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The Florists' Review j^^*^ 29. loie. 



NUKSERY NEWS. 



AMEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NXJRSEBYUEN. 

 President, E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, la.; Vice- 

 president, John AVntson, Newark, N. Y. ; Secre- 

 tary, John Hall. Rochester. N. Y. ; Treasurer, 

 Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb. 



The obituary column this week con- 

 tains notice of the death of Horace S. 

 Wiley, "of Cayuga, N, Y. 



This is the twentieth consecutive con- 

 vention of the A. A. N. attended by John 

 C. Chase, of Derry, N. H. Has anyone a 

 better record? 



The Federal Horticultural Board has 

 issued Notice of Quarantine No. 25, ef- 

 fective July 1, amending No. 22, revising 

 and extending the area in New England 

 quarantined because of the gipsy and 

 brown-tail moth. For the purposes of 

 inspection the territory is divided into 

 two areas, to be known as the lightly 

 infected area and the generally infect- 

 ed area. 



A. A. N. IN ANNUAL SESSION. 



Meets This Week at Milwaukee. 



For thirty-nine years the American 

 Association of Nurserymen pursued the 

 even tenor of its way and then, at its 

 fortieth meeting, at Detroit last June, 

 almost on the spur of the moment, the 

 members adopted recommendations by 

 the progressive element that amounted 

 to a complete reorganization. Whether 

 the recommendations and the action on 

 them were wise or otherwise is the 

 matter that is of chief interest in the 

 forty-first annual meeting, in progress 

 at Milwaukee this week. 



The principal feature of the reor- 

 ganization was the plan by which dues 

 are assessed in accordance with the vol- 

 ume of business done by each member. 

 Previously the dues were $5 per year; 

 now they are $10 for associate members 

 (those in the allied trades) and $5 from 

 active members (nurserymen), who also 

 pay additional dues as follows: Doing 

 an annual business of $10^000 to $20,- 

 000, $5; $20,000 to $50,000, $15; $50,000 

 to $100,000, $25; $100,000 and over, $50. 

 The purpose, of course, was to raise 

 money with which to extend the activi- 

 ties of the organization, through the 

 employment of counsel, the employment 

 of a secretary to devote his entire time 

 to the work, through establishing an 

 arbitration committee and by other 

 means. 



How the New Plan Works. 



It is, of course, too much to expect 

 that the first year should show what 

 the new plan will do, but it has demon- 

 strated that the members are willing 

 to see it through; neither the sharply 

 increased cost of membership nor the 

 necessity of making a statement of the 

 approximate volume of the member's 

 annual sales has resulted in any consid- 

 erable defection, while it has almost 

 doubled the revenues. The membership 

 for this and the previous five years is 

 as follows: 



1911— St. Louis 382 



1912— Boston 363 



191.3— Portland 463 



1014— Cleveland 410 



1915— Detroit 4.35 



1916— Milwaukee 372 



The receipts from all sources last 

 vear were $3,151.90; this year they have 

 been $5,829.85. 



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So much from the association's side; 

 the results are quite tangible and satis- 

 factory. From the members' point of 

 view it is not quite jilain what addi- 

 tional benefit has been received through 

 the additional revenue. Not all the new 

 money has been expended and plans 

 work out slowly, so the members ex- 

 press themselves as content to await 

 developments, but it seems apparent 

 that men are needed as well as money 

 to carry on the work; few members care 

 to devote their time continuously. 



The Opening Session. 



The convention program opened at 

 10 a. m. June 28, but in reality the 

 meeting began a day earlier, June 27 

 being devoted to a conference of the 

 officers and executive committee with 

 the members of special committees, and 

 it was not until after this conference 

 that most of the reports were complet- 

 ed. President Welch put the finishing 

 touches on his address to the members 

 during the evening of June 27. In 

 it he discussed the results of the year 

 and the work that must be done to com- 

 plete the reorganization and develop its 

 new activities. 



Followin|^ the presentation of the 

 other officers' reports the balance of 

 the morning was devoted to a discussion 

 of the new organization, although J. B. 

 Mayhew, of Waxahachie, Tex., father 

 of the plan, who had been assigned the 

 place at the head of the program under 

 the title "A Greater American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen," was absent, ill. 

 The attendance was the largest in years 

 and a great many were heard. While 

 the discussion was somewhat rambling 

 in character, the general sentiment was 

 one of approval and a desire to see the 

 plan carried forward. 



The Business Year. 



The annual reports of the secretary 

 and treasurer were of special interest 

 this time, as indicating the success of 

 the reorganization. 



Secretary Hall's report included the 

 following: 



"Predictions were made by some that 

 Article I of the new constitution, creat- 

 ing 'active' and 'associate' members, 

 and introducing the plan calling for 

 'additional' dues based on amount of 

 business done, would work disastrously 

 to the association. The results to date 

 do not show such to have been the case. 

 They have rather justified the wisdom 

 of the adoption of the new rule, for, 

 without any canvass for new members, 

 the Badge Book contains 364 names and 

 eight others have registered since that 

 publication was mailed. The cash re- 

 ceipts for the year have been $5,829.85, 

 against $3,151.90 in 1915. For several 

 years effort has been made by specially 

 appointed committees to obtain new 

 members, but the favorable response 

 given' to the invitation was largely in- 

 tended as a compliment to the individ- 

 ual soliciting the membership and there- 

 fore was not permanent. 



"Your executive committee has 

 passed favorably upon twenty-one of 

 the twenty-four applications for new 

 memberships, but after careful investi- 

 gation has felt compelled to decline the 

 other three. To hold membership in 

 this association frQm this time on will 

 mean much more to the individual nur- 

 seryman who enjoys the privilege than 

 the mere perfunctory act of registra- 

 tion. 



"For the last six years the average 

 registration has been 378. It ought to 

 be twice that number. 



RECEIPTS. 



June 21, 1015, Balances and new mem- 

 berships $ 03.50 



June 20, 1916, From membership and 

 badge book 5,720.7.'> 



Sale of trade term labels 15.60 



Total $5,829.85 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Paid Peter Youngers, Treas $5,572.10 



Balance on hand 257.75 



Total $5,829.85 



"In conclusion, let me assert that 

 there can be no doubt as to the future 



