. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 736 The American Florist. May J, American Association of Nurserymen. Stannard. Ottawa. President: W. Louisiana. Vice-President: John Hall. Rochester. N. Y., Sec'y. Thirty-fifth annual convention to be held at Denver. June 8-10. 1910. Washington, D. C.—The house com- mittee on agriculture gave a hearing to nurserymen trom various sections of the country April 27, who spoke for and against the Simmons bill. This bill aims to prohibit the importation of nursery stock without a permit.
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 736 The American Florist. May J, American Association of Nurserymen. Stannard. Ottawa. President: W. Louisiana. Vice-President: John Hall. Rochester. N. Y., Sec'y. Thirty-fifth annual convention to be held at Denver. June 8-10. 1910. Washington, D. C.—The house com- mittee on agriculture gave a hearing to nurserymen trom various sections of the country April 27, who spoke for and against the Simmons bill. This bill aims to prohibit the importation of nursery stock without a permit. STOCKTON, Calif.—The park com- mission is improving Liberty park, this spring, in which a pumping plant has been installed to water the park from. The other seven squares are furnished with water by a water com- pany. L. c. Mindach is head gardener for the park commission. John Hall. SEC'y AMERICAN ASS'N OF NUBSERYMEN. We have pleasure in giving a few details of the career of John Hall, Rochester, N. Y., the well-known sec- retary of the American Association of Nurserymen. Much of the matter has appeared in the recently published History of Rochester: "John Hall Is a member of the Park Commission of Rochester and in this city is rated with those men of genuine public ?worth who stand for advancement in the city and in the individual, his in- fluence being ever on the side of right, justice, truth and culture. He is on the city parks committee and chair- man of the park playgrounds com- mittee, also associated with Wm. C Barry, nurseryman, on the committee having supervision over the famous Highland Park. A native of England, Mr. Hall was born at Little Chester, near Derby, in 1845, a son of William and Mary Ash Hall. The father was a magistrate of Derby and one of the pioneers in the great temperance movement. In his home locality the latter was very prominent and influ- ential, and acted as almoner for the late Sir William Harcourt and the late Samuel Plimsoll, the '
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