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HORTICULTURE 



June 13, 1908 



ganizations to which most of us belong. 

 If it is desired, however, to hold an 

 afternoon or evening session, the Pro- 

 gram Committee will gladly consider 

 your wishes in the matter. 



National Council of Horticulture. 



No one regrets more than 1 that 

 through an oversight the call for a 

 report from Mr. Maloy, Chairman of 

 the Committee on National Council of 

 Horticulture, was omitted from the 

 printed program. 



Indeed. I am personally more respon- 

 sible for this than anyone else, but 

 am pleased to state that a correction 

 in the program has been made and 

 Mr. Maloy's report will be forthcoming. 

 Forest Preserve. 



The subject of Forest Preservation 

 is one of the most important questions 

 confronting the people of the United 

 States today and one in which we as 

 nurserymen should be vitallj' inter- 

 ested. If the ruthless devastation of 

 our forests, cou|)led with the natural 

 demands for lumber and railroad ties. 

 is continued, we shall within another 

 decade be confronted Ijy a very grave 

 problem. 



We are forest builders and should 

 give every encouragement possible to 

 forest preservation. 



There is a branch of the Department 

 of Agriculture formerly known as the 

 "Bureau of Forestry," but now called 

 •'Forest Service." under the direction 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture and of 

 which Hon. Gifford Pinchot is the 

 head, which «tands ready to co-operate 

 with the different states, oi'ganizations 

 or individuals whose object is the 

 planting or preservation of forest.^. 



In addition to this some of the states 

 have enacted laws for the preservation 

 of their forests and for the encourage- 

 ment of forest tree planting, but there 

 are many other states, largely in the 

 middle west and south, which have 

 taken no action whatever in the mat- 

 ter, and it has suggested itself to me 

 that we as an association should dele- 

 gate to our various Vice-Presidents 

 the duty (f investigatins:. arousing in- 

 terest, and if possible bring about the 

 enaction of laws along this line, in 

 their states. 



I am inclined to think that it might 

 be well to have a "Forest Preseive 

 Committee," or a "Foresting Commit- 

 tee, ' whose duty it shall be to co-opcr- 

 nte with the "National Forest Service" 

 as well as the individuals having the 

 matter in charge in the respective 

 states, and render every assistance pos- 

 sible to bring about the desired result. 

 Committees. 



,\11 committees the past year have 

 performed faithful and efficient work, 

 and I desire to take this opiiortunity 

 of expressing my appreciation o£ the 

 same. 



And finally, friends, I entertain the 

 hope that the thirty -third annual meet- 

 ing of this Associacion may be one of 

 profit and pleasure. 1 know somethiiif; 

 of the vexatious and annoying things 

 with which you have to contend during 

 the year, and it is well that you take 

 a few days off about this time every 

 summer and n:eet your rellow nurs. i y- 

 men and old friends who will buoy you 

 up and send you back home much bejie- 

 Ctted by having attended the meeting. 

 SECRETARY'S REPORT. 

 The president was followed by 



Secretary Seager. who In a short re- 

 port spoke of the work of his office 

 and was followed by Treasurer Yates. 



THE TREASURER'S REPORT. 



The report of Treasurer Yates 

 showed receipts for the year to be 

 $2905.22 and disbursements $oo09.20, 

 leaving a balance in the treasury at 

 the present time of $291:'.. 2V. 



COMMITTEE REPORTS. 



Irving Rouse reported thait as Con- 

 gress had taken no action on the tar- 

 iff his committee had found no occu- 

 pation but were prepared for more 

 work at the next session. 



Wm. Pitkin reported that the main 

 work of the committee on legislation 

 had been with Sonth Dakota laws as 

 instructed at the Detroit meeting. The 

 litigation was successful and nursery- 

 men can now do business in that stale 

 by filing inspection certificate of their 

 own state and paying a moderate li- 

 cense. Attention was also called to 

 the illegal features of the laws of V/is- 

 consin, Wyoming and Oklahoma, but 

 no action had been taken. The com- 

 mittee feels that the laws can be de- 

 feated In the?e states and it would be 

 'wise to undertake it. 



The report of C. L. Watrous on en- 

 tomology' led to a lengthy discussion 

 which was joined in by several mem- 

 bers of the National Society of En- 

 tomologists. The resolutions were 

 read which had been passed by this 

 society in relation to safegtiarding 

 this counti-y against insect pests or 

 plant diseases in imported plants, and 

 also to have Congress empower the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to stamp out 

 such pests when introduced and 

 threatening to become dangerous or 

 migratory. .\lso in resolutions looking 

 to uniform Inspection of nurser\ stock 

 tor Interstate shipment. 



