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live up to any kind of a uniform grade, and it was thought 
wise to introduce it gradually on the educative basis, rather 
than at a single step. The western growers are rightly 
opposed to the large allowance of imperfect fruit, ten per 
cent, which the United States standard grade permits. 
The reputation of the West has been made on a practically 
perfect pack, and the buyer from New York who purchases 
the output of a packing-house in a leading fruit center in 
Washington and Oregon does not reckon on ten, eight, six, 
four, or even one-half per cent of imperfect specimens; he 
reckons on a perfect pack, one hundred per cent true, and he 
usually gets it. 
We are strongly possessed of the feeling that the growers 
of the East should not impose upon their teachers in apple 
packing any of their recently acquired views, but should 
work out their own regeneration by methods which will not 
affect or disturb the methods of the men who have done so 
much for honesty in the packing of fruit. 
The recent meeting of the American 
POMOLOGISTS’ Pomological Society in Tampa, Florida, 
CONVENTION was significant in several ways. One of 
the striking features was the large number 
of states and horticultural organizations represented in the 
attendance. Between twenty-five and thirty organizations 
had delegates present, and practically as many states were 
represented. Advancing years and illness prevented the 
presence of a number of familiar figures. Many of these 
sent interesting communications, however, attesting to 
their interest in the old Society. Among the veteran mem¬ 
bers present, men who have been associated with the 
organization for half a century or more, were Col. G. B. 
Brackett, the octogenarian pomologist of the United States 
Department of Agriculture; Col. C. L. Watrous of Des 
Moines, expresident of the Society; Lewis Chase of the 
Chase Brothers, Rochester, New York; and J. J. Harrison, 
the senior member of Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, Ohio. 
These men have for half a century or more been active in 
promoting pomological progress in this country, and their 
presence at this meeting attests their present interest in the 
Society and fruit growing in general. 
In responding to the addresses of welcome by the Mayor 
of Tampa and Mr. G. L. Taber on behalf of the State 
Horticultural Society of Florida, interesting addresses were 
made by President B. J. Case of the New York State Fruit 
Growers’ Association, responding from New York and New 
England; Robert B. Whyte, of Ottawa, Canada, president 
of the Ontario. Horticultural Society, on behalf of Canadian 
fruit growers; George C. Roeding, Fresno, California, speak¬ 
ing for the Pacific Coast; and Col. G. B. Brackett of the 
United States Department of Agriculture, for the central 
states. It should be added that the Dominion Department 
of Agriculture was ably represented by Mr. A. N. McNeill, 
superintendent of the Division of Fruits. Another feature 
which will be held in warm remembrance of the visitors was 
the hospitality of the hosts. The excursions to the Manatee 
and Bradentown orange and grape fruit growing country 
proved impressively the citrus and truck growing possibili¬ 
ties and resources of that region; while the excursion to 
Tarpon Springs, the home of the greatest sponge industry of 
the world, threw a side light upon another of our many and 
varied native resources, of which few of the visiting mem¬ 
bers possessed anything but the most superficial knowledge. 
Whether the next meeting of the Society will go to Washing¬ 
ton, Chicago, or some point on the Pacific Coast is a ques¬ 
tion to be determined by the executive committee. 
The importance of the questions raised by 
TRANSPOR- Mr. Smith of the Jewell Company Nur- 
TATION series needs no emphasis, but we take 
QUESTIONS occasion of drawing the attention of the 
membership of the American Association 
of Nurserymen to the desirability of interesting themselves 
in the matter sufficiently early to head off, if necessary, a 
tendency which later on will be very difficult to influence by 
any method which may be applied. The Association has 
done good work in the past in reference to transportation 
work, but this is one of those lines which demands more or 
less perpetual effort. Rates are constantly subject to 
change, and the industry which will stand the increase will 
usually get it. In other words, the industry whose interests 
are not jealously guarded is likely to bear the burden. 
Vigilance, therefore, is demanded, and is rewarded as in 
most other cases. The committee on transportation should ' 
feel that notice has been served on them to look into the 
matter, and members generally should feel ready to be 
called upon to lend a hand, when they can help. 
Rather diligent search has failed to dis¬ 
cover a really satisfactory outfit for 
NURSERY spraying nursery stock. Several nur- 
SPRAYERS serymen have devised machines which 
meet their particular conditions fairly 
well, but a canvass of the situation does not show that any 
special type has been evolved to meet the needs of nursery¬ 
men as a whole, unless it is the Ilgenfritz machine figured 
in the frontispiece. Surely there is sufficient demand for a 
good nursery spray rig to warrant manufacturers meeting 
it. If there is not, it is a reflection on the plant grower; or 
possibly it means that the nurseryman’s inventive ability 
is equal to the occasion, and that he is able to devise modi¬ 
fications of existing outfits to meet his own requirements. 
One nurseryman, however, says that “We think there should 
be a sprayer made which could be used in nursery work, not 
only in the small sized trees, but for those running from five 
to six feet in height; but so far as we know there is nothing 
on the market.’’ 
BOONVILLE, MO. 
On April ist, the Boonville Nurseries of Boonville, Mo., 
takes in John A. Peyton of Louisiana, Mo., who has grown 
up from childhood in one of the largest nurseries in the 
world, as business partner. They are increasing their 
propagation and business facilities for handling more busi¬ 
ness in both retail and wholesale departments. They will 
grow a general line of stock, making commercial varieties of 
fruit trees their specialty. 
