THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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The attendance at the show was large and the financial 
returns such that the management is already making plans 
for another larger and bigger, in 1909. A part of the crowd 
was undoubtedly attracted by the really first class vaude¬ 
ville each afternoon and evening. There was no lion 
tamer but there was an equally interesting individual in the 
person of a “bee tamer” who took remarkable liberties with 
a lively hive of bees, in a wire screen enclosure. Little 
stunts like dropping a handful of bees into his shirt bosom 
or into his hat and then putting it onto his head were noth¬ 
ing to him. This prince of “Bee Tamers” comes from 
W. J. Bryan’s town, in Nebraska and hands out a line of 
eloquence almost equal to the “peerless” one while taking 
remarkable liberties with him or her of the stinger. 
Perhaps this show has done more than any other one 
thing to draw attention to the superior advantages of the 
box package as a receptacle for high class fruit: Eastern 
fruit growers must recognize this. A few years ago com¬ 
mission men and fruit dealers in the east discouraged the 
box as an apple package, now they accept it without demur. 
It has come to stay. 
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proved quite conclusively and to his own satisfaction dur¬ 
ing the course of a two hour address, that a single spraying 
with arsenate of lead gave him over 99 per cent of un¬ 
infested fruit. The burden of his story was that if a coarse 
spray was applied to the tree at the right time and driven 
into it with considerable force the calyx cup would be filled 
with the poison and as practically all the first brood enter 
through the calyx cup they were therefore, “dead ones”; 
the first brood being killed off, there would be no second or 
successive brood: Moral: destroy the first brood. The 
expounder’s faith in the certainty of the results was not 
shared by all his hearers. The logic is sound any how 
whether the results back it up or not. 
Illinois. 
The State Horticultural meeting was held as usual at 
Champaign and took the form of a short winter course ex¬ 
tending over two weeks. Professors Whitten of Missouri 
and Waugh of Massachusetts assisted the local instructors. 
Indiana. 
The badger state held its usual winter meeting under 
favorable circumstances. Considerable interest was cen¬ 
tered on the topic introduced by Professor Hedrick of 
Geneva Experiment Station, New York, on comparisons 
between tilled and sod mulched orchards. The New York 
experiments favor tilling. 
Michigan. 
The annual meeting of this energetic organization 
proved as interesting as usual. President L. A. Goodman 
of the American Pomological Society and Professor S. A. 
Beach of Iowa contributed to the interest of the meeting. 
New York. 
The meetings of the two great societies of this state 
ccur in January. The State society holds its sessions in 
the opera house, Medina the first week, while the Western 
New York Society meets in the fine new auditorium in 
Rochester, January 27-28. E. C. Gillett, Penn Yan, 
is secretary of the former and John Hall, Granite Building, 
Rochester of the latter. 
(See article on Pure Culture Mushrooms) 
A Convenient crate for shipping mushrooms. 
(From Farmers Bulletin 204). 
NEW JERSEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Fruit growers of New Jersey meet in the State House, Trenton, 
January 6 and 7, 1909, at their annual convention. Among the 
subjects to be considered are: 
The Relation of Weather to the Setting of Fruit, by U. P. Hedrick 
of the New York Experiment Station, Geneva. 
Landscape Gardening, by A. .D Taylor, of Boston, Mass. 
The Relation of Public Schools to Rural Homes, by H. W. 
Collingwood, of the Rural New Yorker. 
Soils for Fruits, by Dr. E. B. Voorhees, of the New Jersey Experi¬ 
ment Station. 
Adaptation of Variety to the Soil, by L. C. Corbett of the Bureau 
of Plant Industry. 
Spraying, by Dr. J. B. Smith, New Jersey State Entomologist. 
ORGANIZATION OF VEGETABLE GROWERS. 
A new association for the purpose of promoting the interests of 
those connected with the forcing and field culture of vegetables was 
formed in Cleveland the last of October. 
The purpose of the organization is to promote the growing and 
marketing of vegetable crops. Two classes of membership were 
provided; life membership is open at a fee of fifteen dollars; annual 
memberships cost three dollars for the first year, and two dollars each 
year thereafter. 
The following officers were elected: President, E. A. Dunbar, 
Ashtabula, Ohio; vice-president, S. J. Perry, Grand Rapids, Mich.; 
secretary, S. W. Severance, Louisville; treasurer, S. B. Chester, 
Cleveland. 
President Dunbar announced this executive committee: 
Franklin De Kleine, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Richard Hittinger, 
Belmont, Mass.; W. J. Ritterskamp, Princeton, Ind.; W. F. Mas¬ 
sey, Salisbury, Md.; C. W. Waid, New Carlisle, O.; W. D. Wein- 
schenk, New Castle, Pa. 
TEXAS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A joint meeting of the Texas State Horticultural Society, Texas 
Nurserymen’s Association, and Texas Nut Growers’ Association will 
be held at Brownsville, January 13-14, 1909. The South Texas 
Truck Growers are also expected to meet with the above associations. 
The following chairmen of committees were appointed to 'co-operate 
in order to secure a successful meeting: Prof. E. J. Kyle, Sec., 
Texas State Horticultural Society; J. S. Kerr, Sherman, Sec., Texas 
Nurserymen’s Association; H. B. Beck, Denton, Sec., Texas Nut 
Growers’ Association; H. C. Styles. Raymondville; Prof. E. C. 
Green, Brownsville. 
