I TO 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The Program Committee are at it and hope to have a 
good list. 
Director Jordan besides being Director of an Experi- 
ment Station is an agricultural chemist of repute and an 
exceedingly forceful speaker. Commissioner Pearson has 
established a national reputation as an expert on Dairy 
Sanitation and has been in close touch with nurserymen in 
connection with inspection of nursery stock, while Mr. 
T. B. Wilson is a successful farmer and apple grower of 
Ontario County. The other speakers are well known 
nurserymen. 
THE EXHIBITS 
“These have become a very important feature of our meetings, 
and arrangements for ample space have been made at Hotel Seneca. 
Exhibits are invited from nurserymen and manufacturers of tools, 
implements, or anything else by nurserymen. Early application 
for space should be made to Mr. Thos. B. Meehan, Dresher, Mont’g. 
Co., Pa., Chairman of Committee on Exhibits. 
SPECIAL RAILROAD FARES 
The Trunk Line Association, Central Passenger Association and 
Eastern Canadian Passenger Association have authorized the an¬ 
nouncement of a fare and three-fifths on the certificate plan, and it 
is expected that Western and Southern Associations will participate. 
Every persons should request a certificate (not a receipt) from 
the agent when purchasing a ticket. 
Certificates are not kept at all stations. You should enquire 
early at your home station and get advance information as to the 
nearest point where certificate can be obtained. You can purchase 
local ticket to that point and there purchase through ticket and get 
a certificate.” 
This is the whole story up-to-date. Make your plans to 
be a part of this coming conference. You will not regret it. 
THE BADGE BOOK AND MEMBERHIP. 
Secretary Seager again calls attention in his circular 
letter on the annual meeting to the advantages of adver¬ 
tising in the badge book and taking membership in this 
national organization. No nurseryman can afford to stay 
out. Membership is pleasant. Besides, it pays. The 
benefits accruing to all nurserymen in decreased freight 
rates and information regarding unjust and inconsiderate 
state legislation are far reaching. Isolation wrecks many a 
business. Business co-operation should be the watchword. 
Join the Association. Send Geo. C. Seager, Secy. American 
Association of Nurserymen five dollars for annual member¬ 
ship fee, ask him to reserve a room for you, come, meet old 
friends, make new ones. Go do some business; get new 
ideas and go home with more faith in your calling and a 
large supply of inspiration for the year to come. 
FUNGOUS DISEASES OF SCALE INSECTS AND 
WHITE FLY. 
The plan of controlling noxious insects and dangerous 
fungous diseases by attacking them with natural parasites, 
is not new, but only recently is the system being adapted 
to the particular needs of the orchardist. The bulletin re¬ 
cently published by the Florida Experiment Station des¬ 
cribes the diseases which attack certain scale insects which 
are serious enemies of the orange and also diseases which 
attack the white fly, an insect causing immense damage to 
citrous interests in practically all parts of Florida at the 
present time. This same insect has caused considerable 
damage to certain crops grown under glass in the North. 
The insect is fortunately attacked by a natural outdoor 
enemy in Florida, in the form of a fungus. This fungus 
has not, however, been generally distributed and the efforts 
of the Experiment Station are now being directed toward 
the proper distribution of thig natural enemy of the fruit 
industry. Plans are making for the propagation of the 
parasitic disease and for its distribution where it does not 
already exist. Such experiments as have been conducted 
give warrant for belief that the white fly and several of the 
scale insects may occupy an important place in controlling 
several of these serious enemies of fruit culture. 
It has been found that one of the fungi called the “Red 
Headed Fungus’’ will live on San Jose scale as far North 
as New Jersey. While it did some good there in the way 
of reducing scale, it could not be said to flourish in a very 
satisfactory manner. Arrangements are making for the 
propagation of a constant quantity of these fungi and the 
addresses of the propagators of the parasite are given in 
Bulletin No. 94 of the Florida Experiment Station. 
BUSINESS MOVEMENTS. 
Jackson & Perkins of Newark, N. Y., are registering a 
new variety of Clematis which is described as a cross be¬ 
tween C. paniculata and C. viticelli rubra. It is to be in¬ 
troduced under the name of C. paniculata rubra. 
We consider the National Nurseryman indispensable to our 
business, its advertising columns alone being worth many times the 
subscription price as a reference guide in the purchasing of high 
grade nursery stock. 
It pays to consult the advertising columns of the National 
Nurseryman. 
Kalamazoo, Mich. Prudential Nursery Co. 
“Your magazine is a credit to the nursery interests of this 
country.” 
Alton E. Randall. 
“I am well pleased with the National Nurseryman and cannot 
get along without it.” 
Geo. H. Whiting. 
A sample copy of the National Nurseryman has been received. 
It contains much useful and valuable data. It will assist me a 
great deal in keeping in touch with the progress in nursery work. 
Enclosed find money order for one ($1.00) dollar, for one year’s 
subscription. 
Very truly yours. 
B. R. H. d’ALLEMAND, Acting Supervisor 
“ A wise man who made a little improvement each day, found at 
the end of the year a revolution in his business.” 
The Tennessee Wholesale Nurseries, Winchester, Tennessee, 
has recently been incorporated with a capital of $60,000, the fol¬ 
lowing gentlemen signing the charter: N. W. Hale, H. N. Camp, 
J. L. Deaver, A. I. Smith, and E. W. Chattin, the new firm taking 
over all of the property of J. C. Hale, who formerly owned the nur¬ 
sery consisting of over 1,000,000 peach buds, and 700 acres of land. 
This is the largest nursery in the State and said to grow more peach 
trees than any one concern in the world. 
