THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
353 
advance of the meeting and organization of the committee, 
so that the funds may be available at the earliest possible 
moment. If a member of the American Association, send 
your contribution to Mr. John Hall, Rochester, N. Y., 
secretary; and if a member of the Pacific Coast Association, 
send your subscription to C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash., 
secretary. If a member of both associations, choose for 
yourself to which secretary you will send your subscrjption. 
You will observe that the limit is set at $25. You can sub¬ 
scribe any amount under $25 that you choose, it being 
understood that no one is asked to subscribe more than 
they can afford up to $25, showing your sympathy and good 
will in this great work. 
You can fill out the enclosed blank for the amount that 
you wish to subscribe and mail to the writer, when it will 
be forwarded to the secretary of the respective association 
through which you wish it to go, or you can mail direct to 
the secretary, as you choose. 
This is important. Do not lay it aside'until you have 
filled out the blank and mailed it, whether your subscription 
be largo, or .small. DO IT NOW! 
Yours truly, 
M McDonald. 
THE ORNAMENTAL GROWERS ASSOCIATION 
There was a strong gathering of the Ornamental Growers 
Association at the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, Pa., on 
August 5, 6, and 7 th. Representatives were there from 
many states. 
Theo. J. Smith, Geneva N. Y., was elected president and 
Charles J. Maloy, Rochester, N. Y., secretary. 
The mornings were devoted to business matters pertain¬ 
ing to the Association and the afternoons to visiting nur¬ 
series and places of interest in the vicinity of Philadelphia. 
Wednesday afternoon a visit was made to the William H. 
Moon Company, at Morrisville, Pa, where they were 
entertained and shown over the nurseries. 
Thursday afternoon they visited West Chester and were 
the guests of the Morris Nursery Company, and Hoopes 
Brothers & Thomas Company. 
Friday the members took an automobile ride to the 
nurseries of Thomas Meehan & Sons, Dresher, Pa., where a 
luncheon was prepared for them in the packing shed. From 
there they went to the Andorra nurseries at Chestnut Hill, 
Pa., and again partook of a repast on the nursery grounds. 
The delegates of the meeting were very much surprised 
and interested by the great amount of ornamental and fruit- 
trees grown on the nurseries in the vicinity of Philadelphia 
and were delighted by the manner in which the Pennsylvania 
nurserymen showered attentions on them. It was an 
extremely enjoyable meeting all through and one which will 
be long remembered. 
NOTICE TO GROWERS OF GOOD STOCK 
Advertisers and subscribers having a good block of 
nursery stock or choice individual trees or plants should 
■send us a photograph of them. We shall be glad to illu.strate 
them in The National Nurseryman. 
The Indiana Horticultural Society met August 21 and 
22 at Centerville in honor of E. Y. Teas, of that place who 
is the only living charter member and who recently retired 
from the nursery business. 
The firm known as the Old Colony Nurseries of Pl>Tnouth, 
Mass., established in 1840, has been reorganized and in¬ 
corporated with Thomas R. Watson, president, and John W. 
Leonard, Jr., treasurer and manager, continuing in the same 
hands. 
At the State Nurserymen’s Convention at Payette, Idahb, 
the following officers were elected; President, Anton Died- 
richsen, of Payette; vice-president, George Fenton, of Em¬ 
mett; secretary, J. F. Littooy, of Boise. 
Gray’s Nurseries of Salem, Ind., report that the severe 
drouth that had extended over a great part of the country 
has not injured the growth of nursery stock there. In fact 
they have the finest growth they have ever seen. 
Pencil manufacturers are buying up old red cedar fence 
rails in Tennessee and southward, to be made into lead 
pencils. 
NEW ZEALAND NURSERYMEN 
According to reports of the Annual Conference of New 
Zealand Nurserymen which have just come to hand condi¬ 
tions there are much the same as in theUnited States. Crown 
Gall, Inspection, Grading of Fruit Trees are among their 
problems. 
An unusually interesting demonstration of the value 
of dynamite in stopping a forest fire was made by the Dupont 
Powder Company at a summer meeting of the Eastern 
Foresters Association on the College Forest of the New York 
State College of Forestry at Wanakena, N. Y. For many 
years it has been a problem how to stop, in an effective 
and rapid way, the ground fires, which have done so much 
damage in the Adirondacks. Over large areas in the Adiron- 
dacks and Catskills the mineral soil is covered, often several 
feet deep, with a duff or peat which will often hold a smould¬ 
ering fire for many weeks and sometimes months. A sharp 
fire was set by the students of the State Ranger School and 
in front of this advancing fire was placed a string of dynamite 
cartridges, which as the fire reached the line were exploded 
and the fire was halted as effectively as if it had reached a 
stream of water. The dynamite threw up vast quantities 
of loose soil, leaving a ditch several feet deep. A fire smould¬ 
ering in heavy soil would be stopped absolutely by such a 
ditch and the loose material thro\vn up could be used to 
advantage as a smother for any fire that might be left burn¬ 
ing on the ground over which the smface fire had passed. 
This demonstration proved that at a cost of from $10.00 
to $15.00 a ditch could be formed, that would stop an 
