The National Nursery, 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCKAl 
Copyright, 1893, by The National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
VOL. I. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY, 1893. 
NO. 6. 
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 
Eighteenth Annual Meeting at the World’s 
Columbian Exposition. 
Important action taken on various subjects—Rules 
OP NOMENCLATURE OP THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY ADOPTED AS THOSE OP THE ASSOCIATION— 
Unjust discrimination at the Columbian exposition 
REMEDIED—Declaration in pavor op the porest 
RESERVE SYSTEM—WORLD’S HORTICULTURAL CONGRESS— 
Freight classipications—Papers on trade topics. 
The eighteenth annual meeting of the American 
As‘?ociation of Nurserymen, was held at Chicago June 
7th and 8th The sessions were held in Assembly Hall, 
in the annex of Agricultural Hall, on the World’s 
Columbian Exposition grounds Promptly at nine 
o’clock on the morning of the 7th the meeting was 
called to order and the routine business was quickly 
transacted. Early in the session the following officers 
were elected: President, Colonel U. B. Pearsall, Fort 
Scott, Kan.; vice-president, W. F. Heikes, Huntsville, 
Ala.; secretary, George C Seager, Rochester, N. Y ; 
treasurer, N. A. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill ; execu¬ 
tive committee, Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; W. J. 
Peters, Troy, O ; D. S. Fake, Shenandoah, la. 
It was unanimously decided to meet next year at 
Niagara Falls. 
Following a discussion on the subject, these resolu¬ 
tions presented by C F. Watrous, of Des Moines la., 
were adopted : 
Whereas, There has been, and still is, in connection with the 
nomenclature of fruits, much of duplication, sensationalism and 
crudeness, as well as occasionally more or less of coarseness, and 
even of vulgarity, and 
Whereas, The American Pomological Society has for many 
years been engaged in the effort to simplify purify and elevate 
the same—an effort in which more recently it has been actively 
seconded by the Pomological Division of the National Department 
of Agriculture, and 
Whereas, We deem the catalogues of nurserymen one of the 
most effective means of influencing the practice of the public in 
such matters, therefore 
Resolved, That we regard it as highly important that all 
nurserymen, whether members of this Association or otherwise, 
in the framing of their catalogues, and in their other communica¬ 
tions to the public, adhere strictly to the rules of practice put 
forth in the now generally approved “Rules of Nomenclature” of 
the American Pomological Society. 
Resolved, That to justify the very reasonable and proper 
ambition of the devotees of pomology it be I'ecognized as a science 
in the approved sense of that word, to the end that its dignity, 
together with thorough and generally approved system may be 
regarded as indispensible. 
At the session on Thursday morning the follow¬ 
ing resolutions, presented by Professor Bailey, were 
adopted : 
Resolved, That it is the sense of this Association that pomo¬ 
logy and viticulture be held to be co-ordinate with floriculture, 
and that the latter be not recognized as a distinct department. 
Also 
Resolved, That the council of administration be requested to 
repeal the local rules which now interfere with the exhibition of 
perishable fruits; and 
Resolved, That the administration be requested to enact such 
reasonable rules and regulations as will enable exhibitors to place 
perishable fruits upon their tables immediately upon their arrival 
at the offices of the various express companies. 
The treatment of exhibiting nurserymen and horti¬ 
culturists at the hands of the administration, of the 
exposition received severe denouncement on all sides. 
President Augustine said that he shipped to the fair 
grounds a quantity of cut flowers on Monday night, 
June 5th, from his nurseries at Normal, Ill., only 130 
miles south of Chicago, by the direct route of the 
Illinois Central railroad, which enters the grounds, and 
yet these flowers did not reach the exhibition tables 
until Wednesday morning, and then only through Mr. 
Augustine’s personal solicitation. The delay was caused 
—as it had been in the case of all other horticultural 
exhibits—by the policy of the management of the fair, 
which seemed to be to throw hindrances in the way of 
everything horticultural. Mr. Augustine regarded it as 
a colossal piece of indignity. 
J. M. Samuels, chief of the Department of Horticul¬ 
ture, said he had endeavored by every means in his 
power to secure greater consideration for the horticul¬ 
turists at the hands of the council of administration. 
Several members spoke of the good work done by Mr. 
Samuels in behalf of horticulturalists, and upon motion 
of S. D. Willard, of Geneva, a vote of thanks was 
extended to Chief Samuels. 
It was suggested that a committee composed of 
Professor F. H. Bailey, of Ithaca, N. Y.; C. F. Wat¬ 
rous, T. V. Munson, of Denison, Tex.; S. D. Willard 
and H. N. Albaugh, of Tadmor, O., wait upon the 
council of administration with a view of seeking relief. 
At the suggestion of Mr. Wright, Chief Samuel’s assist¬ 
ant, it was decided that all the members of the Associa¬ 
tion accompany the committee on the proposed visit. 
This was done, and the council of administration 
assured the nurserymen that the evils complained of 
would be remedied. One of the principal grievances 
complained of was that in addition to the delay which 
