiful magazines of 
the season. Devoted to such vacation topics as camping, canoeing, 
fishing, mountain-climbing, woodcraft and nature study, with timely 
articles on home-building, chicken-raising and a hundred other subjects 
as well, it touches upon all sides of work and pleasure under the open 
sky. Among the leading features are a picturesque article by A. 
Radclyffe Dugmore on salmon-fishing in Newfoundland, wonderfully 
illustrated by his own photographs; “Ten Days in the Woods,” the 
tale of a real camping trip; and “A Camera Hunter’s Vacation,” with 
illustrations that show some remarkable results of an amateur photo¬ 
grapher’s cruise in Florida waters. 
The proceedings of the second annual convention of the National 
Nut-Growers’ Association, held at New Orleans, Oct. 28-31, 1903, con¬ 
tain eighteen formal addresses and scientific papers by men of recog¬ 
nized ability and experience, and cover a wide range of subjects of 
vital importance to the industry. About twenty reports of officers and 
committees give much new and valuable information. The synopsis 
of general discussions is of particular interest along various lines, and 
the book is certain to be of much practical value to those interested 
in this department of horticulture. 
A good deal of human nature is laid bare in F. E. C. Robbins’s story, 
“Candidating,” published in the Special May Number of The Youth’s 
Companion (April 28th). There is a story for sensitive girls by Wini¬ 
fred M. Kirkland, a “creepy” account of “A Botanist’s Adventure,” 
by Albert W. Tolman, and the conclusion of Arthur Stanwood Pier’s 
story of “The Last Night” at St. Timothy’s School. How to make a 
safe sail attachment to an ordinary canoe is described by John A. 
Macy. In addition to these there is an article entitled, “The Snakes’ 
Curse,” by Sir Harry H. Johnston, K. C. B., recent Commander- 
in-Chief and Consul-General for the Uganda Protectorate, formerly 
Vice-Consul in the Kamerun, at which time occurred the experience 
described in this contribution. The issue is rich in gleanings from 
biography, diverting anecdotes and miscellaneous sketches. 
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References, .... George Peters & Co., Troy, Ohio. 
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