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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXIII. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ JULY, 1915, 
No. 7. 
FORTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN 
ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN HELD AT 
DETROIT, JUNE 23—25th, 1915 
I DEAL weather, just cool enough to be pleasant, a good 
attendance and fine accommodations all combined to 
make the opening session a very successful one. 
By noon over 270 members had registered their names 
with Secretary Hall, pinned their numbers on and started 
in on business and to have a good time. 
It was the glad hand in every direction, the renewing 
of old acquaintances and the making of new ones. Who¬ 
ever invented and applied the Badge Book to a Nursery¬ 
man’s Convention deserves a monument. Identification 
is the only introduction necessary between nurserymen 
to insure at least a very cordial greeting. It is respect¬ 
fully suggested another year the privilege of the number 
for identification be extended to the ladies. 
After a hearty welcome by Hon. Oscar B. Mars, Mayor 
of Detroit, who extended the freedom of the city, the 
Convention got down to business according to program 
with some changes in the order of the addresses. 
Mr. J. R. Mayhew’s address “A Better National Asso¬ 
ciation” paved the way for the subsequent resolutions 
which resulted in a New Constitution and By-Laws tor 
the Association, as published on a separate page. 
The officers elected to serve for the ensuing year are 
E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, Iowa, President; John Watson, 
Newark, N. Y., Vice-President; Peter Youngers, Geneva, 
Neb., Treasurer, and John Hall, Rochester, N. Y., Secre¬ 
tary. 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin to be the place of the next con¬ 
vention. 
The selection was unanimously approved. 
President-elect Welch made a strong appeal for loyalty 
to suport him in his efforts for the upbuilding ol tlie 
society. 
John Watson, in accepting office, said he sincerely 
hoped that no one would accuse him of being Welch s 
grape juice. 
THE NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
The Executive Committee which according to the New 
Constitution shall he composed of members to represent 
the different geographical sections and have plenary 
powers has been chosen as follows: 
President, E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, Iowa, chairman; 
,1. B. Pilkington, Portland, Oregon, one year; Lloyd C. 
Stark, Louisiana, Mo,, one year; J. H. Dayton, Paines- 
ville, Ohio, two years; II. B. Chase, Chase, Ala., two 
years; J. B. Mayhew, Wacahackie, Texas, three years; 
Theo. Smith, Geneva, New York, three years; Vice- 
President, John Watson, Newark, N. Y., ex-officio. 
Mr. Wedge, Albert Lea, Minn., suggested a certificate 
of inspection such as used on shipping tags, in brief 
form. Instead of the usual statement to the effect that 
the nurseries had been inspected, and so forth and so on, 
the form to he somewhat as follows: Michigan, 1915. 
Inspected. To be supplied to the nurserymen in the form 
of a cut by which they may stamp their labels. This sug¬ 
gestion was referred to the committee on uniform legis¬ 
lation and it is hoped will be adopted. 
J. Hoi ’ace McFarland in his report as chairman of the 
committee on Nomenclature made strong recommenda¬ 
tion for uniformity. He said that many fine things had 
gone dead owing to their names and that in his opinion 
he would not call a dog such a name as Buddleia mag- 
nifica. He urged that every effort be made to make buy¬ 
ing easy. 
J. Jenkins, Winona, Ohio, in his very interesting ad¬ 
dress told of the times when grape buds sold as high as 
25 cents each, and spoke very interestingly on methods 
of propagation. 
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 
OF NURSERYMEN, DETROIT CONVENTION, 
JUNE 23rd, 24th and 25th, 
Henry B. Chase , President , Chase, Ala. 
L ADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the greatest lesson 1 
have learned this past year, a year that we will all 
remember, is that there is nothing to be gained by 
worry. When the war started we in the South were per¬ 
haps affected more than other sections of the country; 
cotton was unsalable, business dead, merchants and 
bankers scared, farmers panicky, and the man who had 
placed his order for trees wanted to cancel it; the man 
who had not yet placed his order forgot that he ever 
wanted to, and the nurserymen, unless men of unusual 
nerve and poise, were greatly worried. I will admit that 
I was one of the worried ones. Looking back I now teel 
