THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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member, Mr. William Smith, though an octogenarian 
and with with a few years to spare, is still active and 
interested. 
ATTRACTIVE OFFICES. 
It is gratifying to note that a large number of nur¬ 
serymen are taking pains to surrend their offices, the 
center of their business activity, with well and artis¬ 
tically planted grounds; The lawn about the office of 
Messrs. W. & T. Smith is particularly attractive. 
Here the visitor may see mature specimens of trees, 
that perhaps he has only read about or seen in the 
form of small nursery specimens. Conifers of rare sorts, 
maples, cut leaved birches, and weeping trees carefully 
trained are found properly arranged and harmon¬ 
iously grouped. It seems to us that one of the best- 
local advertisements a firm can have is the judicious 
planting of its own grounds in an artistic manner of 
this kind. 
The tree on the left is the type of Norway Maple from which they are budding their 
blocks; the tree on the right is a Fern Leaf Linden, a most effective lawn tree. 
PRESIDENT ALBERTSON’S LETTER, 
The time seems now opportune for striking for uni¬ 
formity in transportation and inspection laws. Our 
association should be strongly represented at Washing¬ 
ton. Mr. Albertson sets for the case in emphatic terms 
in another column. The funds of the association are ex¬ 
hausted. If the work is forwarded it must be done 
by individual effort and assistance. Contributions to 
support the work of the committees have been called 
for. Let those who can afford it follow the lead of the 
$50.00 subscriber, but there are many who cannot do 
as much. Let it be understood that the $5.00 of one 
man or company may be as much for them as the 
$50.00 of the other. Let all support and all will be interested. 
It is everybody’s business in the best meaning of the phrase. 
CALIFORNIA PEOPLE HOLD CONVENTION TO URGE GOVERN¬ 
MENT TO IRRIGATE SACRAMENTO VALLEY. 
Californians in large numbers, recently met at Sacramento to memor¬ 
ialize the Government to extend the benefits of the National Reclama¬ 
tion Act to the Sacramento Valley. 
The result of the meeting was a strong declaration for united effort by 
the people of the entire Valley to bring about the early construction of 
some portion of what the officials of the Reclamation Service call ’“the 
great Sacramento Valley Irrigation Project.” A resolution was un¬ 
animously adopted, pledging the united support of the entire Valley to 
such locality as may be selected by engineers of the Reclamation Service 
as the proper place of beginning. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY DONATE PEARS TO 
STUDENTS. 
Cornell students in the College of Agriculture are making 
a serious study of the subject of systematic pomology. 
They have been greatly aided in their studies of the pear by 
a generous contribution of fifty varieties, for examination 
and description, by Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., 
and Ithaca. F. A. 
The semi-centennial of the Illinois Horticultural Society 
will occur at Champaign, Dec. 12 to 13. Special features 
will be introduced in the program on this occasion. 
In the November numbers of The Youth’s Companion is 
begun a new serial story by Henry Gardner Hunting. “The 
Heart of Tilley.” The prominent characters in it are a rail¬ 
road engineer and his motherless daughter, and incidentally 
the story contains vivid pictures of railroad and art student 
life in and near Chicago. A distinguished contributor to The 
Companion’s November issues is Madame Sembrich, who 
chats of her meetings with European sovereigns. Three 
stories of the Pawnees, by May Roberts Clark, and fully 
twenty more complete stories are among the other eonspicu- 
A somewhat mature specimen of Catalpa bungeii, surrounded by hurbacesus planting on features of these November issues of The Companion, 
the grounds of W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y. 
