. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 666 The American Florist. Apt il lo. The Nursery Trade American Association of Narserymen. C. J. Browu, Rochester, President; C. M. Hobbs, Hridgeport, Ind., Vice-Presdent; George C. Seager, Rochester, ,Seo'y. Thirty-fourth annual convention to be held at Rochester, N. Y., June, 1909 Washington, D. C.—Peter Bisset is starting a nursery. The Payne bill, paragraph 260, is re- ported to ha\o been amended in tlie house, admitting evergreen seedlings free, formerly $1 per 1,000 and 15 per cent ad valorem. Houst
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 666 The American Florist. Apt il lo. The Nursery Trade American Association of Narserymen. C. J. Browu, Rochester, President; C. M. Hobbs, Hridgeport, Ind., Vice-Presdent; George C. Seager, Rochester, ,Seo'y. Thirty-fourth annual convention to be held at Rochester, N. Y., June, 1909 Washington, D. C.—Peter Bisset is starting a nursery. The Payne bill, paragraph 260, is re- ported to ha\o been amended in tlie house, admitting evergreen seedlings free, formerly $1 per 1,000 and 15 per cent ad valorem. Houston, Tex.—Henry Zendler, a landscape gardener, blew his brains out on the porch of his residence on Cleve- land street March 20. His invalid ^Yife was in the house at the time. Papers incorporating the Home Plan- ters Association of Rochester were filed in that city, March 26, with the secre- tary of state. Harry Bartlett Phillips, Stuart Hamilton and Henry E. Gandy are directors. The special agent in charge of the Hawaii Experiment Station at Hono- lulu says there is an opening for a nurseryman in Hawaii. The supply of material for starting various crops is being done temporarily by the station, but this will be discontinued entirely as soon as the matter is taken up by a commercial nurseryman. A Machine for cutting sod is figured and described in the Gardeners' Chron- icle. It is worked by two horses and the knives may be arranged to cut the sod to any required size or thickness far more neatly and evenly than can be done by hand-worked sod cutters. It should be very useful when large quan- tities of sod are cut and the sward is sufficiently level to allow of its use. San Fhancisco, Calif.—The nurs- eries here are reporting a very brisk season, nearly all conifers, evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, also outdoor palms of the larger sizes, being cleaned out entirely. The landscape gardeners have been having a very busy time of it lately. Owing to the long continued
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