. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 810 The American Florist. May ig. The Nurserylrade '^ American Aasociation of Narserymen. Emory Albertson. Bridgeport, Ind., Pres ; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md., Vice-Pres.; George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y., Sec'y. Tbirty-flrst anoual convention, Dallas, Tex., June 13-15, 1906. ^ Visited Chicago: J. G. Tersteeg, representing B. Ruys, of Dedemsvaart. Holland. J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, Conn., is scheduled to give an address entitled "A Country Man's View of Advertising" at the Auditorium hotel M


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 810 The American Florist. May ig. The Nurserylrade '^ American Aasociation of Narserymen. Emory Albertson. Bridgeport, Ind., Pres ; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md., Vice-Pres.; George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y., Sec'y. Tbirty-flrst anoual convention, Dallas, Tex., June 13-15, 1906. ^ Visited Chicago: J. G. Tersteeg, representing B. Ruys, of Dedemsvaart. Holland. J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, Conn., is scheduled to give an address entitled "A Country Man's View of Advertising" at the Auditorium hotel May 22. Washington Grove, Md.—Mrs. Dr. Huntley, acting for the civic improve- ment committee, is superintending the landscape gardening on the plaza at the entrance gate on the railroad front of the grove. Flushing, N. Y.—Park Commissioner Kennedy, Landscape Architect Samuel B. Parsons and Thos. F. Byrnes recently made a tour of inspection of the land about Kissena lake, which is proposed for a site for a city park. Nashville, Tenn.—The State Nur- serymen's Association was organized on May 2. The following officers were elected: J. C. Hale, of Winchester, president; Thos. Brazelton, of Win- chester, vice-president, and J. M. Bent- ley, of Knoxville, secretary and treasur- er. A. J. Smith, of Knoxville, S. Byrnes, of Silvia, and H. L. Nicholson, of Win- chester, were elected vice-presidents for east, west and middle Tennessee, re- spectively. The Cooperias. Cooperias are interesting bulbous plants growing in the southwestern states, and New Mexico. They are of the amaryllis family and are a small genus of only two species, C. Drummondii, var. chlorosolen, and C. pedunculata. Botanically they are sep- arated from the zephyr flowers (zephy- ranthes) only by some small distinctions in their anthers and some difference in the character of their leaves. From a garden point of view the chief distinc- tion is that the cooperias, known as the giant fairy lilies and evening s


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