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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
ST. LOUIS MEETING 
Now a word about the St. Louis meeting. The Western 
Association should work for a large attendance. Not only 
urge that_ our_ members attend, but use our influence to 
induce nurserymen not members to meet with us at St. 
Louis. I would offer^as a suggestion that a committee be 
appointed to prepare a letter of invitation and instruct our 
Secretary to mail a copy to all nurserymen in the middle 
west. 
Nursery inspection and the various State Laws govern¬ 
ing inspection and shipment of nursery stock has been a 
source_ of_ anxiety to nurserymen for some years. But 
nursery inspection is with us to stay. The planter is en¬ 
titled to protection and it is right that all nurseries be 
examined for insect pests. Our greatest inconvenience 
comes from laws passed in some states governing interstate 
shipments.^. Now, we are not likely to get relief by a national 
inspection law, but we may hope that some of the more 
stringent state laws will be modified and that there will be a 
move toward more uniform state laws. 
MEETING OF NURSERY INSPECTORS 
The Ninth Annual meeting of the Horticultural Inspectors was 
held in Minneapolis, Minn., on the 29th and 30th of December, 1910. 
This association has never until the present had a constitution and 
by-laws. Both were adopted at this meeting.^ Officers elected for 
the ensuing year were as follows; President, Franklin Sherman, 
Jr.; viee-president, T. J. Headlee; secretary-treasurer, T. B. 
Symons; members of Executive Committee, J. B. Smith, H. T. 
Femald, J. W. Jeffrey. 
The active members of the association consist of the person or 
persons of each state, country or United States Department of 
Agriculture, or their authorized representatives, under whose 
authorities, certificates of inspection are issued. 
Associate members consist of assistants and co-workers in official 
service. The proceedings of the meeting, including all business 
transacted, will be published in the forth-coming issues of the 
Journal of Economic Entomology. 
The attendance was fair, about thirty-five states being repre¬ 
sented. 
The members of the association are under much obligation to 
Prof. F. L. Washburn, State Entomologist of Minnesota, and retiring 
president of the association, for the excellent arrangements for the 
meetings and for the many courtesies extended. 
Albany, N. Y. Geo. G. Atwood, 
Chief, Bureau of Horticulture and Nursery Inspection. 
MONTANA 
The State Nursery Company, of Helena, Montana, has glowing 
hopes for a busy seed season. The seed department has received 
requests for the Company’s 1911 catalogue from many states, and 
the local trade promises to establish an easy record. Five .cars of 
Montana-grown alfalfa seed have just arrived, and the Company’s 
seedsmen are busy cleaning and storing it. 
The State Nursery Company, of Helena, Montana, will have 
their big 19 ii catalogue from the printers in a week or so. Work 
is still being put into it, for the aim of the Company is to send out the 
best and biggest catalogue yet issued by the firm, and it will reach 
more people than ever before. 
Greetings in the form of attractive post-cards have been received 
from Messrs. W. Van Kdeef & Sons, Boskoop, Holland, and Conrad 
Appel, Darmstadt, Germany. The former are nursery stock 
growers, while the latter are among the prominent seed growers of 
Germany. 
Note and Comment 
PRODUCTS OF THE GRAPE 
UNFERMENTED BEVERAGES 
In thinking of the products of the grape, the lay mind is 
wont to travel back to the Scriptural records of early days 
and associate the grape in beverage form with the_^ ex¬ 
periences of Noah, especially as these are but a type of the 
all too common occurrence of the twentieth century. The 
public is not sufficiently aware that the juice of the grape is 
both healthful and appetizing in the unfermented form. 
Nor is the public sufficiently aware that a few enthusiasts 
in the rational use of the grape have made noted progress 
in placing upon the market delectable beverage_forms^ot the 
fruit of the vine. 
THE RANDALL GRAPE JUICE CO. 
Chautauqua County, New York, has long been the noted 
Concord grape producing area of the Northeast. There is 
located at Ripley in that county the Randall Grape Juice 
Company, of which Mr. F. N. Randall is president and 
treasurer.^^; This^gentleman has been instrumental in fur¬ 
thering the^sale, of grape juice as a table beverage by his 
skill and ingenuity in manufacturing pleasant and agreeable 
brands. He has long been an advocate of the healthfulness 
of the grape in this form, and has been instrumental in mak¬ 
ing it one of the leading non-alcoholic beverages of the 
United States. Mr. Randall is known as the^originator of 
the_ method of carbonating grape juice, that is, adding 
carbonic acid gas to the expressed juice, giving it piquancy 
and the soda water characteristic so much in demand by the 
American people. While the quality of the juice is in no 
way injured, it is vastly improved to the taste of many by 
this addition. 
Although the progress made in popularizing this health¬ 
ful product has been great, it is unquestionably true that it 
is only in the beginning of a great future. The Randall 
Grape Juice Company may properly feel that they have had 
an important hand in an undertaking which is important 
industrially, but which is basic and fundamental in its effec 
on the morals and health of the people. 
NURSERYMEN PRESENT AT WESTERN NEW YORK 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
This meeting usually draws, a number of the prominent 
nurserymen of the East, and among those present 
were Messrs. Irving Rouse, Hooker, William Pitkin, 
C. J. Brown, John Charlton, Eddie Osborn, and others of 
Rochester. Messrs. F. M. Hartman, Maloney Brothers, and 
representatives of Stark Brothers, from Dansville. George 
S. Josselyn, of Fredonia; Nelson Bogue, Batavia; J. H. 
Dayton, Storrs & Harrison Company, representatives of 
J. G. Harrison Company, Berlin, Maryland, and many 
other Arms. 
