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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
PROGRAM WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERY¬ 
MEN, DECEMBER 8TII, AND 9TH, 1915 
Address of Welcome, Henry L. Jost, Mayor of Kansas 
City, Mo. 
Response, J. W. Hill. 
President’s Address. 
Secretary’s Report. 
Proposed Amendment to the Constitution providing 
for Honorary Membership for those who have distin¬ 
guished themselves as Nurserymen, and for those whose 
fellowship and assistance have promoted the interests 
of the Association. 
Resolution Proposing changing of the date on which 
our Annual Meeting shall be held. 
Report on the Conference with Seedsmen’s Convention. 
W. P. Stark. 
Report of Committee on Tariff, W. P. Stark, F. H. 
Stannard, J. W. Hill. 
Report of Committee on Trade Terms. J. W. Schuette, 
E. P. Bernadrin, H. B. Chase. 
How can the Wholesale Nurserymen avoid loss from 
so-called poor collections? Peter Youngers. 
The effect of the tendency of Eastern Nurserymen to 
grade No. 1 Plum,. Cherry and Pear 11-16 instead of 
3-4. J. H. Skinner. 
Over-Production and the Relation of the Apple Seed¬ 
ling Grower thereto. C. W. Carman. 
The Policy of giving away nursery stock at the end 
of the season. Negative E. II. Balco. Affirmative Geo. 
Holsinger. 
Should the Wholesale and Retail Nurserymen confine 
.'their operations strictly to their respective spheres? 
J. W. Schuette. 
Benefits of the re-organized American Association and 
our relation thereto. J. R. Mayhew. 
The influence of the war on the demand for nursery 
stock. Can a better demand be expected after the con¬ 
flict is over? L. C. Stark. 
The benefits of Parcel Post and the advisability or 
requesting an adoption of containers that will not dam¬ 
age nursery stock while in transit. Carl Sondereggar. 
Ways and Means of providing the Nurserymen with 
reliable statistics on the supply of growing nursery 
stock. E. J. Holman. 
The State Nursery Stock Laws and Interstate Com¬ 
merce. Curtis Nye Smith, Counsel American Associa¬ 
tion Nurserymen. 
The condition of the nursery business in the East. 
William Pitkin. 
The maintenance of Wholesale Prices and the imme¬ 
diate loss of business thereby. Henry Chase. 
Who are entitled to receive Trade Lists and the effect 
on the Wholesale and Retail prices when used indis¬ 
criminately. J. H. Dayton. 
Transportation. Charles Sizemore. 
Is there an increased demand for a higher class of 
Ornamentals? Should Ornamentals be grown chiefly 
by specialists? Is there danger of over-production in 
the Ornamental line? Frank Weber. 
The Hardy Pecan and extent of latitude in which it 
may be profitably grown. W. C. Reed. 
The New Oklahoma State Law pertaining to the nur¬ 
sery business. Jim. Parker. 
Question Box: Members are urged to make use of 
the question box by depositing at any time, any subject 
on which a discussion is desired. 
CLEAR OFF YOUR DESK 
You consider it very important to clean up the nur¬ 
sery after the fall season and put everything ship-shape 
and in readiness for the spring rush. How about the 
office, and that very important piece of furniture,— 
your desk,—with its load of .musty, dusty papers, an 
accumulation from the past ages. 
A mechanic cannot do good work without good tools 
and proper facilities. No more can you do good work 
with a desk littered with all sorts of things unassorted 
and of little value. Take up all these things, look them 
over, throw away the useless, properly label the useful 
so they are ready when needed. Surround yourself 
with such facilities for work that much of the 
detail is eliminated so that you may devote your time 
and thought to the big things. 
Data on advertising, catalogue, stock, supplies, etc., 
when properly arranged and filed are ready the instant 
you wish to take up or consider any of these matters in¬ 
stead of wading through a miscellaneous accumulation 
a mile high. Orderly arrangement has cut out the de¬ 
tail and you are able to focus your attention at once on 
the all important items. 
Likewise, clean up every nook and corner of the office; 
get rid of the useless accumulations, brush up your 
systems, study to make everything work smoouny and 
guard against error. Provide proper tools, blanks and 
stationery, that everything is attended to orderly. Have 
p, place for everything and everything in its place; a 
right way and right facilities for doing work, and it will 
be done correctly. 
“Order is God’s first law,” it is most apparent to every 
nurseryman in the stock he grows. If it governs nat¬ 
ural things, it certainly is applicable to the artificial con¬ 
dition of desk and office. 
Throw away the useless and arange the useful so as 
to be ready at a moment’s notice. 
Ring in the New Year with new and modern methods. 
G. 0. Youngstrand is opening a new hardy plant nur¬ 
sery at Niles, Michigan, and closing up his place at Golf, 
Illinois. 
Wick Hathaway, Madison, Ohio, writes “I never had 
a heavier fall trade than the one just closing. I 
have not only supplied all but four of my 1914 cus¬ 
tomers but have added several dozen new ones, with 
plenty of repeat orders. 
The Overseas Club is to adopt a suggestion from 
Canada to sow seeds of the maple round the graves, 
cemeteries or by the roads leading to the cemeteries 
where Canadian soliders are buried in France and Flan¬ 
ders. Consignments of seeds are being despatched from 
Toronto. 
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It is also proposed to plant an avenue of maple trees at 
Langemarck after the war .—New York San. 
