THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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known as an expert grower of Fuchsias and noted for 
the growing of Roses, flowering shrubs and Peonies. 
Mr. Charlton’s passing will he mourned by many and 
regretted by the profession upon which he left the im¬ 
press of a tine character. lie leaves his wife, Sarah; 
two sons, John A. and Joseph M., two daughters, Mrs. W. 
R. Kerr and Miss Margaret Charlton, and three grand¬ 
children. 
EXPEDITING SHIPPING DOCUMENTS IN UNITED 
KINGDOM 
[British Board of Trade Journal, July 27.] 
The Port and Transit Executive Committee notify that, 
in order to obviate the delays there have been in the re¬ 
moval of goods from docks, wharves, and warehouses 
by reason of the late delivery of shipping documents sent 
through the post to the United Kingdom, the following 
arrangements have been made by the committee with the 
British Postal Censors’ Department : 
If shipping documents that are being sent through the 
mail to the United Kingdom are posted in envelopes 
marked “Shipping documents” by means of a rubber 
stamp and not by handwriting, the Postal Censors’ De¬ 
partment will endeavor to deal with such envelopes with 
special expedition. 
The only shipping documents that may be included in 
an envelope thus marked are: (1) Bills of lading, with 
or without drafts; (2) invoices; (3) specifications; (4) 
manifests; (5) parcels receipts; (6) certificates of origin, 
destination, inspection, weight, or analysis; (7) insur¬ 
ance policies or certificates; (8) schedules of instructions, 
subject to the information contained in such schedules 
being limited to an identification of the other documents 
inclosed in the envelope, and to the instructions being 
limited to ordinary instructions as to the delivery of such 
other documents as against acceptance or cash. (Note: 
Instructions or letters of advice as to delivery out of the 
ordinary course must not be inclosed in an envelope 
marked “Shipping documents.”) 
The inclosure of any letters or documents other than 
those above specified in an envelope marked as above is 
forbidden, and it is essential that this direction should be 
strictly obeyed. Any departure from this rule will as¬ 
suredly cause greater delay. The envelope containing 
shipping documents should be posted at the earliest pos¬ 
sible date. 
CASTLE NURSERY COMPANY 
C. D. Friebolin, Referee in Bankruptcy, has filed no¬ 
tice to the creditors of the Castle Nursery Company, a 
corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, to the effect that the Trustee 
has filed his final report in the above entitled proceed¬ 
ings; and that a final meeting of the creditors to consider 
the same and to transact other proper business in the clos¬ 
ing up of said bankruptcy proceedings, and to examine 
the bankrupt, will he held before him, at ten o’clock in 
the forenoon and upon the 25th day of August, 1916, at 
Suite No. 610 American Trust Building, Cleveland, Ohio. 
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
Office of Secretary,, 19 Congress Street 
Boston, August 14, 1916. 
To All Members of American Association of Nurserymen: 
The Executive Committee feels that under the new or¬ 
ganization plan the active members are entitled to more 
detailed information in regard to the financial affairs of 
the Association than has been furnished them in the past, 
and with that in mind, proposes to distribute, in the 
annual report or otherwise, a complete list of active, 
paying members, with the amount of dues paid by each 
member for last year. 
The Executive Committee was much surprised and 
disappointed at the small increase in the total receipts 
of the Association for last year, and feels that perhaps, 
through inattention or unfamiliarity with the new sched¬ 
ule of dues, some members may not have remitted the 
correct amount, and that such members, if any, would be 
glad of this opportunity of correcting their errors before 
the list is published and distributed to the members. 
Should any member find that he has made an error, 
and desires to correct it, he may remit promptly to the 
Secretary. 
For your information, we quote Article 7 of the Consti¬ 
tution : 
“The annual membership fee for active members 
shall be $5.00, and for associate members $10.00. 
Additional dues shall be paid as follows: Active 
members doing an annual business of from $10,000 
to $20,000, $5; $20,000 to $50,000, $15; $50,000 to 
$100,000 $25; $100,000 and over, $50. The pay¬ 
ment of dues based upon the above schedule shall 
be made to the secretary prior to the date of the 
annual meeting.” 
You will understand that to the regular dues of $5.00 
there should be added additional dues based on annual 
business. 
Yours respectfully, 
Curtis Nye Smith, Secretary. 
FRANKLIN DAVIS NURSERY CO. 
A Trustees’ Sale of the property, nursery stock and im¬ 
plements of the Franklin Davis Nursery Company, Balti¬ 
more, Md., took place August the 23rd. Pending the 
ratification of the sale by the United States District Court, 
it cannot he definitely stated if the business will be reor¬ 
ganized, but there is every reason to hope that such will 
he the case, and that it will be made a going concern and 
in a much better position to handle orders than it has 
been for several years back. 
The amendment to the Treasury decision regarding 
the importation by mail of nursery stock has been ex¬ 
tended to include all growing or living plants, seeds and 
other plant products for propagation, except field, vege¬ 
table and flower seeds, and that the term “field seeds” in¬ 
cludes only seeds of cereals, grasses and other annual 
farm crops, and does not include bulbs and tubers. 
