THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
Executive Committee—John H. Dayton, Chairman, Painesville, 
Ohio; Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa.; J. B. Pilkington, Portland, 
Oregon; John Hall, ex-officio, Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa.; John H. 
Dayton, Paines ville, Ohio; J. B. Pilkington, Portland, Ore.; John 
Hall, Rochester, N. Y., Ex-officio. 
Chairmen of Committees 
Transportation—Chas. M. Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 
Legislation East of Mississippi River—Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Legislation West of Mississippi River—Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb. 
Co-Operation with Entomologists—L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Program—C. R. Burr, Manchester, Conn. 
Exhibits—Albert F. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 
Arrangements and Entertainment—Thos. I. Ilgenfritz, Monroe, 
Michigan; John Hall, Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 
Publicity and Trade Opportunities—W. G. Campbell, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Editing Report—John Hall, Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 
Root Knot—E. A. Smith, Lake City, Minn. 
Membership—Will B. Munson, Chairman, Denison, Texas; M. Mc¬ 
Donald, Orenco, Oregon, Pacific Coast States; George A. Marshall, 
Arlington, Nebr., Middle Western States; Harry D. Simpson, Vin¬ 
cennes, Ind., Central States; Paul C. Van Lindley, Pomona, N. C., 
Southeastern States; Albert F. Meehan, Dresher, Pa., Eastern 
States; Charles H. Breck, 55 Franklin St., Boston, Mass., New 
England States. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, Irvine 
Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, 
Pa. Meets annually in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, H. 
W. Marshall, Arlington, Nebraska; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, 
Princeton, Ill. Meets annually in June. 
Association of Oklahoma Nurserymen—President, J. A. Lopeman, 
Enid, Oklahoma; secretary, P. W. Vaught, Oldenville, Okla. Next 
meeting during week of State Fair at Oklahoma City, last of Sep¬ 
tember or first of October. 
California Association of Nurserymen—President, Frank H. Wilson, 
Fresno, Cal. Secretary, H. W. Kruckeberg, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Canadian Association of Nurserymen—President, E. D. Smith, Win¬ 
ona; secretary, C. C. R. Morden, Niagara Falls, Ont. 
Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association—President, T. E. Burroughs, 
Deep River, Conn.; secretary, F. L. Thomas, Manchester, Conn. 
Idaho Nurserymen’s Association—President, Anton Diedricksen, Pay¬ 
ette Idaho; secretary, J. F. Litooy, Boise, Idaho. No definite time 
has been set for next meeting. Probably in July at Boise, Idaho. 
Mississippi Nurserymen’s Association—President, Theodore Bechtel, 
Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Vice-President, S. W. Crowell. Rose- 
acres, Mississippi; Sec’y-Treas., R. W. Harned, Agr. College. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen—President, E. S. Osborne, 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, F. E. Grover, Rochester, N. Y. 
New England Nurserymen’s Association—President, Harlan P. Kel¬ 
sey, Salem, Mass.; Secretary, Charles Adams, Springfield, Mass. 
Annual meeting held on the last Tuesday in February. 
New York State Nurserymen’s Association—President. E. S. Osborne, 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Phillips, Rochester, New York. 
Next meeting September. Probably at Utica. 
Ohio Nurserymen’s Association—President, W. N. Scarff, New Car¬ 
lisle, O.; secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, O. 
Oregon—Washington Association of Nurserymen—President, C. F. 
Breilhaup, Richland, Wash.; secretary, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, 
Wash. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen—President J. Vallance, 
Oakland, Cal; secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, 
Wash. Place of next meeting to be deciaed later. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association—President, Wilmer W 
Hoopes, West Chester, Pa. Sec., Henry T. Moon, Morrisville, Pa. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association— President, Milton Moss, 
Huntsville, Ala.; secretary-treasurer, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, 
Tenn. Next meetin°\ Hendersonville, N. C. 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association—President, Chas. Pennington, 
Rutherford, Tenn. Secretary, G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association—President, C. K. Phillips, Rock¬ 
dale, Texas; secretary-treasurer, J. M. Ramsey, Austin, Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen—President, C. C. Mayhew, 
Sherman, Texas; secretary-treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, 
Kan. Meets annually second Wednesday in December. 
Begin your subscription with the January 
Number, so as to have a complete volume. 
M. KOSTER & SONS 
Boskoop’s Largest Nurseries 
BOSKOOP, HOLLAND 
into Oklahoma to protect a shipper’s order shipment upon 
which half the money had been paid, party asking for re¬ 
lease of shipper’s order, giving as his reason that he 
needed the money with which to meet his freight hills on 
import stocks. His import bill for apple, pear, cherry, 
etc., was practically a thousand dollars, and this man 
was not entitled to C. 0. D. rating. Did he pay? Some¬ 
how or other he got the money with which to meet his 
freight bills, he stood me off on my account, which, by 
the way, he never paid, he planted this stock, and the 
wholesaler got “stuck.” Did the party who sold him 
these magnificent French stocks know his financial abil¬ 
ity? This I cannot answer, but we all know that he 
could have known. The point I am making is just this, if 
party had been forced to pay cash everybody would have 
been benefitted and there would have been several thou¬ 
sand less trees in Oklahoma that season. Credit, gentle¬ 
men, is too cheap, and thousands, yes millions, of trees 
are grown each season which would not be if we would 
spend more time studying this question. Here, as else¬ 
where, we know decidedly better than we do. 
Second, a careful study of our needs based upon aver¬ 
ages for a number of years would curtail production. 1 
think there is little doubt in any of our minds but that we 
need to grow less stock. We have been, each in his own 
way, trying to see how much stock we could produce, 
each trying to outdo the other, with no intelligent idea as 
to what the supply or demand would be. If we have in 
the past grown a million apple trees and have destroyed 
one-half of them, reason teaches us that we grew too 
many apple trees by just 500,000 under the conditions 
that obtained. We cannot hope to figure this matter out 
to a mathematical nicety, of course, but we can figure our 
plantings by some conservative method and save our¬ 
selves serious loss in the future. Now, if we could with 
some degree of accuracy figure what our future needs 
would be and work to that end, it would solve many of 
our problems. I believe one-half the number of trees we 
have been growing would, under systematic methods of 
marketing, be worth more money to us than has been 
true of the amount of stock grown in the past. Why con¬ 
tinue to grow trees to burn? The growers who regularly 
attend our association meetings produce, I take it. 75 per 
cent, of the nursery products of the United States. Would 
it not be possible for a committee to take this matter in 
hand and figure approximately the number of trees in 
different sorts needed, the number subsequently grown, 
and upon this information make recommendations for fu¬ 
ture planting? A correction of these unfortunate condi¬ 
tions can only come about through co-operation and co¬ 
operation, I again say, is a beautiful thing to talk about 
but difficult to put into pracicte. 
Many years ago an unselfish organization ol men in my 
state conceived the idea that too much cotton meant low 
prices, poverty for the grower, whether tenant or land 
owner, and unsettled business conditions generally. 
“Plant less cotton and more feed became the slogan of 
an aggressive campaign and the result was—a reduction 
in the subsequent cotton crop?—by no means. The re¬ 
sult was more cotton than had been produced in any one 
year up to that time. Why? Jim Jones reasoned that 
Bill Brown was reducing his crop, therefore where he 
had been planting fifty acres he would plant seventy-five 
