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HELP THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE 
Attention is again called to the important work of the 
Transportation Committee', E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind., 
chairman. It is hoped that the efforts of the committee to 
secure satisfactory adjustment of transportation questions 
are being warmly seconded by every member of the 
Association of American Nurserymen. 
TEXAS AT THE FRONT. 
Spirited Letter from President Kirkpatrick. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
This season in Texas has been favorable for all kinds of crops. With 
the aid of government experts, organization, improved methods and 
varieties, all former records are broken. With these great crops 
comes the highest average of prices. The result is uncommon 
prosperity among all classes. The product of our orchards and 
gardens is about ten thousand cars, with a large annual increase. 
The quality of our fruit, the vigor of growth, and the extent of our 
area, give bright promise for the future. 
The nurserymen are alive to the demands of trade. New and im¬ 
proved varieties are being introduced, more skill and care are used in 
growing more perfect stock and better prices are received for that 
stock. Thousands of new varieties of fruits are tested each year—close 
comparisons are made with the result that many improved and su¬ 
perior varieties are adopted to the exclusion of many old inferior 
sorts. Horticultural books and periodicals, foreign and domestic, 
have a wide circulation. 
In the absence of a state appropriation to exhibit our products 
along the other sister states, at St. Louis, a few enterprising citizens 
donated one hundred thousand dollars of their private funds, and 
gave their time and represented Texas at the great fair at their sole 
expense. The result has been seen by all those who have viewed the 
state exhibits at St. Louis. Our earliest peaches began to ripen in 
April. During the month of May we placed several varieties of fine 
commercial peaches, plums, and other fruits on the tables in Horti¬ 
cultural palace at St. Louis. 
In earliness, in quality, and in ease of production, our fruit and 
our vegetables are about all that can be desired for the great northern 
market. The extent of our area gives wide scope to number and 
variety of production. The long stretch of latitude, longitude, and 
altitude, various degrees of humidity and aridity, all* grades of soils, 
clays, gravels, and waters, the climatic and other favorable conditions 
give verge enough to produce everything from an apple to a pine-apple, 
from rye to rice, from a potato to dates. Our specialties are early 
potatoes, peaches, and tomatoes. Many other things are coming. 
Texas is the home of the pecan nut. Finest of all nuts! The mil- 
ions of wealth which will be made out of this nut will probably be the 
easiest and surest of all our avenues of gain. Newly improved varieties 
of the pecan are being accumulated,—-they will be propagated and 
planted and also budded on wild trees, both pecan and hickory, and 
the added wealth from this source will be unlimited. The National 
Nut-Growers’ Association will meet at the St. Louis World’s Fair on 
Oct. 26-28. Everybody is invited to attend its sessions and learn 
of this, most captivating branch of horticulture. Millions of wild 
and barren pecan and hickory trees which are now only cum¬ 
bering the ground can be easily and cheaply converted into the most 
valuable and most durable of all trees. 
Nurserymen, Nut-Growers, and Fruit-Growers can be mutually 
benefitted by affiliation and consultation. Our committees are work¬ 
ing on their reports for our next meeting ofjthe Nurserymen’s Associa¬ 
tion at West Balden Springs, Ind. This meeting promises to be a record- 
breaking epoch. Every Nurseryman in this and in other countries 
could find much profit by joining this sturdy band of active producers. 
The membership will compare favorably with any other membership— 
in general intelligence, in fraternal good will, and also in the station 
they fill, duty performed. These members are from all the States of 
this great country and from many other countries. No people are 
more devoted to their country and to their every privilege and duty. 
The expense of membership and of attendance is very small compared 
with the value gained in opportunity, inspiration, and general help¬ 
fulness. E. W. Kirkpatrick, 
•President American Association of Nurseryman. 
BUSINESS AN1) PERSONAL MOVEMENTS. 
It is reported that George A. Wagner, nurseryman, of Alinda, Pa., 
lias made an assignment for tlie benefit of his creditors 
Mr. August Rhotert who has spent the past few weeks abroad, re¬ 
turned from Europe on the Steamship Moltke, about the first of the 
month. 
The business office of The National Nurseryman reports calls 
during the past month, from John B. Mooney of DansviUe, N. Y., and 
Mr. Henry of Henry & Sears, of Geneva, N. Y. 
McHutchison & Co. of New \ ork, have been compelled bv increasing 
business to enlarge their office capacity. The firm now occupies a 
suite of four offices on first floor of the same building, 218 Fulton street. 
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The following nurserymen visited Rochester during the latter days 
of September: Mr. Dayton, of Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, Ohio; 
Mr. Ilgenfritz, of Monroe, Michigan, and Mr. Rice of the firm of T. W. 
& J. P. Rice, Geneva, N. Y. 
Mr. Waltz of Rochester, New Vork, has been engaged as foreman 
at the North Wales Nurseries of Thaddeus N. Yates A Co., whose office 
is located at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. Mr. Waltz was formerly with 
W. S. Little & Co., of Rochester, N. Y., and is a thoroughly practical 
nurseryman. The Yates nurseries at North Wales cover over 100 
acres of nursery stock. They grow ornamentals entirely. Mr. Waltz 
took charge about the first of July. 
Mr. Winfried Roelker returned from Europe last week on the Steam¬ 
ship Vaderland. Mr. Roelker made extended trips throughout the 
nursery sections of England and the continent. He reports that the 
drought on the continent has been very severe this summer; that it 
has considerably retarded the growth of fruit stocks. It is probable 
that Mahaleb cherry stock will be short. It is hoped that other fruit 
stocks have not been materially injured by the protracted drought. 
Mr. Albertson of Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, Indiana, and 
Herbert B. Chase of Huntsville, Alabama, visited Rochester last month 
on business in connection with the work of the Classification Com¬ 
mittee. Mr. Albertson, it will be remembered, is Chairman of the 
Transportation Committee, and Mr. Chase a member of the same 
committee. Both of these gentlemen are conscientiously and in¬ 
dustriously endeavoring to carry out the purposes of the committee 
which they represent. Mr. Chase was directed to meet Math the South¬ 
ern Classification Committee. 
A cheerful letter from Charles Maxson, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 
informs us that he is now treasurer and general manager of the Michi¬ 
gan Nursery & Orchard Company. Mr. Maxson expects to do an agency 
and mail order business. His experience is wide, having been with 
Bell & McCrea, as far back as 1876, and having continued in the nur¬ 
sery business up to the present time. For a number of years he was 
vice-president of the Association of the American Nuurservmen for 
Michigan, and has been one of the most regular attendants at these 
meetings. We wish him every success in his new position. 
ASSIGNMENT OF FRANK H. BATTLES. 
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy proceedings against Frank H. 
Battles, a North street seedsman, has been filed by several of his cred¬ 
itors in the United States District Court in Buffalo. A hearing will 
be held September 29th before referee, Quincy Van \ oorhis. Notice 
of it was served on Battle’s attorney, Arthur Warren. » 
Battles made a general assignment on August 5th. His liabilities 
were stated to be $35,000 with $41,000 assets, consisting principally of 
old accounts. There are seventy-five creditors. Of these three object 
to the assignment and petition to have Battles adjudged an involun¬ 
tary bankrupt .—Democrat and Chronicle. 
The National Farmers’ Congress held its twenty-fourth annual meet¬ 
ing at St. Louis, Sept. 26-30. The meeting was held in the assembly 
room of the palace of Agriculture and was largely attended. 
An International Horticultural Exhibition will be held in Edinburgh, 
Scotland, in September, 1905. The exhibition Mall be supervised by 
the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. 
