THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Certain people are always predicting over-production by figuring the 
future yield from the number of trees planted. This is fallacy, for 
only a small part of the planting produces an eventual crop. In fact ( 
the whole history of tree planting illustrates just the opposite,—the 
fact that the natural losses prevent permanent over-production and 
maintain the equilibrium. Consumption of fruit and demand fo r 
ornamentals are likely to keep pace with the actual production The 
consumption of fruit per capita is increasing ; the export trade is grow¬ 
ing ; manufactured fruit products are extending in amount and popu¬ 
larity. 
In the third place, time sifts out the dross; this is the vital lesson of 
this discussion. If only a small percentage of our efforts is destined to 
result in permanent success, then there is all the more reason that we 
should grow only the best, for then are our chances of an enduring 
success the greater. One first class novelty is worth moie than twenty 
indifferent ones. ' There will be less failures in the future. The state 
of intelligence is rapidly rising. More and more the planter is making 
specific demands of the nurseryman. No longer can the nurseryman 
do an indiscriminate business. More and more must he satisfy the 
special customer in his own geographical region. The tendency must 
be towards diversification. 
Because there is loss is no reason for discouragement. The nursery¬ 
man has less occasion to be discouraged than the planter, for the nur¬ 
seryman sells his trees to the planter. So long as the planter has 
enthusiasm, the nurseryman should have hope. Nature has not given 
up the nursery business just because she so often fails to realize. 
All these considerations enforce the fact that, as nurserymen and 
plant growers, we are still far short of our greatest possible efficiency. 
Hmong (Stowers anb ^Dealers. 
B. Suzuki, of Suzuki & Iida, is on his way home to Japan. 
Frank Yestal, Little Rock, Ark., died May 18th, aged 42 years. 
P. Ouwerkerk, Jersey City, will sail for Holland on the 6th of July. 
Mr. Schuette, of Schuette & Czarnowski, St. Louis, Mo., started on a 
European trip, June 15th. 
The St. Elmo Nursery and Orchard Company, St. Elmo, Ill., in¬ 
creased its planting largely last spring. 
A packing house fire at Fairbury Nursery Company’s, Fairbury, 
Neb., caused a loss of $1,000 on May 29th. 
Irving Jaquay, Benton Harbor, Mich , has purchased a 200-acre farm 
at South Haven, Mich., for nursery purposes. 
Smith Brothers, Concord, Ga., have just finished a new concrete 
packing house and are now building a new office. 
William C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y., attended the flower show at the 
opening of the new Horticultural Hall in Boston. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs, and vines amounted to 
$73,188 in April, 1901, against $70,166 in April, 1900. 
Commodore Perry Lines, a veteran nurseryman, of New Haven, 
Conn., died recently. He was engaged in the nursery business for 45 
years. 
A plan is being considered by the Buffalo, N. Y., park commis¬ 
sioners’ botanical committee for establishing a tree and shrub nursery 
in Cazenovia Park. 
George L. Taber, Glen St. Mary, Fla., nurseryman, was re-elected 
president of the Florida Horticultural Society at the annual meeting at 
St. Augustine, May 21-24. 
Thomas Smith, 102 years and 5 months old, died in Rochester, N. Y., 
May 15th. He had been employed by Frost & Co. and Ellwanger & 
Barry, working until he was 90 years old. 
The fourth volume of the American Cyclopaedia of Horticulture, of 
which Prof. L. H. Bailey is the editor, will be issued by the publishers, 
the Macmillan Co., New York and London. 
Members of the Association who desire photographs of the group 
which assembled before a camera immediately after the convention was 
adjourned, may obtain them, for $1 each, of the photographer, M. H. 
Zahner, 36 Falls Street, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, New York city, sailed June 15th on the steam, 
ship Trave for a three months’ trip abroad. He will visit Italy, 
Switzerland, Holland, Germany and England. 
The nineteen annual meeting of the American Seed Trade Association 
was held in Rochester June 11-13. These officers were elected : Presi¬ 
dent, Jesse E. Northrup, Minneapolis; secretary-treasurer, S. F. Wil. 
lard, Weathersfield, Conn. 
Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state 
by the Gardner Nursery Company, Osage, la. The capital is $50,000. 
The incorporators are Charles F. Gardner, Clark E. Gardner, William 
C. Gardner, Rosa M. Gardner and Grace B. Gardner. 
Benjamin R. Palmer died at Gananoque, Canada, June 15th, aged 74 
years. He was engaged in the nursery business in Rochester and 
Geneva, N. Y., for a time subsequent to 1874. He was the father-in- 
law of ex-President Irving Rouse of the American Association of 
Nurserymen. 
Prof. L. H. Bailey started for the Pacific Coast last month after the 
Niagara Falls convention. He will deliver a series of lectures at the 
University of California. lie expects to be absent two months. He 
will visit horticultural centers in California and Oregon in the interest 
of his new magazine, “American Country Life.” 
The nurserymen and florists of Los Angeles, Cal., met June 10 and 
effected permanent organization. The association will co operate with 
the horticultural commission. Officers were elected as follows: E. II. 
Rust, of South Pasadena, president; A. Campbell-Johnson, vice presi¬ 
dent; Miss Lord, secretary, and J. F. Rupprecht, treasurer. 
At the meeting of the Wholesale Seedsmen’s League, held at Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., June 14, the following officers were elected: President, 
F. W. Bruggerhoff, New York; vice-president, S. F. Leonard, Chicago; 
secretary and treasurer, Burnet Landreth, Philadelphia. Messrs. Lan- 
dreth, Burpee, Maynard, and H. W. Wood were elected directors. 
The New York State Fruit Grower’s Association is not mapping out 
any new work other than that planned at the annual meeting at Syra¬ 
cuse. County organizations are being perfected in the fruit-growing 
section. Niagara, Orleans, Ontario, Wayne, Seneca, and Oswego 
counties have already organized. Yates county held a meeting June 1 
for this purpose. 
Nelson Smith who is always at the conventions is popular at home as 
well as abroad. He is a police commissioner and potentate of the 
Geneva temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 
By reason of the latter fact he was able to translate many of the hiero¬ 
glyphics on the Midway and therefore was called upon several times 
to chaperone parties of less fortunate nurserymen down the camel 
path. 
The city of Denver made an active bid for the 1902 convention of 
the Association. Letters of invitation were received from the mayor 
of Denver, the governor of Colorado, the State Board of Horticulture, 
the Denver Chamber of Commerce and George J. Spear, the wide 
awake nurseryman and member of the Association, from Greeley, Colo. 
An invitation to hold the next convention in Detroit was received from 
the secretary of the Detroit Chamber of Commerce. 
Among those who called upon Rochester nurserymen after the con¬ 
vention were: Ex-President Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; President R. 
C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; D. D. Herr, Lancaster, Pa.; Harry L. 
Bird, Benton Harbor, Mich.; A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan.; Frank A. Chase, 
Huntsville, Ala.; C. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind.; George Sallee, F. C. 
Weber, St. Louis, Mo.; W. C. Reed, Vincennes, Ind.; W. T. Hood, 
Richmond, Va.; Charles F. Smith, Concord, Ga.; Thomas B. Meehan, 
Germantown, Pa.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind.; C. F. Bernard, 
Painesville, O.; E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, Tex.; Herman Berk- 
han, New York city. 
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