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THE NzMTONAL NURSERYMAN 
chCvSter, Conn.; Herbert Jackson, Portland, Maine; A. P. 
Home, Manchester. N. H., and F. H. Horsford, Charlotte, 
Vt., were added to the committee. 
Mr. Daniel A. Clarke, Fiskville, R. I., then gave his paper 
on “New Introductions and Plants Nurserymen Should 
Grow.” Mr. Clarke gave a list and description of man}^ new 
trees and shrubs which have been tested out at Arnold 
Arboretum, and of some recently introduced from China by 
Mr. Wilson. Mr. Clarke’s paper was ably discussed by Mr. 
Heurlin, Mr. Kelsey, Mr. Breed and others. 
Mr. John R. Barnes, Yalesville, Conn., spoke on ‘‘Winter 
Storage Houses.” His experience in constructing storage 
warehouses of this character enabled him to give some very 
intelligent infonnation on the subject. 
At the afternoon session, Wednesday, Mr. Stephen Hoyt, 
New Canaan, Conn., presented the subject of ‘‘Moving 
Large Trees” with illustrations of his machines and appli¬ 
ances. His methods are thought to be most practical. 
Mr. V. A. Vanicek, Newport, R. I., took Mr. Steven’s 
]jlace on the program, and spoke on the subject of propaga¬ 
tion. He answered very intelligently the many questions 
which were put to him by the members present. 
It was moved that the recommendation of the executive 
committee relative to the amendment of Article 4, of the 
constitution be adopted. A spirited discussion ensued and 
when the vote was taken, the measure adopted as 
follows: 
‘‘The members of this association shall be persons residing 
in, and engaged in the growing or selling of nursery stock in 
New England, and shall be approved by the executive com¬ 
mittee.” 
Resolutions were passed thanking the Worcester Horti¬ 
cultural Society and Mr. Breed its president, for courtesies 
extended; Mr. Coe, for his entertaining lecture, and the 
retiring officers for their services. 
On motion the meeting adjourned. 
HORTICULTURE AT THE PANAMA-CALIFORNIA 
EXPOSITION 
People of this day are interested in the Art of Doing 
things. Still-life may do for the beginner in the studio, but 
strong men demand strong meat. They want action. 
At the Panama-Califomia Exposition, under the softest 
skies in the world, where the products that made famous the 
ancient land of Palestine flourish as they may have flourished 
in that other land in the Golden Age, the builders of this 
Exposition have adopted a new keynote for the guidance of 
all who shall participate in that event, and that keynote might 
be epitomized as Action. 
All previous affairs which have borne the name of Exposi¬ 
tion have shown stilklife in every fonn. They displayed 
mountains of ffnished products—bolts of cloth, cans of corn, 
bales of goods of various kinds and innumerable products 
from many climes—but all more valuable in a warehouse than 
in a place where exhibits should convey a deep lesson and a 
lasting impression on those who went to see and learn. 
In California there will be something different. 
Perhaps it is due to the masterful men who are building 
the West that the tone penneating the whole structure 
of the San Diego Exposition will be Power, Life, Action, 
Achievement—and they all spell the same thing, which is 
Success. Men like the President of the San Diego Exposi¬ 
tion, Col. D. C. Collier, rise up when things are to be done. 
Great needs and great men answering the call to labor. 
And on the shores of the land-locked bay at the extreme 
southwesterly corner of the United States they are not only 
building an Exposition, but they arc building a city and 
developing a surrounding empire. No wonder these men 
are giving the chief space in their Exposition to the Aladdin- 
like feats of Irrigation with its miracles of transformation to 
the varied phases of conservation of national resources, to 
reclaiming the waste places, to saving the forests and the 
hidden stores of coal and other minerals, to holding for their 
true owners the great energies pent up in river and waterfall. 
Fiction knows no tale so reeking with romance as the tale of 
the conquering of Nature and the bending of her forces to the 
service of Man. 
This is the theme of the unique and unmatched Exposition 
that is being rapidly reared on the heights overlooking the 
Pacific, at the ‘‘first port of call in the United States, after 
passing through the Panama Canal.” 
In a land where history and tradition are so strongly 
tinged with the flavor of the Spanish conquistadores and the 
Spanish padres, it was scarcely less than an inspiration that 
the directors of the Exposition adopted the Spanish Renais¬ 
sance as the type of architecture for the Exposition city. 
Reminiscent of the old Missions, this stylo is still sufficiently 
elastic to make it adaptable to all the needs of the Exposition. 
It is stately, and also substantial. It is solid and at the same 
time full of grace and beauty. It lends itself to the most 
elaborate deeoration known to Moorish and Byzantine 
palaces and temples, and it is content with the most classical 
severity of line and coloring. With domes, towers, balconies 
and minaretes it will give satisfying diversity without 
sacrificing one jot to unity and harmony. 
Most of the States of the Union and various foreign 
Governments have already signified their intention of taking 
part in the Exposition at San Diego, where the buildings are 
rising rapidly in the great public jjark that is being trans¬ 
formed into a wonderful bower of tropical trees and flowers 
to serve as a setting for the beautiful and stately buildings 
that will house the Exposition of Action and Achieve¬ 
ment. 
Obituary. 
LOUIS SPATH 
A household name, not only in the nursery trade of 
Germany, but of Europe, and familiar also to many in the 
United States, Louis Spath has passed away full of honors. 
His nurseries at Berlin, Germany, count among the largest in 
Europe and the collections of trees, shrubs and plants have 
few equals. The model and extensive nurseries remain a 
tribute to his business acumen and abilities. 
