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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
A NATIONAL FRUIT GROWERS’ EVENT 
Fruit Week in Washington. D. C., November 17 to 22 will 
])resent the following program: The 17th installation of 
exhibits; competition of new fruits or nuts for Wilder medals, 
the highest pomological honor conferred in America; com¬ 
mittee deliberations covering the revision of fruit names’ 
migrants; Alaska’s Pomological Resotrrces; Fruit-growing 
for the Urbanite and Suburbanite; Canadian Pomology; 
Bits of Spanish Horticulture; The Concentration of fruit 
juices; Grading and Packing; Our Grape Growing In¬ 
dustry; Pomological Problems of the Southwest; Pacific 
Coast Fruit Growing illustrated: 
EXHIBIT OF W. N. SCARFF, NEW CARLISLE, OHIO, AT OHIO STATE FAIR 
the regarding of varietal values as to quality; the recom¬ 
mendation of varieties for planting in commercial orchards, 
home orchards, and new or little known varieties worthy of 
extended trial; score cards for the judging of fruit exhibits. 
The 18th and 19th American Pomological Society will 
consider problems of practical orcharding; fruit and orchard 
pests and remedies; the status of horticulture in the various 
states, provinces and islands within the field of the society; 
contest in score card judging, open to college teams and 
individuals; among the papers presented will be the follow¬ 
ing topics: Pomology in our School System; Horticulture 
in France; Roadside Pomology; Tropical Fruits; Irriga¬ 
tion in Fruit Gro\ving; The Small Fruit Industry; Main¬ 
tenance of Profitable Bearing Trees; Our Pomological Im- 
The 19th and 20th the Northern Nut Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion will consider the various problems relating to the nut 
industry of this country. A large exhibit of nuts from far 
and near will aid in the work of this organization; while 
papers and discussions will cover all phases of the continental 
nut industry. 
The 20th and 21st will be devoted to an extended discus¬ 
sion of markets and marketing as related to fruit growing in 
which growers, dealers and consumers from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific, and Canada to the Gulf will participate. The 
meetings of the 20th will be a joint affair between the Ameri¬ 
can Pomological Society and the Eastern Fruit Growers 
Association. The discussions of the 21st will be under the 
auspices of the Eastern Fruit Growers Association. During 
