THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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NATIONAL ORANGE SHOW 
Early in March the First National Orange Show was held 
in San Bernardino, California. This was intended to give 
some idea of the vast importance of the orange industry in 
California, and every feature of the industry was illustrated, 
from the time the fruit was picked till it had started on its 
way to the markets across the continent. The number of 
persons who must have had their eyes opened was vast, for 
the exhibition came just at the time when the state was 
flooded with winter visitors. 
AMERICAN LAND AND IRRIGATION EXPOSITION 
gist on the work of his department in regard to the Gipsy and 
Brown-tail Moths.” The addresses were of great interest 
to the meeting and the speakers had a very attentive 
audience. The election of officers resulted as follows: 
President, Paul H. Hubbard, Bristol, Conn.; vice-president, 
J. E. Brooks, Westbrook, Conn.; treasurer, W. W. Hunt, 
Hartford, Conn.; secretary, C. H. Sierman, Hartford, Conn. 
In the course of the meeting a number of new members 
were elected, and the Association is so fortunate as to be able 
to count nearly every one of the Connecticut Craft among 
its members. 
]Votc and Comment 
For some months a movement has been under way for 
the promotion of an exposition in New York City which is 
intended to illustrate the agricultural 
products of the whole country. Asso¬ 
ciated with the enterprise are a num¬ 
ber of men prominent in transporta¬ 
tion and agricultural enterprises in the 
United States and Canada. The gen¬ 
eral manager is Gilbert McClurg of New 
York City. The exhibition is to be 
held in November, 1911. The prizes 
are numerous and attractive. These 
are to stimulate the production of the 
cereals and the leading agricultural pro¬ 
ducts. For instance, a cup valued at 
$1000 is to be given for the best 100 
pounds of wheat grown in the United 
States; a similar prize for the best 100 
pounds of red spring or winter wheat 
grown anywhere in the two Americas; 
a cup valued at $1000 for the best 30 
ears of corn, for the best cotton, and 
the best sugar beets. 
Five hundred dollars is offered for 
the best 25 boxes of apples grown any¬ 
where in the world; a cup of $1000 for 
the best potatoes grown anywhere in North America. These 
indicate the scope and expectation of the exposition com¬ 
pany. Persons desiring to learn more about it shoidd com¬ 
municate with Gilbert McClurg, 26th Floor, Singer Building, 
New York. 
THE WHITE SPRUCE, picea alba 
A Long-lived. Healthy, Handsome, Native Tree. 
of the Most Desirable of the Conifers. 
AN INTERESTING ESTABLISHMENT 
The man who started in the nursery business on a small 
scale in North Abington but sixteen 
years ago now owns lands in North 
Abington, South Weymouth, West Ab¬ 
ington, Rockland, and South Fram¬ 
ingham to the extent of 550 acres, form¬ 
ing the largest nursery in New Eng¬ 
land. This man is Mr. W. H. Wy¬ 
man, proprietor of the Bay State 
Nurseries. In the North Abington 
nursery alone, from seventy to one 
hundred laborers are employed during 
the busy season. The nursery does 
mainly a wholesale business. The 
woodland which still covers a large 
part of the grounds is being cleared, 
and after the stumps are burned, this 
land is planted to rye, which furnishes 
straw for baling and packing the 
plants. The company makes its own 
boxes in one of the packing houses. In 
recent months, the foreign interests of 
the nursery have become so extensive 
that a man has been brought over from 
Holland to oversee the transplanting 
of the imported stock, and have general supervision over 
it. The orderly, attractive grounds of the firm invite many 
visitors from all parts of the State. 
NEW YORK FLORISTS ,ASK STATE AID 
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A LIVELY MEETING 
The Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association held their 
recent annual meeting, at the office of the State Entomolo¬ 
gist, Dr. Britton, at the Agricultural Experiment Station, 
New Haven, with President Atwater in the chair. After 
the reports of the various committees were heard and other 
business matters of the Association had been attended to 
Mr. Spring, State Forester of Connecticut, addressed the 
meeting; his subject was “The raising of conifers for forest 
planting.” Mr. Spring was followed by Dr. G. O. Clinton, 
Botanist of the Experiment Station, who spoke on “The 
chestnut bark disease,” and Dr. Britton, State Entomolo¬ 
The movement inaugurated by the New York Florists’ 
Club, the Buffalo Florists’ Club, and the Rochester Florists’ 
Club, sometime ago, having for its object the securing of an 
appropriation with which to erect glass houses at the New 
York State College of Agriculture for the furtherance of 
commercial floricultural interests is being actively pushed. 
Recent advices indicate that the committee gave a large 
delegation of florists recently a splendid hearing, and the 
Governor was pleased also to express his personal interest in 
the movement. Mr. Patrick O’Mara of the New York 
Florists’ Club and Mr. W. F. Kasting of the Buffalo Florists’ 
Club, the wheel horses in the movement, are very optimistic 
as to its outcome. 
