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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President. THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, .JOHN CRAIG 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, ... C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nur¬ 
sery Stock of all kinds. It circulates throughout the United 
States, Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
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this office by the 20 th 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 by the Business Mana¬ 
ger, Rochester, N. Y. 
Correspondence from all po.nts and articles of interest to nurserymen and 
horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Address, Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as seco?id-class matter. 
AMERICAN 
POMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY 
CATALOGUE 
REVISION 
The fruit catalogue of the American 
Pomological Society has for years been 
accepted as the standard authority in 
rating the qualities of the amateur and 
commercial apples of the United States 
and Canada. This catalogue, however, 
has not been revised for eight years, and 
it is now felt that under new conditions, especially in view 
of the recent development in the Northwest, and the 
peculiar conditions prevailing there, which have re-em¬ 
phasized the value of some of the older varieties regarded in 
certain sections as more or less obsolete, it is time to revise 
and reconstruct this entire catalogue and its ratings. To 
this end. United States Pomologist Col. G. B. Brackett is 
sending out circulars asking for present day estimates of the 
leading varieties as grown in different localities. When 
these estimates have been received, the data will be collated, 
and it is expected that the next issue of the Society’s cata¬ 
logue will bring the whole matter thoroughly and accurately 
down to the present date. This is an exceedingly important 
work, and the co-operation of fruit growers in all parts of 
the country is earnestly solicited. This matter will be 
discussed at the meeting in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 9-11, 1911. 
Rochester, N. Y., February, 1911. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President—-W. P. Stark, Louisiana, Mo.; vice president, E. S. Welch, Shenan¬ 
doah, Iowa; secretary, John Hall, Rochester, N. Y; treasurer, C. L. Yates, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Co.mmittee —J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O.; E. M. Sherman, Charles 
City, la.; H. B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; Wm. P. Stark, Louisiana. 
Mo.; John Hall, Ex-Officio, Sec’y, Rochester, N. Y. 
Chairmen of Committees. 
Transportation —D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la.; Chas. M. Sizemore, Louis¬ 
iana, Mo. 
Tariff —Irving Rouse, Rochester, N' Y. 
Legislation East of Mississippi River—W m. Pitkin, Rochester, N.Y. 
Legislation West of Mississippi River — Peter Youngers, Geneva, Nebr. 
Co-operation with Ento.mologists—J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la. 
Program —J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O. 
Publicity —Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. 
Exhibits —J. W. Schuette, 5600 GravoisAve., St. Louis, Mo. 
Arrangements —John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Painesvule, O., 
F. A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 
Editing Report —John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; Prof. John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entertainment —F. A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 
Forestry —A. 1. Brown, Geneva, Nebr. 
Cooperation with Fruit Growers and Associations— J. M. Irvine, St. 
Joseph, Mo. 
Trade Opportunities —Jefferson Thomas, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Nurserymen’s Share in Civic Improvement — J. Horace McFarland, Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. 
Root-Knot —E. A. Smith Lake City. Minn. 
Membership —John Watson, Newark, N. Y. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, R. C. Berckman 
Augusta. Ga.; secretary, Thomas B. Me.ehan, Dreshertown, Pa. Meets annually 
in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association—-President, Charles J. Brown, 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton Ill. Meets annually in' 
June. 
Association of Oklahoma Nurserymen—President, J. A. Lopeman, Enid, Okla. Terr.; 
secretary C. E. Garee, Noble, Okla. Terr. 
Canadian Association of Nurserymen—President—E. D. Smith, Winona; secretary 
C. C. R. .Morden, Niagara Falls, Ont. 
Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association—President, C. W Atwater, Collinsville, 
Conn, Secretary, John S. Barnes, Yalesville, Conn. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen—President, Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in’ 
January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen —President, M'm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
secretary, F. E. Grover, Rochester, N Y. 
National Nurserymen’s Association of Ohio —President, J W. McNary, Dayton, O. 
secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, O. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen—President. Geo. C. Roeding, Fresno, Cal.; 
secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson. Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association—President, Samuel C. .Moon, Pa,, secre¬ 
tary, Earl Peters, Mt. Holy Springs, Pa. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association—President, R C Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
secretary-treasurer, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association—President, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.; 
secretary. G. .\I Bentley, Knoxville Tenn 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association—President—J. B. Baker. Ft. Worth. Texas- 
secretary-treasurer, John S. Kerr. Sherman. Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen —President, E. P. Bernardin, Parson, Kans. 
secectary-treasurer, E J Holman. Leavenworth, Kan. Meets in Itily and 
necember at Kansas City. 
VOCATIONAL 
SCHOOLS 
It is not as generally known as it should 
be that an important step is being taken 
by the Congress of the United States for 
the promotion of trade and industrial 
schools. Beginning July ist, 1914, an 
appropriation of ten million dollars annually will be avail¬ 
able for the purpose of establishing instruction in trades and 
industries, home economics, and agriculture, in public high 
schools. There is to be one of these schools in each district 
of not less than five or more than eighteen counties. Each 
school is to have a branch of the state experim^ent station 
established in connection. Another important part of this 
movement is a special fund for the interpretation and dis¬ 
semination of experiment station research through extension 
departments. Beginning with the fiscal year, 1910 -11, each 
state and territory will receive ten thousand dollars to aid 
its college of agriculture and mechanic arts in maintaining 
an extension department. This fund will increase each year 
till each state receives thirty thousand dollars. This will 
form a very important clearing house for information 
gathered by the investigation bureaus of each college a,nd 
station. The whole movement will influence the consolida¬ 
tion of rural and village schools, and thus tend to concentra¬ 
tion of effort with larger return from energy expended. 
Pennsylvania has established a school of 
HORTICULTURE horticulture for women. This school is 
FOR WOMEN located some eighteen miles from Phila¬ 
delphia, near the town of Ambler. It 
offers practical training in gardening and 
supplements this by instruction in the allied and fundamen¬ 
tal sciences of botany and chemistry. The course, from the 
practical standpoint, is a combination' of plant culture and 
landscape art, with such subjects as might easily be related, 
as preserving fruits, bee keeping, and poultry raising. 
