THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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INTERNATIONAL APPLE SHIPPERS MEET 
The International Apple Shippers’ Association held its 
seventeenth annual meeting in Detroit on August 9, 10, nth. 
With an attendance worthily representative of the trade of 
our own country and Canada, the house was convened on 
Wednesday morning, with President W. L. Wagner in the 
chair for the fourth successive session. The visitors were 
warmly welcomed by the Mayor of Detroit, Hon. W. B. 
Thompson. After a response by Mr. W. W. Clarke of 
Owensboro, Ky., President Wagner read his annual address 
reviewing the work of the Association during the year just 
closing. The morning session was concluded after various 
business matters had received attention. 
On Wednesday afternoon the reading and discussion of 
papers and the reports of committees were taken up. Among 
the papers read were the following; 
Cold Storage—the Apple Industry from the Standpoint 
of the Dealer, E. C. Cook, Baltimore; Standardization, L. A. 
Fischer, Bureau of Weights and Measures, Washington; 
Auction for Apples, John Denney, Chicago; Legislation and 
Cold Storage of Food Pro¬ 
ducts, W. G. Gibson, Chi¬ 
cago ; Lessons of the Season 
of 1910-11, F. H. Simpson, 
Flora, Ill. 
Working committees are 
a feature of the Apple Ship¬ 
pers’s organization. The 
meeting was marked by the 
large number of reports by 
chairmen who had spent 
much time and energy in 
gathering material on their 
respective subjects. The 
Heyburn bill was closely 
watched as it went through 
congress and important 
modifications were secured. 
The LaFean bill is by no 
means dead and will be pushed to a finish. “Storage in 
Transit,’’ “International Tariffs’’ and “Apple Show Pre¬ 
miums’’ were subjects of other reports. 
No feature of a convention does so much to bring its 
members together as a banquet. The Detroit meeting was 
by no means behind in this feature and Secretary Phillips and 
Toastmaster Wiley were heartily congratulated on the 
success of the “spread and spouts.’’ 
The trade of Detroit came nobly to the front in entertain¬ 
ing the Shippers. Many of the members were accompanied 
by their wives who were cared for every moment. One 
afternoon was spent in an auto tour of the city. 
The apple exhibit held in connection with the Detroit 
meeting was thoroughly representative of the different 
producing sections of the country. Over a thousand plates 
were on display by growers from England to Oregon and 
from Australia to Ontario. Wm. Dixon of Hamilton, 
Ontario carried off first premium with H. S. Duncan of 
Wallingford, N. Y., second. 
The officers for the ensuing year are as follows: 
President, E. N. Loomis, New York; vice-president, 
W. H. Blodgett, Worcester, Mass.; treasurer, Wm. French, 
New York; permanent secretary, R. S. Phillips, Rochester. 
The next convention is to be held in Chicago. 
VEGETABLE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 
The Vegetable Growers ’ Association of America is planning 
for a rousing meeting at Boston during the week of September 
18. Boston boasts of probably the most progressive lot of 
market gardeners in the country and they are planning, 
under the leadership of H. F. Hall of Brighton, for royal 
entertainment of their visitors. Growers of Chicago, 
Cleveland and Ashtabula are laying plans for a special train 
for the trip which is to pick up “car lots’’ of growers along 
the line. 
For years and years there have been special apple shows 
and flower shows and fruit shows but vegetables have 
usually been incidental. The Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society is this year to hold a vegetable show on an unpre” 
cedented scale during the 
week of the vegetable meet¬ 
ing. Over two thousand 
dollars in prizes are offered 
and they are so arranged 
that the inducements in 
the important classes are 
very strong. Competition 
is open to the world and 
Boston will be given a 
strong race for some of the 
money. P. W. 
NORTHWEST FRUIT 
CROP ESTIMATED 
SHORT 
C. W. Wilmoroth, who 
claims to have made a 
trip to leading fruit sec¬ 
tions of the Pacific Northwest, writing in Wenatchee World, 
states the apple crop as a whole is short. 
The Rogue River valley last year had a shipment of 
350 cars of apples, but next fall will harvest only 35 per cent 
of a normal crop. Pears will make a full crop. In the 
Willamette valley the apple crop will run about 25 per cent 
normal and prunes are also very light. At Hood River and 
The Dalles, apples will yield about half a crop, possibly 60 
per cent. 
“Yakima is not hit so hard as was thought at first, but 
1,000 cars of apples are the utmost to be hoped for. This is 
about 35 or 40 per cent normal. Yakima will have a full crop 
of pears and a hundred cars of prunes. Peaches are turning 
out better than anticipated, some orchards having a full 
crop, while others are almost barren. Walla Walla, Dayton 
and the Palouse valley will have 50 per cent of their usual 
apple crop. 
All fruits in coast section of Washington, including berries, 
are also short of normal crop. —North II est Horticul¬ 
turist. 
Rhododendrons, Pink and White Pearl, as seen at the recent flower show 
at Boskoop, Holland. 
