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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Iwo or three times. Many acres are too weedy, and 
must he plowed up again. 
Hay crops, such as clover and alfalfa, proved a total 
loss, heeause they could not he harvested. 
We think wg have one of the finest blocks of 1-year 
cherry and ])luni ever grown in a nuinher of years. 
Our j)caeh are making a tremendous growth, and are 
afraid they might get too heavy. 
There are many new homes being built, and if these 
})eoj)le have money enough after j)aying for their build¬ 
ing, there should he considerable landscape work. 
AMLIHCAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI¬ 
CULTURISTS HOLD CONVENTION AT LOS 
ANGELES, CALIFORNIA IN AUGUST 
Los Angeles is again throwing open her portals of hos¬ 
pitality for on August 19th, 20th and 21st the Society of 
American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists will 
convene at the Ambassador Hotel in that beautiful city 
of the Golden West. 
Why not attend this convention? If you have ever vis¬ 
ited Los Angeles you are of course anxious to register 
(here again and if you never had that privilege there is 
no belter time than NOW. 
A real program is promised and in order to avoid the 
rush for hotel accommodations write or wire today to 
John W. Flint, chairman Hotel Committee, care of Anna- 
cost & Royston, Ine., 723-29 Wall street, Los Angeles, 
California. The trade exhibits and meetings will be 
held at the Ambassador Hotel. This hotel is highly 
recommended and is quite beautifully situated, overlook¬ 
ing Hollywood and the mountains. Many other delight¬ 
ful hotels are listed too and notices for reservations will 
he given prompt attention. 
So let’s go. 
turist. Several new apples, a new pear, new raspberries, plums 
and other fruits are described. The bulletin is free and may be 
had upon request to the station authorities. 
The object of the fruit testing work at Geneva is described 
by Dr. Hedrick as being an attempt on the part of the station 
to do for the fruit growers of the state what the individual 
grower can not do for himself. This is to test every variety 
of fruit that will grow under New York conditions to discover 
any worthy sorts that might profitably be grown on New York 
farms. The station fruit men are also constantly striving to 
secure better sorts by crossing different varieties. As a result 
of this breeding work, many new and valuable varieties have 
been developed in recent years, some of which are described in 
the new bulletin. 
Once a new variety is named and found worth further trial 
in other parts of the state, it is turned over to the New York 
Fruit Testing Association, with headquarters at Geneva, which 
attempts to propogate planting stock for sale approximately at 
cost to interested fruit growers. The membership of this asso¬ 
ciation now extends into many states of the Union and to Can¬ 
ada, and in this way the new variety undergoes a test which 
proves its fitness as a standard sort. 
Obituary. * 
Mrs. Mary Josephine Royd 
On Sunday, July 6th, word was received at McMiim- 
ville, Tennessee, of the death—by aulomohile accident 
near Mitchell, South Dakota—of Mrs. Mary Josephine 
Royd, wdfe of J. R. Royd, of the Forest Nursery Com¬ 
pany of MeMimiville. 
Mrs. Royd, her mother and four youngest children, 
had come north as Mr. Royd came to the convention at 
Atlantic City. She was spending the summer with her 
brothers at Mitchell, South Dakota. 
Reside her husband she is survived by seven children, 
six of whom are girls. Interment was in Monntain Vie^v 
Cemetery, McMinnville, on the followniig Friday. 
MINNESOTA PROHIRITS CEMETERIES FROM 
RETAILING 
The Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota on 
.lime 10, 1924, passed an order to the effect that from 
and after the first day of July, A. D. 1924, the Lakewood 
Cemetery Association, its successors and assigns, their 
servants and agents, are restrained and prohibited from 
engaging in the business of grow ing and raising plants, 
bulbs, llowers, shrubs and other horticultural products 
for sale to the general public or to retail florists; or sell¬ 
ing or delivering any such plants, bulbs, llowers, shrubs 
and other horticultural products to anyone that was not 
an ow ner of burial lots in that cemetery or that was not 
buying said llowers, etc., for the beautifying of the 
graves of their friends or relatives in that particular 
cemetery. Nor is any plant to be removed from the 
premises of the cemetery. 
SOME NEW FRUITS 
Several Promising Sorts Are Offered Growers By Station 
Specialists 
New varieties of fruit that give promise of being really 
worth while additions to the list available to the fruit growers 
are described and illustrated, some of them in color, in a recent 
bulletin issued by the New York State Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Geneva. New or Noteworthy Fruits is the title of 
the publication written by Dr. U. P. Hedrick, Station horticul¬ 
A. S. Riley 
Word has just been received that A. S. Riley, Presi¬ 
dent of North Star Nursery Co., Pardeeville, Wisconsin, 
passed awaiy July 28th, as a result of a stroke of paraly¬ 
sis on the 24th. Funeral was held Wednesday, July 30th, 
at 10 o’clock. 
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION 
The United States Civil Service Commission announces the 
following open competitive examination: 
AGRONOMIST 
Receipt of applications will close September 2. The examina¬ 
tion is to fill vacancies in the Bureau of Plant Industry, Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture and in positions requiring similar qualifica¬ 
tions, at an entrance salary of $3,800 a year. Advancement in 
pay may be made without change in assignment up to $5,000. 
Applicants must have been graduated from a college or uni¬ 
versity of recognized standing, and have had at least eight years’ 
additional training and experience in investigation, extension, 
or adminstration in cereal production or soil management or 
both. Each year of graduate study involving major work in ag¬ 
ronomy will be accepted in lieu of one year lacking in the re¬ 
quired experience. Such substitution, however, may not exceed 
two years. 
The duties of the position are to assist in investigations in 
cereal agronomy, including crop production and soil manage¬ 
ment; to plan and execute research along these lines; and to 
exercise supervisory functions in connection with such activities. 
Competitors will not be required to report for examination at 
any place, but will be rated on their education, training, and 
experience, and writings or publications of not less than 5,000 
