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The Florists' Rtvicw 



JULT 6, 1922 



The annual meeting of the Pacific 

 Coast Nurserymen's Association will be 

 held at Portland, Ore., July 11 to 13. 



D. T. McCarthy, head of D. T. Mc- 

 Carthy & Sons, • Lockport, N. Y., visited 

 Chicago after attending the Detroit con- 

 vention of the A. A. N. A splendid spring 

 business is his report. 



The Senate, July 1, passed the agri- 

 cultural schedule of the tariff bill, which 

 includes the duties on nursery stock. Re- 

 port appears on a forward page, giving 

 the rates fixed by the upper house. 



Benjamin Chase, of IsXkSl fame, was 

 in Chicago June 30 on his way to Port- 

 land from Derry Village, N. H., after 

 stopping at Detroit for the A. A. N. con- 

 vention, of which he has long been a regu- 

 lar attendant. 



PLANT PSOPAOATOBS ELECT. 



The fourth annual meeting of the 

 American Plant Propagators' Associa- 

 tion took place at the Wolverine hotel, 

 Detroit, Mich., Thursday evening, June 

 29. Nurserymen who are chiefly inter- 

 ested in the production of young stock 

 compose this association. At this meet- 

 ing officers for the coming year were 

 elected as follows: President, E. M. 

 Sherman, Charles City, la.; vice-presi- 

 dent, J. A. Young, Aurora, 111.; secre- 

 tary-treasurer, F, W. Von Oven, Naper- 

 ville. 111. The executive committee for 

 the coming year is as follows: Thomas 

 McBeth, Springfield, O.; J. Jenkins, 

 Winona, O.; A. J. Cultra, Onarga, 111.; 

 0. E. Carr, Yellow Springs, O., and E. M. 

 Sherman, Charles, la. 



PAINESVILLE OUTINQ. 



The Storrs & Harrison Co. gave their 

 annual nursery community picnic Fri- 

 day afternoon and evening, June 30, 

 at Township park, where nurserymen 

 and their families forgot their cares 

 and had one joyous and pleasant outing. 



Township park is an ideal place for 

 an occasion of this kind and it may be 

 said that it was through the efforts of 

 the Storrs & Harrison Co. that it be- 

 came a park and it is becoming more 

 popular every year. 



The address by John H. Dayton was 

 instructive and was appreciated by the 

 largest gathering of nurserymen ever 

 assembled for an occasion of this kind. 



One of the features of the day was 

 the ball game between the married men 

 and single men, which resulted in a vic- 

 tory for the former. Other sports were 

 races and novelty sports. T. J. M. 



A. A. N. WINDS UP MEETING. 



Officers Elected. 



Friday, June 30, at 2 p. m., the forty- 

 seventh annual convention of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen came 

 to an end on the mezzanine floor of the 

 Hotel Wolverine, at Detroit, Mich. Just 

 before the wind-up the retiring presi- 

 dent, Michael R. Cashman, introduced 

 the newly elected officers: President- 

 elect, Paul C. Lindley; vice-president- 



elect, Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass.; 

 treasurer-elect, J. W. Hill, Des Moines, 

 la. Additions to the executive commit- 

 tee are M. R, Cashman, Owatonna, 

 Minn., and William Flemer, Jr., Prince- 

 ton, N. J. All the above were recom- 

 mended by the committee of state vice- 

 presidents through their chairman the 

 day preceding, but, since the commit- 

 tee's nominee for vice-president had 

 withdrawn previous to the chairman's 

 report, a unanimous election placed 

 Harlan P. Kelsey in the vice-presidency. 

 William Flemer, Jr., was introduced by 

 Mr. Cashman as the "youngest mem- 

 ber of the executive board in a long 



Paul C. Lindley. 



(President Ameiican Association of Nurserymen.) 



time." Charles Sizemore is to be re- 

 tained as secretary. 



Members Expelled. 



Abandoning the secrecy of the old- 

 time executive sessions, the association 

 voted in open meeting on the last day 

 of the convention to expel three mem- 

 bers of the association and to reprimand 

 one other. 



