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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance, - - - - - $1.00 
Six Months, ______ .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.50 
Six Months, “ “ 1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
ItSpDrafts on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are 
requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AflERlCAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; vice-president, E. Albert¬ 
son, Bridgeport, Ind.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. 
Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Robert C. Berckmans, 
Augusta, Ga.; F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 
Committee on Transportation—A. L. Brooke, ex-officio, chairman ; William 
Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; Wilson J. Peters, 
Troy, O.; Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Tadmor, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Annual convention for 1899—At Chicago, Ill., June If, 15. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., April, 1899. 
THE PROGRAMME. 
In the last issue of the National Nurseryman it was sug¬ 
gested that it was not too early to begin the preparation of the 
programme for the annual convention of the American Asso¬ 
ciation in Chicago on June 14 and 15. Attention is now 
called to the fact that the Iowa Horticultural Society, one of 
strongest and most active in the country, prepares its pro¬ 
gramme nine months ahead. That society met in Des Moines 
in annual convention on December 14. On March 14, three 
months later, the president, the secretary, and a member of the 
executive committee, two of the three being nurserymen, met 
at Des Moines and prepared for next fall’s meeting a pro¬ 
gramme that occupied half a column in the Iowa State Regis¬ 
ter the next day. On that programme are the names of nine¬ 
teen nurserymen, most of whom are known wherever nursery 
stock is grown in this country. They are: C. L. Watrous, F. E. 
Pease, W. E. Chapin, Des Moines; H. D. McCoy, Knoxville; 
W. C. Haviland, Fort Dodge; J. C. Ferris, B. S. Ferris, Hamp¬ 
ton; M. E. Hinckley, Marcus; J. B. Mitchell, Cresco; E. N. 
Taggart, Anderson; Silas Wilson, Atlantic; Henry Schroeder, 
Sigourney; M. J. Graham, Adel; M. J. Wragg, Waukee; A. F. 
Colman, Corning; W. H. Lewis, Winterset: C. G. Patten, Charles 
City; W. O. Willard, Grinnell; Elmer Reeves, Waverly. 
The question naturally suggested is: If nineteen nurserymen 
in a single state are ready to prepare papers for a state conven¬ 
tion of horticulturists, ought there not to be at least as many 
nurserymen in the state of Illinois and the neighboring states 
of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, 
Ohio and Michigan ready to prepare papers for a national con¬ 
vention of nurserymen ? We have referred to states adjoining 
or near Illinois because it may be thought that the comparison 
with the Iowa convention should take into consideration the 
distance traveled in going to a state and a national convention. 
But states east, west and south will be represented at the con¬ 
vention. 
Secretary Seager is at work upon the programme and. we are 
sure that the efforts of all who take prominent part in the 
Chicago convention next June will be duly appreciated. Pres¬ 
ident Brooke is anxious to make this meeting of especial inter¬ 
est and profit, and it is needless to say that the other officers, 
committeemen and members generally will be glad to aid in 
attaining that result. 
At the Iowa convention next fall Mr. Watrous has beer 
asked to discuss the managment of soils; Mr. McCoy the hor¬ 
ticultural demands of the near future; Mr. Hinckley, good old 
varieties; Mr. Mitchell, the true test of hardiness; Mr. Wilson, 
the propagation of cherry and plum; Mr. Wragg, the value of 
Rocky Mountain conifers; Mr. Colman, experimental horticul¬ 
ture; Mr Pease, landscape gardening; Mr. Willard, shade and 
ornamental trees. 
Among the topics which have been discussed before the 
American Association of Nurserymen, and upon which there 
may still be new light, are: Duties of nurserymen in propagat¬ 
ing varieties, protecting trees from the sun, nursery experi¬ 
mental plantations, problems of the nurseryman, value of 
associated effort, the transportation problem, budding and 
grafting, advertising, educated help in nurseries, labor saving 
implements, effects of distant removal on trees and plants, 
higher aims of this Association, suggestions for the improve¬ 
ment of fruits, French nurseries as seen by an American nur¬ 
seryman, suggestions for the improvement of the nursery 
business, packing and shipping nursery stock, the nursery out¬ 
look, nomenclature, winter protection of nursery stock, new 
varieties, managing nursery agents, preventing duplicates in 
mailing lists, nurserymen and the forestry problem, one good 
way to sell nursery stock, protection to originators, preventing 
freezing in transit, how to manage nursery employees, exhibi¬ 
tions by nurserymen at fairs, the retail trade, the wholesale 
trade, duty o the nurseryman to the fruit grower, the value of 
the annual conventions. 
If the suggestions herein contained result in the production 
of more papers than the convention has time to hear or the 
official report room to accommodate, the National Nursery¬ 
man is ready to undertake their publication and distribution. 
It would seem that in view of the large amount of expert 
opinion available upon these and kindred subjects, the time of 
the convention should be fully occupied during the two days- 
