THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. 
The presidents of the American Association of Nurserymen 
during the last twenty-five years have been as follows, the 
records for three years being lost : 
1876— Edgar Sanders, Chicago, Ill. 
1877— E. Moody, Loekport, N. Y. 
1878— J. S. Stickney, Waumatosa, Wis. 
1881—N. II. Albaugh, Tadmor, O. 
1883 —Norman J. Column, St. Louis, Mo. 
1884— M. A. Hunt, Chicago, Ill. 
1885— Edgar Sanders, Chicago, Ill. 
1886 Norman J. Column, St. Louis, Mo. 
1887 —C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la. 
1888— C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la. 
1889— George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y. 
1890— George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y. 
1891— S. M. Emery, Lake City, Minn. 
1892— J. Yau Lindley. Pomona, N. C. 
1893— II. Augustine, Normal, Ill. 
1894— U. B. Pearsall, Fort Scott, Kan. 
1895— J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn. 
1896— Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la. 
1897— Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la. 
1898— Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 
1899— A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan. 
1900— Wilson J. Peters, Troy, O. 
D. Wilmot Scott, Galena, Ill., was the secretary of the Asso¬ 
ciation from 1876 to 1888 ; Charles A. Green, Rochester, N Y., 
from 1888 to 1893 ; George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y., from 
1893 to 1900. 
A. R. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Ill., was treasurer of the 
Association from 1876 to 1891 ; N. A. Whitney, Franklin 
Grove, Ill., from 1891 to 1898; C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y., 
from 1898 to 1900. 
LOCAL NURSERY STOCK. 
There is a good deal written about the risk of getting stock 
from states where the climate is a few degrees colder or 
warmer than the one in which the purchaser lives, says S. W. 
Chambers in Michigan Farmer, and, consequently, we some¬ 
times find growers patronizing local nurseries for this very 
reason when the quality of stock is not really up to the 
standard required. While every man should, to an extent, 
patronize home industries so far as possible, it is a serious 
mistake to carry it too far. If the local nurseryman does not 
have the best of what we need it is better to send fifty or five 
hundred miles away for it if we know that it is better. Per¬ 
sonally I have never found this acclimatization craze of very 
much importance. I have purchased my stock from widely 
different parts of the country, and I do not think that the 
trees or shrubs undergo any disadvantage other than the 
dangers and injuries that may come from long shipment. 
That is the real and only danger. Delay in shipment from 
a distance may sometimes cause the roots to get too dry. 
But the idea that the young trees are unaccustomed to the 
climate of their new home, and hence must suffer, is hardly 
founded upon facts. All nursery stock when transplanted 
must undergo a period of readjustment when their roots 
become attached to the soil. But if they are moved carefully 
and not injured in the transportation they will easily adapt 
themselves to the new soil, even if brought from a colder or 
warmer state. Of course this does not mean that tender 
varieties that have been raised in a Southern nursery will 
thrive in a Northern home. One must at least select the 
varieties that are known to thrive in his locality. 
In some other respects I think there is a distinct advantage 
in purchasing nursery stock from different parts of the 
country. By so doing we secure the best that has been 
accomplished by nurserymen all over the country. It is a 
good deal like infusing new blood into a herd of cattle. One 
nurseryman may have produced a specially fine supply of 
plum, apple or peach trees, and it is to our interest to secure 
some of his stock, for by so doing we obtain the best results 
of his work and fortunate situation. By depending entirely 
upon the local nurserymen we may soon run down our stock 
unless they are wide awake in securing their stock from dif¬ 
ferent trustworthy sources. There are improvements being 
made all the time in every department of horticulture, and in 
order to keep up with the best we must be broad-minded 
enough to admit that there is something good outside of our 
own county and state. 
MAYOR ORLANDO HARRISON. 
Orlando Harrison has been elected Mayor of Berlin, Md. 
Mr. Harrison is one of the most prominent and popular mem¬ 
bers of the American Association of Nurserymen. Referring 
to his election, the Berlin, Md., Herald says: 
Mr. Harrison is one of our most progressive and successful business 
men, and will fill the office with credit to himself and honor to the town. 
Mr. Harrison is the business manager of the firm of J. G. Harrison & 
Sons, a director of the Berlin Building and Loan Association, a member 
of the American Association of Nurserymen and vice-president of the 
Exchange and Savings Bank here. He was born in Sussex county, 
Delaware, January 27, 1867. and when iu his teens started in fruits. 
When at the age of 18, he with his father moved to Berlin, where they 
have since grown nursery stock, making a specialty of peach trees, 
strawberry plants and asparagus roots and for the past few years have 
added apple and pear trees. Their planting started from only 2,010 
trees for orchard purpose and now their annual budded list of peach 
for the past three years has exceeded any other in the United States. 
Starting on one farm of 170 acres, to-day J. G. Harrison & Sons have 
six small farms of the choicest land in this vicinity. Their sales in 
strawberry plants run into the millions and in asparagus roots hun¬ 
dreds of thousands. 
WIDENING THE SCOPE OF ARBOR DAY. 
C. S. Harrison, York, Neb., writing on the subject of Arbor 
Day, says : Hitherto we have been content with planting 
common or native trees. This is well enough for pioneer 
days ; but at this stage we should aim for something higher. 
There are many things besides elm, ash and box elder to plant, 
For contrast we should have, now and then, a Russian olive, 
with its fragrant bloom, white foliage and fruit of burnished 
silver—a tree as thrifty and hardy as the elm. Then there are 
tree lilacs of China and Japan. These are trees instead of 
bushes. I measured one in a Boston park, twenty years from 
seed, and three feet from the ground it was 2^/2 feet around. 
They grow to be a foot through and fifty feet high, with a mass 
of pure white blossoms peering from their leafy coverts the last 
of June. This was the giant lilac of Japan. More beautiful, 
with fine foliage and grace of form is the Chinese tree lilac, 
which stood three consecutive years of drought, sirocco and 
blizzards in Western Nebraska, and grew and bloomed through 
it all. This also blossoms in June. 
