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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jlm; h;, 1010, 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OK MHSKKVMKN. 



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 iiiiii, Mci.; \ icT pi'i'S.. !■;. S. Wi'lcli, >lifn:iniliiuli, 

 111.; >rcy. .ioliii ll;ill, IN jilu-l.T. N V.: Tn-ii--., 



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iilliil iiir'liliK. ^t. luni-, .hilir, I'.MU 



Ihi-. 'I'l'.M'^ Xnrscrv i'n.. of Houston, 

 'I'l'x., Iia-- licni i iicorjioiatr.l. with a <','ij)i- 

 l;il (,f .-ii'd. IIIIII. l,v l-Mw.-inl Tras, C. 8. 

 I'icstiiii a ml A. .1. < otnlil. 



I . I ilUKiTKMjdKsT. (if F. ,1. (!ro(»toii- 

 ilorst \- 8()iis, Boskoop, who lias been 

 xisitiijj; iMiisci'vinrii ami ])laiitsiiK>ii in 

 lliis iMiiiiili\ loi- two iiioiitlis or iiior(\ 

 sailcil fdi' Ijiillainl .Imic 14, fi'oiii New 

 York. 



< iiAiaiKi) with ii'^iii'i the mails to dc- 

 finiid. .1. A. Dflaiiey was aiicsted at 

 Crystal Lake. III.. .Iuik^ (i. hy a ])()stollice 

 iiisjtector. |)claiioy foi-iiicrjy was crii- 

 ployoil liy !Saili|l(>r Bros., of ]')|(ui(niiigtoii, 

 and liy Arthur IJryaiit \- Sons, of Prince 

 ton. and i-^ ;illi'L;cd to ha\t' defrtuided his 

 I'lnphiyeis hy inetnis of forged orders. 

 At ("lucajio Ciiinmissioner I'ooU' held him 

 in .-fl.-lnii hail. 



PROGRESS IN THE TRADE. 



.\t the thirty-fifth annual con\t'nliou 

 of the American Association of Nur- 

 serymen, held at Denver June S and 9, 

 President F. II. Stannard sounded the 

 keynote in the following words, (juoted 

 from his annual address: 



"Much h.'is been done in recent 

 years in estiiblishing uniform grades, 

 in furnishing the grades now required 

 by the trade, tiiid discarding the objec- 

 tionable trees as required by the vari- 

 ous state laws, making the producer 

 furnish more real \alue for tin; money 

 than at any other period in the history 

 of the nursery business. For these rea- 

 sons there ought to be a united effort 

 (»n the jiart of the nurserymen to get 

 better prices. ' ' 



lictter stock and Ijctter prices; that 

 war- the theme, one way or another, of 

 .'ilmo^t i'\ery speaker. 



PRESIDENT STARK. 



W. !'. Stark, the ihw proident of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen, 

 also is pri'sidetit of the ^Missouri State 

 liiiaid iif liort iiMilt are, and is one of 

 the mii>t enthusiastic of ondiardist s, as 

 \\(ll .-I- niiiserymen. He is treasurer of 

 Stark F.ros. ■ Xiii'seiies iV Orchiirds ('o., 

 ot' Liniisianti. .Mo., and an untiring 

 worker in the li(dd ot' hoi't iculture gen- 

 erally. The St.'irk Jiiiii was established 

 in I'^L'."). am! is now being nianagecl by 

 the thiiil ,'ini| fourth generations of the 

 St;iik t'.'iniily. The comjiaiiy litis a cap- 

 it;il '-tocj'C ot' a million dollars, till jiaid 

 ii|'. and is piiijiably the largest nursery 

 cuncciii ill the woild. The company 

 giciwv iis >tociv ill nine states. i']xperi- 

 cnce has shown them that no one kx'.'il- 

 ity will pidijiice all kinds of stock to 

 tlie best ad\aiitage. and this is given 

 ;is tlie leason that the growing end of 

 the business is scattered over such a 

 large tt'rritory. The company employs 

 thousands of agents, and also has a 

 laryc intiil order trtide, which is in- 

 creasing rajiidly. The past season's 

 business was the largest in the history 

 if the concern. The com|i,any is the 

 lilt riiijiicer of F)elicious. King l)a\id. 



Senator, <"liam|iion, Black P>en, and 

 otlier apples, the names of which they 

 ic'gistered ;is trademarks, ;is ^vell tis 

 some tine pe.aches. grajies, etc. 



During the year just closed ^Mr. 

 Stark hiis serxcd the associtition tis 

 vice-president and chairman of the 

 transportation committee, :ind the way 

 he handled the hitter position showed 

 how wise is the iict of calling him to 

 assume the general direction of the 

 iilfairs of the association. 



THE DENVER CONVENTION. 



['J'lic (ipi'iiiiis (if tlio coiivcnlioii wiis fully re- 

 Iiortcd in last week's issue of The Itcvicw. ] 



Trade Ethics. 



The American Association of Nur- 

 serymen, on tlie closing d;iy of its con- 

 \entiou at Denver last week, went 

 s(jiiarely on record in regard to a (|ues- 

 tion of triide ethics. It was dechired 

 by resolution that trade lists should be 

 withheld from those not nurserj-nien or 

 detilers with established hetidqutirters; 

 thiit pi'ices should not be cut as the sea- 



W. P. Stark. 



' I'lCsidiTit American AsMicialimi ni 

 Niiisciv men. ' 



son progresses, tind tlitit those not buy- 

 ing to sell again should be charged re- 

 tail rates. 



