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JoNB 22, 1811. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMI^CAM ASSOCIATION OF NUB8ERTMEN. 



Officers for 1911-12: Pres., J. H. Dayton, Palnes- 

 vlllc, O.; Vlce-prt'8., W. H. Wyman, North Ablngton, 

 Mass.; Sec'y. John Hall, Rofheeter, N. Y.; Treas., 

 <3. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. Thirty-seventh annual 

 meeting, Boston, June, 1912. 



John C. Chase, of Benj. Chase Co., 

 Derry, N. H,, is making a Pacific coast 

 trip after the St. Louis convention. 



' C. C. COLIE, formerly the representative 

 ■ of the Stark Bros. Nurseries & Or- 

 'chards Co. at Carthage, Mo., has been 



appointed manager for the company at 



Omaha, Neb. 



John Hall, secretary of the A. A. N., 

 advises that in his annual report he failed 

 to give Pennsylvania credit for thirteen 

 members, among the seventeen states hav- 

 ing representation of six or more. 



William F. Kasting, of Buffalo, is 

 a candidate for the office of commis- 

 sioner of agriculture for the state of 

 New York to succeed Eaymond A. Pear- 

 son, whose term of office has expired. 



THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. 



[The first day's session, with list of trade 

 exhibitors, etc., was fully reported ta the 

 Review for June 15.] 



Officers Elected. 



President — J. H. Dayton, Painesville, 

 Ohio. 



Vice-president — W. H. "Wyman, North - 

 Abington, Mass. 



Secretary — ^John Hall, Eochester, N. 

 Y. 



Treasurer — C. L. Yates, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



Executive Committee — E. M. Sher- 

 man, Charles City, la.; H. B. Chase, 

 Huntsville, Ala.; J. M. Pitkin, Newark, 

 N. Y. 



Meeting place for 1912 — Boston, 

 Mass. 



Besolutions Adopted. 



Wm. Pitkin's report for the legisla- 

 tive committee was the subject for pro- 

 longed discussion. Besolutions were 

 adopted and ordered sent to each mem- 

 ber of both houses of Congress, pro- 

 testing against the so-called Symmons 

 bill, originated by Prof. L. O. Howard, 

 the government entomologist, by the 

 teriM|».of which it is proposed to give 

 the oecretary of Agriculture arbitrary 

 power to quarantine all nursery ship- 

 ments from countries where nursery 

 stock is infested with injurious insects 

 or diseases. Besolutions were also 

 adopted favoring a federal inspection 

 law, so that the inspection be not cen- 

 tered in a one-man power. State in- 

 spection, now in effect, was approved. 

 The legislative department was author- 

 ized in the different states to make 



J. H. Dayton. 

 (President American Association of Nurserymen.) 



test cases of state inspection laws. Pro- 

 tests were entered against state inspec- 

 tors in Colorado and Montana condemn- 

 ing and destroying large numbers of 

 trees, in enforcement of the state in- 

 spection law. The parcels post and 1 

 cent postage were favored. 



Papers Bead. 



The papers read at the sessions of 

 Thursday and Friday were: 



"The Nurserymen and the Entomologist," by 

 Prof. S. J. Hunter, Lawrence, Kan. 



"Spring Versus Fail Planting of Fruit Trees," 

 by Dr. J. C. Whitten, Professor of Horticulture, 

 Columbia, Mo. 



"Ethics of Our Business," by Harlan P. Kel- 

 sey, Salem, Mass. 



"Fraternity Among Nurserymen," by Charles T. 

 Smith, Concord, Ga. 



"Standardization of Grades," by W. J. Ma- 

 loney, Dansviile, N. Y.; B. P. Bernardin, Par- 

 sons, Kan.; W. F. Heikes, Huntsville, Ala. 



"Standardization of Prices at Wholesale," by 

 T. J. Smith, Geneva, N. Y. 



"Standardization of Prices at Retail," by 

 Abner Hoopes, West Chester, Pa. 



"Should Large Buyers Not in the Trade, Par^s, 

 Cemeteries, Public Institutions, etc.. Be Given 

 Trade Prices?" by Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, 

 Pa.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 



"How to Extend Our Wholesale Markets," by 

 E. S. V^^eleh, Shenandoah, Iowa. 



"How to Extend Our Retail Markets," by 

 J. M. Pitkin, Newark, N. Y., and F. H. Stan- 

 nard, Ottawa, Kan. 



"Our Mailing Lists— Who Are Entitled to 



Trade Lists?" by E. W. Klrkpatrlck, McKlnney, 

 Texas, and Jim Parker, Tecumseh, Okla. 



"Our Mailing Lists— Should They Be Classi- 

 fied?" by C. J. Maloy, Rochester, N. Y., an* 

 A. J. Robinson, Bedford, Mass. 



•'Our Mailing Lists — How Best Kept Up-to- 

 Date?" by C. J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y, 



Entertainment Features. 



The principal features of the enter- 

 tainment program were the Shaw ban- 

 quet at the Southern hotel Thursday 

 evening, June 15, and the steamer ride 

 on the Mississippi the following after- 

 noon. The will of the late Henry Shaw,, 

 founder of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den, provided funds for an annual ban- 

 quet of horticulturists, and the direc- 

 tor of the garden took the opportunity 

 of giving the twenty-second of these 

 events at a time when he could have 

 the nurserymen as guests. Nearly 30O 

 attended. William Trelease, director of 

 Shaw's Garden, presided as toast- 

 master. He introduced the first 

 speaker, J. H. Dayton, of Plaiuvillo,. 

 Ohio, president-elect of the association,, 

 who spoke on ' ' Our Guests. ' ' Mr. Day- 

 ton accounted for his election on the 

 ground that the association has adopted 

 the custom of electing its officers on 



Members of the American Association of Nurserymen at the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



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