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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading trade journal issr 3d for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
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Rochester, N. Y., July, 1915. 
The Fortieth Convention of the 
THE FORTIETH American Association of Nursery- 
CONVENTION men was an epoch making one in the 
history of the Association. 
The adoption of the new by-laws as published on a 
separate page is sure to have far reaching effects. 
It is extremely gratifying that such a radical change 
could be made in the Association with little or no friction 
and be endorsed by an overwhelming majority. What 
little opposition that did develop, if it may be called such, 
was rather a desire on the part of the more conservative 
members for more deliberation before taking final action. 
After all when one comes to consider the personel of 
the special committee of twelve: 
J. R. Mayhew, Chairman 
John Watson 
J. W. Hill 
E. S. Welch 
Robert 
Peter 
George 
Youngers 
Theodore Smith 
R. C. Chase 
F. II. Stannard 
T. J. Ferguson 
W. C. Reed 
Wilmer Hoopes 
which so ably drafted the new constitution precipitate 
action was more apparent than real. 
Those who have worked so faithfully for the welfare of 
the Association for the past forty years may well feel 
proud of their efforts and gratified to know they have 
brought the Association from its birth to the present 
stage, when new conditions demand a change. 
The movement is characteristic of the times and the 
concentration of power in the hands of a few (The Exe¬ 
cutive Committee) with power to act and act quickly 
when occasion requires, is in line with all successful 
management. 
It is a long step in the right direction and brings nearer 
what the National Nurseryman has persistently urged 
co-operation. 
It will bind the nursery interests closer together and 
opens up a field of action that was impossible under the 
old by-laws. 
NURSERY INTERESTS TO 
RE REPRESENTED ON 
AGRICULTURAL BOARD 
OF PENNSLYANIA 
It is indeed gratifying to 
know that the Governor of 
Pennsylvania chose so 
wisely in appointing Henry 
T. Moon on the new Agricul¬ 
tural Commission. The nursery business of the state has 
now been given a representation on this important com¬ 
mission. The Nurserymen's Committee working in con¬ 
junction with a similar committee of the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Horticultural Inspectors in connection with the 
proposed uniform Horticultural Inspection Law, were 
striving to make it obligatory to have one nurseryman 
appointed on boards that affect nursery interests so 
vitally and it is to be sincerely hoped that it will have a 
great influence in the future in having a similar plan 
adopted in other states and eventually on the Federal 
Horticultural Board. 
Nurserymen doing business in 
THE NEW NURSERY the State of Oklahoma will 
AND ORCHARD LAW hardly congratulate themselves 
OF OKLAHOMA on the new Nursery and Or¬ 
chard Law and the Rules and 
Regulations relative to the same made by the Oklahoma 
State Board of Agriculture. 
It is needless to say the nurserymen of the state had 
nothing to do with it. In the words of the Secretary of 
the Oklahoma Nurseryman’s Association, “We thought 
we had an Inspection Law that was satisfactory but the 
board thought differently, so they handed us this.” 
The wealth of the country in so far as it has been in¬ 
creased by the production of fruits, to say nothing of the 
enhanced value due to the propagation and distribution 
of shade and ornamental trees and plants, is mainly due 
to the nurseryman and horticulturist. They have not ap¬ 
propriated the natural wealth of the country, stripped the 
forests, dried up the water courses, ravished the earth of 
its minerals and upset the balance of Nature until the per¬ 
nicious forms of vegetable and insect life become a 
menace and drastic legislation necessary to keep them in 
check, but have labored patiently to increase and produce 
those things necessary to the welfare and happiness of 
mankind. Sons of Martha, they truly are and must be 
satisfied with their wages, but one would think men in¬ 
telligent enough to make laws would realize that drastic 
legislation such as the Oklahoma Nursery and Orchard 
Law will only react against the welfare of the state. 
If the nursery business is in the “rum” class, then by 
all means make it as difficult as possible to do business, 
but if it is a business that adds to the wealth of the na¬ 
tion then it should be encouraged, fostered and helped. 
The country needs more and better fruit, every home 
should be in the midst of a flower garden where space 
permits, every road a bower of trees, every piece of waste 
ground, a wood lot. every city should have its parks fur¬ 
nished and kept like the grounds of a millionaire. 
If the legislators want a practical illustration of what 
a nursery will do for a locality, let them study the country 
