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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
NEBRASKA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Society was held at 
Lincoln, Jan. 21-23, Vice-president Charles L. Saunders presiding. 
Papers were read by J. D. Ream, A. J. Brown, G. A. Marshall, L. O. 
Williams and others. These papers and the discussions they 
provoked were excellent. 
The new officers elected were: President, Chas. L. Saunders, 
Omaha; first vice-president, C. H. Green of Fremont; second vice- 
president, J. D. Ream of Broken Bow; treasurer, Peter Youngers of 
Geneva. The secretary is to be chosen by the board. 
ST. JOSEPH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
At a meeting of the St. Joseph Horticultural Society held at St. 
Joseph, Mo., March 28, an address was made by an expert from the 
United States Department on the subject of Spraying. The meet¬ 
ing was attended by fruit-growers from all parts of northwestern 
Missouri and northeastern Kansas. 
REPORT OF ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The annual report of the Society is a complete and valuable book. 
It contains numerous papers and much desirable information. The 
report shows the Society to be active and progressive. 
CONVENTION MATTERS. 
THE OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS. 
The Plankinton Hotel has been selected by the Committee 
of Arrangements as the headquarters of the American 
Association of Nurserymen at the forth coming Convention 
to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 10th, nth, and 
12th. 
The Committee could not have made a better or wiser 
selection. No other hotel in Milwaukee can take care of our 
Association as well as the Plankinton nor offer as large and 
commodious rooms for the meetings and exhibition pur¬ 
poses and the terms for sleeping rooms have been made as 
reasonable as could be desired. They are large, comfortable 
and well furnished. 
The Plankinton is situated on the Main Street of Milwau¬ 
kee and right in the heart of the city. Electric car lines to 
all parts of the city.either pass the door or are within a block 
or two of the Hotel. 
Since our last Convention at Milwaukee the hotel has 
passed into new management and everything is up to date 
and the delegates will be well taken care of. Every con¬ 
venience that the hotel offers has been placed at the disposal 
. of the Convention. The Auditorium is a large commodious 
room with seating capacity ample for our requirements. 
Two large rooms adjoining will be used for exhibition 
purposes, while in a large vacant store on the ground floor 
of the building wall be installed the heavy exhibits. 
These accommodations which have been placed at our 
disposal wall go far towards making the Convention a 
success. 
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 
Letters to the chairman of the various committees of the 
national Association have elicited the following points: 
None of the chairmen have a great deal to report as yet but 
state that later they will give more information as to what 
has been actually done. 
Irving Rouse, Tariff Committee, reports: “Owing to the 
fact that there will be no Tariff Revision undertaken at 
Washington this season there is nothing which the Tariff 
Committee of the National Association can do. I have been 
positively assured by Floor leader Payne that the matter will 
not be touched by this session of Congress.” 
C. L. Watrous, Committee on Co-operation with Ento¬ 
mologists, says: “The Committee on Co-operation with 
Entomologists and the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men, met in Chicago and fully agreed upon the plan of ask* 
ing Congress for a national act regulating the inspection of 
nursery stock in inter-state commerce; the chairman of the 
Committee to attend to the matter of securing legislation.” 
*■ The report of Thomas B. Meehan, Exhibits Committee, 
appeared in the March issue of this paper. G. C. Seager, 
Arrangements Committee, reports; “Railroads have de¬ 
clined to grant a concession in fares on the certificate plan 
owing to the fact that so many railroads have adopted a 
rate of 2c. per mile. Over the lines wdiere this rate is in 
force the cost will be about the same as under the old con¬ 
cession of a fare and one-third in connection with the 3c. 
rate.” 
F. H. Stannard states that there is nothing to report 
concerning the w r ork of the Transportation Committee. 
SPECIAL RATES FOR THE CONVENTION 
The Secretary of the National Association, Geo. C. Seager, 
has received the following letter in regard to railroad rates 
to the annual convention in June. This letter explains the 
present state of arrangements: 
Annual Convention, American Association of Nurserymen, 
Milwaukee, Wis., June 10-12, 1908. 
March 19, 1908. 
Mr. Geo. C. Seager, 
Sec’y American Association of Nurserymen, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Dear Sir: 
Referring to recent correspondence relative to reduced fares 
account above named occasion: 
This question was given further consideration at recent meeting 
of this Association and, in accordance with action taken at that time > 
round trip rate of two cents per mile in each direction will be ten¬ 
dered to other Associations for basing purposes for your convention, 
tickets to be sold on June 6-11, inclusive, good to return leaving 
Milwaukee until and including June 16, 1908. 
Kindly fill in carefully the enclosed blank and return same to us 
at your early convenience, so as to enable us to take the matter up 
with the various other Associations. 
Respectfully, 
Eben E. MacLeod. 
Chairman Western Passenger Association. 
JUST A JOKE. 
Humorist—I’ve just written fifteen jokes about the man 
who doesn’t advertise. 
Poet—That’s w T rong. You should not joke about the 
dead. 
