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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
C. L. YATES. Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
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Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AflERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; vice-president, R. J. 
Coe, Fort Atkinson, Wis.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville' 
Tenn., - William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Committee on Transportation—A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; William Pit 
kin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knox 
ville, Tenn. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Silas Wilson, At¬ 
lantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; Howard A. Chase, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Paines- 
ville, O.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Annual convention for 1902—At Milwaukee, Wis., June 11-12. 
■ Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., September, 1901. 
THE APPLE CROP. 
Taking 100 as representing an ideal crop, 85 represents an 
average, one year with another says the American Agriculturist 
discussing the apple crop. On this basis the crop of New 
England now seems to indicate about 25, with the quality 
only fair. Russets are best, Baldwins poorest. Fall apples 
are more numerous than any other varieties. In New York the 
crop averages from 25 to 40 per cent. Kings and Spys are 
fairly good, with Russets and Greenings next, but Baldwins 
are poor. Prospects are a little better in New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania, the yield promising to be about from 45 to 50 
per cent, with the quality only fair. In Maryland and the 
south Atlantic states the crop will range from 50 to 60 per 
cent, of an average, with the quality fairly good. In Michi¬ 
gan counties noted for their orchards, such as Kent, Van 
Buren, Washtenaw, Eaton and Oakland, the yield will not 
be more than 35 to 40 per cent. Indiana will have about one- 
half a crop, and Illinois about 40 per cent, of an average crop 
of only fair quality, apples small. 
The Canadian crop is short, but of good quality. 
ST. LOUIS WORLD’S FAIR. 
The foundation plan of the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1903 
will be that of an exposition both national and international 
in its character, so that not only the people of the Louisiana 
Purchase Territory, but of our Union, and all the nations as 
well, can participate. It will depart from the plan of all past 
expositions and make life and movement its distinguishing 
and marked characteristics. To this end it will aim definitely 
at an exhibition of man as well as the works of man; at the 
presentation of manufacturing industries in actual conduct as 
well as of the machines out of action; at the exhibition of 
processes as well as of completed products. 
Section 15 of the by-laws is as follows : “The committee 
on agriculture shall consist of seven ( 7 ) members, and shall 
be charged with the immediate supervision of all matters per¬ 
taining to agriculture in connection with the exposition, in¬ 
cluding food and food products, farming machinery and ap¬ 
pliances, forestry and forest products, viticulture, horticulture 
and floriculture, live stock, domestic and wild animals. ” 
The committee on agriculture is composed of Paul Brown, 
chairman; Festus J. Wade, vice-chairman; Niche las M. Bell, 
Julius S. Walsh, William J. Lemp, David Ranker jr., John 
Scullin. Mark Bennitt will have charge of the Department 
of Publicity. 
POMOLOGISTS TO MEET. 
The meeting of the American Pomological Society at 
Buffalo on September 12th and 13 should be one of unusual 
interest. The society meets biennially; its last session, in 
1899, was held in Philadelphia. Its deliberations are of very 
great interest to nurserymen. Indeed its membership and its 
officers are largely nurserymen. C. L. Watrous, the well- 
known chairman of the committee on legislation of the Amer¬ 
ican Association of Nurserymen, is the president of the 
American Pomological Society, and the first vice-president of 
the society is Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Philadelphia, 
who is in the first rank of nurserymen. The able secretary is 
the assistant pomologist of the U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture, an acknowledged authority on pomology. The in¬ 
corporators of the society in 1887 were: Patrick Barry, J. J. 
Thomas, Prosper J. Berckmans arid Robert Manning, nursery¬ 
men, and Charles W. Garfield, and Benjamin G. Smith. The 
chairman of the finance committee is J. G. Harrison. The 
chairman of the committee on nomenclature is U. S. Pomolo¬ 
gist G. B. Brackett. The published proceedings of the 
twenty-sixth sessison in 1899, including the revised catalogue 
of fruits, recommended by the society for cultivation in the 
various sections of the U. S. and the British provinces is of 
great value. 
At the Buffalo meeting next month delegates from twenty 
state and provincial societies will be present. The exposition 
management has provided space for a large fruit exhibit. It 
is expected that there will be a lively contest for the Wilder 
medals. Fruit entered for awards by the society can also be 
entered for the awards of the exposition. 
