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THE NATIONAI 
NURSERYMAN 
SEPTEMBER SPECIALTIES. 
For reliable box straps try Ward-Dickie Steel Co., Indiana Harbor, 
Ind. 
World’s Fair gold medal peonies at. Charlton’s, Rochester, this 
month. 
An aluminum tree caliper is on the market by F. W. Watson & Co., 
Topeka, Kas. 
Blackberries from root cuttings are a specialty of T. S. Hubbard, Co. 
Fredonia, N. Y. 
A full line of nursery stock is now on the docket at Morey & Son, 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Standard apples, pears and dwarf pears are offered by Sears, Henry 
& Co., Geneva, X. Y. 
The Forest Nursery & Seed Co., McMinnville, Tenn., is furnishing 
forest seeds tree and seedlings. 
Two and three year old apple trees are offered at low rates by the 
Ellisville Nursery, Ellisville, Mo. 
J. G. Harrisons Company extend the hand of hospitality in this 
issue—and it is thoroughly sincere. 
The International Nurseryman is a trade journal published in the 
interest of Australasian nurserymen. 
Western grown apple seedlings and apple root grafts are offered by 
the Barnes’ Nurseries, Cincinnati, O. 
The Shawnee Nursery Co. of Topeka, Kas. offers apple seedlings and 
apple trees in wholesale quantities. 
The Knox Nurseries, Vincennes, Ind. are offering a fine line of cherry, 
apple, peach and hardy catalpa seedlings. 
A stock of Japan plums, Morello cherries, and Carolina poplars is 
offered by R. R. Harris, Harrisville, W. Va. 
Fruit seeds and fruit stocks are now on the minds of most nursery¬ 
men. Try Thomas Meehan & Sons, Dreshertown, Pa. 
Own root roses and a general line of nursery ornamentals are to lie 
found at H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co., Nursery, Mo. 
The Snow Hill Nurseries of Snow Hill, Md. efirry a large stock of the 
leading varieties of peach trees and are pushing the propagation of 
grape vines. 
How many nurserymen have seen Forsythia suspensa (golden bell) 
grown as a standard? This is one of the specialties of Hoopes Bro. & 
Thomas, Westchester, Pa. 
The Americana plum is the great plum of the Northern Mississipp, 
Valley. The Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, Minn, is headquarters for 
seedlings of this type. 
Attention is called to the opportunity to develop a nursery business 
in the Payette Valley, Idaho, by the selling of a nursery. Address Mrs. 
T. R. Hubbard, Payette Valley, Idaho. 
Three and one half tons of apple seed sown by one firm is an almost 
inconceivable quantity! L. It. Taylor & Sons, Topeka, Ivas., sowed 
this quantity and should have apple seedlings “ to burn.’ ’ 
LEGISLATION. 
Important Action of Joint Committees of Seedmen, Florists and 
Nurserymen’s Association. 
It having seemed desirable that the three leading associations repre¬ 
senting the Seed,Nursery and Florists interests of the country co-operate 
in various ways together, a joint committee met at the New Wil¬ 
lard Hotel, Washington, I). C., consisting of the following persons: 
Harlan P. Kelsey, of Boston, Mass., and T. B. Meehan, or Germantown, 
Penn., appointed by the American Association of Nurserymen; F. W. 
Belgiano, of Washington, D. Cq and Chas. M. Page, of Des Moines* 
Iowa, appointed by the American Seed Trade Association. F. R. Pier¬ 
son, of Tarrytown, N. Y. and J. A. Valentine, of Denver, Colo., ap¬ 
pointed by the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horti¬ 
culturists. 
The following persons were also duly accredited as members of this 
joint committee: C. L. Watrous, of Des Moines, Iowa, from the Nurscr- 
men’s Association. Geo. S. Green, of Chicago, from the Seed Trade 
Association, and Benj. Hammond, of Fishkill on Hudson, N. Y., from 
the Florists, but they were not present. 
The committee was organized by electing F. R. Pierson chairman and 
Chas. LI. Page secretary. 
After considerable discussion, it was decided to co-operate on the fol¬ 
lowing subjects and such other matters of mutual interest as may be 
brought for action or consideration from time to time. 
1. Unite in striving to secure legislation which shall be favorable to 
one or more of the allied associations of Seedsmen, Nurserymen and 
Florists. 
2. Work for the defeat of legislation which would prove unfavorable 
to cither association. 
3. Try to secure favorable rulings in the custom house regarding 
imports of seeds, plants, bulbs, trees and horticultural merchandise and 
supplies. 
4. Should Congress revise present tariff classification and import 
duties, to strive to ascertain what changes, if any, are desired by the 
trade at large and work for their adoption. 
5. Secure as favorable classification and rates as are possible on all 
classes of freight and express matter. 
G. To strive to do away with the Government Seed Distribution by 
Congressmen. 
7. To secure the Postal rate of $8.00 per 100 pounds on catalogues, 
pamphlets and other printed matter weighing 2 ounces each, or more, 
without affixing stamps. 
8. To secure a convenient parcels post system, both domestic and 
foreign. 
9. We deprecate the giving of commissions to gardeners or others 
who have charge of making purchases for public institutions or large 
private buyers, and believe that some plan should be devised to do 
away with this practice. 
It was moved that copies of the minutes of this meeting be sent to t he 
President and Secretary of each association, and also to each member 
of the joint committee—Carried. 
On motion the Secretary was instructed to purchase a record book in 
which to keep the records of each meeting. 
A letter was read from W. H. Grinnell, President of the American 
Seed Trade Association, and also letters from Gjso. S. Green and C. L. 
Watrous. 
It was moved that a special committee, composed -of one member 
from each organization, be appointed by the chairman to consider the 
subject of graft or commissions paid to the agents of buyers—Carried— 
and the chair appointed Messrs. Kelsey, Hammond and Page. On 
motion a committee, consisting of Messrs. Page, Pierson and Watrous 
was appointed on Postal legislation. 
The following resolution was presented: 
Resolved, that it is the sense of this meeting that each association 
should, as far as possible, appoint each year the chairmen of the three 
committees which are most concerned in subjects of mutual interests as 
members of this joint committee. 
At a subsequent meeting the following committees were appointed on 
Transportation, Messrs. Green, Pierson and Meehan. 
Chas. N. Page, Secretary. 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN’S CONVENTION. 
The seventh annual convention of the Southern Nurserymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation was held at the Monticello, in Norfolk, Va., August 1G. In the 
absence of the president, J. C. Miller of Rome, Ga., was elected to pre¬ 
side. The Southern nurseries were well represented. Almost every 
nurseryman of prominence in the South, east of the Mississippi, being 
present. 
A good program was presented and the leading questions before the 
Southern nurserymen were thoroughly discussed. Specialists from the 
experiment stations and from the national departments were present 
and contributed valuable addresses. It was a meeting of unusual in¬ 
terest to the nursery trade, one which no progressive nurseryman could 
afford to miss. 
The following papers were delivered and thoroughly discussed. 
“Crown Gall,” by Prof. G. G. Hedgcock of the Mississippi Valley 
Laboratory of the Bureau of Plant Industry. After thorough and ex¬ 
haustive experiments it is shown that crown gall in apple is not infec¬ 
tious or contagious, and not specially harmful to the tree, though it 
is found almost universally, in orchards and nurseries. 
“ Co-operation,” by Mr. Orlando Harrison of Berlin, Md., was an inter¬ 
esting and timely paper on the need of co-operative work among 
nurserymen. 
“Where to Draw the lane in Nursery Restrictions,” by Prof. W. M 
