. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 710 The American Florist. Dec. 14, The (;luRSBRY Tr^ide. AM. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. R. C. Beeckmans, Pres.; R. J. Cob, Vice-Pres. QzoBSE C. Seageb, Rochester, N. Y., Seo'y. Twenty-seventh annual convention, Milwaukee, Wis., June, 1902. Nurserymen in general report collec- tions rather easier than usual this season. Visited Chicago: Martin Foley, man- ager Great Northern Nurseries, Baraboo, Wis. The Kansas State Horticultural Soci- ety meets at Topeka December 26 to 28, ?with a programme of much interest to orc
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 710 The American Florist. Dec. 14, The (;luRSBRY Tr^ide. AM. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. R. C. Beeckmans, Pres.; R. J. Cob, Vice-Pres. QzoBSE C. Seageb, Rochester, N. Y., Seo'y. Twenty-seventh annual convention, Milwaukee, Wis., June, 1902. Nurserymen in general report collec- tions rather easier than usual this season. Visited Chicago: Martin Foley, man- ager Great Northern Nurseries, Baraboo, Wis. The Kansas State Horticultural Soci- ety meets at Topeka December 26 to 28, ?with a programme of much interest to orchardists and nurserymen. There is a prospect for a close clean- up and better prices for field-grown roses in the spring, particularly on the stand- ard varieties of hybrid perpetuals. B. E. St. John, of Fairmont, Minn., has taken a partner in the person of G. D. McKisson, of Charles City, la., and it is their intention to considerably enlarge their nursery business. The census of 1900 shows that the nurserymen of the state of New York have $3,607,107 invested in land and buildings and that the value of their pro- duct in 1899 was $1,673,130. From Rochester word comes that while the apple crop was small the high prices induced many orchardists to make large fall plantings and many of the best varieties will be short for spring. C. D. Beadle, superintendent of the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N. C, exter- minated San Jose scale after it had obtained considerable foothold by dig- ging up and burning the worst infested plants and spraying everything else frequently with kerosene. Mortality Among Hickories. In this part of Western Pennsylvania, I doubt if five per cent of the hickories in good health three or four years since are now standing. So rapid was the action of the fungus disease that I measured the stump of a tree fourteen inches in diameter, a year after the disease first appeared, and there were only five inches of sound heart in it. I have two trees left out of over fif
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