THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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not publish the complete proceedings of their annual meet¬ 
ings until they have been in existence for a number of years, 
we are all the more struck by the energy with which this 
group of western nurserymen is getting to work. 
THE BADGE BOOK 
Requests for space in the Badge Book are being received 
daily by Secretary Hall, as are also membership fees. Any 
nurserymen who have been putting off forwarding copy for 
advertisements in the Badge Book should delay no longer, 
for material for this publication is going to the printer in 
just a few days. The interest shown thus early seems to 
indicate a larger turnout than usual at the annual meeting. 
Members of the Association residing in the western states 
can obtain tourist rates to the East, and the sooner they 
consult their ticket agents regarding this matter the better. 
Secretary Hall says, “Every present member ought to get in 
touch with his fellow nurserymen in the neighborhood or 
county or state, and secure him for membership.’’ 
Uradc Notes 
SEARS, HENRY & COMPANY 
Sears, Henry & Company, whose business is conducted 
in Geneva, do not keep their offices open all the time during 
the winter. Mr. Henry states, however, that the red 
varieties of apples have been very much in demand and that 
the spring sales thus far have been very good. Baldwins 
and McIntosh Reds are at present the most popular varieties 
of apples. 
JAM FACTORY FOR GENEVA 
The capitalization of a jam factory, which promises to be 
ready for business in 1913, will undoubtedly give a decided 
stimulus to the raising of peaches, currants, cherries, and 
other fruits in the neighborhood of Geneva, and demand 
for this fruit will be felt by the nurserymen in this region. 
The fact that the glass jars are manufactured nearby gives a 
further significance to the extent of the project. 
WELL KNOWN GEORGIA FIRM BUSY EXTENDING 
THEIR HOLDINGS 
A recent issue of The Farmer's Chronicle, Augusta, 
gives a mighty interesting account of some of the work done 
by the three Berckmans brothers, members of the firm of 
P. J. Berckmans Company of Augusta, in developing new 
seetions of the state. There are many places in Georgia 
where land can be bought cheap, but can be transformed 
with a few years of intelligent care into most valuable 
nursery or orchard land, and large areas of such prop¬ 
erty have been secured by this firm. In adding ten 
thousand trees to their orehard of thirty thousand peach 
trees near Mayfield, the Berckmans brothers have used 
dynamite in clearing the land, and a large part of the 
article mentioned is descriptive of the results obtained. A 
tabulation of the work of removing sixty oak and pine stumps. 
anywhere from seven to forty-eight inches in diameter, 
shows the average cost of destroying a stump to have been 
twenty-one cents. 
WORK OF GRIFFING BROTHERS DESCRIBED IN THE 
MIAMI PRESS 
It was twenty-seven years ago, says the Miami Herald, 
that the members of the firm of The Griffing Brothers 
Company, five in number and then only boys, settled at 
Macclenny, Florida. In 1886 their first annual nursery 
catalogue was issued, and the demand for their nursery stock 
soon necessitated the purchase of more land. In 1903 the 
capital stock of the corporation which had been formed 
during the nineties was increased to $150,000. The Com¬ 
pany has a Miami branch, and operates nurseries and groves 
in other parts of Dade County, while their main offices are 
located at Jacksonville. Their work with grapefruit is 
increasing rapidly, and their plantings of these and other 
citrus trees are being constantly added to in places especially 
suited to their growth. Branch nurseries are located at 
Cocoanut Grove and McAllen, Florida, Port Arthur, Texas, 
and Grand Bay, Alabama. Their latest increase in capital 
stock brought it to the $500,000 mark. 
NEW ROSE, MISS GENEVIEVE CLARK 
Messrs. Jackson & Perkins of Newark, New York, are 
about to put on the market a new»rose under the name of 
Miss Genevieve Clark. The entire stock of this rose was 
bought some years ago by IMr. Perkins from the originator, 
Peter Lambert, of Trier, Germany. The petals are of a 
light pink, with an even more delicate pink underneath. 
After testing this rose in their nurseries for several years, the 
Jackson & Perkins Company consider it a production of real 
merit. 
A new nursery firm at Mitchell. S. Dak., has been incor¬ 
porated under the name of “The Newburys,’’ with a capital 
stock of $100,000. The incorporators are Charles E., 
Edwin C., Elizabeth A. and Jesse A Newbury, and Frank 
J. Herrick, all of Mitchell, where the Newbury family has 
built up a large greenhouse business. 
We are in receipt of a large 1912 poster calendar from F. E. Meyers 
& Bro., Ashland, O. The body of the calendar shows their different 
lines of pumps, Hay Tools and Barn Door Hangers and serve as a 
ready reference. 
AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY 
Annual Meeting and Exhibition at Ithaca During Peony Season, 1912 
The Directors of the American Peony Society have de¬ 
cided to hold the annual meeting and exhibition for 1912 at 
New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York. 
The exaet date will be anounced later, the aim being to hit 
the height of the season at Ithaca, so that the bloom in the 
trial plots will be at its best. President Farr and Secretary 
Saunders are laying plans for an interesting program. The 
feature of the meeting, however, will be an exhibition of 
the blooms of all varieties from the trial plots at Cornell 
passed upon by the committee on nomenclature as true to 
name and authentic. This will prove an exeeptional oppor¬ 
tunity to t lear up mistakes and eliminate synonyms. 
