THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Rome Beauty is shallow rooted. The digger men before 
the tree plow come, might shy on Baldwin, Stark, Spy, but 
not on Rome Beauty. This tells the story. It originated 
on alluvium and on the light, shallow soils of Eastern Ken¬ 
tucky, and parts of Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, 
men who know what they do want, call for this and nothing 
else. On our soil the fruit on young trees is fine. The tree 
with age overbears one year and the next not one apple. 
Then no kind can turn out as much off color and off size stock 
as this. Let the planter study the questions of soil and 
hardy wood before he pins too much faith on this variety. 
H. F. Hillenmeyer. 
Doings of Societies 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMAN’S ASSOCIATION 
The eleventh annual meeting of this live organization 
will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, August 18th, 19th and 
20th. The meetings are planned for one short, quick-action 
session each day, the balance of the time to be put in visiting 
the various nurseries around Huntsville. It is whispered 
that an old-time barbecue is in prospect, a big attendance is 
expected. The officers are now preparing the program. 
New officers elected last year at the Atlanta meeting are 
as follows:—President, Henry B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; 
vice-president, J. C. Miller, Rome, Ga.; secretary-treasurer, 
A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. 
The cost of membership in this Association is but $2.00 
annually; every nurseryman in the Southern states should 
be a member. Send a $2.00 remittance to A. I. Smith, 
Knoxville, Tenn., who will most artistically engross your 
name on the membership roll. Every two-dollar remit¬ 
tance that reaches Mr. Smith makes him open up a smile 
that would make you laugh—lack of them gives him the 
double X grouch. A perpetual smile seems to be assured 
to him this year. 
A goodly number of nurserymen from the North and 
West are expected and indications are for the largest 
attendance of Southern nurserymen ever assembled. No 
territorial restrictions on membership; Yankee money taken 
at par; better fix Mr. Smith now before it slips your mind. 
GEORGIA-FLORID A NUT GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 
The Georgia-Florida Nut Growers’ Association met at 
Cairo, Ga., May 19 and 20, 1909. 
The following papers were read: 
Address of President, W. C. Jones; Fertilizing the 
Pecan, Herbert C. White, Albany, Ga.; General Outlook 
for the Pecan Industry, H. K. Miller, Monticello, Fla.; 
The Cost of a Pecan Grove, Dr. J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. 
What I have Seen and Learned about Pecans, C. A. Reed, 
Washington, D. C. 
The meeting concluded with a tour of nurseries and 
orchards in the vicinity. 
W. C. Jones, President, Cairo, Ga. 
R. C. Simpson, Sec’y., Monticello, Fla. 
PACIFIC COAST ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
National Nurseryman, 
Gentlemen:—The next meeting of the Pacific Coast 
Association of Nurserymen will be held in Seattle, Wash., 
on JuH 14th, that date being Nurserymen’s Day at the 
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The Management of the 
Exposition extends a welcome not only to members of our 
Association but to those engaged in the business from all 
parts of the United States. The program is now under 
preparation, and full particulars will be sent out, we trust, in 
time for your June issue. We are expecting a large 
attendance. Very truly, 
C. A. Tonneson, Sec’y. Treas. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS 
The next annual meeting of this Society will be held in 
Seattle, Washington, August 9-1 ith. 
AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY 
The annual meeting of the American Peony Society 
will beheld at the Cottage Gardens Nursery, Queens, L. I. 
New York, on Friday and Saturday, June 11-12, 1909. 
A. H. Fewkes, Secy. 
Newton Highlands, Mass. 
