THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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MERGER OF EASTERN CANADIAN NURSERYMEN. 
The Canadian Gazette announces the incorporation of Luke 
Brothers, Limited, Montreal, formerly Luke Brothers Company. 
The partnership composing the latter has been registered since 
March, 1896. The charter issued by the Federal Government to 
the new Corporation is dated March 30th, 1909. The following 
firms have been absorbed : 
Capital Nursery Company, Ottawa. 
Jacques Cartier Nursery Company, Montreal. 
Dominion Nursery Company, Rougemont. 
The consolidation gives the new Corporation one of the largest 
forces of agents operated by any firm or company in America. 
The head office will be in Montreal. The capital is $100,000. 
S. M. Luke has been elected president, E. B. Luke, vice-president. 
LAWRENCE NURSERIES CHANGE HANDS. 
“G. L. Knight has disposed of his nursery interests at Lawrence, 
Kansas, to C. W. Carman, proprietor of the Lawrence Nurseries 
at that place. During the last twelve years Mr. Knight had built 
up a large agency business in the west as well as a substantial 
wholesale trade. The stock turned over consists of about 125,000 
apple, 50,000 peach, 30,000 cherry and plum together with a 
general assortment of small fruits and ornamentals. Mr. Carman 
has combined the business of the two concerns and all will be con¬ 
ducted by him under the name of The Lawrence Nurseries. Mail¬ 
ing lists should be corrected accordingly.” 
In this connection we wish to call attention to the fact that 
this company has been receiving from two to five duplicate lists 
addressed in different ways as C. W. Carman, Lawrence Nursery 
Co., The Lawrence Nurseries, G. L. Knight, and The G. L. Knight 
Nurseries, and presume this is true of other firms in the business. 
If wholesale lists were revised considerable time and postage could 
be saved. 
C. W. Carman. 
TREE AGENTS HIT. 
A bill to punish fruit-tree agents for misrepresentation recently 
came up for consideration in the Kansas legislature, and for two 
hours members from the rural districts told how they had been 
swindled, says the Country Gentleman. One member, a nurseryman, 
tried to amend the bill to make it easier for the poor agent, but the 
farmers voted him down and made it a penitentiary offense to sell 
one kind of tree and deliver another. The buyer is given seven 
years in which to detect the fraud .—American Florist. 
National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Dear Sir: 
We beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 24 th inst 
in which you modestly remind us that our subscription is due. We 
have pleasure in sending you herewith Money Order $ 1,00 which we 
understand will secure a place for our name on your mailing list until 
May 10 , 1910 . 
We assure you that the Nurseryman is always welcome here, 
otherwise it would have not been admitted for a period extending 
over more than fifteen years. We fervently hope that the Journal 
may continue to meet with the success that is so fully merited by 
those in charge of its affairs. 
Believe us, 
Yours very truly, 
Luke Brothers Company. 
The spring season in eastern Texas is reported as being 
unusually dry with an unpromising outlook for a fruit crop. 
Subscribe now for The National Nurseryman, so as 
to keep in touch with the news of the Convention to be 
held in the city of Rochester next month. 
THE CIVIC LEAGUE OF SALEM, MASS. 
Down in Salem, the Civic Improvement Society of that town is 
doing things. The evidence of this is set forth in a pamphlet 
entitled ‘‘A Message to Salem Citizens.” To show the scope of the 
society’s efforts, the following statement is presented, being taken 
from the announcement pamphlet of the League: 
The Civic League’s aims are of vital interest to every citizen and 
taxpayer of Salem. 
The Civic League of Salem stands for a clean business adminis¬ 
tration of city affairs. 
The Civic League of Salem believes in the complete separation 
of politics from municipal elections and administration. 
“Special Interests” should have no favored place in American 
Institutions—they belong in Turkey or Russia. 
The Civic League of Salem believes in such administration and 
operation of public utilities as will best serve all the people. 
The Civic League of Salem believes in strict enforcement of 
laws and ordinances-—no exceptions or evasions. 
The Civic League of Salem believes in clean, well-lighted streets, 
good shade trees, improved water fronts, better sanitary condi¬ 
tions, improved parks, playgrounds for all our children, larger 
school-yards, better housing conditions. 
The Civic League of Salem believes in progress no condition is 
so good that it might not be bettered. 
The Civic League of Salem, believes in a comprehensive plan for 
the future growfih of Salem including a civic center around which 
shall be grouped future public buildings. 
The Civic League of Salem believes that the united as well as 
the individual effort of every man, woman and child is necessary if 
Salem is to become what we have every right to expect it should be 
—a clean, healthy, beautiful and well-governed city. 
The Civic League of Salem believes that Salem citizens have 
public duties to perform, quite as imperative as those of our public 
officials. 
We note that Mr. Harlan P. Kelsey is president of the League, 
and no doubt much of its initiative progress is to be credited to Mr. 
Kelsey’s energy and generosity of service. 
CONSERVATION OF FORESTS. 
Advanced forest legislation is contemplated in a bill now before 
the Legislature of Pennsylvania which proposes “To regulate the 
management of timber lands in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
for the purpose of preventing floods and droughts, conserving the 
water supply and securing favorable conditions of water flows.” 
The act proposes to give the State Department of Forestry power 
to make reasonable rules for the cutting and removal of timber and 
wood from the timberlands of the Commonwealth and to direct the 
use that may be made of all timber and wood lands with a view to 
conserving the timber and water supplies of the State. 
Pennsylvania has long occupied an advanced position in its 
appreciation of the value of its forests and has passed many laws 
and made large appropriations for the benefit of its Department of 
Forestry. This proposed legislation would crystallize all former 
enactments and give the Forestry Board definite authority over all 
forest lands in the State. 
The American Civic Association is favoring the passage of the 
bill because it regards it as a model of forestry legislation which 
should be adopted by the legislatures of all states in which forestry 
bureaus are maintained. 
WHAT THE AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION DOES. 
“Few persons realize the vast amount of commendable work 
that, the American Civic Association has accomplished. Its suc¬ 
cessful campaign against the commercial spoliation of Niagara falls 
brought its activity into wider acquaintance, but it has achieved 
much in a minor way which has gone without loud hurrah or 
advertisement. 
“Such an organization should command the good will, if not the 
practical assistance of all who have pride in the town where they 
live.” — The Pittsburg Post. 
