June 1G, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



55 



gig lis of any form of root gall. Mr. 

 Smith cited what the authorities of the 

 experiment stations have said regard- 

 ing; it, and described experiments con- 

 difcted for five years by the Jewell 

 Nursery Co., by which he had proven 

 tu his complete satisfaction that the 

 liaid gall is not only not contagious 

 bur not injurious and generally out- 

 gr,)wn. Peter Youngers, of Geneva, 

 js(b., took the same stand. Specimens 

 of roots of perfectly healthy trees were 

 slidwn which had been grown from nur- 

 se i.v stock affected by these diseases. 

 Alter a lengthy discussion, in which 

 suiiie of the inspectors took issue with 

 the essayists, the following resolutions, 

 presented by Mr. Smith, were adopted: 



Whereas, The hard or hairy form of root or 

 cri'wn gall by practical experiments has not 

 bffii found Injurious or contagious to apple 

 tn-fs; 



'I'lierefore, Be It Resolved, That we, the 

 Aiui'i'loan Association of Nurserymen, do hereby 

 piott'st against and condemn the action of state 

 le^'islatures in refusing to grant certificates of 

 adniission and acceptance of apple trees in their 

 respective states because of the presence of hard 

 or lialry form of root or crown gall, and we 

 hereby urge upon the legislatures, their agents 

 or persons having this matter in charge, the ad- 

 visability of admitting this class of stock, and 

 reeommend that the laws be so changed as to 

 permit the delivery of apple trees showing hard 

 or hairy form of root or crown gall; also, that 

 this resolution be placed In the bands of our 

 legislative committee with power to act at their 

 diseretlon. 



Officers Elected. 



The officers for 1910-11, elected as 

 per nominations by the state vice-presi- 

 dents, are: 



President — W. P. Stark, Louisiana, 

 Mo. 



V^ice-president — E. S. Welch, Shenan- 

 doah, la. 



Secretary — John Hall, Eochester. 



Treasurer — C. L. Yates, Eochester. 



Executive Committee — J. H. Dayton, 

 Painesville, O.; E. M. Sherman, Charles 

 City, la.; H. B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala. 



All s^ve the president and vice-presi- 

 dent are reelections. 



St. Louis Next. 



yt. Louis is a perennial candidate for 

 the nurserymen's convention. Vic- 

 torious on the floor of the convention 

 a year ago, but defeated on a mail 

 vote to reconsider, that city's repre- 

 sentatives renewed the invitation for 

 1!)11 and were successful. 



The Local Hospitalities. 



Probably never before in its history 

 has the association been so lavishly 

 aiid fittingly entertained as during the 

 meeting held in Denver last week. 

 E\ery available moment during the 

 two days of the convention was 

 occupied in automobile rides for the 

 ladies, park entertainments and the- 

 ater parties planned for by the 

 l*"iiver Convention League and the 

 ^vestern nurserymen. On Friday, the 

 flii.y after the closing of the busi- 

 iicss sessions, all the members and 

 tlieir ladies, some 300 in number, were 

 guests of the western nurserymen on a 

 trip over the Moffat road, one of the 

 •Ji'Jst attractive of the many scenic 

 routes in Colorado. A bountiful lunch 

 ^"tis provided to be eaten on the way, 

 ^ud after the train arrived at the high- 

 est altitude, 11,660 feet above sea level, 

 '•'c party descended to indulge in 

 nierry games of snow-balling, in pic- 

 ture-taking and gathering rare speci- 

 'I'ens of flowers growing in abundance 

 among the scanty grass. 



In contrast to this rugged and spec- 

 tacular trip was that taken next day 

 as guests of the Colorado State Board 

 °f Immigration through the fertile 



E. S. Welch. 



(Vice-President American Association of Nurserymen.) 



plains skirting the mountains, where 

 the visitors were given object lessons 

 in the manner of conducting irrigation 

 and the immense benefits received 

 therefrom. Irrigated fields covered 

 with waving grain or thriftily growing 

 trees alternated with gray, barren 

 wastes that had not yet been touched 

 by the life-giving waters. Stops were 

 made at Boulder, Longmont, Loveland, 

 Fort Collins, Greeley and Lupton, and 

 at each place conveyances stood ready, 

 either automobiles or trolley cars, to 

 take the visitors to points of interest 

 in the surrounding country. At Fort 

 Collins, where the State College of Ag- 

 riculture is situated, an especially 

 hearty greeting was accorded the vis- 

 itors by the faculty of the college and 

 the Chamber of Commerce. Welcome 

 refreshments were served amid the cool, 

 shady green of the campus, and the 

 buildings and grounds were thrown 

 open to inspection. An abundance of 

 literature was distributed everywhere, 

 bearing witness not only to the mar- 

 velous results achieved within the 

 short history of the settlements, but 

 also to the implicit faith in the future 

 cherished by the enthusiastic people of 

 this region of Colorado. In fact, Colo- 

 rado people confess themselves to be 

 "boomers and boosters," and rather 

 enjoy being thus considered. 



CHOOSINa A VOCATION. 



[An extract from the paper of A. Willis, read 

 before the Nurserymen's Convention at Denver, 

 June 8, 1910.] 



Before advising a young man to 

 adopt the nursery business as a voca- 

 tion, think what your advice may mean 

 and what the consequence may be. Ee- 



member that few nurserymen are rich. 

 So far as is known to the writer, there 

 is no nurseryman worth a million dol- 

 lars who has made his money in the 

 nursery business in this country. There 

 is, so far as known to the writer, no 

 nursery firm which has ever handled 

 a million dollars' worth of nursery 

 stock in any one year in the regular 

 way of trade. There have been few 

 great men among nurserymen and few 

 ever had high official position. This 

 calling does not promise large success 

 in a business or financial way, nor yet 

 in official honors and preferments, but 

 it does promise, if faithfully followed, 

 a comfortable support and in some cases 

 a degree of luxury for its members. It 

 promises, if carefully cultivated, good 

 character and in large degree the con- 

 fidence and good will of those with 

 whom you associate. 



You will have the satisfaction of 

 knowing that no one does more to adorn 

 the landscape, or make beautiful the 

 home of the working man, or the man- 

 sion of the rich, and no one has con- 

 tributed more to promote the pleasure 

 and good health of his fellow men than 

 the people who have supplied the 

 planter and the orchardist, and the 

 landscape artist with the fruit and 

 ornamental trees they have needed for 

 their work. The nurseryman has sup- 

 plied these, and he has supplied mfl- 

 lions of trees for the forester and the 

 new work of conservation will from 

 every standpoint be more dependent on 

 him than on the followers of any other 

 calling. 



Before deciding how you would ad- 

 vise this young man, let me ask that 

 you call to mind your own experience 