President F. H. Slaniitird introduced 

 the subject by stiying, in his annual 

 address: " .\t our meeting in Koclies 

 ter last year, .1. Jf. Dayton, of Paines- 

 ville, O., retid a ptiper on ' Niirseryineii 

 Pulling Together a Little More.' which 

 I believe was miudi ap[)reciated by 

 every nurseryman present, not only l)e 

 cause of the entertaining way in which 

 he handled the subject, but because of 

 the facts presentiMl, which we all recog 

 nize ;ind ought to mtike ;i special elVort 



to put in practice.'' The discus oi, 

 crystallized in the adoption of the nl 

 lowing resolutions: 



Itcsolvc'd -Tliat mir luwol iiriccs vv Irml. :, 

 shiiiiUl lji> Miailcil (inly lo iiirsriyiiicii or il' ,., 

 with cstiililislicd li('ad(UKn'tfrs, wlio are kiiov, 

 be actively eiiiiajrcd in the trade; 



Tliat Sdiiic I'llurt should he made to lia\. i, 

 pi'ioe lists and (luotations to orcliardists aii.' .. 

 lail liuyeis ucarer a unil'oriu liasis lor tlie 

 grades ;aid \arieties of stock. 



'I'liat as tlie iiractice of eiittiiin- iirices a- ,,, 

 season adv.uices is one of the };reat deiiinral :, 

 I'f iKith the wliolesale and retail trade, >■ li,- 

 lished rates should be adiiereil to tlirouijlioui ,,, 

 season. 



'I'hat iiark^. ccmcteiies and other [lublic i ; 

 tuti(jus are not in the trade and are luit en', .,i 

 to trade rates. 



'I'hat slock slii|iiicd on orders of laiid>. {>, 

 architects and invoiced direct lo tlieir euslmi ,. 

 should be billed at same retail rales as if 

 order (juine direct from the planter. 



Opposed to Replace Policy. 



Having gone so far as lo deline \' ,,, 

 should and who should not get tr: ii^ 

 prices, J. R. Mtiyhcw, of Waxahacl- , 

 Tex., found little opposition to his p!,,n 

 to have the association go on reci i 

 iis condemning the so-called rephn i' 

 policy, which is Mr. Mayhew's jet 

 tibomination. He jiurposes to do w! .ii 

 he can to stamp it out, and recein y 

 secured the adoption of ii resolution l.v 

 the Texas Nurserymen's Associatmn 

 condeiniKitory of the practice of rephn- 

 ing stock at less than full price. Be in:; 

 on the program for a paper on "Tie 

 Resultant Evils of the Replace I'hI 

 icy," he said in part: "When mi 

 where the practice originated I am nn 

 able to say, but this I know, that feu 

 retail men the country over but have 

 priicticcd the policy of replacing, or tie 

 jiromisc to replace, at one-half jni' e, 

 free, or on some other nonsensical basi-. 

 Doubtless he who first conceived the 

 idea believed it to be a business asset. 

 but has it so proven? It has proven :i 

 millstone about our necks, branded i- 

 as shysters, grafters. ;ind what no' .' 

 My friends, this insane policy, if le ; 

 checked, will keep us poor. A busiin-- 

 policy detrimental to the common go" I 

 should be suppressed, whether in o ir 

 own business or that of our competit'i. 

 for our fields are so close by that t 

 one sows tares we all get our share i 

 the harvest." 



After a vehement denunciation t 

 the practice of replacing by E. - 

 Kirkpatrick, :ind :i mildly apologe ' 

 talk in its favor by J. S. Kerr, . '1 

 Texans. the following resolution w - 

 adopted: 



When as, the policy of reiilarinf: nursery r-' 

 .•it less tlii'ii full value, heretofore extensr 

 practiced over tlie country t^enerally. has 

 -iilteil in serious iujiiry to the nurserymen, e 

 eised a denioralizin;; influence over the sale'' 

 :iud has not really benefited the planter lic' • 

 il has encoura,i;ed ne,clit;ence on his part 

 idantinir ;ind lookiiis after trees and plants : 

 I liased by him ami led him to nnderestii' 

 ihe value of such mnsery stock sold liim; ' 



Whereas, this association was iuslituted a'' 

 maintained to promote tlie best interests of 

 niirservman and iilanter, which said iiitc 

 an- ti( 'ML' serionslv crippled by the above p"' 



MUd 



Wlieieas. said Iiractice necessarily teii'l 

 de-iii,v the confidence of the planter in 

 iiui'^eiyman. and produces in his mind an ei 

 ous impression as to tiie real value of the - 

 sold by the nurseryman, now therefore. 



r.e It Itesolved, That this association 

 (lualificdly condemns the said policy of re|il-' 

 nursery stock at less than its full market \ 

 as lieini^r unwise, unbusinesslike and wliuU.^ 

 iiei-cssai'v, and 



lie It Further Hesolved, That th(! real 

 teresls of the nurseryman and planter wi" ' 

 best promoted by the exercise of sound bus:' 

 methods in this as W(dl as other dealinj:'^. 



them. 



Hard Root Gall Innocuous. 



E. A. Smith, of Bake Tity, Mi"' 

 presented a icijier on the hard or h.'i " 

 form of root g.'iU or crown gtill- ' ''' 

 subject is an iinj)ort!int one. beciH;-' 

 several states have ]i;issed hiws j)roliil' 

 ' iting the admission of 1 n^es sliowi"^' 



