The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyright, 1897, by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
VoL. V. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY, 1897. No. 6. 
THE CONVENTION 
Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
List op those Present—A Hearty Welcome—President Wil¬ 
son’s Address—Treasurer’s Report—Officers and Place 
OP Meeting—Reports on Transportation, Tariff and 
Legislation—Other Committee Reports—List op 
Exhibits—Visit to Missouri Botanical Garden 
—Banquet at the Mercantile Club. 
The twenty-second annual meeting of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen was held at the Lindell hotel, St. Louis, 
June 9th and loth. The attendance though not large, em¬ 
braced many of the leading nurserymen of the country. 
Those who registered at the Lindell ho'tel, the headquarters of 
the convention, and others who were noticed at the meetings 
were : 
N. H. Albaugli, George Arnaudeau, E. Albertson. 
R. C. Berckmans, P. J. A. Berckmans, jr., George A. Bryant, R. H. 
Blair, A. L. Brooke, A. J. Brown, Herman Berklian, John L. Bagley, 
R. J. Bagley, E. H. Bissell, James A. Bayles. 
A. Currie, C. S. Curtice. A. B. Combs, J. C. Chase. 
J. R. Dow, J. A. DeVeer, E, T. Dickinson, Edwin Davis, C. N. 
Dennis, J. H. Dayton, H. S. Dixon, M. B. Fox. 
A. H. Griesa, T. E. Griesa, Charles E. Greening. 
W. F. Heikes, T. S. Hubbard, Orlando Harrison. N. W. Hale, C. M. 
Hobbs, D. Hill, E. J. Holman. 
C. A. Rgenfritz, Z. K. Jewett, Hiram T. Jones, W. H. Johnston, H. 
W. Jenkins, George S. Josselyn. 
Gustav Klarner, E. W. Kirkpatrick, L. G. Kellogg. 
D. S. Lake, Ralph Lake, Samuel Lorton, Y. H. Lowe. 
J. Horace McFarland, J. D. Meriweather, jr., G. E. Meissner, 
Thomas B. Meehan, J C. Miller, Charles J. Maloy, Jacob W. Manning, 
E. G. Mendenhall, W. B. Otwell. 
W. J. Peters, Charles M Peters, Alexander Pullen, Irving Rouse, 
E. H. Ricker. 
J. H. Skinner, C. M. Stark, W. P. Stark, J. M. Samuels, Theodore J. 
Smith, L. T. Sanders, E. M. Sherman, J. N. Schuette, F. H. Stannard, 
W. G. Storrs, W. N. Scarff, Irving Spaulding, C. W. Shriver, J. P. 
Sinnock, E. W. Stark. 
L. R. Taylor, F. W. Taylor, W. W. Thomas, E. Y. Teas, John C. 
Ure, J. Van Lindley. 
C. L. Watrous, E. S. Welch, F. G. Withoft, N. A. Whitney, R. A. 
Wickersham, Allen L. Wood, W. A. Watson, F. W. Watson, H. J. 
Weber, Frank A. Weber, F. L. Williams, Silas Wilson. 
Peter Youngers, C. L. Yates, Horace Zimmerman. 
THE WELCOME TO ST. LOUIS. 
President Silas Wilson, of Atlantic, la., opened the conven¬ 
tion on Wednesday morning in a spacious hall of the Lindell 
hotel and introduced Mayor Ziegenheim of St. Louis, who 
welcomed the nurserymen in a hearty original manner that was 
thoroughly appreciated. He said : • 
“ We have had many conventions in this city. As you all 
know we recently had a McKinley convention here. As mayor 
of this great city I extend you the most cordial welcome. I 
see before me representatives not only from our suburb, 
Chicago, and the country adjacent to St. Louis, but members 
from the Atlantic seaboard and even from France. You are 
all welcome and I extend to you the utmost freedom of the 
city. You need have no fear of trouble of the slightest degree. 
We have the greatest street car system in the West. In most 
cities it is against the law to smoke in street cars or to spit on 
car floors. Well, we have such laws here, but gentlemen, you 
may enter our cars and smoke and spit all over the floor, and 
if you are arrested, all you need do is to make telephone con¬ 
nection with the mayor’s office and I will order your release at 
once. The city is yours while you stay. 
“ There is nothing small about St. Louis. When we have 
anything here, we have it first class. As evidence of this fact 
you will remember the recent cyclone, traces of which are still 
to be seen. We want you all to say when your meeting is over 
that St. Louis is the only city in which to hold a convention.” 
Hon. N. J. Colman, of St. Louis, ex-Sccretary of Agricul¬ 
ture, addressed the convention as follows : 
“ The nurserymen of this state have asked me to welcome 
you to St. Louis and to the state of Missouri. Associated with 
you in former years and twice honored by the election to the 
highest office at your disposal, it gives me great pleasure to 
add my welcome to that of the mayor. When you were here 
before, we had a population of 400,000. Now we have 
600,000. There are some objects here which are pleasant for 
horticulturists to look upon, especially Shaw’s garden. In no 
other city on the continent could you find such an extensive 
garden. Professor Trelease, selected by the founder before 
his death at the suggestion of Professor Asa Gray, has tendered 
you a banquet to-morrow night. This is the largest garden on 
the globe that was founded by a single individual. We have 
the largest parks in any city on the continent, one of them 
1,400 acres in extent. 
“ But I am here also to speak of this state. Missouri is the 
third state in point of farms and farm products. It is the 
grand agricultural state of Missouri. No state can compare 
with it in its horticultural products. Its elevation and splen¬ 
did climate give it peculiar advantages. It is the home of the 
big red apple. Why, the entire southern half of the state will 
soon be covered with orchards. The state has immense 
mineral resources. Do you wonder we call it grand old Mis¬ 
souri ? It is an empire in itself. It would be able to carry on 
all the great industries of a nation. It is likewise the home of 
education, refinement and intelligence. It has the largest 
state school fund. We are proud of our state. We suffer 
neither from the cold of the North nor the heat of the South. 
We are on the great highway of the nation whether you travel 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific or from the gulf to Hudson 
bay. This is perhaps the last time I may have the opportunity 
of meeting you, but I bid you Godspeed. No class of men is 
engaged in nobler work. What shall be said of the nursery¬ 
men who have caused millions of trees, plants and shrubs to 
grow where none grew before ? It has been part of my mission 