In the case of Harrison's Nurseries, 

 Berlin, Md., the evidence presented to 

 the vigilance committee was thought 

 not sufficient to justify any stronger ac- 

 tion than censure. After much discus- 

 sion, the following resolution was 

 passed : 



Resolved, that Harrison's Nurseries, of Berlin, 

 M(l., be hereby reprimanded for carelessness in 

 the Mussolman case for having shipped stocls 

 without adecjiiate inspection and grading. In the 

 mind of the committee the evidence does not 

 warrant the charge alleged, that ninety per cent 

 of the one-year trees shipped were aflfected with 

 crown gall and hairj- root, or that Harrison's 

 Nurseries, willfully and with intent to defraud, 

 cut crown galls from trees before shipping same. 



In the case of Glen Bros., Rochester, 



N. Y., the following resolution was in- 

 troduced by the executive committee: 



Tbe American Association of Nurserymen, 

 tlirougli Its Tigilance committee, having revievred 

 tbe evidence in the case of Glen Bros., of 

 Rochester, N. T., and they having been regularly 

 notified to appear before the vigilance committee 

 In tbeir own defense, without response on tbelr 

 part; 



And further, it being apparent that their cata- 

 logue and advertising ere calculated to mislead 

 tbe buying public; 



Therefore, be it resolved, that this association 

 does therefore censure Glen Bros, for violating 

 established ethical rules and for failing to main- 

 tain the standards required by this association. 



On the floor of the convention it was 

 voted to change the word ' ' censure ' ' to 

 ' ' expel. ' ' 



Two other members were expelled in 

 subsequent resoliitions of the executive 

 committee, as follows: 



On account of persistence In unethical trade 

 practices as revealed by the vigilance committee, 

 we recommend to the asaociation that Leamon O. 

 Tingle, of Pittsville, Hd., be expelled from mem- 

 bership in the association. 



Tbe case of H. M. Whiting was reported to the 

 association in June, 1921, but action for dismissal 

 at that time was deferred on account of a tech- 

 nicality. We now recommend that H. H. Whit- 

 ing, of Geneva and Boston, be expelled from thia 

 association. 



In order to restrict the circulation of 

 information regarding wholesale prices, 

 the association voted at the same time 

 to pass this resolution, presented by the 

 executive committee: 



since quoting wholesale prices on open mail 

 cards, reveals information to those who should 

 not see it; 



Therefore, be it resolved, that we condemn this 

 practice and request memtwrs to discontinue and 

 discourage it. 



Conunittee Reports. 



J. W. Hill, of Des Moines, la., was 

 called upon to deliver the invocation 

 Wednesday morning in place of W. H. 

 Wyman, of North Abington, Mass. The 

 latter had been in an antomobile acei- 

 dent and, while not seriously injured, 

 was not in condition to travel to 

 Detroit. 



The mayor of Detroit, James Coazens, 

 was also prevented from attending by 

 illness, and the address of welcome was 

 delivered by Captain Bush, of the de- 

 partment of parks and boulevards. 



Wednesday afternoon, June 28, was 

 given over mostly to reports of com- 

 mittees. President Cashman, in his re- 

 port on the executive activity and the 

 financial status of the association 

 pointed out the progress made, the 

 progress that can be made, and em- 

 phasized the high aim of the organiza- 

 tion. 



Orlando Harrison, of Berlin, Md., as 

 chairman of the committee on legisla- 

 tion and tariff, said in his report: 



"December 14, 1921, in cooperation 

 with your secretary, Mr. Sizemore, we 

 went before the interstate commerce 

 commission asking for reduced freight 

 rates. We feel sure that our presenta- 

 tion to the commission had at least 

 some bearing on the recent reduction of 

 freight rates, which the nurserymen 

 will share in, as well as their customers. 



"April 7 this committee was called 

 together with the executive committee 

 of this association at the New Willard 

 hotel, at Washington. Your committee 

 held its sessions to consider thoroughly 

 our action before going before the tei- 

 eral horticultural board. After full dis- 



