THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
The meeting of the Southern Nurserymen’s Association, 
will he held at Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, August 
2()th and 21st. 
It will convene 10 o’clock Wednesday morning, Au¬ 
gust 20th. President H. G. Caldwell, of Atlanta; Vice- 
president, S. W. Crowell, Roseacres, Miss., and Secretary 
and Treasurer, 0. Joe Howard, Pomona, N. G. 
Address of welcome will be made by James L. Key, 
Mayor of x\tlanta. Response by Col. George W. Poague, 
Graysville, Tenn. 
Speeches by biggest and brainiest nurserymen from 
several states, of which the following is a partial list. 
Lloyd Stark, Louisiana, Mo., J. R. Mayhew, Waxa- 
hachie, Tex., Sigmund Tarnok, Augusta, Ga., 0. W. Fra¬ 
ser, Rirmingham, Ala., S. W. Crowell, Roseacres, Miss E. 
W. Chatten, Winchester, Tenn., Mr. Hume, Glen Saint 
Mary, Fla., Harry Nicholson, Winchester, Tenn., Henry 
R. Chase, Ala., and others, also Entomologists A. C. Lewis, 
of Georgia, and G. C. Starcher, of Alabama, C. A. Reed, 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., Nut Cul- 
turist. 
The “Plant Quarantine” and “Market Development 
Fund” and other important issues will come for thorough 
discussion and action. Banquet for members and guests 
at The Ansley Hotel on Wednesday evening. 
Splendid prospects for a big meeting and good time. 
FOR LEAF-SPOT ON SOUR CHERRIES 
For the control of leaf-spot, sour cherries should be 
sprayed with lime-sulphur solution diluted at the rate of 
gallons to 50 gallons of water or with Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture contaning 3 pounds of bluestone (copper sulphate) 
and 4 pounds of lime to each 50 gallons of water— 
(1) As soon as the petals have fallen. 
(2) About three weeks later. 
(3) Directly after the fruit is picked. 
Arsenate of lead at the rate of 1 pound of powder or 2 
pounds of paste to 50 gallons of spray may be added for 
the control of insect pests. 
Sweet cherries should receive the same treatment as 
the sour ones, except that lime-sulphur solution diluted 
at the rate of 1 gallon to 50 gallons of water should be 
the fungicide used. Bordeaux mixture should never be 
used on sw^eet cherries, because of the risk of severe in¬ 
jury. 
Often, especially in the South, the disease may be con¬ 
trolled Ijy spraying three weeks after the petals have 
fallen and directly after the fruit has been picked, or 
sometimes only after the fruit has been picked, but the 
omission of any one of these three applications is always 
attended with risk. 
TWO USEFUL SHRUBS 
Two plants useful for covering the mar¬ 
gins of drives and the borders of shruhheri(^s, 
lUim canadensis [aromatica] and the Yellow Root {Xan- 
thorrhiza apiifolia) are covered with flowers. Those of 
the former are small, pal^ yellow, arranged in compact 
heads, and appear before or with the unfolding of the 
leaves composed of three leaflets; those of the Yellow 
Root are purple in long drooping, terminal racemes. The 
flowers of these two eastern American plants are attrac¬ 
tive, but their great horticultural value is in their habit 
of growth. The height of the Rhus is from two to four 
feet, with spreading branches, the lowest flat on the 
ground, and with an irregular top. In the autumn the 
leaves turn bright scarlet. For road borders and to plant 
when it is desirable to make a connection between larger 
shrubs and the ground no other plant which has been 
tried here has proved so successful. The Yellow Root is 
a dwarf shrub which soon spreads over a wide border 
and forms with its erect stems and divided leaves an ex¬ 
cellent ground cover. Unfortunately it has failed to grow 
well in those parts of the country where the soil is 
strongly impregnated with lime. 
HE SHOT LOW 
A party of gentlemen at a hotel were telling stories one 
night recently of famous shots and how many quail, part¬ 
ridges, ducks and other birds had been killed at a single 
discharge. After listening to what seemed a wilful ex¬ 
aggeration by different narrators, a stranger who was 
present volunteered his experience of his only use of the 
fatal double-barreled gun as follows: 
“I went into the field one day to try gunning. The 
only game discovered was an immense Hock of crows. I 
should say there were 10,000 in the Hock. Slowly I 
crawled up to them, and when not more than four rods 
away the crows rose in a solid mass. I fired both barrels, 
and how many do you think I killed?” 
Different guesses were made by the party, ranging 
from 20 to 100. 
“Not one,” said the stranger, “hut I went out with my 
brother to look for the results and picked up four bushels 
of legs. I had shot a little under.”— Du Pont Magazine. 
CAUSE ENOUGH 
He was very black and in his khaki he looked like 
coffee and chocolate ice cream. After eating a hearty 
meal in the American Red Gross canteen he sat down 
with a book near the counter. The kind-hearted direc¬ 
tress looked once or twice in his direction and was sur¬ 
prised to see big tears rolling down his cheeks. 
“Why, now, this will never do,” she said kindly. “Is 
there anything I can do to help you?” 
He dug his knuckles into his eyes and replied: 
“I sholy am ashamed to make a baby outen myself, 
ma’am. This yer book done make me so homesick.” 
She picked up the book he had been reading. It was 
the canteen cook hook, and it was opened at tlie section on 
“How to Fry Chicken.”—PYom Saturday Evening Post. 
