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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
which Mr. Curtis Nye Smith, Attorney for the Associa¬ 
tion has been engaged. 
It will be seen that it gives practically every member 
of the Association recourse to an authority on law per¬ 
taining to his own particular business, free of cost. Read 
Mr. Hall's letter and act upon it, by doing so you are 
helping yourself. 
We notice there is a tendency in 
CHANGING the English Horticultural papers to 
PLANT NAMES advocate the changing of plant 
names of German origin, and doubt¬ 
less the same desire exists among the Germanic people 
to change the names of other antagonists. 
One can sympathize with the intense feeling between 
the belligerent nations engendered by the war, but not 
with such a childish way of showing spite. 
Horticulture is not national, plants are named in Latin 
so they will be known to all men by the same name, and 
when it comes to variety names, by what right has any 
one to change them alter they have once become known 
to the world, under a certain name? Or if right is no 
longer recognized where is the gain or advantage. 
The only consistent thing tor the foreign nurserymen 
to do is to stop growing and cataloging a plant originat¬ 
ing in a country with which his own is at war, and by 
doing so he only hurts himself. 
We hope the thought only originated in the heat of 
battle and that wiser second thought will prevail. 
We love and appreciate Gruss an Teplitz, Frau Karl 
Druski and even Kaiserin Augusta Victoria in spite of 
their names, and it is a small mind that tries to bring 
horticulture down to the level of human enmities. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
204 Granite Building, Rochester, N. Y., October 15, 1915 
To Members of the Association, greeting: 
The Executive Committee is very anxious that you 
should fully appreciate the value of the privileges 
afforded under the contract entered into with Mr. Curtis 
Nye Smith, as Counsel for the Association. Understand, 
any member may take to Counsel Smith any legal problem 
that comes up in his business and receive advice without 
money and without price. 
We urge you to look through the Proceedings of the 
Detroit Convention; read the reports of the various com¬ 
mittees; the matter under the head of “General Business,” 
and the paper read by Mr. Smith, and then endeavor to 
estimate the worth to you of a membership in this Asso¬ 
ciation. 
That members may have in their possession the exact 
language of the contract with Mr. Smith, the same is fur¬ 
nished herewith. 
Trusting that members will avail themselves of their 
privilege and write the Secretary for any further infor¬ 
mation desired. I am 
Fraternally yours, 
John Hall, Secretary. 
A LAST WORD:—My friend, tell your non-member 
nurseryman acquaintance what a “big - ’ organization you 
belong to, point out its advantages and urge application 
for membership. 
1. Legislative service. This includes the reporting 
of Legislative bills in Congress and all the states, advice 
as to the law and facts in relation thereto, arguments be¬ 
fore legislative hearings, organizing and directing this 
legislative service, and also of educational propaganda, 
the compilation of the nursery laws of the United States. 
2. Counsellor’s services to the Association, its officers, 
and committees, on any subject matter appertaining to 
the nursery business. 
3. Free attorney service to the members of the Asso¬ 
ciation on any matter relating to their business as nur¬ 
serymen. This service is confidential and is not under 
the view or direction of the Association officers or com¬ 
mittees, the object being to give the members the same 
confidential service that they would get from their per¬ 
sonal attorneys but at no expense. There are two ex¬ 
ceptions to this free attorney service—the collection of 
accounts, and the trial or conduct of court cases. Coun¬ 
sel will be very glad to do both of these things, and at a 
reasonable fee to be prearranged between the member 
and counsel. Members and their attorneys, however, 
are at liberty and are encouraged to consult without 
charge the Association’s counsel on matters of possible 
or probable litigation, and lists of court cases on the 
points at issue will be furnished. 
PECAN AND OTHER “NUTS.” 
Paper Read Before the Southern Nurserymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, by James Brodie, Biloxi, Miss. 
W HEN Mr. Henry Chase, of Huntsville, Ala., asked 
me in language most cordial and persuasive, 
to visit Hendersonville, appear before the 
Southern Association of Nurserymen, and occupy their 
attention for a few minutes on—“any subject that lies 
nearest your heart,” I nearly decided to comply with his 
request; but after thought, that more sane re-arranger of 
action, decided against it. This decision I communicated 
to Mr. Chase, saying I could possibly make a short writ¬ 
ten address on the pecan of interest to the members of 
'the Association and their friends.—Mr. Chase accepted 
this offer, and so 1 feel it a great honor to occupy your 
valuable time for a few minutes with “Pecan Talk,” a 
subject very near my heart. 
It affords me great pleasure to inform you that we 
have in prospect for 1915 the record pecan nut crop of 
the Southern Mississippi Coast. For years we have 
propagated and planted selected types of the pecan tree, 
and now after years of toil, care, some reverses, and 
patient waiting, comes a convincing record for the im¬ 
proved type of nut. As this crop goes on the market, 
we place beside the nuts a record equally valuable and 
interesting—viz.: the conservative selection that has 
limited the selected types to a list easily within the grasp 
of an indifferent memory. 
While the variable multitude of smaller seedling type 
nuts is likely to be in over production, the quality and 
higher grades of these lesser Gulf Coast seedling nuts 
has so favorably impressed dealers and consumers that 
wholesale purchasers are now making a distinguishing 
mark round the immediate coast area. 
Some mammoth sized nuts have from time to time ap- 
