THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
697 
SOUTHERN NURSERY CO., WINCHESTER, TENN. 
The season here has been a very peculiar one. Spring 
apparently opened the first of March; vegetation started 
and made considerable growth until the first of April. 
April was cold, and we had ice and frost on several different 
dates during the month. However, we have a good fruit 
crop in our country and nursery stock looks very well at 
this time. 
Peaches and 2 year old apple trees will be short in this 
section compared with our usual crop. Wages, seedlings 
and in fact almost everything has advanced in price until a 
great many nurserymen have cut down their planting, and 
only a few offer their trees in a wholesale way. 
Heretofore, considerable June budding of peaches has 
been done in the South; while there is a fair supply being 
grown this season, the quantity will fall short of the usual 
amount. 
We are having considerable rainfall now, which is not 
encouraging. 
OREGON NURSERY CO., ORENCO, ORE 
In the first place, we have had a very favorable season 
for the growing of nursery stock in the Willamette Valley. 
During March, the weather was very fine, allowing the 
plantings to be made early, and in good condition. Since, 
that time we have had frequent and sufficient rains to 
make a good growth, so that, on the whole, it may be said 
that growing nursery stock is fully up to the average this 
year. 
Last year’s seedling stock did probably the worst that it 
ever has in this section, which cut down the growing stock 
for this year considerably. At the present time, it looks as 
if there would be no long lines of nursery stock on the 
Pacific coast,this year. The prospects are rather for an 
increased demand for all nursery products, while the pro¬ 
duction does not appear to have increased, especially in 
budded stock, which is scarecly up to the average in 
quantity. There no doubt will be a great many shortages, 
especially in apples. 
Of course, it is too early to make any definite statements 
as to what these shortages will be ; but it looks as if the 
commercial varieties will be sold out long before the end of 
the season. 
As you probably know, we have been moving, for the 
past three years, from Salem to our new home at Orenco, 
and we are just now beginning to feel that we are established 
here,and can look forward to taking up matters along regular 
lines. We have been very much torn up for the past three 
years on account of this moving.—M. McDonald. 
Augusta, Ga., July 5th, 1910. 
Editor National Nurseryman, 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Dear Sir: 
Agreeable to your request of June 30th, we herewith 
give you a few notes. If too long, use the ax. 
With best wishes, we remain, 
Very truly, 
P. J. Berckmans Co. 
Doings of Societies 
FIFTH DRY FARMING CONGRESS, SPOKANE, WASH¬ 
INGTON, OCT. 3-6, 1910 
The meeting will open on Monday, October 3 d, with addresses 
of welcome by the Governor of Washington, greetings from the 
various nations and states, and addresses by distinguished agri¬ 
culturists in the United States and abroad. The practical farmer, 
the promoter, the agricultural educator, will be represented. The 
departments of the federal government are to furnish speakers. 
There is to be an institute department, in charge of a noted institute 
worker. 
Entertainment in the form of excursions is to be provided, and 
illustrations of dry farming progress will be exhibited. The exposi¬ 
tion is planned to be one of the great features of the enterprise. 
MARYLAND STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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The annual summer meeting of this society was held on the fruit 
and nursery farm of the Harrisons at Berlin, Maryland, on July 28 . 
Full account in our next issue, 
AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION 
The floricultural papers announce a very interesting and success¬ 
ful meeting of the Seed Trade Association at Atlantic City on June 
23 d. The formal program was followed by a banquet, which was 
succeeded next day by a most interesting visit to Fordhook the 
Farms of W. Atlee Burpee & Company. The trial grounds of 
this famous farm proved to be replete with matters of instruction 
and interest to the visitors. Sweet pea trials were just approaching 
the flowering period. Mr. and Mrs. Burpee left a day or two after¬ 
wards for England to attend the exhibition of the British Sweet Pea 
Society. 
TEXAS NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
Meeting of the Texas Nurserymen’s Association was held on 
July 26 th to 28 th, at College Station. An interesting program was 
presented, one of the chief items of which was a discussion of the 
hairy root and root knot maladies of the apple. A report of the 
discussion on this subject, and papers given by the American 
Society meeting in Denver were presented. 
CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY 
AT BOSTON, JUNE 14 AND 15, 1910 
The annual meeting of the American Peony Society in Horti¬ 
cultural Hall, Boston, was held in conjunction with the exhibition 
of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
In addressing the Society, President B. H. Farr spoke with 
enthusiasm of the encouraging prospect of a speedy and successful 
conclusion of the nomenclature work which the Society set out 
eight years ago to accomplish for the purpose of straightening out 
the confusion existing in the nomenclature of the peony and publish¬ 
ing accurate descriptions by means of which all authentic varieties 
may be identified. The test plot conducted by Cornell University 
has proved the necessity for its establishment, and it is expected 
before the season closes at Ithaca a total list of approximately five 
hundred varieties will have been identified and described. In nar¬ 
rowing the list of varieties down.to the, “best hundred much will 
depend on the point of view. For the florist a variety is of no value 
if it does not keep well, ship well, have the right shade of color, and 
fragrance. The landscape gardener will consider, chiefly, the habit 
of the plant, its floriferousness and its general effect at a distance, 
planted in masses. The splendid collection which will be in exist¬ 
ence at Cornell University will furnish the Society with unusual 
facilities for judging a new variety. 
Secretary Arthur H. Fewkes in his report remarked that while 
from the inception of the Society interest had centered almost 
