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Doings of Society. 
A SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF PLANTS, FROM 
INSECTS AND FUNGUS PESTS. 
An old type of organization under a new name has been 
recently organized in the Province of Quebec, Canada. 
There are many entomological societies having for their 
object the study of insects, mainly from the economic stand¬ 
point. It has remained, however, for the Province of 
Quebec to found an organization ostensibly and especially 
for the protection of plants against insect and fungous 
invasion. The president of this society is Prof. W. Loch- 
head, McDonald College, Quebec, and the secretarv is 
Douglas Weir of 
the same institu¬ 
tion. 
NATIONAL NUT 
GROWERS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
At the last 
meeting of this 
active society it 
was agreed to 
meet at Albany, 
Ga., in 1909. 
The association 
is doing splen¬ 
did work for the 
nut interests of 
the country and 
deserves the 
support of all 
persons inter¬ 
ested directly or 
indirectly in nut 
growing. The 
secretary of the Society is Dr. J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. 
The Society issues an annual report of considerable interest. 
WASHINGTON STATE HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
This organization will meet in conjunction with the 
National Apple Show, at Spokane, December 7-12. An 
attractive program has been arranged. All phases of fruit 
growing, from the production of the tree and the manage¬ 
ment of the orchard to the handling of the fruit will be pre¬ 
sented by speakers from within and without the state. Mr. 
L. G. Munroe is secretary of the Association, and may be 
reached at Spokane, Wash. 
gathering and occurrences of this kind should not be allowed to lie 
forgotten. They serve as incentive to the present horticulturist to 
interest not only men of the cult in the work but the leading writers, 
thinkers and speakers of the country. 
CONFERENCE OF NEW ENGLAND GOVERNORS. 
One of the most significant conventions held in recent 
years is that which has just taken place in the Tremont 
Theater, Boston, November 23d and 24th. This conven¬ 
tion was called by the six governors of the New England 
states. The conference was for the purpose of considering 
three main topics. The first was that of tree planting; the 
second, the production and promotion of supplies of sea food; 
the third, highways and their use. 
The topic of 
tree planting was 
introduced by a 
discussion of the 
cultivation of 
forest trees, by 
Gifford Pinchot, 
head of the Bu¬ 
reau of Forestry, 
Washington, D. 
C., and New Eng- 
iand’s oppor¬ 
tunity in or¬ 
chards, by John 
Craig, Professor 
of Horticulture, 
Cornell Universi¬ 
ty, Ithaca, N. Y. 
The shellfish 
industry, in 
which the lob¬ 
ster and the 
oyster received 
special atten¬ 
tion, was pre¬ 
sented by Messrs. Herrick, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Dr. 
Field, Chairman of the Fisheries and Game Commission of 
Massachusetts, respectively. 
The third session was devoted exclusively to highways 
and included a discussion of the construction of highways, 
the feasibility of trunk lines of highways for New England, 
and a consideration of automobiles and their regulation. 
The conference was presided over by Governor Curtis 
Guild, Jr., of Massachusetts, whose secretary, Mr. Frank L. 
Deane, acted as general executive and manager. 
Sketch showing how one nurseryman cultivates a love for home. A corner in Mr. Josselyn’s “ den” 
HORTICULTURAL ANNIVERSARIES. 
The editor of Horticulture calls attention to the fact that on the 
evening of September 22 d, 1848 , the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society celebrated the close of its twentieth annual exhibition by a 
great banquet in Fanueil Hall, Boston, in which over five hundred 
ladies and gentlemen participated. Among the noted men of the 
period present at the festival were Marshall P. Wilder, president, 
Robert C. Winthrop, Josiah Quincy, William H. Seward, George 
Dearborn and Andrew Jackson Downing. This was a remarkable 
VIRGINIA COUNTY FRUIT GROWERS ORGANIZE. 
A new county horticultural society has recently been 
organized in Rockingham County, Va. The officers of the 
new association are: President, D. N. Washington, secre¬ 
tary-treasurer, W. J. Dingledine. The purposes of the 
society are to grow more and better fruit, to co-operate in 
the fight against insects and in the marketing of their 
products. 