Orlando Harrison's report on na- 

 tional inspection law followed. He 

 had asked for the opinion of eighty 

 le.iding nurser>-nien by mail and read 

 extracts from answers received, most 

 of them favoring a national law and 

 national inspection of nurseries. The 

 question as stated by Mr. Harrison is, 

 "Who is to be supreme, the state or 

 nation?" States prove very jealous of 

 their rights, and he thinks the attain- 

 ment of uniformity is hopeless. He 

 recommended that some definite sys- 

 tem be established for inspecting im- 

 ported goods, but aside from that ad- 

 vised dropping the subject, or as C. 

 L. Watrous put it. "Bury and forget 

 to erect a headstone." A likely dis- 

 cussion followed, joined in by many 

 members and also by Prof. Symonds 

 of Maryland 8,nd Prof. Burgess of 

 Washington, formerly of Ohio. Prof. 

 Symonds recommended inspeotlon of 

 imported stock at point of delivery, 

 and thought arrangements to do this 

 could be made with the state authori- 

 ties. Some of the members, notably 

 Mr. Kirk pat rick of Texas, opposed In- 

 spectioii of imported nursery stock 

 v/hen the pests were liable to be intro- 

 duced as readily in hay, frtiit or by 

 other means, or even by scientists, as 

 witness the gypsy moth. It was 

 unanimously voted to dispense with 

 further action looking to a national 

 inspection law. 



Thos. W. Meehan reported on the 

 exhibits, thanking the exhibitors for 

 promptness in making exhibits and 



spoke of the popularity this feature ol 

 the meetings had attained. 



Wm. Pitkin reported that previous 

 committees on transportation had done 

 their work so well that the present 

 committee has found it wise to con- 

 fine itself to an effort not to allow any 

 changes to be made. The nurserymen 

 are now, however, threatened with an 

 attem|)t to change rule 1. releasing 

 the carriers from all liability for loss 

 of freight due to causes beyond the 

 carriers' control, such as fires or 

 wrecks, even when due to the carriers' 

 negligence, unless 20 per cent, addi- 

 tional to the regular rate of freight is 

 paid. Nurserymen were advised to 

 take steps tO' prevent this consumma- 

 tion. 



Peter Youngers of the Committee on 

 Mutual Insurance had taken up the 

 subject with the insurance commis- 

 sioners of most of the states and found 

 such conflicting and impossible re- 

 quirements that the project appeared 

 Impractical and he advised dropiiing it, 

 which was concurred in. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



To allow the members to have all of 

 Friday for an excursion to Oconomo- 

 woc to accept the hospitality of the 

 Citizens' Association of that place and 

 of Mr. Fred Pabst, who invited the as- 

 sociation to visit his magnificent home 

 and farm. It was decided to hold an 

 afternoon session, and the first business 

 of the afternoon session was the report 

 made by the vice-presidents. They 

 recommended Seattle as the place of 

 next meeting, and fully one-third of 

 the members present voted for Seattle. 

 After some oratorical pyrotechnics 

 glorifying the land where cherries re- 

 quiring two or three bites to a cherry 

 are produced, the eloquence of Pitkin, 

 the able champion of Rochester, N. Y., 

 finally prevailed, and that city was 

 chosen for next meeting. 



The ticket nominated by the Vice- 

 Presidents was headed by J. W. Hill, 

 who. however, declined re-election, 

 and it required a division of the house 

 to decide as to whether the association 

 would allow him to retire and lose the 

 best jiresidlng officer the soclet.v has 

 had. This being decided, the following 

 were elected' President, Charles J. 

 Brown: vice-president. C. M. Hobbs; 

 secretary, George C. Seager; treasurer, 

 C. L. Yates. Chairman executive com- 

 mittee, J. H. Dayton; executive com- 

 mittee, E. M. Sherman, W. B. Chase, 

 J. W. Hill. George C. Seager. 



J. M. Pitkin next reported on the 

 question of sending out cheap lists at 

 end of the season. He started by ex- 

 cusing himself for not preparing be- 

 forehand and so had attempted to 

 abstract from his colleague Jossehn all 

 the information he could. To gain 

 l<ossession of him he proposed buying 

 him a drink and questioning him. Jos- 

 selyn was not averse to giving Infor- 

 mation but refused the driirk. When 

 pressed for his reason he said that 

 since be had undergone an operation 

 he was unable to indulge. Pitkin 

 sympathetically wanted to know all 

 about the operation and was ruefullj' 

 informed that his informant had had 

 a severe attack of rheui^iatism, and 

 the doctor had cut out the booze. 

 Other humorous anecdotes enlivened 

 his talk, but as to cheap lists his con- 

 clusions were that the^- were air injury 

 to the trade and to the customers of 



