THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
2 95 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN’S CONVENTION. 
The Southern Nurserymen’s Association now wants to 
hold all their conventions in future in Atlanta, Ga., at the 
Piedmont Hotel. The reason of this is because of the 
splendid accommodations given them at this hotel, and the 
royal welcome and the magnificent feast spread for them by 
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and other courtesies, 
shown them by the people and the press of the city. 
The tenth annual convention met the 19th and 20th of 
August and held what is generally considered the most 
pleasant and profitable meeting in the h story of the 
Association. If a member had learned some new fact, or 
made some new discovery of value to the tree growers, his 
brother tree growers of the Southern Association, had the 
benefit of his experience. If his experiments proved a 
failure, the story was 
also told so that a 
vast fund of the finest 
class of information 
in regard to all the 
details of growing, 
handling, shipping 
and marketing nur¬ 
sery products was 
dealt out to those 
who were fortunate 
enough to be present 
The program, as 
printed in last issue 
of the National Nur¬ 
seryman was pre¬ 
sented, almost in full, 
and covered practi¬ 
cally all the problems 
before the Southern 
Nurserymen today. 
It was rather ency¬ 
clopedic in its nature, 
but in five long and 
busy sessions, the 
ground was pretty well covered. 
The convention was called to order by president Chas. 
T. Smith of Concord, Ga., at ten o’clock on the 19th. Asa 
G. Candler, one of Atlanta’s millionaire manufacturers, and 
president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, delivered a 
genial address of welcome, to the convention, which was 
much appreciated. This was responded to by the presi¬ 
dent of the convention, after which the tree growers got 
right down to business. 
After the first day’s work, the convention was led to the 
top of the 18-story Candler building, where a watermelon 
feast had been provided in our honor. We all tried to do 
justice to the occasion, but the feast was so great, we could 
not make the impression on it that should have been made. 
We needed about 200 more members to help do Yhe thing 
right. Later a car ride was given the nurserymen, and the 
many points of interest in the city pointed out. Henry B. 
Chase of Huntsville, Ala., was elected president for the ensu¬ 
ing year, and Huntsville selected for meeting point. A. I. 
Smith of Knoxville, Tenn., was re-elected secy-treas. 
One of the Propagating Beds of the Rice Bros. Co 
TEXAS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
We print parts of a circular letter sent out by W. B. 
Munson, Denison, Texas, to members of the Texas State 
Horticultural Society. Any of our readers who desire to 
become members may do so by remitting the annual fee, 
$1.00 per annum, to the Secretary, Prof. E. J. Kyle, College 
Station, Texas. Attention is called to the winter meeting 
which will be held in January at one of the following places, 
the exact one to be decided later, Brownsville, Corpus 
Christi, Temple and Austin. Members are requested to 
inform the Secretary of their choice of place. 
“As you are aware the twenty-third annual meeting of 
this society was held in conjunction with the Farmers’ Con¬ 
gress at College Station on July 7 to 9, was pronounced a 
success and those who attended felt well repaid for the trip. 
At this meeting the members surprised me in their selection 
of President for the 
ensuing year, by be¬ 
stowing that honor 
upon the writer. Since 
they have so honored 
me, I will do the very 
best I can to discharge 
the duties of the trust, 
and it will be my am¬ 
bition to make the 
Texas State Horticul¬ 
tural Society second 
to none in the United 
States notwithstand¬ 
ing the fact that we 
are at a great disad¬ 
vantage as regards 
financial means and 
State support as com¬ 
pared with many sim¬ 
ilar organizations of 
the other states. To 
attain this position I 
earnestly ask for the 
support and co-opera¬ 
tion of every member. 
“We yet need a 
largely increased 
membership and one 
of the many good 
things you can do is to bring to notice in your local 
paper the grand and important work of this society and 
to get those who are interested in horticultural work to 
join. Also to personally solicit the membership of your 
friends or neighbors thereby doing them and the society a 
great good, as with a large membership we can do much 
more effective work. We are now promised the publication 
of our worthy reports by the State Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, and we should encourage such aid by a large and grow¬ 
ing membership and well attended meetings. Remember 
that one does not have to be a commercial fruit-grower to 
be eligible to membership, but all who are interested in 
matters horticultural are invited to join; this includes the 
banker, the merchant, the lawyer, the farmer, the laborer or 
any one who loves his tree or shrub even if only planted on a 
small town lot. 
“It is the ambition of the officers and members of this 
Society to make the coming winter meeting the grandest 
success in its history. To this end I hope you will aid all you 
can. Make an exhibit and attend. Any suggestions for the 
good of the Society are at all times in order and are desired 
by all of the officers and committees and they hope you will 
not hesitate to offer such.’’ 
