THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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referred to were lost, and the discussion was stricken from 
the minutes. 
Afterward Mr. Bissell, who was very anxious that the 
association should take some action in the matter, and 
who was supported by Mr. Van Lindley, Mr. Young, and 
others, asked that a resolution condemning the action of 
the Maryland legislature be adopted. 
Mr. Watrous: “ The resident members shquld act. 
If it were a national law that was complained of it would 
be different. The same thing as in Maryland was at¬ 
tempted by the Iowa legislature, but a few of us went 
before the proper authorities and it was stopped.” 
Mr. Greening : “ I should favot a resolution condemn¬ 
ing Maryland’s action.” 
Mr. Augustine : “ How did the Maryland law origi¬ 
nate ? Was it drawn by the fruit growers, or was it pre¬ 
pared by nurserymen ? 
Mr. Bissell: “ The law was handed to me by Howard 
Chase, of R. G. Chase & Co. I think we ought to act in 
the matter, and co-operate with Maryland nurserymen.” 
Mr. Watrous : “ I must dissent to a motion to publish 
the law. It will add to the expense of publishing our 
proceedings. It is a local law. It will not last. It was 
undoubtedly passed hastily. We might adopt some sort 
of a resolution.” 
Mr. Heikes : “ I think we ought to take action against 
such a law, and against the entomologist enforcing it.” 
Mr. Albaugh : “ I think it would be a mistake to 
publish the law. It would be sending it broadcast and 
adding to the mischief, inducing other states to act 
similarly. They had better not try it in Ohio. ‘ John 
Bull and his Tree Bill ’ was the subject of my first speech 
in the Ohio legislature. There is no sense in it. Mary¬ 
land growers should stop it. California has such a bill. 
I saw 50,000 peach trees lying discarded by the roadside 
out there. They had knots as large as a hazel nut up to 
the size of a butternut. I asked the foreman of the 
nursery what was the matter with those trees. He said 
he didn’t know. I shall always think he did know. I 
knew. Any of you who ship nursery stock into California 
will find that it will be overhauled by a committee that 
doesn’t know a curculio from an aphis, or a cherry slug 
from a tumble-bug. Maryland growers should wake up 
or we will have to wake them up.” 
The following resolution was finally adopted : 
“ Resolved, That all laws enacted by states, discrimi¬ 
nating against nursery products, shipped into such state 
from other states, are hereby condemned by this associa¬ 
tion as unfair and unjust to interstate commerce and in 
every way objectionable, and we ask the repeal of all 
such laws.” 
The chair announced the following committees: Ex¬ 
hibits— Henry Augustine, R. A. Wickersham, J. W. 
Gaines; necrology—George W. Campbell, Jacob W. 
Manning, Charles Greening; final resolutions—Wing R. 
Smith, G. E. Meissner, E. Albertson ; transportation— N. 
H. Albaugh, Irving Rouse, A. L. Brooke, W. F. Heikes, 
Silas Wilson. 
WHOLESALE LISTS TO ORCIIARDISTS. 
What was intended merely as a little pleasantry devel 
oped into a discussion of one of the main questions now 
agitating the nurserymen. Mr. Morey, of Dansville, N. 
Y., said he desired to have read a paper by one of the 
most prominent nurserymen in one of the greatest nursery 
centers of the country. In one of the grandest flights of 
oratory of the convention, Mr. Morey presented Charles 
Greening, of Monroe, Mich., who stepped to the plat¬ 
form and read a circular which his firm had prepared on 
the subject of wholesale lists to orchardists. Mr. Green¬ 
ing made a plea for the retail nurseryman, in support of 
the circular. At the conclusion of his somewhat ex¬ 
tended remarks, Mr. Albaugh was called on to respond. 
There was a general laugh when Mr. Albaugh said he did 
not catch the drift of the remarks. 
Finally Mr. Albaugh said : “ Some tells me it was a 
complaint that wholesale nurserymen are sending their 
price lists broadcast to the injury of the retail trade. 
Now that does not mean me. We do not do that. We 
sell to customers at retail rates. Any one who does the 
sort of thing complained of can follow it a year or two and 
then his name is mud. If anything will undermine the 
nursery business, it is this.” 
President Wilson: “I heartily endorse what Mr. 
Albaugh has said. The civil war tested men as they have 
seldom been tested. The last few years have tested the 
nurserymen. Many have been subject to circumstances 
entirely unusual, and have been compelled to go into the 
market and offer their stock at wholesale prices. We 
must have the retailer. This is a very important ques¬ 
tion.” 
Mr. Willis: “lam in the retail nursery business. I 
have tried to sell trees at low prices. I don’t believe 
people want to buy trees at low prices. I believe trees 
can be sold now, and that they are going to be sold. The 
planter will buy where he can get his trees the cheapest. 
A great amount of stock is going to be bought from the 
traveling salesman. The farmer goes to town for sugar, 
tea, etc., but not for trees. The salesman comes along 
and persuades him to buy. The fact that wholesale 
price lists are in the farmer’s house don’t sell that stock, 
but it does hinder the salesman from making sales. The 
consequence is, the farmer does not buy at all, neither of 
wholesaler or retailer. The wholesaler may get a few 
orders in this way, but he will lose more from the retailers 
than he will make in this way from the consumers. We 
see wholesale prices in the papers, but they do not get 
the trade. It seems to me that the best policy is for the 
wholesalers to confine the distribution of their wholesale 
lists to dealers.” 
Mr. Greening: “Last spring many carloads of stock 
came into Michigan from the East, and were placed on 
side-tracks where the stock was auctioned.” 
Mr. Hale, Treeville, Tenn.: “In the South the subject 
you are discussing is more hurtful than any other. It 
almost ruins the retail trade. Farmers keep the whole¬ 
sale catalogues in sight. The consequence is that there 
