. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 4B6 The American Florist. April 11^ The Nursery TR^Eje. AM. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. Chab. a. iLeENTEiTZ, Pres.; D. S. Lake, Vioe- Pres.; GEORaE C. Sbaoer, Rochester, N. Y., Sec'y. Twenty-eighth annual convention, Detroit, Mich., June 10-12,1903. The peach trees are practically cleaned up in wholesale hands. J. C. Olmsted has been at Atlanta, Ga., to make a plan for park improve- ment. City Forester Edward Mottan will plant 350 new trees in the streets of Brocton, Mass., this season. The Washington Nursery Compa
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 4B6 The American Florist. April 11^ The Nursery TR^Eje. AM. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. Chab. a. iLeENTEiTZ, Pres.; D. S. Lake, Vioe- Pres.; GEORaE C. Sbaoer, Rochester, N. Y., Sec'y. Twenty-eighth annual convention, Detroit, Mich., June 10-12,1903. The peach trees are practically cleaned up in wholesale hands. J. C. Olmsted has been at Atlanta, Ga., to make a plan for park improve- ment. City Forester Edward Mottan will plant 350 new trees in the streets of Brocton, Mass., this season. The Washington Nursery Company, of Toppenish, Wash., has been incorporated, authorized capital $50,000, by Leon Girod and A. W. McDonald. The Lightfoot Nursery Company, of Chattanooga, Tenn., has been incorpor- ated by H. Lightfoot, , K. S. Walker, M. A. Ivan and J. H. McLean, capital $10,000. The Platte Purchase Fruit Growers' Association has been organized by the election of J. H. Karnes, of St. Joseph, Mo., as president and J. M. Irvine, of St. Joseph, as secretary. C. R. Burr & Company, of Hartford, Conn., have secured a forty-acre tract at South Manchester for the extension of their business, planting it to peach and apple trees and flowering shrubs. The Ailanthus as a Street Tree. From the experience of some of our western cities, the recommendation of the Hartford Florists' Club regarding the ailanthus as a street tree should be accepted with modifications. In addi- tion to the good qualities mentioned it may possess at least one quality which is very undesirable. The ailanthus is usually monoecious, the male and female flowers being borne upon separate trees. The flowers are inconspicuous and of a greenish tinge, but with an odor capable of converting the atmosphere of the balmiest day of June into an air like the fumes of a garbage factory. Its common name, tree ol heaven, is scarcely suggest- ive of its character in this respect. In St. Louis and other places many specimens have be
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