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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Doings of Societies. 
IRRIGATION CONGRESS. 
The Sixteenth National Irrigation Congress will be held 
in Alberquerque, New Mexico, from Sept. 29th to October 
2d. New Mexico as a whole is greatly interested in this 
congress and the local committee has been working hard for 
a considerable length of time organizing excursions and local 
entertainment for the visitors. The headquarters of the 
convention will be in the Alvarado Hotel. 
MAINE FRUIT GROWERS. 
The Maine State Pomological Society is scheduled to 
meet at Waterville, Me., Nov. nth and 12th, 1908. Presi¬ 
dent, William Craig, Auburn, Me., secretary, W. J. Ricker, 
Waterville, Me. Arrangements are being perfected for an 
exhibition of fruit in connection with the annual meeting. 
A liberal premium list has been prepared which ought to 
bring out a good display. 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN. 
The Southern Nurserymen’s Association met at Atlanta,. 
Ga., Aug. 19-20. An excellent meeting was held and 
general arrangements were made for the next annual meet¬ 
ing which is to go to Huntsville, Ala. The officers of the 
association are: Henry Chase, Huntsville, president; A. I.- 
Smith, Knoxville, Tenn., secretary and treasurer. 
FARMERS INSTITUTE WORKERS. 
The Association of Farmers Institute Workers will meet 
in Washington, D. C., Nov. 16-17. This meeting occurs at 
the same time as the Association of American Agricultural 
Colleges and Experiment Stations. These form an import - 
tant series of meetings and draw in the leading workers, 
educators and students in agricultural lines. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Jackson & Perkins Company, Newark, N. Y., “A Business 
Proposition for Seedsmen.” 
Trade price list from Wild Bros. Nursery Co., Sarcoxie Nurs., 
Sarcoxie, Mo., also price list of Peonies, fall Specialties and Season¬ 
able Articles. 
Wholesale price list of the Willowdale Nurs., Kennett Square, Pa. 
The Rakestraw Pyle Company, Proprietors. 
Wholesale price list, Mount Arbor Nurseries, Shenandoah, la. 
E. S. Welch, Proprietor. 
Wholesale price list of fall, 1908, from Chase Nursery Co., Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala. Consolidation of the Chase Nursery Co., AlabamaHMur- 
sery Co. 
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Knox Nurs. Wholesale price list, fall, 1908. Cherry Trees, H. M. 
Simpson & Sons, Vincennes, Ind. 
KIND WORDS. 
“We thank you for calling our attention to the fact that 
we had failed to remit for the Nurseryman for the ensuing 
year. We need it in our business and cannot do without a 
single number. 
H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co.” 
foreign exhibitions. 
NATIONAL DAHLIA UNION. 
The annual exhibition of this society was held in the 
gardens of the Royal Botanic Society in London, on Sept. 
10th and nth. This society encourages the improvement 
of the dahlia by offering ifiedals to those in the professional 
class as well as to the amateurs. A large entry was secured. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The September meeting of this society was a very in¬ 
teresting one. Among the flowers exhibited were gladiolai, 
dahlias and herbaceous phlox. In addition there were large 
collections of hardy flowers such as tritomas, autumn flower¬ 
ing lilies and the like. Fruits of all the autumn classes were 
in evidence in large quantities. 
A CONTEMPORARY. 
Our contemporary, the California Fruit Grower, has 
moved back to San Francisco and may now be found at 460 
Montgomery Street. A removal notice in our last issue 
confounded this journal with the California Nursery Com¬ 
pany. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY HEAVY WINNERS AT THE 
NEW YORK STATE FAIR. 
This firm has again made a record in the number of 
prizes secured by meritorious exhibits of fruit at the New 
York State Fair. The records show that not less than one 
hundred seventeen prizes were awarded to this noted firm 
of Rochester nurserymen for their display of fruits, from col¬ 
lections to single plates, shown in the Horticultural Hall. 
OTHER MEETINGS. 
Chicago, Ill., National Flower Show, Society of American 
Florists, Nov. 6-14. 
New Haven, Conn., New Haven County Horticultural Society, 
show, Nov. 10, 11, 12. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Annual 
exhibition, Nov. 10, 11, 12, 13, Horticultural Hall. 
Toronto, Ont., Ontario Horticultural Society, exhibition, Nov. 
10-14. 
New York, N. Y., Horticultural Society of New York, annual 
exhibition, Nov. 17, 18, 19. * 
MOVEMENT OF LUMBER. 
Receipts of southern pine,at New York during July—30,511,921 
feet—were in excess of those of the preceding month, but show a 
considerable decline when compared with July, 1907, receipts of 
42,859,543 feet, the principal losses being indicated in the receipts 
for Mobile, Savannah, and Wilmington. 
*, Shipments of redwood lumber from upper California during 
July—30,413,316 feet-:—compare fairly well with those for a like pe¬ 
riod in 1907—35,805,624 feet—and also with shipments for a like 
period in 1906 of 32,356,967 feet. The shrinkage both for the 
month and the season, when 118,163,936 feet for 1908 contrasted 
with last year’s shipments of 260,158,173 feet, affected principally 
the consignments to San Francisco Bay. 
