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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. 
l^'Drafts 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. 
AflERICAN 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, Ta.; 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, III., June 7, 8. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., September, 1898 . 
MODERN METHODS. 
Whatever may have been said of the nursery agent in the 
past, certain it is that present methods, recognized as leading 
to the greatest success preclude misrepresentation in regard 
to nursery stock. So much has been heard so long of the 
wiles of the nursery agent that upon the slightest provocation 
someone breaks out even now in a tirade against him. 
C. L. Smith, Minneapolis, answering E. H. S. Dartt who 
intimated that the foreign tree dealer discounted the local tree 
dealer in his ability to prevaricate, said : 
“ With an experience of over forty years with the so-called 
foreign tree dealers, I have found that the successful foreign 
tree dealer, the most successful tree dealer, does not necessa¬ 
rily need to be a liar. On the contrary, he is the man who 
collects the facts and truths as he finds them on the farms and 
through the localities where he works and then presents them 
to his prospective customers in such a manner as to claim 
their consideration by telling them the truth ; and a man can 
succeed many times by telling the truth where he would fail 
by telling a lie. They tell the truth and tell it in a tactful 
way, they tell it in an attractive way so it will draw attention. 
I do not think it necessary to be a liar in order to be success¬ 
ful in the nursery business.” 
WORK FOR LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES. 
Under an order issued June 17th the postal authorities have 
declined, since July 1st, to return to sender undelivered sec¬ 
ond, third and fourth-class matter until the postage has been 
fully prepaid. When postmasters deem undelivered matter 
of sufficient value they may notify the sender, who can then 
send the return postage. 
The subject is of much importance to nurserymen who issue 
catalogues. There is opportunity for the legislative commit¬ 
tees of the American, Eastern and Western Associations to 
act. 
The postal order requiring that all sheets transmitted with 
publications be attached thereto does not apply to third class 
matter under which head catalogues are admitted to the mails. 
SOUTHERN NURSERY BUSINESS. 
Through the medium of the Western Wholesale Association 
and the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association, in joint action 
with the American Association, nursery interests East and 
West receive careful attention. At the convention of the 
American Association last year in St. Louis, President Brooke 
advised the nurserymen of the South to organize a Southern 
Nurserymen’s Asssociation for mutual benefit. It would seem 
that such action might well be taken. The single matter 
of transportation of stock is of sufficient interest to warrant it. 
Before the Civil War there were practically no nursery in¬ 
terests in the Southern States. In an exchange J. Van Lindley 
calls attention to the phenomenal growth of the business in 
the South during the last fifteen years. He cites fourteen 
nurseries in Alabama, thirty-five in Arkansas, ten in Florida, 
twenty-five in Georgia, ten in Mississippi, twenty in North 
Carolina, two in South Carolina, thirty-five in Tennessee, 
thirty-two in Texas, thirty in Virginia ; a total of 213 in the 
ten states. 
HORTICULTURAL NOMENCLATURE. 
We have several times called attention to the advisability of 
rules regarding nomenclature. Already there are rival claim¬ 
ants for the name of Dewey for varieties of strawberries. 
The rules of the American Pomological Society state : 
Should the question of priority arise between different names for the 
same variety of fruits, other circumstances being equal, the name first 
publicly bestowed will be given preference. 
But what constitutes public bestowal? Professor F. A. 
Waugh, of Vermont, has just issued a pamphlet, retailing at 
ten cents, on this subject. He says regarding the publication 
of new names : 
The only difficulty in the way is the looseness and carelessness which 
often characterize such publications. Many nurserymen get out elab¬ 
orate catalogues, with the dates carefully given, with new varieties 
most painstakingly described, and with names carefully selected. 
Other nurserymen announce a new variety with a very bombastic and 
ridiculous name by sending out an utterly unreliable description 
printed on a loose sheet of paper and slipped in between the leaves of 
an old catalogue published several years previous. It is obvious that 
