. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 248 The America n' Fl orist. Feb. 2g, [The N urseryTrade '^ American Association of Nurserymen. J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la., President; C. M Hobbs, Bridgeport. Ind., Vice-President; George O Seager, Rochester, N, Y., Sec'y. Thirty-tbird annual convention to be held at Milwaukee, Wis., June, 1908. / Pereis, Cal.—L. J. Marshall is pre- paring to plant 20 acres of Eucalyptus rostrata. About 1,000 trees are to be planted to the acre. The Kapok fibre tree is described in No. 3100 of Daily Consular Trade Re- ports, Depa
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 248 The America n' Fl orist. Feb. 2g, [The N urseryTrade '^ American Association of Nurserymen. J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la., President; C. M Hobbs, Bridgeport. Ind., Vice-President; George O Seager, Rochester, N, Y., Sec'y. Thirty-tbird annual convention to be held at Milwaukee, Wis., June, 1908. / Pereis, Cal.—L. J. Marshall is pre- paring to plant 20 acres of Eucalyptus rostrata. About 1,000 trees are to be planted to the acre. The Kapok fibre tree is described in No. 3100 of Daily Consular Trade Re- ports, Department of Commerce and La- bor, Washington, D. C. Knoxvlile, Tekn.—The Peters Nur- sery Co. has been incorporated by S. V. Carter, L. D. Tyson, G. W. Callahan, E. P. Gettys and R. E. Gettys; capital, $25,000. Wateeville, Me.—Headquarters have been established in the Savings Bank building by the Phoenix Nursery Co. of Bloomington, III., which will be the gen- eral office for the state. Winchestee, Tenn.—J. W. Shadow of the Cedar Hill Nursery' and Orchard Co. has made a voluntary assignment in favor of his creditors. The estimated cash value of the assets is $60,000 and the liabilities $42,000. The interior flats of Jamaica Bay, N. Y., will, if the movement for the pur- pose proves successful, be turned into an immense water park in which will be enjoyed all the sports of smooth water. Harold A. Caparn of the American Soci- ety of Landscape Architects is interested in and has reported on the matter. Bkookings, S. —^N. E. Hansen, of the experiment station here, is distrib- uting the Hanska plum, a cross between the wild northwestern plum of Amer- ica, Prunus Americana, and the frag- i-ant apricot plum of China, Prunus Simoni, popular in California orchards; also three or more other plums, crosses made, as we understand it, at the sta- tion. Their circular of new varieties should be in the hands of live nursery- men. The following circulars have been re- cently issued
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