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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
THE CONVENTION. 
Programme of the Two Days’ Session — 
Few Papers to be Read—Considerable 
Business Expected—The Banquet. 
Following is the programme for the annual convention of 
the American Association of Nurserymen to be held at the 
Lindell hotel, Junegth and loth : 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9. 
MORNING SESSION, 10 O’CEOCK. 
Address of welcome, by Mayor Ziegenheim and Hon. N. J. Colman. 
Response. 
President’s address, Silas Wilson, Atlantic, Iowa. 
Report of treasurer. 
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2 O’CLOCK. 
Election of officers. 
Selection of next place of meeting. 
Reports of committees. 
THURSDAY, JUNE 10. 
MORNING SESSION, 9 O’CLOCK. 
Reports of committees and unfinished business. 
“Piece Roots vs. Whole Roots,”—E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. 
“Sending Trade Lists to Planters,”—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la. 
“Insect Laws, State or National, Which Shall It Be,”—Hon. N. H. 
Albaugh, Tadmor, Ohio. 
AFTERNOON SESSION. 
“The Nurseryman as an Educator,”—Professor Fred W. Card, of 
the University of Nebraska. 
“ Inspection in Relation to Suppression of San Jose Scale,” and 
“ Treatment of Nursery Stock by Hydro-Cyanic Acid Gas Process,”— 
Prof. W. B. Alwood, Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Blacksburg, Va. 
Meetings of Protective Associations will be held Wednesday evening. 
Thursday evening all delegates are invited to attend the annual 
Shaw banquet as honored guests. This banquet is one of the events 
of the year at St. Louis, and it is hoped that appreciation of the high 
compliment will be evidenced by large attendance. Kindly notify the 
secretary of acceptance Wednesday. 
Many of the members will, of course, wish to visit the famous 
botanical gardens, and this, with the unusual number of important 
matters to be considered, may necessitate continuing the session into 
Friday. 
ALL SHOULD ACT. 
Marceline, Mo., May 8 . —S. H. Linton : “ The interest 
of every nurseryman is to have stock free from disease or in¬ 
sects, and every progressive, live and industrious nurseryman 
will have no other stock to send out. The nurseryman uses 
every available means in his power to have his stock reach its 
destination in the best condition possible, but he of all men 
gets abuse rather than kind words for the pains and extra 
trouble he has taken to please his customers. If the average 
and small nurseryman is asked to pay the expenses of a nur¬ 
sery inspector the result will be, they can’t do it, they will have 
to close business. Every nurseryman, great or small, should 
consider his direct interest in all bills pending in congress and 
if any clause or section in these bills is contrary to the general 
interest of the nursery business, proceedings should be taken 
at once to amend that clause or section. Do not wait for some 
other person to do what you should do, but act at once. 
THE NURSERY BUSINESS. 
Writing on the subject of the nursery business as a national 
industry a correspondent in the Fruit-Growers Journal says : 
The census bureau gives the following interesting figures as to 
the extent of the nursery business in the United States. The 
total number of nurseries, 4,510; their value approximates, 
estimated at the present depressed values, $41)987,835. The 
nurseries in the year 1891 occupied 172,806 acres of land 
valued at from $15 to $150 per acre ; the capital invested 
approximates $54,425,669, furnishing employment to 41,657 
men, 4 580 boys fourteen years up, and 2,279 women. This is 
a remarkably good showing, resulting chiefly from the evolu¬ 
tion of less than seventy-five years in this industry. There is 
no industry that feels more keenly the great depression in agri¬ 
culture and in horticulture. I can scarcely imagine any 
industry which has done as much for mankind in the whole 
country at large, and produced so few millionaires. Most 
nurserymen die comfortably poor in the sense that the masses 
look upon wealth, but rich in the satisfaction of knowing that 
as business men from a national standpoint they have done 
much to benefit mankind and made this country more desir¬ 
able for home builders. 
To deny the nursery a high national position among the 
most important and beneficial industries of our Uncle Sam’s 
domain, would be to withhold from it as a national industry 
its just dues. The envious disposed and chronic grumblers 
have claimed that nurserymen have had an undue share in the 
management of state and district horticultural societies. As 
there are no laws that can be justly placed to debar them or 
anyone disposed to participate in its benefits, we see no just 
cause for complaint of an equal showing. The local nursery¬ 
men in most every state have been the pioneers in horticul¬ 
ture ; they have opened up and blazed the way and shown up 
the practicable side of general horticulture, and are certainly 
as much at home in a meeting of horticulturists as a landscape 
gardener. Such men as Elsworth, Bryant, Edwards, Douglas, 
Phoenix, Whitney and others in the early history of horticul¬ 
tural societies in this state, Illinois, have all been identified 
with the nursery business at one time, and have devoted their 
best days to bringing on the present evolution in horticulture. 
The present generation can scarely estimate thgir real true 
worth as a factor in this evolution for the betterment of the 
people and of the home builders of this and adjoining states. 
FAVOR THE FEDERAL BILL. 
West Chester, Pa., May 3.—Hoopes, Brother & Thomas : 
“ The federal insect bill, on the whole, meets our approval. 
The subject of quarantining imported trees and plants is open 
to some^ objection as the delay incurred by so doing may pos¬ 
sibly be not only inconvenient but detrimental to the goods, 
still if the inspection could be accomplished without any delay 
upon arrival of the stock this would not be a serious disad¬ 
vantage. We are inclined to believe that should the bill be¬ 
come a law, foreign nurserymen would take measures to have 
their goods examined by competent parties who would be ac¬ 
cepted by the Commission of Agriculture, which would obviate 
any delay on this side. The act is a just one and will, beyond 
a doubt, be a great help in preventing the dissemination of 
many insect pests.” 
