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, Montana, D. J. Tighe, Billings; Nebraska, G. A. Marshall, 
. , Arlington; North Carolina, J. Van Bindley, Guilford; 
Oklahoma, J. A. Lopeman, Enid; Oregon, Oregon Nursery 
^ f Co., Orenco; Pennsylvania, Abner Hoopes, West Chester; 
^ South Dakota, Geo. H. Whiting, Yankton; Tenesee, H. W. 
■ Chattin, Winchester; Texas, J. S. Kerr, Sherman; Wash- 
ington, Washington Nursery Co., Toppenish; Maryland, 
* Orlando Harrison; Iowa, E. S. Welch, Shenandoah; Ohio, 
T. J. Dinsmore, Troy. 
Respectfully submitted, 
# E. A. Smith, 
Chairman Root Knot Committee. 
Business jNlovcments 
I The Inland Nursery and Floral Company of Spokane, 
J Wash. has completed a $30,000 greenhouse plant in the 
home city. 
CHARLES Wn.LIS WARD, ORNITHOLOGIST 
Florists and nurserymen are well acquainted with Mr. 
V Ward as the founder of the Cottage Gardens Nursery Co., 
f K and an enthusiastic and successful plant breeder. It is 
M interesting to note that Mr. Ward has lately interested him- 
S self in the preservation of our wild fowl by presenting to 
■ ' the state of Louisiana a large tract of land on an island in 
m the lower Mississippi for the establishment of bird homes 
I B safe from the hunters’ gun. 
I W SPRAY RESIDUE ON EXPORT APPLES 
I H English receivers are beginning to look askance at the 
I « heavy coat of fungicide or insecticide carried by some of 
H M the American apples. 
■ & Northwest Pacific Coast growers may be over doing a 
■ ■ good thing. There is such a thing as getting on too much 
■ dope. It will react badly if English consumers begin to 
J kick. 
iT ' A CANADIAN VISITOR 
W. O. Burgess, and Geo. E. Wedge, of the Auburn 
Nurseries, Queenstown, Ontario, Canada, called on Rochester 
nurserymen, and at the office of the National Nursery¬ 
man during the month of July. 
“ My advertising in your paper paid me well." 
Chas. G. Curtiss, Callicoon, N. Y. 
Cannot get along without every issue of The National Nur¬ 
seryman. E. P. Bernardin, Kans. 
AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 
L The following officers were elected at the recent meeting: 
P President, Leonard H. Vaughan, Chicago, Ill.; first vice- 
t president, Marshall H. Duryea, New York; second vice- 
president, Edgar Gregory, Marblehead, Mass.; secretary- 
treasurer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O.; assistant secretary, 
V J. H. Ford, Ravenna, O. 
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Obituary 
WILLIAM TAAT 
The weekly journals have chronicled the death of Wm. Taat in 
Boston on June 13. Mr. Taat was the well known American representa¬ 
tive of Messrs. Van Waveren & Sons of Hillegom, Holland. His death 
was the result of a railway accident resulting in the loss of his foot. 
Mr. Taat has been in the United States since 1898. He leaves a wife. 
His record is that of an ambitious, industrious, efficient worker. 
WILLIAM A. WOODWARD 
The senior member of the firm of William A. Woodward & Son died 
on July 2. He was a little past middle age and was well known as an 
active man in seed-growing circles. 
J. A. MC PHERON 
Mr. McPheron was a nurseryman of Carrollton, Ill. He died at 
the advanced age of eighty-five years. He is succeeded in business by 
his son, R. A. McPheron, of Litchfield, Ill. 
W. N. IRWIN 
In Washington on July 24th, Mr. W. N. Irwin, for many years an 
assistant in the Division of Pomology, Department of Agriculture passed 
away. Mr. Irwin was one of the original appointees under Professor 
Van Deman and was noted as a man having wide and intimate knowl¬ 
edge of many varieties of fruits. He possessed a pleasing personality 
and was well known at the meetings of the American Pomological 
Society. 
Our Book Uablc 
Plant Physiology, by B. M. Duggar. Illustrated. 5 x 7>^. Pub 
lished by The MacMillan Company, New York. 1911. Price 
$1.60. 
This valuable work, which has just come from the press, discusses 
in its introduction plant production from the standpoint of environ¬ 
ment. It then describes the plant cell and its activities. This is 
followed by a consideration of the role which water plays in plant 
growth, how it is absorbed, its function in the life processes, how it is 
transpired, and finally the water requirements of different crops. This 
method of treatment is continued in discussing mineral constituents, 
and foods taken from the air. 
The food products of plants, both temporary and permanent, are 
discussed fully; growth in all its aspects forms an exceedingly interest¬ 
ing chapter, though not more so than that on reproduction. 
Four or five chapters are occupied by the ecologic aspects of plant 
physiology, taking into consideration temperature relations, influence 
of chemical agents, and influences of light. 
The work is intended primarily for the college student who desires 
to get a broad and comprehensive grasp of plant physiology in relation 
to plant production. It combines some of the features of the older type 
of book, which described how plants grew, with the newer aspects of 
this division of botany, which considers the life processes more inti¬ 
mately. The book is clearly written, carefully edited, well illustrated, 
and one which will be appreciated by the nurseryman and up-to- 
Pate farmer as well as the college student. 
Spices and How to Know Them, W. M. Gibbs. 63^x9^- i 79 
pages. Illustrated. Published by The Matthews-Northrup Works, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
It was indeed a new field that Mr. Gibbs entered when he started to 
write the history and description of the various spices: for nothing at 
all exhaustive had ever been written on the subject. The difficulty of 
the task was increased by the ignorance and lack of acquaintance with 
the arts of photography or painting among the peoples inhabiting most 
of the islands where spices grow; but a most interesting volume is the 
