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The National Nurseryman 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyright, 1897, by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
VOL. V. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY. 1897. 
No. I. 
THE TARIFF. 
Official Report National Committee 
—Schedule of Rates—Prompt 
Action Is Imperative. 
The most important subject before the nurserymen of the 
United States at present is the tariff. After an experience 
under the Wilson bill by which nursery stock was placed on 
the free list, the national organization, the American Associ¬ 
ation of Nurserymen, at its. annual convention in Chicago last 
June after a discussion of the subject as the^most important 
in hand, appointed a committee to visit Washington and to 
present to the ways and means committee of the House of 
Representatives a schedule of rates for duty on imported 
nursery stock which would protect American growers and 
dealers. 
This committee, appointed by President Silas Wilson, was 
composed of William C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y. ; N. H. 
Albaugh, Tadmor, O., and J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, 
Conn. Mr. Hale who was not at the convention, said that on 
account of private business interests he could not serve on the 
committee. When the time came to visit Washington last 
month Mr. Albaugh was detained at home by sickness in his 
family. 
Chairman Barry, President Wilson, J. J. Harrison of Paines- 
ville, O., and Irving Rouse, of Rochester, met at Washington 
January nth, Mr. Harrison by invitation of President Wilson, 
Mr. Rouse as chairman of the tariff committee appointed by 
the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association, of which committee 
Mr. Barry and William Pitkin, secretary of the Chase Brothers’ 
Co., Rochester, were members. In the absence of Messrs. 
Hale and Albaugh, President Wilson appointed Messrs. Rouse 
and Harrison members of the national committee. 
This committee succeeded in obtaining two hearings before 
the ways and means committee at Washington, presenting 
strong arguments in favor of a protective duty on nursery 
stock. In additional to this the members of the national com¬ 
mittee conversed with members of the ways and means com¬ 
mittee outside of the committee room and it is believed pro¬ 
duced a favorable impression as to the necessity for a tariff 
schedule. 
The committee makes the following report, to the sugges¬ 
tion in which regarding prompt action on the part of all 
nurserymen, special attention is called : 
OFFICIAL REPORT. 
Rochester, N. Y., January 15, 1897. 
The American Association of Nurserymen, 
Gentlemen ;— 
In accordance with instructions received at the 
last annual meeting of the Association, your committee went 
to Washington and had a hearing before the Ways and Means 
Committee on the tariff question, January nth, 1897. 
The following schedule was presented and filed with the 
Committee :— 
First —Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of Myrobolan 
plum, Mahaleb and Mazzard cherry, 3 years old 
or less, $1.00 per thousand plants. 
Second —Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of pear, apple, 
quince, and St. Julien plum, 3 years old or less, 
$2.00 per thousand plants. 
Third —Rose plants, budded, grafted, or grown on 
their own roots, 3 cents each. 
Fourth —Stocks, cuttings and seedlings of all fruit 
and ornamental trees, deciduous and evergreen, 
shrubs and vines, Manetti, Multiflora and Briar 
rose, and all trees, shrubs, plants and vines, 
commonly known as nursery stock, unless other¬ 
wise specified, 30 per cent, ad valorem. 
We desire now to have all the influence brought to bear on 
the Committee that is possible. 
Appended you will find a few points which may be used if 
desired in drafting a letter. We also give the names of the 
Wiys and Means Committee and the states from which they 
come, so you may select from the number your representative, 
to whom please address the letter, asking him to exert his 
influence in favor of the schedule filed. It is important to act 
promptly so that the letter may reach your member of the 
committee as soon as possible. 
Any information you may receive, please communicate to 
the chairman of the nurserymen’s committee. 
Yours truly, 
W. C. Barry, Silas Wilson, 
Irving Rouse, J. J. Harrison. 
THE CONGRESSMEN. 
Committee of Ways and Means, Fifty-Fourth Congress 
Nelson Dingley, Jr., Chairman, Me. 
Sereno E. Payne, N. Y. 
Albert J. Hopkins, Ills. 
Chas. a, Russell, Conn. 
Geo. W. Steele, Ind. 
Walter Evans, Ky. 
Chas. F. Crisp, Ga. 
Henry G. Turner, Ga. 
Joseph Wheeler, Ala. 
John Dalzell, Pa. 
Chas. H. Grosvenor, Ohio. 
Jonathan P. Dolliver, Iowa. 
Martin N. Johnson, N. Dak. 
James A. Tawney, Minn. 
Benton McMillin, Tenn. 
John. C. Tarsney, Mo. 
John L. McLaurin, S. Car. 
Herbert M. Lord, Clerk. 
SUGGESTIONS. 
It is a matter of vital importance to the nursery interests, 
and there is not a grower in the country who does not desire 
this tariff. 
All of the articles contained in paragraphs first and second, 
were grown in this country formerly ; to-day absolutely noth¬ 
ing is grown here except apple seedlings, all being imported 
from France, Germany and Belgium. 
