THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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1905 
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E. Albertson, expense Niagara Falls, printing, 
postage, etc.$ 
Union & Advertiser Co., printing Proceedings. 
500 two-cent stamps for Secretary. 
Scrantom & Wetmore Co., book for Secretary 
John P. Smith Printing Co., envelopes for Sec 
M. E. Wolf Bond for Treasurer. 
Central Passenger Association. .,. 
W. W. Morrison, Printing for Secretary.... 
E. Albertson, expense Transportation Com. 
George C. Seager, postage.....'. 
Balance on hand. 
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18 75 
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54 15 
111 00 
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2,570 74 
$4,601 70 
All of which is carefully submitted. 
C. L. Yates, 
Treasurer , 
IMI'ORTA NT PAPERS 
SOIL INOCULATION. 
Ur. Moore’s address on the subject proved to be thoroughly 
enjoyable. It was delivered in an easy non-technical cul¬ 
tured manner and cleared up hazy notions 
about the work of bacteria in the soil. 
The roots of the members of the pea 
and bean tribe are infested by bacteria 
which cause the development of warty 
growths. These are the homes of the 
bacteria whose office it is to collect nitro¬ 
gen from the air permeating the upper 
layers of the soil. This nitrogen is dis¬ 
tributed throughout the plant. It may, 
and usually does greatly increase the 
growth of the plant. When the plant 
decays, the nitrogen thus abstracted from 
the air, is retained by the soil and be¬ 
comes available plant food. 
Vegetable pathologists have now sepa- 
arated these germs from the parent plant, 
cultivate them separately and inoculate 
seed before planting. Sometimes these 
germs are in the soil, in which case other 
soil can be inoculated by sprinkling over 
it a small quantity of the germ infested 
soil. Beneficial results are not always secured because the 
germs will not grow in very acid soils or in soils in poor 
physical condition. 
THE ROOT-GALL MATTER. 
The gist of Mr. Hcdgecock’s remarks may be summed up 
as follows: 
There are several kinds of root gall. The kind lie has 
studied for the past three years with much assiduity 
is the hard woody gall of the apple. He has made many 
experiments in trying to ascertain whether or not this form 
is contagious. All inoculations have failed to prove that it is 
contagious. One experiment in which badly galled trees 
were planted in orchard appears to show that this form of 
root gall is non-injurious to growth. The trees infested with 
the hard type of root knot are doing just as well as others of 
the same age not so infested when planted. 
THE GRAPE. 
T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas, read by W. B. Munson. 
Exhibited a trellis of his own construction and explained 
his method of pruning and training. This method is known 
as the long arm horizontal system and has many points to 
commend it in economizing labor and material. 
EXPERIMENTAL ORCHARDS FOR NURSERYMEN— L. (J. Corbett, 
EXI’ERIMENTA I, ()RCHARDS. 
L. C. Corlett, Washington, gave an interesting description 
of the United States experimental farm at Arlington, Washing¬ 
ton. This is to be a test orchard for varieties—a place where 
a collection of authentic varieties can always be found and 
where they will be available for comparison. 
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT KIRKPATRICK. 
Ladies, Gentlemen, Members of the American Association 
of National Nurserymen:—This our Thirtieth Annual Meet¬ 
ing brings assurance of well earned prosperity among our 
members and increased unsefulness of our association. 
We are fortunate in selecting this delightful seat, this fam¬ 
ous place of beauty, health and convenience where we have 
such favorable conditions for expediting business, making and 
renewing fraternal friendship, and dispen¬ 
sing generosity and good will to all 
mankind. 
ORLANDO HARRISON 
Berlin, Md. 
Vice-President American Ass’n of Nurserymen 
POWER OF ORGANIZED EFFORT. 
Success attends organized work only in 
the presence of harmony, loyalty and 
intelligent persistency. The increasing 
success of this association bespeaks the 
wisdom and good faith of its members. 
The work of your committee has been 
most thorough and efficient. To them 
we owe all honor and esteem. 
The comparative importance of our 
work in the great industrial army is the 
pride of every earnest propagator of 
fruits and flowers, of eveiy builder of 
parks and boulevards and of all who 
beautify public grounds and sacred private 
homes. 
The immense quantity of most delight¬ 
ful food products drawn from the soil, 
as the result of the Nurserymen’s skill, should inspire us to 
go on to greater accomplishment. 
These extensive and constantly increasing cargoes of beau¬ 
tiful and enchanting wealth going out to brighten and 
strengthen lives in all parts of the earth and bringing in 
return a harvest of wealth to every worker, will atttract to 
us the highest type of men and thus enable us to keep apace 
with the best of civilization. 
INCREASE OUR MEMBERSHIP. 
More effective measures should be used to induce all nur¬ 
serymen to join with us, sharing the joyful work anti rich 
rewards from our association. 
We greatly need the aid and council of those renowned 
horticulturists of the Pacific Coast. The presence of Mr. 
Burbank and others. Their aid and council would be of 
incalculable value. They might inspire some of our mem¬ 
bers to an effort to win even as great renown as has Mr. Bur¬ 
bank, who is rightfully • esteemed the most valuable of all 
California riches. 
