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years and $3 for one year from a mem- 

 bership as follows: 



1906 — West Baden 472 



190e— Dallas , .rri. 641 



1907— Detroit E 371 



1908— Milwaukee | 876 



1909 — Rochester ' 384 



1910— Denver 356 



1911— St. Louis 382 



1912— Boston 363 



1913 — Portland 463 



1914 — Cleveland 410 



Since February, 1900, we have ex- 

 pended $10,504 in tariff, legislation and 

 transportation matters alone. In addi- 

 iiori to this we have expended about 

 $ljt00 from the special horticultural 

 fund started in Portland two years ago. 

 That this money has been well and 

 wisely expended is beyond question of 

 doubt. The work has been handled by 

 committeemen who are all busy nur- 

 serymen, and who have given freely of 

 their time, inconvenienced themselves 

 time and time again to carry on this 

 work, and without one cent of re- 

 muneration for their services. 



"Note that our largest membership 

 in the last ten years was 541, and that 

 for six years of the ten the membership 

 has been under 400. Now, to get the 

 money necessary to do the work we 

 ought to do, we must either more than 

 double our membership or more than 

 quadruple our dues. I have heard it 

 stated at our conventions many times 

 that we ought to have a membership 

 of at least 1,000. I doubt if we can 

 ever get such a membership, even 

 though we have a secretary whose whole 

 time is devoted to the work of the 

 association. Certainly we have failed 

 by the various methods employed in 

 past years to build up our membership 

 to the desired point. I am greatly 

 pleased to see that in spite of this hard 

 year just past we have secured sixty 

 or seventy new members. This is evi- 

 dence of the good work done by our 

 membership committee this season. If 

 we advance our dues from $5 to $25 or 

 $30, or $40 or $50 per year, how many 

 members will we lose? Would the few 

 who made up such an association consti- 

 tute a national association of American 

 nurserymen? If, instead of the 400 

 to 500 odd members now attending our 

 annual meetings, our conventions con- 

 sisted of say 100 or 150 members (and 

 I honestly believe there are not to ex- 

 ceed 100 to 125 who will pay $30 to 

 $50 annual dues), would such a conven- 

 tion be a representative gathering of 

 the American nurserymen? Can this 

 association afford to consider any plan 

 that will reduce its membership from 

 400 or 500 to 100 or 125? All these 

 and dozens of other questions have oc- 

 curred to me in thinking this matter 

 over. 



"With the consent of the program 

 committee, I wish to call for Mr. May- 

 hew 's paper this morning, in order that 

 we may have ample time to consider it, 

 and I bespeak for him your careful 

 and close attention. Following his 

 paper I want a full and free discussion 

 of this question, and let's see if we 

 can get at a practical working plan 

 and then try it out." 



In considering the work of the legis- 

 lative committee, the president sug- 

 gested that in view of the large amount 

 of work which the members of this 

 committee were called upon to do, they 

 might be relieved of a large amount of 

 detail work by the association's hiring 

 a paid expert. The president's address 

 received much applause. 



Letters were read from L. A. Berck- 

 mans and W. E. Campbell. 



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 National Association," aroused great 

 interest. Upon his presentation of a 

 working plan to carry out his views, 

 it was moved a committee be appointed 

 to put his suggestions in practice. On 

 this committee were named J. E. May- 

 hew, chairman; J. Watson, J. W. Hill, 

 E. S. Welch, Peter Youngers, Theo. 

 Smith, E. C. Chase, F. H. Stannard, 

 W. C. Keed, W. Hoopes, T. J. Ferguson 

 and Eobert George. 



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 In his report. Secretary John Hall an- 

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 badge book for 1915 is the largest ever 

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of cash turned over to the treasurer is 

 the largest during the same period with 

 the exception of 1913. Four hundred 

 and twenty-six names appear in the 

 badge book for this year, and a leaf 

 insert containing others received too 

 late for publication brings the total 

 membership June 15 to 435. 



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