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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
things however that militate against it. The weather is 
warm and often dry making it bad for shipping any dis¬ 
tance and plants are likely to suffer out of the ground for 
any length of time under such conditions, and it costs 
more to ship and prepare shipments than in the spring. 
The compensation however makes it worth while to 
encourage it, the principal one being it lengthens the sea¬ 
son of harvest which is short at the best. 
There is no real reason why the nurseryman should not 
be actively disposing of his goods for at least six months 
in the year. Methods of handling would naturally have 
to be adapt to meet requirements, but t should be the pol¬ 
icy of every firm and organization to educate the public 
the possibilities of successful planting for a much longer 
period than is now used and be ready to handle the plants 
according to needs. 
NEW YORK NURSERYMEN TO MEET 
On a separate page we carry an advertisement of a 
summer meeting of the New York Nurserymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation. There is something very promising about this 
meeting. It is advertised. 
It is to be held on beautiful Seneca Lake, Geneva, N. 
Y., a nursery center. 
Prominent speakers will address the meeting. All 
nurserymen are invited. 
Tickets may be secured at the meeting but the sec¬ 
retary, G. J. Maloy, 209 Linden st., Rochester, N. Y., 
should be notified that you are coming. 
SUMMER MEETING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA 
NURSERYMEN S ASSOCIATION 
The Summer Meeting of the Pennsylvania Nursery¬ 
men’s Association was held Friday, August 12. It was 
well attended; about forty being present. A large dele¬ 
gation of the New Jersey Nurserymen helped to swell 
the total. The program called for the members to meet 
at the Andorra Nurseries where Mr. William Warner 
Harper the proprietor with his staff were on hand to wel¬ 
come them and show them the horticultural wonders of 
Andorra. To any nurseryman who has not visited these 
nurseries the stock on them is an eye opener. The nur¬ 
series are unique in that they are exclusively ornamental 
and make a specialty of the choicest evergreens grown to 
large size. It is here one may see blocks of such plants 
as Cryptomeria Japonica Lobi 16 to 18 feet high, box 
bushes by the thousand 4 to 5 feet high and as many feet 
through, all uniform, Juniperus Virginmna Glauca 12 to 
15 feet high, Biota Orientate up to 20 feet and so on. 
These plants are not in small lots but by the hundreds. 
Rhododendrons, Azalias, Ilex Grenata and a host of other 
broad leaved evergreen shrubs may be seen in propor¬ 
tionate quantities and sizes. Mr. Harper evidently plants 
upon the plan that you cannot have too many of a good 
thing. For instance a block of small plants of Abelia 
planted this season must contain over five thousand. 
Phiadelphia may be considered almost the northern 
limit at which this plant will grow. Splendid plants of 
the different varieties of Yews, Pinus Mugho are enough 
to make any nurseryman look with envy and wish he 
had at least a portion on his own grounds. The nurseries 
cover over one thousand acres with very diversified ex¬ 
posures and soils although in a limestone country they 
have soils and eposures upon which cricaceous plants 
thrive to perfection. Such a nursery could only be pro¬ 
duced by a man who thoroughly loves plants, having 
plenty of capital to develop his plans and an ideal loca¬ 
tion for a nursery. 
Mr. Harper’s own home and grounds are a living re¬ 
pudiation of the old saying “A cobbler’s children are al¬ 
ways poorly shod.” Although the grounds have only 
been laid out for about eight years they have the appear¬ 
ance of having been there from a very distant past. After 
enjoying the views of Andorra the members all sat down 
to dinner at the White Marsh Country Club. The tables 
were decorated with dahlias brought by William F. Mil¬ 
ler, Gloverdale, N. J. The blooms proved him to have a 
very fine collection of these showy flowers. After din¬ 
ner an open air meeting was held with Albert E. Meehan 
president, of the Association, in the chair. 
Mr. J. Edward Moon, who has recently returned from 
Europe gave an interesting address upon the various 
horticultural establishments that he visited while there, 
also upon request told of the work he was engaged in, 
feeding the children in Germany. 
According to Mr. Moon, Roskoop, Holland, is still very 
much in evidence as a nursery center in spite of the war 
and quarantine 37 which shut off the American mar¬ 
ket. 
At the Roskoop Rose Show, which he attended a note¬ 
worthy feature was the fact that roses were staged to 
popularize the rose rather than advertise the exhibitors. 
All the exhibits of one variety were brought together, 
with the name of the exhibitor very inconspicuously at¬ 
tached. At the Bagatelle Rose Gardens at Paris Mr. 
Moon mentioned the unnamed rose No. 259, of Howard 
& Smith, was awarded a gold medal and should be worth 
watching for commercial possibilities. 
Adolf Muller, De Kalb Nur., Norristown, Pa. 
Geo. Rullen, 
Dr. Hadley, New Jersey. 
Win. Flemmer, Jr. 
Wm. Miller, Gloverdale, New Jersey. 
F. F. Rockwell, Seabrook Farms, N. J. 
Albert E. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 
W. W. Harper, Andorra Uurs., Chestnut Hill, Pa. 
Wm. Lawson. 
John II. Humphreys. 
John Mearns. 
Frazer Harrison. 
F. R. Martin. 
Jos. and Ed. Thomas, King of Prussia. 
0. D. Osmund, New Brunswick, N. J. 
E. C. Yick, New York City. 
Wm. P. Stark. 
John Watson, Princeton, N. J. 
A. E. Wohlert, Narberth. 
William H. Doyle, Berwyn, Pa. 
James Krewson, Cheltenham, Pa. 
S. Newman Baxter. 
Ernest Hemming, Flourtown, Pa. 
