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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
205 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President, .THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, .JOHN CRAIG 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, . C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock 
of all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
A WARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPO '1TION, 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance,.$1.00 
Six months,.75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance,. 1.50 
Six Months,.1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Address Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter- 
Rochester, N. Y., January, 1905. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, Tex.; vice-president, C. L. 
Watrous, Des Moines, la.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasure”, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; M. McDonald Salem 
Ore.; George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y. 
Transportation—E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind.; M. McDonald, Salem, Ore.; H. 
B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; W. H. Moon. 
Committee to meet Western Freight Classification Committee at Manitou, Col.— 
Peter Youngers, E. Albertson. 
Committee to meet Eastern Freight Classification Committee in New York—Wm. 
H. Moon, Howard Davis, James McHutchison. 
Committee to meet Southern Freight Classification Committee—H. B. Chase, R. 
C. Berckmans. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa.; 
H T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J. 
Legislation — C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, Phoneton, O.; 
N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; George A. Sweet, 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Programme—Harlan P. Kelsey, Boston; H. B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; John S. 
Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 
Publicity—Ralph T.- Olcott Rochester, N. Y.; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; 
J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Exhibits—R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn.; M. B. 
Fox, Rochester, N. Y. 
To edit report—J. Horace McFarland, C. L. Watrous, George C. Seager. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American'Nurserymen’s Protective Association President, R. C. Berckmans, 
Augusta,, Ga.; vice-president, A. L. Brooke, secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, 
Dreshertown, Pa.; treasurer, Peter Youngers. Meets annually in June. 
Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective Association —President, N. H. Albaugh, 
Phoneton, O.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually 
in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association —President, Charles 
J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton, Ill. Meets 
annually in June. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen —President, W. C. Barry, Rochester, N Y • 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in Jan¬ 
uary. 
Western Wholesale Nurserymen’s Association —President, F. H. Stannard, 
Ottawa, Kan.; secretary, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets in July and 
December at Kansas City, Mo. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association —President, W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va • 
vice-president, Henry Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; secretary, J. C. Hale, Winchester,’ 
lenn. Meets at Asheville, N. C., in August, 1904. 
Southwestern Nurserymen’s Association —President, .T. W. Preston, King¬ 
fisher, Okl. Terr.; secretary, J. A. Taylor, Wynnewood, Ind. Terr. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association— President, E. M. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, 
lex.; secretary, John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen —President, S. A. Miller, Milton, 
Ore.; secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association— President, W. H. Moon, Morrisville, 
Pa., secretary, Earl Peters, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa. Next annual meeting at 
Harrisburg, in January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen— President, William Pitkin 
Kocfiester, N. Y.; secretary, John B. Kiley, Rochester, N. Y. 
We are informed by press dispatches and the information is 
confirmed by private correspondence that the Province of 
Quebec is to have an elaborate agricultural college and in¬ 
dustrial school in the near future. This 
agricultural college is to-be established and supported 
college by the munificance of Sir William Mc- 
for Quebec . Donald, the wealthy tobacco manufac¬ 
turer of Montreal. Seven hundred acres 
of land have been purchased about twenty miles from the city 
of Montreal, in a fine farming region and arrangements are 
being perfected for the immediate establishment of the col¬ 
lege. The entire institution will be managed and directed by 
Professor James W. Robertson, the well known Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture and Dairying for the Dominion, who has 
resigned that position in order to enter the new field. Pro¬ 
fessor Robertson is a man full of energy and resource. The 
enterprise certainly starts out under most favorable auspices. 
We wish it every success. 
No one will deny that much variation in the fruit of a good 
variety, of apples for instance, exists in almost any orchard 
that one may examine. A man who carefully selects speci¬ 
mens year after year for exhibition pur- 
search FOR and poses, gets into the habit of going to the 
propagate same trees for his show plates. Some- 
fa vo Rable var- times these slight variations are induced by 
i a tions OF the favorable situation of the tree with re- 
frui T. gard to food, light and general invironment, 
but it occasionally occurs that the variation 
is so radical as to separate the product of this particular tree 
distinctly from all others. In such cases, if the variant 
posesses desirable characteristics it should be propagated. 
We should then be doing with fruits what vegetable grow¬ 
ers are practicing with beans and other annual crops. They, 
however, must fix the variation by the more or less tedious 
process of selection, whereas, the pomologist merely multi¬ 
plies his desirable product by means of budding or grafting. 
Not long ago, the writer’s attention was called to a form of 
Baldwin which in general outline, coloring, and texture of 
flesh, more nearly resembled Sutton than it did Baldwin. 
This variety is under investigation and may be propagated, 
if it is found that the improvement is perpetuated year after 
year. It is a common thing for orchardists to speak of “gray 
baldwins” and “red bald wins” and buyers use these terms 
also. Does any one know whether these terms have a 
legitimate foundation or is the grayness or redness of the fruit 
due to soil or peculiar local conditions? 
The fall of 1904 has seen quite a floral revolution in favor of 
the one time great favorite, the Chrysanthemum. The ex¬ 
hibitions have been unusually successful. The Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society in conjunction with 
the Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
held a joint exhibition in Boston during 
the early part of November which was pro¬ 
nounced the best exhibition ever held in 
that city. The New York exhibition held at the American 
Institute, November 10-17 was pronounced the biggest event 
that the organization had ever carried through. The great 
THE CHRYSAN¬ 
THEMUM 
SEASON. 
