. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 364 The American Florist. Oct. 12, The Nursery TR^ide. AM. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. R. C. Beeckmans, Pres.; R. J. CoE, Vice-Pres.; Qeobse C. Sbasbr, Rochester, N. Y., Seo'y. Twenty-seventh annual convention, Milwaukee, Wis., June, 1903. Kansas CirY will plant about 8,000 street trees this fall. A NEW nursery is to be established near Coloma, Mich., by George W. Grant, John M. Keck and C. H. Merrifield. The fall shipping season is now open- ing and most nurserymen have more orders in sight than is usually the cas


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 364 The American Florist. Oct. 12, The Nursery TR^ide. AM. ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. R. C. Beeckmans, Pres.; R. J. CoE, Vice-Pres.; Qeobse C. Sbasbr, Rochester, N. Y., Seo'y. Twenty-seventh annual convention, Milwaukee, Wis., June, 1903. Kansas CirY will plant about 8,000 street trees this fall. A NEW nursery is to be established near Coloma, Mich., by George W. Grant, John M. Keck and C. H. Merrifield. The fall shipping season is now open- ing and most nurserymen have more orders in sight than is usually the case at this date. Prof. L. H. Bailey is enthusiastic over the horticultural possibilities of the Pacific Coast, where he spent the summer lecturing. Send us your business card so that we may have your name and address correct for the next edition of our Trade Direc- tory, now in course of revision. Ellwangee & Barry have secured the contract for supplying certain nursery stock to the parks of Albany, N. Y., on a bid of $500. The following is the stock included: 200 American elms, 100 Euro- pean lindens, 50 liquidambers, 100 Nor- way maples, 100 Wiers' cut-leaved maples, 100 Schwedler's maple, 100 sugar maple, 100 oriental plane, 50 yel- low wood, 50 pin oak, 50 scarlet oak, 50 macrocarpa, 100 Japanese maples in four varieties. 200 Berberis Thunbergii, 200 hybrid perpetual roses. Little & Co. bid $755 for the order. The Wm. H. Moon Co., $901, and the Chase Bros. Co., $940. To Save a Tree, Ed. Am. Florist:—In frontof our house we have a large horse chestnut tree which appears to be dying. For the last couple of years it has leaved out nicely in the spring, but about the first of June the foliage would begin to wither and fall, so that there would be few green leaves by September. What can the matter be, and the remedy? A. B. C. Horse chestnuts frequently lose their foliage in late summer, particularly in cities, in dry conditions, which develop fungoid blight. In this par


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