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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
NEW RASPBERRIES NAMED 
Cayuga, Owasco and Seneca Described As Promising 
New Varieties 
Horticulturists at the Experiment Station at Geneva 
have just named three new red raspberries which orig¬ 
inated on the Station grounds and which the Station 
authorities believe to he exceptionally fine. These new 
varieties are seedlings from a cross between June, a 
variety developed by the Experiment Station, and Cutli- 
bert, a well-known commercial sort. The three seed¬ 
lings, now known as the Cayuga, the Owasco and the 
Seneca, have survived a rigid selection extending over 
a period of twelve years, during which time many sister 
seedlings were discarded as unfit for further propaga¬ 
tion. 
The fruit of these three new raspberries is said to he 
as large as that of either parent and of good quality and 
flavor. Of the three new varieties, the Cayuga and the 
Seneca are described as being the most desirable for 
commercial purposes. Plants of both varieties are very 
vigorous and productive with exceptionally large ber¬ 
ries and clusters. In appearance and flavor Cayuga is 
quite similar to Cuthbert. Seneca is a little more spright¬ 
ly in flavor and is also a few days later. The Owasco 
does not produce as large or as vigorous plants as its 
two sister varieties, hut the berries are very large, juicy 
and firm, with a decided Cuthbert flavor. It is regarded 
as an excellent variety for the amateur grower. 
A limited amount of stock of these new varieties is 
now being distributed among the members of the New 
York State Fruit Testing Co-operative Association, Inc., 
for further testing and propagation. 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS’ 
CONVENTION 
The local convention committees have completed their 
plans for the annual convention of the National Associa¬ 
tion of Gardeners to be held at the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pitts¬ 
burgh, August 14, 15, 16, 17. The local members have 
the whole hearted support of their employers in pro¬ 
viding fitting entertainment for the visitors, so that those 
who attend may look forward to an enjoyable time as 
well as profitable business sessions. 
The convention opens on Tuesday afternoon, August 
14, at 2.30 o’clock, with addresses of welcome by Wil¬ 
liam A. Magee, Mayor of Pittsburgh, and E. J. McCal- 
lum, representing the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. 
Then will follow President John Barnet’s address and an 
address on “Forest Conservation” by George Wirt, Chief 
Forest Fire Warden of the State of Pennsylvania. The 
responses to the addresses will be made by William N. 
Craig, of Massachusetts; Robert Weeks, of Ohio, and 
Thomas W. Head, of New Jersey. 
Tuesday evening there will be an illustrated lecture in 
the English Room of the Fort Pitt Hotel on “Hunting Big 
Game in the Rockies,” by A. J. Cogshall, to which the 
public is invited. 
Wednesday forenoon and afternoon are to be devoted 
to business sessions, which will include the secretary’s 
and treasurer’s reports, committee reports, resolutions 
and communications, consideration of next meeting 
place, election of officers. Discussions will follow on the 
activities of the local branches, co-operative courses be¬ 
tween the association and some of the colleges, and other 
subjects of pertinent interest to the gardening profession. 
The annual banquet will occur Wednesday evening at 
the Fort Pitt Hotel. 
At nine o’clock on Thursday morning the automobiles 
will leave the hotel for a tour of the East End and Pitts¬ 
burgh parks, and will then proceed to Sewickley to visit 
the country estates, where surprises are in store for the 
gardeners. 
A social program is planned for the members of the 
association for Thursday evening by the Pittsburgh Flor¬ 
ists’ and Gardeners’ Club. 
Friday morning at nine o’clock the automobiles will 
leave the hotel for a tour of the city and a visit to the 
II. J. Heinz Company’s plant, famous for its “57 varie¬ 
ties” where a special luncheon will be served. In the 
afternoon the Westinghouse Electric Company’s plant 
will be among the interesting points to be visited. 
A meeting of the Trustees and Board of Directors of 
the association will be held at the Fort Pitt Hotel, Tues¬ 
day morning at ten o’clock. 
At Lake Forest, Ill., the North Shore of Illinois branch 
of the association has just been organized, and Jack¬ 
sonville, Fla., will organize a branch early in August. 
Other branches are to be announced shortly. 
TREES 
Trees from the moment of their birth take a straight 
path to the sky. It were well with human beings could 
we do the same. Trees, like mortals of flesh and blood, 
may be discouraged and deflected. Sometimes, in tender 
youth or in their prime, both are cut down. But the 
sight of a tree growing, as of a man who increases in 
mental stature, is an inspiration and an example which 
it is wise to follow. 
The tree, though it befriends a colony of animals and 
birds and the whole race of men, lias its eager and per¬ 
sistent enemies that it has not deserved. It must endure 
the change of seasons. It must suffer heat and cold, the 
snow, the rain; yet it lives beautifully to gladden the 
eye, to comfort with its shade; and when it dies it feeds 
the fires of a home, or it builds a house, or it provides 
the material for uses industrial and domestic a hundred¬ 
fold. 
Living and dying, are we as useful as the trees that 
are our comrades? Thoreau wrote a paper for the At¬ 
lantic Monthly in which be said of a certain tree be knew 
and loved, that it might one day go to as high a heaven, 
there to tower above him still. Lowell, then editor of 
the magazine, was grieved by what seemed to him the 
impiety of that observation. He deleted the offending 
sentiment. Thoreau was incensed; and the two men 
never quite repaired the wound that the incident dealt to 
their friendship. 
But one who, like Ruskin, does full justice to the es¬ 
sential, nobility of a tree, though he be called a pagan for 
it, will find in the tree a kind of soul. He will feel that 
in many ways its majestic dignity, its generous ampli¬ 
tude, its innocence of fuss and fret, rebuke whatsoever 
