THE NATIONAL NURSERYxMAN 
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PORTLAND CONVENTION ARRANGEMENTS 
It has been definitely settled by the Committee on 
Arrangements, that the Multnomah Hotel, shall be the head¬ 
quarters in Portland, Oregon, for the American Association 
of Nurserymen’s Con¬ 
vention in June. 
This hotel was 
selected after careful 
consideration by the 
Committee as being 
best adapted for the 
purpose. The buil¬ 
ding was opened a 
year ago and is cen¬ 
trally located, cover¬ 
ing one entire city 
block. The entire 
second floor is de¬ 
voted entirely to halls, 
banquet and commit¬ 
tee rooms and enter¬ 
tainment space as well 
as large rooms espec¬ 
ially adapted to exhi- 
bition purposes. 
There are also rooms 
for the ladies’ enter¬ 
tainment committee 
to take care of the 
wives and daughters 
of the delegates, many 
of whom expect to take 
the trip to Portland. 
The local florists of 
Portland have agreed 
to make a special ex¬ 
hibit of plants and 
flowers and are mak¬ 
ing every effort to 
produce an unusual 
and striking display. 
The Pacific Coast 
Nurserymen’s Associ¬ 
ation will hold their 
meetings on the same 
dates as the American 
Association of Nur¬ 
serymen, and it has 
been arranged that 
the two Associations will hold joint meetings, one day being 
set aside for separate meetings when the official business of 
each association can be transacted. This will be the first 
joint meeting ever held by the American Association of 
Nurserymen, and it is expected that it will result in a 
most interesting and instructive gathering. The meetings 
will be presided over by both of the Presidents, Thomas B. 
Meehan of American Association of Nurscr>-mcn and Albert 
Brownell of the Pacific Coast Nurserymen’s Association. 
Chairman Marsden B. Fox of the Passenger Transporta¬ 
tion Committee rc- 
])orts that ujj to the 
])resent time some 
thirty members have 
signified their inten¬ 
tion to join the party 
which will leave 
Rochester, N. Y., in 
a special Pullman 
sleeping car on June 
12th at 5:20 p. M., 
via New York Cen¬ 
tral Lines, Burlington 
Route and Northern 
Pacific Railway. This 
is one of the most 
direct routes, and 
delegates may return 
by whatever route 
and at any time they 
may desire. 
The W ashington 
Nursery Co. have ex¬ 
tended an invitation to 
the delegates to stop 
over at Toppenish, 
Washington, for the 
purpose of looking 
over their plant, city, 
and the surrounding 
country, and it has 
been arranged to side¬ 
track the special car 
for one day at that 
point in order t o 
accept this invitation. 
The “Special” will 
reach Toppenish (if 
on time) at 3 ;3o a. m., 
June i6th. After 
breakfast, the dele¬ 
gates will be taken 
over the nurseries of 
the Washington Nur¬ 
sery Co., through the 
town and then by automobiles over the irrigable portion 
of the Yakima Indian Reservation. This is a body of 
land partly cultivated and the remainder in Sage Brush. 
It will illustrate the transfonnation from the raw land to the 
cultivated which takes place in one season as the water is 
applied. The drive will then circle through the town of 
Wapata, taking in smaller nurseries, crossing the river and 
FOURTH STREET, PORTLAND, OREGON 
