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We are forest builders and should give every encourage¬ 
ment possible to forest preservation. 
Committees .—All committees the past year have per¬ 
formed faithful and efficient work, and I desire to take this 
opportunity of expressing my appreciation of the same. 
Conclusion .—I entertain the hope that the Thirty-third 
annual meeting of this Association may be one of profit and 
pleasure. I know something of the vexatious and annoying 
things with which you have to contend during the year, and 
it is well that you take a few days off about this time every 
summer and meet your fellow nurserymen and old friends 
who will buoy you up and send you back home much bene¬ 
fited by having attended the meeting. 
GEORGIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The thirty-second annual session and exhibition of fruits, 
plants and vegetables will be held in the High School at 
Cornelia, Georgia, on Wednesday and Thursday, August 
12th and 13th, 1908, beginning at 10 o’clock each morning. 
The Society was organized in 18 7 6 by a few public-spirited 
citizens, who have faithfully labored since to promote the 
fruit-growing industry of Georgia and aid in the higher edu¬ 
cation of its people. They have paid with their purse and 
person, not only freely giving their labor, but paying for the 
publication of its proceedings which have been distributed 
free of charge wherever they could serve the aims of the 
Society. The only revenue of the Society is derived from 
the annual membership fees, and, as this is limited, the 
Society is hampered in its scope. The co-operation of every 
progressive citizen of Georgians needed. The past work of 
the Society has caused a wonderful development of the 
fruit-growing industry, which of late has given several sec¬ 
tions of the State a most rapid’ increase in land values, as 
well as an intelligent class of settlers from other States. 
The program for the sessions will be unusually interesting 
many subjects not heretofore included in past discussions 
will be presented by scientists of national reputation and 
most successful and experienced fruit growers, thus afford¬ 
ing a rare opportunity to all who attend to become familiar 
with the most recent discoveries in advanced Horticulture. 
Among the papers which will be presented will be the fol¬ 
lowing: 
The Peach Industry of Georgia, by Colonel G. B. Brackett, 
Chief of the Division of Pomology, United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Soil Preparation, 
Fertilizers, Cultivation and Marketing Cantaloupes, by W. 
L. Mardre, Lumpkin, Ga.; Address by Andrew M. Soule, 
President State College of Agriculture, Athens, Ga.; Ad¬ 
dress by a representative of the Land and Industrial Depart¬ 
ment of the Southern Railway Company; Paper by G. H. 
Miller, Rome, Ga.; Paper by Jno T. West, Thomson, Ga; 
Report from E. L. Worsham, State Entomologist, upon the 
past year’s work of the State Board of Entomology; Report 
of effect of Spraying with Lime-Sulphur Wash and on Red- 
Headed Fungus as parasitic on San Jose Scale; Paper by 
Prof. R. S. MacKintosh, Auburn, Ala; Paper by Prof. C. L. 
Newman, Horticulturist, Clemson College, S. C.; Paper of 
New Fruits by Prof. T. H. McHotton, Georgia State Experi¬ 
ment Station; Climatology and Soil in their Influence on 
Fruits; Preserving and Canning Fruits and Commercial 
bale, by Col. Jno. A. Cobb, Americus, Ga.; Cherry Growing 
in the Upper Districts, by John T. Fort, Mount Airy, Ga.; 
Apple Culture in Upper Georgia, by H. A. Staight, Demorest, 
Ga.; Good Roads a Necessity in Fruit Transportation, by 
f. R. Lombard, Cornelia, Ga; The Horticulturist’s Interest 
in Forestry, by Prof. Alfred Ackerman, University of 
Georgia. Our District Agricultural Schools—The Needs 
They Should Fill, Prof. John N. Rogers, Superintendent 
Tenth Congressional District Agricultural School; Home 
Surroundings, by Mrs. Erwin, Cornelia; Paper from Prof. 
F. S. Earle, formerly of the Alabama Experiment Station 
and the New York Botanical Garden. 
OUR BOOK TABLE. 
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture. L. H. Bailey, 
Editor. Macmillan Company, New York, 1908. Vol¬ 
ume III.— Animals. 
The question of whether this cyclopedia is more for the 
interested reader than the student and likewise the question 
of whether it should not have attempted to take a position 
of greater finality, have both been discussed in the agricul¬ 
tural press of the country. The work is a survey of agricul¬ 
tural conditions, practices and ideals, and, as a whole, its 
greatest value will probably be in its comprehensiveness. 
Agriculture as an industry is coming more and more to be 
separated sharply from other industries and the agricultural 
class is becoming more and more conscious of itself. It is 
natural, then, that the questions arise, What are the 
agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in North Amer¬ 
ica today? Broadly speaking, the Cyclopedia of American 
Agriculture is an answer to the question. Moreover, it is as 
authoritative as any work concerning a developing science 
and practice can be. The volumes will always stand out for 
their scientific truthfulness; they do not claim as final any 
principles that have not established themselves through a 
great number of years. What they lose in conclusiveness is 
gained in scientific accuracy; much of the inconclusiveness 
and instability of agricultural science is revealed by them. 
The reorganization of North American agriculture is 
under way and Bailey’s Cyclopedia will stand as an epitome 
of the present status of that reorganization. When there is 
more finality in agricultural science, a cyclopedia that is 
more strictly authoritative will be needed; until then the 
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture will stand as the 
monumental and guide and survey. 
The National Nurseryman: 
Rochester, N. Y., 
Gentlemen: 
Enclosed please find one dollar for renewal. Your paper has 
helped me five times its price every year, couldn’t very well get 
along without it. 
I also enclose a piece of an apple scion from a lot which I have 
recently purchased from a Wholesale Nursery. Will you kindly 
tell me what is attached to it ? There is nothing like it on my trees. 
If injurious can I dip in scalecide and not injure my grafts any, and 
will scalecide destroy it ? Yours truly, 
O. J. Graham. 
